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Join Lindsay and I (Robert) in this informal discussion regarding gender, family and the patriarchy.Digging Deeper The Vox had a pretty good write-up at the time regarding the Spider-Woman cover art. Be warned, some of it is a bit Not Safe For Work. Here is a pretty great science article discussing the history and traumas of the patriarchy. HIV/AIDS in the 80sCommunity Connection:As always, feel free to discuss this episode on our community forums.

In this episde, Lindsay and I talk about our impressions of Trump and the evangelical reponse. This is an informal conversation filled with impressions, obersavations and feeling and thus is not to be listened to as a “record of what happened,” rather, it's more appropriate to think of it as being included in one of our post dinner or early morning conversations, as we tend to do. I have tried to include relevant links that you can click through as topics come up in the conversation to give more color (and more importantly, accuracy) to our conversation.Editorial Corrections The shooting mentioned was in Charleston (June 2015, not Charlotte) and the event mentioned in question was in Charlottesville (August, 2017) regarding our house church prayer. I (Robert) was wrong, the Bible was right side up: Did Trump Hold the Bible Upside Down?Digging DeeperIntro The year was 2015 YouTube Link Make Like a Tree and Get Outta Here! YouTube Link Trump launches 2015 presidential bid atop the Trump Tower escalator YouTube LinkCharacter Matters The Deeper Reason Trump's Taco Tweet Is Offensive NPR.org Link The Real Record of the Reagans on Gays and AIDS Slate.com Link How Trump talks about women - and does it matter? BBC.com Link National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey PDF Donald Trump criticised for mocking reporter with disability BBC.com Link Donald Trump: I could “shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters” CBS News Link Peanuts? YouTube Link How Trump talks about his faith: ‘God is the ultimate' YouTube LinkWas America Great? The Newsroom Speech by Jeff Daniels YouTube Link Jim Crow Laws end in 1954 Britannica.com Link The Equal Credit Opportunity Act Department of Justice Link (When women could apply for a credit card.) List of things prohibited to women in the US USAToday.com Link Marital rape in the United States Wikipedia.org Link Donald Trump's long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020 Vox.com Link Fidel Castro Britannica.com Link Trickle-down economics Wikipedia.org LinkWomen's Issues Single women were given the right to birth control 50 years ago today (Mar 22, 2022) TheHill.com Link 7 in 10 Women Who Have Had an Abortion Identify as a Christian LifeWay Research Link Percentage distribution of U.S. women obtaining abortions in nonhospital settings and of all U.S. women aged 15-44, and abortion index, by selected characteristics, 2014 and 2008 Guttmacher Institute PDF Can Endometriosis Increase Your Risk for Miscarriage? Endofound.org Link Did Trump Claim Credit for Overturning Roe v. Wade? Snopes.com LinkGuns, Violence Civil War (2024) IMDb.com Link Gun Laws in Florida Pensacola News Journal Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation NYTimes.com LinkCommunity Connection:How about you? What was your first impression of Trump? Did you have similar experiences? As always, feel free to discuss this episode on our community forums.

We hope to save some marriages with this episode. Since money issues is the number one reason for conflict and divorce in a marriage, we would be remiss if we didn't address it. The conflict boils down to this difference. One spouse is a saver while the other is a spender. It's the same in our marriage. I (Robert) am the spender and Kay Lee is the saver.  In this episode, we will share our story and how we've been able to reconcile these two extremes. You don't have to choose one over the other. You can have both but it will take some compromise and creativity. So if you want to bring greater peace in your marriage, then click to listen and thank us later.

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today I wanted to talk to you about something, maybe important, but do you use a VPN? I don't use a VPN, and I probably rarely do. But I'm kind of figuring out now like how many pieces of information routers pick up and your ISP picks up about your traffic. And I'm trying to finally figure out what HTTPS is good for, like HTTP exists, like what we remember in the 90s, typing that into Netscape trying to get to our first web domain. Or we have HTTPS now, which is the secure hypertext transport protocol. And I guess that encrypts the data that's transmitted across that protocol before that HTTP had just an open protocol where you could still read the contents of data that was being routed to that page. So at least, I guess with HTTPS, that data is encrypted, like your banking data is encrypted, or your payment data is encrypted, and it can't be siphoned off in some man-in-the-middle attack, I guess, apparently, or unless that didn't work that time. That's sort of how hacks always work. Oh, yeah, it's protected. But except for that thing that it didn't work for. We weren't protected by that. Okay, well, so if you are interested, I think a VPN is sort of an interesting way where you can create a virtual private network is what it stands for. Many of them are paid, and many of them seem to be free. I think the probably the best one to jump into if you're interested in something like Tor or the Tor Browser, the Tor router when they talk about that, I think it's like a virtual private network system that kind of jumps you around to different IP addresses before it finally spits it out somewhere. And what that allows you to do is sort of anonymizing the the registry information that would be tracked about your connection to the Internet. At that router, is interesting. I've been learning all sorts of stuff about all the things that attract and sort of where it logs the router information. Wild to know about but man, it's it makes you think a little bit about all the different things that you're tracked on over the internet, everywhere. Crazy stuff. It's a weird world that we're gonna live the weird world we will live in over the next 15 to 20 years like the last 15 to 20 haven't been so 2:39 you can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at Billy Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. But this week, I want to talk about some of the past truck travel stuff that we've done, and I think you're the guy who inspired me to get a truck at the first man I got a truck gotta have a truck. Strangely, though, most of my road trip travel has been stolen camera and the cameraman. 3:22 But that camera was legendary. 3:24 It was legit. It was absolutely legendary. But for today's episode we're thinking about doing was kind of breaking down a couple of the stories in the past we had about doing some overland stuff, some overland, like travel, if you can call it overland. I don't know that's like a heavy word. I think that's a modern word, right? Like this term. I've seen that around like overland where people have seen a lot of that. Yeah, it seems to be kind of the trendy sort of rich guy word to say for Whelan. I'm going Madden. Landrover Madden or four, four wheeling or something. You take that overlanding overland 3:58 excursion? 3:59 Oh yeah, it's always that but i think that's kind of a funny part of it. But I see like a ton of that stuff. I got into that, like, I got into that stuff back in 2011. Like the overland travel Have you ever seen like the magazine overland journal? 4:12 Is that inactive? 4:14 I think so. Yeah, I don't know. It's like sort of a niche. It's a niche category. Like this whole thing. So it's where it's like that thing. You'd never find it unless you looked for it. But it's kind of it's interesting. There's tons of stuff out there like that, but that's one of the first ones that I ran into. And that's like, that's when I had like the Camry and I was back in college and stuff. And you know, that's when I first really wanted to get because I couldn't get a Landrover from the 70s I really wanted to get like a roof rack and a top box. I was I was like set on that because if I could get that, that was like that was like my that was my version of making like a Camry into an overland vehicle, you know, because I'm going to get into this but I'm 20 and I've got 138 bucks, so we're going with that. Yeah. Without as a part of it so yeah I remember setting up like like setting up the car that the roof the roof top or the top box you know man those are those are like super handy like and that was great on the on the camera when I had it but that was all kind of what was yours 5:12 you had like that that top box 5:15 yeah it was a I forget what it is now I think there's like the excursion that I had at a time and then there was like the summit model that 5:24 we didn't have the overland model didn't 5:26 I missed out on both of these were like oh man they were like you know I don't know the early 90s maybe late night early mid 90s or something that's like when the plastic was produced that's when that thing was called New and now it was just sitting on my my equally old aged car gonna go around and grab those things hold their value like crazy I picked mine up both of mine I think now three of them in total I picked three of those top boxes up oh on Craigslist was for different cars and stuff I got a little fat one for the for the Camry I've had one for the truck and we got one from Marina CRV or what do you say the truck I mean the old foreigner let's get into that later too but that long one on the old foreigner so I bought like a few of them and I always bought them on us like on Craigslist or something right like yeah it's like new they're like five or 600 bucks to get into this cheap man yeah it's yeah super frustrating so even when they're used they're they're still floating in like for good ones or for like stuff from the 2000s that sort of the more modern clamping systems or you know when they actually made it they made it better you know where you can put it off take it on and off your car without putting together like a bunch of plates wing brackets made out 6:38 to spend the whole afternoon doing yeah it's 6:39 great because he would always like you know mess up you get stuck in some situation like that when you like I think one time we had to move we'd like it was you and I Robert and Scott and we had to like move that that that top box we're talking about to the oh yeah to the raft right and we were going on that snowboard trip so we had to like pack we had to put it on and like put like a bunch of snowboards on or something. And it was just like it was just like snow and slash and it's kind of raining you got like you don't even have a headlamp you've just got like a light kind of crimped on your shoulder and neck. As you're kind of trying to twist this wing that back and forth to make sure that this thing's tight in the right spot. It was such a pain man, it was so awful. So after that they made like more simple clamp systems that work better. But man those are like still like 300 250 like the low end range. Like the second like us. Yeah, the stuff broken. I just sold one for like, 85 that was that like a big chunk missing out of it? Oh, geez. Yeah, it's not Yeah, it's like it's a gold. At least I don't know, it seems like in Eugene May. In Southern Oregon, it was a lot harder. I think I had one and never sold. But it seemed like in Eugene and in Corvallis and Portland, or, like, you know, where that that that string of Hebrews and topsoccer Yeah, right. exists all those all those overlanders out there. Mm hmm. But that was my foray into into understanding what overlanding was because I was interested in like that overland journal and