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Hellllo! And we're back in 2024 with a special episode about Harry Boland that I (Kevin) recorded with Kevin Dolan of The History of Ireland Podcast a few weeks ago. If you like this episode you can check out the rest of Kev's stuff on the Irish Civil War here..Alos while you're clicking links you can support us on Patreon or follow us on Instagram to see video clips and find out about all our upcoming live shows!.Our just buy tickets direct from here - Shite Talk Live..This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5645402/advertisement

Hellllo! And we're back in 2024 with a special episode about Harry Boland that I (Kevin) recorded with Kevin Dolan of The History of Ireland Podcast a few weeks ago. If you like this episode you can check out the rest of Kev's stuff on the Irish Civil War here..Alos while you're clicking links you can support us on Patreon or follow us on Instagram to see video clips and find out about all our upcoming live shows!.Our just buy tickets direct from here - Shite Talk Live..This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5645402/advertisement

Hi Everyone! This week we are coming to your ears a day early to celebrate Mother's Day. The truth is that I (Kevin) failed to do my homework and I needed a little more time. Rather than delay the episode, Jacob agreed to indulge me in a type of "in the spirit of" Mother's Day podcast episode by talking about blink-182's Mother's Day song from the Take of Your Pants and Jacket deluxe album. Next Time: Chainsaw Man (For Reals this time) You can find both Jacob and I on these platforms: Instagram: @kevin0nline @⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jacob_the_cookie⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (@keii0n is now a private account) Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kevin0nline⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlinkAdict⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠itsumo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGVl_JPv3ClWHd42A6pLdQ Check Out Jacob on Twitch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠blink_mom

Hello Everyone! We are back again with another episode of Hi Mom! This week we ramble a little bit about the pain of booking hotel as I (Kevin) gets ready to attend Anime Expo this year and we jump into the main topic of this episode with a discussion on the Uncharted film that came out some time ago. The idea for this episode was after watching last week's The Last of Us and wanting to explore more video game adaptions. Next Time: Velma You can find both of us on these platforms: Instagram: @kevin0nline @Jacob_the_cookie (@keii0n is now a private account) Twitter: @kevin0nline @BlinkAdict Youtube: itsumo: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGVl_JPv3ClWHd42A6pLdQ Check Out Jacob on Twitch: blink_mom --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello and Happy New Year!! We're thrilled you're tuning in here to begin 2023 with us at the Science & Spirituality podcast. In this episode, I (Kevin) am sharing the 3 most important lessons I learned in my 20's. This was a big question asked by my wife, Vivianne, as we celebrated my 30th birthday in December and I truly believe this could really help open up new ideas for you as I condense a decade of my life into 3 short, simple, yet profound lessons. For the sake of practical use, here are the lessons I learned and share deeper about in this episode: God is real. Good relationships = true wealth We are more powerful than we've ever thought These lessons can be interpreted in many ways, which is why I shared about 30 minutes of my perspective of what these mean to me. Enjoy listening! Finally, if you'd love to have my support in getting unstuck, connecting with your vision, and discovering actions to change your life, then click the link below to book a complimentary Strategy Session with me! https://kevincarton.clickfunnels.com/strategy-session I only have 15 spots available for January, but if you missed the window of time, feel free to email me to get on the waitlist - kevin@kevincarton.com :)

We going over some of the shameful ways the employer attempts to avoid paying us and what we can do about it. Clarification; Misspoke at one point when I (Kevin) said you could get OT pay past your scheduled hours in group 2. I realized this could imply time and a half, however, If you are a part time worker you would get straight pay until you pass eight hours then get time and a half when and if you pass eight hours. The Usual Info: mail at: overburdenedpod@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Overburdened-110296864079565/ Twitter: @Overburdenedpod Keep up to date with emails from national by signing up for CUPW's edigest here; http://www.cupw.ca/en/cupw-edigest. The Employee and Family Assistance Program 1-866-565-4903 Postal Banking Loan Info: https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/personal/mymoney/loan.page Call us at 1-844-229-0413 for support Text 55555

In this episode I (Kevin) talk about my struggle with my ego (at least in one aspect of it) and how I'm looking at trying to make a change in being a better version of myself. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beforeiforget/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beforeiforget/support

Hello everyone! Its double episode Monday! If you already havent go peep Fridays episode that I (Kevin) forgot to upload Friday morning! On todays episode of the cast Kyle is solo as I am dealing with a literal Bee crisis with my family. Way too long of a story but ill fill you all in later. Kyle has some good stuff on the agenda so lets get it popping! As you all know Kyle had something to say to Knick fans across the globe and lets just say they did not take too kindly to his comments. So they let him have it in the comment section of that video hahahahaha. Hes got a little bit more for you guys so I can see this may carry on throughout the season! Of course there is some NFL content, he also goes into a full breakdown of the Chief's and Titans game. The Chiefs looked HORRID yesterday afternoon and are in huge trouble, falling to 3-4 on the year. Next Kyle goes on to talk about the incredible performances of Ja"Marr Chase and Tom Brady. Chase went for over 200 receiving yards in yesterdays annellation of Baltimore and Brady continues to dominate the league showing age is nothing but a number! To wrap it up Kyle gives his prediction on the Monday night game between The Saints vs The Seahawks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neighborhood-podcast/message

