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Alysha Love, Executive Editor and Co-Founder of Payette Media House, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss her career journey going from journalism to editing and how she works with Corey on his content. Alysha describes why she feels it's so important to capture the voice of the person you're editing, and why editing your content makes a difference to those reading it. Corey and Alysha also explore the differences in editing for something that will be read silently versus something that will be read out loud, as well as the different styles of editing. About AlyshaAlysha Love is executive editor and co-founder of Payette Media House, an editorial agency serving startups and tech companies. Alysha is the treasurer of ACES: The Society for Editing, the nation's largest editing organization, and trains editors and writers in digital best practices.She was an editor at CNN and POLITICO during the Obama and Trump administrations. Alysha has a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master's in leadership and organizational development from the University of Texas. She's a big fan of the humble ampersand.Links Referenced:Company website: https://payettemediahouse.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Human-scale teams use Tailscale to build trusted networks. Tailscale Funnel is a great way to share a local service with your team for collaboration, testing, and experimentation.  Funnel securely exposes your dev environment at a stable URL, complete with auto-provisioned TLS certificates. Use it from the command line or the new VS Code extensions. In a few keystrokes, you can securely expose a local port to the internet, right from the IDE.I did this in a talk I gave at Tailscale Up, their first inaugural developer conference. I used it to present my slides and only revealed that that's what I was doing at the end of it. It's awesome, it works! Check it out!Their free plan now includes 3 users & 100 devices. Try it at snark.cloud/tailscalescream Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. And one of the, I guess, illusions about what I do is that I sit down at a keyboard periodically, and I just start typing and then, you know, brilliance emerges, and then my work is done. It turns out that this is rarely true, not to deflate my own image overly much. And a big part of how that works comes down to my guest today. Alysha Love is the executive editor at Payette Media House and has been my editor for just about three years now. Alysha, thank you for tolerating me.Alysha: Anytime.Corey: So, I want to start by dispensing with a few illusions that I'm not saying other people have, I'm saying that I have, where I was fortunate enough—or unfortunate as the case may be—to grow up with an English teacher for a mother and understanding how to put together a grammatically correct sentence was not exactly optional in my house, so what possible value could an editor present to me? And one of the things I learned along the way is that there are multiple kinds of editors, as it turns out. What are they and which are you?Alysha: So yeah, not only is editing a thing, we can look at your sentences, your story, and make it all better and clearer so that it really shines. But there are different types of editors who can do different specific functions. So, at the maybe most nitpicky level, you have proofreaders who are looking at what would be a final page, usually in something like a book, where it needs to look exactly right the way that it's going up, it needs to be sure that every last little detail is in place. At the next level up, you have copy editors. They're looking for things like spelling, grammar, punctuation, style, factual accuracy. That's sort of what you think of usually when you think of somebody who might peer-review a piece for you, or who you might ask to edit something. And then at the next level, you have people who are able to do the copy editing, but in addition to that, they look at the overarching arc of the story or the blog piece, and they're able to help look for some of those gaps and organize it into something that is clearer and easier to understand.Corey: Something I've always been curious about is that you, previously in another life, were an editor at CNN and then Politico during the Obama and then Trump administrations. Is editing what I do significantly different than editing, you know, journalists?Alysha: Yes, in a few key ways. One is that when we're writing news, we always come out and say the most important thing first. It's what we call the inverted pyramid style, so if you turn a pyramid on its nose and it's standing on the tip, you have the biggest part of the triangle or the pyramid at the top, and that's the most important thing that could never get cut, and you say it right out of the gate. I tease my husband a lot because he tends to bury the lede, and that's what we're talking about when it's not the first thing you say.Corey: Absolutely. And I do that, meanwhile, stylistically as a choice because, you know, don't put the punch line in the title.Alysha: Totally. So, that's a big difference between editing for news and editing you. You also use significantly more voice than we would use in a CNN or Politico article. That's also a choice. And it's actually something I have a ton of fun with is emulating your voice as I make edits.Corey: I found that as we've worked together, our comfort with one another has grown significantly over the past few years. At this point, just for folks who are wondering, anytime you have an edit that's just a reordering or something that clarifies something slightly or is basically low-level stylistic, you don't track those changes; you just go ahead and apply them because otherwise, I'll wind up, “Oh, here are 600 changes to make.” It's like, the article is 2000 words. Exactly how much was done? And so, much of it is white spaces and comma placement and the rest and just strange little things that frankly, are not that important to me past a certain point.The exception, of course, was always great. First, if you're making a change, tell me why. I have political opinions about the use of the Oxford comma, for example. I find it lends clarity to things. Fortunately, you and I aligned on that, so it's a non-issue. But I am curious as far as what do you see that I tend to do the most that I guess either annoys you or you disagree with stylistically or, honestly, is flat-out wrong.Alysha: So, there's not much you do that's flat-out wrong. I will say, like, the instances that I do see something… you've told me before that your mom was an English teacher and that these are things that you really pride yourself on being able to do well, so I don't know how you feel about it, but I'll usually leave a comment telling you about the change and linking you [laugh] to something that can explain it a little better. Maybe that annoys the shit out of you, or—sorry, can we cuss?Corey: No, no—oh, you absolutely can, and—Alysha: Great.Corey: Because it's—I was taught by a teacher, I want to say in third grade, that you leave two spaces at the end of every sentence before you begin the next sentence, and I only found out about six or seven years ago that's not really a thing. It took me a year to break myself of that habit, but I would rather go through that effort than, “Well, I've been wrong this long. I may as well double down on it now.” Just seems like that's not helping anyone.Alysha: [laugh]. Right. And we all have those things that there was some English teacher somewhere along the way who taught us things that were just wrong. So, my favorite thing about my magazine editing class, when I was in school at the University of Missouri, was that she started from the very, very basics because she said everyone has learned things that are wrong about how we write and how we edit and so we're just going to learn it all from scratch. And it was really brilliant. It was the best way to learn it all the right way.Corey: I'm usually gratified when I am trying to figure out what is the proper tense of this particular verb in this particular phrase. And my wife and I will wind up in debates on this constantly because she's an attorney and also writes a lot for a living. Who knew? And invariably whenever we finally get to an impasse and look it up—because, you know, we do have the sum total of human knowledge in the supercomputer that lives in our pockets—the answer is more often than not, it's a matter of choice. And both are considered accepted because English is, of course, a language defined by its usage, or one way is British and one is American, or some other aspect where it's not about wrong; it's about which is preferred in certain contexts. So, I'll take it.Alysha: That's—yeah, that's totally accurate. And those are the kinds of choices that I feel like, if I were to change all of those things in your writing, you would not appreciate it because they're preferences. So, those are the things that even if there's a style that's a little different unless what you've done is wrong in some sort of, like, widely accepted way, then I'm going to leave it the way you've got it.Corey: One way that I have found that I am both strong and weak, I think, as a writer—and I'm thrilled to be criticized on any of this; please don't spare my feelings any—is that I write like I speak. When—this is most noticeable on Twitter when I meet people who've never met me in person before, a very common refrain is, “Oh, you're just like your Twitter feed.”Alysha: [laugh].Corey: And partially that's because I'm sarcastic and irreverent and a class clown who never grew up, but another part of it is because I write like I would put together the sentence. In long-form writing, I feel like that can be something of a setback for me. When I'm making a sentence right now, for example, and talking to you, if I were to write this out as a literal transcript, it will be a long run-on sentence in a bunch of different ways. And it works conversationally, but it does not work that way in long-form writing. So, I feel like I have a bunch of clauses that continue to go on forever when I let myself. [transcriber note: yup]Alysha: You do. And the thing that you also love to do stick a bunch of semicolons between all of them, which is technically correct, but I do have a whole thing about distracting punctuation, so I will take out many of your semicolons.Corey: I would like credit though because before you were involved in this, Mike would periodically look at some of my blog posts before they went out and—because I wanted his perspective on, “Am I onto something here or am I a fool,” but then he'll go back and edit some of the things he sees—which I get. If I see a misspelling in something, I itch until I can fix it, or a grammatical mistake. But at one point, he was constantly onto me about overusing commas. And in one case, he took a bunch out. And then I looked at the tracked changes on this and it's forever one of my favorite things. You went through next and wound up returning all of the commas that he had removed. It's, “That's right.” But you got me on the semicolon thing. I'm trying to reduce usage and have shorter sentences.Alysha: Yes. And that's something that's really good for digital best practices and having a wide and varied audience. You know, with a diverse audience, with audiences that don't speak English as a first language, it's helpful to have much shorter sentences. For folks who are consuming content on the internet, in general, it's easier to skim and get the meaning out of a shorter sentence. However, when we think about your voice, it's important to leave some of those really long sentences in because we want people to keep thinking and, like, “Oh, yeah. This is a Corey Quinn piece,” when they read your article, whether your name is at the top of it or not.Corey: What I found is that varying the sentence structure and length also keeps reading from being fatiguing in some cases. And there are times I'll do things that are, quote-unquote, “Incorrect” to make a point stylistically. Like, normally you wouldn't put that word in italics and bold, but yeah, for this case, it is so egregious—probably Managed NAT Gateway or something—that I absolutely feel the need to wind up emphasizing the egregiousness of whatever it is I'm opining on that week.Alysha: Yes. And I think that is also part of what makes editing for you really fun is that there's a great balance of let's keep to the rules as much as we can when it makes sense, but let's be super strategic about how we break them to have better emphasis and to make it clear that this is a Corey Quinn piece.Corey: One problem that I've had, too, is understanding the difference in medium. I mean, most of my engagement with writing, when I was growing up, was books I read enthusiastically. And then I started writing a lot of newsletters and mailing lists and various written fora. I spent entirely too