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As always, we appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend it with us, we love doing the Podcast, and we hope there is some value for all of you, a bit of entertainment, and just share a little bit about our lives in the hopes it's relatable and helps you in some fashion.We somehow get into sharing our story of how we met, I think Kim stretches the truth ;) I think I'm funny, and we just dive into to how we met! What led us to talking about this is because we were discussing Kim's love of service and when we met she was an Activity Coordinator for a Retirement home as she loves to improve those she serve's lives, including her coaching and the Retreats she runs.Bottom line: Kim's wheelhouse is people and we discuss all of that!Thanks you for watching and listening!If you are interested in the upcoming Retreats here is the link: https://fitzlifeconsulting.com/moreinforetreats2026Thanks everyone!K&J----------------------------------------------------------You can watch the full video version here: https://youtu.be/y7Njho8-MfsWebsite: www.fitzlife.caSIGN UP FOR WORKSHOPS, RETREATS, AND APPLY TO WORK WITH KIM & JAMIE: bit.ly/WorkWithKimFitzpatrickSHOP OUR CLEAN AND NON-TOXIC WELLNESS SITE:

Welcome to episode #140! We appreciate all the feedback and positivity we received on our first ever video podcast last week. Thank you so much for the comments and the tags you did on Social!If I'm being honest with you, I'm not sure when we started recording this episode that it would go down this path or that I would be that open and vulnerable.Kim asks the question in the middle: “Do you want me to Coach you right now?” It sparks up a great conversation and she gives some incredible advice.This is a really deep conversation about some of the things I've been dealing with and how I've been managing it.  We are complicated human beings, and while we can intellectually understand what is happening and what we are doing, and what we are SUPPOSED to do, it doesn't mean we do what we should or what is best for us.Sometimes the most uncomfortable conversations can help people the most and I hope this episode helps someone out there.  We all struggle. But we don't need to do it alone or in silence.Thanks you for listening everyone, we appreciate you spending your time with us!K&J--------------------------------------------------You can watch the full video version here: https://youtu.be/EwmK9Txl734Website: www.fitzlife.caSIGN UP FOR WORKSHOPS, RETREATS, AND APPLY TO WORK WITH KIM & JAMIE: bit.ly/WorkWithKimFitzpatrickSHOP OUR CLEAN AND NON-TOXIC WELLNESS SITE:

Take a break from the burden of a hostile government take over with a new session of About This Time of Day: A Teen Mom Podcast! In this session, we're covering Season 1, Episode 7 of Teen Mom 2 - Switching Gears. We discuss how many jobs Kail will need in order to move out of Jo's house, I try to ease off of Adam as much as a person with morals can do, we learn about how Jenelle and Kieffer manage while "roughin' it", and I have a "hot take" on Baby Alli's eye diagnosis. Turn off the news and light up a J - You already know it's About This Time of Day.TW: Childhood illnessSession Note: I was gifted a new microphone, you guys! As such, I'm still figuring about the levels and things like that. You may hear some weird clicking... but don't go listening for it now that I told you about it... You know what? Never mind.Switching Gears Timestamps:Kail: 2:26-15:21Chelsea: 15:25-34:19Jenelle: 34:23-56:25Leah: 56:29-1:17:54Strains Enjoyed While Writing this Session:Ultra BouffantNon-Descript Space Rocks (delicious)OR Silver HazeMoroccan Peaches

In this episode we discuss...   One Voice, Nominations, the highs and lows of submitting work and a cheeky bit of Imposter Syndrome! As the launch of the podcast fell right around the nominations being released, we decided to talk about it, the process and the emotional side to being nominated....or not   Hope you enjoy!   M & J   ------------------------------------- You can find Jen at www.jenlawtonhunt.com  Instagram.com/jenlawtonhunt Michael is at www.manchestervo.co.uk Instagram.com/manchester_vo If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review and dropping us a follow to help us grow the pod so more like minded people can find it!

Hi everyone, this is a special episode of Firebreathing Kittens. I'm the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Mall Zombies by W.H Arthur. In this episode, I'll share my thoughts after reading the rule book. Hopefully this episode will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play Mall Zombies yourselves. Set up Get a deck of cards, preferable a zombie themed deck for that extra narrative spark Separate the cards into three piles, all of the number cards, the court cards (aka, j, q k), and the two jokers. We now shuffle the number cards together and create 7 face down piles of 3 cards by drawing from this deck. Once we have these 7 face down piles, we turn over the top card in each pile. Each pile should now have 1 faceup card and two face down cards underneath. We've just created our shops for the players to scavenge from. The top card number tells us what the Prompt is for that shop. This is a list of names given in the rules. Such as, Wisdom, Luxury, Power, etc. You can come up with the rest of the name of the shop yourself. If one of the piles has 6 as the top visible card the Prompt indicates it is an Eletrical store, so we could call it, Roberts Bits and Bobs. So we know what type of items might be in that store. (We will go into what our players want later on). We take the remaining cards we didn't draw and shuffle the two jokers into it that pile to create the “main deck”. The players will be drawing from this Main deck during the game when scavenging through the shops. The court cards are shuffled and set aside as the Zombie Deck. We draw from this deck when the players are attacked by the zombies. This completes the set up! Before we go on, let's discuss what our players are looking for during the game. The group first discuss what things the colony needs to survive. (e.g. food, batteries, heating, clothes, medicine, entertainment). Once they have decided on 5 needs this will be the basis for your players to focus on what they are scavenging for. So lets look now at how to scavenge the mall! Scavenging examples During the game the players will be scavenging for supplies by looking through the shops. Mechanically this is by searching through the piles of cards one after another. Example. Rosie, a widowed survivor of the colony has spotted Roberts Bits and Bobs and decides to scavenge through the shop to find some useful tools for the colony. Rosie describes how she would find her husband, Barry in the shop every time they went to the mall together thumbing through the bargain bins looking for a great deal on hammers. It would annoy her at the time, but now it just makes her miss him even more. The more narrative detail the better in this game, encourage your players to really go ham in their descriptions taking as long as they want. The GM now turns over the related pile of cards with the number 6 on and shows the group what they have found with their initial scavenge. The cards turned over now read the following. 6 hearts, 6 of spades, and 10 of spades. So, what are we looking for here? The players are trying to find one of three outcomes related to a poker hand. This being a “three of a kind”, aka 3x3, or 3, 10's, etc. A straight flush, aka, 123 of hearts. If this outcome is reached the players “You find more than what you need. Describe how the item fulfils one of the needs, and how it's better than what you expected.” Or, a Straight or flush, this is 123, in any suit or 3 cards all hearts, spades, etc. If they get this outcome, “You find what you need. Describe how the item fulfils one of the needs.” and lastly, a pair, aka, 2x2's or 2,10s, etc. If this is the outcome, “You find something, but it is either defective or of an inferior quality. Elaborate on the details.” If none of these outcomes happen, they find nothing of use, aka, it doesn't match any of the groups needs for the colony. Push your luck Now, what happens if the first three cards don't give them what they want? Well, they can push their luck and draw from the main deck, (the ones with now jokes, aka zombies in..oooooo). Rosie draws “6 hearts, 6 of spades, and 10 of spades” That's two spades, with is close to a flush, and two 6's which is close to a three of kind. Rosie decides to draw from the main deck and “pushes her luck”. When a player pushes their luck, they must describe what they're doing to do this. e.g. breaking down a locked door, removing rubble from a blocked corridor, etc). Rosie breaks through the employees only door at the back of the shop. The GM draws this card from the main deck and adds it to the pile. It's a 6 of clubs. This gives Rosie 3, 6's and a three of a kind. This means “You find more than what you need. Describe how the item fulfils one of the needs, and how it's better than what you expected”. Rosie describes finding a pile of brand-new tools from saws, hammers, and hand drills, perfect for fixing and building a better shelter for the colony. These cards are not placed back into the main deck once an area has been scavenged, they stay out in their respective shop piles. Zombies! What if Rosie drew a Joker card from the main deck. Well, this is where the brutality of the game comes into play. Rosie draws a Joker and the GM indicates she stumbled into a zombie attack! The gm draws a card from the “zombie deck” aka the deck of court cards and tells Rosie what she is facing. J : You survive by fighting or escaping from the zombies. How did you do it? Q : You are attacked by an infected survivor (an NPC). Tell us whether you noticed their strange behaviours recently. You are dead. K: You are attacked by a swarm of zombies. Tell us how you die. The zombie deck is reshuffled afterwards with the court card being placed back, and the joker is then shuffled back into the main deck. So how can you mitigate these effects? To have a little more sway or edge over the randomness of the decks? Character creation: Creating a character is very simple, each player takes control of a survivor in the zombie apocalypse giving their name, pronouns, and choosing one “special ability”. These special abilities give the players tools to look through the main deck before drawing from it. Careful : Look at the top card of the main deck in secret. You may put it at the bottom of the deck. Daring : Look at the top two cards of the main deck in secret. You may shuffle the deck. Wise : Look at the top three cards of the main deck in secret. You may put them back in any order. Scavenging with Special abilities. Let's now rewind time and figure out how Rosie could have mitigated the zombie attack! Rosie has the ability “wise” which means, Look at the top three cards of the main deck in secret. You may put them back in any order.” She enters Robers bits and bobs, does her description, looks at the cards, “6 hearts, 6 of spades, and 10 of spades”. She can now use her special ability to look at the top three cards of the main deck in secret. She draws three cards in order, Joker, 6 clubs, 8 spades. It's a good thing she checked as she would have drawn a joker. She now puts them back in this order, joker, 8 spades, 6 clubs. So, the next card drawn will be the 6 of clubs. Escaping Once the PCs have found all they need, it is time to leave the mall. Or, if they are dying out too quickly, it's time to escape and take what they can with them. Of the remaining surviving characters, a leader is chosen from them who will be drawing from a new set of cards created by the gm. The leader and push their luck as normal and if a joker is revealed standard zombie attack rules proceed. Three of a kind / Straight Flush : All remaining PCs escape. Describe how the group outsmart the zombie horde. Straight / Flush : One PC sacrifices themselves to allow the others to escape. Narrate their sacrifice. Pair (Only works if you have 1+ remaining PC): The leader can choose a single PC to escape. Describe what happens. (The remaining PCs can find an alternative exit by drawing a new set of three cards.) None of the above: You cannot escape. The ending If the scavenged supplies fulfil all of your needs (with less than half of them defective), and at least one PC is alive. : Your colony thrives. Describe how the living condition improves. If the scavenged supplies fulfil only some of your needs, and at least one PC is alive: Your colony survives. Describe how the colony aces setbacks from the unfulfilled needs. If all PCs are dead: Decide as a group if the scavenged supplies reach back to the colony. If so, apply the above ending that fits. If not, apply the ending below. If you fail to scavenge any items: Your colony collapses. Is there anything left? and epilogues surviving players now describe what happened after in the colony, and dead players can describe their after life as a zombie. Get this game for “pay what you want” on drivethru RPG.

Emission 896 Les Calamités, Martin Dupont, Indochine, Seconde Chambre, Kid Pharaon & the Lonely Ones, Fixed Up - La Playlist - Les Calamités - Je suis une Calamité - The Kids Are All Right – (J) - With a Boy Like You - Toutes les nuits - Le supermarché - (J) - ... Vélomoteur - Martin Dupont - Sticks in My Brain – (J) - Welcome to the Dissidents - Take a Look (J) - Inside Out -  Indochine - L'Aventurier - 3ieme Sexe - Canary Bay – Hors-la-loi (J) - Trois nuits par semaine - Seconde Chambre - Victoire prochaines - Le miel d'hier - Compte à rebours – (J) - Common world - Un banquet de géants - Kid Pharaon & the Lonely Ones - Walking My Way - Living on the sea coast – (J) - You're My Friends - I Can't Sleep – (J) - Miss T - Fixed Up - Purple Flashes - What's the News Today -(J) - Between Her Hands - the Limit of A Legend - My Love For You - Physical World – (J) - Teenage Power Bonne Ecoute... Bibliographie : Rock en France de 1976 à nos jours, Grégory Vieau, Le Mot et le Reste, 2023

Welcome to another episode of the Burn One Podcast. Today we're joined by two very talented individuals. J-You and Myles hail from Nashville and met at MLK. Join us as we discuss J-You's background in writing/art, Myles' relocating from Detroit when he was younger, and the current hurdles black artists face in the city. This and much more! You can follow us : Twitter & IG - @Burn1Podcast - @ace25young Or reach out to us by email at burn1podcast@gmail.com Thank you for listening.

Another ASCO and more CAR-T data. Arcellx presented early results on its multiple myeloma therapy at last weekend's ASCO annual meeting, and we dig into what it would take to stand up to J&J's Carvykti. But that's not all. People were on their feet for the Enhertu breast cancer drug and its unheard-of results. We've got a lot to share about ASCO. Also under discussion is Fierce's special report on the rising stars in the medtech and healthcare fields and what they have in common. Lastly, we finally have boots-on-the-ground at an industry conference. Our reporter headed out to the first in-person ASCO since the pandemic started. She planned to learn about new data releases and discoveries, and also found out something surprising about herself.  To learn more about the topics in this episode:  Fierce Healthcare and Fierce Medtech's 17 rising stars in health tech ASCO: AstraZeneca, Daiichi's Enhertu could transform breast cancer treatment with landmark HER2-low show ASCO: Gilead's Trodelvy limps forward in new breast cancer lane as below-par showing casts doubt ASCO: ‘Any way you slice' it, Arcellx's CAR-T is matching J&J-Legend's Carvykti, analyst says ASCO: Medidata links CAR-T's cytokine release syndrome risk to common biomarkers in new study ASCO: Black breast cancer patients want to participate in trials, but adequate information is hard to come by Emergent says J&J owes up to $420M for breach of contract. J&J: You want to talk breaches? ADA: Eli Lilly's stellar tirzepatide weight loss data tee up showdown with Novo Nordisk's Wegovy, analysts say ADA: With promising long-term data for its artificial pancreas, Medtronic aims to fully close the diabetes management loop UPDATE: Bristol Myers strikes up Roche rivalry with $4.1B Turning Point buy Eli Lilly wins key dispute over patient warnings in era of DTC advertising ASCO: Return to in-person 'zoo that it always was,' with added COVID challenges—and bad shoes The Top Line is produced by senior multimedia producer Teresa Carey with editor-in-chief Tracy Staton, managing editor Querida Anderson and senior editors Annalee Armstrong, Ben Adams, Conor Hale and Eric Sagonowsky. The sound engineer is Caleb Hodgson. The stories are by all our “Fierce” journalists.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Alyssa Clark is fresh off of a supported FKT on the Pinhoti Trail. That's a 335-mile trail through Alabama and Georgia with about 50,000 vertical feet. Her new record is 5 days, 14 hours and 43 minutes. Alyssa also holds a Guinness World Record for running the most consecutive marathons, 95 days in a row! Needless to say, she's a bada$$ and I couldn't wait to get her on the show. Oh yeah, she won Ouray 100 this year as well. She says it was just a training run J You've got to listen to this episode! New Track by my man @the.pro.guey SPONSORS: @biggerthanthetrail  @alter_ego_running @onpacewellness @xoskinusa 15% PROMO code is BTC @athleticbrewing 20% PROMO code is MCROBERTSA20 Life is short, DO BIG THINGS!