so I'd like watch or watch the stuff that was coming out in that and it was just really all stuff all equipment that was unattainable that you look at like the sweet trucks and there's so many cool like land or the length that the Toyota Land Cruisers but they Yeah, they said that they never built in America. Have you seen those? Oh, yeah, they're awesome. They're so cool. Yeah, like all the other ones that Australia got and like South Africa got those are like the coolest cars ever like 8:34 that you see out there. Yeah, they're so great. I would love to have Yeah, just this sweet 8:38 diesel. Left hand drive. Right hand drive. Like Yeah, Land Cruiser track. Like there's the the Toyota trooper, if anybody's listening and they Google that it's like this, this crazy track that they made for the military that Toyota made for the military. That's like a troop carrier. But it's a Land Cruiser, but it's just got like a long back end. And it's kind of squared off so you can you can fit two benches in there to load 12 guys, or whatever, whatever. psyllium is in the back, but it just looks like Oh, man, that'd be the coolest like camper. Yeah, you take that thing. It's like, so like the F j 40. c like the old ones that look like the the Willys Jeep. Have you seen that? Oh, yeah. That and that was kind of like the one of the Jeep models that they look Yeah, Toyota's Japanese right. Yeah, of course they are but I don't know where else they they sold like their equipment to for like military use. But it seemed like the F j and the Land Cruiser line is used like with them as a military vehicle all over the world. Have you seen that? Like it's the I'm not really familiar with that? No, or not like a military vehicle, but like, like, we have a jeep. And then we have a tank but we have the Jeep? Like they have they have the Toyota they have a Land Cruiser. Or like a Ilex, right, like your old truck, your old pickup truck. 9:58 Yeah, okay. I know what you're talking about. Yeah. 10:00 The old pickup truck. Yes. 10:04 It was the best part about my old one. Yeah. Oh yeah. And so but it won't get rid of it. I still have. 10:09 It's the coolest truck but I remember learning about like, Oh, it was just weird when I found out like about American nations were in america that's called a pickup. Like that's that's a pickup truck. But out of the country, the truck is called a Hi Alex. I'd seen that. Yeah, the international version. The International name for the pickup was the Toyota Hilux. And it's like, it's got that like emblem in it. Yeah. So they'd sell these Toyota pickup trucks like Saudi Arabia or like ISIS, man, like okay, so yeah, like all the ice like the footage from ISIS. That's like, why are they all in these like us Toyota's bassinet across the section of Syria, it's because the military had bought Toyota's as helixes like new ones they're like it's just like I'm sweet Tacoma or something you know it's just like rigged up to ride around out in the desert it's probably a great Chuck for it but that's 11:02 why we should be ISIS is to get all 11:05 we need all those sweet Toyota's back now it was a big land that was like a gag in the news for a while because like all the footage from from whatever was going on which show these people but they were like next to these like old like old pickups like yours with with a with like a gun mounted mounted in the back like 11:26 that yeah 11:29 but yeah you think about like all that all that crazy stuff that I think that was like the highlight stuff that Toyota was like for runners out of the country they're called serfs. Really yeah way cooler name to kind of call a foreigner. a serf I'm not gonna 11:44 run it it's kind of redundant like I mean no matter what you have it's got 11:47 Yeah, it's like well, I mean we expected it would it would have four wheels or it's a big truck I guess it should have four wheel drive or whatever whatever it's insinuating but but yeah, out of the country was called the surf I've seen a few of them pass by like you'd see him out there you'd be driving around and people are real proud of it especially in the overland scene or that like that backwoods see man people get real proud of their their rigs that they have set up but but we saw one that was like this diesel surf that this guy had imported I don't know what the rules are on that either. Yeah, if it's I think if the if the guy's a US citizen, I think it couldn't happen but I think if you're in Canada you can you can have you can have one registered and then drive it into the united states i think is where we see a lot of those vehicles. 12:33 Well we need to make some buddies in Canada 12:36 if we need that man I need I need a diesel 90s foreigner I don't know like 12:42 commuting 12:45 Have you seen like the Mitsubishi Delica that's another that's another sought after it yeah 12:51 it's low in my mind here 12:53 yeah that Miss it's a it's another kind of wasn't that wasn't built in the United States right but it's for well it's become really popular and like that van life van life culture where people you know, like I pretty much like what we were doing the Camry six years ago. But But finding it relatively decently and they get like a van. And like it's become really popular to get this Mitsubishi Delica. They made it through the 80s. It was sort of a competitor to the to the Volkswagen line of vans that were out at that time that were kind of camping focused, but it was cool. The Delica was cool, because it was a diesel van but it was four wheel drive. It was like it was timing like Mitsubishi was just making a bunch of four wheel drive stuff probably like the Colt Vista. 13:36 That's exactly what was just kind of you don't know what to call this is you're listening to this podcast go go look it up. And that was that was your first car Billy. 13:46 And it was the best car. It was the best. It was the best car it was the worst guy but it was really though it was the worst car 13:54 I bet if you had that now and just put a little bit of money into it somebody Yeah, somebody would pick that up. Yeah, in the Portland area. 14:03 I put some studded tires on that a roof right? Oh, yeah. an LED bar. 14:08 You want to talk about led bar. CV 14:14 Yeah, man. You remember that hatchback. If you can fit 10 people in that car. I think eight people I think I did. 14:21 I don't think that's what they approved it for. No, 14:25 I just where it was. I think it was seven people. It was what it was like rated for seven. Yeah, it was it was three rows of seats. Robert, in a compact soccer 14:35 balls are driving around in 1983. 14:38 Yeah, it was It's nuts. Yeah, there was the front two seats. The back two seats that were like bucket seats two. And then behind that there was another bench seat for three. So you had 1234567 man? Yeah, yeah, it was crazy. What a silly. 14:56 Hey, it wasn't aesthetically great, but it was a You know economy friendly that's that's for sure 15:07 the worst guy so not not an overland vehicle there I guess you could say and even still like man it was had like 14 inch tires yeah no clearance to get over anything What have 15:18 you you made it You made it happen with the camera though 15:22 I yeah I did man and I was gonna mention that too because that I had a couple experiences in the Camry you've always had a truck I guess outside of like the short time you had you had a sedan for to commute and stuff but you had like had a rig that could get some places which I always appreciated and I really noticed running into a few limitations when I was in the Camry. I wanted to talk about those It was great with the Camry because you really benefit from the gas mileage which man I would say yeah because I mean the most of a road trip in some ways like is highway miles you know you're out you got to drive from here oh yeah Wyoming so put a lot of distance in between you and where you're going yeah it man it works great having kind of a light easy car to like just bomb out to somewhere that works really well. So I appreciate some of those parts but man we ran into a few spots where we just couldn't get through and the one of the most upsetting ones to me was the sailing stones have you heard of those 16:17 before? Is that in Utah 16:19 it's in it's in the southwest it's it's Near Death Valley in California and the sailing stones is a really cool spot it was in Death Valley it's like it's in the park area but the park area is just so immense but it's it's all desolate almost nothing out there you know but you take this road it cuts back for a really long way and man we were on that gravel road for ever going back there you have to go it's it's the kind of deep wilderness you would almost call it but it's like deep in desolate country out there it's sort of well traveled because there's there's people kind of moving in and out of the park system. But we were traveling there in December I think you know when we were moving moving that direction like early December of 2012 I think is when we were there and when we were we were driving up just just on the gravel road as it was said it was a it was a gravel road the whole way there. And this part of it it just kind of went up a little bit of a grade you know just the hill the slope of the road just kind of went up maybe 1215 feet or so and then kind of rounded off leveled off and then kept going it seemed like almost nothing at all. But my car was knee high centering on it basically like you could feel like did you feel like the body like start scraping because the roll off of it was like it was just it was deeper than than my car like the angle the car and the clearance I could handle I like I couldn't get there and I'd wanted to go there all my life. Oh, so frustrated. We were like two miles or so it was like two three miles or something like well, we didn't know that because you're like in backwoods stuff and it's like, like I'm not gonna park there and hike it or something. 17:53 Yeah, and then somebody else rolls up in a vehicle that can handle it. This Camry parked in the middle of the road 17:59 there was a there was like a group of kids or like teenagers on little dirt bikes like little to hundreds and they were just like bouncing they just zoomed right past us. Like a little, a little bike. And they cruise. Right. It was nothing but yeah, it's it was not it was you would it would be totally everything could get over that except for my cars. Except the camera. So yeah, no overland that day is what it is what it was, but that story really is what ended up inspiring me to sell that Camry that winter. And then like come back in and get a foreigner like when I got that that 89 foreigner that I 18:40 thought was good. That was a good truck. I liked that route 18:42 is a good track. I bet it was a better truck earlier but man it was a great truck for me. And I really had a great time doing stuff with it was super fun. Like Yeah, and do more camping stuff. And that was really cool. But that that was the first time that I had like that truck clearance you know? 18:56 Yeah, it means just like a whole new world of opportunities opened up to you when you when you have that clearance. It's like okay, and you got four wheel drive so you can get a little more daring with where you're going. And even with that though, I found that now with my current truck, I don't have the winch on it yet. And and even that kind of dictates to what I will and will not do up in the hills. Especially if there's not another rig with me. Sure. Yeah. I really enjoyed having that. That kind of that Lifeline and that security, I guess and having that winch that I can get out of trouble if I really got myself into it. 19:39 I think that's pretty interesting. Yeah, I've never had I have had a rig with a winch on it. But I really liked it. The you always did. It was cool. I don't think we've ever used it together 19:48 when we were out. I've used it on Tyler. 