many years on IRC over the course of my life. And there are different rules and all of those circumstances, but never having written a book myself, how differently do you approach the editing process when you're writing something that is long-form or writing something that is essay length, or writing something that is a book?Alysha: So, I'm actually working on my first book now as the editor. So, that's a thing that I'm learning about, learning more about what that process looks like and how it's different. I think there's a lot more note-taking as you go along to track, you know, this is the story arc, these are the characters, what's a first reference and a second reference?Corey: When you overuse a phrase, it's easy to figure out if it's in a 2000-word essay. When you use it more than once, oh, great. Easy to spot. But okay, you write books—generally not in one sitting, I would assume—and you say, all right, that is the eighth time you have used that very particular turn of phrase. Stop it here's a thesaurus.Alysha: Totally. I don't know, maybe this is just a me thing or an editor thing, but do you notice when you hear, like, a very unique word, that's the thing, if—by the way [laugh], speaking of different, you know, if this weren't a spoken word podcast, then I would never say very unique; I would edit out ‘very' ahead of ‘unique' because unique is unique.Corey: Exactly. It's a pet peeve.Alysha: Totally. But I have very different rules for the way that we speak versus the way that we write. How fleeting are things? So, that gets back to your original question. Something that, you know, if I'm editing something quick, that's a quick hit, it's not going to live for very long. If you needed me to edit a tweet, I wouldn't spend a lot of time on that. I'm going to spend more time on things that have longer legs or that are going to a bigger platform. Books, you spend way more time editing than you would a 2000-word essay.Corey: I find that I don't have people edit tweets very often because first, it's moving too quickly for me to really take something out for opinion. The reason I'd have to do that is, “Is this too close to the edge?” Well, it turns out at this stage, if I have to ask that question, I already know the answer.Alysha: Mm-hm.Corey: Everything else is going to be more stylistic, like, “Is dogshit one word or two?” And you're, “Ah, it's a [unintelligible 00:13:24]. There we go. Excellent.” It's not the typical kind of problem or question that you would run into.Alysha: The BuzzFeed Style Guide has been a great resource for questions like dogshit [laugh].Corey: I didn't realize they had such a thing and that is absolutely amazing.Alysha: It is fantastic. Most of the internet things you need to know are there. CNN is where—well, CNN and Politico both—that's where we were always taking second eyes to look at a tweet before it goes out and you're doing that in about ten seconds. But we're looking at factual accuracy. Is there something that is about to be very wrong that we don't want to embarrass the publication with?Corey: I'm a prolific writer because I have to be. I have a content schedule that you could charitably call punishing. And that works super well with the way that I view the world, but the counterargument is that getting me to go back and review edits or go back and edit after I've written something is sort of like pulling teeth. So, something I found that works for me as a way around this is I record these essays as podcast episodes on the AWS Morning Brief. What that forces me to do is once the edits are in, I get one last read-through as I read it out loud in a normal speaking voice and don't power my way through it, and I'm forced to pay attention to every word at that point.And, “Oh, that doesn't quite make the point that I thought it did.” And you've edited them by this point, so it's not ever going to be something that is, “Oh, that's a run-on sentence,” or, “Huh, punctuation is probably a good idea.” It's something that is more abstract than that and often very tied to a domain-specific aspect of what I've written about. But I found that to be one of the best last filters for a lot of the stuff.Alysha: Yeah. That's a great tactic for catching errors, and… and not even errors, right? But it also comes back to, like, what's a difference between the way that we're going to write things and the way that you're going to read it out loud? I try to edit, keeping in mind that you're going to be reading these out loud, but then there are always going to be things that are going to sound better a particular way, and the way that we write them is going to be slightly different.Corey: One thing that I find as well, given that I read a lot more than I write, is that when I'm looking at articles for inclusion in a whole bunch of different places because I'm looking for creative content from the community, it is very hard for me to go ahead and greenlight including something that is poorly written. If I can't get through the first three sentences without seeing six mistakes in how the sentence is built, I judge the writing for it. It's you're talking about a technical topic, but if you can't even get to a point where the sentence is coherent, then how do I know you don't have typos littered throughout the code samples you're about to put up, or whatnot? And I don't think that that is an entirely fair assessment of mine, but it still feels like nails on a chalkboard, every time I encounter some of it.Alysha: It's actually something that's backed by research. I'm on the board for ACES, the Society for Editing, and we commissioned research about 13 years ago now, so it's getting updated. But what it showed was that readers can distinguish between edited and unedited content in significant ways. So, it may not be, like, “Oh, I know exactly how to fix this,” or, “I know exactly what's wrong with this,” but they get the sense that that content is not as reliable if it hasn't been edited. So, there's true value in exactly what you just said, in having content that's edited and the way that it makes people feel about the quality of the content that they're reading.Corey: It's one of those important things—which I'm not trying to shame people, particularly those for whom English is not a first language; you speak more languages than I do. Good for you—but I also will judge corporate blog posts far more harshly for this because it's no longer just one person. You should—in theory—have the ability to proofread and copy-edit the thing that is going out underneath your masthead. People are expensive. Writers are expensive unless you're ripping people off, which I don't advise. At least take the extra few steps to make sure that it doesn't drive people away for reasons other than the content.Alysha: Yep, I'm totally with you on that [laugh].Corey: I find myself having that same negative reaction to typos on your landing page when you describe what you do. There have been security vendors that I won't touch with a ten-foot pole because they talk about the standards that they follow, but they misspell the word ‘standards' on the webpage. And in a lot of these areas, details very much matter. One area that I want to get into as well that I think you and I have always been aligned on. Because I've worked with a number of editors—all of them great in different ways, I want to be very clear; I'm not trying to shame anyone—but challenges I've had from time to time have been editors who come from the marketing world who like to embody what I can only refer to as the bullshit marketing voice.And I don't know what exactly the elements of it are, but I know it when I hear it or see it. You can see this on almost every billboard out there, every press release that goes out. If I were to talk to a human in a way that the press release talks about the product and company, it would not go well for me, just because I would come across as incredibly condescending, entirely too self-promotional, and there's just something about the way that it's written that feels off-putting so much of my online persona and approaches have come from simply calling out the subtext in an awful lot of unfortunate marketing communications. You've never had a problem with that. I have never once looked at something you've edited for me and put something in where it's, “Ooh. That sounds a little bit too market-y.” And again, I consider myself something of a marketer. This is not me disliking marketing; it's disliking bad marketing. I don't believe that that's the sort of thing that just emerges out of nowhere. What's your history of marketing?Alysha: So, I did start working in marketing at Intuit QuickBooks a few years ago, back in 2018, when I moved out of journalism. So, I think the way that I approach marketing, and content marketing in particular, is always very journalistic. My bullshit meter really goes off, too, when I read something that's like, “You have a claim to back that,” or, “Oh, the evidence that you're using to back that is really thin.” And it just… it's just icky, right? Like, none of us like to feel like we're being marketed to in that way.And you're right, you would like, you would turn tail and run if somebody started talking to you that way in real life. So yeah, so it's just sort of a combination of journalistic instinct and like, you know, a lot of times, if you just say something straight, if you just say the truth, it comes out with even more impact than if you tried to fluff it up with marketing speak.Corey: The thing that I wish companies would figure out is that when you go out and talk about your product and mention the things it's bad at, it really engenders an awful lot of trust. Because it's not like you're going to hide that from the first people to use it, so call it out upfront that this is an area it's weak in. And that is anathema to some folks where they believe that you can say something is good, something is great, or you can stop talking. But it is unhelpful to the people you're trying to reach. I'm sure there are reasons for this. I don't believe for a second that I know better than the entire field of marketing, let's be clear here. But I know what I want to read what I'm trying to get when I'm presented with new information about a product or a service.Alysha: I think it just scares the bejesus out of people to think that they are going to publicly admit to things that aren't great. Yeah, and I don't know what the idea is after that. Like, that we're just going to sweep it under the rug and hope nobody notices or try to work on it in the background, and until then, we'll just talk about, you know, our one huge talking point and tell you that it's the best, most amazing in the world. It comes off as disingenuous to the rest of us. And that is something that you are not. You are… you're definitely the antithesis of that. You're very trusting because you call out all of the things that aren't quite right in a very honest way.Corey: And people love it until it's their turn to the hot seat, I think. That tends to, “Well, hang on, my product is perfect.” I assure you it's not but that's okay.Alysha: To being fair, you're also very good at calling out what others do great, and maybe in a way that you don't always get credit for, but—Corey: Well, no, I've done experiments on this. When I am unflinchingly positive about some aspect of what a cloud provider or other vendor has done or a feature that I really like, it gets almost no notice. But when I say, “Oh, and this part is crap,” that's the part that blows up and goes around the internet a bunch of times. And I think that's human nature. I don't know if, as an editor, you have a way to fix human nature, but if you do, I'm very interested to learn it.Alysha: [laugh]. No, we just all love to bitch and to talk about our pain points, and when somebody says it and all you can say is, “Yes, plus one million,” then it's going to get a lot of play.Corey: One aspect of what you do did scare me initially when we first started working together, and that was, you do a few things: you write as well—which that's not scary. I would expect someone who can edit would also know how to write. That does make sense. But you also do some SEO-facing work. And that in many ways feels like it is modern-day witch doctor-y because my approach to SEO has always been naive but also effective.I write compelling, original content that people like and as a result, link against or refer to. And I find the rest of it really takes care of itself. I haven't spent deep effort or large amounts of brain sweat figuring out how to appear at the top of Google search results for various terms.Alysha: Yeah. And one of the things I was tasked with as soon as I came in, was, “Please write an SEO description for each of Corey's pieces and make sure that we're writing for digital best practices, including SEO.”Corey: And I've read those descriptions and I've never had a problem with any of them because it's not something that is aligned with… anything