Best Thing You've Seen This Week (1:48) What was it like to hit a million in sales for the first time? (4:30) A key identifier of this stage: Hiring issues. (10:25) Top 3 things you should know if you're in this stage. (15:42) How to fire yourself. (Spoiler Alert: This applies to figuring out when you need to hire more employees too!)(18:42) What to look for in a right-hand person. (24:07) How do you decide which product or service you want your business to focus on? (28:33) Tool of the Day (34:59) One Thing (37:35) Snapshot of the Show (41:10) Tool of the Day Crmble for Trello Dialpad Quotable Moments “If you have to tell [employees] to do every little thing, then you don't have the right employee in the right place.” — J “I know I need to fire myself from something when my plate is getting so overwhelmed that I don't have time to work on the business.” — J “Anytime you have somebody that's trying to take work off your plate or trying to learn and make themselves better... you've got a pretty good indicator that you've got somebody that can potentially be a lead person.” — J “You really feel like you need the cash flow and the sales from some of those jobs, but you've got to take your mind off sales and start looking at profit.” — K Resources iKamper The Good Old Days blog Jeff's process for hiring great employees Join a Mastermind group! More from Jeff Jeff's articles about the cabinet industry Learn more about Ultimate Cabinet Components Get in touch with Jeff Finney LinkedIn More from Khalil benali.com  khalil@benali.com LinkedIn Facebook Instagram More from The Push Thru Podcast Join a Mastermind group! Subscribe to our newsletter Instagram Twitter

[J] Hi everyone, I'm Jessie [A] And I'm Alayna.[J] And we're excited to introduce our new podcast Positively Happier![J] We'll be sitting down to explore the question - what exactly makes people happy? We will be inviting guests along the way to have honest conversations about their stories and insights, chatting about the path to leading a happier life.[A] In between those chats, we'll also post some short minisodes that look at simple habits we can adopt to help look at the glass as half full a little more often.[J] In our research, we've found happiness generally comes down to 4 main keys:Close RelationshipsJob Fulfillment/Passion for hobbyHelping OthersHealth[A] Throughout our episodes, we'll be taking a closer look at the elements that make up those 4 keys to happiness. We want to share tips and tricks that others have found, experiments to test out those theories in our own lives, and inspiring stories from others who are leading happier lives.[J] You may be wondering - why us? What inspired us to get together to talk about finding joy and happier lives?[J] The answer to that question is simple, BALANCE. Throughout my entire life I've felt as though I've had a ton of happy moments, and when you string them all together you can see that I've had a very positive and happy life overall. However, for as long as I can remember the ups and downs have been what weighs on me the most, and after having my daughter, the pursuit of finding a better balance and a happier daily existence with less stress was more important than ever. Guiding her through the ebb and flow in her own life through leading by example in ours is at the top of my priority list, and what better way to do that than by learning alongside all of you![A] And I decided to jump on board to join the fun!Jessie and I have known each other for almost 30 years. We met on the schoolyard in junior kindergarten and have been best friends ever since. We've been there for each other through all the ups and downs - elementary and then high school drama, first crushes, boyfriend breakups, marriages, first babies. Great and terrible jobs. A move to the other side of the country (and then back). Late nights and early mornings. Through. It. All. [J] I would say we are both generally pretty positive people - but with really busy lives, young kids, and the balancing act of working full time and maintaining relationships - it can sometimes get tough to see the bright side in every situation.[A] That's why we're excited to get together monthly, chat with some super interesting people, and put some of these happiness theories to the test. There's always room for more joy in our lives.[J] Sound good? Hit subscribe to get a dose of happiness in your Podcast player every month. [A] And follow along with our journey to happiness and updates on new episodes on Instagram at @PositivelyHappierPod. [J] We want to hear from you! Have an idea for a topic we should cover or your best tip for staying happy? Send it on over to positivelyhappierpod@gmail.com . We'll share our favs on upcoming episodes.Chat with you soon!

英语中的礼貌用语也是非常多的，很多时候不注意用词，可能会让对方感到尴尬，我们在商务会议中，想要礼貌地结束闲聊开始进入正题，该怎么表达更尊重对方呢？C: Hi guys. I'm Chris. J: And I'm Joy. Today we'll be talking about some commonly used business expressions, such as: I'd love to chat more, but… You must tell me more about that later, but...It's been great catching up, but…You can use these when you want to end the small talk and get down to business. C: Right. These expressions are very useful in business. We already know that you usually start a business meeting with small talk. But you don't want to do small talk all day long. You have to start talking about work at some point. How can you smoothly end your small talk without sounding rude? You can say: I'd love to chat more, but we've gotta talk about our product design. Or maybe you want to tell your client that you are going to another meeting. So you have to end this conversation. So you can tell him or her: It's been great catching up, but I have another meeting so I have to run. Let's try to use this in a conversation: J: I'm really glad to see the weather warming up. It's a great time to go for a walk outside. C: Actually I went to a park just outside of the city myself last weekend. It was a really good change of pace. J: You must tell me more about that later, but we should talk about the inventory of the project today. Pete was asking about expenses. C: Yes definitely, let's clear that up today. J: We'd love to tell you more English expressions, but this probably is enough for one day. And there will be more tomorrow! C: That's right. And if you enjoy our content, remember to share it with people you know! Talk to you next time! Bye!

凡事都有两面性，每一个辩论赛都有正反方，我们今天的习语中虽然有“coin”一词，因为硬币都是有正反面的，和我们生活中遇到的事情一样，那我们来看看这个习语应该怎么正确的运用呢？C: Hi guys. I'm Chris. J: And I'm Joy. The idiom we are learning today is: the other side of the coin. It means the opposite side of the subject or situation. You can use it when you are discussing something with someone and you want to mention a different way of looking at it. C: That's right. Everything has two sides. Usually a good side and a bad side. So whenever we talk about something, there is always the other side of the coin. I know in China, a lot of people study English for exams to get a higher score. But the other side of the coin is that the exams didn't help them with real communication in English. So most of the people can read English but can't speak. Or maybe you are not happy that your boss only assigned you with a lot of work. But the other side of the coin is that you'll have a chance to gain more experience. Now we are gonna use this idiom in a conversation: J: Wow, James. This is your new car? C: Yeah, I just bought it last week. J: I think the color white is the best for this car. You made the right choice. C: Yeah, but the other side of the coin is that it'll get dirty faster. J: You might need to put in a lot of hard work to practice your English and it usually gets boring and repetitive. But the other side of the coin is that one day you'll be able to use English to work, make friends, travel or live in a different country. C: Yep. And guys. If you like our channel, remember to share it with people you know! Talk to you next time! Bye!

生活中新鲜事物源源不断，很多时候我们都要保持一个open mind，只有尝试过，才知道这是不是你想要的，不过你还在用”try it”来说服别人去尝试某事吗？今天这个习语大家可能常听到，那我们来看看这个习语在口语中怎么用出来吧！C: Hi guys. I'm Chris. J: And I'm Joy. Today we are gonna take a look at the idiom: give it a shot. It means to try something. Usually you use this when you or someone has something new to do. You can use it like this:I'll give it a shot. / You should give it a shot. / She gave it a shot. C: Yup. We all have many opportunities to try something new in our lives. In the idiom, “give it a shot”, the word “shot” means the act of trying. There's a quote from a hockey player: “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” Here it means if you don't try, then you really won't succeed. Also, because he was a hockey player, “shot” can also mean to hit the ball to score a point. So in sports, if you don't take a shot, of course you will not get the point. If you want to tell your boss that you will try to do your job as hard as you can, you can also say: I'll give it my best shot. Here's an example in a conversation: J: Hey Luke. I heard that you are gonna go and talk to Katelyn again? C: Yeah I'm gonna give it another shot and see if she will agree to come work with us. J: You already gave it a shot. She's not gonna do it. C: I know. But I think I have a way to convince her this time. J: Have you tried our private English classes? Maybe you should give it a shot! C: Definitely! And if you like our content, remember to share our account with your friends and family! Talk to you next time! Bye!

因为疫情，大家都在家憋了好久，很多人已经蠢蠢欲动，开始向附近的公园出发踏青了，也有好多人开始计划疫情后的旅行目的地，我们今天听Joy and Chris聊聊旅行吧！J: Hello everyone. I'm Joy.C: And I'm Chris.J: You know, Chris, I heard that a lot of people are planning their next trip already for after the epidemic. I think there's gonna be a lot of tourists everywhere when this is over.C: Yeah it's just like students studying for the whole semester waiting for summer break. And when it happens they all go traveling at the same time.J: Totally, that was everyone's favorite time of the year. So where do you wanna visit next after the epidemic is over?C: I don't really know yet but I have been thinking a lot about Guangzhou. I went there last year and had a lot of fun. I'd totally visit again.J: Guangzhou is pretty nice. What did you do there?C: Well, I went to all sorts of places. The weather was perfect when I was there and I really enjoyed getting to know the local culture. I got to see many historical buildings and I even went to watch a traditional Cantonese play in a park.J: Wow, really? Sounds pretty cool. Did you go to the Guangzhou tower?C: Yeah I did. I went to the top of the tower but it was not a very clear day so it was a little hard to see the city but it's still really cool. The new part of town is well designed, I think because When I was walking around downtown, it almost made me feel like I was in New York or something.J: Yeah, I agree. But I think the traditional part of town is more attractive to me. I liked seeing the super old buildings along the the streets and people are actually still living in them.C: Those old buildings are very interesting. I think I took a lot of pictures of them. The style was really cool too. You can actually walk underneath the buildings. There are stores on the bottom of the building and the families live on the top floors.J: Yup they have a lot of those. Did you try any of the local food there? Guangdong is pretty famous for its cuisine.C: Absolutely, I enjoyed eating Dim sum every day and I got to experience a southern food market where I bought a Guangdong styled duck. It was one of the best ducks I've ever had. I loved it.J: Mmm, Guangdong ducks are really scrumptious. C: Yeah. And the locals like to eat at restaurants very late in the night and walk around in the night markets. They have amazing deserts like ginger milk pudding which is my favorite now! Overall it was a great experience and I would really like the chance to explore the city more.J: Sounds amazing. Guangzhou can be pretty hot in the summer.C: Yeah, I heard. And there is the monsoon season too. I saw some videos before that my friend sent me of the streets being flooded. It's no joke.J: Yup, definitely avoid those days. Anyways, do you guys have anything in mind for your next trip? If you like our channel, don't forget to share it with your friends and family! Bye guys!

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In this episode of From Idea to Done, we talk about a book we started recently titled "The Twelve Week Year" by Brian Moran. We discuss thinking about making goals in terms of 12 weeks rather than annually.J/E: Hey Everyone, I'm Josh and I'm ErickE: Today's Idea is work efficiency. This comes from a book you last week while traveling. What book are we talking about?J: The 12 Week Year and the tagline is get more done in 12 weeks than others do in 12 months.E: So what are some of the bigger ideas of this book?J: discard annual thinking, In January, December looks a long way off. We begin the year with big goals, at the end of January we are slightly behind, at the end of march, we’re still behind, but not worried. We aren’t worried because we have plenty of time to catch up. The second big takeaway was periodization. It’s principals are focus, concentration, and overload on a specific skill or discipline. It began, as an athletic training technique to help increase performance. The athlete focused on one grouping of skill and then moved on to the next every 4-6 weeks.E: You liked this so much, that you actually bought us all copies of the book. I don’t read a ton. I am more of a forget thinking and reading about ideas. Let’s take action! I did start to read it though because you are my boss and told me to read it. I have related to it. It had a quote that I really liked. It said an ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Again, I am about taking action. What are we going to take away from this book to our team of co-nerds to help us go forward?J: You start with a 12 week plan, E: Spoiler alertJ: It is in the title it isn’t a spoiler Erick. E: Fine, back to the takeaway.J: Start with the end in mind. At the end of the 12 weeks, what do you want to have achieved? For example you may want to have a personal goal of losing 10 pounds, and a business goal of closing $100,000 in new business.E: We have all made new years resolutions. What is the difference?J: The difference is it is 12 weeks and not a year. You need to check off 85% of the checklist items on your list, and you will be wildly successful. The way you do it by make them specific and measurable, state the want in a positive over negative statement, ensure they are realistic, assign accountability, and be time-bound.E: I’d like to have a follow up episode. Aired soon, explaining how we used this book to help us actually move the needle. By my calculations it’s Friday afternoon, and I have worked 12 weeks already this year. Is it time to go home after this?J: well i hope you’ve worked more than 12 weeks already this year….E: Fair enough on to editing... until 5.J: Thank you for listening to this episode, the first in our mega series. If you know a startup that could use our random advice and thoughts have them subscribe and leave a review on iTunes.