We've got a new face here in Sector 7G this week. James is a friend I (Kevin) haven't seen in a few years and it was great to reconnect with him. We talk about movies, TV, wrestling and the last time we saw each other which was when Violencide opened up for Mushroomhead. There's also a handful of TikToks in this hour with a very special mashup video of the people who used our Nut Sack song to make their own videos on TikTok. As always, thanks for listening and watching, we truly appreciate it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Annnnnnnd we're back! I (Kevin) had to take my vacation around the time we relaunched our podcast so recording was made that much harder when the host of the show is unable to be there for... the show. But no matter, we have ourselves a return part 2, and instead of doing what we probably should be doing (previewing Spring Anime 2021), we decided to put that off and do something completely different! Junior got engaged to his girlfriend-now-fiancee, so we absolutely had to celebrate by rating our favorite 2D girls! It makes sense, just don't think about it. Feel free to do what we did and google image search all the girls mentioned to get a visual, it creates some interesting moments and maybe you can even see the unfortunate things we had to witness. Also, apologies for my audio, my mic was tampered with for ASMR reasons and I sound awful. Grin and bear it, this was a very fun episode to record and listen back to, so I'm sure you will enjoy it! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/animeniacspodcast/support

Nerdly Out Loud is bringing Brit PopCulture Review Website to your ears. Each episode Host Kevin Haldon will be picking reviews from the website and reading them out loud interjecting his own personal views of the ones he has seen...For this epsidode we are dropping the reviews as we head for a set visit to director Tom Patons Latest outing GLoc a Sci-Fi epic starring Stephen Moyer, Tala Gouveia, Casper Van Dien, Mike Beckingham and Johnathon Rhys Davies.While on set I (Kevin) had the chance to interview Tom, Tala, Casper, Mike and one of the directors of Veridian. I had the absolute best day and it was awsome being on a Tom Paton set again.You can find us on:iTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cast-crew-of-brit-horror-hosts/id1532264654?i=1000493429029   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p5ybU1RZqo&list=UUI4k2g8wLJDULD0H-GK1hywNerdly:  http://www.nerdly.co.uk/Twitter:  @NerdlyPod

On this episode, Rajat, Max, and I (Kevin), give our teen perspective on events that occurred in the passing months. These include riots, protests, and George Floyd's murder. We hope you all continue to spread awareness about social injustices everywhere.

In these concluding conversation about how Rajat and I (Kevin) have seen COVID-19 effect the country, we dive into overall economic decline and bounce back as well as venture into talks of celebrities in the limelight who have been affected by COVID-19. Enjoy!

Part one of three! On this episode Rajat and I (Kevin) discuss topics that seem relevant to us as we work through COVID-19 with the rest of the world. Enjoy!

Sorry it was late, I (Kevin) got married. 

This is the first podcast we've ever done with a guest over the phone. We apologize in advance for some of the audio quality of the call. "JOE" is a guy that I (Kevin) have known since we were kids. Calling in all the way from California we decide to try out a phone call podcast. We talk a lot about old times while also cathing up on new things. There's some pretty good laughs on this one, overall I'd say it's a pretty good addition to our catalog. Thanks and enjoy...

How much do you really know about your own energy and "core essence"? Most people know they're more masculine or more feminine, but only have a vague idea about how these energies coexist within themselves at the same time. In this episode, I (Kevin) had the opportunity to talk with a good friend of mine whose an emerging expert in this realm. His name, Lorin Krenn. Lorin is a writer and an awakened masculinity coach. The early death of his father and a chronic illness lead him to a spiritual awakening, in which he started to put his pain on paper. Now after several years of meditation, breath-work and vulnerability, Lorin healed himself and began sharing his profound insights. His coaching is designed for men who are done with suffering and want to embody the divine masculine, which includes a life free from attachments, worry and fear. If you want to learn more about Lorin's work, check out his website at www.lorinkrenn.com Enjoy the episode!