that I hate. So, good for you on that. It's an active description using very direct, to-the-point phrasing about what it is I'm talking about. And yeah, that is, ideally what SEO should be. It's about, this is what this is, but you shouldn't have to read through a thousand meandering words while he circles the point to death like some sort of persistence hunter. I get it.Alysha: Totally. We're going to be direct and to the point, we're going to use the key nouns, but we're not going to be gross about it. And we're definitely not going to jump on the latest trend because honestly, Google's always looking to get ahead of what all of the SEO magicians are trying to magic up.Corey: I get so many emails in the course of a week for people asking to contribute articles to my blog. Which again, we do have a guest author program, but that's one of those, yeah, if that happens, we're paying you and then throwing an editor—read as you—to whoever it is that's contributing that so it comes out something that we're thrilled to have up there. But money flows one direction in that and it's from us to the guest author. Instead there, “Oh, we're going to provide high-quality content,” or they'll link to something on the site, usually a newsletter back issue, and say, “Hey, include our link to this because it's relevant,” and it's clearly for SEO juice. And first, I'm sure Google and the other search engines would just love if I suddenly have a bunch of crappy links to low-quality sites. But further, it doesn't serve the audience in any meaningful way, and… it just irks me.Alysha: And when you start playing that game, you get into the middle of all of that the link-swapping, and trying to up their SEO juice, and it is wild the amount of money that people will offer to pay for a link on a reputable site. It's super valuable. So, the way that I approach linking in your pieces is exactly the same way that I did it in news, which is, where do we need to show our sources, where will people want to verify information? Let's just go ahead and give them that link. And that's about it. Like, what do people need to know?Corey: I always worry, on some level, that I'm thinking about this all wrong. But if I'm being snarky and sarcastic with all of the SEO people emailing me who then try to offer me SEO services, it's frankly, if that's what I'm looking for, shouldn't I just Google ‘SEO' and pick whoever's at the top of the list? Because they clearly get it in one.Alysha: [laugh].Corey: It turns out, for some reason, they don't really have a good rejoinder to that when you ask them directly.Alysha: [laugh]. I love that. And might I mention, when I do search for topics that I know you guys have articles on, I won't necessarily include The Duckbill Group, but you do show up because you are a reputable and authoritative source who does not play the SEO game.Corey: I do have one more question that lies down this path that I'm actually deeply curious about, and I've always found it to be something that is incredibly helpful for my purposes. But your background is in journalism and writing and editing. It is not—for some unknown reason—the world of cloud. Almost like you want to be happy or something.Alysha: [laugh].Corey: How approachable or unapproachable is my writing to someone who does not live in the space the way I do?Alysha: Oh, that's a really interesting question. So, I'm married to somebody who spent ten years, just about, working specifically around AWS, in the—Corey: It took that long for them to stop the billing. I get it.Alysha: [laugh]. And my brother-in-law is also a software engineer. So, I have witnessed enough conversations between the two of them that I had a decent idea of what I was getting into. And those two are my resources when I have stupid questions that I don't want to ask you [laugh] in a Google Doc comment. So, I go to them, I get the lowdown, I do a little research sometimes, but by and large, we're talking about bigger concepts, and I think sometimes it might even help that I'm not in the weeds on some of the details of things that you talk about because it helps me see patterns that I'm a little—I can make some connections that maybe you're not making in the middle of the weeds.Corey: It's always tricky to figure out where to level-set what I'm talking about. I don't want to turn every article to have the first 18 pages of it be a primer on what Cloud computing is. I have to assume, at least on some level, people have a baseline level of understanding. But there are times I go too far in the other direction where I assume that, “Oh, well, I used to be a software engineer, so I'm going to write as if everyone reading is.”In fact, the audience is not overwhelmingly populated by purely software engineers. There's a lot of systems folk, there's a lot of managers at a variety of different levels, ranging from line management to executive, and it really takes all kinds. I'm always surprised when people reach out and mention they've been reading for a while, and then they describe what they do for a day job and it's nothing I would have ever considered. It would not have occurred to me early on that people who spent their entire life in the finance department would find most of what I talk about that isn't cost related to be interesting. But they assure me they do. Okay.Alysha: That makes sense because it gives them insight into what the other half of the business is doing.Corey: On some level, what I've found is you have to pick—and it can vary; it can honestly vary even within a piece, but at every given point, I feel like you have to have someone in mind that you're writing for because otherwise you're trying to write for everyone and in so doing, you write something that's valuable to no one.Alysha: Do you remember how much I hammered on you about who your audience was at the beginning of every single article when I first started editing?Corey: Oh, yes. That's what shaped the ideas. I mean, honestly, if you were telling me the same thing, now that you were two-and-a-half years ago, I'd wonder if—in your case—if I was even reading the notes that you put into these things. Editors make your writing better, but they also longer-term make you a better writer, is my firm belief.Alysha: Oh, that's lovely.Corey: I'm assuming that the mistakes I make are at least more interesting now as opposed to some of the ones that we had long conversations about. I hope.Alysha: Totally. It is interesting every time.Corey: So, I have to ask, given as someone who is a big believer in writing, and because it's a way of expressing myself and giving myself a platform that doesn't require me to be in the same room as a bunch of other people or them to be willing to fire up a podcast and listen to me or watch a video, they can access it anywhere they are at any given point in time, I love the writing process, but the editing process is challenging for me. You have—seem to be on the other side of that where you are much happier editing than you are writing. At least that's my perception of you and your background. If that is accurate, how do you think about this stuff because it's foreign to me?Alysha: That's really funny. So, I actually started out thinking that I wanted—well, I wanted to work with words, and I thought that the way that you could do that was by writing, and specifically reporting. So, that was the track I went down. And it actually wasn't until my first full-time job out of college—I was working as a copy editor at Politico—that I realized that I could wake up and edit every single day. That was what I had the energy for.And when I say wake up and edit, I mean, it was 4 a.m. and we were editing the newsletters that had to go out by 6 a.m. so quite literally, it was the thing I could wake up and do. And I think what I really love about it is taking something that's already good, that's already great in a lot of instances, and making it better, so it's just that little bit more clear, more understandable, that your message is getting across in a way that still feels authentic to you. Because I can tell you one of my least favorite things as a writer was having someone come through and edit and I could tell you every single spot that that editor had touched. And it sort of… it burned. It just didn't feel quite right.Corey: Suddenly the voice switches, like effectively, you have someone whose voice sounds like you, for example, and then for half a sentence, it suddenly sounds like James Earl Jones is delivering it, and then it goes back to your voice. It's hmm.Alysha: Totally. So, with my experience of editing as a writer, my goal is to make that as seamless as possible. So, I want to show you the changes that you're going to be most interested in and that I think you might want to learn from. And the changes that I do make, I want them to sound just like you.Corey: Honestly, because there's usually a week or two in time that happens between me writing a draft or something, and then going back, when you've just automatically made some of the quick rewrites on the fly, unless I go looking, I never realize which parts you've touched or not. And I'm the one that wrote it. So, I guess, honestly, you're in a terrific position to put words in my mouth if you want to. Have fun. But that is, to me, the mark of an editor who gets it.I just find it scary, on some level, to the idea, from my perspective, of fading into the background. I always lived in fear of not having my name front and center and being in the spotlight, for good or bad, just because it's that's who I am. That's what I bias for.Alysha: That's really interesting. Totally makes sense because you are very front and center. When I was working at Reuters in Brussels, one of the things I think is really cool that they do is they put their editors' byline at the bottom of articles, so the editors do get a hat-tip of recognition. But I think as somebody who's a little bit of a helper, I just get a lot of enjoyment out of making other people's stuff better.Corey: I can certainly say that you've been a smashing success from my perspective, although I'm sure now you're going to be inundated with people who are urging you to, “Okay, now make what he says less bullshit or at least something that I can agree with.” Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work that way most of the time.Alysha: No.Corey: Though you are getting very proficient at sanding off some of the more colorful metaphors. Thank you for that.Alysha: [laugh]. Anytime. I got to keep my [unintelligible 00:33:28], too.Corey: If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you, and—take this as a personal recommendation—hire you to edit their stuff, so I don't have to claw my eyes out as much when I read their things?Alysha: You can find me at payettemediahouse.com. P-A-Y-E-T-T-E Media House.Corey: And we will, of course, put a link to that in the [show notes 00:33:50]. Thank you so much for taking the time to go through something different with me in a stranger way than we normally wind up communicating, which is via tracking changes.Alysha: [laugh]. I love it. It's nice to see your face.Corey: It really is. I have a face for radio though, so it's only for so long. Alysha Love, Executive Editor at Payette Media House. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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Round 2 and SWEET 16! We debate what are the top 16 summer blockbusters of all time. ***The boys continue their Summer Blockbuster Face-Off, the challenge to determine once and for all what the greatest summer blockbuster of all time! We take the highest grossing *summer* movie of every year from 1980-2019 (plus Jaws and Star Wars), and we have them battle to the death until only one remains! Damn! Please like and subscribe to keep up with our bracket!*** Find all of our Socials at: https://linktr.ee/theloveofcinema. 
Our phone number is 646-484-9298, it accepts texts or voice messages. 0:00 Intro; 7:30 Mini Round of 21; 37:21 Sweet 16; 1:18:30 Whatchu Been Watching? Cast/Crew: Ellen Degeneres, Albert Brooks, Idris Elba, Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell, Sigourney Weaver, Gal Godot, Chris Pine, David Thewlis, Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Catherine Keener, Bob Odenkirk, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Bird, Jon Favreau, Seth Rogen, Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Oliver, James Earl Jones, John Kani, Alfre Woodard, Keegan-Michael Key, Eric André, Billy Eichner   Additional Tags: Disney, Pixar, WB, DCEU, DC, Iron Man, Batman Begins, Quantum of Solace, Disney, Warner Bros, Chinatown, Australia, Melbourne, Queensland, The Philippines, Writer's Strike, WGA, Adelaide, Spotify, residuals,  Apple+, Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, TikTok, Twitch, Concord, NC, New Jersey, Method Acting, Jeremy Strong, Brando, Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Summer Movies, Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, ILM, 