Semester Sneak Peek is a new series that provides a preview of courses available at Tulsa Community College (TCC) this coming fall semester.  As a series about upcoming classes, these episodes will feature interviews with many of the instructors tasked with teaching them.  Today's episode features Jeff Smith, Recording Studio Instructor at TCC.   Edited by Sam Levrault Music by The Odyssey, "75 to Ramona" Transcript by Bethany Solomon   TCC CONNECTION PODCAST | SEMESTER SNEEK PEAK | FT. JEFF SMITH Bethany: Welcome to semester sneak peak, our special summer series that provides a preview of courses available this coming fall semester. I am your host Bethany Solomon, associate editor of the north east campus here at the TCC connection. Today we have a very special guest, Jeff Smith, he is a TCC adjunct professor, TCC signature symphony violist, and president of song smith records. Jeff Smith: Hi! Good afternoon, how are ya? B: Good, how are you? J: I’m doing great. B: Can you start off by telling us a little about yourself? J: Sure. I was born and raised in Tulsa, OK. I started playing violin at 10 years old because my brother and sister played the violin. The summer of my 6th grade year my teacher came to me and said “you know you’re kinda beefy, husky boy, you need to play the viola. I said, viola? It rhymes with granola, I don’t want to play the viola, I said what am I getting myself into here? She said ‘Oh, no you’re not going to quit the violin, you’re going to learn how to double. Double. It rhymes with trouble, she said ‘oh no, you’ll be fine.’ So, I got to take two instruments to school, the violin and the viola. Uh, learned how to play the both of them, not long after that the beetles were popular, and I got a guitar. I started going on in. B: Very cool, very cool, so how did you find your way into the education as far as like, your music. Did you study in undergrad, music specifically, or did you have a broad range of interests beyond music? J: Oh, gosh. You look back on pivotal points in your life. One pivotal point in my life was, I guess I was in Jr high, early high school, and I had an electric guitar. Dad had come home with a Wollensak, as a German tape recorded. And it had an auxiliary input on it and I learned at a young age I could take the guitar output and plug it into the auxiliary input, crank it all the way up, play the guitar, turn its sound all the way up and it would sound something like: [makes loud buzzing noises mimicking guitar sound] Coolest sound I had every heard…. for about 13 seconds. I blew out the 8’ inch paper cone speakers and a couple of power tubes. Its kind of left a mark on me, like this is a cool sound, I gotta get into this. I was going to be an aeronautical engineer, all through high school, my dad was a fighter pilot in world war II, he had 96 missions over France. My grandfather had his PHD in mechanical engineering and actually wrote the maintenance Manuel for the B25 Mitchel bomber. So, I was going to be an aeronautical engineer, until, calculus first hour happened. Kay, I had a morning paper out, and an evening paper out. Okay! Take your XY X’s, translate it, rotate it, draw a hyperbola, spin the hyperbola, cut a hole in the hyperbola, and now find the volume and generate it. At that point I figured, you know, I’d rather play the wrong note, I couldn’t see myself designing something that will have someone else get killed because I misplaced a decimal point. But, all throughout high school I played in the youth symphony. My senior year, I audition Id and got first chair of the viola of the youth symphony. And I auditioned for the Tulsa Philharmonic. I guess they were desperate, and I turned pro when I was 17. Uh, went to the University of Kansas, was a Viola Major. A double major in Viola performance and music education. And at KU they had a computer music lab, and they had, we’re talking early-mid 1970’s. And they had an ARP 26 hardener. This is a synthesizer, analog synthesizer. You have never seen so many buttons, knobs, dials, flashing lights, flash chords, slider, path chords I was like ‘gollee’ what does this thing do, what does this thing do? I actually had a blast in that course, it got me down here. From there I came down to TU, finished up a bachelor’s in music ed, finished up a master’s in music ed, taught in Wichita, Kansas for three years, went back to school, picked up a master in viola performance. I have always believed that if are going to be a teacher, you must be able to do it. There is the old joke that can do, those that can’t teach, those that can’t teach become administrators. Um, nah, I kind of believe that if you’re going to teach, you ought to be able to produce. You ought to be able to do it. Does that make sense? B: It certainly does! So, moving into, as far like, the technical aspect of music, recording studio techniques, you have a lot of orchestra experience. How does that translate into the studio? J: Sure. Well I was a band and orchestra director for 27 years and the times that I wasn’t playing classical music with the orchestra, I was playing fiddle, guitar, keyboards, (unintelligible), for rock and roll bands. And that was an awful lot of fun, setting that stuff up, it gets really tiring after 15 years of lugging all that’s stuff around the back of a pick-up truck. It dawned on me, you know, that I can make music instead of lugging around all this PA gear and power amplifiers and all this other junk. Why don’t I just build a house, have recording studio, and have them come to me to make music, and I don’t have to lug all this stuff around. So I started SongSmith records in the mid-eighties back when we had, they were called ADAT machines. They recorded on a VHS cassette, and they would theoretically, and I say theoretically, synchronize together by two ADAT machines – and you could have, wow, 16 channels of digital audio. You could have a grand total of 34 minutes of digital audio. B: Wow. J: Of course, you could format the tape first before you had to record on to it, and that is about as much fun as having paint dry. But it was there, and we had 16 channels of digital audio. I’ve still got those ADAT machines and once in a while we’ll get an artist in the back of the studio that recorded with me 20 year ago say ‘Jeff! Do you still have to ADAT tapes?’ I say yeah. ‘Could we dump them into pro tools and clean them up a bit and rerelease? And I say sure. B: Fun stuff. Definitely. That’s really cool. So, what do you think, as far your students, and what you teach here, what has been the most challenging for your students? In terms of getting comfortable with technology or for musicians in general. J: Wow. That is kind of a tough questions. Each student is different, each student has their own strengths and weaknesses. On day one, I had to fill out a little, I call it a student data sheet. Tell me a little about yourself so I know who I am dealing with. A lot of times I will get students in the class who have already had pro tools experience they might run sound at their church. And I’ve got kids, ‘well I have sang in choir, but I want to learn how to record myself.’ And they don’t know anything about the technology. So, the challenge, for me as an instructor, is to teach on two or three different levels. So, I try to teach to the very, very raw beginner, to the kid who has had some experience, to those kids who could probably teach me a thing or two. I guess that’s the fun part about the teaching. In the class, I have to make sure that each kid knows we will only be playing with three things in audio. Frequency, amplitude, and time.   And all the buttons, and knobs, and dials, [mimics with higher pitch] Buttons, and knobs, and dials, oh my! All have to do with either frequency, amplitude, or time. If you understand that basic concept than you go through ‘okay well what does this button do, how does it change the sound? B: So, a lot of it is experimenting, as you’re in the course. J: Yeah. And that’s how they learn. We tell them, for example, once we define frequency, amplitude or time are, we go into signal flow. We go, okay, what happens, how does the ear work. How does the microphone work? We trace the audio from vibrations of your voice, or your guitar or whatever, through your microphone, line, inputs…..into. What happens next? [jeff starts laughing….] It all goes in from the patch bay, and the patch bay goes into the microphones, and the micros to the IO’S, IO into the computer and we explain all that stuff in signal flow, signal flow, signal flow. All an audio engineer does, all day long is. I don’t hear the guitar in my left ear, why not? Or, I plugged this in, and I don’t hear anything. B: Right. J: Or I turn this knob, and nothing happened. Back up and figure out why. B: And that is what you give your student leeway to do. Figure out why they made a mistake, to figure out why and backtrack. J: If you tell them what they did wrong, they’ll never figure it out themselves. If they go throughout, and your cohort here, can attest to this. I will rarely just tell a kid an answer, I say, do you have an iPhone on ya? There’s this thing called google, look it up! I’ll wait. And then for example, when they learn the measurements, and what decibels are to measure frequency. I’ll ask them questions like ‘what’s the unit of measurement for frequency?’ and they’ll say, uhm, decibels? No that is the measure for amplitude. Man, it hertz if you don’t know this. Hertz being cycles per second. B: Right. J: Hertz being, you know, cycles per second. Hertz is the measurement. So, it hertz if you don’t know this! [both laugh…] B: That’s a good one actually! J: The stupider or funnier something is, they’ll remember it. B: It sticks better! Definitly it helps it stick. So as far as walking away from the class, how important is it for students after, in the aftermath, are these techniques that can easily be forgotten if they are not applied immediately. J: Oh gosh, I hope not. B: If you have students that come for, let’s say, do you teach a second course as well? J: Yes. There’s a Recording Studios Technique II (RST II) class, theoretically there are two sections of RST I, which will have 16 kids total, 32. Out of those 32 kids, if RST II is offered, we only take 8. So it’s like ¼ of those two classes, if they wanted, we are limited to 8. We did a really cool thing this last semester. The students had to produce a video and they had to literally, we shot it on a gopro camera, and it was actually pretty terrible, but they learned the process. They had to get a video program onto their computer, there are several free ones, and just experiment there, here’s the scene we shot. And the whole theme of the video was, and this is terrible, once again, I love my wife, but she has a problem with collecting small electrical appliances. If there is small electrical appliance made, she has it. She’s got four or five crockpots, I don’t know how many mixers she’s got, toasters, curling irons, you name it, those little vacuum thingies, if it is a small electrical appliance she has it. So the format of the class was, we’re going to make a video and you all have seen these videos of the poor animals you know, for the charities, and there’s this poor dog with one eye and its snowing outside and he’s missing a paw or something and there is a choke collar behind this poor animal. And well the idea was, we’re going to have small appliances, and they need a home. And they produce something absolutely hilarious. “Do you know a small appliance that needs a home that’s been abused? We’re sorry. SARI, the small appliance rights institute, so we made a video, and we got t-shirts with irons. One of the appliances was an iron that burned a hole in the t-shirt, so the kids were like no, no bad iron! Flatten it with the newspaper, and later on we use that same shirt with sorry with this big old iron burn on it, we’ll give you this shirt if we give us $19 a month. That is only 63 cents a day.”   So I hope the kids learned a lot from that. Uh, they learned how to put it together, how to edit, how to synchronize the audio. One student actually wrote this really cool darkish sounding sad piano music that everyone wanted to use because it was so cool. B: So you have different types of projects and assignments in the class, of various ways. J: Oh yeah. B: So for exams, what should students expect for an exam, in a studio techniques class? How will their knowledge be tested? [Jeff laughs…] J: Exams! I figured kids are not in JR high school or elementary school anymore, I do not use true or false, multiple choice. Most of the tests and quizzes are done with fill in the blank and short answer. You know, hopefully using correct English and spelling things correctly. It’s not like ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” we’ll give you four choices, and you pick through the answers up here. I want you to go a little bit beyond that. B: Right. J: We also give the kids all kinds of interesting ways to help memorize things like that. For example, can you name the planets in order from the sun out? B: Probably not in order. J: Okay. I can. B: You can? J: My wife took an astronomy class once, kay, and if you take the first letter of each planets. If take the first letter of each planet, ‘M’ for Mercury, ‘V’ for Venus, ‘E’ for Earth, ‘M’ Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, back then Pluto. So, she came up with a very simple sentence. My very enormous man Jeff Smith understands nothing. B: She came up with that? J: She came up with that! Totally originally, and OH! Okay. So, you take all that information, you condense all that down. It is like taking all 5 great lakes. Heroin, Ontario, Michigan, siria, and superior. Spell the word HOMES, take that data and condense it. It is like putting it in a ZIP files for your brain where they can memorize some of these techniques, and hopefully it will not only help them in audio engineering but in life. B: Right. J: You know, if you’re on stage running sound for a band somewhere or in a church situation and all of a sudden thing die. You don’t want to turn to the guy next to you. Good gosh what do we do? As an audio engineer, you got to figure it out, quickly. B: Right. It is about application, not just knowing the what, or how, it is about knowing the why, the why you are doing what you’re doing. That is what differentiates it from a lot of other subjects. J: That’s the thing, if you know anything about Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education. Harking back to many, many years ago. If you have just a knowledge level question: ‘Who invented the telephone?’ You know? That’s knowledge level. If you have a question like, we’re gonna form a band, you’re gonna come up with a song, you’re gonna cover a song or something and you are are gonna form a single here in the class. We’re gonna pick members for the band, and you’re gonna go from there. That takes a lot more brains to be able to do that. B: It takes creativity! J: Absolutely. You gotta coordinate your schedule together, you gotta pick a song, come up with an original cover song, do the rehearsals, figure out how you’re gonna mic the drums. I’ll show you how to mic them, but you do it! And why you might do it this way. B: Right. It takes a lot of brain power to figure out what you’re going to do, how you’re going to do it, and why you’re going to do it. J: The more you use it the stronger it gets. B: Yeah. That’s really good. That’s actually a really good way of doing it. So, for current line up of courses, beyond Studio Techniques I and then II. J: Two happens in the spring. I teach private lessons on violin and viola through TCC. That’s only a handful of students, like two or three. B: Oh okay! J: I also teach private guitar out of my house, but that’s a different story. B: Do you have anything like a semester split? What do you teach during what semester? J: Oh okay. In the first semester, the fall semester, we only offer Studio Techniques I, and hopefully there will be two sections. Then from that, we’ll offer in the spring, studio techniques I and II. B: Oh cool! So, advice for students as well, for anyone who does not have experience. What should they expect going to class and what should they expect coming out of the class? J: Bring a pencil and a notepad! You’d be amazed on day one that sometimes there is not a whole lot of different between first graders and college kids. You write something on the board, and some kid in the back will say, is this going to be on the test? [Bethany laughs…] J: Ummm, YEAH! The idea is if it is on the board, I feel it is important enough that you need to know it. Because if you are successful in music, you know, you could make a lot of money. Pay all that taxes and social security and support me when I’m old…..er. B: Very good point! So, if you want to be successful, for musicians specifically, how important is it to learn studio techniques for your own music? J: Oh gosh! In the music business especially, what has been relatively successful for me, I call it a multiple income source. My main income for many, many years was teaching in public schools. On the side, I was playing classical music in two different Orchestras. The (unintelligible} Symphony and the Signature Symphony and occasionally the Tulsa Harmonic. The Tulsa Opera and the Tulsa Ballet. On the weekends, we were not doing classical, we were rocking and rolling in establishments. We call them gun and knife clubs. [Both laugh…] Bring your own, within a hundred miles of Tulsa. You know, within 200 miles. So you had money coming in from the rock n’ roll side, money coming in from teaching lessons on the weekends, money coming in from your teaching job, money coming in from your symphony gigs, then if you write music, you can create it that way, and get royalties from that. That way if any one leg of that collapses you have something else to depend on. It the music business, to really make it big, you have to be extremely good at ONE thing. And then you can afford everyone else to pay them to record your CD for you, to book you here and there, but the more you know about every aspect of music. How do you finger a saxophone, where’s the best way to mic a saxophone, or a flue, or a guitar, or a cello, or a base? Where does their sound come out from? Where does it sound the best? What kind of mic do you use? All of that stuff, the more you know, the more you’re worth. You apply everything in music. There was a time when my teaching career, where the school I was teaching, I had been there for five years, and they were going to close the school due to a reorganization plan. My last year teaching there they’d lost all the electives. The only elective you could take at this school was band, orchestra, or gym. No home ED, no foreign languages, nothing. That was it. They closed the school next year to reorganize. Orchestras fold, right or left sometimes. Schools change. And in the music business especially, you’ve got to have a backup plan. You get smart, by a house, accelerate the principle on that, so you pay it off early. We paid our first house off in 8 and a half years by accelerating the principle. If you anything about financing, that is a different topic. But that’s how you get successful. B: Very cool. So I hear it is important to be multifaceted but to also master one area. J: Well. If you wanna be really successful in music, you got to be able to sing like Garth Brooks, or Whitney Houston. Or, you have to be able to play that violin like Itzhak Perlman. That’s all he does. For me, I can’t do that. I am too much Attention Deficit Disorder. I get attracted by all the flashing lights. Wow, cool, we are recording this in garage band right? Neat stuff! And I’m watching all these little lights flashing over here and she turns around smiling listening to us on her headphones running through the, and I am wandering GEE! What is that knob do, OH, that is the interface there she’s running through. So for me, you know, I’ve done the six hours of practice everyday when I was at the Cleveland institute of music getting my viola masters. Six hours a day of the viola? Gee I hate the viola sometimes! You know? It’s like too much. Put it down, play the guitar sometimes, go play the fiddle in a country band somewhere and make it fun. B: But you put a lot of time into it. J: Oh yeah! B: That’s awesome! Just to go over an overview on your courses one more time. Studio Techniques I, Studio Techniques II, Viola… J: And violin.. B: Oh, you teach violin as well. J: Yeah. B: So those are private lessons. J: For both majors and non-majors. B: Do you have a special email address that your students can reach you at? And potential students as well. J: I have the TCC email, but I have had more luck with my own personal email. Would it be okay to do that one? B: YEAH J: My personal email is songsmithrecords@cox.net. Now  if you go on the web and go to songsmithrecords.com, understand that I have been busy and haven’t updated the website for 15 or 17 years. It’s on my list of things to do I’m working on it but I’ve been busy. B: Alright, great, so where are your classes based at? What campus? J: We are based at the southeast campus. B: Sounds great, this has been Bethany Solomon and Jeff Smith at the TCC Connection. Thank you for listening and we hope to continue this series for the summer. J: Thank you Bethany, I appreciate your time. B: We appreciate you as well!      