19:50 Oh yeah. Yeah. Pull him out of that sandbank. Is that what it was? 19:53 Yeah. I used it on a couple times. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah you just get into a rough spot you got a tree or something you can tether off of and get yourself out 20:06 of it but i think that's pretty cool I remember you telling me a little bit about that in the past and it seems like it'd be pretty necessary if you wanted to do something more serious or more long term if you're doing like an overland trip or if you're doing some subtraction four by four stuff 20:22 oh that's a big like you know off road or it's you know but it's well I mean off road in the sense of like let's go mud and rock climbing right yeah not I'm not that but I do like to get into places where typically the you know the road kind of ends or you know, somebody hasn't been back then 30 years and there's still roadway going I think it's really cool floor 20:46 yeah I really like that part of it I really like getting to those different areas and any you really get to get through so much more land you know that way it's I found it to be really cool. 20:55 You do especially Oregon in the wintertime you know this area gets so much rain and stuff. It's hard to like you know when you after the winter you get to the end of the road you know, back back this is I don't want to beg begging I want to stay in the rig as long as I can. 21:13 Yeah, yeah it's it's definitely it's a huge part of it for me too and I care about Well yeah, you should tell me about Tell me about your pickup truck your first one that you got in high school did you that was like an ad with a straight axle right? 21:29 It was a 1980s straight axle Toyota four by four long bed and that was a great truck it still has a great track it's currently sitting under a canopy right now it hasn't run in three or four years but no, I love that truck man I drove that from the time I was 15 years until four years ago 21:49 yeah I mean that was a blast i was i was the coolest drug 21:52 yeah no I have always loved that truck and that truck would go anywhere I mean the really the only reason I got out of it was just I needed something more reliable yeah fact it's last trip was the trip that amber and I took down to Joshua Tree and I put like you know 4000 miles on it 22:12 No way I remember that trip that was yeah that was pretty cool man. 22:16 Yeah and so that was a great trip take it out on the harsh reality was you know at the time gas in California was around $5 a gallon is yeah insane I was getting about 12 miles to the gallon and you know that was rough you know it didn't have AC you know that's just little stuff like people didn't get along with that forever but 22:39 now it makes me different so I've learned a little bit too I mean like like what we both learned a little bit in this last year like having a newer truck it just solves a lot of those stresses about transportation man 22:51 well it does and that's the thing is when you're committing to a trip like that you need to know that rigs gonna be reliable it's been a huge part you need to know it's gonna start back up when you're ready to go yeah 2000 miles away from home 23:04 kill the battery i 23:05 gotta tell my truck or so yeah and the battery is not the proper oh no yeah like it's just like oh you know yeah my transmission went out or like you know I blew a head gasket or something you know, I mean that truck when I took it it had over 400,000 miles on it and and so you're just going wow, this is fun but really I just need to make sure I get it home. Yeah, you know that that's what it came down to. Yeah, I 23:35 feel like sometimes it's like driving a classic car around doesn't run as well it's maybe basil 23:41 Yeah, yeah so yeah, and then I got out from that and I bought myself a little 93 I guess it was that's our five Toyota v six pickup with little extended cab I liked having the extra room that was a great little pickup to have that nice canopy with the roof racks on it I really enjoyed that. Yeah, I like that canopy sad to see it go Yeah, it 24:10 was too bad. It's too soon you know, but too soon but I understand to think that Daddy's gonna move on or you know it's good he use it you can see it 24:21 around town every now and then. Nice. Yeah but yeah and so since I've gotten into a full size truck which I I just wonder why I didn't do so much earlier. 24:33 Oh yeah. 24:34 You know it's just just having the room the reliability you know, just all the difference in the world. 24:42 Yeah, I think so too. I was in your track like we were on when we were on that last Japanese podcast out of it yeah super clean like I dig been in there it's cool. 24:51 Yeah, it's a it's far more comfortable than it used to be, you know, cramming into the little single cab and yeah, manual transmission, and trying to You know 25:01 I remember that first trip we did in your in your old trailer your your yeah cap when we were what 16 are we going to camp up at Union Creek? Yeah What is like what is that? I've been I guess it's Central Oregon I don't know what do you call that? 25:18 I don't know what you would call that it's 25:19 a Crater Lake Area yeah it's not really central National Forest 25:24 almost right yeah 25:26 it's row River National Forest because it's the rug that runs through that is yeah yeah I think yeah, it's that that area up there man that was such a cool trip and I had a great time but man like you're saying that we just there was like the three of us right? 25:39 Yeah just packed in tight Yeah. And 25:41 I was the one that had a ride bitch in the center. You throw in the third gear then was it four years? Three years? 25:51 Yeah, it was four I ended up putting a five speed transmission I remember that at the end Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was just that for speed you know you get it out. It was great in town stuff then he gets onto the freeway and you're just tapped out at like 65 and just you know semis are trying to pass you 26:09 is not built to go that fast I guess Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, that was a sweet track though. Man I really had a good time in that but I remember that back in high school it was fun like making that road trip up to go camping thrown everything in the back and everybody's just crammed crammed into the bench seat. Now used to work I guess it's a little more luxurious now with the with the space I suppose. 26:39 You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo comm Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo wanted to talk today about some stuff that I've been doing this last week for the last few weeks I've been talking about some outdoor stuff and some things kind of related to the the lockdown pandemic stuff but I kind of change change what I was talking about a little bit for this podcast but I wanted to get into was some of the training stuff I've been looking into around Logic Pro 10.5 that has just come out recently and I thought it'd be kind of kind of cool to go over a little bit of an overview of some of the new features and stuff that are there and some of the stuff that you can do with a digital audio workstation and and why why bother talking about it but I think it was about about a year ago or so. I was talking about setting up the studio in the house that I met here and how I was getting the PC computer ready to go is an older one. I think like something from some desktop I had around from from 2010 or 11 or so. Yeah, yeah, by that time. And I remember getting that computer set up with a I think it was like Windows 10 on it. And then I was using I think the same audio interface USB out into the computer and then I had downloaded I had downloaded sonar, the new version of sonar that you can get for free. I think it had been owned by both cakewalk sonar. And then I think Gibson had bought out cakewalk. And so it became Gibson sonar, and then I think Gibson decided that wasn't going to be part of their business anymore. So I think they just kind of shut it down, essentially, but then sold that off to band lab comm band labs, I think my Internet's another internet company they have kind of a simplified digital audio workstation app that you can use to kind of create a demo or something like that but what they've done is they've gone through I guess and had purchased probably for a relatively inexpensive price or I don't know I assume since they're just they're just keeping it and kind of partly maintaining or going to doing a bit to maintain it. But they took the the sonar Platinum program the full digital audio workstation, multi tracking tool, and they made it free for people to use and for people to get but I think it's only a Windows only program so you got to have got windows 10 to to run it. So I did that. Yeah, and and Sona was a program that I'd worked with before for doing some some studio multitrack and stuff I think years ago probably around like 2012 2013 when I was when I was working with some friends to set up. Some studio equipment stuff was cool. We had like a big soundcraft ghost that was laid out and then we had a bunch of a bunch of channels, kind of running into that from from the microphones that we're using to track this band, and then that all went into a pretty old computer was amazing what it could do, you know, for just a, you know, it's probably like a two gigabyte of RAM, you know, smaller hard drive 2004 or five, six era PC computer, probably would even be that much, right. Something about that time, but that's what we use. Yeah, that's like all we had all we had with us, we had a, I think it was like a PreSonus audio interface. And then we got like, like an eight channel audio interface. That was really cool. You know, we had like eight digital audio channels coming into the interface, which means we could track the live channels into sonar at a time. And it didn't even pick up, you know, even on that old machine. And so it was interesting how that that architecture work to do some editing stuff, but sonar is what I had been using before. For some stuff, really audition, Adobe Audition is what I'd use most for some of this kind of more simple radio broadcast style stuff. And that's what I had learned to use when I was at when I was at a radio station, doing an internship years and years ago, back in 2008, right, Summer 2008, they did that. And they use the Adobe Audition version 1.52 to do all their radio production edits. And yeah, I remember, I remember going in taking calls with the production guy, or somebody calling him to do like a, 31:29 I think they would do like a water level report is really interesting radio station, now you can figure that they would have like this, suddenly, you know, it's it's 1245. And here's your local water level report for July 28, or something. And then it would be some lady that would call in from a department that would measure this stuff, and she would give her water report and the production guy, you'd record it, and then produce that and then it'd be prepped to go out on air later. You know, it's like a spot that a DJ would trigger upstairs. And so we kind of walk through using audition to do those steps. And so learning that as a program was probably the first one that I'd done. We should prior probably goes back to high school before that when I was doing editing stuff but but sonar, back to sonar was some of the stuff that I've used. Probably a good bit more for the for the music, you know, like trying to like track a band or do like multi tracking projects. But so yeah, that's what it used to be. That's why I thrown on this windows 10 PC to do some audio production stuff for this podcast workflow that I was trying to get into. And it's cool, it works really well. But But I stopped using that computer A while ago, I think the the the windows 10 computer that I'm