To All the Men I've Tolerated Before is on a summer vacay! In the meantime, we will be posting episodes of our livestream collaboration with Pop Culture Makes Me Jealous. Still Comfy? is an in-depth look at our favorite comfort shows and movies. After a conversation about the themes presented in the selected show, we then discuss how the show holds up against our Tolerator and Jelly Pops morals and viewpoints. Enjoy our review of the 1993 movie The Sandlot, starring Tom Guiry, Denis Leary, James Earl Jones, and Karen Allen. Nat and Jules set out to answer the question, how much baseball can Natalie even talk about?You can watch Still Comfy? on our Instagram at menivetoleratedpod or our YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1PX0HKfxH3Ge2GYTIh8g5ElcUJY42UFf.While we're on summer vacation, please take an opportunity to follow the show on all social media platforms. We would also love for you to join us on Patreon for bonus content and early access to ad-free episodes. Our Patreon can be found at https://www.patreon.com/menivetoleratedpod. All ways to support the show, including our merchandise, can be found at https://linktr.ee/menivetoleratedpod.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5688404/advertisement

Liev Schreiber, James Earl Jones and apparently, Bill Gates has a podcast that Seth Rogen was a guest on?

Summer Blockbuster Face-Off Week 10, Final week of Round One! Finding Dory (2016) vs. Wonder Woman (2017), then The Incredibles 2 (2018) vs. The Lion King (2019). Only two can advance! The boys continue their Summer Blockbuster Face-Off, the challenge to determine once and for all what the greatest summer blockbuster of all time! We take the highest grossing *summer* movie of every year from 1980-2019 (plus Jaws and Star Wars), and we have them battle to the death until only one remains! Damn! Please like and subscribe to keep up with our bracket!  Find all of our Socials at: https://linktr.ee/theloveofcinema. 
Our phone number is 646-484-9298, it accepts texts or voice messages. 0:00 Intro; 7:32 Finding Dory vs. Wonder Woman; 57:43 Incredibles 2 vs. The new Lion King; 01:53:54 What You Been Watching? Cast/Crew: Ellen Degeneres, Albert Brooks, Idris Elba, Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell, Sigourney Weaver, Gal Godot, Chris Pine, David Thewlis, Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Catherine Keener, Bob Odenkirk, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Bird, Jon Favreau, Seth Rogen, Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Oliver, James Earl Jones, John Kani, Alfre Woodard, Keegan-Michael Key, Eric André, Billy Eichner   Additional Tags: Disney, Pixar, WB, DCEU, DC, Iron Man, Batman Begins, Quantum of Solace, Disney, Warner Bros, Chinatown, Australia, Melbourne, Queensland, The Philippines, Writer's Strike, WGA, Adelaide, Spotify, residuals,  Apple+, Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, TikTok, Twitch, Concord, NC, New Jersey, Method Acting, Jeremy Strong, Brando, Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Summer Movies, Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, ILM, 

Everybody Be Quiet! It's time for a new episode so listen up. Can anyone order a sub sandwich as good a Dick Vitale? Probably not, what do Rowan Atkinson, Whoopie Goldberg and James Earl Jones have in common? Who knows. But these are the important questions so tune in. Please let us know if you have any problems needing solving or just want to say hey. You can do that at ebqcast@gmail.com. We hope you enjoy this episode and tune back in again. 

The Men of Micheaux play Top Five BINGO, play Six Degrees of D'Urville and come together for their review on the Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones' slice of this ol' life - 1974's The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, and Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave a Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Shoutout to our special guest @KennEdwinTV !! Coming to America is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed by John Landis and based on a story originally created by Eddie Murphy, who also stars in the lead role. The film also co-stars Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, and John Amos. The film was released in the United States on June 29, 1988. Eddie Murphy plays Akeem Joffer, the crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who travels to the United States in the hopes of finding a woman he can marry and will love him for who he is, not for his status or for having been trained to please him. Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) is the prince of a wealthy African country and wants for nothing, except a wife who will love him in spite of his title. To escape an arranged marriage, Akeem flees to America accompanied by his persnickety sidekick, Semmi (Arsenio Hall), to find his queen. Disguised as a foreign student working in fast food, he romances Lisa (Shari Headley), but struggles with revealing his true identity to her and his marital intentions to his king father (James Earl Jones). BlackBusters is a podcast focused on reviewing, celebrating, re-living and critiquing Black film. From the movies we all know and love to those hidden gems, there is no movie too big or small to be praised or roasted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our first back-to-back reviews of a film and its sequel, Shat The Movies presents "Allan Quatermain and The Lost City of Gold," the 1986 flop that answers the question: "what if leftover French fries were a movie?" In the second half of listener MoonlitTear's double commission, Gene Lyons boldly declares the movie series that kicked off with "King Solomon's Mines" isn't quite as good as the "Godfather" trilogy. Dick Ebert notes that only four people were credited with the "Lost City" special effects, and both Shat hosts struggle to make sense of an economy that's overflowing with gold but still insists on using slaves. James Earl Jones did his best to rescue this movie as the anchor to the world's worst Dungeons & Dragons party, while Sharon Stone earned herself a Golden Raspberry nomination for returning to her role as Jesse Huston. Was "Lost City" a parable for apartheid or just a terribly misunderstood parody? Listen to this week's podcast and decide for yourself! SUBSCRIBE Android: https://shatpod.com/android Apple: https://shatpod.com/apple All: https://shatpod.com/subscribe CONTACT Email: hosts@shatpod.com Website: https://shatpod.com/movies Leave a Voicemail: Web: https://shatpod.com/voicemail Leave a Voicemail: Call: (914) 719-7428 SUPPORT THE PODCAST Donate or Commission: https://shatpod.com/support Shop Merchandise: https://shatpod.com/shop Theme Song - Die Hard by Guyz Nite: https://www.facebook.com/guyznite

What is Up Visting house are open for the cult classic The Meteor Man we hop in the the timemachine 30 years in the past starring Robert Townsend enjoy are take on this fil.The Meteor Man is a 1993 American superhero comedy film written, directed, co-produced and starring Robert Townsend with supporting roles by Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Bill Cosby, and Another Bad Creation. The film also features special appearances by Luther Vandross, Sinbad, Naughty by Nature, Cypress Hill, and Big Daddy Kane. Townsend stars as a mild-mannered schoolteacher, who becomes a superhero after his neighborhood in Washington, D.C. is terrorized by street gangs.[4][5]It is one of the earliest superhero films to feature an African-American in a starring role.DONT GET LEFT BEHIND! Make sure to check out the previous video! - https://bit.ly/3pGIGG9 Bored?Check out this AWESOME video! - https://bit.ly/3Kd721x Enjoying the channel & want to support more? SUBSCRIBE - https://bit.ly/43mI4Dk Want audio only?No Problem! RR is on all listening platforms & here - https://linktr.ee/reviewinrebels Find the RR Crew! DOM CRUZE Twitter: https://twitter.com/itzdomcruzehoe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itzdomcruzehoe/Q Twitter: https://twitter.com/King_Quisemoe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/king_quisemoe/ToniiBankz: Twitter: https://twitter.com/toniibankzInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/toniibankz/ We hope you enjoyed the video and the contentwe put out here at Reviewin Rebels/Rebel Media House Productions! Thank you for watching! # # # Business inquires: domcruzemi@gmail.com

Martin Kautz im BB RADIO Mitternachtstalk Martin Kautz, Spitzname "Kautzi", ist Schauspieler, Synchronsprecher, Musiker und Sprecher von Hörspielen und Hörbüchern. Bereits im Alter von 10 Jahren begann er Schlagzeug- und Klavierunterricht zu nehmen und spielte später in verschiedenen Jugendorchestern. Sein musikalisches Talent führte ihn schließlich zum Juniorstudium "Klassisches Schlagzeug" an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Doch Martin entdeckte auch seine Leidenschaft für die Schauspielerei und absolvierte ein Schauspielstudium in Zürich. Zusätzlich erhielt er eine klassische Gesangsausbildung. In seiner beeindruckenden Karriere hatte Martin zahlreiche Engagements, darunter am Schauspielhaus Zürich und am Hamburger Thalia Theater. Als Synchronsprecher lieh er seine Stimme bekannten Schauspielern wie Jon Bernthal in Filmen wie "Walking Dead" und "Sicario", Michael Ealy, Taylor Kinney in der Serie "Chicago Fire" und sogar James Earl Jones als Stimme von "Darth Vader" in "Star Wars". Darüber hinaus war er in Serien wie "The Mentalist", "CSI: Vegas", "The Blacklist" und "Star Trek: Picard" zu hören. Auch in Zeichentrick- und Animationsfilmen wie "Rio", "Ralph reichts" und "Zoomania" hat er seine Stimme verliehen. Als Station-Voice ist Martin für ProSieben Maxx tätig und hat zudem Hörbücher eingesprochen, darunter die Roman-Trilogie "Shades of Grey" und die "Klugscheißer Trilogie". In der Musikwelt ist er Teil einer eigenen Big Band mit Christian Kullack und Schlagzeuger in der Berliner Band "Herr Nilsson". Martin Kautz, ein richtig cooler Typ mit einer unglaublichen Stimme. Hört unbedingt rein!