PJ Bruno sits down with Enterprise AE Patrick Forquer and VP of Growth Spencer Burke to discuss online grocery shopping, Reddit raising a huge Series D round with a near $3 billion valuation, and Warby Parker's new augmented reality shopping tool.          TRANSCRIPT: [0:00:18] P.J: Hi everyone and welcome to Braze for Impact. Your weekly tech industry discuss digest. So this is a place where we get together each week and just talk about what's happening in tech. This week I'm lucky to have with me my pal Patrick Forquer who is on the sales organization here at Braze. Next week we'll hear from someone from a different department, probably Customer Success, something like that and then the following week maybe someone from product and then so on and so forth. So we can get multiple different angles at what's happening in the tech industry. Like I said today, I'm lucky to have Patrick Forquer and also Spencer Burke. I'll have them introduce themselves.   [0:00:51] Patrick: Hey, I'm Patrick [inaudible]. I'm a strategic account exec here at Braze.   [0:00:55] Spencer: Thanks PJ. I'm Spencer Burke, the VP of growth.   [0:00:58] P.J: How are you guys doing? How's the week trucking on?   [0:01:01] Patrick: It's going okay. No, it's going great. It's great to be here with you P.J. Looking great in your Heather Gray shirt and as always.   [0:01:09] P.J: It's a good color. Spence, how are we doing?   [0:01:11] Spencer: Going well. Got a ski trip planned for this weekend driving up to Vermont, so can't complain.   [0:01:16] P.J: Always at the skiing Spencer Burke.   [0:01:19] Spencer: It's a winter. I got to get it in.   [0:01:20] P.J: Got to get it in guys. You know what, without further ado, why don't we jump on to what's happening this week? This first article, 'Why people still don't buy groceries online'. This is a very interesting thing to me. Actually, let me set up the story because I think they did a really good way of setting this up in the article. Nearly 30 years ago when just 15% of Americans had a computer and even fewer had Internet access, Thomas Parkinson set up a rack of modems on a crate and barrel wine rack and started accepting orders for the Internet's first grocery delivery company, Peapod, which he founded with his brother Andrew. Back then, ordering groceries online was complicated. Most customers had dial-up still and Peapod's web graphics were so rudimentary that customers couldn't even see image of what images of what they were buying. Delivery was complicated too. So the Parkinson's drove to grocery stores in the Chicago area. They actually did this and bought what customers had ordered and then delivered the goods from the backseat of their beat up Honda Civic. When people wanted to stock up on certain goods, strawberry yogurt or bottles of diet coke, the Parkinson's would deplete whole sections of grocery stores. This is, this is wild. I mean it's interesting because we were all constantly talking about convenience and delivery of all sorts of things. Why not groceries? What's the deal?   [0:02:41] Patrick: Yeah. So when I was reading this article, the first thing that came to mind was if, if we rewind 10 years from today and we took a poll of everyone at braise about, which would be more successful grocery delivery or an app on your phone where you tap on one button and a stranger in a Honda Civic pulls up and drives you somewhere. I think we all would have bet on the grocery delivery piece of that. Right?   [0:03:07] Spencer: Every time.   [0:03:08] Patrick: So it is crazy to me and the numbers are super low. I mean 3% of people getting grocery delivery. Spencer, what was your initial take?   [0:03:18] Spencer: I'm curious, have you guys used the grocery delivery service?   [0:03:22] Patrick: So I have, I had a really bad experience actually, so I haven't done it since. And I think that's part of the challenge in this article where-   [0:03:31] Spencer: Can you get into that bad experience or is that...   [0:03:35] Patrick: So we tried to use the grocery ordering off of Amazon Alexa and my wife ordered paper towels and-   [0:03:46] Spencer: Just paper towels?   [0:03:47] Patrick: Yes. And a couple of other things, but I kid you not, they delivered us what must have been the majority of the warehouses paper towels to the point where-   [0:03:58] P.J: Jesus!   [0:03:59] Patrick: ...for two and a half years, we were using paper towels off of that one order. So obviously that's an outlier. But yeah.   [0:04:08] P.J: It seems like it's also, apparently America is really not adopting it as much as other countries like it seems like in Europe. Also in Asia it's like up to 20% or something like that of consumers are using online and it's only 3% here in America. Does that speak to anything that we're doing or what do you guys think?   [0:04:27] Spencer: Well, I mean I think part of it is most people... Most people have cars. Most people live in an area where they have some kind of large grocery store chain and so if you're driving to work, stopping at the grocery store on the way home, it's not changing the convenience kind of function for everyone in the same way that like Lyft or Postmates or Seamless might for your average consumer. Personally, I've tried it here in New York. I recently moved to somewhere that just doesn't have as many large stores as close to me. I just thought, sure, why not? Let's try Amazon Prime. Amazon just bought whole foods recently and let's see how it goes. I think there's a lot of challenges with it. You don't see exactly what you're getting. If something's out of stock, you're relying on them making replacement or not providing it at all. So, if you're planning on using one of these services to plan a dinner you might not actually be able to cook what you intended to or you might not be able to put that meal together because the delivery service wasn't 100% versus if you're in the store, you can kind of course correct as you go.   [0:05:32] P.J: Right. I feel like a lot of us order all sorts of things through the Internet. I'm sure that list goes on, but as far as grocery shopping something that...it's ordering Seamless as one thing, right? It's prepared and sent right over to you as opposed to groceries. People probably a little concerned like you want to feel your fruit, you want to see your meat, you got all these things. I feel like there's a little fear around that probably. For me anyways.   [0:05:59] Patrick: Well definitely. And then you know, they talk about the challenges that these companies have. It's a lot more complex and it would look to me that on the surface with things like some items you have to keep warm. Some items you have to keep cool, you have to do it all really quickly. And so the people put, you know, preparing the packaging, have to know where everything is and then there's delivery and it's mostly in urban areas. So then there's parking challenges and all these things that I didn't necessarily.   [0:06:25] P.J: There's tons of complications that go along with it. Apparently surveys have shown that shoppers are still concerned that they're being charged higher prices when it comes to online delivery and also complain about delivery drivers being late. Those are the two biggest complaints apparently.   [0:06:39] Patrick: Yeah. And the last thing I noticed was in the second article that we were looking at on grocery delivery, there's the casual drop of Google in partnership with Bain, with Bain commissioned a research study, which as we know working in tech means that Google paid Bain to run this survey for them likely with a hypothesis that grocery delivery was about to explode.   [0:07:03] P.J: I feel like they had an a hypothesis in mind. Yes. Something tells me, yeah.   [0:07:07] Spencer: So I don't know if this was entirely altruistic on behalf of a like, yeah, let's do it. Let's go for it. We'd like you guys.   [0:07:13] Patrick: And you know, I noticed Walmart recently pulled their products from Google Express, which is Google's grocery delivery service. So I think there's increasing competition around this for an incredibly small market at the moment. And I guess we'll see where it goes.   [0:07:31] Spencer: Yeah. Before we move on. I, despite our skepticism, I think there clearly is something here and you know, whether it's Instacart or Postmates or Amazon or anything Walmart or Jet tries to do, there's clearly value to having a hall. You're grocery shopping, just show up at your door essentially. And I think like a lot of things on the Internet, whether it was a couple of years ago when everyone's like no one's going to put their credit card into their phone to buy something online. It's like there's all these articles about how many people abandon their carts because it's on mobile and they need to go back to their desktop. No one talks about that anymore. You just do it. I think we're not that far from whole foods being a warehouse of food for Amazon delivery rather than a grocery store. Right.   [0:08:18] Patrick: Delivered by robots.   [0:08:20] Spencer: Yeah, exactly.   [0:08:21] P.J: And that's what the future looks like. Groceries delivered by robots.   [0:08:24] Spencer: You heard it here first.   [0:08:25] P.J: Yeah, we'll leave it to you guys. Next article of the day. Reddit is raising a huge round near $3 billion valuation. So Reddit is raising one. Sorry, $150 million to $300 million to keep the front page of the Internet running. Multiple sources tell TechCrunch. The forthcoming series D round is said to be led by Chinese tech giant, Tencent at a $2.7 billion pre-money valuation. And now depending on how much follow on cash Reddit drums up from Silicon Valley investors and beyond, it's post money valuation could reach an epic $3 billion. Yikes. And now my first concern that comes up immediately for this, and I feel like maybe you guys felt the same way. Censorship, right? I mean, maybe it doesn't matter, but Reddit remains a relatively safe space for trailers and conspiracy theorists alike. The currently banned apps and websites in China though, like massive lists just to shortlist as Google, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Snap, Insta, Youtube, flickr, Tinder, and Reddit of course. And that doesn't even include news publications, cloud storage products and email. So I don't know, there's something feels weird about this, right? Also like Tencent is also one of the most important architects of the great firewall of China. This is serious. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of meat here.   [0:09:53] Spencer: It's like this is a different than I expected.   [0:09:54] P.J: Oh really? It just seems like there's strange things at play.   [0:10:00] Patrick: Spencer, I know you had some hot takes on this.   [0:10:02] Spencer: No, go ahead.   [0:10:03] Patrick: Well, yeah, I think it's interesting that Reddit has had a lot of challenges over the past couple of years. And PJ, you alluded to some of that where they've had some really bad homophobic, misogynistic, racist, threads that have propagated conspiracy theories and hate speech and they've dealt with it in different ways. Some of the ways that they've dealt with it has been good. Some of it's been not so good. I know their CEO was editing comments and specific threads to make them look a certain way. And then he got caught doing that and had to apologize. If they had been a bigger company, can you imagine if Facebook did something like that? He'd be hauled in front of Congress immediately. So, and I was thinking about the valuation piece of this too, where if you took all the bad stuff out, and you're looking at their monetization model, it's through ads, right? Like most companies. They're like most social companies but they've really only recently started monetizing through ads and their real strength has been a very supportive and loyal community of Reddit users. I don't use Reddit, but I know people who do and the people that use Reddit, love Reddit. They love it. They're like in the community, they're posting and commenting and all that stuff. And the challenge as we know scaling a business model where ads are the primary revenue driver is that you can lose some of that early days, communal feel when you start layering in promoted posts and different types of advertisements and it kind of loses its initial bespoke early day feeling those.   [0:11:54] Spencer: Yeah. I think the flip side of the darker elements of Reddit is that Reddit, can be a place for really specific groups of people and that can be people in a city, someone with a certain medical condition, people who play a sport. Like recently I've been looking and there's a subreddit for woodworking and it's like, oh, this is maybe a hobby that I'd be interested in. And there's just a ton of resources and people who are helpful. So for everyone who's out there trying to make a joke, well, if there's a lot more of these people, but for everyone out there who's, who's kind of trolling and you're trying to be a little bit silly, there's a lot of people who are just passionate about something and go to Reddit to share it. And I think it's kind of inspiring actually, that those communities exist on the Internet in a place that it's not just a website for those people. It's a website that can serve any community and it happens to be Reddit for a lot of people.   [0:12:50] Patrick: Right? Do you think that this changes anything for Reddit potentially down the road?   [0:12:58] Spencer: Well, they stay in business for a little bit longer. I don't think so. I think you're probably reading too much into the the Chinese[crosstalk]   [0:13:07] Patrick: have you been spending some time on Reddit recently PJ?   [0:13:09] P.J: Actually, I've only been on Reddit maybe once in my whole life. I'm not a big ... My roommate is like obsessed. Anytime we're doing anything like watching a movie, he just is looking at his phone the whole time and he's in Reddit constantly living in the comments. Right?   [0:13:23] Patrick: Nba Reddit as a really good, yeah. Community. Right. Community.   [0:13:27] Spencer: I feel singled out now because I actually do spend a decent amount of time on Reddit   [0:13:32] Patrick: That's all we need to hear from somebody.   [0:13:32] Spencer: Don't use Facebook, don't use Twitter. Casually though love reading Reddit. The comments can be hilarious. But like I said, just moved recently. So looking for cool areas, restaurants, bars in my neighborhood and there's a subreddit for it. So just reading through it on a couple of times a week can pick out spots, find somewhere to go check out, and it's actually really interesting to see and it's like having a good neighbor or a friend recommend some places to you. You just there and it's a different feel than just going on Yelp and looking at aggregate and total summation.   [0:14:08] Patrick: Are you getting into woodworking? Is that what this is?   [0:14:11] P.J: Yeah. What do you, tell me more about that.   [0:14:13] Spencer: I won't go down the rabbit hole of the hobbies that Reddit has inspired or there's some really, I'll just ... There's some really specifics. I'll read it. That's all. That's all I'll say.   [0:14:23] Patrick: I mean, but what you're describing though, Spencer, is the kind of dual nature of all of these social media sites. On one hand, they can connect people who feel lonely or who are passionate about a certain topic that maybe others around them aren't passionate about and find that community that they'd been looking for. On the other hand, there's Jonses with hate speech and things like that and who knows, maybe Reddit Will start handling this really well and it'd be a success story, so I'll be interested to what they do with all this capital and it's a huge inflection point for their business and kind of their all or nothing shot I feel like so.   [0:15:00] Spencer: Just as an example, they're on the weeds podcast of ox podcasts. They're talking about a study of where they paid people to give up Facebook who are on the platform. They weren't planning to give it up. And those people who are basically just happier, they socialize more, they watch a little more TV, which is maybe the one question one thing.   [0:15:19] Patrick: And they have some money now, which is nice.   [0:15:22] Spencer: But they were less politically divisive. They were a little less informed on some things, but just like genuinely happier. I think one of the interesting things that happens in Reddit versus Facebook, that the communities are moderated by people from the community. So there are subreddits to help people quit smoking, to quit drinking. And when those people will talk about their success, there's so much positive in encouragement and positive feedback and the negative elements of that. Unlike Facebook where anyone from high school that you don't really know anymore can come in and comment and make you feel pretty bad about something or give you that kind of fomo feeling. There's a community of people supporting you trying to do whatever it is. Whether it's something you know, trying to get rid of some addiction or learn some new hobby, which I think so that moderating the fact is it makes it a little bit different than other types of social networks.   [0:16:14] P.J: A little more like true democracy going on over there.   [0:16:18] Spencer: Or a benevolent dictatorship. In the case of moderation.   [0:16:22] Patrick: If Reddit is the front page of the Internet, does that make Facebook like the national enquirer? Who's to say, hi,   [0:16:33] P.J: Let's move on. We got a little of time left. Last article of the day. Warby Parker's new shopping tool lets you try on and buy glasses virtually using your iPhone's camera. So now this article is Warby Parker announced new shopping tool and it's more convenient for iPhone owners, Virtual Try-on. The tool, which lives inside the glasses by mail companies app is available on February 4th. So this Monday it just launched. The caveat is you'll need an iPhone X, iPhone XR or iPhone XS to take advantage. So not just for iPhone users. If you have an old school iPhone, you're not going to be able to use this thing either. Spencer, you wear glasses sometimes, right?   [0:17:13] Spencer: Yep. You got me.   [0:17:15] P.J: You guys can't see. But sometimes he wears glasses. Do you have feelings on this? Do you get ex ... Does this get you excited?   [0:17:22] Spencer: [inaudible]radio? Yeah. Not really. I'm pretty straight forward. When I went to go buy my most recent pair of glasses, went to a store in New York, asked the guy for some help. He picked out two pairs, tried them on, chose one, locked out. And I might be an anomaly there, but I think from-   [0:17:41] P.J: Boom! I love that.   [0:17:42] Spencer: But I think this is really interesting to me because it sort of solves two problems. One is it's helping people try glasses. It's lowering friction to make a purchase. The second is it's giving people a better sense of what they're going to look like without going in the store. So it's going to reduce the likelihood that they need to go in and make a return or [inaudible] me back in, which of course has a cost to Warby. So hopefully for for them the business outcome is it's increasing revenue, making the purchase easier and they're reducing their operating costs by reducing the number of returns.   [0:18:16] Patrick: Yeah. To me, reading the article and there was a lot of buzz about this. This story appeared multiple of the new sources that I read on a regular basis and while it's cool and definitely the benefits that Spencer's talking about are real. I also didn't understand necessarily the getting as much buzz as it did because to me it just feels like they took Snapchat filters and turn them into [crosstalk] Whoa, we can do now what Snapchat could do two years ago and it's just Warby Parker glasses instead of like Elton John glasses. I mean it's cool, but I want the Elton John one.   [0:18:55] Spencer: Yeah.   [0:18:56] Patrick: So it's just definitely cool and I think there's obviously a business case to be made from a technology perspective. It wasn't super exciting. I think there's other use cases for AR for things like the way that Wayfair and other furniture stores are doing it where you can see, you can overlay a couch in a living room type of thing that would be more valuable than, productize smart Snapchat filter.   [0:19:21] Spencer: So you don't wear glasses do you?   [0:19:22] Patrick: I do not.   [0:19:29] P.J: 20-20 vision. I honestly just don't trust that augmented reality fit. I don't think it'll necessarily match real life. And I guess it's for two reasons. One, I just don't trust that just looking at yourself with this augmented pair of glasses on will necessarily look the way to look in real life. Also, we're not even considering the feel. the feel of a pair of glasses has to feel right. You know, so until they have augmented feeling technology out, I'm not buying.   [0:19:57] Patrick: Well, the other thing I was thinking about too, along those lines, PJ is 97% of Americans won't freaking order groceries, but there's going to be some huge wave of people putting something on their face every day that they saw on an app.   [0:20:11] P.J: That's what I'm talking about.   [0:20:13] Patrick: Hot tech Spencer. I don't know.   [0:20:14] P.J: There it is. It's called augmented reality. It's inherently different. It's like if you think about catching a charter as art in Pokemon go is so different from trying to catch on in real life. Have you ever tried, it's entirely different. Wait, one more question for you guys. What I want to hear, what's an augmented reality app that you're just hankering for that you just really want? And I'll give you a second to think. Well, I'll tell you mine and you know, growing up I was very into a Tamagotchi if you guys remember those little pet on your key chain, but just like a cool little Tamagotchi that only I can see my pet. No one can see them. I look around where is he? Okay. There he is on the ground. You've got to feed them. You got to take care of them. And then you know when it comes to having to really take care of him, like you just close the app, close the phone. I don't need to worry about buying pet food or any of that stuff. Something that makes me feel like I have a little buddy.   [0:21:08] Patrick: So an AR Tamagotchi   [0:21:09] P.J: An AR Tamagotchi you heard it here first.   [0:21:12] Patrick: Wow. Here's all my money. [inaudible]   [0:21:17] Spencer: You don't use Reddit. You don't order groceries online, you don't think that trying glasses on with your phone is a good idea. But they are Tamagotchi.   [0:21:26] P.J: I am on Facebook so you can find just about out of time here. You guys, thanks so much for being on here with me. This is PJ Bruno.   [0:21:35] Patrick: Patrick [inaudible]   [0:21:36] Spencer: And Spencer Burke.   [0:21:37] P.J: signing off. You guys take care. [0:21:39]