You've heard about them. You know they are bad. But what, exactly, are info dumps, why are they such an issue, and how can you avoid them in your writing? Autumn and Jesper discuss info dumps, why writers feel the pull to use them, and how to keep them away from your WIP in this week's episode! Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday. SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (2s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need in literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self-published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (31s): Hello, I'm Jesper and I'm autumn. This is episode 48 of the amwritingfantasy podcast, and this episode is all about info dumps. So what is info dumps? Why do you need to avoid them and how do you avoid them? So yeah, that's, that's a lot of stuff to unpack. There it is. It's almost like, um, an info dumps so we'll have to watch that. I didn't even think about that. I don't know how else. How else would I introduce a podcast episode if I cannot do an infant home? I don't know. I'll let you invent some sort of character and talk about it or something. Yeah, this'll be a fun one to a loop readers into. Autumn (1m 11s): But Hey, I enjoy the irony of it. Yeah. So what's happening on your side? Autumn Oh, life is crazy. I have in the last month was crazy enough cause I started the month knowing I wanted a change and to get off the road at the beginning of October and not knowing where to go, what to do or where I'd be living or what I'd be doing when I lived there. And at the end of the month I have, I'm actually going to pick up a job again for a little while working in the environmental field, which is where my master's degree is. So I'm super passionate about saving the planet and Gretta Thornburg is one of my heroines. So I'm really excited to be working again in conservation for a little while at least, and getting my feet wet. And I moved yesterday. Oh, at least as a listening of this, which is, um, you know, we're recording this earlier in November then compared to when we're releasing it. So at the beginning of November, I moved yesterday to Vermont, which as a state I've always wanted to live in. And it's odd because our cars are registered in Vermont for when we are traveling, cause it's one of the few States where you don't have to live in the state and you can still register your vehicles there and you can do it online. And it's so easy. And I used to joke, people would walk up to us like, Oh, where are you from in Vermont? And I didn't feel explaining all of that to some stranger in a parking lot. I just say proud. Oh borough. And lo and behold, yesterday I moved to Prato bro. So that's sort of like foreshadowing isn't it? It's like karma. That's what I thought. Okay. This is total foreshadowing. So I moved to this town and I'm really close to downtown and it's got a food co-op, it's got cafes, there is a brewery in walking distance to my house. And it is just fantastic. And also in the midst of all that craziness, um, we decided to sell our truck and camper. So that was a huge change. And by selling it, we had this great offer that we couldn't turn down. It meant I got rid of my reliable travel vehicle. So I also had to find a car and buy it in two days. Happily. I actually fell in love with a car that was kind of hard to find and I Kevin up on it and went and test drove like a cross track and all these, you know, almost all the cars out right now look the same. They're like a hatchback on an SUV platform. They're identical. I don't care if it's a Nissan, Hyundai, Subaru, they all look the same to me. Ralph for, I test drove them all and they're kinda got lists. If anyone doesn't know anything about me, I came from a Mustang family. I like sports cars. Okay. I admit it. I used to have a BMW 328 I and when you hit 70 the exhaust opened up to flow through and the suspension settled because of the air dynamics going over it. And you just felt this car's settle in just fly. Not that I ever did. I swear I was so, such a good driver. But yeah, so I do like my sports cars. I was trying to tell myself, I'm in my forties I don't need a sports car. I just traveled slowly across the entire continent for a hundred thousand miles, you know, 150 200 miles a day. I don't need a sports car. Oh. But I found a WRX Subaru Impreza hatchback. So it's slightly practical. You can put stuff in it. And I'm in love with this car and this car is in love with me. And after finding it on the 31st of October, I bought it the next day. And it's not a new car, it's a 2012 but I love it. I it's, it just feels like it was meant to be. Yeah. You know you have the excuse that because, because you just explained that, that you have always loved fast cars and stuff like that. So I'll give you that excuse. But you know what you say about men here in Denmark when you sort of get into your forties and you buy sports cars. Oh yeah. Midlife crisis. Yeah. I'll give you, I'll give you that excuse because you actually said that you loved it before that. And so I guess it doesn't apply to you. I think I had a purple mini Cooper, uh, S so sports Mini-Cooper and I think that was my midlife crisis car because it was a purple mini Cooper. Come on. This is at least black and a little understated and it's a hatchback. I could have actually, my nephew is buying a brand new WRX and he has an a newer one than the one I just bought that it's a sedan. And I could have bought that from him from a really good price and it's in fantastic shape. But I would have forever thought of it as my nephew's WRX and I'd be like freaking out where this one, you know, it's got a few dings, scratches, and you know, it's, it'll be a perfect daily commuter and I'm really excited. So, yeah, my life crazy. And Jesper (5m 59s): it's got to settle down eventually, but it's been a crazy, crazy month in a very whirlwind of a week. So hopefully you've been a little bit more steady I think. Yeah. Well, yeah, I guess you could say more steady, but, uh, but of course we also on to, speaking of selling, uh, you know, we are also trying to sell our house, uh, because, uh, I don't remember if I talked about this on the podcast before, but our, our kids goes to school in another city. It's not that far off, but it's far enough that you can't bicycle or anything. So you do need to drive there and the bus connections are poor in the sense that you need to take the bus to another city to then change to another bus to go to the city where the school is. So it, it takes like an hour commuting if you want to go and it's like 15 kilometers or something. So it's 50 kilometers. Yeah. It takes like 15 minutes in the car. Right. But you just spend an hour on the bus. So the buses out of the question and cycling is also too far for them. So we, now that the kids starting has started to get older, they also, you know, they want to play with their playmates and stuff. And I understand, uh, but the, the problem is that every time they want to do that, we have to drive back and forth. So on those days, we ended up driving to deliver them to school in the morning, picking them up in the afternoon, or one of them may be, and then the other one will go and play with somebody then driving that guy home and then driving back to that city in the evening to pick up the other one that driving back again. So we've done in like four times in a day and it's, it's, it's really annoying. Yeah. You're at that age where they're more active, but they can't quite legally drives Yannick. They can't get around themselves. Right. So I don't know, the, the, the older they've gotten, the more annoying it's getting. So we decided to sell the house and move to that city in step. Uh, but then somebody needs to buy this house and there's, at least, so far has not been much activity, but over the last seven days, the house was actually been shown twice to see that potential. Yeah. But it's so weird because then afterwards, of course the real estate agent always calls us and tell us how it went. And in both cases, the people who then came and saw a house then afterwards told the real estate and yeah, well this, this is a, the kids, one of them said that the kitchen was too small and the other one said that the living room was too small. And I was like talking to my wife and I was like, I don't get it. You know, why are these people, you know, I'm not am, I don't for my Sega, you know, it's up to them if they want to buy a house on that. But I'm more thinking like you're spending your Sunday or Saturday or whatever, driving out to what's a ha or see a house that you might be interested in. But right there on the internet. When you decided to book the viewing, it says how big all the rooms are and there's pictures of everything. So why are you spending your time going out looking at a house that y'all already know from the pictures? It's too small. I just don't get it. But ah, I dunno. And of course my wife have to do all the cleaning and we need to prepare everything every time before somebody comes. So, and you can see she gets pretty annoyed when they just show up and like, yeah, it's too small. Like yeah, you should have, no, you're not, not before you cave. Unlike me who I've rented this apartment sight unseen based on pictures and that the, the owners who have the lease are just super nice and informative and, and cut us some deals. So yeah, there's me and then there's, you just need to find someone like me to buy your house. Super like, yeah, I guess so. I like the photo. Yeah, I'll be good. When can you come to Denmark? Done and you get by this house and then we'll buy another one. I will consider that. Okay. Yeah. And I guess apart from bed we could also mention that, um, we finished up the, you have finished up the content review of the plotting book. Oh yeah. It's going to be a great book. I cannot wait. Yeah, exactly. So basically now we can get into creating the outline for the book, one of our new series, because that's going to be a download downloadable example within the plotting book. So once that is done well we basically write onto editing and publishing. Yes, of course. Driving ourselves crazy cause we have that outlined the book we want to write as well. Yeah. That's one thing at a time. We also have a few causes in the making and all that fun stuff. So one thing at a time. Narrator (10m 28s): A week on the internet with the amwritingfantasy podcast. Jesper (10m 35s): Yeah. So I don't know if you noticed this one, uh, but did you see MiFi posted a picture of herself in the amwritingfantasy Facebook group? Did you see that? I might've missed that with all of the moving and driving it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly what it was so cool because she was driving and listening to this podcast and then she posted a picture of herself and set that she was going to a weekend conference. And uh, I dunno, I just love pictures and messages from listeners. So at least I bus bar. Yeah. I think I actually did catch that one cause I remember commenting to my husband ad and that, that is just cool. It is so neat to see people that, you know saying, Hey, I, I listened to you guys while I was going to a conference. So I did see that one. That was pretty nice. Yeah, I love that. And uh, so, so yeah, please send us more pictures or comments and stuff. We, we loved seeing that. It, it really, I mean if you try to look at it from the podcast producer's point of view here, I mean we were sitting back behind our microphones in isolation and recording some audio and then we also load in somewhere on the side of the world. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We can't even see each other on the recording either. So it just, it's so awesome when we get a message. Some, you know, people lists from people listening and, and, and whether you like it or not, that's up to you. But you don't, it's not because a am number. I tried to say, you have to tell us that you like the podcast, but it's just cool to notice somebody listening. Right. Autumn (11m 58s): That's my point. Very cool. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we see the download stats, but individuals are so much more fun to actually hear and talk to, so that's great. We'd love to hear from you. Yeah, I was laughing cause I, I remember, uh, again is eight, but I loved his comments on, um, the little Patrion post I had just done about killing off characters and this perspective. I never really thought about that. He said that, you know, he knew he was going to kill off one, so he had a hard time bonding with the character until he kind of put that aside and really started like, you know, feeling this character out. I'm like, yeah, I guess that is the alternative as much. You're like really good at Georgia or Marten in just really going in depth of the character, knowing that you're going to ask them in the next chapters. I guess I'm not that hard court either, but it gave me something to think about, which I love. I love it when someone gives me a different perspective and I have to think, well that would be a drawback if I, if I know I'm going to kill someone off life changed my mind about how I develop them or make them just a little bit more annoying. So maybe the readers don't feel quite as bad or am I going to make them even more awesome so that readers really feel bad, so bad. Jesper (13m 15s): Yeah. Yeah. Actually I think, well not killing off characters as such, but we are talking a bit in the plotting book about, uh, you know, making sure that readers like the characters and have to do that. So that, that's quite interesting. But, uh, I also think, uh, based on what we just said, we, we basically just mentioned the two places where, where you can interact some more. So those, the amwritingfantasy Facebook group. So if you have not joined that one already, please do you, you know, just search for amwritingfantasy in the Facebook group section and uh, you will find us and uh, you can didn't just request to join and we will let you in or I guess maybe probably most likely our awesome moderator Luke will eat us to is because, um, he, he really helps a lot with managing the group. So we are, we are very much appreciating that, uh, Lucas, so thanks for that. Uh, and the other place you can, uh, get a closer connection or I'll ask questions and all that stuff is on Patrion so there's a link in the show notes for that. And we actually just before recording this podcast episode, we just came off recording the monthly Q and a session. So if you're joining on the $5 tier level on Patrion, you can actually get access to a exclusive monthly Q and a session. And you can also ask us questions and we will record some good answers for you Narrator (14m 39s): and onto today's topic. Autumn (14m 43s): Info dumping. Yeah, we have to not dump. Info we'll, I'll try to explain what it even is. Yeah, I Jesper (14m 52s): know that a few different types of year. So for example, you could be talking about backstory and for dumping, uh, you could talk about wealth building, info dumping, and then there's also emotional infidelity thing Autumn (15m 6s): and where do you put historic? There's often people who want that backstory set us the world building stuff for science. I guess it is, I was thinking about it a little bit differently, but I guess in a way it really is what came before. So that's part of world-building. Jesper (15m 20s): Yeah, indeed. I mean, but maybe, maybe we should start out by defining what info dump in is and then also just say why is it an issue to do infidelity? Autumn (15m 32s): Absolutely. I think that is important. I know for you know, I have to go ahead and Google like with the official definition is maybe you'll do that while I'm talking, but to me it's, it's when you're reading and you get to a part that it's not a plot of the novel, it's not action. It suddenly this, you know, it's not just a couple sentences, it's paragraph. Sometimes pages of information that really doesn't do anything to move the story forward. And that is my personal definition of info dumping. And I'm not sure if it says something different online. Jesper (16m 8s): Hmm. No, not really. There's just a lot of opinions. Uh, but, but I, I think, um, info dumping. So that's basically where you are. You're selling the reader some information. So this could be something, as I, as I just said, look, you know, character backstory, it could be something to do with the world as such, or some about how a certain kingdom works or a religion or magic system or whatever it may be. Am or it could be, ah, well my emotional stuff, like, uh, how the reader feels about something, but when it's done, as in not in the narrative of the story, but it's just you the writer telling to the reader that, okay, so this kingdom over here works like this and that, or it was actually the soda 200 years ago, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, that sort of thing is info dumping. Where's there's nothing wrong with telling the reader that blah, blah, blah. Happened 200 years ago. If it's because one character is telling it to another character who doesn't know it, then it's absolutely fine and it's not an info dump but it's an infrared on if if it's just you getting it across to the reader because you need to maybe just tell it because you think it's important to the story and maybe it is important to just oil but then it is sort of the mechanism or the the way that you're delivering the information that defines if it's an info dump or not. Cause that makes sense. Autumn (17m 37s): That does. I think the telling is really the key thing. You are just giving the reader information without having it be an active part of the plot. The characters not going through it. It's not dialogue and even the dialogue, you have to be careful because if you have the characters saying and in dialogue, but again, it has really no impact on the story or it's just this tiny, you know, it's like almost reading a bedtime story where someone's relating information that you're just like, and they're saying it in a way that is not natural and they're just piling on like a monologue and a superhero's fill. It doesn't work that way. You don't want a whole monologue of saying, well, you know, you have to remember you, even though you've known this since you were five years old, that this happened 200 years ago and that is why we're doing this now. No, that's still, that's still info dumping. I don't care if it's in dialogue, if the character should know it, they should come across as knowing it. Um, even if it's like, well, you remember or something. Yeah, it's very difficult. But definitely the telling, I think you hit the key aspect there that it's something that goes on for a long time, that it may or may not have something to do with the plot of the novel. It had, could have some key part of it, but you're just telling it to the reader instead of showing it or having the characters somehow demonstrate it and show it. And that's a huge issue. And why, why, why do you think, why does it bother you? Yes, for sure. Jesper (19m 2s): Uh, three things. I would say not one, but three things. Why am I not surprised you on the list already? I always have lists. I'm, I'm always, I love making lists and all that, you know, that especially to do lists. No. But okay. Three things. So one, um, info dumps simply stops the forward momentum of the story. So we, it sort of breaks the story and then you're getting this paragraph of 200 years ago in a kingdom far, far away. And it's like, yeah, okay. But what happened to the fight that was just about to happen? So it just breaks the momentum and that's not good. The other thing is that it removes the Rida from sort of the story world, if we can call it that. So it pulls the reader out of the story and because as soon as you start reading info dumps on a page, you're not immersed in the story anymore. You sort of, as a reader, you're, you're pulling yourself out of it and then you're reading some, some facts stuff, yadda. Okay, I see. I see. Okay. And then you're getting back and trying to get back into the story in it. And every time you pull the reader out of the story, that's not good. You want to keep them in merge so that they keep just flipping pages and one, see what's happening next. So that's why it's important not to deliver the information as an input on, but as part of the narrative of the story. And then thirdly, Autumn (20m 22s): yeah, it's just boring. It's a good reason I had to fit. That's, I think that's one of my pet peeves is one that you lose the momentum and the T. V you know, that bond with the reader or the character cause I mean that's why I'm reading a stories. I like the character and usually it has nothing to do with the character or anything that's happening in all those emotions in grand things. It's just facts. And honestly, when I hit, um, if I, if I keep reading the story, you know, the first info John per two, I can probably get through it and I will honestly skipped pages. I'll keep scanning through it and I don't read the crap anyway. But then if it starts happening too many times, that's it. I just, you know, that's when your to do list comes up and you're like, I really should be doing laundry. Why am I reading this right now? I'm not enjoying it anymore. Away he goes the book and off I end up doing other things, walking the dog because I remembered I didn't walk the dog today. So yeah, that's, it's a big issue. If you have too many of these things, readers will one skip it. So if they're not getting the information anyway and two, they might just be close in the novel and goodness knows of you, they closed the novel on something that wasn't exciting, they might not ever come back to it. That's a big problem. Jesper (21m 40s): Yeah, absolutely. And so the question is, okay, if we all agree that this is a problem, I think based on what we just talking about, probably most people can sort of recognize themselves as readers when they are subjected to info Thompson and recognize that it's not something we want to do. So I guess the question is why do we write info dumps if, if, if all of this is, is something that maybe we are more or less aware of. Uh, and, and personally I think it's because of movies because you know, if, uh, if for example, if we take the matrix, for example, yeah. So in, in the matrix, the, when Morpheus is introducing new to the crew of the neighborhood, what is it called? Never can Nisa or something like that. The strip basically. So in that scene, in that scene there you have the camera panning over the crew and while the pan, the camera pans over the crew, more fuel system telling you about each of the crew neck crooner members, uh, and then basically also the viewer, meaning you watching it then. So you get to know each one. But the thing is that it's not boring because we have the visual medium to support the introduction of each character. We can see what they look like, what they're doing and get the medium in. Movies are just different than books. But I think we are getting too much influenced by the movies and then we think that we're gonna we kind of have to replicate that in our books as well. Autumn (23m 10s): I agree. And I also think often it's excitement on the part of the writer there just there's this cool world they developed or this, you know, interesting backstory. Like we were saying like 200 years ago in the time of the gods, blah blah blah. You've, it's almost like, you know, the setting up the prologue. But if it's not important in the story, if it's not inter woven into the whole fabric of the world, yeah, you don't need to show it. It's, I, I like, I've often tell young writers, new writers that you have the space of the novel, 100,000 words to share your world. Don't try to fit it into the first chapter. You just want to kind of spread out those amazing things. Like today about this world, I just discovered those. There's a plant called purple, purple Berry. Um, there's a plant that actually produces these really cool purple berries. I didn't know that about this world. It took me until I was 45 to discover this ornamental plant. That's amazing. That's what you want to do for your readers. You want to put the purple Berry, you know, way back there and hopefully just the middle of the novel that the discover this stuff as they go. So it's still new and exciting on page 345 as it was on page three. So that's to me what's important with info dumping is learning to spread out those descriptions and not being so excited to tell everyone about this really cool thing you, you created and wrote and developed in page two or three. Because if you're that excited, you probably, you're too excited about your world. You need to back up and look at your characters and your novel and your story and make sure that those are really what's driving it forward and not just a showcase for the amazing world you developed, which it should be amazing, but that's not what you're telling the story. No, true, true. Jesper (25m 3s): Um, actually, um, I have, um, I have an audio clip queued up here that we can listen to and you don't even know what it is. Autumn no, I dealt with this is kinda you, you hinted about this before we started recording and you're like, Oh, I'm not gonna tell you quite curious. I'll let you found and prepared for us. Yeah. Because I, I prepared a bit of an audio clip here, which I think serves as an excellent example of what I just said before on why I think it is that, uh, we authors sometimes get into wanting to do these input. Dumps and, uh, this is an info dump. It's an info Don from a very, very famous fantasy story, but I promise you it's awesome and you're going to like it. Okay, let's go. Okay. So, um, I think autumn and myself will go on mute here so we don't accidentally cough. And then, uh, while, uh, while we do that, you dear listener, you just sort of sit back and relax and just enjoy these