Dave is off this week, so we (Megan and Evan) tackle the show as a duo. Megan opens by reviewing Greta Gerwig's vibrant, sharp, and funny film BARBIE (2:32), in which the iconic doll (Margot Robbie) suffers an existential crisis that causes her to question her influence on the world. Next, we both talk about Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman's musical mockumentary THEATER CAMP (20:37), which follows the eccentric staff (Gordon, Ben Platt, and Noah Galvin) of a musical theater camp in upstate New York who must team up with the founder's bro-y son (Jimmy Tatro) to save the camp from financial ruin. And in this week's Patreon exclusive audio, we discuss a Patron's choice: the 1982 John Milius sword and sorcery epic CONAN THE BARBARIAN, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones! 

0:15:30 - Box Office and upcoming releases. 0:23:00 *** What's Streaming  *** NETFLIX CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Dir. John Milius – Arnold Schwarzeneggar, James Earl Jones, Max Von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman.  1984 ANNIHILATION, Dir. Alex Garland – Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong, Gina Rodriguez. 2018 BREAKFAST CLUB, Dir. John Hughes – Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleeson. 1985. 0:28:30 - Trailers:   UNKNOWN: THE LOST PYRAMID - Netflix, Documentary  BIRD BOX BARCELONA – Georgina Campbell, Michelle Jenner, Mario Cases, Diego Calva, Feature. CORNER OFFICE – Jon Hamm, Feature 0:36:30 - INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY, Dir. James Mangold ( Grayson 5.5 / Roger 5 / Chris 3 )   Hosted, produced and mixed by Grayson Maxwell and Roger Stillion.  Music by Chad Wall. Quality Assurance by Anthony Emmett. Visit the new Youtube channel, "For the Love of Cinema" to follow and support our short video discussions.  Roger wears aviators!  Please give a like and subscribe if you enjoy it.   Follow the show on Twitter @lovecinemapod and check out the Facebook page for updates.  Rate, subscribe and leave a comment or two.  Every Little bit helps.  Send us an email to fortheloveofcinemapodcast@gmail.com

After 103 episodes, we've finally done a Star Wars. Naturally, we've done everybody's favourite of the original trilogy: RETURN OF THE JEDI.  Teddy bear frenzy!  Also, Rob has some rather exciting news ...END CREDITS - Presented by Robert Johnson and Chris Webb - Produced by Chris Webb - "Still Any Good?" logo designed by Graham Wood & Robert Johnson - Crap poster mock-ups by Chris Webb - Theme music ("The Slide Of Time") by The Sonic Jewels, used with kind permission  (c) 2023 Tiger Feet Productions  Find us: Twitter @stillanygoodpod Instagram stillanygoodpod Email stillanygood@gmail.comSupport the show

Panthers RB Miles Sanders tells Rich why he's been very impressed with #1 overall NFL Draft pick Bryce Young and explains why it “sucks” to be a running back in the NFL these days with the decreasing valuation of the position. Actor Patrick Renna joins Rich in-studio to discuss the 30-year anniversary of the beloved baseball movie ‘The Sandlot' including a great story about James Earl Jones, his famous “you're killing me, Smalls!” line, the lasting allure of the movie, debates who belongs on the NFL's Mount Rushmore of quarterbacks, and reveals that TJ once made him audition to be in his fantasy football league with Aston Kutcher.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

KEG FOUND THE GREATEST IPA OF ALL TIME! And with us to try it is our guest's beer experts Lauren Rua and Steve Hooker.  We catch up with Lauren on her new position at Apple Theory Cidery and Valor Wines and how she transitioned from the Beer world to ciders and wines. And we try some of their signature beverages including a cider that tastes like pie and ice cream. Keg Kettles brings us beer from his trip to Colorado including an IPA which he considers to be The Best Ever. We hear all about the Colorado brewery scene and the differences between Colorado breweries and the breweries in Connecticut. Plus, Keg tells us all about seeing Red Rocks, Watching the Mets lose and if a Coors Light really tastes better in The Rocky Mountains. And we cover The Pink Boots Societies Beautiful Badass Brew Fest. we talk about our favorite beers from the event and discuss if the festival truly received the support it deserved from the beer community. As we get hammered, we get into riveting conversation about Tannins, Beer Party Balls of the 90's, Where pineapple should and should not go and James Earl Jones. A fun time drinking some solid beer, wines and ciders with Lauren and Steve. Follow @appletheorycidery on Instagram for more info on Apple Theory and Valor Wines. Check out MANSCAPED.com and Get 20% off + Free Shipping on your next purchase with the Promo Code BEERMANBEER 

Batman Returns (1992) vs. Jurassic Park (1993), The Lion King (1994) vs. Batman Forever (1995). Only two can advance! The boys continue their Summer Blockbuster Face-Off, the challenge to determine once and for all what the greatest summer blockbuster of all time! We take the highest grossing *summer* movie of every year from 1980-2019 (plus Jaws and Star Wars), and we have them battle to the death until only one remains! Our first three episodes were a doozy: Empire, Raiders, E.T, Jedi, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Batman (1989), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ghost, Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Damn! Please like and subscribe to keep up with our bracket!  Find all of our Socials at: https://linktr.ee/theloveofcinema. 
Our phone number is 646-484-9298, it accepts texts or voice messages. 0:00 Intro; 4:00 The Flash mini review; 10:26 Batman Returns vs. Jurassic Park; 51:26 The Lion King vs. Batman Forever. Cast/Crew: Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Hoskins, Tim Burton, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern, John Williams, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Keaton, Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Val Kilmer, Joel Schumacher, Kim Basinger, Bob Kane, Robert Wuhl, Michael Gough, Hans Zimmer, Elton John, Tim Rice, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, William Wisher, Edward Furlong, Joe Morton.   Additional Tags: Batman, Superman, Disney, Warner Bros, Film Noir, Danny Elfman, Chinatown, Australia, Melbourne, Queensland, The Philippines, Writer's Strike, WGA, Adelaide, Spotify, residuals,  Apple+, Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, TikTok, Twitch, Concord, NC, New Jersey, Method Acting, Jeremy Strong, Brando, Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Summer Movies, Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back. 

Welcome back to a quicker episode than usual, we wanted to share a dream that Clif recently had about Artificial Intelligence. It was pretty wild and we wanted to share based on the entertainment factor alone.    The rest of this description was produced by Chat GPT:    AI has long been the subject of countless discussions and debates, as it continues to reshape various aspects of our society. From self-driving cars to personalized virtual assistants, AI has found its way into our daily lives, transforming the way we work, communicate, and even dream. [Dreamy sound effects] Host: Yes, dreams. Those mysterious, enigmatic experiences that captivate our imagination while we sleep. Imagine, for a moment, a dream where artificial intelligence takes center stage. In this surreal realm, the boundaries between human consciousness and AI become blurred, leaving us with questions about the nature of intelligence itself.   0:00 Quick intro, Artificial Intelligence, AI in music 3:15 AI in movies, James Earl Jones signs off on AI to take over Darth Vader voice 5:30 Clifton's AI dream - AI creation, takeover, correlation to current events   #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Dreaming #AIandDreams #TechPodcast #FutureTech #TechEthics #Consciousness #EmergingTech #PodcastEpisode #TechDiscussion #Dreamscapes #MindandMachine #EthicalAI #AIResearch #DreamExploration #TechInnovation #PodcastConversations #SciFiInspiration #DreamingOfAI #Podcast

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On the eve of a trip to Colorado, grieving the recent death of Everwood actor John Beasley, and fueled by guilt over how long it's been since he last released an episode, Adam manages to actually edit another installment of Everwood? Neverwouldn't! Tune in to hear about Pauly Shore's appearance on Fargo, how uteruses are like mines, and why Beau Bridges should change his name to Beau Lighthouses! Enjoy! For the .gif Eric requested of Harold climbing over his neighbor's fence, click ⁠here⁠! Want to watch along? Everwood is available to stream with ads on Freevee -- check it out! Want to discuss Everwood with other fans of Everwood? Neverwouldn't!? Come join us on the ⁠Pork Fried Dice Discord⁠ at ⁠https://discord.gg/FPNQfsW⁠ -- just look for the Everwood? Neverwouldn't! channel and dive right in! Also, follow us on Twitter at @EverwoodPod! And stay tuned for the next episode of Everwood? Neverwouldn't!, which could drop soon, a year from now, or never. Bye!