talking about had a power supply go bad, which could be replaced pretty easily and is on a to do list of mine. But since then I've really just been relying on kind of like I'd mentioned, just recording recording onto the device. And then using Adobe Audition to do the post production work on my Mac Book, which is kind of interesting. It's just a more, it's just a better workflow and stuff for the for the most part. So I've been kind of sticking with that. But recently to get to the point, as you are all excited. Logic Pro 10.5 has come out no logic, as yet to be mentioned in this podcast Logic Pro is the program that was produced by Apple as their professional digital audio workstation. And so there's GarageBand, which probably a lot of people have some experience with. And GarageBand is sort of the trimmed down simplified home user version of a program like, like Logic Pro, and they've done that intentionally, I think it's the same team that generates the two programs. And if you if you look at them, or you look at their interfaces, and you look at their the types of access, you have to things, you really do see a familiar similarity to it. Which is cool. So if you've used something like GarageBand in the past for home projects, you won't really have as big of a difficulty moving into a more professional digital audio workstation environment, like Logic Pro 10. So I think it was Logic Pro 10 just you know, 10, zero, came out wine or product 2013 or so I think that was that was sold for 200 bucks. So it was like a purchase price of 199. And then since then you get the point updates for free, or you know, as included with your original purchase. So just recently, I think they've been like 10.4 before this. And then now they've moved on to 10.5. And 10.5, I think is probably the biggest, as noted by plenty of new sources. As noted as as one of the most significant feature updates that logic has had probably in years and years. I mean, I think this is the first time that they've gone through and removed and updated some of those legacy items that have been in there since 2003 or four or five, you know, it was just some of these legacy products that were there. Were originally put in there as including their interfaces to it looks like a 2002 interface for for like there's these synthesizer interfaces where these these weird knobs that you have to do these weird just rotating features of the interface it looks like it looks ridiculous I don't know other any other way to explain it it's a it's pretty wild for some of the some of the stuff that's just remained in computer computer systems for a long time but for 10.5 to try to go through an update a lot of that stuff and it's really interesting there's a lot of cool new features in logic 10.5 so logic is real similar to sonar which is I guess kind of why I mentioned it at least through my experiences similar you guys are probably think it's similar to I know what people that are listening probably actually some well no one's listening What am I saying if someone were to bother to try to find some information out about logic and they ended up listening to this podcast they probably have had some information about it or they would be coming from from an experience with avonds Pro Tools and Pro Tools is like the industry standard for multitrack and DAW software and I've never used it I've never opened Pro Tools I've never seen Pro Tools you know in in this process at all 36:13 i don't know i did a couple videos or something but yeah I have no I have no experience working in Pro Tools and i don't know i'm not a fan of avid software overall you know for Pro Tools or for or for the avid system of video editing stuff either I've just i'm not i'm not really that interested in that kind of stuff that they put together really for price and stuff too It just seems kind of kind of over over done a little bit so so I'm pretty happy with with some of the other the other more available tools that are in the consumer computer market I mean I think it's like 800 bucks or something still to get to get abbotts Pro Tools and I think that in the past that was you know insanely more than that even with you know kind of proprietary back in the past it was more difficult now I think m audio is a partner with Pro Tools and so in the past if you had Pro Tools, you have a lot of proprietary Pro Tools, audio interfaces that you had to use if you wanted to set up your studio to work seamlessly with the Pro Tools software now I think they've made a deal with M audio which is a sort of like a less expensive audio interface manufacturer they've had like interfaces and microphones and you know they got like an array of I think they've got like some studio monitors they've got some interfaces they've got like keyboards is a big one that they've got I've got a keyboard over here from them audio and what did it yeah Mr. Yeah, they're less expensive they make Pro Tools interfaces which is cool now so they've got a partnership with Pro Tools and I think that they've been trying to make that more accessible to musicians probably because it's become a more competitive market with really with like logic Logic Pro i think i think the industry standard stuff is I mean it always seems like more secure that it should be it doesn't it doesn't seem like an absolute that Pro Tools should be the digital audio workstation of engineers across the world but for whatever reason it's just kind of taken over and and as those people you know are still still in those positions. I think that's that's just what's taught in audio recording school is like a standard even though there's a lot of other good other good services and choices out there. I think I've seen sonar and logic taught a lot too so I don't know they're they're definitely competitive and as I've been hearing more this there's there's produced music producers that are coming out saying oh yeah, I do a lot of a lot of my work and in logic and there's you know, there's a whole class of music producers that are logic based producers or sonar based producers or I seems to kind of rotate around every couple of years for for who's doing water, you know, who wants to look cool. people that use Pro Tools one of the cool probably a lot of them so back to back to old Logic Pro 10.5 here's the good stuff. So thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. 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I think it's maybe a little bit more of a competitor to a snapchat system, it seems like that or it seems like or maybe even Patreon, it seems like it's trying to pull creators and, and sort of insert some monetization system that you can throw in there. But I'm interested to see how it all turned out. I've been trying to mess around with it. I'm always excited for new systems of you know, kind of publishing content and media. And so I was trying to use my Instagram account at Billy Newman, if you're interested to put up a handful of vertical videos that I'm editing, editing together. So what I've been doing is I've been throwing it together and Final Cut, and I made a special project or let's see, I went to Final Cut new project. And then I set the pixel layout to custom. So instead of 1920 by 1080, you know, a horizontal layout of an HD video, I went in and I set it to custom and I made it 1080 to 1920, which throws that to an HD vertical video. And so once I did that the frame of the video is vertical. Now what I did is I had all these horizontal videos that I had in my browser, I dropped those onto the the project timeline, and it shows them what would that be there's pillar box and sandbox are crap title box, I don't know what it is it's like title box or so it was you know, just big things over the top. But again, it's vertical with like a little band in the middle of it. So what I have to do is you have to, you have to, you have to conform that video, you have to transform it, stretch it out, so that it fills the screen in a way. So there's you use a transform tool, you stretch the video out by holding the Command key so that it scales the video out nicely. And then it shows it vertically, then you have to clip it and orient it so that so that kind of like pan and scan back in the 50s. You know, when they're trying to transition widescreen movies to TV, you had a pan and scan. And so that means you have to reorient that the position of focus on the subject, right. So that makes sense. So once I switch it to vertical video, it pans out the subject of the video that I was pointed out in a way, let's say there was something really cool in the left hand corner of the video and something really cool on the right hand corner of the video. And that was the frame that you had well now, in this vertical video just showing you nothing that's in the center of it, it's not showing you the cool thing on the right or the left. So you have to choose, you have to get to clip it, you know, cut it with the blade, and then you have to transform what's shown to one of those cool points of interest that you were shown in the video. And then you have to kind of manipulate a clip clip around it a little bit. It's still sort of a clergy thing. But it was fun to get through. I made a couple of clips of videos and stuff. I made a clip of a podcast and threw it up there. There's like a 10 minute limit right now. And then I think there's about maybe a 60 minute limit. Once you're over, say like 10,000 followers and you have a business account. I don't know. That's the thing. Not is anybody really using Instagram to watch 60 minutes of video? Maybe not me. But here's the thing I've learned is I underestimate how much people are on Instagram, it turns out, so maybe that's why Instagram has enough data to try and put together a whole app as a vision to compete with YouTube and Snapchat. Something kind of interesting, but definitely check out some Instagram TV, bits and pieces. I guess there's cons out there probably something cool to see. 4:10 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. But this week, I want to talk about some of the past truck travel stuff that we've done, and I think you're the guy who's inspired me to get a truck at first man I got a truck gotta have a truck. Strangely, though, most most of my road trip travel has been a Camry, the old Camry man. 4:52 But that camera was legendary. 4:54 It was legit. It was absolutely legendary. But for today's episode, we're thinking about doing what's kind of great Come down a couple of stories in the past we had about doing some overland stuff some overland, like travel. If you can call it overland I don't know that's like a heavy word. I think that's a modern word, right? Like this term. I've seen that around like overland where people have seen a lot of that. Yeah, it seems to be kind of the trendy sort of rich guy word to say for Whelan. Go Madden. Landrover Madden, or for four wheel or something. You take that overlanding overland 5:29 excursion? 5:30 Oh yeah, it's always that but i think that's kind of a funny part of it. But I see like a ton of that stuff I got into that, like, I got into that stuff back in 2011. Like the overland travel Have you ever seen like the magazine overland journal? 5:42 Is that inactive? 