next few moments. Lord of the Rings (26m 14s): The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feed it, I smell it. It began with the forging of the great rings. Three were given to the Elves immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the dwarf Lords, great minors and craftsmen of the mountain halls and nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of men who above all else, desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race, but they were all of them deceived for another ring was made in the land of model and the fires of Mt. Dew, the dark Lord sold on forged in secret mastering to control all of this and into this ring he poured. His cruelty is malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all, one by one, three lambs to the power of the ring. But there was some, who is this? Did I lost Alliance of men marched against the armies of more doors and on the slopes of Mt. Dew they fought for the freedom of middle earth. Victory wasn't here. The power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment when all hope had faded at eco door, son of the King took up his father's saw song. The enemy of the free peoples of middle earth was defeated. Jesper (30m 11s): Oh, that stuff just gives me goosebumps is I would say for an info dump, it is spectacular. But that's because they're throwing in sound effects and if you're actually watching and visuals. So that makes it an exciting info dump and an important piece of history that goes with the Lord of the rings. Yeah, I mean it is so awesome and I, I think that this is exactly why, especially probably new writers want to do the same in the novel, that they want to replicate this stuff. But as you just say, you know what, with this info dump here, you have of course the visuals when you're watching it. But even without the visual, just listening to it like this still gives me the goosebumps. But it has, you know, it has to great, great music. It has the awesome voice acting. So you know, all of that is, it's just not there on the page when, when, when you write it, I mean, you cannot replicate this stuff on the peso. As I said before, the medium of movies and the medium of books, it's just different and you cannot copy it. No, I agree. Yeah, it's, you can't, it's totally different medium and yeah, it you, we cannot recreate, maybe if you're doing an audio book and you're throwing in the sound effects and you have it in amazing narrator, but it's probably just best to avoid it. And I have to admit, my mind started wandering towards the end because yeah, once I figured it out and then they get into the, all the girly stuff in there, it was like, okay come on, let's get to the point people. So you know, even, and then I actually found myself wondering, I'm like okay 3d the elves, seven till the dorms, nine to people, why people get nine and only helps only got three cause there's less ELLs. So you know, my mind is already like just trying to unpack something with numbers instead of fully listening to the war effects. So that's the problem with info dumps that can happen, that can happen. But one of course I think we also need to be mindful when we are listening to it. We are listening to it as writers. So how mine works a bit different, we automatically start analyzing it. Worse. The reader won't do that. They will just enjoy it. That's true. That is true. I mean I've ever seen ever since I started writing watching movies has also been broken for me because I cannot watch a movie without starting analyzing at my, sometimes my wife gets so annoyed with it, she's like, okay, so who is the killer? And I say, well it's this and that person and she's laughing, be screaming at the screen, you know, plotting Autumn (32m 40s): this character and Stoli though was Oh yeah, you just don't get me started about really horrible script. Writing Jesper (32m 49s): yeah, yeah. So of course I think in all honesty we need to be mindful that, that we don't use stories as, as as readers. I mean we of course read us ourselves but but you do get into the habit of analyzing stuff w which you won't do if you're just a normal sort of reader. If I could put it like that Autumn (33m 7s): you trying to think about just, you know, we're creating this for a reader, not for a reader who's also a writer. Cause you can never determine if people, you, how many books they've read. This could be their first ever novel, probably not. But you want to at least kind of consider who your ideal reader is and there are a reader, not a writer. So hopefully the next sort of pulling apart everything on you. Jesper (33m 29s): Yeah. So maybe in terms of getting into how we can avoid, avoid info dumping a, I also actually wanted to mention another movie. Have you watched the inception with Leonardo DiCaprio? Autumn (33m 41s): I think I have, but I can't remember. So it's not coming straight to the top of my mind, but I know the title, Jesper (33m 49s): right? Yeah, it's a really, really good movie. Um, but I think even though it's a movie, uh, and again, I, I just said it was not at the same medium as a perk. I think it's still a good example to, to share, uh, information with the reader. I mean, how it does it well, because the concept of inception is quite complex. It's, it's these characters who are moving around in not just one dream but like multiple layers of dreams and you so you could dream within the dream to get the print stuff. It's pretty complex. Um, yet, you know, when the movie takes us beginning you, you could start out by explaining all that stuff and probably the view as well as, as a reader of a book, we'll sort of tune out in the Lego. Okay. But we don't get any long explanations in the beginning of this movie of how this shared dreaming actually works. Instead they just start out with tension. So there's one character is telling another one how it's important to train your mind to not be vulnerable to idea theft. So it's just this very brief dialogue and, and then bam, we are right into the story and we know that somebody can steal your secret thoughts through. She had dreams somehow and that's it. And then we just take it from there. And I think that's a good example. Autumn (35m 6s): I think that's a good one. And if, if people like, uh, shows sensate sorta does the same thing. It's these groups of people, seven to eight individuals that basically can share, um, sort of minds and memories and actually, you know, actual present. They can basically be there and talking to people. It's almost like having your, you know, your best friend with you. They can just literally be there and in the same room, but to go from a new washer who doesn't know that too, learning that it's sort of, the characters are sort of growing and learning this and how it all works. And they do a beautiful job that by the time you get to the end where you know, they're basically fighting a battle and there's other sensei, it's, and it's amazing that they, you know, you've gone from not doing thinking it's a normal world and that you might be losing your mind because something weird, you're starting to hear voices in your head to having a powerful group who takes down the enemy because you're actually eight individuals. It's amazing. And they do a wonderful job. There was never an info dump in it at all. So that's another good example. If someone wants to look at a series. Yeah. Uh, probably a rule of thumb might be that you know that you need much less inflammation in the beginning of a story than you actually think in order to keep the reader engaged because you might naturally start thinking, well, okay, I need to explain this and then I also need to explain that because otherwise it won't make much sense, but in all honesty, the Rita won't need need to half of what you think they need because they will also build the, they will build a lot of the context in their own mind as they start reading and then you can sort of see it in the bits that they need to know as the story runs along rather than giving them paragraph upon paragraph at the start because it's really not necessary. Yeah, I think that's, those are really my two. I have two rules with really writing an information and one is that you should never have two sentences of description or it's something that's non-action. Even history, two sentences. Any more than that strung together, stop. Just stop. It should all be threaded in the description, the history. It should be mixed in with the dialogue. It should be mixed in with action. You know, they're in a Tavern, whatever it is, you described them pacing across the wooden floor or the other patrons. You have other things going on. You don't need to just simply tell the reader that it's a 200 year old Tavern and it has wooden floors, you know, make the character's experience it so that the reader feels it through the characters. So it should all be about showing. And the other big one is that you just need to, Oh, you know what, it just popped totally out of my mind. That's so funny. Anyway, I, you know, that's what I call with all the moving and everything else going on. But I think the other one, curiosity, that is what I was going to say. The problem with info dumps is you're killing curiosity. In fact, you're really making people board and what you want, especially at the beginning of the novel is curiosity. You know, you have action happening and you're not really explaining why it's working. You know, you have a demon busting through a door and someone throws something at it that makes it evaporate. They know what happened, but they don't know why, and maybe they're going to be curious as to why this object could do this too. This poltergeists thing. That's perfect. The last thing you want to do is explain why it worked and why it was blessed by so-and-so. And this happened 300 years ago and turn it into this and there's this piece of this st in barked. Oh my God, that's so boring. You just want it to work. So those first chapters, especially the last thing you want to do as an info dump, what you want to do is actually really be careful with your information and just Dole it out. So slowly so that the reader is curious. They want to know what else they're going to learn, what else is going to happen, and why is this all happening in working that makes them excited. So that's why info dumps at the beginning especially, can just kill that curiosity. You explain it all in the first five pages and they're like, okay, story's done. I don't need the next 95% of the novel. Oh, well, Jesper (39m 23s): yup. So I think maybe to summarize where we could say, don't confuse the written media with movies. It is not the same thing. Do not try to replicate what they're doing this and uh, find ways to share information with the Rita that aren't telling them what they need to know, but it's instead shit through the plot moving forward and character speaking to one another. So next Monday, autumn and I will share with social media networks we love the most for hiders. Narrator (39m 58s): If you like what you just heard, there's a few things you can do to support the amwritingfantasy podcast. Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. 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We are talking about opportunity and having a conversation with Eben Pagan who just launched his new book, called…’Opportunity’! Eben Pagan is a guy I (Kevin) met twenty years ago amidst a new real estate marketing program. He was innovating then, and he still is today. He’s an entrepreneur and investor who has built over ten different online brands and businesses to the million dollar level. His businesses are all 100% virtual, with no office - for over 15 years now. Eben and his family spend more than six months per year traveling, and living the “virtual lifestyle.” In his new book, OPPORTUNITY, Eben explains how opportunity is changing, why it is increasing for all of us, and how to find and create more high quality opportunities for yourself and your business. The book is about how to find and create opportunities in your business and your life. It summarizes twenty years of mindsets, models, and methods for dealing with the explosion of opportunities that are coming our way in the future. Understanding opportunity is at the heart of succeeding as an entrepreneur. And Eben’s goal is to help people understand the nature of opportunity, so they can find, create and take advantage of a lot more of it in their lives. It was a great conversation and of course we started off by getting some of Eben’s background, including his hippie parents and living in poverty that motivated him to do more. The book just launched 4 days ago as of this podcast publishing date. Get it now, plus a bunch of add ons, at zigshow.com/eben Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I (Kevin) wanted to ask Patrick a bunch of questions I had heard on a youtube video. Of course he had a bunch of answers, thats the whole point in asking him. Check it out.