Joining today: journalist and co-author of Conquering the Electron: the Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels who Built our Electronic Age, Eric BrachMost of the crew is off and away for the holidays, so I thought it might be a fun treat to revisit one of my earliest episodes from a previous show.Back then, I was focused almost entirely on authors and their work. So I created In Character to reflect how the people who write our favorite stories often have unusual tales of their own.Eric was an awesome first guest to have on the show: full of thoughts and insights on the technological wizards who gave us power (as well as our constant expectation for new devices and growth).- J You can follow Eric online at Twitter (@ebrachwrites) or Instagram (@brachobama). You can also find his book, Double Lives: True Tales of Crime Next Door, on Amazon.com and other online stores.Like what you hear and want to show your support? Leave a review on your app of choice or subscribe to our Patreon site. The Magician, written & performed by Immersive MusicKudos to @BrothersHerman for the final edits. Here Be Tygers is now a proud member of The ESO Network. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/herebetygers)

节目名称：Music Bang Bang 节目主题：英雄联盟节目监制：朱子业编辑：朱子业，李嘉怡播音：朱子业，李嘉怡制作：朱子业整合上传：陈子扬审核:侯泓锾开头曲 Legends Never Die.欢迎来到英雄联盟，敌军还有三十秒到达战场J：Hello everybody, welcome back to our channel. This is music bang bang from VOE foreign languages radio station. Long time no see. Or should I say, long time no hear. I'm your old friend Jotta.L: Hey this is Lacy.J: So as you know, I'm late to catch on hot events.L: Yeah. That means 后知后觉。J: Do you know the voiceover at the beginning of our programme?L: That's from League of Legends英雄联盟. And the song we play right now is called Legends Never Die.插曲1 Legends Never Die.L: It's the theme song of the League of Legends 2017 World Championship.J: Seems like you made an adequate preparation for today's programme.L: Of course! Except the songs, I consult some information about IG.J: I believe although many people post like, IG is awesome, they even do not know the member of that team.L: Ig's full name is Invictus Gaming. Invictus 的意思是不可战胜的，这个词来源于阿根廷，这个战队的名字也预示着创始人王思聪对这个战队的美好展望了！It's one of the mumber of LPL alliance.J: LPL, League of Legends Pro League, 意思是英雄联盟职业联赛。插曲 2 Welcome to Planet Urf.PART 2： L: By the way, Jotta, do you know IG's mumbers and their duties?J: Yeah! Now please let me introduce them. 他们队就是“莽，就完事了”。The Shy is a very skilled top. Ning is a jungle. Rookie is a very careful mid, it can called APC as well. APC, ability power carry, 也就是技能输出核心。Now you know APC, can you infer the meaning of ADC? L: I know it, ADC, attack damage carry. 也就是下路，或者射手的意思, and Jackeylove is a very awesome ADC, and very handsome.J: You are right.有了ADC不可缺少的是辅助，那么你知道辅助用英语怎么说吗？L: Emmm... I guess it is called SUP, support, right? And I know IG's support is Baolan.J: Aha. We introduced too much about IG, It's time to go back to Legends! The song we played right now is called Welcome to Planet Urf. 是无限火力的新主题曲。L: Urf? What's that means?J: 这是一个被lol删除的英雄，叫海牛阿福，英文就是Urf。L: Oh, I see. I feel so excited when I listened to that song, I even want to begin to play that game now! 插曲3 RiseJ: Aha, why not? Lacy, have you ever heared about RNG? That team is also outstanding, but this time they took the opponent lightly causing them lost this game.L: Nodesty helps one to make progress while conceit makes one lag behind.谦虚使人进步，骄傲使人退步。J: You are right! As League of Legends is a very popular game. There are a varity of songs about it.L: This song is called Rise.L: I know there are many characters in League of Legends.J: Yep. The first I would talk about is The Unforgiven Yasuo.疾风剑豪亚索。L: Why?插曲 4 RiseJ: Because in the face of all people's misunderstanding, he will do whatever it takes to clear his charges, let justice to regain his glory. L: 但我看过网上写关于亚索是....什么自闭来着？J: 多行不e必自闭（音同：多行不义必自毙）L: So what's the relationship between e and autism？J: E is a keyboard shortcut of his skill. That skill's cooldown is very short, about 0.1-0.5 seconds. 他的e技能是向前突进，而且技能冷却时间很短，所以秀不秀就看这个技能用的怎么样啦。L: Oh, that sounds attracting me so much！J: The next character is one of my love. Her name is Sona. 琴瑟仙女娑娜。Look at this picture, don't you think she is as pretty as a fairy？L: Yeah. And she has a nice figure.【只有你能听到我的话，召唤师，今天我们演奏哪首曲子？】J: Let's enjoy POP/STARS from K/DA.L: K/DA是由游戏中人物阿卡丽、伊芙琳、阿狸和卡莎组成的虚拟女团。J: So after hearing today's programme, do you know some of League of Legends？L: Anyhow I learned so much about that.结束语 J: OK guys, time flies. See you next time.L: 欢迎大家订阅我们的荔枝FM22808, VOE等着你的加入。 J&L: Bye! 结束曲 POP/STARS

节目组: Music Bang Bang 音乐大爆炸 节目名称:female rapper、开头曲 The Next Episode instrumentalJ:Hey bro.Welcome back to our channel.I'm Jotta.L:Yo.Whassup man?我是厉害的狗子 AKA Liz.J:This is music bangbang from VOE foreign languages radio station.Hey, Liz.Have you heard a song called Bodak Yellow whose rapper is Cardi B.L: Yep.I admire her courage and personality charm.J:Hey, Cardi B is coming...are you ready? 插曲1 Bodak yellow J:Liz.The first time I listened to this song,it makes me think of another female rapper.L:根据嗓音和写词手法的话，我猜，你想说的是Nicki Minaj吧？J:Yes.I have heard almost every song of hers.L:So you are a big fans.J:You got me.L:What's the name of this song?J:Chun-li. 插曲 2 Chun-li J:Wow,actually,I wanna have a try.L:Okay~ just listen！The song called U.N.I.T.Y.And the rapper is Queen Latifah.J:I think,the beats of this one is kind of chill.L:Yes,and I like its construction.The hook is comfortable yet powerful.J:I have to say the punchline is also very powerful.L:Yes.And her storytelling is so cool. 插曲3 U.n.i.t.y J:咱今天说这么多说唱歌曲，让我想到之前的中国有嘻哈了。一开始里面说的好多词我都不懂什么意思呢。L:You mean "punchline" "flow" or something?J:Yeah.How about introducing some jargon about rap music?Jargon 就是行话，专业术语的意思。L:Great!"Punchline"在有道里我查到的意思是：结尾警语；妙语如珠，在rap里指歌词中押韵完美、节奏等很有感觉的部分，放在古诗里就是那种人人皆知流传千古的名句。J:"flow"呢，包括语速，节奏，押韵，停顿，音调等，比较全面。You can understand as one's style.L:再来呢就是"hook"。J:这不就是钩子么？L:Yeah.As the literal translation of it ."hook"是指副歌，它通常是是一首歌最抓人的部分，很容易跟唱。J:诶我听吴亦凡经常说"verse".这是什么意思?L:是段落的意思。Generally Speaking ,Verse include 8 to 16 Bars.Some verse and hook make up a whole song.J:What about "bar"?You just mentioned that.L:You can translate as 小节.If there is a break then it's a bar. 插曲 4 Beg for it L:Now that we mentioned many female rappers.Jotta,你还知道哪个女说唱歌手吗？J:Do you know Iggy?L:Emm...I haven't heard this name.J:It's Iggy Azalea.You may listened Problem and Fancy.All above are her songs.L:Sorry I didn't notice her.But these songs are acoustic enjoyment.J:Now let's enjoy Beg for it.L:Time flies,that's all for today's program.See you next time ~ 结束曲 Beg for it节目监制：朱子业编辑：窦雪菲 周宇琦播音：窦雪菲 周宇琦制作：朱子业整合上传：侯泓锾

节目组: Music Bang Bang 音乐大爆炸 节目名称:female rapperThe Next Episode instrumentalJ:Hey bro.Welcome back to our channel.I'm Jotta.L:Yo.Whassup man?我是厉害的狗子 AKA Liz.J:This is music bangbang from VOE foreign languages radio station.Hey, Liz.Have you heard a song called Bodak Yellow whose rapper is Cardi B.L: Yep.I admire her courage and personality charm.J:Hey, Cardi B is coming...are you ready?插曲1 Bodak yellow J:Liz.The first time I listened to this song,it makes me think of another female rapper.L:根据嗓音和写词手法的话，我猜，你想说的是Nicki Minaj吧？J:Yes.I have heard almost every song of hers.L:So you are a big fans.J:You got me.L:What's the name of this song?J:Chun-li.插曲 2 Chun-liL:Wow.Their music is so fashionable.But ,do you know the classical rap？It is different from them.J:Wow,actually,I wanna have a try.L:Okay~ just listen！The song called U.N.I.T.Y.And the rapper is Queen Latifah.J:I think,the beats of this one is kind of chill.L:Yes,and I like its construction.The hook is comfortable yet powerful.J:I have to say the punchline is also very powerful.L:Yes.And her storytelling is so cool.插曲3 U.n.i.t.yJ:咱今天说这么多说唱歌曲，让我想到之前的中国有嘻哈了。一开始里面说的好多词我都不懂什么意思呢。L:You mean "punchline" "flow" or something?J:Yeah.How about introducing some jargon about rap music?Jargon 就是行话，专业术语的意思。L:Great!"Punchline"在有道里我查到的意思是：结尾警语；妙语如珠，在rap里指歌词中押韵完美、节奏等很有感觉的部分，放在古诗里就是那种人人皆知流传千古的名句。J:"flow"呢，包括语速，节奏，押韵，停顿，音调等，比较全面。You can understand as one's style.L:再来呢就是"hook"。J:这不就是钩子么？L:Yeah.As the literal translation of it ."hook"是指副歌，它通常是是一首歌最抓人的部分，很容易跟唱。J:诶我听吴亦凡经常说"verse".这是什么意思?L:是段落的意思。Generally Speaking ,Verse include 8 to 16 Bars.Some verse and hook make up a whole song.J:What about "bar"?You just mentioned that.L:You can translate as 小节.If there is a break then it's a bar.插曲 4 Beg for itL:Now that we mentioned many female rappers.Jotta,你还知道哪个女说唱歌手吗？J:Do you know Iggy?L:Emm...I haven't heard this name.J:It's Iggy Azalea.You may listened Problem and Fancy.All above are her songs.L:Sorry I didn't notice her.But these songs are acoustic enjoyment.J:Now let's enjoy Beg for it.L:Time flies,that's all for today's program.See you next time ~ 节目监制：韩平治编辑：朱子业&马懿慈播音：朱子业 &马懿慈制作：朱子业