5:45 I think so. Yeah, I don't know. It's like sort of a niche. It's a niche category. Like this whole thing so it's where it's like that thing you'd never find it unless you looked for it. But it's kind of it's interesting. There's tons of stuff out there like that but that's one of the first ones that I ran into. And that's that's when I had like the Camry and I was back in college and stuff and you know, that's when I first really wanted to get because I couldn't get a Landrover from the 70s I really wanted to get like a roof rack and a top box i was i was like set on that because if I could get that that was like that was like my that was my version of making like a Camry into an overland vehicle you know because I was like yeah I'm gonna get into this but I'm 20 and I've got 138 bucks so 6:28 with that Yeah, but that 6:31 was a part of it so yeah, I remember setting up like like setting up the car that the roof the roof top or the top box you know man those are those are like super handy like and that was great on the on the camera when I had it but that was all kind of 6:43 what was yours you had like that that top box? 6:46 Yeah, it was a I forget what it is now I think there was like the excursion that I had at a time and then there was like the summit model that 6:55 we didn't have the overland model didn't I missed 6:57 out on both of these were like oh man they were like you know I don't know the early 90s maybe late night early mid 90s or something that's like when the plastic was produced that's when that thing was called New and now it was just sitting on my my equally old aged car gonna go around and grab those things hold their value like crazy I picked mine up both of mine I think now three of them in total I picked three of those top boxes up oh on Craigslist was for different cars and stuff I got a little fat one for the for the Camry I've had one for the truck and we got one from Marina CRV or what do you say the truck I mean the old foreigner let's get into that later too but that long one on the old foreigners I bought like a few of them and I always bought them on us like on Craigslist or something right like yeah and it's like new they're like five or 600 bucks to get into this yeah man yeah it's yeah super frustrating so even when they're used they're they're still floating in like for good ones or for like stuff from the 2000s that's sort of the more modern clamping systems or you know when they actually made it they made it better you know where you can put it on take it on and off your car without putting together like a bunch of plates brackets made out to spend the whole afternoon doing yeah it's great because he would always like you know mess up you get stuck in some situation like that when you like I think one time we had to move we'd like it was you and I Robert and Scott and we had to like move that that that top box we're talking about to the oh yeah to the raft right and we were going on that snowboard trip so we had to like pack we had to put it on and like put like a bunch of snowboards on or something. And it was just like it was just like snow and slash and it's kind of raining you got like you don't even have a headlamp you've just got like a light kind of crimped on your shoulder and neck. As you're kind of trying to twist this wing that back and forth to make sure that this thing's tight in the right spot. It was such a pain man, it was so awful. So after that they made like more simple clamp systems that work better. But man those are like still like 300 250 like the low end range. Like the sticker like us. Yeah, the stuff broken. I just sold one for like, 85 that was that like a big chunk missing out of it? Oh, geez. Yeah, it's not Yeah, it's like it's a goal. At least I don't know, it seems like in Eugene May. In Southern Oregon, it was a lot harder. I think I had one and never sold. But it seemed like in Eugene and in Corvallis and Portland, or like, you know, where that that string of 9:23 Subarus and 9:24 topsoccer? Yeah, right? 9:27 exists 9:28 all those, all those overlanders out there. But that was my foray into into understanding what overlanding was because I was interested in like that overland journal. So I'd like watch or watch the stuff that was coming out in that and it was just really all stuff, all equipment that was unattainable. But you look at like the sweet trucks. And there's so many cool, like land or the land that the Toyota Land Cruisers, but they now have this set that they never built in America. Have you seen those? Oh, yeah, they're awesome. They're so cool. Yeah, like all the other ones. Australia got and like South Africa. Those are like the coolest cars ever like 10:05 you see all over out there. Yeah, they're so great. I would love to have Yeah, just this sweet diesel 10:10 left hand drive. Right hand drive. Like Yeah, Land Cruiser track. Like there's the the Toyota trooper, if anybody's listening and they Google that it's like this, this crazy truck that they made for the military that Toyota made for the military. That's like a troop carrier. But it's a Land Cruiser, but it's just got like a long back end. And it's kind of squared off so you can you can fit two benches in there to load 12 guys, or whatever, whatever. psyllium is in the back, but it just looks like Oh, man, that'd be the coolest like camper. Yeah, you take that thing. It's like, so like the F j 40. See, like the old ones that look like the the Willys Jeep, have you seen that? Oh, yeah. That and that was kind of like the, one of the Jeep models that they look Yeah, Toyota's Japanese right. Yeah, of course they are. But I don't know where else they they sold like their equipment to for like military use. But it seemed like the F j and the Land Cruiser line is used like with them as a military vehicle all over the world. Have you seen that? Like, it's the I'm not really familiar with that? No, we're not like a military vehicle. But like, like, we have a jeep. And then we have a tank but we have the jeep. Like they have they have the Toyota they have a Land Cruiser. Or like a Ilex, right, like your old truck. Your old pickup truck. Yeah, okay, 11:29 I know what you're talking about. Yeah, that old pickup truck. Yes. Our 1980 it was the best talking about my old one. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so but it won't get rid of it. I still have 11:40 the coolest truck, but I remember learning about like, Oh, it was just weird when I found out like about American nations. Were in america that's called a pickup. Like that's, that's a pickup truck. But out of the country. The truck is called a Hi Alex. I'd seen that. Yeah, the international version. The International name for the pickup was the Toyota Hilux. And it's like, it's got that like emblem in it. Yeah. So they'd sell these Toyota pickup trucks like Saudi Arabia or like ISIS, man, like okay, so yeah, like all the ice like the footage from ISIS. That's like, why are they all in these like us Toyota's bassinet across this section of Syria? It's because the military had bought Toyota's as helixes like new ones they're like it's just like I'm sweet Tacoma or something you know it's just like rigged up to ride around out in the desert it's probably a great shock for it but that's 12:33 why we should be ISIS is to get all 12:36 we need all those sweet Toyota's back now it was a big land that was like a gag in the news for a while because like all the footage from from whatever was going on which show these people but they were like next to these like old like old pickups like yours with with a with like a gun mounted mounted in the back like 12:57 that yeah 13:00 but yeah you think about all that all that crazy stuff that I think that was like the highlight stuff that Toyota was like for runners out of the country they're called serfs. Really yeah way cooler name to kind of call a foreigner a serf I'm not gonna 13:15 run it it's kind of redundant like I mean no matter what you have it's got 13:18 Yeah, it's like well, I mean we expected it would it would have four wheels or big truck I guess it should have four wheel drive or whatever whatever it's insinuating but but yeah, out of the country was called the surf I've seen a few of them pass by like you'd see him out there you'd be driving around and people are real proud of it especially in the overland scene or that like that backward CMM people get real proud of their their rigs that they have set up but but we saw one that was like this diesel surf that this guy had imported I don't know what the rules are on that either. 13:49 Yeah, 13:50 it's I think if the if the guy's a US citizen, I think it couldn't happen but I think if you're in Canada, you can you can have you can have one registered and then drive it into the united states i think is where we see a lot of those vehicles. 14:04 Well we need to make some buddies in Canada 14:07 if we need that man I need I need a diesel 90s foreigner I don't know like 14:13 commuting 14:16 Have you seen like the Mitsubishi Delica that's another that's another sought after it yeah 14:22 it's low in my mind here 14:24 yeah that MIT's it's a it's another kind of wasn't that wasn't built in the United States right but it's for well it's become really popular and like that van life van life culture where people you know, like I pretty much like what we were doing the Camry six years ago, but but finding it relatively decently and they get like a van. And like it's become really popular to get this Mitsubishi Delica. They made it through the 80s. It was sort of a competitor to the to the Volkswagen line of vans that were out at that time that were kind of camping focused, but it was cool. The Delica was cool because it was a diesel van but it was four wheel Drive is I get this it was time when like Mitsubishi was just making a bunch of four wheel drive stuff probably like the Colt VISTA that was yeah 15:07 that's exactly what was just you don't know what to call this is you're listening to this podcast go go look it up and that was that was your first car Billy 15:17 oh man it was the best car it was the best it was the best car it was the worst guy but it was really though it was the worst car 15:25 there I bet if you had that now and just put a little bit of money into it somebody yeah somebody would pick that up yeah in the Portland area 15:33 I put some studded tires on that a roof rat oh yeah an LED bar. 15:38 You want to talk about led bar CV 15:45 yeah man you remember that hatchback if you could fit 10 people in that car I think eight people I think I 15:51 did I don't think that's what they approved it for. 15:55 No I just where it was I think it was seven people 15:58 it was what it was like rated for 16:01 seven Yeah, it was it was three roses seats Robert in a compact soccer 16:06 balls are driving around in 1983 16:09 yeah it was It's nuts yeah there was the front two seats the back two seats that were like bucket seats to and then behind that there was another bench seat for three so you had 1234567 man Yeah, yeah, it was crazy. What a silly 16:27 hey it wasn't aesthetically great but it was uh you know economy friendly that's that's for sure. 16:38 The worst guy so not not an overland vehicle there I guess you could say and even still like man it was had like 14 inch tires so yeah no clearance to get over anything What have you 16:50 you made it You made it happen with the camera though? I yeah, 16:53 I did man and I was gonna mention that too because that I had a couple experiences in the Camry you've always had a truck I guess outside of like the short time you had you had a sedan for to commute and stuff but you had like had I rigged that could get some places which I always appreciated and I really noticed running into a few limitations when I was in the Camry. I wanted to talk about those It was great with the Camry because he really benefit from the gas mileage which man I would say yeah because I mean the most of a road trip in some ways like is highway miles you know you're out you got to drive from here oh yeah Wyoming so yeah put a lot of distance in between you and where you're going yeah it man it worked great having kind of a light easy car to like just bomb out to somewhere that works really well. So I appreciated some of those parts but man we ran into a few spots where we just couldn't get through and the one of the most upsetting ones to me was the sailing stones have you heard of those before? 