Zig speaks today on the absolute truth of how we speak to and about others. What it does not only to them, but to us and those around us. This message steps on all our toes, but also offers and success action step we can begin immediately. This is a powerful self-audit. I (Kevin) took the message to the mirror, to my family, and already in an upcoming show. Get your notebook out and listen in. Thanks to Constant Contact, ZipRecruiter and Capterra for supporting this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's sermon is about the big one: why pray? What's the point if children still die, and hurricanes still swallow up cities, genocide ruins worlds, and refugee's have to flee their homes. Is God good but weak, or all powerful and evil? Because how can he both be good and all powerful? I (Kevin) haven't wrestled with a sermon like this in... years probably. But after a five year journey I feel like I have something important to share about prayer and what it means to believe "history belongs to the intercessors."

One of the worlds greatest wells of business wisdom, Roy H Williams, shares a theme I (Kevin) have been hearing a lot about lately. How those who come from hardship, generally outshine those we would normally deem “more fortunate”. But after hearing his testimony, I think you’ll begin to question what truly is a better fortune; trial or ease. But what if you have had it relatively easy? What do you do? Listen in… This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A native of Cherry Hill, NJ, Alicia is a student at Towson University studying communications. In high school, Alicia played both soccer and lacrosse in addition to being a honors student. In the spring of 2012, her sophomore year of high school, a concussion in a soccer game left her with every post-concussion symptom in the book. Alicia was ultimately told that she would never be able to play soccer or lacrosse ever again and would never be able to fulfill her dream of being a collegiate athlete.   Alicia graduated from high school on time while on a 504 plan and while still fighting post-concussion symptoms. She has made it her mission to raise awareness about concussions. Alicia has spoken at the United Nations as the only female and amateur athlete on a panel with numerous professional athletes during the 2014 #C4CT Concussion Awareness Summit. In 2015, Alicia was appointed a Student Ambassador on the National Council on Youth Sports Safety. In episode 16, Alicia discusses some of her darkest moments during her post-concussion recovery and gives advice to those who may be feeling the same as she did.  Alicia has been suffering from post-concussion syndrome for the past 4 years and has seen over 25 medical specialists in an attempt to ease her symptoms.  She specifically mentions her work with Dr. Angelo Colavita, who is an Atlas Chiropractic, alleviating some of her headache pain. In addition, Alicia provides insight into the importance of a 504 plan for a student athlete dealing with post-concussion symptoms.   I (Kevin) connected with Alicia via Jay Fraga's "The Knockout Project," which is a blog dedicated to spreading concussion awareness.  If you enjoyed this episode go over to Jay's website at http://theknockoutproject.org/ . There you will find accounts of athletes who suffer from post-concussion symptoms.  You are not alone! Where can you find Alicia? Instagram | Twitter | KO Project Download Episode 15 : iTunes | Stitcher