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and Greg Hanna of TOSS C3 will interview Hank Garrett of Car 54.   From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavyweight - The Hank Garrett Story From gun-toting kid to gun-toting cop to gun-toting TV cop., when you see Hank Garrett, you probably remember TV shows like Columbo and, of course, Car 54 Where are You or his brutal fight scene with Robert Redford in “Three Days of the Condor,” still considered one of the best fight scene of all time ... and actually sent him to the hospital. In his soon to be released memoir "From Harlem Hoodlum to Hollywood Heavy," details the unlikely journey from Harlem hoodlum to Hollywood heavy. Garrett recalls ... *** Worked along side Sophia Loren, James Coburn, Kirk Douglas, Hector Elizondo, Charlie Sheen, James Earl Jones and more *** Escorting Audrey Hepburn to a gala Hollywood-style event. *** How a life-changing meeting with one of the greatest entertainers then, and of all time:  Sammy Davis Jr., who sat the young, rough edged Hank down, and told him he had to make a choice and he threw away his gun and picked up a microphone. *** From Officer Hank Garret, NYPD to Officer Ed Nicholson” of Car 54 Where are You? with Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis. *** Opened for Tony Bennet, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Dinah Washington. *** Becoming  the first white comedian to appear at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. *** His most memorable “fight” was when none other than with “The King” himself, Elvis Presley, in a Las Vegas  

Holy Cow, how can it be June already? It hits this week! We learn about the life and times of James Earl Jones this week, and what an incredible career he's had. I learned a lot about his life in researching this episode! Social media. It can really be challenging, can't it? Want to have a better, more positive social media experience? We will learn together how to do that this week! In a nostalgia segment, we take a trip back to 1973! If you'd like to support the Rick's Rambles Podcast, there are several ways you can do that! The simplest, and FREE way is to simply share it on your social media, and let folks know what you are listening to. If you'd like to support financially, there are a couple of ways you can do that. You can buy me a cup of coffee here. I've partnered with a MyFahlo, a company that supports wildlife conservation and positive content on the internet by selling wildlife tracking bracelets. These are great, my wife and I both have them! You can purchase one here. As always, I really appreciate you listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ricksrambles/message

On this week's episode of Rogue Podron, we continue discussing Splinter of the Mind's Eye, written by…..was it Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Or Olivia N. John? James Earl Jones, maybe? Regardless, the point is, Luke likes it wet. This week's discussion: Splinter of the Mind's Eye, chapters 10-11 This week's glistener question: What is a slippery death that you wouldn't mind? Contact Us: Tweet us @roguepodron or e-mail us at roguepodron@gmail.com. Website: www.roguepodron.com Support us on patreon: www.pateron.com/roguepodron Hosted by Meg, Danni, Saf, Heath, and Ash.

On this week's episode of Rogue Podron, we continue discussing Splinter of the Mind's Eye, written by…..was it Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Or Olivia N. John? James Earl Jones, maybe? Regardless, the point is, Luke likes it wet. This week's discussion: Splinter of the Mind's Eye, chapters 10-11 This week's glistener question: What is a slippery death that you wouldn't mind? Contact Us: Tweet us @roguepodron or e-mail us at roguepodron@gmail.com. Website: www.roguepodron.com Support us on patreon: www.pateron.com/roguepodron Hosted by Meg, Danni, Saf, Heath, and Ash.