17:49 Is that in Utah 17:50 it's in it's in the southwest it's it's Near Death Valley in California and the sailing stones is a really cool spot it was in Death Valley it's like it's in the park area but the park area is just so immense but it's it's all desolate almost nothing out there you know but you take this road it cuts back for a really long way and man we were on that gravel road for ever going back there you have to go it's it's the kind of deep wilderness you would almost call it but it's like deep in desolate country out there it's sort of well traveled because there's there's people kind of moving in and out of the park system. But we were traveling there in December I think you know when we were moving moving that direction, like early December of 2012, I think is when we were there and when we were we were driving up just just on the gravel road as it was it said it was a it was a gravel road the whole way there. And this part of it, it just kind of went up a little bit of a grade you know just the hill the slope of the road just kind of went up maybe 1215 feet or so and then kind of rounded off leveled off and then kept going it seemed like almost nothing at all. But my car was knee high centering on it basically like you could feel like you could feel like the body like start scraping because the roll off of it was like it was just it was deeper than than my car like the angle the car and the clearance I could handle I like I couldn't get there and I'd wanted to go there all my life. Oh so frustrated. We were like two miles or so I was like two three miles or something like well, we didn't know that because you're like in backwoods stuff and it's like, like I'm not gonna park there and hike it or something. 19:24 Yeah, and then somebody else rolls up in a vehicle that can handle it. This Camry parked in the middle of the road 19:30 there was a there was like a group of kids or like teenagers on little dirt bikes like little to hundreds and they were just like bouncing they just zoomed right past us. They sound like a little, a little bike. And they cruise. Right. It was nothing but yeah, it's it was not it was you would it would be totally everything could get over that except for my cars, except the camera. So yeah, no overland that day is what it is what it was, but that's story really is what ended up inspiring me to sell that Camry that winter. And then like come back in and get a foreigner like when I got that that 89 foreigner that I 20:11 thought was good that was a good truck I liked that route is a good track. 20:15 I bet it was a better truck earlier but man it was a great truck for me and I really had a great time doing stuff with it was super fun. Like Yeah, do more candy seven that was really cool. But that that was the first time that I had like that truck clearance you know? 20:27 Yeah, it means just like a whole new world of opportunities opened up to you when you when you have that clearance. It's like okay, and you got four wheel drive so you can get a little more daring with where you're going. And even with that though, I found that now with my current truck, I don't have the winch on it yet. And and even that kind of dictates to what I will and will not do up in the hills. Especially if there's not another rig with me. Sure. Yeah. I really enjoyed having that. That kind of that lifeline. And that security, I guess and having that winch that I can get out of trouble if I really got myself into it. 21:10 I think it's pretty interesting. Yeah, I've never had I haven't had a rig with a winch on it. But I really liked that you always did. That was cool. I don't think we've ever used it together when we were 21:19 out. I've used it on Tyler. Oh yeah. 21:22 Yeah. Pull him out of that sandbank. Is that what it was? 21:24 Yeah. I use it on a couple times. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You just get into a rough spot you got a tree or something you can tether off of and get yourself out of it. But 21:38 I think that's pretty cool. I remember you telling me a little bit about that in the past and it seems like it'd be pretty necessary if you wanted to do something more serious or more long term if you're doing like an overland trip or if you're doing some some trucks yes four by four stuff 21:53 well that's not a big like you know off road or it's you know, but it's well I mean off road in the sense of like let's go mud and rock climbing right yeah not I'm not that but I do like trying to get into places where typically the you know, the road kind of ends or you know, somebody hasn't been back then 30 years and there's still roadway going I think it's really explore 22:17 Yeah, I really like that part of it I really like getting to those different areas and you really get to get through so much more land you know, that way it's I found it to be really cool. 22:26 You do especially Oregon in the wintertime you know this area gets so much rain and stuff. It's hard to like you know when you after the winter you get to the end of the road you know, back back this is I don't want to beg begging I want to stay in the rig as long as I can. Yeah, 22:45 yeah, it's it's definitely that's a huge part of it for me too. And I care about Well yeah, you should tell me about Tell me about your pickup truck your first one that you got in high school did you that was like an ad with a straight axle right? 23:00 It was a 1980 straight axle Toyota four by four long and that was a great truck it still has a great track it's currently sitting under a canopy right now it hasn't run in three or four years but no, I love that truck man I drove that from the time I was 15 years until oh four years ago 23:20 yeah I mean that was that was a blast i was i was the coolest drug 23:23 Yeah no, I have always loved that truck and that truck would go anywhere I mean the really the only reason I got out of it was just I needed something more reliable yeah fact it's last trip was the trip that amber and I took down to Joshua Tree and I put like you know like 4000 miles on it 23:42 No way I remember that trip that was yeah that was pretty cool man. 23:47 Yeah and so that was a great trip to take it out on the harsh reality was you know at the time gas in California was around $5 a gallon is yeah insane I was getting about 12 miles a gallon and you know that was rough you know it didn't have AC you know that's just little stuff like people didn't get along with that forever but 24:10 now it makes me different so I've learned a little bit too I mean like like what we both learned a little bit in this last year like having a newer truck. It just solves a lot of those stresses about transportation man 24:21 well it does and that's the thing is when you're committing to a trip like that you need to know that it's gonna be reliable it's been a huge part you need to know it's gonna start back up when you're ready to go yeah 2000 miles away from home 24:35 I kill the battery I 24:36 gotta Oh my truck or so. Yeah. And the battery is not the proper Oh, no. Yeah, like, it's just like, Oh, you know, yeah, my transmission went out or like, you know, blew a head gasket or something. You know, I mean, that truck when I took it, it had over 400,000 miles on it. And, and so you're just going Wow, this is awesome. But really I just need to make sure I get it home yeah you know that that's what it came down to. 25:05 Yeah I feel like sometimes it's like driving a classic car around doesn't run as well it's maybe basil 25:12 yeah yeah yeah and then I got out from that I bought myself a little 93 I guess it was that's our five Toyota v six pickup with little extended cab I liked having the extra room that was a great little pickup to have that nice canopy with the roof racks on it I really enjoyed that. 25:37 Yeah, I like that to see 25:39 it go Yeah, it 25:41 was too bad it's too soon you know but too soon but I understand to think that Daddy's gonna move on or you know it's good he use it you 25:51 can see it around town every now and then Nice. Yeah, but but yeah and so since I've gotten into a full size track which I I just wonder why I didn't do so much earlier. Oh yeah. You know it's just just having the room the reliability you know just all the difference in the world 26:13 Yeah, I think so too. I was in your track like we were on when we were on that last Japanese podcast out of it yeah super clean like a dig been in there it's cool 26:22 Yeah, it's uh it's far more comfortable than it used to be you know cramming into the little single cab and yeah manual transmission and trying to 26:32 remember that first trip we did in your in your old trailer your your yeah cap. When we were what 16 are you going to camp up at Union Creek? 26:41 Yeah. 26:42 What is like what is that? I've been I guess it's Central Oregon. I don't know what do you call that? I don't know what you would call that Crater Lake Area Yeah, it's not really central National Forest 26:55 almost right yeah, it's 26:57 row River National Forest because it's the rug that runs through that is yeah yeah, I think yeah, it's that that area up there man that was such a cool trip and add a great type of minute like you're saying that we just there was like the three of us right? Yeah, just packed in tight. Yeah. And I was the one that had a ride bitch in the center. Throwing the third gear then it was it four years. Three years. 27:22 Yeah, it was four I ended up putting the five speed transmission. I remember that at the end. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was just that for speed you know, you get it out. It was great in town stuff. Then he gets onto the freeway and you're just tapped out at like 65 and just, you know, semis are trying to pass you 27:43 to go that fast I guess. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, that was a sweet track though. Man. I really had a good time in that but I remember that back in high school it was fun like making that road trip up to go camping thrown everything in the back. And everybody's just crammed crammed into the bench seat. Just now used to work I guess. But yes, a little little more luxurious. Now with the with the space I suppose. 28:10 You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo. I've been I've been really interested in the Alexa. Well, I guess just the Alexa platform and then some of the stuff that I might be able to do trying to produce flash briefings for the the echo system. I think there's a there's a an echo behind me that just woke up when I said that. But using echo to develop a flash briefing, I think is kind of an interesting way to produce some audio content, I think that's something that I might be able to do in an easy way. Or you know, I have a lot of the equipment and in a higher order working way that maybe a lot of people do. So there's an opportunity for me to just make a whole rundown of different themes of content that I need to produce for the channel. And then there's probably be a significant amount of attraction that I could get with with trying to put something out there early on. You know, I wonder if you guys think about this, right? Then think about, you know, a little silly ways to make money and I never actually do any of them. So I'm on the right path, I suppose. But I was thinking about while I was looking at the Amazon Alexa developer portal. I was going through there today and there's a lot that you can get into and especially if you're like a skilled developer, you have you have Background and some of the programming languages, languages that, that you can use in the command line that Amazon has available for you, there's, there's really a lot that you can do especially a lot that you can do outside of even the echo platform. So I'm sure that there's, you know, there's just like an endless amount of virtualizations that you can do, once you get involved with that. But for the Alexa platform, it's kinda interesting what I was trying to do. And you know, since I don't really have like a ton of coding Well, I don't, because I don't have a ton of coding skill, I'm most interested in trying to put together some of the flash briefing systems, which really seems like you just you kind of go through the system one time, which was almost really just filling out a form if you haven't done it before, but beyond that many people have. But if you haven't developed a flash briefing, it was really just like filling out a form, it wasn't really significant, or there was no code, there was no open a command line or build a file or have any kind of assets available for something in advance of, you know, what you would need to develop, there really isn't any of that it's just on, you know, on the website, or wherever I'm developing my feed there's has to be like a handful of stipulations met but but that's not really much more than what you'd have for any other kind of, you know, system where you're hosting and processing and serving as an audio feed. And for my circumstances, and not collecting any information or any payment processing. So I think it's a lot simpler, just kind of having the audio feed from RSS go into something that's, you know, pre selected to serve that from the alexus system. And that's kind of an interesting method of using it, I don't use the flash briefing system really, as much as I thought I would, I guess kind of day to day, it's because maybe it's like the type of content that I seem to be able to run into, it's just sort of a lot of street stuff from Wall Street Journal. And it doesn't really seem to be very relevant, or really, truly what like the headline news would be, if I really needed to hear something in audio this hour, would it be that I don't really know. So it doesn't quite seem like it. But that's probably some kind of level of content issue I'm going to run into also, and maybe this is just my personal situation of it, maybe not being like a time kind of thing that that I'm able to do. But But what I'm interested in trying to do, I guess is take advantage of all the people that might be trying to use their echo system a little bit more. And yeah, kind of participate in that and try and be one of the voices that is served on the echo system, I was impressed A while back when we were doing some testing with the Alexa platform. And when we were we're checking out with like the, we're putting together an astronomy based, like skywatching Alexa flash briefing, and it was kind of interesting, trying to put that together. I liked it a lot. See that goes, Alexa stop. So when I was trying to put together this flash briefings, it was interesting to see the real spike in traffic that was there. And so you know, I don't really have a draw of traffic as it is at all. I'm not sure if it was all just spam or some kind of weird artificial server track traffic I was getting once I submitted it to Amazon, but there was hundreds of, 33:12 I don't know markers of activity on that on that file. And that feed, it was far more like multiples of anything that I had seen from from the iTunes podcast system in in my time setting up podcasts and the time passed. So it was interesting to see just that kind of like rush in of things or ask people or I guess, I guess echo systems that have queued or triggered the feed that I had. So it was kind of interesting, seeing some of the analytics behind that. But that's a part of what makes me want to get into this type of content a lot more. The other part is that I'm trying to get more into podcasting, I have some other some other kind of podcasting, things that I have to be working on in the next couple of weeks and months. And so I'm really trying to get into kind of the audio side of stuff and do a little bit more of the audio editing. And, you know, I've been thinking about it a little bit too, in terms of, I guess, I don't know what you produce in a podcast. I think this is fine, fine. And this probably fulfills a lot of the stuff that I would listen to a podcast for. And you know, so yeah, thanks, guys. Thanks for listening to this. I understand. I get it. But to talk to that point, I guess a little bit of what I mean is that you need a podcast to be useful you want some of the information that you're here for a bit of time to be to be useful or to be you know, entertaining or somewhat informative or some kind of level of a hang. I don't know that's what I listen to podcast for I guess we're not really like hyper, hyper informational, or, you know, there's not like a ton of specific data points to get to a lot I've learned a lot you know, it's a type of communication platform that seems to service my learning a lot better than whatever type of articulation seems to happen more clearly in an audio book that's a little bit harder for me to wrap into than what it is with the more natural flow pause and then pacing of a conversation Or just have a person, you know, talking or trying to try to talk off the top of their head. I guess like professors to do that, or you know, teachers would do that when someone's lecturing, which I hope this is not quite a lecture. I have nothing to teach you or nothing. There's nothing you can learn from me. That's probably that's probably the truth. I'd try though. But, but yeah, I guess for for photo stuff that's going on? Well, I don't know. What was it talking about? That was Alexis stuff, right? I haven't even gotten the photo stuff. For the Alexa stuff. What I've done is I've produced a billy Newman photo flash briefing to go on to the Amazon Echo platform, watching my words more carefully now. And I'm also trying to put together some of the other podcasts ideas that I'd had in the past something around media and technology I'm trying to put something together around astronomy and sky watching I'm trying to put something together to there also. And I'm also trying to figure out some stuff around I guess photography specifically and then outdoor camping travel adventure stuff specifically so I'm gonna try and find some names that that might be useful for that kind of thing. And I'm going to see if if I could try and put that together but but yeah, be kind of fun. I'm I'm looking forward to trying to try and get some traction on building out some content on the Alexa platform stuff. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources, some links to books and links to some podcasts like this a blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo deco. Thanks for listening to this episode and the back end like your next

We are very excited to be speaking with Rebecca's Artisan Business Coach, Lara Cornell this week. We first met Lara through another artist and Rebecca worked through her book Maker's Mark.  Just shortly after that is when Rebecca met with her personally, and ended up signing up for her 10 week coaching program. I (Robert) get a chance to dig more into who Lara is as both an artist and a coach, and how she has come to offer the services she does, which combine the art of business with the creative mindset to help you become an #ArtisanCEO.  Lara Cornell is a business strategist and coach specializing in supporting artisans, artists and makers. She is the international best selling author of Maker's Mark: Make a Living and an Impact with your Artisan Business, and the creator of The Impactful Artisan Podcast. To that end, she founded the Artisan Business Academy and Artisan+Co focusing on educating and showcasing impact-driven and eco-conscious artisan businesses around the world.  When she's not geeking out on branding & marketing, she lives an artist life with her family where she is often found painting, gilding, creating perfumes or traveling to France.List of resources mentioned in episode, suggested reading & social media handles:Lara's Book, Maker's Mark: Make a Living & an Impact in Your Artisan BusinessEmail Lara directly at lara@laracornell.comLara Cornell's Sites & InstagramArt - https://www.laracornell.comCoaching - https://artisanandcompany.comInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/laracornellartCaribou Coffee - https://www.cariboucoffee.com/Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Preservation - https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/Follow Coffee Time Conversations, or Robert or Rebecca on Social Media: InstagramCoffee Time Conversations - https://www.instagram.com/coffeetime.conversationsRebecca - https://www.instagram.com/prince_beckRobert - https://www.instagram.com/robertprinceFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/coffeetimeconversationsWebsitesCoffee Time Conversations - https://www.coffeetimeconversations.comRobert's Writing - https://recognizingthedivine.com

We are really happy to be introducing you to Corella Roberts today.  I (Robert) got to know of her through hope*writers. She's an  author, blogger, teacher, mom and missionary. Today, we talk about her book which was released last year, her writing journey and of course, faith. It's an encouraging story about how God can and does use unlikely, uncertain circumstances to grow you and shape you into who he wants you to be.Born and raised in northern Idaho, Corella's love for books and writing developed at an early age as her imagination was her only playmate for miles. After high school, she ventured off to St. Paul, MN where she earned a degree from University of Northwestern and first heard the call to be a missionary teacher. She married her high school sweetheart, Troy Roberts, and they moved to teach in a village of about fifty people in bush Alaska. After seven years, during which time they almost gave up on missions entirely, God saw fit to rekindle their desire to teach in unreached parts of the world, and they moved to Chiang Rai, Thailand. They have two spunky children who love cats and hamsters, they eat cheap Thai food to their hearts' content, and they support the amazing community of missionaries there through teaching and organizing community events. Recently, God has invited Corella to return to her passion for writing, and she published a book, Colliding with the Call, about the literal and spiritual wilderness she experienced in Alaska, and the surprise of finding God's fingerprints all over that part of her story.Find Corella Roberts writing content at:https://linktr.ee/corella.robertsYou can find Corella on social at:https://www.facebook.com/corellaroberts/https://www.instagram.com/corella.roberts/List of resources mentioned in episode, suggested reading & social media handles:The Lazy Genius - Holiday DocketHope*Writers - https://www.hopewriters.com/Colliding with the Call - On AmazonFollow Coffee Time Conversations, or Robert or Rebecca on Social Media: InstagramCoffee Time Conversations - https://www.instagram.com/coffeetime.conversationsRebecca - https://www.instagram.com/prince_beckRobert - https://www.instagram.com/robertprinceFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/coffeetimeconversationsWebsitesCoffee Time Conversations - https://www.coffeetimeconversations.comRobert's Writing - https://recognizingthedivine.com

Every now and then we hear small/family businesses say something to the effect of “we can’t compete against the big box stores” or “the big corporations are taking up all the business” Does this sound familiar? Then this episode is definitely for you. We’re going to discuss the many competitive advantages that family businesses have over the big brand names that may even be across the street from you. I (Robert) worked for 25 years in some of those big brands so I know the advantages they have. But having consulted for the last 8 years or so with small/family businesses, I also know the distinct advantages they have over the major corporations. Also, Kay Lee grew up in a family business that everyone came to so she knows firsthand the advantages family business has that most corporations don’t. So buckle up and take a listen to this episode.

Marshall Swift’s simple declaration stopped me in my tracks. It was one of those slow-motion moments that hit extra-hard because I was feeling lower than low. "You should talk more. You have great ideas" was the knockout statement that I (Robert) received from my professor during my training in psychology. I admit that I was blindsided by this educator's comment. I really didn’t know what to make of it.  Have you ever received a compliment or encouragement that you couldn’t just brush off? (Robert is proud to share the full story in his recent TEDx talk, ‘Embrace Your Superpowers’) How do you express how awesome your child is and how much faith you have in their brilliance? Sharing your pride or saying "I love you" is awesome, but it's overused and sometimes lacks luster. "Good job" is nice, but who wants to merely be doing "good"? How would you tell your daughter (or son) that her words, perspective, feelings, and opinions really MATTER, that you believe that she has greatness to contribute to this world? Try getting more curious. Ask questions. Then try, "You should talk more. You have great ideas." We cannot think of an expression that would be more effective. When someone takes the time to go beyond surface-level kindness jargon, it makes a difference. You can make that person feel like they matter. You can be a huge motivator, and it can benefit you and the receiver of the encouraging remark. For a very long time, as Robert shares in his TEDx talk, he hid his voice instead of finding it and using it, as so many of us did (or still do).  Nicole also talks about finding and using your voice. In fact, she wrote an article, ‘Dear Little Girl with the Smart Mouth,’ to encourage young girls and all children to learn and abide by 'smart mouth' rules such as spreading kindness, not hate or negativity, always speaking the truth, being mindful before you speak, never allowing yourself to be silenced by someone else’s voice and many others. Ask yourself these questions (even when you are speaking with other adults): Are you and your children on the same channel? Are you listening as much as you are talking?  In this episode of the ‘I Am the Worst Parent Ever’ podcast, Robert suggests strategies for encouraging an engaged conversation partner, be it another adult or your pint-sized offspring. Listen in to hear Robert’s and Nicole’s take on how and why adults must find and use their voice and how to raise children who know how to speak up, banter, and listen.

Marshall Swift’s simple declaration stopped me in my tracks. It was one of those slow-motion moments that hit extra-hard because I was feeling lower than low. "You should talk more. You have great ideas" was the knockout statement that I (Robert) received from my professor during my training in psychology. I admit that I was blindsided by this educator's comment. I really didn’t know what to make of it.  Have you ever received a compliment or encouragement that you couldn’t just brush off? (Robert is proud to share the full story in his recent TEDx talk, ‘Embrace Your Superpowers’) How do you express how awesome your child is and how much faith you have in their brilliance? Sharing your pride or saying "I love you" is awesome, but it's overused and sometimes lacks luster. "Good job" is nice, but who wants to merely be doing "good"? How would you tell your daughter (or son) that her words, perspective, feelings, and opinions really MATTER, that you believe that she has greatness to contribute to this world? Try getting more curious. Ask questions. Then try, "You should talk more. You have great ideas." We cannot think of an expression that would be more effective. When someone takes the time to go beyond surface-level kindness jargon, it makes a difference. You can make that person feel like they matter. You can be a huge motivator, and it can benefit you and the receiver of the encouraging remark. For a very long time, as Robert shares in his TEDx talk, he hid his voice instead of finding it and using it, as so many of us did (or still do).  Nicole also talks about finding and using your voice. In fact, she wrote an article, ‘Dear Little Girl with the Smart Mouth,’ to encourage young girls and all children to learn and abide by 'smart mouth' rules such as spreading kindness, not hate or negativity, always speaking the truth, being mindful before you speak, never allowing yourself to be silenced by someone else’s voice and many others. Ask yourself these questions (even when you are speaking with other adults): Are you and your children on the same channel? Are you listening as much as you are talking?  In this episode of the ‘I Am the Worst Parent Ever’ podcast, Robert suggests strategies for encouraging an engaged conversation partner, be it another adult or your pint-sized offspring. Listen in to hear Robert’s and Nicole’s take on how and why adults must find and use their voice and how to raise children who know how to speak up, banter, and listen.

Surprise! We're still on summer break, but we're popping in with this episode. I get the chance to talk to award-winning author Jonathan Merritt about why people are using sacred language less, why that matters, and what we can do about it. We'll see you in a few weeks for Season 3, kicking off in September!Things we mention in this episode/other resources:- Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis- If you're interested more in the connection between our language and the way we view the world, I (Robert) recommend Words Can Change Your Brain by Andrew Newberg & Mark Robert Waldman- Psychology Today article: 'How the Language You Speak Influences the Way You Think'Connect with Jonathan on his website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or buy his new book Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing - and How We Can Revive Them on Amazon. You can also listen to Jonathan on The Faith Angle or Seekers & Speakers.Quotes:- “The vast majority of Americans, despite widespread religiosity, do not feel comfortable having spiritual conversations." (tweet)- “The words that we speak reveal something about what we believe and then shape what we believe.” (tweet)- “Language is not just expressive, it is also formative. The language that we use actually shapes what is inside of us.” (tweet)- “You cannot pretend you use language in a vacuum. It’s always attached to our experiences.” (tweet)Connect with Robert on his website, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.Connect more with CXMH on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest.Ways to support CXMH:- make a pledge on Patreon and get rewards like an exclusive Facebook group, a mug, sticker, t-shirt, or more!- Do your Amazon shopping through this link- Leave us a rating & review on iTunes or Google Play- Check out our CXMH merchandise to show off your support- Listen to the Cxmhunity Spotify playlist here- Check out other episodes and find your favorites guests on our website.Intro/Outro music for this episode is ‘Fall Down’ by Rivers & Robots.

Rigorous leadership vs. ruthless leadership Rigorousness: the quality of adhering to strict, exacting or thorough standards and methods. Ruthlessness: the quality of having no mercy or pity. Which of these sounds more like you? A rigorous culture should be something you chase in your business, but if you take it too far and become ruthless, you could put your business, your team, and yourself in danger. That's the difference we explore in this episode. For a good example of the difference between rigorous leadership and ruthless leadership, let me tell you a story about my partner Bill. Bill graduated from West Point, and as a young rock star lieutenant he took rigorous orders too far – and put himself in a ruthless situation that threatened his life. He was supposed to find a way to another location, so he decided to take the quickest route possible by Jeep. His chosen path took them over a mountain range. The Jeep got into several precarious positions, and Bill's specialist driver voiced his concern. That didn't stop Bill. He called his driver a wimp and stepped into the driver seat. Ruthless, right? Sure enough, Bill soon rolled the Jeep down the mountain, destroying both the vehicle and the equipment it carried. He couldn't recognize the difference between rigorous leadership – expecting world-class performance from your team – and ruthless leadership. Consequently he put his team in unnecessary danger and drove them (no pun intended) with intimidation and fear. Luckily, Bill didn't kill himself or his driver, but to this day he considers it the mistake of a lifetime. What about you? Do you step into the driver seat too often as a leader and put your team in danger? Or do you know how to drive results without messing up your team's groove? Listen to this episode for more. “Rigorous leaders who just hire warm bodies fall into the ruthless leader trap. Hire ‘A' players.” Via @RustyLionAcad (Tweet this!) Click play in the player below to hear how to be a rigorous leader instead of a ruthless leader. (You'll also hear what happened to Bill when his commanding officers heard what he did.) This episode has plenty of actionable advice that could keep you from stepping over the same line with your business or family.  Listen to this episode to learn about rigorous leadership, ruthless leadership and more: The #1 difference between a rigorous leader and a ruthless one. How to hire “A” players, and why they're important to a rigorous culture. Why your best employees should tell you what to do, not the other way around. Times when both Bill and I (Robert) were ruthless, and how we regret it even today. When – and how – you should fire somebody. Why ruthless leaders lose respect. A three-strike method for firing in a rigorous culture that won't intimidate your best employees. The J-word we use to describe ruthless leaders (Hint: It's not jerky, but it's awful close.) What you should do to “A” players who make big mistakes. Read these books to help you learn to be a rigorous leader: “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't,” by Jim Collins “Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition,” by Kerry Patterson Do this next to learn how to be a rigorous leader: Knowing how to motivate employees is something a rigorous leader understands. A ruthless leader will try to hack and cut his way to success. After all, an unmotivated employee is one of the biggest financial costs to a business. Click here to get our free toolkit on motivating employees. It will help you stay rigorous – without becoming ruthless.

Hello faithful listeners! Sexual abuse in the church is a serious issue which continues to persist. There are no easy resolutions.  Even so, it seems as if the church is slow to satisfactorily work towards ending these despicable crimes, slow in punishing those who perpetrate them, and also in preventing them from happening in the future.  This month’s film, Calvary, shines a light into the dark heart of this problem.  While this movie focuses on a negative event that the Catholic Church is dealing with right now, our TV Corner looks at the positive aspects of a prominent Catholic family on the CBS procedural show “Blue Bloods” Next month, we look at the film we told you not to watch, Left Behind (2014) starring Nicholas Cage. And in TV Corner we will examine the new Amazon series “Hand of God.” After that, we are going to close out the year with a three episode series covering the religious and mythological aspects of The Star Wars Saga, culminating with a review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It will be our Star Wars trilogy, if you will. Finally, a quick note about the sporadic nature of our podcast in the last year.  Mike and I had various health issues and family tragedies hinder us; I (Robert) had to have eye surgery to correct a detached retina this summer.  We are both feeling fit and eager to get back on schedule and will endeavor to stay on target going into 2016. Blessings!