A native of Cherry Hill, NJ, Alicia is a student at Towson University studying communications. In high school, Alicia played both soccer and lacrosse in addition to being a honors student. In the spring of 2012, her sophomore year of high school, a concussion in a soccer game left her with every post-concussion symptom in the book. Alicia was ultimately told that she would never be able to play soccer or lacrosse ever again and would never be able to fulfill her dream of being a collegiate athlete.   Alicia graduated from high school on time while on a 504 plan and while still fighting post-concussion symptoms. She has made it her mission to raise awareness about concussions. Alicia has spoken at the United Nations as the only female and amateur athlete on a panel with numerous professional athletes during the 2014 #C4CT Concussion Awareness Summit. In 2015, Alicia was appointed a Student Ambassador on the National Council on Youth Sports Safety. In episode 16, Alicia discusses some of her darkest moments during her post-concussion recovery and gives advice to those who may be feeling the same as she did.  Alicia has been suffering from post-concussion syndrome for the past 4 years and has seen over 25 medical specialists in an attempt to ease her symptoms.  She specifically mentions her work with Dr. Angelo Colavita, who is an Atlas Chiropractic, alleviating some of her headache pain. In addition, Alicia provides insight into the importance of a 504 plan for a student athlete dealing with post-concussion symptoms.   I (Kevin) connected with Alicia via Jay Fraga's "The Knockout Project," which is a blog dedicated to spreading concussion awareness.  If you enjoyed this episode go over to Jay's website at http://theknockoutproject.org/ . There you will find accounts of athletes who suffer from post-concussion symptoms.  You are not alone! Where can you find Alicia? Instagram | Twitter | KO Project Download Episode 15 : iTunes | Stitcher