Who is Joe?Joe is the human Kaizen expert and author of the Amazon Kindle #1 New Release "Every Day Excellence".Key TakeawaysFrom every mistake to every interaction. 3:34Taking a step back and looking at your mistakes. 5:22Understanding failure as an opportunity. 8:35Books that would add value. 9:44Why aren't you like this? 12:19Using time with intention and starve your distractions. 15:06Valuable Free Resource or Actionhttps://everyday-excellence.com/excellence-shop/A video version of this podcast is available on YouTube :_________________________________________________________________________________________________Subscribe to our newsletter and get details of when we are doing these interviews live at https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/newsletterFind out more about being a guest at : link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/beaguestSubscribe to the podcast at https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/podcastHelp us get this podcast in front of as many people as possible. Leave a nice five-star review at apple podcasts : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/apple-podcasts and on YouTube : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/Itsnotrocketscienceatyt!Here's how you can bring your business to THE next level:If you are a business owner currently turning over £/$10K - £/$50K per month and want to grow to £/$100K - £/$500k per month download my free resource on everything you need to grow your business on a single page : https://scientificvaluebuildingmachine.onlineIt's a detailed breakdown of how you can grow your business to 7-figures in a smart and sustainable way————————————————————————————————————————————-TranscriptNote, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)SUMMARY KEYWORDSpeople, joe, book, kaizen, understand, programme, mistakes, brilliant, brain, life, mark manson, friends, learn, talking, everyday, forward slash newsletter, power, screw, day, bigSPEAKERSStuart Webb, Joe TemplinStuart Webb 00:17Hi, and welcome back to it's not rocket science five questions over coffee. I have my coffee here. Joe has got his coffee in front of him. That's brilliant Joe well done. I'm just really, really glad to have Joe Templin with me today. Joe is an author and he's a human Kaizen expert. I'm really looking forward to the conversation. Joe has a website called everyday excellence.com Really well worth going on and having a look at some of the stuff that Joe talks about that I'm really confronted with conversation. So welcome to It's not rocket science, five questions over coffee, JoeJoe Templin 00:50Stewart, happy Pi Day, it's a nerd Hi holiday, I could actually be wearing my Pi Day shirt, but we're in the middle of a blizzard. And so we're making do with what we have.Stuart Webb 01:00Yeah, I'm just looking at my window, right. And it has started that the heavens have opened and hail is now falling. I don't know what I've done to deserve this. But you can't hear it on the roof. Thankfully, Joe, listen, let's just talk a little bit about the sort of the problems that the customers are trying to help and the problems that they've got when you when you reach out to them.Joe Templin 01:21So let's just start with the premise that everybody has problems. The reason why is because everybody is alive and is a component of life that you're going to have difficulties and struggle. If we can start from that premise, then it's easy to see that everybody can benefit from who I am and what I do. And I'm not everybody's cup of tea or a glass of whiskey as it might be. But there are aspects of what we talk about that are really across the board and for everybody. And I am a human Kaizen expert, a lot of people are familiar with Kaizen from the manufacturing world where it's the concept of continuous improvement. And it's been applied to manufacturing, finance, software, but we are not applying it to the most basic and important component of any business or organisation, which is the people. And when you're a little kid, you are engaged in human Kaizen, you're learning to walk and you fail multiple times, you're learning to talk and you fail multiple times, you're learning to tie your shoes or draw or ride a bike. And so you're in this continuous improvement mindset. Really, until the time that people reach teenage years, maybe even when they go off to university. And then two thirds of the people stop growing. And so as you move further in your life and your career, it further Narrows and people start to be resigned to their current situation, or they just follow orders from their boss or from somebody in a uniform or what have you. And so we need to almost regress somewhat, to that childhood, to be able to re stimulate and grow and be the best that we can be and sort of appropriate that we're doing this on March 14, because this is Albert Einstein's birthday. And Albert Einstein himself said that the essence of genius is to maintain the enthusiasm of childhood into adulthoodStuart Webb 03:34and loved I love I love that quote Joe and I think you're absolutely right there are so many of us that have forgotten that in order to learn how to walk you have to fall on your backside several times and get up and say well that's not the way to do it, then is it let's have another crack and too many of us think that you should get it right. Well, yeah, we should aim to get it right first time but in actual fact you beat yourself up and I had a conversation yesterday with somebody who's starting out in their business and the one thing that he said is I made a lot of mistakes in February but I decided that I got to learn from those mistakes and I thought well he you're likely to make a success that aren't you know, that was that was that was just just warms my heart that this is this is somebody who just decided he'd made mistakes but he wasn't gonna beat himself up he was gonna learn from those mistakes and I guess that's that's the essence of what we're talking about. If you can extractJoe Templin 04:25one bit of information one pearl is my father calls it from every mistake from every interaction you can string together enough those pearls now a very rich life.Stuart Webb 04:37Yeah, brilliant. So one of the sort of things you find that your, your the people you're reaching out to help have tried to do in the past and essentially failed to do Joe before you can you can step in and try and do what you can't help them.Joe Templin 04:50One of the big overarching component actually looking at you know, the meta awareness from this is that people are failing To learn from their failures, because we all fail. And as we were talking about with learning to walk or your guy in business, there are a lot of salespeople then trading currently, you know, we make mistakes, we screw up. And because we're interacting with other individuals, there's lot of delaying false self false self interactions going on there, that we have to deal with. But it's people make the same mistakes again, and again, because they're not pausing, taking a step back and looking at what went right and what went wrong. In the military. They do after action, debriefs, and professional sports they watch the tape afterwards. And having the ability to set your ego aside and look at any interaction whether it was with your significant other or extravagant. Other unfortunately, whether it's in business, whether it's in an athletic endeavour, whether it's music, or trying to develop any other skill, taking the time to step back, look at disengage your ego, and emotion, and looking at the situation to try and extract the wisdom from it. So that the next iteration that your better is really the biggest mistake I see people make because they're either too emotional, or they don't take the time because they're too busy, which seems to be the way of the world at this point. Or they are unwilling to take ownership of part of the screw up, essentially, and make it so that next time they're better.Stuart Webb 06:39I really, really can't thank you enough for bringing us back to thinking about that sort of thing. Tell me Is there a particular valuable free offer a valuable piece of free advice that you can leave with the audience at the moment and this point, I'm going to put up what I think is a really interesting website, web links that you can you can refer us to which is everyday hyphen excellence.com. Forward slash, excellence hyphen shop.Joe Templin 07:04So if you go to the everyday excellence.com website every single day, there's a new blog there. And so every single day, there's free information, free insight for individuals that can help them grow and develop and improve in some capacity. If they go into the shop, they can find the three day three brain free training programme, which is a three day programme. Being honest there, and it's completely free, no hidden costs or anything, just sign up and every single day, for the three days of the programme, you'll receive an email. And what I do is I go through the evolutionary history of the brain from a biology point of view, the lizard brain, the monkey brain, or limbic system, and then the neocortex, and explain how it works, and how its evolved, and how they interact. And some of the power and weaknesses thereof, because we live in an information society. So everybody's trying to focus on their neocortex, but they don't realise that that is, although it's incredibly powerful. It is limited its capacity when compared with the older, stronger parts of the brain. And this is why even though you're on a diet and trying to finish your work, you're gonna go out and have tacos and margaritas with your buddies, because you've got 80 plus percent of your brain saying we want tacos, we want friends, as opposed to the neocortex. And so understanding these different components will allow people to harness the full power of their capability and utilise it.Stuart Webb 08:35It's really interesting, isn't it, because it's by understanding and despite the fact that you've explained it so well there, it's by understanding those things that you can actually start to address the, the failings you sometimes have where you don't understand where a feeling or where a behaviour has come from. And it's only by starting to break that down and understand it, you can actually start to sort of refocus your attention as it were, isn't it so that it's learning to do that that's the key thing to sort of being able to adapt to those new habits. And indeed, in your business life learning that in actual fact, we just said, a failure doesn't actually mean that everything's coming to an end, you just use it as an as a learning experience, if you can change your mindset. And you can understand where some of that's come from, you've got the power to do that.Joe Templin 09:20As Sun Tzu said, you know, 2000 plus years ago, he knows his enemy, and himself will ever be victorious. And essentially, you have three different selves and three different enemies going on simultaneously within your triune brain. And so you need to understand and utilise all of them. And if you can get them working in harmony, that's when you unlock your power. And you can do pretty awesome stuff.Stuart Webb 09:43Joe, love it. Joe, is there a particular book or a concept or programme that you think would add some value and I know there's a book currently over your left hand shoulder so I don't sure if you want to refer to that one in particular? Yeah.Joe Templin 09:56This is my book. So obviously I want people to buy this book because You know, that lets me buy beer and be able to, you know, go do more research and stuff like that. So everyday excellence.com they can get the book every day excellence. And obviously, I'm going to encourage people to do that. But when we were talking earlier about great books, it made me think about all the books that I've consumed because reading or audiobooks or what have you are all consuming information over the past few years. And the two that really rise to mind. One is the E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. I saw him speak decades ago, and it was like Sam Kinison, you know, on steroids, he was absolutely insane, but awesome. So anybody who is working in any sort of business or sales capacity, that is about how to systematise. And when you systematise, you free up time, so that you can go do other things. So that allows you to go run the ultra marathons, or learn guitar or spend more time with your sweetie or whatever, because you're able to do your business much more efficiently. And the other big one is Mark Manson's book, The Subtle Art of not giving up. And that one is, at this point, I think one of the leading self help sales books in terms of sales. And it's all about resource allocation. About you only have so many apps so much that you can care about. And so if you can allocate it towards the things that are most important to you, you're going to not be bothered by Little things like, Oh, we got snow start. Okay, roll with the punches deal with, oh, you know what this happened? Not a big deal. Because I'm concerned about this, well, this is building your business, or again, your special needs kid, you know, to develop properly, or getting through that issue with your relationship, as Nietzsche said, for man has a strong enough why he will overcome any how. And the subtle art of not giving up is about understanding yourself understanding that world screwed up, because once you understand that you can move forward. And from that point, being able to allocate your bandwidth to the most important areas of your life.Stuart Webb 12:19Absolutely love it. Brilliant, brilliant recommendations. Absolutely. really buy into those. A Joe, you know, I've asked you a bunch of questions. And I guess there's one question that you're currently thinking, why isn't he talked about this? Or what is it he hasn't yet mentioned? So I'm not going to throw open to you? What is the question that you would have liked me to have asked despite I failed to do, obviously. And then once you've asked the question, what would the answer be? Otherwise, we'll all be sitting here for the next several weeks, wondering what that answer will be. So what is that question? So theJoe Templin 12:47question that I get really often is, you know, how are you like this? Why are you like this? Because I've got a lot of friends who hated me when they first met because they're like, No, there's no way this is an act. Nobody's like this. And you know what my friends from grad school, who's now like Dean of a school, literally said that you she's like, there's no way a human being is like this. And I am like this is Liang talks about in his true self false self model, which is a very interesting read. I don't waste time with illusions. Yes, I write poetry and stuff like that. And I can really use words to spin stuff up. But I am who I am. And is straight on through by not telling lies, especially to yourself, you don't have to waste any energy. And in going back to that Mark Manson allocation of apps, it then allows you to have more resources. And you got to remember life is a gift. This is a wonderful world that we Armstrong and I burned the candle at both ends and in the middle of flame throne. And the reason why is when I was 10 years old, I died. No flatline, floating up bright lights, the whole nine yards big, deep James Earl Jones voice and all that. And I came back home. And so that's the reason why I've been able to work world championships in martial arts, and run ultra marathons and write over a dozen books and get more degrees than a thermometer and play Legos with kids. And you know, take time to watch butterflies and all these things. Because I don't screw around. And I am true to who I am what I am and dedicated to being the best version that I can be of Me, so that I can then bring that out of other individuals. And so there's an old Irish saying, a good friend is the best mirror that you can have. And the best friend that we can actually have is ourselves because we can be true to ourselves. So if you can do that you can really unlock your potential. And you can add what I don't find.Stuart Webb 15:06Joe, I wish I could get that spirit of wanting to, to not waste time into more people because I work occasionally with students. And I worry so much about the fact that students spend half their life worrying about wasting money, but never think about time, they never ever considered time. And the one thing that I say to them on so many occasions, and they look at me as if I'm insane, is you can always get more money, you will never, ever have more time. So use time with intention and feed, your, your, your, your, your excellent and, and, and starve your distractions and they look at me as if I'm insane, because, you know, they never ever focus on those things. It is a brilliant message you've got in order to sort of tell people, you will not get this period of time back ever. So use it with intention and make it your absolute focus.Joe Templin 16:02I wish I was a college student again, there's so much cool stuff to learn, experience and do yo turn off the TV and go actually experience it. Have people read stories about you and your adventures, instead of watching somebody else with them.Stuart Webb 16:18Brilliant, brilliant. Joe, this has been such a really fascinating conversation. And thank you so much for spending just a few minutes with us talking about it. I really would like to encourage all of the listeners at the moment go to everyday hyphen excellence.com forward slash excellence, hyphen shop or just go to everyday hyphen excellence from just read some of the stuff that Joe's got on there. Fascinating stuff, fascinating thinking, really encourage you to go and probe around and have a look. And I just also like to bring to your attention our newsletter because that's how you get to hear about interesting people like Joe and get to see the results of these conversations come back to you through the podcast. And that's link dot the complete approach.co.uk forward slash newsletter that link dot complete approach.co.uk forward slash newsletter. Joe, it has been an absolute pleasure to be here talking with you for just a few minutes today. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate you're in the middle of a blizzard at the moment. I've got the halo briefly stopped, but I suspect it's coming back. So we'll we'll muddle through. We'll have a brilliant day because of it. Thank you very much for your time.Joe Templin 17:28Stuart, thank you for the opportunity to be excellent and grow today.Stuart Webb 17:31And thank you very much for that Joe Get full access to It's Not Rocket Science! at thecompleteapproach.substack.com/subscribe

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Film critic and writer Derick McDuff (Underrated podcast) joins us this week to discuss baseball in film. We talked about whether baseball and time travel would mix, subject ideas for baseball films we'd like to see and why baseball is such fertile ground for filmmakers. We also each revealed our Top 5 baseball-related films.Check out Underrated podcast on Apple (https://tinyurl.com/ep148B)Errata: The Harry F. character created by Eliot Asinof in "Eight Men Out" does make an appearance in John Sayles' film adaptation. Barry Levinson directed "The Natural," a film based upon the book by Bernard Malamud. Craig botched the title to the film "Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings," starring Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor. -->Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tT8d3pVUsN-->You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books, including the book featured in this episode, through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns Hooks & Runs - www.hooksandruns.comHooks & Runs on TikTok -  https://www.tiktok.com/@hooksandrunsHooks & Runs on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thehooksandrunsEmail us! hooksandruns@protonmail.comAndrew Eckhoff on Tik TokLink: https://www.tiktok.com/@hofffestRex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)   

Late Nights at Blockbuster In honor of the baseball season starting, we are giving the Late Nights at Blockbuster treatment for the 30th Anniversary of The Sandlot. Byers doesn't like Smalls' Mom nerd shaming him. We spend more time examining Marley Shelton's career than we intended. Byers snuck in a quick discussion of who has the better baseball movie resume, James Earl Jones or Kevin Costner. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos).

Dom and Q as well as Toni travel back 30 years and talk The sandlot from 1993.The Sandlot (released in some countries as The Sandlot Kids)[2] is a 1993 American coming-of-age sports comedy film co-written, directed, and narrated by David Mickey Evans. It tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary, and James Earl Jones. The movie is set in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA and the filming locations were in Midvale, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah. It grossed $34 million worldwide and has since become a cult film.[3][4]check out the video to this Revisit https://youtu.be/7ZRFIHFVfy0as well as other content DONT GET LEFT BEHIND YOU CAN FIND THE PREVIOUS VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uumqiMrxInIIF YOUR EVER BORED PLEASE CHECK OUT https://youtu.be/4Y4D8oN4GTkLIKE WHAT YOU WATCHED ? PLEASE Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqbcaf6NSUrElozRGqsiORAREVIEWING REBELS Podcast: https://linktr.ee/reviewinrebelsLOCATE DOM CRUZE THOUGHTS Twitter - https://twitter.com/itzdomcruzehoeInstagram - https://instagram.com/itzdomcruzehoe?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= LACED RHYMES CHANNEL - https://www.youtube.com/@LacedRhymesREVIEWIN REBELS CHANNEL - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqbcaf6NSUrElozRGqsiORALOCATE Q THOUGHTS TWITTER-https://twitter.com/king_quisemoe?s=21&t=5Za3tXoDFCF10bAN71ZhnwInstagram -https://instagram.com/king_quisemoe?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=CHECK Q PODCAST AND EVERYTHING ELSE HE IS DOING -https://instabio.cc/208309BQ3Ka?fbclid=PAAaZKNpF7Czdl_TUYFPh_uRwZUB0JhQ9NpyziUKGSvGlrv7hHfdYukzaW-_oI HOPE YOU ENJOY THE VIDEO AND WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE AT REVIEWIN REBELSTHANKS FOR THE WATCH AND I HOPE WE HAVE MADE YOU FANS OF OURS !#podcast #MOVIES #LOVEBusiness inquires: domcruzemi@gmail.com

This concludes Thor's Baseball Bonanza. It is now time for us to disapear into the corn.

Andrew and Vieves have a case of spring fever from looking at commercials that go boing in the night. Plus, Newt Gingrich tries to take away seniors' Medicare, and Vieves ponders a car token heist. Here are links to the ads and articles we talked about in this week's show: Slinky (1970s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hayCTb3PNk Bic Four-Color Pen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFxg8UkSaEM Parker Pens: The Lady Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spTqlpekjmg Bic Banana Pen (w/ Mel Brooks) https://youtu.be/bxDbYAqfUp4?t=4 Clearwater Mattress Spring Air (ft. Vanna White) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRXqUIM8-U Original Mattress Factory (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcsj0fROh_g Strolling Bowling (1981) https://youtu.be/rttzcQ8o26E?t=109 Monroe Shocks & Struts (ft. James Earl Jones) (1990) https://youtu.be/zdS8cknwWmY Chevrolet Suspension System (1938) https://youtu.be/ej7CRAIGXow Kohl's “Diving Board” (2014) https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7S8L/kohls-diving-board Democratic Medicare Political Ad ft. Bill Clinton: President's Plan vs Republican Plan https://youtu.be/PHZ-l9srbgU Sleepy's https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGuRdj_g9dI Grammarphobia - Ant vs Aunt https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/09/auntie-anxiety.html#:~:text=The%20first%20(ANT)%20is%20by,to%20the%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary.

The ESPN of Christian Digital Destination, Pray.com delivers the resources to grow faith and cultivate individual and community lives. Making prayer a priority with daily devotionals is key. But you can also receive insight from the many podcasts, inspirational stories, specific subjects approached. Even sessions to help you sleep. Led by names you know and trust like Tony Evans, James Earl Jones reading the Bible, or Dr. Phil on Prayer Therapy and Jack Graham's Bible in a Year, which just hit #1 on Spotify's new religious podcasts. Listen and find out how to get all this for free, thanks to our interviewee, Matt Potter! Matt Potter Matthew Potter is a co-founder of Pray.com, the world's #1 app for daily prayer and faith-based audio content, driven by a mission to grow faith and cultivate community. He brings expertise in the areas of strategizing change, building tech products and apps, and finding markets in the continuously evolving technology industry. At a time when Potter was looking for ways to give back and become more spiritually connected, he serendipitously ran into his friend Steve Gatena at a coffee shop in Santa Monica, Calif. He could tell Gatena had been struggling and they spoke of the recent loss of his friend and business partner in a plane crash, but how he was beginning to find hope again through prayer. Shortly after that divine run-in, Potter joined forces with Gatena to launch Pray.com, desiring to apply his expertise to do something bigger for the Kingdom of God. Before Pray.com, while he was still a student at Boise State University, Potter created HomeStack, a white label real estate app. HomeStack launched in 2012 and Potter served as CEO until he stepped down to become a part of the team at Pray.com. Potter continues to serve as Chairman of the Board for Homestack. In addition, Potter has developed over 60 apps. Calling Southern California home, Potter is from Westlake Village, Calif., and enjoys traveling to new countries, investing in real estate, and visiting new sports stadiums. In his spare time, he can be found participating in high adrenaline action sports such as wakeboarding, surfing, flyboarding and snowboarding. He currently serves on the board of trustees at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Fla. Recently Potter has been featured on multiple podcasts including Seek. Go. Create. and The Mike Thakur Show.About Pray.comFounded in 2016 with a mission to grow faith and cultivate community, Pray.com is the world's No. 1 app for daily prayer and Bible-based audio content. It recently launched a 24/7 live streaming video channel, PrayTV. Reaching more than 10 million people worldwide through its mobile app and website, Pray.com is the easiest way to incorporate prayer into your daily life. Pray.com provides encouragement and inspiration through daily devotionals, Pastor podcasts, and Bedtime Bible Stories. Pray.com founders are Steve Gatena, Mike Lynn, Ryan Beck and Matthew Potter.

For more than 40 years, numismatist Donn Pearlman has worked with major dealers and market makers to bring broad public attention to the many amazing stories that unfold in the coin-collecting hobby.In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, Donn discusses some of the big projects he worked to promote, including the gold coins, ingots, and other treasure recovered from the SS Central America shipwreck site; the cans of gold coins of the Saddle Ridge Gold Coin Hoard; and the discovery of the lost Walton specimen 1913 Liberty Head nickel.Donn also discusses writing the script for a coin-collecting documentary starring legendary American actor James Earl Jones. We also cover the demographics of the modern coin-collecting hobby on this podcast and how there are actually more younger collectors now than people think.* * *The Coinweek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Submit five or more coins for grading and be one of the first to receive a new PCGS Coin Stand – perfect for displaying your favorite PCGS-graded coin.Whether your favorite coin is a rare 1799 Large Cent graded VF30 or a 2023 First Strike Silver Eagle, what better way to admire your PCGS certified coin than proudly displaying it on your desk, bookshelf, or mantle.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 1974 film, Claudine, starring Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones. "Claudine" is a powerful film that explores the devastating impact of American welfare policies on Black families. The story follows Claudine, a single mother of six living in Harlem, as she navigates the challenges of poverty and racism. Despite facing numerous obstacles, Claudine remains determined to provide for her family and find love. This film highlights the struggles of Black families in the face of systemic oppression and sheds light on the importance of community and perseverance.

Eddie Murphy stars as an African prince looking to avoid an arranged marriage and find true love... in Queens, New York!  Co-starring Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, and Shari Headley.  Directed by John Landis.

A violent Rankin & Bass animated film about ogres, dragons, and elves with Harry Morgan, James Earl Jones and John Ritter? Where do we sign up? Tune in as Chris chats about science supplanting magic, voice talent, and disturbing images as the LSCE screens the 1982 cult classic "The Flight of Dragons." Join us! @lscep Works Cited: Dickinson, Peter, and Wayne. Anderson. The Flight of Dragons. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Dickson, Gordon R. The Dragon and the George. [Book club edition]. Garden City, N.Y: Nelson Doubleday, 1976. Radio-Television: Rankin-Bass in Exclusive Specials Deal with ABC-E. Variety (Archive: 1905-2000), Jul 30, 1980. 64, Article Link (accessed January 10, 2023). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lsce/message

We start Rapid Fire by discussing the email Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick sent to Irish fans who voiced their displeasure to him about the botched Andy Ludwig negotiation. Swarbrick started the email by paraphrasing James Earl Jones as Terrance Mann in the movie Field of Dreams and he ended it by including a link inviting fans to donate money.  Other topics include: *Do you feel any differently about Marcus Freeman today compared to a week ago at this time?  *Fill-in the blank...Olivia Miles' overtime buzzer beater to beat Louisville was BLANK.  *After seeing the Chiefs win their second Super Bowl in four years...with another Super Bowl appearance as well do you Buy or Sell them as a dynasty?  *Former ESPN President John Skipper says the NFL could increase their revenue if they made the Super Bowl a pay per view event. Would you watch the Super Bowl if you had to pay for it?   *Fox announced during their Super Bowl pregame show that Derek Jeter is going to join their baseball coverage as an analyst this season. Whose broadcasting career are you more anxious to see Jeter or Tom Brady?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The final dad movie of the Listener Takeover is upon us. Pete's dad submits The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neil, and James Earl Jones. During the Cold War, submarine captain Marko Ramius decides to defect to the US by taking his highly classified Soviet submarine, Red October, directly into US territory to surrender.

GGACP celebrates the birthday (December 27) of “Good Times” and “Roots” star John Amos with this ENCORE of a memorable interview from 2016. In this episode, John reminisces about everything from his days as a struggling comic to his breakthrough role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to working with Eddie Murphy and James Earl Jones in “Coming to America.” Also, John remembers Ted Knight, cuts up with Tim Conway, shares the screen with Lena Horne and moves into Archie Bunker's old house. PLUS: Yaphet Kotto! Famous Amos! “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”! Praising Ernest Borgnine! And the mystery of the misheard theme song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Van and Rachel kick the show off by remembering the lives of friend and music executive Hovain Hylton, and actress and pop star Irene Cara (12:46), before digging into a photo of a teenage Jerry Jones at a desegregation protest in 1957 Arkansas (28:09). Plus, an analysis of a 1968 video of James Earl Jones discussing Black women being “uptight” (53:45). Hosts: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Only science and logic can save us from dark magic and dragons! In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and guest co-host Seth discuss the 1982 Rankin and Bass animated film "The Flight of Dragons," featuring the voice talents of John Ritter and James Earl Jones.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.