欢迎订阅微信公众号“老虎小助手”，进入右下角菜单“会员中心”，收听本专辑完整音频，以及超过一万个中英文有声学习资源哟！亲子英文（37）You have to learn to get along with others.你要学习和他人好好相处。妈妈总是免不了会听到孩子抱怨学校的同学不好相处，或是有些小摩擦，妈妈除了耐心倾听，也要关心孩子在学校的行为规矩是否偏差了哦。妈妈可以引导孩子“You have to learn to get along with others.”意思是你要学习和他人好好相处。Are you getting along with her?你和她相处得好吗？I don't get along with her.我和她相处得不好。Mom: What's the matter?Jenny: Mom, he hit me first.M: Peter, be nice to your sister. OK?J: You should say sorry.M: Peter, be a good boy. Cut it out. You shouldn't hit your sister, she's a girl.P: All right, all right, I won't do that again. I'm sorry.Be nice to…这是表示“对……好一点”What's the matter?是怎么了的意思，可以说What's wrong?Cut it out.是stop的意思，停！Let's make up.我们和好吧！Make up是指和好的意思，孩子吵架总是难免的，妈妈可以引导孩子理性的解决矛盾，做个和事佬，问“Did you make up?”你们言归于好了吗？

欢迎订阅微信公众号“老虎小助手”，进入右下角菜单“会员中心”，收听本专辑完整音频，以及超过一万个中英文有声学习资源哟！亲子英文（37）You have to learn to get along with others.你要学习和他人好好相处。妈妈总是免不了会听到孩子抱怨学校的同学不好相处，或是有些小摩擦，妈妈除了耐心倾听，也要关心孩子在学校的行为规矩是否偏差了哦。妈妈可以引导孩子“You have to learn to get along with others.”意思是你要学习和他人好好相处。Are you getting along with her?你和她相处得好吗？I don't get along with her.我和她相处得不好。Mom: What's the matter?Jenny: Mom, he hit me first.M: Peter, be nice to your sister. OK?J: You should say sorry.M: Peter, be a good boy. Cut it out. You shouldn't hit your sister, she's a girl.P: All right, all right, I won't do that again. I'm sorry.Be nice to…这是表示“对……好一点”What's the matter?是怎么了的意思，可以说What's wrong?Cut it out.是stop的意思，停！Let's make up.我们和好吧！Make up是指和好的意思，孩子吵架总是难免的，妈妈可以引导孩子理性的解决矛盾，做个和事佬，问“Did you make up?”你们言归于好了吗？

节目组: Music Bang Bang 音乐大爆炸 节目名称:The Bgm of Ads开头曲 GoldL:Hello,everybody.Welcome to Music Bang Bang from VOE foreign languages radio station.I'm Liz. J:Hi,my lovely audience.This is Jotta.Hey,Liz.Lately I found some songs are pleasant to hear.L:I'm listening. 插曲1 Gold L:Is that the song called Gold？J:Have you listened this song before?L:I have watched an advertisement of iwatch.This is the background music of it.J:Wow.I didn't know that at all!L:This song is so interesting,Justin Bieber has taken a video about himself and sent it to his INS.The BGM was this song too.And he is really cute.J:Okay.Ok. You really know him. 一看你就是他的真爱粉啊！L:Yes, when I was in primary school,I began to pay attention to him.At that time,I was so young.L:Oh,here's a song that I have heard at that period.Let me recommend to you . 插曲 2 我在那一角落患过伤风 J:Oh,I know this song.It's the BGM of 步步高 mobile phone's advertisement.But,does it have a name?L:Of course.It's called 我在那一角落患过伤风.And the singer is 冯曦妤.She keeps a low profile,working behind the scenes and singing carefully.J:Her voice is clear and melodious.It makes me feel comfortable.And I remember that 宋慧乔 featured this advertisement.It was a good match.L:Yes,so,this advertisement impressed people a lot.By the way,she got married with 宋仲基 lately.She's still beautiful. 插曲3 Free loopJ:既然提起了因为广告而火的歌，那就不得不说一下free loop了。L:I think I haven't heard it.J:Actually,I had same feeling when my friend played this song to me.L:诶，这么一听，感觉是福特汽车的广告曲。J:You're right! 插曲 4 Dream It Possible J:Now,we will introduce today's last song.这是华为与好莱坞共同打造的国际版海外推广短片的背景音乐。It's called Dream It Possible.J:Liz,Do you have seen this short film? L:Yeah.It tells a girl called Anna,she has a dream of piano.Anna fought for it for 15 years,and finally,she became one of the best pianist who could show at The Gold Hall of Vienna.J:I was deeply touched by this video and I think this song is awesome!L: 是的，你什么时候见过一首企业的宣传曲可以上热歌榜？华为做到了!J:不单单是因为这首歌承载了无数追梦人的执着与信念，更代表了华为成为民族的顶梁柱而带给我们的感动与自豪。中华有为,华人可为!J:OK.It's time to see goodbye again.J:欢迎大家订阅我们的微信公众号时代之声radio，网易云音乐music bang bang电台以及荔枝fm，更多精彩内容等着你的发现。See you! 结束曲 Dream It Possible节目监制：韩平治编辑：朱子业 马懿慈播音：朱子业 马懿慈制作：朱子业

节目组: Music Bang Bang 音乐大爆炸 节目名称: 翻唱成英文的外文歌开头曲 DespacitoA:Hello,my lovely audience. This is Music Bang Bang from VOE foreign languages radio. I'm you old friend Armstrong温彦博！Well, today, two new partners have came to our group .Now, let's get to know them.J:Hello everybody,I'm Jotta.Someone may call me "zhou ta".A:Never mind.J:Ha.I forgive you for your ignorance.A:So what kind of music do you like？I think you like hip-hop.Because you dressed like a hip-hop girl.J:Yes...but,actually,I have wide interests.A:Ok.The next one.L:Hi, I'm Liz懿慈 and my major is international economic and trade.I'm a little nervous now, because It's my first time to be here. Anyway,I'll give it my best shot.A: Don't be nervous Liz,just take it easy. And welcome you guys to music bang bang ！相信在接下来的一年里在新鲜血液的加入下Music Bang Bang会给大家带来更好的节目！那么废话少说，一起来听歌吧！插曲1 Despacito英文版 A:Liz,you must have heard this song.L:Yeah,it's despacito by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber!The Spanish song must be the hottest single this year.A:I love this song so much.Every time I hear this song,I just wanna move my body and dance with the rythm.But when I want to sing with music, all I can do is humming and repeating the single word depacito.L:Aha.Actually,There's an English part in Bieber's remix version. 也正是Justin Bieber的加入，让这首西语歌红遍全球，稳坐各大排行榜冠军宝座。A: Liz, do you know what the lyrics talk about?L:I don't understand Spanish, but I have heard a cover version which sings all by English.A:Honestly,I prefer the original one,the Spanish lyrics with the melody bring me an exotic atmosphere.And it's a little weird when it sings in English. 插曲 2 If U韩文版/if u & faded 1.05-1.26/英文版if u 1.43-3.15 J:Despacito都听过几百遍了，赶紧换首歌。我来放一首。A:Hey,zhou ta, ah , hey Jotta.Did you forget this is a English programme?Please find some English songs,ok？J:Ah ha,guess what,I actually have a English version.A:Play it！A:Don't fool me around.I've heard this song called《faded》.J:She just used the lyrics from it.If you want a pure English version...emm..maybe I have one.a:Hope so.J:Yes,this one.I remember that the first time I heard it was in an application named echo.The singer of this song is ...emm...should I call her Seventeen？Her name is十七.She likes G-Dragon very much so she wrote this English version to show her love.J:Alright.Let's listen the powerful part. 插曲3 李白（英文版）L :Wow,There's no doubt that Shi Qi is so ingenious.And her voice sounds beautiful.J:Definitely!Her version is extremely pleasent to hear.Oh,by the way,I also have some songs whose original version is Chinese and cover version is English.L:I'm listening.L:Oh I see.Don't tell me that the first one is Li Bai.J:There you go!This one is Li Bai.which was written by Li Ronghao.And he became hot after this song.L:The guy kissed her girlfriend at his vocal concert in Taiwan.And all the fans were screaming at that moment.J:I reckon the new version by Chen huan kept Lee's unruly style.And she also has her own point. She used the tequila ,whisky,and vodka to instead of several bowls of beer.Haha,maybe she has a really good sense of humor. 插曲 4 Emily L: It's interesting.I got it. The song covered Dongxiaojie which written by Song Dongye.He's my favorite balladeer.I love Anheqiao very much.When the prelude was sounded,I had my heart a little bit broken.J:What do you think of this English version?By the way,It's written by Alan who is a little mysterious.Because there was much lively debate about where he come from depends on his accent.L:Eh...This one is so warm that I can feel his deep warm love to Emily. It's suitable to listen in cold weather like these days, isn't it? Personally, Song's version is a little sad. J:You are right. I can pretty much understand what you are talking about. A:When a song was covered by another language, it always gave us a big surprise.Time flies.That's all for today's program,see you next time!J:欢迎大家订阅我们的微信公众号时代之声radio，网易云音乐music bang bang电台以及荔枝fm，更多精彩内容等着你的发现，voe等着你的加入。感谢制作李金声。See you! 结束曲 Emily

节目组: The World Says 世界说 节目名称: 星座S: Hey guys welcome to the world says from the VOE foreign languages radio station, I'm SherlockJ: And I'm JottaI: Good evening everyone I'm Iris and this is Francis.F: 大家好，我是Francis 插曲1 one S: So today we are going to talk about the astrology, or horoscope, or zodiac signs.J: Wow, I love magic most! Well there are lots of words in English to describe it. So, what's the Chinese mean of them?F: 嗯，这些词在中文里就是星座的意思。I: So in today's program we will bring you some knowledge about Astrology, and hope you like it.S: Okay, so the astrology is more like western thing, and I guess a lot of people think is like a superstition.F: 哦，像是一种迷信。S: Yeah Yea, but the other way, you know, in China is also popular among our students, especially girls.I: Yeah, I see this stuff in the Wechat all the time, talking about astrology. Speaking about this, do you know how to ask people their astrology in English?F: Isn't it….. What's your astrology?S: No… no is not, the astrology here is a little bit like.. a subject, like… the process how a planet move or something..J: 所以 astrology 这个词还是代表星象学多一点，而不是星座。 I: Right, so here you cannot just say What's your astrology, the one is What's your sign.S: Right, horoscope, what about horoscope, can we just use what's your horoscope?I: Neither, cause horoscope is like. You are reading a newspaper, I mean, like today, my luck is low..J: Oh I get it, wow, looks like somebody has done lots of work in it.I: You bet~S: I'm so glad we do this program with you Iris, cause, ya'know boys like Francis and I really don't know this a lot. And, for our today's show, I also check out some information.F: Just say it.S: Speaking of constellations, in fact, there are two levels of meaning, one is astronomy, the other is astrological.I: Come on, it's hard to understand.J: Constellation, which means a group of stars that forms a particular pattern and has a name.F: 并且zodiac的意思是黄道带，也就是太阳、月亮和行星构成的假想带。S：The conclusion is that, astrology and horoscope is more inclined to superstition. I've always been against superstition about the constellation. I do not think there is a supernatural power to control the will and behavior of mankind.I: Yes, fate is in our own hands. But sometimes we use it to have some fun is also good.S: I agree. So, could you say something about your constellation?I: Pisces pets are the most empathetic. You could have shared a past life experience with these lovely critters, they have excels in the art of listening.J: just iris is like that, lovely!F: 没错，双鱼座擅长倾听，他们还喜欢和人分享过去的经历。S：And Pisces can handle many different tasks at once and be successful in all of them. Come on, could I say：It's impossible?I: You can't. Pisces is often a very sensitive, very mystical, and very misunderstood sign. They're highly sympathetic. Ok. It's your turn.S：They just like me, Lance, Adam, Terry, Kenny, Abel, Thomas and Austin.J: Can't imagine that, but it was just an if.I:So you're a Aries. Sounds like my name. Ha-ha. I know that Aries people have the qualities of being impulsive, of being leaders, of being very...impatient.J:They also are natural-born entrepreneurs. They wanna do things. They don't wanna just sit here. They wanna just go and do things. Ok, it's time to talk about my star sign.I: What's your sign, Jotta?J: Capricorn, that's the Goat.S: The mountain goat—highly, highly ambitious. They wanna climb the mountain.J: You get the idea here. It's an earth sign. They're very practical, really organized.F:而且他们通常在生意上以及任何种类的建构上都表现得很好，因为他们是由土星管辖。I: Wow, it seems you know a lot about Capricorn.F: Yeah. Because I'm a Scorpio. They are similar.J: But there's two different types of Scorpios, they say: the ones that are very high with moral standing, and the other ones that go down.S: So, when you're thinking about a Scorpio, though, you're thinking about someone who's very intense, who is very driven, and who can very much wanna be a part of your life and merge.F: This is somebody who doesn't take anything light-heartedly.J:Oh,Iris,do you know what characteristic of a Gemini？S: Oh? Whose sign is Gemini?J: Emm...someone...I...you know...I: Oh, I know. Ha-ha.F:I know that they are always changing their mind.I: Yes, and qualities of Geminis—they are endlessly curious, very social, friendly people, intellectual, too. And they like a lot of stimulation.J: Thank you Iris. Ah, it's time to say goodbye.F: Hope you enjoy our program .See you next time.S:感谢制作苏鑫。I:如果你喜欢我们的节目，请关注我们的微信公众号 VOE-radio 和VOE外语广播电台的新浪微博，那里有我们往期的作品。 节目监制：周宸聿编辑：朱子业 夏茂航 张燚铭 余若天 播音：朱子业 夏茂航 张燚铭 余若天制作：苏鑫

介绍:节目组: Music Bang Bang 音乐大爆炸 节目名称: Air Supply 开头曲 Even the nights are better L: Hello, everyone. Welcome to Music Bang Bang .I'm your old friend, Lampson. J: Hello, my dear audience. My name is Jane. Hoping that we will have nice musical journeys together. L：Contrary to my identity of a new player, I'd like to share a team who is very classic and has the irreplaceable value of the light rock. J: That sounds great! Let me guess, is the singer of the former song we just heard?L: Bingo! Air Supply is these geniuses' name. A fantastic band founded in 1976 in Australia and then came into the world of pop music in 1980.Maybe you are not familiar with the last song because it is not their master work. But I'm pretty sure you have heard the next song, for the reason that it is just so classic. 插曲1 Making love of nothing at all L: YEAH~ It's” making love out of nothing at all”. I have heard it in the famous live show "I'm a singer" by Terry Lin. Love is really something that hard to explain clearly.J: You are right. Terry dug out this treasure to us. But this song was just so popular in 1990s. It gave them a number two hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks.L: Wait a minute, this song also appeared in Mr. &Mrs. Smith as an episode. Whenever I heard this music, I seem to see the person who was struggling with love and tears. This is one of my favorite songs. I can't believe that I don't know its singer before. J: Don't bother. It is never too late to know something wonderful! Here are also some touching music from Air Supply that I wanna show you guys. I name it as the eternal love journey. 插曲 2 Every woman in the world J: It is also a famous song of Air supply which is used to be US Top 5 singles called ‘Every woman in the world '. That was included in their first album” lost in love” .What do you think of this song?L: It sounds like a man who used to live in a depressed life until a girl delight his life. At the beginning, this rhythm is light and the voice is lazy till the climax appears. It still have the power and passion. The lyrics is precise and the voice is affectionate. J: You are must talking about the creation Graham Russell and lead singer Russell Hitchcook. They are the spirits of Air Supply. There is no doubt that you can feel their earnestness since the music light their lives in the same way. 插曲3 Lost in love L: ‘Lost in love' comes from the album of the same name from it which we just mentioned before. This album was a massive success on international charts of their bands. In addition, It's the second part of the love journey. If we say, the former one is the symbol of initial excitement in love, then…J: Then the last one is more likely to describe the anxiety and confusion in the breaking period of love. The words ‘It started so easy and you want to carry on‘ sounds like the period that every relationship will carry on. L: When you lost in love, you also lost in a sweet torture. 插曲 4 Never fade away L: As we all know, everything hath an end. Since the sales of keeps in a low level, Air Supply was dissolved in the same year. What a pity! In this ” Never Fade Away” , Russell' s deep feeling depending on some ridiculous obsession make it more pitiful. This is the last stop of this love journey.J：I don't think so. Nothing will eternal without love and dream. I prefer to believe that this song means even air supply will not exist forever, their love for music will last till the end! L: Well~Finally, we come to the end of today's program. Hope you enjoy. Air Supply is definitely a wonderful soft rock band! J: Lampson, thank you for taking me to have this nice trip ! You have waked up my passion for light rock. L: Oh, It is my honours. I am also happy to talk music with you. Some of opinions are amazing! 另外欢迎大家订阅我们的微信公众号“时代之声Radio”，网易云音乐“Music Bang Bang”以及荔枝FM。更多精彩节目等着你的发现。 Goodbye, my deer audience. See next timeJ：See you. 结束曲 Goodbye 节目监制：刘仁邦编辑：王滋锐 李金声播音：刘仁邦 韩平治制作：李金声

节目组: The World Says 世界说 节目名称: Earworm开头曲 Don't wanna know J: Hello everybody, welcome to the world says from the VOE foreign languages station. I'm Jotta.V: Hello everyone, I'm Vincent.J:Hey, Vincent!What tune are you humming, there?V:Was I humming? Oh, I woke up with it in my head. It's that song – you know [hums a song]J:No idea, what you're talking about, Vincent, but it's very annoying, so could you just stop it please.V:That's my problem. I can stop humming it out loud, but it keeps on repeating in my head [more humming]. Did you know there's a name for that, Jotta? When a song keeps repeating in your head?J:There's a name? I don't know what it is – but I'm sure you're going to tell me.V:You're right! It's an earworm.中文是耳虫，也就是音乐幻听。 插曲1 Don't wanna know J:Sounds nasty – is there a cure for that?V:Cure?! Why do you say so! I enjoy the feeling when there's music in my mind, which makes me inspired, and have energy to do things. And let's move on. In this programme ,we're talking about music – and how it influences us.J:A professor told us how music affects what we choose to eat and drink.V:He said,imagine you're going to the bar and thinking about a glass of wine. There's French music playing behind the counter – more than likely you'll go for a glass of French wine. J:German music behind the counter – your likelihood of choosing German wine goes way, way up.If they're playing classical music you might be tempted to spend that little bit more.V:What's the likelihood of you spending more, Jotta?J:Quite likely, actually Vincent – and likelihood means the chance of something happening. I love a good glass of wine.V:Me too. But why do we spend more when there's classical music playing?J:Good question. It makes us feel a bit classy.因为古典音乐会让我们有一种优越感，给我们一种潇洒精致的感觉。V:I’m guessing hip-hop doesn’t have the same effect. Am I right?J:You’re always right, Vincent. So, the professor is saying that bars and restaurants use music to manipulate their customers.V:And that means to control or influence them. J:Argh! Earworms! They're messing with our minds!V:I know, I know, and it doesn't stop there. Restaurants also use the tempo – or speed – of the music to change people's behaviour.A fast tempo gets customers in and out quickly at busy times.On the other hand, if there aren't many customers, the restaurant might want to keep people in the place for longer.J:So they put on music with a slow tempo to create a more relaxed atmosphere.V:And atmosphere, in this context, means the mood or tone in a place or situation. 插曲 2 Why would I ever J: Now music is also used to create atmosphere in films.And Debbie Wiseman had talked about music in the movies.V:She said,a director might come to me and say “look, can you help bring the romance to this scene with the music”, and so I might write something beautifully romantic and lyrical working with what I've got and suddenly the scene will feel much more romantic, much more tender, much more sexy, whatever it needs to feel, and the music has the power to do that, to achieve that effect.J:Sexy, tender, lyrical, romantic – that's all emotional stuff!And lyrical actually means expressing strong emotions. So what's your favourite romantic moment in a film, Vincent?V:Oh, there are so many.My mom is a sucker for romance.Once the violins start playing, she starts blubbing – and yes, Jotta – that means she has a good cry!J:So sweet! Now, if you're a sucker for something, for example romance, it means you can't resist it. I'm more of a sucker for horror myself…V:And music is crucial – or extremely important – in creating atmosphere in horror films.J:That's very true. Music is often used to create tension and suspense – or feelings of anxiety and excitement.V:你能想象没有小提琴伴奏，希区柯克的《惊魂记》是什么样子么？J:Oh, let’s not have a shower scene here in the studio, Vincent. You’ll give me nightmares! V:OK,OK.You know that I've been learning dancing for a while, which is popping, whenever I hear a piece of dance music no matter where I am, I will subconsciously make some pop and wave to it, as I can see, this is the magic of music!J:Yeah, you're right~. V:Well, that brings us to the end of today’s show. J:It's time to say goodbye again.V:We hope you enjoyed humming along to today’s programme. J:Please join us again soon.V:感谢制作王紫丞。J:See you next time. 结束曲 Flashlight 节目监制：周宸聿编辑：杨晏直 朱子业播音：杨晏直 朱子业制作：苏鑫

节目组: The World Says 世界说 节目名称: The relationship between mobile phone addiction and loneliness 手机孤独症开头曲：for youJ: Hello everybody, welcome to the world says from the VOE foreign language station, this is Jotta.V: I'm Vincent.(低沉音)C: I'm ....Oh,wait a minute.. I've just received a message，let me check...OK ..Hi, everyone, I'm Cherry.J: How was your weekend, Vincent? Your voice seems a little weird.V: Well, not great - I hadn't got anything planned, so I didn't see anyone for two days. And to be honest, I felt very lonely! There was a real physical feeling in the pit of my stomach.J: Poor Vincent! You do sound really down in the dumps. Well, the subject of today's show is the relationship between mobile phone addiction and loneliness. C:And lonelinessis sometimes described as a social pain - a pain that tells us that we're isolated- or lacking contact with others - which motivates us to seek out companionship.eh...You guys go on for more, I'll do with some of my things first on my phone.V: All right..Jotta,how does being sociable help us, as a species, then?J: It's all about cooperation- or working together to get something done - for example, finding food.V: Well, I suppose I cooperyated with the pizza delivery guy for a shared outcome.J: You paid him and he gave you the pizza?V: Exactly. J: But it wasn't a socially enriching experience.C: emm ..yeah.. It isn't easy to meet people you really like - so often you might as well just on your own.J: Finish texting?C: Not yet..I just can't help saying it. Because I'm suffering from the loneliness.V: No wonder you keep chatting on QQ.J: While in some situations being lonely may be a good thing, because it encourages you to be sociable, in other situations it may be useful to tolerate- or put up with - loneliness.V: That's a good point.C: Does all the tweeting, messaging, and chatting online that we do make us lonelier, because we're getting out less and meeting fewer people? Or do virtual connections stop us from feeling lonely?J: Those are good questions. 插曲：RiversideV:Sociologist Eric had ever talked about it: We just don't have great research showing that we are significantly more lonely or isolated today than we were ten or twenty or thirty years ago.J: That means critics who say that Facebook or the internet or whatever device you carry with you, is making you lonelier and more miserable - they just don't have that much evidence to back it up.C: So there isn't enough evidence to back up- or support - the claim that social media is making us feel lonelier.V: No, there isn't.J: But did you know that loneliness is contagious?V: You mean you can catch it from somebody like a cold?J: Yes. There are environmental factors involved in loneliness too. For example, if somebody you talk to every day is always unfriendly towards you, this makes you statistically more likely to be negative in your interactions with somebody else.V: Well, let's try and stay friendly towards each other. oh, Cherry, what are you doing ?It's work time now.C: I see. Hang on a minute. I just need to tweet something and… Done!V: I suppose social media has had quite a big impact on our life. What do you think, Jotta?....eh... Jotta?J: Hey, I'm here. Just replied a message...sorry...C: Well… interrupting conversations to check your phone has become a social norm, hasn't it, Jotta?V: I don't agree. Social norms are the rules of behaviour considered acceptable in a group or society. C: I didn't mean to ask you.J: Well,...emm...I do get wound up about people constantly checkving their devices. C:Professor Sherry Turkle of Massachusetts Institute of Technology also have got some opinions about social norms amongst students. He interviewed hundreds of college students and what they talked about was what some of them called 'the rule of three'. J: And what is “the rule of three”?C:That is...if you go to dinner with friends, you don't want to look down at your phone until you see that three people, let's say you're six at dinner, are looking up in the conversation. So there's a new etiquette where you don't look down unless three people are looking up kind of to keep a little conversation alive. J:I got it.V: Yesterday, I was in a café and two girls came in. They sat down and started chatting away – but not to each other – they were tapping away at their devices. And there was no face-to-face conversation at all! C: But you can have moments of connection using your devices, you know? If you have a connection with someone you engage emotionally. V: And physiologically we're changing, that almost the neck muscles are tipped over to look down. But it isn't only muscles that might change as a result of our techie habits 使用手机不仅使我们的肌肉发生改变，– it's the way we interact – or engage with each other too. 同时也改变了我们互动的方式，也就是彼此交流的方式。 J: Yeap.Let me sum up today's show. First,there isn't enough evidence to support the claim that social media is making us feel lonelier.Then,孤独感是会传染的， let's try and stay friendly towards each other. The last point,mobile phone addiction do harm to people.插曲：Gotta Have YouC:Okay.It's time to say goodbye again. V: Hope you enjoy our program .See you next time.J:感谢制作苏鑫，感谢制作王紫丞。节目监制：周宸聿 编辑：苗世钰 朱子业 杨晏直播音：苗世钰 朱子业 杨晏直制作：苏鑫

Brad Post, Create the Movement: Welcome to Create the Movement podcast. My name Brad Post. I’m just sitting here with Josh Rich. Josh Rich, Create the Movement: Hello everyone Hello Brad. B: How are you doing? J: Doing great Brad. How are you? B: Good. We are doing a new podcast today. And what does this podcast discuss? J: We’re going to be talk content. B: Okay. J: The right way to approach content – in terms of your viewpoint on it. And just really how you should assess what you’re doing, and kind of the overall goal of what content does. B: Okay. Great. So, kind of, the right way to do content? J: Yeah, the right way to do content. So, whenever we’re talking on content. We need to focus on three things. B: Three?   J: Three things. And that’s attraction, interaction, and reaction. B: Did you say traction or attraction? J: Attraction, interaction, and reaction. B: A-I-R. Just no acronyms. J: There’s no acronyms. Alliterations, but no acronyms. Maybe one day, we’ll get it down. So, basically, those three things, are three steps in a sales funnel. B: Okay. J: And a sales funnel is just kind of like a general illustration that kind of helps you visuals kind of how your potential customers become actual customers. B: Okay. J: And so, you can look at different sales funnels, you know, and you could probably find as many as 10-12. B: You could probably Google ‘sales funnels.’ J: Yeah, I’m sure you could find all sorts of ones. And I mean there’s going to be different ones for different industries and different purposes. So, for this, for the sake of content, we’re going to focus on three steps. B: Okay. J: So, at the top of the funnel, where it’s the widest, that’s where the attraction is. B: Okay. J: So, that’s when you’re literally just trying to get people to know about your company. To attract them to your website, to let them know you exist, and that you provide X service. Or, X goods. B: Okay. J: So, whenever you’re writing content for attraction purposes, it’s a lot different than anything else. Because, it’s a lot more broad, you’re not like selling them anything. B: More information based? J: More information based. Yeah. So, you kind of just want to stick to your general industry. You definitely do not want to write about directs products that you offer, or direct services that you offer. B: Okay. J: It’s too soon for that. You just want to get in their heads a little bit. You want to create what we call “top of mind”-awareness. B: Okay. J: So, Brad, if I we’re to say, “Hey, let’s go get pizza for lunch.” What would you say? Where would you want to go? B: I’d probably say Mazzio’s J: Exactly. For whatever reason. Whether that just be proximity to the closest one. Or, just, that’s your favorite pizza. Mazzio’s has established “top of mind”-awareness in your mind. B: Here in Tulsa. J: In your mind, your knee-jerk reaction essentially. B: Right. J: So, that’s what the attraction purpose is. You want to establish that knee-jerk reaction that whenever they think, “Hey, I need hire someone for this good or this service.” They think you. B: Okay. J: And so, again, you’re not selling them anything here. You’re not closing the deal. It’s important to understand that the way the sales funnel work is that don’t try to close the deal at every step. You try to push them to the next step. B: Okay. J: You try to push them to that next phase of content. That next step in the funnel. B: Okay. J: So, to give an example, let’s say if you’re like a tree-trimming service. I’ve got a tree-trimmer coming out to my house this afternoon, so that’s why I’m thinking about that. B: Okay. J: So, if you’re a tree-trimming service and you want to write or create some content about, for the attraction purposes. Yeah, anything from gardening. To just information different types of trees. Not necessarily about trimming them, but if you have this type of yard an oak tree is great for this. B: Okay....

Brad Post, Create the Movement: You’re joining us for our next edition of Create the Movement podcast. My name is Brad Post. And I’m here with Josh Rich. Josh Rich, Create the Movement: Hello everyone. Hello. B: Josh, how are you doing? J: Doing good, Brad. How are you? B: I’m doing well. This is our Marketing Tips, and today we’re going to be talking about marketing budgets for small businesses. Right? J: Yeah, so one of the things we kind of run into a lot when we talk with a new client, we ask them, “What’s your budget?” And we always, not always, but a lot of the times we get the response, “We don’t have one.” B: Right. J: Or, “What do you suggest?” Or, “We don’t really have a defined budget.” So, since the new year is kind of approaching, we thought it would be a good idea to kind of to give some tips on how to create a marketing budget. Because it is important to know how much you’re willing to spend, and how much you should be spending on your budget for marketing. B: Yeah. J: So, the first step that you really want to make sure, just whenever you’re focusing on this, is to be defined. B: Be defined? J: Be defined. Yeah. Don’t have some sort of vague number. Write it down. Make it a part of your company’s budget every year, or every month. However, you want to it. So, that way you know how much you can spend, and how much you should be spending. There’s kind of five questions you should ask yourself when you’re trying to set this. B: Okay. J: The first one is what do you need? B: What do you need? J: What do you need? So, that’s going to depend a lot on your industry, a lot on your company. So, do you need leads? Do you need sales? Do you need just brand exposure? Do you need traffic to your website? So, sit down and think about what you need. Because like I said, it’s really going to influence how much you’re going to spend, and where you’re going to spend it too. B: Most of the time they might say, “All of the above.” J: Right. Exactly. Like I said – be defined. You have to pick one. And your need will most likely change over the course of a year or so. When you’re starting out on setting that budget - be defined and pick one. B: Okay. J: The second one is figure out what you’re currently paying. B: Okay. J: For some people this could be zero. But for some people, they might just kind of, if they’ve never really thought about it, they might just spend a $1000 here, a $1000 there, and not really know where it’s going, or what it’s doing, or how to track it, or that kind of stuff. Just whenever they get an email, or some salesman calls them, they’ll sign up for it, but they’re not really keeping track of it. Not really sticking to any sort of set plan. B: Right. J: And so, go back and see what you did last year. Figure that out. Because that will kind of give you a good starting point. Once you have that number, you want to try to assess how that worked out for you. So, figure out your cost per lead, your cost per sale, or whatever metric you want to use. Find a way to evaluate how well it worked. B:  Okay. J: And then figure out if that’s something you’re comfortable with, or not. So then, the next step is to think about how fast you want to grow. Because a lot of us, I mean, as much as we would love to have 10 clients call us a day, and say, “Hey, we want new websites, and the most expensive SEO package.” B: Right. J: We’d be in trouble if that happened. B: Yes! J: We’d simply cannot scale that fast. You know? And so, try to figure that out. And if you can scale that fast, and you want to, then be really aggressive in your marketing budget. If you can’t afford to scale very fast, it’s going to be slow growth, then you need to back off, and make it more of a less aggressive approach. B: Okay. Good. J: You also want to figure out too, like, kind of going back to that second question, once you figure out your previous year’s cost per lead or cost per whatever, try to figure out what yo...

'Hear English' is a blog that provides podcasts and transcripts to help people learn English, find us at http://hearenglishhere.blogspot.com/.Free image courtesy of 'stockfreeimages.com'The Water Cooler (Slow)Too slow? Try the faster version in the next post. They may look like busy professionals, but the staff at Colourful Solutions Ltd (Colsol), aren’t always as serious or hardworking as they appear, and we find out what mischief they’ve been up to as they talk around the water cooler.Click above to listen.  You can get the mp3. here.Episode 4 - A Word With The Boss (Slow) Too slow? Try the faster version in the next post. Featuring the vocal talents of Sophie Iafrate (Susan).  (Free sound effects courtesy of 'Soundjay.com'),  Keith: I suppose you’ve guessed why I wanted a word with you, Janet? Janet: Er, no.  I’ve noticed you’ve been late to work quite often over the past few weeks, so I wondered if it was something to do with that, but I wasn’t sure?K: Late for work?J: Yes, I presumed you maybe had some personal issues that you wanted to talk to me about.K: Err…no.  Ah…I mean yes, personal issues, that has been the problem.  Mmm, well obviously I have some level of personal issues, but I don’t really want to talk about them.J: Of course, I don’t want you to tell me anything you don’t feel comfortable with. It’s just that your recent late starts would normally mean that you’d be given a disciplinary meeting, unless, of course, if there was a reason, like if you were losing sleep due to personal issues.   K: Of course, yes.  I’m very sorry.  I suppose the last few weeks have been a little difficult personally, so I’ve not been sleeping well and have found it hard waking up in time for work, but, I’m ok now, so late starts are a thing of the past.  I guarantee it.J: Well, we won’t have to call you to a disciplinary meeting, and I appreciate you telling me and your apology, but I wish you had told me when the problems started, and we could have maybe helped you.K: Sorry Janet, thank you Janet.J: And, I suppose that explains why you’ve been distracted at work recently too.K: Distracted at work?J: Yes, your work rate is down and some of our clients have emailed me asking why you’ve not been responding to their messages.  I suppose your mind has been elsewhere recently.  K: Yes, that’s it, my mind has been elsewhere recently.J: You can say that again, your colleagues have been complaining that you’re not much fun to be around at the moment, that you get angry at people and that you’re not pulling your weight around the office. K: I hadn’t realised it had affected my work so badly.J: Well rest assured that everyone else has!  But, as you have personal issues, I’m sure if you apologised and explained yourself then that would smooth things over.K: I’ll do just that, and I’ll put 110% into my work over the next few weeks to make up for it.J: Good.  And it would be nice if you could put aside your immaturity too.K: My immaturity?J: Well, it would be nice for the rest of the staff to have a few weeks off from your practical jokes.  Personally I think a fun office atmosphere is helpful, but your immature attitude often seems to do more harm than good.K: I see.  I’ll try to act in a more professional manner.J: See that you do.  It’s a shame really.  Not long ago I was thinking about increasing your pay and responsibilities, but because of your silliness and these last two weeks, I’ve had discussions with Human Resources about docking your pay.K: Docking my pay?  J: Originally we had thought about docking your pay for a year, considering your abysmal performance, but now I’m aware of your personal issues, I will try to convince them just to dock your pay temporarily, we’ll have a pay review after 2 months, and re-instate it if your performance returns to normal.K: Well… thank you Janet.J: Well, I make no promises, but I’ll put it forward.  Is there anything else?K: No, I think that’s everything.…later…Susan: I saw you got up the courage to have a word with Janet about that pay rise you wanted.  I know you had been losing a lot of sleep over it.  Did you get as much as you wanted?K: I think I negotiated a good deal.S: Nice going Keith.  I find Janet a really tough negotiator.  K: Well I think she’s met her match with me.S: Whenever I ask Janet for something, I come out of the meeting feeling like I’ve done really well but when I think about it afterwards I realise I’ve ended up in a worse position than when I started.  K: Well I managed to get her to commit to a pay review in 2 months to re-instate my pay.S: You mean, you went in asking for a pay rise, and came out with a pay cut.K: Now I think about it…yes.  But I felt like I’d done really well.S: Well, now I’m convinced that Janet’s met her match with you.K: Hmm…

'Hear English' is a blog that provides podcasts and transcripts to help people learn English, find us at http://hearenglishhere.blogspot.com/.Free image courtesy of 'stockfreeimages.com'The Water Cooler (Fast)Too fast? Try the slower version in the previous post. They may look like busy professionals, but the staff at Colourful Solutions Ltd (Colsol), aren’t always as serious or hardworking as they appear, and we find out what mischief they’ve been up to as they talk around the water cooler.Click above to listen.  You can get the mp3. here. Episode 4 - A Word With The Boss (Fast) Too fast? Try the slower version in the previous post. Featuring the vocal talents of Sophie Iafrate (Susan).  (Free sound effects courtesy of 'Soundjay.com'),  Keith: I suppose you’ve guessed why I wanted a word with you, Janet? Janet: Er, no.  I’ve noticed you’ve been late to work quite often over the past few weeks, so I wondered if it was something to do with that, but I wasn’t sure?K: Late for work?J: Yes, I presumed you maybe had some personal issues that you wanted to talk to me about.K: Err…no.  Ah…I mean yes, personal issues, that has been the problem.  Mmm, well obviously I have some level of personal issues, but I don’t really want to talk about them.J: Of course, I don’t want you to tell me anything you don’t feel comfortable with. It’s just that your recent late starts would normally mean that you’d be given a disciplinary meeting, unless, of course, if there was a reason, like if you were losing sleep due to personal issues.   K: Of course, yes.  I’m very sorry.  I suppose the last few weeks have been a little difficult personally, so I’ve not been sleeping well and have found it hard waking up in time for work, but, I’m ok now, so late starts are a thing of the past.  I guarantee it.J: Well, we won’t have to call you to a disciplinary meeting, and I appreciate you telling me and your apology, but I wish you had told me when the problems started, and we could have maybe helped you.K: Sorry Janet, thank you Janet.J: And, I suppose that explains why you’ve been distracted at work recently too.K: Distracted at work?J: Yes, your work rate is down and some of our clients have emailed me asking why you’ve not been responding to their messages.  I suppose your mind has been elsewhere recently.  K: Yes, that’s it, my mind has been elsewhere recently.J: You can say that again, your colleagues have been complaining that you’re not much fun to be around at the moment, that you get angry at people and that you’re not pulling your weight around the office. K: I hadn’t realised it had affected my work so badly.J: Well rest assured that everyone else has!  But, as you have personal issues, I’m sure if you apologised and explained yourself then that would smooth things over.K: I’ll do just that, and I’ll put 110% into my work over the next few weeks to make up for it.J: Good.  And it would be nice if you could put aside your immaturity too.K: My immaturity?J: Well, it would be nice for the rest of the staff to have a few weeks off from your practical jokes.  Personally I think a fun office atmosphere is helpful, but your immature attitude often seems to do more harm than good.K: I see.  I’ll try to act in a more professional manner.J: See that you do.  It’s a shame really.  Not long ago I was thinking about increasing your pay and responsibilities, but because of your silliness and these last two weeks, I’ve had discussions with Human Resources about docking your pay.K: Docking my pay?  J: Originally we had thought about docking your pay for a year, considering your abysmal performance, but now I’m aware of your personal issues, I will try to convince them just to dock your pay temporarily, we’ll have a pay review after 2 months, and re-instate it if your performance returns to normal.K: Well… thank you Janet.J: Well, I make no promises, but I’ll put it forward.  Is there anything else?K: No, I think that’s everything.…later…Susan: I saw you got up the courage to have a word with Janet about that pay rise you wanted.  I know you had been losing a lot of sleep over it.  Did you get as much as you wanted?K: I think I negotiated a good deal.S: Nice going Keith.  I find Janet a really tough negotiator.  K: Well I think she’s met her match with me.S: Whenever I ask Janet for something, I come out of the meeting feeling like I’ve done really well but when I think about it afterwards I realise I’ve ended up in a worse position than when I started.  K: Well I managed to get her to commit to a pay review in 2 months to re-instate my pay.S: You mean, you went in asking for a pay rise, and came out with a pay cut.K: Now I think about it…yes.  But I felt like I’d done really well.S: Well, now I’m convinced that Janet’s met her match with you.K: Hmm…

'Hear English' is a blog that provides podcasts and transcripts to help people learn English, find us at http://hearenglishhere.blogspot.com/.free image courtesy of 'stockfreeimages.com'The Water Cooler They may look like busy professionals, but the staff at Colourful Solutions Ltd (Colsol), aren’t always as serious or hardworking as they appear, and we find out what mischief they’ve been up to as they talk around the water cooler.Click above to listen.  You can get the mp3. here (opens in a new window)Episode 1 - The 4 o' Clock Cake Break(first published in "the AngloKlaxon", free sound effects courtesy of 'Soundjay.com')Susan: Good morning.Keith: Hi, I’m Keith, you must be the new girl in accounts.  Susan isn’t it?S: Yes, that’s me.K: How’s your first day been so far?S: Oh not bad, just getting to grips with the new computer system, meeting everyone, finding where everything is and doing the admin.K: You’ll be settled in in no time.  What firm were you at before?S: I was at Pierson’s as an accounts assistant.K: Which means that this is a bit of a promotion?S: Yeah, it’s a lot more responsibility. I’m a bit nervous, but I’m looking forward to getting stuck in.  The team seems nice.K: They’re really good guys, generally, but there are one or two practical jokers.S: Anyone I should watch out for? K: You’ll figure them out pretty soon.  I’m sure you’ll be fine as long as you stick to the office traditions.  Which reminds me: what cake did you make?S: Cake?K: Yeah, one of our oldest traditions is that when someone new starts they bring in something for the four o’ clock cake break.  Didn’t anyone tell you?S: No, they didn’t mention that.K: Oh dear.  Well, it’s not the end of the world; you’ve still got time to buy one.  I doubt anyone will mind too much that it’s not home-made, just so long as you’ve made the effort.  Well, I ought to get back to work, see you later.Later that day…Janet: Keith?K: Yes Janet? J: Can I have a word?K: Actually I was just about to…err…J: It won’t take a second.K: Err, ok.J: I’ve just had Susan asking me where the nearest bakery is so that she can buy something for the four o’ clock cake break.  Do you know anything about this?K: Err…No.J: Because she said she was glad you told her because she didn’t want to get on the wrong side of the staff on her first day by coming in empty-handed.K: Ah yes, it might have been me who told her.J: But Keith, we don’t have a four o’ clock cake break.K: No, but I thought it might be good for moral if we started to have one.J: She seemed under the impression that we always had one.K: Maybe she misunderstood what I said.J: Was it also a misunderstanding that made her believe that by tradition, as the new employee, it was her who had to buy the cakes? K: Well…what is a tradition anyway?  It’s just something that happens because it’s always happened.  They all have to start sometime, it’s just a coincidence that this tradition has started now…J: Keith?K: Yes Janet?J: You will apologise to Susan and pay her back for the cake.K: Yes Janet.J: And leave her alone for pity’s sake, it’s the poor girl's first day.Water Cooler NotesIt was her who had to buy the cakes - this is grammatically incorrect, it should be "it was she who had to buy the cakes", but it is a mistake that is often made.Ltd – abbreviation for ‘limited’, it refers to the way a business is set up.  If ‘ltd’ follows a company name, it means it is a private company limited by shares or by guarantee.  This basically means that if the company owes money that it can’t pay and goes into debt, the shareholders and owners are not liable for the debt, their liability is limited, and they won’t have to pay the debt.In accounts – in the accounting department of the firm.  Office workers often shorten job titles in this way, such as ‘repro’ instead of ‘reprographics’ (the photocopying department), or ‘archives’ instead of ‘the archiving department’.  People, especially professionals, sometimes introduce their job in this way saying ‘I’m in banking’ rather than ‘I am a banker’ or ‘I work in banking’.Getting to grips – learning how to use.    Admin – short for administration, it means red-tape, or paperwork.Be settled in – be comfortable in a new environment, such as a new house, or new job.Promotion – a higher position or rank (usually with better pay).Getting stuck in – starting to work hard.Practical joker – someone who plays tricks on people to make them look foolish.It’s not the end of the world – it’s not a really bad situation.Made the effort – tried to do something.Can I have a word? – Can I talk to you? (although this is a question, often it is a rhetorical question, a question that does not require an answer, and is just a way of getting someone’s attention).Coincidence – an accident where two unrelated things occur at the same time.Leave her alone – stop bothering her.For pity’s sake – a way of expressing annoyance or anger without swearing or blaspheming (these are called ‘minced oaths’), such as ‘for crying out load’ 

"A Passion-Driven Church" By Pastor Jason Adams Hebrews 12:18-29 New International Version (NIV) The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy 18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm;(A) 19 to a trumpet blast(B) or to such a voice speaking words(C) that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,(D) 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”[a](E) 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”[b](F) 22 But you have come to Mount Zion,(G) to the city(H) of the living God,(I) the heavenly Jerusalem.(J) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn,(K) whose names are written in heaven.(L) You have come to God, the Judge of all,(M) to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,(N) 24 to Jesus the mediator(O) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood(P) that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.(Q) 25 See to it that you do not refuse(R) him who speaks.(S) If they did not escape when they refused him who warned(T) them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?(U) 26 At that time his voice shook the earth,(V) but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”[c](W) 27 The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken(X)—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,(Y) let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,(Z) 29 for our “God is a consuming fire.”[d](AA)