Finally! This episode was recorded back in June, but I (Kevin) have been super busy (/super lazy) and only now got it posted. For those of you that are still subscribed, thanks for not abandoning us! Though it took some time, I think this conversation was worth the wait. In this episode, we discuss the moral implications of doing experiments on babies without brains, and editing the genomes of unborn humans. I reveal my nature as a moral monster, and Kate can't resist bringing up Kim Kardashian's artificial selection of her own offspring.  

Do you know of anyone in a coma.  The NuCompanion could help them communicate with the awake world.  Most of us know that when people are in a coma they have minimal control over their body and the eyes of their soul is wide open.  They are only able to communicate by printing images of desires onto the minds and intuitions of people who are sensitive to the spirit style of communication.  In a word, Psychic Medium. With the help of the NuCompanion, a device that is sensitive to electromagnetic fields (EMF), a device that has the ability to say 100 or more phrases, the voice of the soul connected to a body in coma will have speaking ability to the awake world.  What would they say?  “I love you?”  “Feed the cat?”  “Where am I?” Kevin has been a professional psychic medium for ten years or more and a natural medium since birth and has tinkered with electronics all of his life.  For 30 or more years he had a career as an IT professional. Then NuCompanion is a culmination of the two paths into a single journey.  The psychic and the electronics.  The NuCompanion is an electronic psychic medium that anyone can use.  Even people who are not psychic.  Find ot more at nucompanion.com

 We posed this question to our 3.5 million Ziglar Facebook Fanpage audience, and got a wealth of responses. I (Kevin) picked groups of similar replies and posed them to Tom Ziglar and Dan Miller. What came out was one of the deeper shows to date. No doubt, you’ll find a response you can relate to. I also gave a charge to one unreasonable person…to mentor them through an upcoming Ziglar Legacy Certification course. Listen in…and change your life.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices