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Meg Linehan and Tamerra Griffin, co-hosts of The Athletic podcast "Full Time with Meg Linehan," join Sarah for a mid-season NWSL check-in. They discuss the current standings, Gotham FC’s CONCACAF W Champions Cup win, the Alex Cooper-led Unwell FC league supporters group, and commissioner Jessica Berman’s vision for league expansion. Plus, the Women's College World Series heats up, PWHL teams protect players ahead of the expansion draft, and a Hoops and Gay Shit hard launch fit for Pride month. Listen to Wednesday’s Jocks in Jills episode here See the full French Open schedule here Listen to Wednesday’s episode of Full Time here Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at goodgame@wondermedianetwork.com Follow Sarah on social! Bluesky: @sarahspain.com Instagram: @Spain2323 Follow producer Misha Jones! Bluesky: @mishthejrnalist.bsky.social Instagram: @mishthejrnalist Follow producer Alex Azzi! Bluesky: @byalexazzi.bsky.social See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mir huelen de Fisher-Price-Kassetterekorder eraus a leeë lass mat "Jills & Yannicks Radioshow"! Haut gi seriö Themen ewéi Gewalt géint Fraen, Pädophilie-Skandaler, Cancel Culture a Rassismus ugeschwat. An typescher Paus-Manéier kommen awer och Gossip an Dommheeten net ze kuerz: Et gëtt Maskottchen-Drama an Drammänner aus dem Backstage, Punk-Sirenen op TikTok a Beauty Blenders beim ESC. En plus stinn nach a story about a Boy named Benny, Fashion-Magazin-Cover-Dreem an Tattoos am Schluechthaus um ordre du jour.

Jocks in Jills Merch is HERE!!!CAN is live here: https://ca.shop.thepwhl.com/collections/jocks-in-jillsUS is live here: https://shop.thepwhl.com/collections/jocks-in-jillsSharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://sharkclean.ca⁠⁠ https:// sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.FACTOR _Heat. Eat. Compete. Canada's #1 Ready-to-Eat Meal Delivery ServiceUse code PWHLPOD25 for $75 off your first 4 boxes http://factormeals.ca/pwhlpod25The Princess Margaret Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer, fueled by Longo's, is the world's largest street hockey fundraiser! Use the PWHL promo code for 50% off the team registration fee. Head to https://roadhockeytoconquercancer.ca/ and use promo code PWHL Back to back championships for The Frost, and a little bit sweeter the second time around with the win at home! Tessa, Julia and Buckles go live after the game in Minnesota with a never ending amount of guests. Straight from the Champaigne celebration – Grace Zumwinkle and Taylor Heise keep everyone laughing. Ken Klee and Liz Schepers talk about Game 4 from their POV and Molly Pannek makes her debut on the pod alongside Kelly!What a game, what a season. Find all the action here on Jocks in Jills!00:00:00 - INTRO w SharkNinja00:02:32 - Kelly and Molly Pannek!00:15:03 - Buckles & Becky Kellar00:17:33 - Ken Klee visits the pod!00:23:45 - Liz Schepers joins the party!00:35:01 - Factor of the Game00:40:34 - Pizza Pizza XXL Moment of the Series00:47:44 - Jocelyne Larocque - so classy00:54:44 - Grace Zumwinkle & Taylor Heise are hilarious!01:10:57 - Princess Margaret Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer01:14:07 - That's a wrap!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. What a wild way to wrap up the regular season! From the Saturday triple-header chaos to the final buzzer, it was a fitting bookend on an unforgettable finish. Now, it's time to shift gears—the Walter Cup Playoffs are here.In this episode, Tessa and Julia tell you everything you need to know heading into the postseason. Joined with special guests Becky Kellar and Megan Bozek as they preview both semifinal matchups, spotlight key players, and dive into the biggest storylines. Ray & Ethan from LUG Sports jump on the pod too!Don't miss it—playoff hockey starts tomorrow, and the road to the Walter Cup begins now.Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca00:00:00 - INTRO w SharkNinja00:01:54 - Start of Show - EP 45!00:05:45 - HEADLINES00:15:48 - Break it down w Buckles X Brianne Jenner00:34:10 - SPICY TENDIES00:37:36 - SEASON RECAPS00:42:13 - PLAYOFFS!00:45:23 - Montreal GM Danièle Sauvageau Announcement00:54:51 - Playoff Breakdown presented by LUG Sports (w Megan Bozek)01:11:16 - Becky Kellar Insight!01:23:55 - FanDuel Weekday Vibes!01:25:37 - SEND IT01:27:41 - Ray & Ethan from LUG SPORTS01:39:09 - End of Show - Playoffs coming!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. The PWHL is officially expanding to Seattle! Tessa & Julia are breaking down all the details with PWHL Executive VP of Business Operations, Amy Scheer, as we welcome the 8th team to the leagueWe also chat with Lexi Lafleur Brown, author of Shoot Your Shot and you don't wanna miss our conversation with Carly Jackson fresh off their first PWHL start! It's all coming down to this Saturday—the final 3 regular season games, 3 teams, and only 2 playoff spots left. We've got everything you need to know heading into this massive game day!00:00:00 - INTRO w SharkNinja00:02:08 - Start of Show!00:11:29 - Tessa & Julia on CBS00:12:55 - SEATTLE EXPANSION00:15:58 - Amy Scheer Interview00:24:20 - Lexi LaFleur Brown Interview00:34:29 - HEADLINES00:48:28 - Carly Jackson Interview01:07:23 - Troy Ryan post-game on CJ01:18:14 - Who to Watch w Emma Buckles01:35:41 - FanDuel Friday Five01:43:43 - End of Show! Thanks for hanging!Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. The race to the PWHL playoffs is heating up and in this episode Tessa and Julia are breaking it all down! With just a few games left in the regular season, every point matters: talking rankings, key matchups, roster moves and what each team needs during this final push. Plus, we're joined by a true legend of women's hockey, Meghan Duggan, while Emma Buckles stops by to Break Down Jennifer Gardiner's epic season and Worlds performance. Come along for the ride as we dive into the most exciting stretch of the season!00:00:00 - INTRO w SharkNinja00:02:15 - Start of Episode 43!00:14:23 - HEADLINES00:22:50 - Break it Down w Buckles X Jennifer Gardiner00:49:36 - SPICY TENDIES00:53:16 - Meghan Duggan Interview02:03:11 - Thank You Meghan!02:04:37 - SEND IT02:09:49 - End of Show, thank you Sponsors!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. Team USA stunned Canada in overtime to win the 2025 Women's World Championship — and we went LIVE the moment it ended.Tessa Bonhomme and Julia Tocheri are joined by Canadian hockey legend Cassie Campbell-Pascall and Emma Buckles to unpack it all: How Tessa Janecke sealed gold for the U.S, who stood out, controversial calls that had us yelling at our TVs, Czechia's record-breaking fan atmosphere, and more! Check out the original Livestream on PWHL YouTube - Live Videos 00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:00:35 - Start of Show w Cassie & Buckles!00:31:21 - Thank You Cassie!00:35:56 - Bronze Medal Game; Czechia vs. Finland00:43:44 - Switzerland vs. Sweden00:49:18 - End of Show - See you Friday!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. After a week away Julia and Tessa chat about going back to their home towns for some family love. Emma Buckles joins the show to talk about Who to Watch leading up to the PWHL draft. And special guest Hailey Salvian from The Athletic joins from the Worlds tournament to give some inside coverage from Czechia!00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:01:26 - Start of Show!00:14:06 - Draft talk - Who to Watch w Buckles00:21:04 - HEADLINES00:37:31 - Special Guest Hailey Salvian00:58:30 - SEND IT Segment01:07:46 - End of Show

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. Worlds Worlds Worlds!! Women's Worlds Preview hot off the press!! Tessa and Julia talk shop with special guests and analysts Cheryl Pounder and Kenzie Lalonde! Everything you need in this episode to get your inside take on the teams and star players. Make sure to listen before the tournament starts so you have all the tea! 00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:00:36 - Start of Show w Cheryl & Kenzie!00:05:26 - TEAM CANADA00:18:08 - TEAM USA00:30:50 - TEAM FINLAND00:37:28 - TEAM CZECHIA00:43:47 - TEAM SWITZERLAND00:48:02 - TEAM GERMANY00:50:57 - TEAM HUNGARY00:53:16 - TEAM JAPAN00:57:46 - TEAM NORWAY01:00:36 - TEAM SWEDEN01:05:38 - END OF SHOW, See you next week!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. Tessa and Julia had a time in Montreal for pride night! Buckles does an epic break down on Laura Stacey while Amanda Boulier joins the party with non-stop hysterical stories! FanDuel Friday hits keep on coming! Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:02:34 - Start of Show!00:13:46 - HEADLINES00:22:03 - Break it Down w Buckles x Laura Stacey00:39:51 - Interview w Amanda Boulier01:24:51 - FanDuel Friday Five01:28:18 - END OF SHOW, Have a great weekend!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. It was a Happy Birthday weekend for Julia with lots of great hockey to watch! Tessa and Julia break down all the weekend PWHL action and the race for a playoff spot! Breaking news is dropped about Hannah Miller while Danielle Serdachny joins the show to talk about a life full of hockey adventures. Send it questions get answered!!00:00:00 - INTRO with Shark/Ninja00:01:13 - Start of Show!00:10:53 - HEADLINES00:36:39 - Spicy Tendies presented by Ninja Kitchen00:40:00 - Interview with Danielle Serdachny01:21:55 - Thank You Danielle!01:22:32 - SEND IT01:26:39 - END OF SHOW

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. In this Episode the ladies talk about their recent trip to Ottawa, and how the Charge 3rd period melt down may have been their fault. Megan Bozek joins the ladies to share her thoughts on what happened in that 3rd period, and Tessa shares what she thinks could fix it. The Battle for second place between Toronto and Boston didn't disappoint! Knight stays hot (7pts last 3gms) and Daryl Watts throws it back to 2021. Buckles breaks down what makes her so great and sticks around to chat Montreal clinching a playoff spot. This weeks interview does not disappoint, as everyones favourite colour commentator, Cheryl Pounder, shares some good ol' laughs with Tessa. FanDuel Five picks are in! Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark|Ninja00:01:25 - Start of Show!00:09:02 - HEADLINES00:21:58 - OTT vs NY w Megan Bozek00:45:28 - Break it down with Buckles x Daryl Watts00:59:09 - Interview with Cheryl Pounder01:56:13 - Thank You Cheryl!01:57:47 - FanDuel Friday Five02:01:11 - End of Show, have a great weekend!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.WHAT A WEEKEND OF WOMEN'S HOCKEY!! Tessa and Julia cover it all! Tessa made it back from Halifax after a great time and the ladies dive into a wild weekend in women's hockey. Erika Holst, head coach of Frolunda, join the ladies to chat their championship win and the celebrations post victory. Team Canada's Women's World Championship roster is announced AND the FIRST EVER female IOC president is named! Kat Bitove joins the ladies to talk about Kirsty Coventry being named to the position and what she'll bring. It was a busy weekend in the NCAA with the Patty Kazmaier award being handed out, and a national champion crowned. Tessa is still recovering from this, she'll need some time. Kirsten Simms joins the pod to talk about her overtime game winning goal to claim the national championship and break down her penalty shot goal. In USPORT action the Bishop's Gaiters Women's Hockey team has claimed their first title and Gaby Santerre joins the ladies from the BUS to chat about their win. Tessa and Julia break down the Charge win over the Sirens and have Abby Roque stop by to break down her Michigan goal. Then they break down the Sirens win over the Victoire. A Spicy Tendy has been named and the ladies answer your Send It questions.00:00:00 - INTRO with Shark/Ninja00:00:53 - Start of Show - Let's GO!00:03:31 - HEADLINES00:03:59 - Erika Holst interview00:17:34 - Kat Bitove interview00:38:53 - Kirsten Simms interview00:53:18 - Gaby Santerre interview01:02:59 - Abby Roque interview01:18:25 - Spicy Tendies presented by Ninja Kitchen01:21:23 - INTERVIEW with Paetyn Levis01:55:03 - Thank You Paetyn!01:56:25 - SEND IT02:01:56 - END OF SHOW

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.Tessa's out East and Julia's on a public apology tour

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.Detroit Take Over game is a huge success while PWHL fans make history - hitting the 1 Million mark for attendance since the start of the PWHL! Tessa survived her first March break as a parent, and Julia shares an embarrassing St. Patrick's Day story! More info about Hannah Miller regarding Team Canada and Team China; Daryl Watts breaks down her OT goal to win the NCAA Championship! 00:00:00 - INTRO with Shark/Ninja00:01:22 - Start of Show!00:10:12 - HEADLINES00:38:38 - Spicy Tendies presented by Ninja Kitchen00:41:10 - Interview with Daryl Watts01:31:01 - Thank You Daryl!01:31:56 - SEND IT01:35:55 - END OF SHOW

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.Trade deadline behind us one deal went down, Tessa live from the Wolf Den, we recap Ottawa and New York playing with desperation and Aerin Frankel shares her thoughts on salad, roller coasters, and more !!Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:01:02 - Happy Friday! Let's start the Show!00:11:55 - HEADLINES00:24:14 - Break it Down with Buckles x Taylor Heise00:37:31 - Interview with Aerin Frankel01:14:03 - Thank You Aerin!01:14:43 - FanDuel Friday Five01:20:47 - END OF SHOW, Have a great weekend

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This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.Tessa tackles the start of March Break with a full house, while Julia talks broadcasting. They dive into the PWHL action as the tension thickens closer to the trade deadline. Renata Fast joins the pod with big smiles and her secret to having such a successful season.00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:01:28 - Start of Show!00:07:15 - HEADLINES00:38:20 - Spicy Tendies presented by Ninja Kitchen00:42:01 - Interview with Renata Fast01:29:16 - Thank You Renata!01:30:21 - SEND IT01:34:13 - END OF SHOW

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.Celebrate Episode 30 with Tessa and Julia; appearances from Lacrosse legend Charlotte North, hilarious Gabbie Hughes and our very own, Emma Buckles! Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:01:44 - Start of Show!00:08:05 - HEADLINES00:22:15 - Break it down with Buckles x MPP00:31:32 - Interview with Charlotte North00:41:00 - Thank You Charlotte!00:42:39 - Interview with Gabbie Hughes

SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. Episode 28 has Tessa and Julia addressing the latest in their lives. The Jocks in Jills fam has lost a member (Julia's wet brush) and reminisce the good times Julia had with it. Only one game on the docket but it was a thrilling one between Montreal and Boston at the Bell Centre. The ladies break down the goaltending duel that took place, how Tabin stole the show and award this weeks Spicy Tendy! Captain of the Ottawa Charge, Brianne Jenner stops by to chat with the ladies and share some pretty hilarious stories from her college days and beyond. Lastly the ladies love to hear from you, so they sit down to answer your Send It questions.00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja00:01:51 - Start of Show!00:20:01 - HEADLINES00:29:46 - Spicy Tendies Segment presented by Ninja Kitchen00:32:14 - Interview Presented by Royale Tiger Towel00:32:48 - Interview with Brianne Jenner01:09:23 - Thank You Jenner and Royale!01:10:42 - SEND IT Segment01:15:42 – End of Show

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠,⁠ https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. Episode 28 starts with Tessa & Julia giving a beer league update!! (Tessa is almost off the schnide!). Julia's dog, Enzo, was inspired by the tilt between Ottawa and Boston. They also announce some more appearance dates for Ottawa and Montreal, so GET READY! They discuss how Montreal got back in the win column, how Ottawa keeps rolling, and how getting a point is great news for New York. They then sit down with a rising star in Montreal, Jenn Gardiner and chat her time at The Ohio State University, Barn workouts, Road trips with roommates and throwing out team mascots. Predictions for the weekend presented by Fanduel to end the show! Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark Ninja00:02:47 - Happy Friday! Here we Go!00:19:29 - HEADLINES00:35:30 - Break it Down with Buckles00:38:39 - Interview with Jenn Gardiner01:30:28 - Thank You Jenn and Royale01:30:35 - FanDuel Friday Five01:32:50 - End of Show

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠,⁠ https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠ https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more.In Episode 27 Tessa is faced with some never ending sickness with her kids in school (to no ones surprise). But seriously, DOES IT EVER END?! Meanwhile, Julia is living her best life up in the Muskoka's with Liam visiting a Yoga retreat and indulging in their epic sauna and cold plunge set up. Be sure to check our the new social segment dropping on all social media platforms - “Fits of the week!”. The ladies then chat about Ottawa's travel nightmare home, how they managed to snag a point and then beat Montreal for the first time on home ice. How could they not address the tilt that took place between Vanisova and Saulnier, or the fact that Tapani scores to win. The Sceptres and Frost went toe to toe with Toronto coming out on top big thanks to their red-hot PP, and the Takeover Tour hits Buffalo with a solid tilt between New York and Boston. Before the episode ends they name their Spicy Tendy, have a great chat with a Montreal favourite - Abby Boreen – and answer some great questions in the Send it Segment.00:00:00 - INTRO with Shark Ninja00:02:16 - Here we go!00:14:50 - HEADLINES00:44:53 - SPICY TENDIES presented by Ninja Kitchen00:46:33 - Interview presented by Royale Tiger Towel00:47:13 - INTERVIEW with Abby Boreen01:25:37 - Thank You Abby & Royale01:26:07 - SEND IT Segment01:29:44 - END OF SHOW

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit ⁠https://www.sharkclean.ca⁠, ⁠https://www.sharkbeauty.ca⁠⁠https://www.ninjakitchen.ca⁠ to learn more. In Episode 26 Tessa and Julia talk about their adventures back to Toronto (they made it, barely) and shout Cassie Campbell-Pascal and her daughter Brooke for being heroes. Tessa gives an update on her beer league woes and Julia gets the SWEETEST gift from a hockey team in Sioux Falls. The ladies then chat Boston Fleet and the ladies who are leading the charge there, how the time is NOW for New York to turn this around as they welcome back Alex Carpenter, and take partial blame for Montreal's 4-0 to Minnesota. Buckles stops by to break down the GOATS (Hilary Knight) play this season and then the ladies hand out the Spicy Tendy award for the week. Julia then sits down with Maja Nylen Persson and talks about her time in the SDHL and her transition to playing in the PWHL. Predictions for the weekend games presented by Fanduel finish off the episode!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit https://www.sharkclean.ca, https://www.sharkbeauty.cahttps://www.ninjakitchen.ca to learn more.Tessa and Julia made it to Edmonton despite more travel delays…but will they make it back?  Time will tell.  In front of a live audience at Rogers Place in Edmonton, the ladies chat Ottawa's MASSIVE 8-3 win, The Sceptres extending their win streak to 3 and Montreal chasing Corrine Schroeder from the net in their win over the Sirens.  The morning after the Take Over Tour game the ladies chat from their hotel rooms (yes, still in Edmonton) about Daryl Watts and the Sceptres staying HOT and Minnesota's road woes vs Boston.  Tessa then sits down with an old pal of hers in Kori Cheverie, head coach of the Victoire, to chat her playing days, growing up on the east coast, coaching with the Pittsburgh Penguins and her devastating covid experience with the Canadian Women's National team.  The episode ends with them chatting fighting in women's hockey….you don't want to miss this episode!  

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This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit https://www.sharkclean.ca, https://www.sharkbeauty.ca  https://www.ninjakitchen.ca to learn more. Tessa and Julia recap their own vacations + the games that happened during the international break before getting into Toronto's OT win over Minnesota and Boston winning big over New York. Emma stops by for Break it Down with Buckles before the duo sits down with the Fleet's skills coach, Courtney Kennedy for an awesome chat on her storied career in the game. We also make predictions for the weekend with FanDuel!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by Shark/Ninja. Shark/Ninja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit https://www.sharkclean.ca, https://www.sharkbeauty.ca https://www.ninjakitchen.ca to learn more. Tessa and Julia get into Montreal's five game win streak and MPP taking a lead for goals on the year at the mid-season international break before sitting down with Sirens' captain Micah Zandee-Hart for a great chat on leadership, Vancouver Island, her iconic nickname, and more. 00:00:00 - INTRO w Shark/Ninja 00:11:01 - HEADLINES 00:42:02 - Spicy Tendies presented by Ninja Kitchen 00:46:23 - Interview with Micah Zandee-Hart 01:19:59 - SEND IT Segment 01:24:31 - END OF SHOW, See you on Feb 14th!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit https://www.sharkclean.ca,https://www.sharkbeauty.ca https://www.ninjakitchen.ca to learn more. Tessa and Julia talk about a resilient young hockey player from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Talia Gladu, whose life was recently turned upside down when she suffered a rare spinal cord stroke, leaving her and her family facing immense physical, emotional, and financial challenges. Please help support if you can here: https://gofund.me/7ea337e3 . Julia is in Montreal living her best life covering the Scepters/Victoire game and Eddie (Tessa's husband) is JAZZED about CJ's new haircut. There were a lot of games that took place since the last episode, so there was lots to talk about. Specifically, what's happening with Ottawa, how is Montreal this good, have the Sceptres found another gear, Claire Thompson creates her best birthday yet, New York has found the proper state of mind, and Buckles stops by to break it down. Then, Frost rookie extraordinaire Dominique Petrie stops by for a HILARIOUS convo with Tessa about growing up in Hermosa beach, to her wild training methods, her hot start to the 2024/25 season and her Covid debauchery with Buckles. We also place another weekend parlay with FanDuel! Our interview with Dominique Petrie is presented by Bravado Designs, Official Bra Partner of the PWHL. An understated, uncomplicated collection of intimate apparel that makes you feel beautiful, uplifted and confident underneath it all. Use code JocksinJills20 for 20% off – Valid until Dec 31, 2025. Questions or concerns about gambling? Call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca 00:00:00 - INTRO w Dominique Petrie 00:11:56 - HEADLINES 00:25:31 - Break it down with Buckles 00:41:09 - Interview presented by Bravado Designs 00:41:55 - Interview with Dominique Petrie 01:09:27 - Thank You Petrie & Bravado! 01:10:33 - FanDuel Friday Five 01:14:04 - Happy 1 Year Anniversary Jocks in Jills! See You Tuesday!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit https://www.sharkclean.ca, https://www.sharkbeauty.ca https://www.ninjakitchen.ca to learn more. Tessa and Julia recap what was a very special weekend in Toronto for PWHL Fantasy Camp and the Battle on Bay Street before getting into both New York at Toronto and the Fleet's game versus the Frost for our Headlines presented by Canadian Tire. Next up, we debut Spicy Tendies brought to you by the Ninja Crispi, your new favorite goalie segment. Our player interview presented by Canadian Tire is with the Sirens' Emmy Fecteau, who is an absolute CHARACTER! We talk growing up on the outdoor rink, her Poulin fandom (duh), superstitions, grandma's spaghetti sauce and more. That's followed by our Send It segment presented by SportChek! 00:00:00 – INTRO w Shark/Ninja 00:02:10 - Jocks in Jills LIVE SHOW at Scotiabank Arena 00:20:37 - HEADLINES presented by Canadian Tire 00:32:36 - SPICY TENDIES! Presented by Shark/Ninja 00:40:59 - Player Interview presented by Canadian Tire 00:42:02 - Interview with Emmy Fecteau 01:11:31 - Thank You Emmy 01:12:20 - SEND IT Segment presented by Canadian Tire 01:16:40 - END OF SHOW, See you on Friday!

This episode of Jocks in Jills is presented by SharkNinja. SharkNinja is a proud Founding Partner of the PWHL. Visit https://www.sharkclean.ca, https://www.sharkbeauty.ca  https://www.ninjakitchen.ca to learn more.   Tessa and Julia talk surviving the current polar vortex and a big Buckeyes win before getting into this week's trade between Boston and New York, Gwyneth Philips' first PWHL shutout and Boston's win over Toronto. Northeastern's Lily Yovetich also joins the show for a chat about her Beanpot win and epic postgame comment. Then, the Victoire's Cath Dubois stops by for a great conversation on how she's gotten through the ups and downs of her career, and what it's like to live her dreams. We also place another weekend parlay with FanDuel!    Our interview with Catherine Dubois is presented by Bravado Designs, Official Bra Partner of the PWHL. An understated, uncomplicated collection of intimate apparel that makes you feel beautiful, uplifted, and confident underneath it all. Use code JocksinJills20 for 20% off - valid until Dec 31, 2025.   Questions or concerns about gambling? Cann ConnexOntario at tel:18665312600 or visit http://ConnexOntario.ca    00:00:00 - INTRO - Welcome Shark/Ninja! 00:11:41 - HEADLINES 00:22:30 - Lily Yovetich after the big win! 00:25:15 - Interview with Lily Yovetich 00:31:39 - Break it down with Buckles 00:35:32 - Interview with Catherine Dubois presented by Bravado 01:27:10 - Thank you Catherine & Bravado! 01:27:21 - FanDuel Friday Five 01:30:19 - END OF SHOW, Thank you Shark/Ninja!

1-9-25 Afternoon Rush - President Carter's Funeral Brings Presidents Together! & Fire Updates & Travis Kelce's Ex Discusses Taylor Swift! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [RushHour] at https://www.oneskin.co/  #oneskinpod Here is Jills gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9gzhwz-jills-cancer-fight Here is Jills amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1SSYNY6VMEKT7?ref_=wl_share We have updates from President Carter's funeral as Presidents Trump, Obama & President Biden all squeeze in to the pew. A truly funny and heartwarming speech from President Carter's grandson, Also some more updates from the local wildfires, debunking some rumors conspiracies and fake news and elevating the heroes battling the blaze, plus a Mexican Plus some updates from our audience member battling cancer - how the community is coming together for good. Also, breaking down the story about Twitch, his wife's new book and why Twitch's mom is speaking out against it. And the special forces premiere was last night, travis kelce's ex offered praise towards Taylor swift, but not her fans.go to patreon.com/daveneal for more bonus content!

Tessa Bonhomme and Julia Tocheri, hosts of the PWHL’s Jocks In Jills podcast, join Sarah to talk about using their pod to help fans connect with players, the Minnesota Frost’s rollercoaster offseason, Hilary Knight’s scoring resurgence, and Julia’s former summer job as a Historical Interpreter. Plus, it’s time for the NCAA Volleyball Final four, NWSL expansion news, and Sarah’s gotta say goodbye to one of her favorite TV shows. Listen to the Jocks in Jills podcast here And listen to the Emma Maltais episode that Julia mentioned here And the Jessie Eldridge episode that Tessa mentioned here Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at goodgame@wondermedianetwork.com Follow Sarah on social! Bluesky: @sarahspain.bsky.social Instagram: @Spain2323 Follow producer Misha Jones! Bluesky: @mishthejrnalist.bsky.social Instagram: @mishthejrnalist TikTok: @mishthejrnalist Follow producer Alex Azzi! Bluesky: @byalexazzi.bsky.social See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before country music was trendy enough to be on everyone's playlists – there was Jill Johnson holding the fort. This week's brilliant dream guest, the Swedish country and pop singer-songwriter Jill, is nothing short of a pioneer with her career spanning over 30 years. Desperate to become part of Jill's hit TV-show Jills veranda, Al sends out an open job application as the shows own “Swedish comic masseur”. As Al and Jill entertain the idea of putting together a band, they also try to tackle the week's audience question “If marriage is truly worth the trouble?”. Finally, the Al Pitcher team together with Jill Johnson sings the audience off to a merry christmas with their 5-second-sing-along. Find Jill Johnson here: https://www.instagram.com/jilljohnsonmusic/ https://www.jilljohnson.se https://open.spotify.com/artist/2aaGbpl5Y2ykZsNFZM6ofw?si=SCjViD6dQz65ckUtLZip6Q Perhaps Sweden's most celebrated international comic Al Pitcher, continues to make us ponder and laugh at all things funny and Swedish with his third season of Dream Guest Podcast. Recorded from his studios in Skärholmen, Stockholm, Al's ambition is to spread his love of Sweden abroad, while bringing in stars and topics of a global scale. The season premiers the day before the American presidential elections on November 4th, 2024. Between a giant ficus tree and a neon sign, Al invites an impressive line-up of guests to sit down with him for a laugh. The celebrated satirist and program host, John Oliver, kicks off the season by sharing with the audience his pre-election jitters. This season, joining Al in discussing topics that range from childhood pranks to identity crises, are comedians Russell Howard and Evelyn Mok, as well as musicians Jill Johnson, Chris Kläfford, and James Bay. Co-hosts: Soma Manuchar / https://www.youtube.com/@UCAfzYIR4n4ko30xip8PUK-g / https://www.instagram.com/homeofsoma Simon Larsson / https://www.instagram.com/simonwithdrums Buy tickets to Al's new tour "Tid för skratt" here: https://www.alpitcher.com Find out more about Al here: official webpage: https://www.alpitcher.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alpitcher TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alpitcher Management/sponsorship inquiries: Anna Gauffin / anna@annamgmt.se This podcast is produced by SOSI Studios - soma@sosistudios.com (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:56) An icon in this country(00:01:46) What instruments can you play(00:04:38) Country is cool again(00:04:49) Jill knew what she wanted to do when she was 4(00:04:55) Al wanted to be a horsing commentator(00:05:06) Dalahäst(00:06:02) Did Soma know what she wanted to be?(00:10:49) Jill doesn't wear hats until recently(00:12:06) It only took a minute for my country to love country(00:12:29) Pickle balls and pickle back(00:13:48) Making jokes about silly Swedish traditions(00:14:29) Al wants to go to Nashville as a Swedish masseur(00:15:12) Skåne audiences like outside the box(00:16:05) Country music didn't work at all in middle of Sweden(00:16:22) Al's research on country(00:19:36) Country band name generator(00:21:09) Do you do merch Jill?(00:22:06) Question: Is marriage worth the trouble(00:25:01) What does AI say(00:26:24) AI in music(00:27:42) Night rider tour bus(00:29:41) Jill would sleep in the car when she was little(00:30:27) Christmas Tour with Jill(00:34:27) Outro

In this episode, I am thrilled to sit down with my dear friend, mentor, and colleague, Dr. Jill Carnahan. Together, we delve into an incredibly inspiring conversation about resilience, healing, and hope for those battling chronic inflammatory bowel disorders. Dr. Jill shares her personal journey—from being diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer at 25, to overcoming Crohn's disease, and how she transformed her health by addressing root causes. We explore how environmental toxins, genetic predispositions, and dietary influences interplay in the development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Dr. Jill also highlights groundbreaking approaches, including functional medicine strategies, gut microbiome balancing, and the pivotal role of mold exposure in chronic illness. You can find links to Dr. Jills's website, social media, and more in the show notes! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review. Your feedback helps us continue bringing important conversations to the forefront of health and wellness! For the full show notes please visit my website: www.drchristineschaffner.com/Episode267

With PWHL camps underway and season two right around the corner, our resident hockey expert, Alex, preps fans both new and old with her “PWHL 101" primer. Plus, college bracket season is back, we're squeezing and zesting, and accidental doll porn. Read the Onward State story here  The full NCAA soccer bracket is here  Watch the super cute video of new Chicago Sky coach Tyler Marsh and his son here  Listen to “Jocks in Jills” here  Listen to “Moms Who Puck” here Follow the six PWHL teams on social!  Boston Fleet Minnesota Frost Montreal Victoire New York Sirens Ottawa Charge Toronto Sceptres Keep sending in names for Sarah, Mish and Alex! Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at goodgame@wondermedianetwork.com  Follow Sarah on social! X: @SarahSpain Instagram: @Spain2323 Follow producer Misha Jones! X: @mishthejrnalist Instagram: @mishthejrnalist TikTok: @mishthejrnalist Follow producer Alex Azzi! X: @ByAlexAzzi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Go + Tell, Gracie and Emma embrace their inner "Jills of All Trades" as they share the surprising variety of jobs they've tackled over the years. From Gracie's farmhand days, research adventures at the WSU beef cattle facility, and the hilarious challenges of conducting research in a tiny storage closet to Emma's experiences juggling babysitting, brewing espresso as a barista, and conducting dairy research at WSU—each job has its own unexpected twists and turns. Tune in for a lively look at the skills they picked up along the way, the challenges they faced, and a few laughs about the jobs that shaped them!

Introducing Acronym Soup from Good Game with Sarah Spain.Follow the show: Good Game with Sarah SpainWith PWHL camps underway and season two right around the corner, our resident hockey expert, Alex, preps fans both new and old with her “PWHL 101" primer. Plus, college bracket season is back, we're squeezing and zesting, and accidental doll porn. Read the Onward State story here  The full NCAA soccer bracket is here  Watch the super cute video of new Chicago Sky coach Tyler Marsh and his son here  Listen to “Jocks in Jills” here  Listen to “Moms Who Puck” here Follow the six PWHL teams on social!  Boston Fleet Minnesota Frost Montreal Victoire New York Sirens Ottawa Charge Toronto Sceptres Keep sending in names for Sarah, Mish and Alex! Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at goodgame@wondermedianetwork.com  Follow Sarah on social! X: @SarahSpain Instagram: @Spain2323 Follow producer Misha Jones! X: @mishthejrnalist Instagram: @mishthejrnalist TikTok: @mishthejrnalist Follow producer Alex Azzi! X: @ByAlexAzzi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

Let's Dance and Shout our way through Episode 15 where Co Hosts Rhonda, Anita and Jeanine review dance performances, update Alumni news and weigh in on the  AZ Cardinals new premium seats that sidelined the cheerleaders!  Listen in on their performance reviews of the current Colts, Chiefs, Ravens, and Patriots as well as the throwback performances of the Jills, Gold Rush and Broncos!SOCIALS:https://www.instagram.com/sidelinerewind/https://www.youtube.com/@sidelinerewindhttps://www.tiktok.com/@sidelinerewind?_t=8mU2fxptB2V&_r=1BRAND SPONSOR: THE POM PONYNo more crushed on lost poms - Pom Pony keeps your Poms looking great when traveling or storing so you look AMAZING during performance!  Get yours today and enter code SIDELINEREWIND https://thepompony.com/WEBSITE:https://www.sidelinerewind.com/If you'd like to be a supporter of our show, please click on the link below!  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273116/supportSupport the show

Last time we spoke about the Formosa air battle. In mid-1944, General MacArthur and Admirals Nimitz and Halsey debated their next move in the Pacific. MacArthur, intent on a direct assault on the Philippines, clashed with Nimitz, who favored invading Formosa. MacArthur's persuasive tactics, political savvy and to be more blunt, threats during a rather dramatic visit to Honolulu, convinced President FDR to prioritize the Philippines. Despite MacArthur's grandstanding, FDR did not completely abandon the US Navy's plans, and MacArthur's plan would require significant Naval support, with carrier strikes planned to soften Japanese defenses. In October, Halsey's carriers launched devastating strikes against Formosa, leading to heavy Japanese losses and disrupting their air power. Despite some fierce counterattacks and damage to American ships, including the cruiser Canberra, the American forces achieved air supremacy. The successful air campaign set the stage for the invasion of Leyte, marking a pivotal shift in the Pacific War.  This episode is the Return to the Philippines Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  We last left off the week before the grand  return to the Philippines, Admiral Halsey had dispatched his carrier forces to neutralize enemy bases in Formosa in preparation for General MacArthur's Leyte invasion. However, Admiral Toyoda's response was unexpectedly strong, resulting in two cruisers being torpedoed, which forced Admiral Mitscher to order a retreat eastward under pressure from Japanese aviators. On October 15, while the cruisers Houston and Canberra were being towed under the protection of Admiral McCain's carriers, Halsey directed Admirals Bogan and Sherman's task groups to withdraw eastward out of sight. At the same time, Admiral Davison's forces carried out intermittent air raids on northern Luzon to keep enemy aircraft at bay. More significantly, Halsey decided to turn the situation into an opportunity. He instructed McCain's units to send out open messages, pleading for assistance. This tactic, which Halsey called the "Lure of the Streamlined Bait," was designed to mislead the Japanese into believing that this task group was all that remained of the fleet, enticing them to move in for the kill. Halsey's other task groups, which had withdrawn eastward, would then return to engage and destroy the enemy. On October 14, Japanese aviators claimed two carriers, one battleship and one heavy cruiser sunk, and one small carrier, one battleship and one light cruiser set afire. The exaggerated claims of the Japanese air force were accepted jubilantly on the home islands. The people felt that the American Navy had indeed been given a death blow, and the Finance Ministry distributed "celebration sake" to all households in the country to commemorate the event. The Tokyo radio made the unfounded claim that "a total of 57 enemy warships including 19 aircraft carriers and four battleships were sunk or heavily damaged by the Japanese forces… the enemy task forces lost the majority of their strength and were put to rout." It also predicted that the Allied losses would delay the invasion of the Philippine Islands by two months. Admiral Halsey's reaction was to report that "all 3rd Fleet Ships reported by radio Tokyo as sunk have now been salvaged and are retiring towards the enemy." The exaggerated claims of success made by Japanese pilots further convinced Toyoda to continue the assault, despite heavy aircraft losses. Meanwhile, Admiral Shima's strike force was already rushing south from the Inland Sea to support the air forces. However, Shima's force was not the only one speeding towards the battlefront. On October 13, Admiral Barbey's convoy, consisting of over 470 ships and carrying the 24th Division and the 6th Army Service Command, finally departed Hollandia, heading toward the designated "Far Shore," Leyte. The next day, the convoy crossed the equator without ceremony. By October 15, Task Force 78, which included the 1st Cavalry Division, joined the massive convoy. With General Sibert's full 10th Corps now en route to Leyte, the plan was to rendezvous with Admiral Wilkinson's Task Force 79. Over the course of about two weeks, General Hodge's 24th Corps had been transported from Hawaii to Eniwetok and then to Manus Island. On October 11, the LSTs carrying the assault battalions departed Manus, followed by Wilkinson's convoy of 267 ships, which left the Admiralties three days later. Their progress was steady, and by October 17, Wilkinson's tractor groups began joining the 7th Fleet. This combined fleet formed the largest convoy ever seen in the Pacific up to that point. Meanwhile, during the Formosa Air Battle, Japanese aviators launched multiple strikes against Task Groups 38.1 and 38.4 from dawn to dusk on October 15. Fortunately, the American carriers' reinforced combat air patrols effectively minimized damage, with only one glancing bomb hit on the Franklin. In retaliation, Admiral Mitscher's pilots claimed to have shot down more than 100 Japanese planes. Additionally, Admiral Davison's carriers attacked enemy air concentrations in Luzon, though they faced heavy resistance from Vice-Admiral Teraoka Kinpei's reorganized 1st Air Fleet. These engagements continued over the next two days, with American forces estimated to have destroyed 99 enemy aircraft on the ground and 95 in the air by October 19. On the morning of October 16, Mitscher's carriers conducted long-range searches to determine if the enemy had fallen for Halsey's trap. Meanwhile, Japanese morning reconnaissance flights over the western Philippine Sea spotted three enemy task groups with a combined total of 13 carriers in the vicinity, forcing Toyoda to reluctantly cancel Shima's planned attack. As a result, no surface engagement materialized from Halsey's "Lure of the Streamlined Bait." However, 247 naval aircraft were promptly dispatched from Okinawa, Formosa, and Luzon to locate the enemy groups. McCain continued to fend off persistent Japanese air assaults, which managed to land another torpedo hit on the Houston. Hellcats from light carriers Cabot and Cowpens did great execution against a Japanese formation of over 100 aircraft. However, three Jills penetrated the screen. One twin engine plane fought through the CAP and ships' anti-aircraft batteries, surviving just long enough to put a torpedo in the water before the plane itself crashed into the sea. The torpedo struck the after portion of the starboard side of the Houston, blowing 20 men overboard and spreading gasoline fires in the waters around the cruiser. The explosion set fire to the starboard tank that held fuel for the ship's reconnaissance floatplanes, causing a major fire in the aircraft hangar, though the remaining crew suppressed the blaze within fifteen minutes. Flooding from this hit degraded the ship's buoyancy and stability further. Another 300 men were evacuated afterward, leaving just 200 aboard to continue damage control efforts as the ships withdrew. Despite the cruiser suffering significant damage, the towing operation carried on, slowly guiding the task group towards Naval Base Ulithi, which they eventually reached on October 27. On October 17, the Japanese were still in pursuit of the retreating fleet, but contact was lost, and further attacks were aborted. Nevertheless, the Formosa Air Battle had one final chapter. After the successful strike on Okayama on October 14, General LeMay deemed the damage extensive enough that it wasn't necessary to send all available B-29s for mop-up operations. On October 16, only the 444th and 462nd Bombardment Groups were dispatched to hit Okayama, while the 468th targeted Heito, an airbase and staging field east of Takao. Of 49 planes airborne against Okayama, only 28 bombed there, but they were aided by five stragglers from the 468th Group. To even things up, a formation of 11 planes from the 444th flew calmly by its Okayama target and struck at Heito through an error by the lead bombardier. Other B-29s bombed alternate or chance targets at Takao, Toshien, Swatow, and Sintien harbors; at Hengyang; and at several airdromes, including Taichu on Formosa. This dual mission was less smooth than the October 14 raid, but no losses were reported. The next day, 23 B-29s from the 40th Bombardment Group attacked the Einansho Air Depot near Tainan to complete the Formosa campaign. Heavy cloud cover prevented 13 of the bombers from reaching the target, so they diverted to bomb Takao harbor instead. Despite these challenges, LeMay's bombers inflicted significant damage overall. By the end of the Formosa Air Battle, the Japanese had launched a total of 761 offensive sorties. Toyoda's pilots reported that nearly the entire 3rd Fleet had been sunk and the American carrier force was in ruins. For comedic effect why not go through the real list shall we: Japanese claims were finally listed as follows: Sunk: 11 carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 1 destroyer (or light cruiser). Damaged: 8 carriers, 2 battleships, 4 cruisers, 1 destroyer (or light cruiser), 13 unidentified ships. In addition, at least 12 other ships set afire. These exaggerated claims were heavily promoted by newspapers, although figures like Toyoda within the IJN remained skeptical. In reality, the Japanese air forces were decisively beaten at Formosa, losing around 171 planes in the initial defense and another 321 during attacks on Mitscher's fleet—a total of approximately 492 aircraft.  The Second Air Fleet, comprising the main strength of the Navy's base air forces, had lost 50 per cent of its strength and was reduced to 230 operational aircraft. The First Air Fleet and Fourth Air Army in the Philippines were left with a combined operational strength of only a little over 100 aircraft. Of 143 carrier planes used to reinforce the Second Air Fleet, about one-third, with their flight crews, had been lost. Allied estimates, however, place Japanese losses as high as 655. In addition to these aircraft losses, Japan suffered significant casualties among air personnel, which severely weakened Admiral Ozawa's 3rd and 4th Carrier Divisions and left General Yamashita with limited air support for the defense of the Philippines. On the other hand, Halsey's forces lost only 89 aircraft, with two cruisers suffering serious damage. The radar-guided Hellcats easily repelled the fragmented Japanese attacks, causing no delays to the American operations and inflicting no serious damage on Task Force 38. This defeat significantly diminished Japan's ability to defend the Philippines, as their surface forces were now left without effective air cover. In the aftermath of the battle, the aggressive Vice-Admiral Onishi Takishiro assumed command of the 1st Air Fleet and initiated the creation of a suicide corps, recruiting volunteers to dive-bomb enemy vessels. Thus, the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps was born. Captain Motoharu Okamura, in charge of Tateyama base and the 341st Air Group Home is theorized to be the first officer to propose the use of kamikaze attack tactics. Commander Asaichi Tamai asked a group of 23 student pilots whom he had trained to volunteer for the first special kamikaze attack force, all of them did so willingly. The names of the four subunits within the Kamikaze Special Attack Force were Unit Shikishima, Unit Yamato, Unit Asahi and Unit Yamazakura. LeMay reported the destruction of 65 buildings and damage to 9 out of the 80 at Okayama's assembly plant, along with the destruction of 7 hangars and 16 buildings and damage to 9 others at the airbase. As a result, LeMay's intelligence team estimated it would take between four and six months to fully restore the Okayama plant to full operational capacity. His final strike of the month occurred on October 25, targeting the Omura Aircraft Factory, with 78 B-29 bombers successfully taking off. Over Omura, 59 planes dropped 156 tons of bombs, while 11 hit various other targets. Despite moderate resistance, one bomber was lost during the attack. Strike photos and subsequent reconnaissance showed significant damage, especially in the aluminum fabrication area. Over the following three months, Omura would become a primary target for Operation Matterhorn, though the 20th Bomber Command also conducted additional strikes to support Allied operations in Southeast Asia, China, and the Philippines. Meanwhile, minesweepers and other vessels had cleared the way for amphibious flotillas. In the early dawn of October 17 the minesweepers began their work on the channel approaches to Suluan Island. By 06:30 they had accomplished their task and then began to sweep the waters of the landing areas in Leyte Gulf until the storm forced them to suspend operations. At 12:59 they resumed sweeping with great difficulty. Until A Day, intensive area and tactical mine sweeping continued. The sweepers started at dawn each day and worked continuously until nightfall. By October 19 it was known that the Japanese had heavily mined the approaches to Leyte Gulf but that there were no mines within the gulf itself. However the northern part of the main channel into the gulf was not considered safe. By the same date sweeping had been completed in the southern half, 186 mines having been destroyed. At about 01:35 on October 19, the destroyer supporting the mine-sweeping units which were in the gulf struck a floating mine and while maneuvering away from the area struck another. The ship was disabled and retired from action. By A Day, a total of 227 mines had been destroyed and a passage approximately six miles wide had been cleared just north of Dinagat Island. All ships were therefore directed to enter Leyte Gulf through that portion of the strait. As the minesweepers came close to the land, boats containing Filipinos moved out to welcome the advance party of liberators. The reception they met was not enthusiastic. Admiral Oldendorf "suspected that some might have come seeking information so detained them aboard their respective ships… Directed no further patriots be taken aboard ship."With Halsey's forces still in the Formosa-Ryukyus region, these ships were under the air cover of General Whitehead's 5th Air Force and Admiral Kinkaid's escort carriers. While minesweepers and demolition teams worked to clear mines, remove transport barriers, and perform beach reconnaissance, Company D of the 6th Ranger Battalion prepared to land on Suluan Island on October 17. Supported by fire from the USS Denver and in heavy rain, the Rangers successfully landed on the beach at 08:05 without opposition. The men immediately filed south 500 yards on a trail along the coast and then headed east toward the lighthouse. On the way, four buildings, one of which contained a Japanese radio, were found and set ablaze. The company then continued along the trail. Suddenly the enemy fired from a concealed position, killing one man and wounding another. When Company D went into attack formation, the enemy force disappeared into the heavy jungle bordering the trail. The march was resumed and the company reached its objective without further incident. The lighthouse, which had been damaged by naval bombardment, and adjoining buildings were deserted. Unfortunately, a Japanese radio station successfully reported the enemy convoy's approach and the start of the Rangers' landings, revealing that Leyte was the Americans' ultimate target. In response, Toyoda swiftly initiated Operation Sho-Go, ordering Vice-Admiral Kurita Takeo's 1st Striking Force to move from Lingga anchorage to Brunei Bay, preparing to strike the enemy invasion fleet.  Just after midnight on October 18, Kurita's ships departed Lingga anchorage and began their trek to Leyte. Sentai (Division) 16—heavy cruiser Aoba, light cruiser Kinu, and destroyer Uranami—was ordered to detach from Kurita's command and head to Manila. These ships were all among the oldest in Kurita's fleet, but it was a mistake to detach them for a secondary transport mission when they would have been better used to augment the decisive attack planned for Kurita's force. Simultaneously, Shima's 2nd Striking Force, reinforced by Kurita's detached 16th Cruiser Division, was tasked with supporting counterlandings. The Second Striking Force, for this newly-assigned mission, was to be composed only of the Fifth Fleet (two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, seven destroyers) plus the 16th Cruiser Division (one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, one destroyer) detached from the First Striking Force. Under this plan, the 16th Cruiser Division was ordered to proceed to Manila, while the Second Striking Force main body, then at Amami Oshima in the Ryukyus, was ordered to go first to Mako, refuel, and then proceed to the Philippines.   By noon, another order was issued to Ozawa's Main Body, despite its depleted air power, to coordinate a sortie from home waters in support of the attack planned for the morning of October 25 in Leyte Gulf. The mission of the Ozawa force was of vital importance to the success of the over-all plan. It was to act as a decoy to draw off the main strength of the enemy naval forces covering the invasion operations in Leyte Gulf, thus allowing the 1st Striking Force to penetrate to the landing point and smash the enemy's troop and supply ships. To heighten its effectiveness as a lure, the Ozawa Force sortied with all of the 3rd Carrier Division, made up of the regular carrier Zuikaku and the light carriers Zuiho, Chitose, and Chiyoda. The total number of aircraft available to put aboard these ships, however, was only 108. These belonged to the poorly trained air groups of the 1st Carrier Division and represented about half the normal complement. In addition to the half-empty carriers, the force comprised two battleships, three light cruisers and eight destroyers. Ozawa fully anticipated that his fleet would be completely wiped out, but this sacrifice was deemed essential to achieve the primary objective: destruction of the entire enemy invasion force. As a result of the transfer of the flying groups of the 3d and 4th Carrier Divisions to Second Air Fleet for the Formosa air battle, the Task Force Main Body had lost much of its planned striking power. The mission assigned to it was therefore less offensive than that assigned in the original Sho-Go battle plan. The original plan had called for a diversionary attack by the Ozawa Force against the enemy's main carrier task forces. Under the more general terms of the 18 October plan, however, Vice Adm. Ozawa was left discretion to choose an attack target more commensurate with the strength of his force. Meanwhile, Davison's carrier aircraft launched attacks on air bases around Manila and Legaspi, but neither the 1st Air Fleet nor the 4th Air Army could respond due to adverse weather. As these strikes were carried out in difficult conditions, General Terauchi concluded by nightfall that a significant enemy operation was underway. He then activated the Army component of Sho-Go, instructing Lieutenant-General Tominaga Kyoji to target enemy ships near Leyte. Should the enemy successfully land, General Suzuki's 35th Army was ordered to delay their advance until reinforcements arrived, with the goal of launching a counterattack to defeat the Americans by October 25. Given the recent actions on Suluan and the American naval presence in the Leyte Gulf, the Army and Navy IGHQ sections surprisingly coordinated their response, with the IJA staff approving the Southern Army's request to implement Sho-Go 1. It was determined that the coming decisive battle for Japan was the Philippines. One major difference was the battle's location. Terauchi, Yamashita, and other Southern Army officers believed it would be Luzon, not Leyte. With Sho-Go 1 focused on Leyte, the Japanese would have to fight in the central Philippines, without extensive defensive works or major airfields. Yamashita would also use his limited shipping to send reinforcements to Leyte. If the Japanese lost Leyte, there might not be sufficient strength to defeat decisively any American offensive on Luzon. Deploying the few IJA units to Leyte would make a Luzon defense harder to accomplish. Sho-Go 1 could hand the control of the Philippines to the Americans. Eventually, Terauchi agreed to the IGHQ position of making Leyte the primary location to fight the Americans. Believing that Halsey's fleet had been defeated off Formosa, Terauchi now thought the Americans could not sustain any major operations or contest reinforcement convoys, both poor assumptions that would later cause suffering for the IJA. Yamashita disagreed with Terauchi and the IGHQ about designating Leyte as the prime battle site; but on October 22, Terauchi finally ordered Yamashita and the Fourth Air Army to make Leyte the main point of attack. His opinion was: “The opportunity to annihilate the enemy is at hand.” However Yamashita was convinced that the Americans had greater strength than anticipated, given the continued American carrier aviation's presence. Meanwhile, by 12:30 on October 17, the Rangers had successfully landed on Dinagat Island, finding no Japanese forces there. On the morning of the 18th, the ship's address system clanged out general quarters. The men went below, put on their gear, and checked their weapons. At 0900 the troops were told to prepare to disembark. They bolted up the ladders and spilled out over the deck to the davits. The boats were lowered and the first wave started for the beach. At the same time the guns from the destroyer and frigate which had escorted the transport concentrated fire against the shore line for twelve minutes. Three minutes later, the boats grounded on a coral reef forty yards from the beach, and the men waded the remaining distance to shore. They encountered no resistance and at 1038 the company commander, Capt. Arthur D. Simons, notified the battalion commander, "Beachhead secured, supplies ashore. No resistance. No casualties." The company set up a channel light. They quickly set up a navigation light at Desolation Point to guide the main convoy. However, bad weather and tides delayed the landing on Homonhon Island. Colonel Mucci's Company B finally made it ashore the next morning without opposition and installed another navigation light. At the same time, Tominaga attempted to retaliate but was thwarted by a violent storm. In the afternoon, Kinkaid's forces, supported by Mitscher's carriers, conducted minesweeping and direct-fire missions on the Leyte beaches to protect the underwater demolition teams. Admiral Oldendorf's warships heavily bombarded the southern beaches, paving the way for transports to enter Leyte Gulf by the following evening. These pre-landing operations, which continued through October 19 on the northern landing beaches, alerted General Makino to a potential secondary landing closer to Tacloban. This maneuver would outflank the main strength of the 16th Division and directly threaten his headquarters. In response, Makino relocated his headquarters from Tacloban to Dagami and ordered the 33rd Regiment to reinforce the Palo-San Jose coastal sector, while the 2nd Battalion strengthened the southern defenses. Despite these last-minute efforts, Makino's forces were unprepared for the overwhelming assault. The heavy naval gunfire had destroyed many defensive positions and disabled most of the 22nd Field Artillery Regiment's guns. Furthermore, although the weather now favored Tominaga's counterstrikes, American carrier operations had been so effective that he was unable to challenge their air superiority. Despite the optimism of the High Command with regard to the prospects of gaining eventual air superiority in the battle area, it was already evident that the air phase of Sho-Go was not working out as intended. Those plans had envisaged mass air attacks against the invading enemy naval forces and troop convoys beginning prior to their arrival at the landing point. The enemy, however, had forestalled these plans by striking at Leyte before the planned concentration of Japanese air strength in the Philippines had been completed, and before the Navy's base air forces had time to recover from losses sustained in the Formosa Air Battle and earlier enemy carrier strikes on the Philippines. The 1st Air Fleet, already in the Philippines, had been reduced to an operational strength of less than 50 aircraft. The 2nd Air Fleet, which had lost half its strength in the Formosa Battle, had not yet begun its redeployment from Formosa to the Philippines. Although the 4th Air Army had sustained relatively lighter losses, its strength was widely dispersed. Before it could operate effectively in the Leyte area, it had to concentrate at forward bases in the central Philippines, an operation rendered both difficult and dangerous by enemy action, bad weather, and the virtually useless condition of many of the forward fields due to continuous rains. Under such unfavorable conditions, the concentration required a minimum of several days, and in the meanwhile the enemy was able to operate in Leyte Gulf against extremely light air opposition. On October 19, when weather conditions finally permitted an air attack against the enemy invasion fleet, no more than five naval and three Army aircraft could be mustered against the steadily increasing concentration of enemy shipping in Leyte Gulf. By the evening of October 19, the preliminary operations were nearly complete, with most of Kinkaid's fleet positioned outside the gulf. Since the minefield at the entrance hadn't been fully cleared, the ships entered slightly south of the entrance's center, avoiding the main channel and staying close to Dinagat's northern point. Meanwhile, Suzuki had already activated the Suzu Plan, with units from the 30th and 102nd Divisions preparing to move toward Ormoc. However, before they could depart, Oldendorf began October 20 with two simultaneous pre-landing bombardments, each involving three battleships. After two hours of battleship fire, cruisers and destroyers followed with high-explosive shells, causing significant damage. At the same time, Kinkaid's escort carriers launched bombing and strafing runs against suspected defensive positions and airfields, severely disrupting Makino's radio and telegraph communications. At 0800 the first anchor chains of the vessels had rattled out; LCVP's were quickly swung over the sides; boats circled mother ships and moved to their rendezvous areas. The LCI mortar and LCI rocket ships took their places at the head of the assault waves. It was now 0945, fifteen minutes before H Hour. The LCI's raced simultaneously to the shores of Leyte, raking the landing beaches with rocket and mortar fire. The bombardment grew heavier and more monotonous. Hundreds of small boats, flanked by rocket ships and destroyers, headed toward the beaches; thousands of rockets hit the beaches with the rumble of an earthquake. It was impossible to distinguish one explosion from another in the unbroken roar. By 09:30, the 21st Regiment successfully landed on Panaon Island without resistance, securing control of the entrance to Sogod Bay. Fifteen minutes later, the transports sped toward Leyte's shores, led by LCI gunboats, which pounded the beaches with rockets and mortar fire. At 10:00, Sibert's 10th Corps, covered by a heavy rocket barrage, landed on the White and Red Beaches, marking the Americans' return to the Philippines. Admiral Fechteler's transports delivered General Mudge's 1st Cavalry Division to White Beach, where the brigades landed side by side, with the 8th Cavalry Regiment held in floating reserve. Facing only small arms and machine gun fire, the 1st Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Regiment swiftly secured the Cataisan Peninsula and its airfield, while the 2nd Squadron captured San Jose and advanced across the Burayan River, reaching a point 3000 yards from the beach. The 5th and 12th Cavalry Regiments had to navigate a deep swamp to access Highway 1, then pushed westward until they encountered enemy resistance near the foothills of Caibaan. At 10:40, Mudge's reserve began to land, followed by the division artillery at 13:30. Meanwhile, to the south, Barbey's transports landed General Irving's 24th Division on the shallow Red Beach, with the 19th and 34th Regiments landing abreast in battalion columns. The Japanese permitted the first five waves to land, but when the remaining waves were about 2000 yards offshore, they unleashed heavy artillery and mortar fire, sinking several landing craft and causing significant casualties.  The first elements of the 3d Battalion, 34th Infantry, inadvertently landed 300 yards north of the assigned area and were immediately pinned down by heavy machine gun and rifle fire. The commanding officer of the regiment, Col. Aubrey S. Newman, arrived on the beach and, noting the situation, shouted to his men, "Get the hell off the beach. Get up and get moving. Follow me." Thus urgently prompted, the men followed him into the wooded area. To the south the 19th Infantry, with the 3d Battalion in the lead, had also struck heavy opposition on its sector of the beach. Through error the first waves of the regiment landed almost directly behind the 34th Infantry and 800 yards north of the proposed landing point. The later waves landed at the planned spot. Company K did not land on schedule, because its command boat broke down. Going in under heavy fire, the company had all its officers except one killed or wounded. One of its platoons was unable to make contact with the rest of the company until the following day. Upon landing, the first waves were immediately pinned down by intense machine-gun and rifle fire. Despite this, the Americans successfully stormed the initial defenses of the 33rd Regiment. By 12:15, the 34th Regiment had cleared the beach of enemy forces, and after a preparatory concentration, its 3rd Battalion advanced approximately 400 yards. The 2nd Battalion then moved through the 3rd, crossed Highway 1 at 15:50, and established positions for the night 100 yards west of the highway. To the south, the 3rd Battalion, 19th Regiment had reached Highway 1, while the battered 1st Battalion followed behind under heavy fire. Meanwhile, the 2nd Battalion landed and advanced cautiously, as the 1st Battalion pressed toward Hill 522 amidst fierce resistance. Hill 522, which rose directly from the river's edge north of Palo, overlooked the landing beaches and its upward trails were steep and winding. Hill 522 presented the most significant terrain feature which would have to be overcome before the American forces could push into the interior from Palo and it constituted one of the chief objectives for A Day. Three months earlier General Makino had started to fortify it, impressing nearly all of the male population of Palo for the work. By A Day they had constructed five well-camouflaged pillboxes of rocks, planking, and logs, covered with earth. Numerous tunnels honeycombed the hill; the communications trenches were seven feet deep. They eventually encircled enemy positions and began to make steady progress up the hill. By dusk, Companies B and C had captured the hill's crests and successfully repelled several enemy counterattacks. This achievement secured Hill 522, which commanded the route into the interior and overlooked Palo, the gateway to Leyte Valley. At 14:30, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Red Beach alongside President Sergio Osmeña, who had taken over from Manuel Quezon following his death on August 1. So if you go on Youtube you can see the footage of MacArthur et al wading ashore and to this day there is a monument to this iconic moment. MacArthur made a radio broadcast to the Filipino people, declaring, “People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples. We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people” He had finally fulfilled his promise to the Filipino people. Further south, Hodge's 24th Corps encountered more resistance as it landed on Orange, Blue, Violet, and Yellow Beaches at 10:00. Under the transport of Rear-Admiral Forrest Royal's ships and the protection of LCI gunboats, General Bradley's 96th Division landed with its regiments positioned between the Calbasag River and the town of San Jose. The 382nd Regiment successfully disembarked on the Blue Beaches at 09:50, followed by the 383rd Regiment on the Orange Beaches ten minutes later.As they advanced inland, both units faced intermittent mortar and artillery fire from the 9th Regiment positioned on Catmon Hill. Colonel Macey Dill's 3rd Battalion initially encountered obstacles such as tank barriers made of coconut logs, debris on the beach, and heavy bombardment from Hill 120. However, with mortar and naval gunfire support, the battalion eventually captured the hill and repelled several enemy counterattacks, though they were unable to continue the advance due to deep swamps. In contrast, Dill's 2nd Battalion managed to push about 2,500 yards inland despite the intense heat and swampy conditions. To the north, Colonel Edwin May's 1st and 2nd Battalions were similarly hindered by an unexpected swamp but still succeeded in securing San Jose and the head of the Labiranan River, advancing approximately 2,600 yards inland. By 18:00, Bradley's artillery had been landed, although the 381st Regiment remained in floating reserve. Further south, Admiral Conolly's transports landed General Arnold's 7th Division between the Calbasag and Daguitan Rivers, with regiments landing side by side. Companies L and K of the 3rd Battalion, 32nd Regiment landed abreast. Company L, on the left, ran into heavy fire from Japanese machine gunners who had waited until the leading elements of the company exposed themselves. The Japanese were entrenched in bunkers emplaced in hedgerows and banana groves. The pillboxes, which were mutually supporting, were located at the ends of the hedgerows and occasionally in the middle of an open field. Each pillbox had machine guns and anti-tank guns. Company L suffered a number of casualties and was pinned down. The enemy gunners then turned to Company K and stopped its forward movement. In the space of 15 minutes, 2 officers and 6 men of the 3rd Battalion were killed, and 1 officer and 18 men wounded. Of the medium tanks that had come ashore at 10:30, 3 were sent to support Company L and 2 to support Company K. The latter 2 were knocked out before they could adjust their fire on the pillboxes. The leading tank sent in support of Company L was knocked out by a direct hit from an antitank gun. With 2 tanks remaining, it was decided to hit the flanks of the entrenched pillboxes at 13:45. A platoon of Company K went to the right and another platoon from the company to the left. Simultaneously the remaining elements of the 2 companies, coordinating with the tanks, assaulted the pillboxes. The heavy volume of fire kept the enemy guns quiet until they could be finished off with grenades. The pillboxes were knocked out without further casualties. Paralleling the route of advance of Company L were several hedge fences, behind which were enemy machine guns and mortars. Although under heavy fire, the company was able to break through the first barriers with the aid of the tanks. At 16:30, since the enemy fire continued in volume, the 32nd Regiment withdrew and established a defensive position for the night. Meanwhile, the 184th Regiment landed its 3rd Battalion at Yellow Beach 2, directly in front of Dulag, and its 1st Battalion at Yellow Beach 1, which was farther south and separated by a swamp. Both beaches saw surprisingly little resistance, allowing the 184th to advance more quickly than expected, successfully capturing Dulag and reaching its airfield.Behind them, the reserve 2nd Battalion and the 3rd Battalion of the 17th Regiment landed after midday. The 3rd Battalion pushed west and south with minimal opposition, successfully securing the bridge over the Daguitan River at Dao. By the end of the day, both corps had fallen short of their beachhead objectives, with Hodge's 24th Corps achieving particularly modest results. Despite this, the Sixth Army had successfully landed assault forces along the entire eastern coast of Leyte and gained control of Panaon Strait, with casualties totaling 49 killed, 192 wounded, and 6 missing. Most of the 16th Division had retreated during the naval and air bombardment before the landing, which allowed the Americans to secure most coastal defenses before the enemy could regroup. Consequently, the only Japanese forces encountered were those left behind to delay the invasion. A more substantial enemy engagement was yet to come. Air opposition to the invasion was minimal, as Tominaga and the naval air forces continued to concentrate their strength in the Philippines in preparation for a major air offensive scheduled to begin on October 25. However, 37 Army and Navy planes attacked the invasion shipping off Leyte. At 1600, on 20 October an enemy torpedo plane was sighted as it aimed its torpedo at Honolulu. Despite the skillful maneuvering of Captain Thurber to evade, the torpedo found its mark on her port side. 64 men were killed and 35 were injured. Flooding caused a temporary severe list, but the ship was saved by efficient damage measures. But Honolulu was out of the fight. Honolulu sailed out the next day, arriving at Manus on 29 October for temporary repairs, and then steamed for Norfolk, Virginia, on 19 November, arriving on 20 December via Pearl Harbor, San Diego, California, and the Panama Canal. Unfortunately, not all went well with logistics. Although 107,450 tons of supplies had been landed on Leyte by the end of A-Day, it was a haphazard operation. The Navy was responsible for transporting the troops and supplies to the target area. Ships' companies unloaded the cargo from the cargo vessels and transported it in small craft to the beaches. Many of the ships had been improperly loaded for the journey to Leyte. The cargo should have been so loaded that articles first needed would be the last put on board; instead it had been stowed haphazardly, with little attention given to the problem of unloading. As a result of the faulty stowage of supplies on the ships, many badly needed items were at the bottoms of the holds, and articles that would not be needed until later in the operation were piled on top of them. The supplies were set ashore in random fashion and then were carelessly thrown on trucks and other vehicles. This sort of handling resulted in a loss of carrying capacity, in slow removal of the loads, and in a consequent delay in the return of vehicles to the landing beaches. Thus, officers complained about the disorganized effort to deliver, store, and distribute supplies. This was a precursor of future resupply problems. As the landings proceeded about as smoothly as could be hoped, Halsey would order Task Groups 38.1 and 38.4 to head to Ulithi on October 22, as he doubted that the Japanese would mount a major operation in response to the American invasion. And yet, the Japanese were about to come calling for another decisive battle.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. General Douglas MacArthur had finally done it, he had returned to the Philippines making good on his promise to the Filipino people. It was a colossal effort and thus far it was going very well all things considered. However little did the Americans know, but the IJN was about to toss the kitchen sink at them, literally, in an all or nothing battle to the death.

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Get a vision that is bigger than your story with Carey Conley and Jill McMahon In this episode, Mathew, Jill, and Carey discuss why we are moving away from the phrase “committed suicide” and towards “died by suicide,"  harmful myths around suicide, and how the surviving family members are impacted. Carey lost her husband, Ross, in 2014 and just three years later lost her son, Cole, at age 26 - both to suicide. She tells us about her feelings towards them then and now, the time leading up to their passings, and the similarities and differences in her husband's and son's struggles. Mathew and Carey also talk about how their lost loved ones still show up to them, how loss changes purpose over time, and practical tips to feel and then cycle through tough emotions.  After the conversation with Carey, Mathew and Jill talk about her upcoming book, Bulletproof: Healing After Gun Violence and Trauma. When Jill was 6 years old, she was a victim of gun violence when she and her mother were carjacked. This experience, as well as her work with other trauma victims, has led her to compile this guide to what works for healing, how to survive it, and how great life can be on the other side. Jills also talks about the political, societal, and physiological factors that make gun violence trauma so unique, the solutions for healing that she puts forward in the book, and how to start healing. Jill McMahon is a licensed professional counselor focusing on grief, trauma, and loss due to suicide. She had been working with families and survivors of suicide for 20 years. Jill owns a private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, and spends her time providing suicide prevention presentations and training around the community, as well as speaking about survivors of suicide and complicated grief, both nationally and internationally. Carey Conley is a vision expert who has taught her exercises to thousands of people. Alongside her daughter, Laurel, Carey is focused on helping people find vision and purpose through their books, Vision is Victory and Keep Looking Up, and her podcast, Mental Health Breakthroughs For Young Adults & Families. “Time doesn't heal. Making meaning does.” In this episode, you'll hear: How and why are we changing the language we use when discussing suicide? How suicidal ideations and actions typically ramp up in struggling people  The power of talking about loved ones who have died by suicide  The importance of having clear yet flexible visions for your life  Practical ways to get unstuck and grow after grief  Later in this episode, you'll also hear: Jill's personal experience with gun violence The unique trauma gun violence survivors and their families experience  Practical tools and tips for caregivers and survivors  Follow the podcast:  Listen on Apple Podcasts (link: https://apple.co/3s1YH7h)  Listen on iHeart (link: https://ihr.fm/3MEY7FM)  Listen on Spotify (Link: https://spoti.fi/3yMmQCE)  Resources: CareyConley.com  Jill McMahon Counseling  Vision is Victory Connect with Mathew Blades:  Twitter - twitter.com/MathewBlades Instagram - instagram.com/MathewBladesmedia/  Facebook - facebook.com/mathewbladesmedia/  Website - learnfrompeoplewholivedit.com/ Additional Credits: LFPWLI is managed by Sam Robertson

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Last time we spoke about the Invasion of Saipan, Tinian and Guam. The Japanese mistakenly believed that the Americans were preparing for a decisive battle near New Guinea, not realizing the real target was Saipan. The US assembled a large fleet for Operation Forager, aiming to capture Saipan, Tinian, and Guam, advancing the US strategy to establish strategic airfields to hit  Tokyo. Japanese defenses were ill-prepared, with shortages of ammunition and inadequate inland defenses. The Americans hit Saipan with extensive air and naval bombardments, neutralizing Japanese positions, and faced stiff resistance during landings but ultimately secured a beachhead. The 23rd Marines of Colonel Louis Jones, advanced through Charan Kanoa and secured Mount Fina Susu despite significant losses. Heavy artillery pinned them down at the O-1 Line, leading Jones to reposition his forces. Casualties mounted on both sides as American forces fought to secure the beachhead and push inland. This episode is the the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  Before his death Admiral Yamamoto instilled a sort of mind virus into the Imperial Japanese Navy. To be honest, the virus was a pre war doctrine, laying around ever since perhaps the First-Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895, but Yamamoto certainly focused attention more so upon it. The infamous decisive naval battle. The event that could turn the tide of the war, to bolster Japan's poker hand for peace negotiations. If Japan could simply knock out a enormous sum if not the entire strength the American Pacific fleet, something extremely unrealistic by this point of the war, but if they could, would America not reconsider settling this all up at the peace table? It had been the strategy of not just the IJN but for the Japanese military as a whole. Japan would never be able to win a war of attrition with the US, but they could make them pay so dearly, perhaps the Americans would just sue for peace. This idea consumed Yamamoto, leading to the disaster at the Battle of Midway. After the Guadalcanal Campaign, Japan lost the initiative, they retreated behind an inner perimeter. Henceforth the IJN scoured over the actions of the American navy, looking for any opportunity to unleash their full might down upon a significant American naval force. So many times the American navy eluded them, but here, with the invasion of Saipan, the IJN felt the decisive naval battle had finally come.  Admiral Turner and General Smith's American forces had just successfully invaded Saipan, establishing a beachhead with some challenges by June 17. This incited a strong Japanese response, as Admiral Toyoda initiated Operation A-Go, the IJN's strategy for a decisive battle that could potentially win them the war. Following Admiral Koga's Plan Z, Toyoda's A-Go involved Admiral Kakuta's land-based aircraft providing early warning and reconnaissance, aiming to neutralize one third of the enemy carriers before Admiral Ozawa's carriers completed the destruction of the enemy fleet with large-scale daytime air attacks, operating beyond the enemy's aircraft range. Additionally, Toyoda planned a nighttime surface engagement where enemy screening forces would be targeted by massed torpedo attacks. On June 16, at 9:00, the First Mobile Fleet departed the Guimaras and headed to the northeast. At 5:30pm, the Japanese fleet entered the Philippine Sea through the San Bernardino Strait. Admiral Ugaki's battleships Yamato and Musashi were not with the main body, but were proceeding independently through the Philippine Sea with two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and five destroyers to join with Ozawa. Once into the Philippine Sea, Ozawa headed southeasterly. At about 5:00 on the 16th, Yamato and Musashi joined with the First Mobile Fleet. The Japanese began to refuel which was not completed until 10:00 on the 17th.  In response, Admiral Spruance directed Admiral Mitscher's Task Force 58, strengthened by Admiral Lee's battleships and Turner's cruisers and destroyers, to remain positioned west of the Marianas, prepared to counter any IJN attack. On June 16, Mitscher continued strikes against Guam and Tinian. Several Japanese aircraft were destroyed on the ground and in the air, but their airfields remained usable. The following day saw an increase in Japanese air activity. A small strike flown from Truk, five torpedo bombers and one J1N1-S night fighter attacked a transport group east of Saipan at 5:50pm. Three Japanese aircraft were claimed as destroyed, but a torpedo hit the small landing craft LCI-468 that later sank. On June 18th, the Japanese mounted a larger raid, this time from Yap Island. This operation featured 31 Zeros, 17 Judys and two P1Y twin-engined bombers. Combat Air Patrol did not intercept this group before it attacked shipping off the landing beach at Saipan that resulted in damage to an LST. The attack group then encountered the American escort carrier groups and attacked them at dusk. Two escort carriers were nearmissed and Fanshaw Bay was hit by a bomb which penetrated to the hangar deck. The carrier was forced to retire for repairs. As usual, Japanese aviators over-claimed, stating that three or four carriers from Task Force 58 had been hit.Furthermore, Admirals Lockwood and Christie's submarines were tasked with reconnaissance of IJN fleet movements, launching attacks when possible, and rescuing downed aircrews. Since Ozawa's fleet maintained radio silence and operated beyond the reach of American search planes, the only way to track his movements was through submarines, leaving the Americans mostly uninformed until the battle began. Unknown to Ozawa and Toyoda, Mitscher's carrier aircraft had already disabled Kakuta's land-based air power in the area, which significantly weakened a major part of A-Go. Additionally, the Americans, who had acquired Plan Z on April 3, were prepared for the critical carrier battle, although they were hesitant to engage in nighttime combat. Meanwhile, on June 18, the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions began their attacks at 10:00 a.m. The 4th Marine Division attacked toward the east coast with three regiments abreast: 25th Marines on the right, 24th Marines in the center, and 23rd Marines on the left. The 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, remained attached to the 23rd Regiment. Good progress was made by the 24th and 25th Marines, although the former sustained an attack at 10:15 by two Japanese tanks which surged to within 350 yards of the front lines. The situation for a while was alarming: American tanks had departed for rear areas to refuel and rearm so that only bazookas were immediately available for anti-tank defense. Though the 24th Marines' Weapons Company was immediately alerted, it arrived too late to participate in the fight. The enemy tanks were finally chased by bazookas and artillery, but not before they had sprayed the area, causing 15 casualties with machine-gun and small cannon fire. A portion of the O-3 line was reached by the 24th and 25th Marines during the day, placing the latter along the coast of Magicienne Bay. This healthy gain severed the island's southern portion, including Nafutan Point, from the remainder of the island. To maintain the momentum of the attack and avoid the long delay of a mopping-up process, the 24th Marines by-passed the southern extremity of a heavily defended cliff line running north and south through its zone of action. However, since the direction of attack for the division would soon Swing north through the by-passed area, it was necessary to secure the cliff line. This mission was assigned to the division reserve, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines. This, the unit's first experience with cleaning cave positions, proved a sIow, unpleasant and dangerous task. Rather than a coordinated move, the task took the form of a series of small, separated actions, each employing groups of four or five men. At 7:30, the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, relieved Haas' 1st Battalion on the division's left wing and commenced the move on O-2, which would serve as the line of departure. As will be seen, however, events of the day prevented the regiment from reaching this line. Organizational readjustments within the 23rd Marines included the attachment of the 3rd Battalion's rifle companies and 81mm mortar platoon to Dillon's 2nd Battalion and formation of a composite battalion from the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Battalion Headquarters. The latter unit would support the attack of the other two battalions from positions on Mt. Fina Susu. Machine-gun fire stopped the 23rd Marines' left elements after an advance of 200 to 250 yards. Most of this fire came from a clump of trees to their front, but a definite location of enemy weapons was impossible. Frequent barrages of Japanese mortar fire hampered efforts to spot the enemy, and the attack faltered. At this juncture, Cosgrove's composite battalion was committed on the left of the 3rd Battalion. 24th Marines, in an attempt to retain the impetus, and the attack again moved forward. But the advance was slow. By 5:15, the 23rd Marines had moved to a line about 400 yards short of O-2. Prior to darkness, 23rd Marines' patrols were dispatched to the east. On the right, these patrols reached O-2, but on the left machinegun fire denied movement as far as O-2. Colonel Jones, the 23rd Marines' commander, requested permission from General Schmidt to withdraw to more favorable ground for the night. General Schmidt approved, and the 23rd pulled back to a position about 400 yards east of Lake Susupe, breaking contact with the 2nd Division. The 23rd Marines emerged from the swamps, the 24th Marines reached the base of Hill 500, and the 25th Marines progressed to Magicienne Bay, effectively dividing the island. General Smith's soldiers also captured the Aslito Airfield, with the 165th and 105th Regiments securing Cape Obiam and the area south of the field. This isolated numerous Japanese forces in the north at Nafutan Point. Concurrently, General Saito was shifting his remaining troops to the Garapan-Mount Tapotchau area, facing relentless artillery, naval, and air attacks that left the Japanese in a dire situation.  The chief of staff of the 31st Army, General Igeta, drafted a message on the morning of June 18th to the commanding general at Yap Island and the chief of staff in Tokyo. In it he summarized the situation as he saw it and, in the process, revealed how very little he knew of what was taking place. Not that the general was caught in the bog of apathy, nor was he too frightened or lazy to find out what was going on; it was simply impossible for him to penetrate the shroud of obscurity resulting from ruptured communications in the vast area over which the action was taking place. As such, he erroneously reported that the 43rd Division HQ “underwent an enemy attack this morning and the division CO died along with his staff officers.” In another dispatch later in the day, Igeta corrected his error in regard to the division commander's death, reporting that General Saito was “all right, but that his staff officers were wounded.” He also added that “the secret documents in custody of the 31st Army Headquarters… were completely burned at 1830 of 18 June…” Recognizing the desperate circumstances, Prime Minister Tojo sent a fatalistic message to the garrison, despite reinforcements en route. “Have received your honorable Imperial words. By becoming the bulwark of the Pacific with 10000 deaths; we hope to acquire Imperial favor.” Reports indicated that Ozawa's mobile fleet was approaching the Marianas and expected to arrive on June 19. When Spruance finally received the spotting report from Cavalla, this prompted a decision that turned out to be the most important of the battle. Assuming that the report from Cavalla was Ozawa's main force, and assuming it would continue at a speed of 19 knots to the east, Spruance's staff calculated that the Japanese would still be about 500nm from TF 58 at 5:30 on the 18th. This placed the Japanese well out of range of American searches or strikes. The only way to alter this situation was to steam TF 58 to the southwest toward the contact and plan to locate and engage the Japanese during the afternoon of the 18th. Mitscher advised the aggressive option of steaming to the southwest to close the range on Ozawa's force. He wanted to launch afternoon strikes to locate and possibly attack Ozawa and even advocated a nighttime surface engagement. While this offered the possibility of opening the battle on terms set by the Americans, there were several problems with it in Spruance's calculating mind. The first was that TF 58 was not yet concentrated; TGs 58.1 and 58.4 were not due to link up with the other two task groups operating west of Saipan until 1200 on the 18th. If he allowed Mitscher to take off to the west, it would only be with two task groups. Since the Japanese possessed longer-range strike aircraft, this offered Ozawa the chance to attack TF 58 and defeat it piecemeal. As for the prospects of a night engagement, both Spruance and Lee declined that possibility.  In response, Spruance adopted a cautious approach, instructing Mitscher to gather his carrier groups and redirect them toward Saipan. In a last effort to change Spruance's mind, Mitscher sent him a message at about 11:30pm and proposed a course change to the west at 1:30am in order to position TF 58 to launch a strike against the Japanese carrier force at 5:00am. At 12:38am on the 19th, Spruance sent a message rejecting the proposal. The die was finally cast for a defensive battle on June 19.Spruance's priority was to safeguard the invasion force rather than eliminate the Japanese fleet. At 6:00am on the 18th, Japanese search floatplanes from the First Mobile Fleet spotted six carriers from TF 58. In the afternoon, seven aircraft from Carrier Division 1 flying out to 420nm spotted TF 58 after its 1200 rendezvous. The first report was issued at 3:14pm and included detection of an American task group with two carriers. A second aircraft sighted a task group with an “unknown number of carriers” at 4:00 and later issued another report at 1710 which identified two task groups, each with two carriers. These were within strike range, but Ozawa elected not to launch an immediate strike since his pilots were so inexperienced in night flying. Nonetheless, Rear-Admiral Obayashi Sueo of the 3rd Carrier Division boldly ordered the launch of 67 aircraft from the carriers Zuiho, Chitose, and Chiyoda, hoping to surprise the Americans. However, when he learned of Ozawa's decision, Obayashi reluctantly called off his strike. Ozawa had correctly assessed that the enemy would hold its position near Saipan, allowing him to maintain his own position without fearing an American attack. With this understanding, he changed course southwest to maintain the distance, while Admiral Kurita's Vanguard Force moved east, and Forces A and B shifted south. At 03:00 on June 19, all three forces turned northeast and increased their speed to 20 knots. Ozawa executed his plan flawlessly, positioning himself to launch significant attacks against the unsuspecting Americans the next morning. His only misstep was breaking radio silence at 20:20 to coordinate the decisive operation with Kakuta, who consistently misrepresented the true condition of his air forces while giving overly optimistic reports of successes by his aviators. As a result, an American station intercepted the transmission and geo-located it accurately. Once the mobile fleet reached strike positions, the Japanese began launching search aircraft, sending 16 floatplanes at 04:45 and another 14 planes about 30 minutes later. Although they lost seven scouts, the Japanese were able to spot the northern elements of Task Force 58 and the picket destroyers deployed ahead by 7:00. Starting at 05:30, Mitscher's combat air patrol engaged Japanese aircraft from Guam, which were unsuccessful in bombing destroyers. At 6:30am, American radar detected Japanese air activity over Guam and four Hellcats were sent to investigate. At 7:20am, these arrived and found themselves in the middle of many Japanese aircraft taking off. More Hellcats rushed in and, beginning at 8:07am for the next hour, there was constant combat over and near Guam. Up to 33 American fighters were involved, and they claimed 30 fighters and five bombers. The Americans claimed to have destroyed 30 aircraft, successfully hindering Kakuta's support for Ozawa's decisive battle. However, with the return of Japanese floatplanes, Ozawa was preparing to launch his first strike, deploying 69 aircraft: 16 Zero fighters, 45 Zeros with bombs and eight Jills with torpedoes at 08:30 under Obayashi's command. Fortunately for the Americans, radar warnings enabled Mitscher to dispatch every available Hellcat for interception. At 10:23am, launching of every available Hellcat from TF 58 began as the force headed east into the wind. The American carriers cleared their decks and all airborne bombers on search and patrol missions were instructed to clear the area. This allowed the fighters to return as necessary to rearm and refuel. The goal was to keep as many fighters in the air as possible to intercept incoming threats. The Hellcats had reached their interception altitudes of between 17,000 and 23,000ft when at 10:35am they spotted the incoming Japanese aircraft identified as two groups of strike aircraft with escorting Zeros on each flank. The first American fighters on the scene were Hellcats from Essex. Lieutenant Commander C. Brewer of Fighter Squadron 15 VF-15 led them.  The escorting Japanese fighters did not protect the bombers and the bombers scattered making them easy to pick off. Brewer claimed four aircraft, and his wingman claimed another four. In all, VF-15 pilots claimed 20 Japanese aircraft. Joining the Hellcats from Essex were others from Hornet and Bunker Hill as well as from five light carriers for a total of 50 Hellcats. Altogether, some 25 out of the 69 Japanese aircraft in this raid were accounted for by this initial interception. In return, three Hellcats were lost in combat and a Bunker Hill Hellcat was lost when it ditched on its way back to its carrier. The remaining Japanese aircraft continued their approach but were intercepted by Bunker Hill's Hellcats, which claimed another 16. Only around 28 Japanese planes remained and made minor attacks on Admiral Lee's group. Two targeted battleship South Dakota, with one scoring a direct bomb hit at 10:49, though causing minimal damage. Another narrowly missed heavy cruiser Minneapolis, while another almost missed cruiser Wichita. The Japanese reported  losing 42 aircraft:  eight fighters, 32 fighter-bombers, and two torpedo bombers. Most had been destroyed by Hellcats, with anti-aircraft gunnery from TG 58.7 accounting for the rest. Meanwhile, Ozawa launched his main strike at 08:56, composed of the 1st Division's best-trained pilots from three fleet carriers. This was a large strike designated Raid II from the three fleet carriers of Carrier Division 1 with the best-trained aviators in the First Mobile Fleet. The raid consisted of 128 aircraft – 48 Zero fighters, 53 Judy dive-bombers and 27 Jills with torpedoes. Launching began at 08:56 but was disrupted when at 09:09 Taiho came under attack by American submarine Albacore. The submarine fired six torpedoes at the fast-moving carrier. A last-second glitch in the boat's fire-control computer made it necessary to fire the six torpedoes by eye. One of Taiho's aircraft saw the torpedoes headed for the ship and dove into one in an effort to save the ship. In spite of this, one of the torpedoes hit the carrier abreast the forward elevator and created a hole which resulted in flooding. The ship's forward elevator, which was raised for the launch, was knocked out of alignment and fell several feet. Within 30 minutes, the elevator space was planked over by damage-control personnel and the launch continued. In addition to the aircraft lost from Taiho, eight other aircraft developed engine trouble and were forced to return. More trouble soon followed. When the attack group flew over the Vanguard Force deployed about 100nm in front of the main carrier force, it was engaged by the Japanese ships. This fire was effective enough to shoot down two more aircraft and damage another eight that were forced to return.  This attack and some friendly fire reduced the Japanese force to just 109 aircraft for the largest strike of the day, which was detected by radar. In a swirling action that began at 11:39am, the Hellcats again tore through the Japanese formation. McCampbell claimed three Judys and his wingman two. Other Hellcats joined the fray resulting in about 70 Japanese aircraft being shot down. VF-16 from Lexington claimed 22 Japanese aircraft without a loss; 12 Bunker Hill Hellcats were unable to gain a solid intercept but still claimed five kills, and Hellcats from light carriers Bataan, Monterey and Cabot claimed ten, seven and five, respectively. VF-1 from Yorktown also scored heavily. This still left a number of Japanese aircraft headed for TF 58. Twenty were reported in three groups at 11:45. Most of these made the mistake of attacking the picket destroyers deployed in advance of TG 58.7 or Lee's battleship force itself. Destroyer Stockham reported being under attack for 20 minutes, but again the ship suffered no damage. Around noon, TG 58.7 came under attack. Two torpedo bombers attacked South Dakota with no success, and two more selected Indiana in the center of TG 58.7's formation as their target. One crashed into the waterline of the heavily armored ship but caused little damage. Another Jill went after Iowa, but again missed. Alabama was undamaged by two bombs aimed at her. Potentially more serious was a group of six Judy dive-bombers that escaped the Hellcats and proceeded south until running across TG 58.2. Of this group, four selected carrier Wasp for attack. None scored a hit, but one of the bombs detonated overhead which rained down shrapnel that killed one and wounded 12 crewmen. The other two selected TG 58.2's other fleet carrier, Bunker Hill, for attack at 12:03. They scored two near misses that caused minor fires and other damage, in addition to killing three and wounding 73. Both carriers continued in action. Four of the aircraft were shot down by antiaircraft fire, with the other two landing on Rota and Guam. Finally, six B6N bombers attacked Admiral Reeves' carriers, but their attacks began at 11:57 and were also ineffective, failing to hit any targets. One missed Enterprise, and another three attacked light carrier Princeton, but all three were destroyed by antiaircraft fire.Thus, Ozawa's second strike resulted in a significant loss for the Japanese, with 97 of the 128 aircraft not returning to their carriers. His losses totaled 32 fighters, 42 dive-bombers and 23 Jills. At 5:30, the third group of Japanese scout aircraft took off. This comprised 11 Judys from Shokaku and two Jakes from heavy cruiser Mogami. The aircraft flew 560nm to the east. Two contacts were radioed back to Ozawa. The first, at 9:45, was reported at a position well to the south of TF 58's actual position. The problem resulted from an uncorrected compass deviation on the search aircraft. This contact was designated “15 Ri” by the Japanese. The second contact, designated “3 Ri”, was reported at 10:00. It was of a task force of three carriers and escorts to the north of TF 58's actual position, but may have been of TG 58.4.This third Japanese strike designated Raid III by the Americans was mounted by Carrier Division 2. This effort, from Junyo, Hiyo and Ryuho, comprised 47 aircraft including 15 fighters, 25 Zeros with bombs, and seven Jills with torpedoes. The remaining 20 aircraft saw what they believed to be two battleships but chose to keep searching for carriers. After a failed search, the group eventually attacked the battleships they initially spotted at 12:55 but were intercepted by Hellcats and lost seven aircraft. Nonetheless, the group pressed on and attacked Rear-Admiral William Harrill's carriers at 13:20. The effort was ineffective with one aircraft dropping a bomb 600 yards from Essex. Ozawa's third strike had accomplished nothing, but at least 40 of its 47 aircraft survived to return to their carriers. At 11:00, Ozawa launched his final attack of the day, consisting of 82 aircraft from the carriers Junyo, Hiyo, Ryuho, and Zuikaku of Carrier Division 1. It comprised 30 Zero fighters, ten Zeros with bombs, 27 Vals and nine Judys and six Jills. The planes set off for the new, incorrect southern target and found nothing, causing them to divide into three groups. The largest group of 49 planes headed toward Guam, where the Americans had been periodically discarding their ordnance to neutralize Kakuta's airfields.  As Ozawa sent his series of strikes against TF 58, Spruance directed Mitscher to keep a number of Hellcats active over Guam to disrupt any Japanese attempt to mount attacks from there. This reflected Spruance's fear that the Japanese would use Guam as a base for “shuttle bombing” using aircraft from the 1st Mobile Fleet. Before the first Japanese carrier raid, Hellcats encountered airborne Japanese aircraft over Guam. This action continued throughout the day and periodically intensified when TF 58 dive-bombers and Avengers, ordered to the east to steer clear of the air battle, dumped their ordnance on Guam. Before noon, 15 Yorktown and 17 Hornet Helldivers bombed Orote Field on Guam. Another attack was mounted at 13:30 by Dauntlesses from Lexington and Enterprise, nine Avengers from Enterprise and ten Hellcats for escort. The armor-piercing bombs carried by the dive-bombers did little damage, but the Avengers succeeded in cratering the runway. Other attacks continued throughout the afternoon including Hellcats from Bunker Hill strafing Japanese aircraft on the ground and 11 Helldivers from Essex just before 14:00. The price to keep Guam suppressed during the day was steep – six Hellcats and one Helldiver – but the Base Air Force did not support Ozawa's main attack. Back over at the carrier action, Ozawa's first group approaching Guam were picked up by TF 58 radar at 1449hrs. Before long, 27 Hellcats were on the scene. Among these were 12 from light carrier Cowpens, seven from Essex again led by McCampbell, and eight from Hornet. The Hellcats did great execution, shooting down 30 of the 49 Japanese trying to land on Guam. The remaining 19 planes landed but were damaged on the ground and could no longer fly.Another 15 aircraft headed for Rota but changed course to attack Montgomery's group when they sighted it en route. Six aircraft approached Wasp unmolested until 2:23 when they were engaged by antiaircraft fire just as they were dropping their bombs. Adept maneuvering by Wasp thwarted the aircraft, identified as Judys. Another group of divebombers appeared and split up; two went after Bunker Hill, and one after Wasp. All missed, and of the nine attackers, only one escaped. The final 18 aircraft of Raid IV, including the eight from Zuikaku and ten Zeros with bombs, were returning to their carriers when they encountered two American scout groups consisting of Hellcats and Avengers some 200nm west of Guam.This encounter cost the Japanese six aircraft, but they did gain a measure of revenge when at 3:30 the same group of returning Japanese aircraft encountered and shot down two Bunker Hill aircraft on a search mission. Despite these efforts, none of the American ships were hit during this fourth attack, while Ozawa suffered a significant loss of 73 aircraft. The situation worsened when the submarine Cavalla spotted Shokaku recovering aircraft at 11:52 and launched six torpedoes. Three torpedoes hit the carrier's starboard side at 12:22, sparking fires in the hangar and causing the ship to list. Soon, the ship came to a halt and was left behind when Carrier Division 1 moved north. At 1310, the fires on the hangar set off a bomb that set off fumes from the cracked forward fuel tank. Large explosions ensued and it was obvious the carrier was doomed. Shokaku sank at 15:01, resulting in the deaths of 1,272 crew members. The light cruiser Yahagi and destroyers Urakaze, Wakatsuki, and Hatsuzuki rescued Captain Matsubara and 570 men. Additionally, a torpedo hit Taiho, cracking the forward aviation fuel tank and turning the IJN's newest and most heavily protected carrier into a floating bomb. At 3:32pm, a massive explosion hit Taiho, lifting her flight deck and causing damage to her hull that led to the ship sinking. Despite Ozawa's initial desire to stay with the carrier, he and his team were eventually evacuated by a destroyer. However, 660 members of Taiho's crew perished as the ship sank. The transfer to the Haguro, added to the confusion for Ozawa was the fact that he and his staff were jammed into inadequate facilities aboard heavy cruiser Haguro after they were forced to depart from Taiho. Communications were grossly inadequate; Ozawa admitted later that he should have turned over command to Kurita until he could have moved to a ship with adequate command and control facilities. After the final strike aircraft returned, the Japanese turned northwest at 18:08, preparing to refuel the following day before continuing their attack. In their four strikes, the Japanese had launched 373 aircraft; of these 243 were lost. Added to these losses were another 50 from Guam, nine when Shokaku went down, and another 13 from Taiho to bring the total to 315. Some 296 Hellcats had been engaged during the day in combat, and only 14 were lost in combat with another six recorded as operational losses. The lack of sufficient training and experience among Japanese aircrews was evident, as seasoned American pilots compared the battle to “an old-time turkey shoot down home.” As a result of the significant losses inflicted on Japanese aircraft by American forces, the aerial portion of the Battle of the Philippine Sea was known as the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. In the war upon the land, after an uneventful night, the 2nd Marine Division conducted patrols as Generals Schmidt and Smith focused on securing the rest of southern Saipan. Although the 4th Marine Division's assault was postponed due to their need to disperse a sizable Japanese group near Tsutsuran village, the 27th Division pressed forward in the morning with the 165th Regiment swiftly reaching Magicienne Bay. In contrast, the 105th advanced more slowly through challenging terrain, resulting in a gap between the two regiments and requiring the 165th to extend its lines to maintain contact. Further north, Colonel Jones' 23rd Marines succeeded in advancing close to Hill 500 after intense artillery bombardment, but were compelled to withdraw about 400 yards to protect their vulnerable flank. At this stage, Brigadier-General Arthur Harper's Corps artillery had arrived on the island, offering essential reinforcement to the division's artillery units. By the end of the day, Schmidt's division realigned its regiments and shifted north. The most vicious action of the night occurred in the sector occupied by the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines. Starting at about 3:50am and lasting until daylight, an enemy force of approximately 75 attacked the Marines with grenades and bayonets. In the close-in fighting that ensued, 11 Marines were wounded, but, in the process, the enemy attack was broken. By daylight, many of the attackers were sprawled forward of the Marines' foxholes, the rest had taken to their heels. Meanwhile, Admiral Mitscher, having retrieved all his aircraft, set a westerly course and increased speed to 23 knots in an attempt to catch up with the enemy. However, on June 20, his usual morning search found no results. The Japanese also maintained radio silence during the day, with no new intelligence obtained by American submarines or PBM flying boats based in Saipan. In the afternoon, a successful search finally established contact, prompting Mitscher to prepare for a bold night strike against an enemy fleet beyond the maximum strike range. Meanwhile, the plan to refuel the 1st Mobile Fleet on June 20 fell through amid confusion, prompting Ozawa to abandon the attempt after noon. He transferred to the Zuikaku and restored communications, discovering the extent of his aircraft losses. Ozawa's hope that he could continue strikes was buoyed by reports from Kakuta that some of Ozawa's aircraft had landed on Guam and the prospects that additional land-based aircraft reinforcements would flow into the area. The only concession he made was to move his next attack until the 21st. However, at 16:45, Ozawa's reconnaissance revealed he had been spotted, so he decided to retreat northwest at 24 knots. Thirty minutes later, when his scout aircraft located Task Force 58, Ozawa opted to initiate a night attack with seven B5Ns and three radar-equipped B6Ns. Meanwhile, Mitscher launched a full deckload from 11 carriers, including 85 Hellcats, 77 dive-bombers, and 54 Avengers. The First Mobile Fleet was not well positioned to meet the attack. The Van Force with most of the heavy escorts and the best antiaircraft capabilities was not the closest formation to the incoming American strike. Each of Ozawa's three groups was headed northwesterly with the Van Force to the south, Carrier Division 2 in the center and Zuikaku to the north. Astern of the carrier groups were the two supply groups composed of six oilers with their escorts, making this the closest group to the Americans. After an uneventful flight, the American aircraft found the 1st Mobile Fleet at 18:40, at the edge of their fuel range after nearly 300 miles. Lacking time for a coordinated attack, the American aircraft easily bypassed the 40 fighters and 28 bombers sent to intercept them and individually targeted the enemy carriers. The veteran carrier Zuikaku was defended by 17 fighters and put up a good fight with heavy antiaircraft fire and adept maneuvering. She avoided the four torpedoes aimed at her from the Hornet Avengers and took only a single direct hit by a 500- pound bomb aft of the island. After departing, the Americans reported the big carrier with heavy fires onboard. However, the damage was not as great as it appeared. The single bomb hit penetrated to the upper hanger deck where a fire started among the remaining aircraft. These were not fueled, so after a few tense moments and an order to abandon ship that was quickly rescinded, the fire was extinguished. Six near misses were recorded, but overall damage was light. Zuikaku, the last surviving carrier from the Pearl Harbor attack force, lived to fight again. Aircraft from Bunker Hill, Monterey, and Cabot attacked the Chiyoda group, which evaded five torpedoes and sustained one bomb hit, surviving to fight another day. The Japanese were organized into three groups, each centered on a light carrier with several escorting battleships or heavy cruisers. The Zuiho and Chitose groups were not attacked, but the Chiyoda group was. The light carrier was the target of over 20 Helldivers and Avengers with bombs, but only a single bomb hit Chiyoda on the flight deck resulting in 20 dead, 30 wounded and two aircraft destroyed. The Avengers from Monterey probably scored the single hit, which caused a fire that was quickly extinguished. Chiyoda successfully dodged five torpedoes from Bunker Hill Avengers and lived to fight another day. Escorting battleship Haruna was hit by a 500-pound bomb that penetrated her stern and flooded the steering compartment. The ship's speed was reduced, and 15 crewmen were killed and 19 wounded. Cruiser Maya endured a near miss that caused flooding. The strike group from Lexington, with support from the Avengers from Enterprise, Yorktown, and Belleau Wood, and the bomb-carrying Hellcats from Hornet and Yorktown, attacked Admiral Jojima's carriers. They inflicted minor damage on Junyo and Ryuho. Most of Lexington's Dauntless dive-bombers selected Junyo for attention. At 7:04, one or two bombs hit the carrier's island, and several near misses created minor flooding. Casualties included 53 dead, but overall damage was light. Light carrier Ryuho was attacked by the five Avengers from Enterprise with bombs at 7;10; eight hits were claimed, but only slight damage was caused by near misses. The carrier also survived attacks from Enterprise Dauntlesses, Avengers from Yorktown five with torpedoes and probably Hellcats from Hornet. Hiyo suffered the most successful attack of the evening. The carrier left the formation to launch two Jills to lay a smoke screen and was caught behind the main body when the American strike arrived. In the opening attack by Dauntlesses from Lexington, one bomb hit the foremast and exploded above the bridge resulting in heavy casualties to bridge personnel. The Japanese reported that another bomb hit the flight deck. However, the group of four Belleau Wood Avengers with torpedoes caused fatal damage. Three conducted an anvil attack, and one torpedo hit the carrier's starboard engine room. This was followed by a dive-bomb attack from six Enterprise Dauntlesses. The single torpedo hit, the only one scored by Avengers during the entire attack, proved fatal to the largely unprotected carrier. Within minutes, the damage created a list. The ship proceeded for a time on its port engine, but then went dead in the water. Just before sunset, at 1917, there was a large explosion amidships that caused a loss of power. The Japanese were convinced that this was the result of a submarine-launched torpedo, but there were no submarines in the area. A fuel-fed conflagration ensued, causing multiple explosions. The fire was beyond being contained, and the order to abandon ship was given. Hiyo sank at 20:32, claiming 247 crew members. The final American counterattack came from Wasp's aircraft, targeting Ozawa's Supply Group to disrupt the withdrawal of the 1st Mobile Fleet by damaging the oilers. Three oilers were damaged, and two were later scuttled. In this series of uncoordinated attacks, the Americans lost 20 aircraft and destroyed 80 Japanese planes; although the results were underwhelming, with only one carrier sunk, they fared better than Ozawa's combined strikes the previous day. At 20:45, American aircraft began returning to their carriers. The distance from the targets to TF 58 was between 240 and 300 miles, so fuel exhaustion was a real danger for many pilots. On a dark night, the returning aircraft began to return to their carriers at 8:45. Mitscher decided to ignore the potential Japanese air and submarine threats and ordered his ships to use extra illumination beyond the normal landing lights on each carrier deck to guide his appreciative aviators home. Any pretense of order was quickly lost and soon aircraft were ordered to land on any deck in sight. Almost half of the returning aircraft landed on the wrong carrier. This hectic scene took over two hours to play out. When the final accounting was complete, aircraft losses were expectedly heavy. The Americans would end up losing a total of 100 pilots and 109 crew members. Meanwhile, Admiral Toyoda ordered Ozawa to disengage from the decisive battle and retreat northwest, with the Japanese fleet successfully evading Mitscher's slow pursuit and reaching Okinawa on the afternoon of June 22. Once more, the Japanese sought a decisive battle but were decisively defeated. By the end, they had lost three carriers sunk, two carriers damaged, 395 carrier aircraft, about 200 land-based aircraft, two oilers, and four other damaged ships, with around 3,000 Japanese fatalities. In contrast, the Americans lost 130 aircraft and 76 aviators, with none of their damaged ships rendered out of service. The Battle of the Philippine Sea, the last carrier-versus-carrier battle of the war, stood out because the most conservative and defensive-minded side emerged victorious. In terms of scale the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot dwarfed the four carrier battles that preceded it. At the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, the largest carrier engagement involved 7 carriers at Midway; by comparison there were 24 carriers at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. It was, by a factor of almost 350 percent, the biggest carrier battle in history. Though Mitscher's Combat Air Patrol was not flawless, the combination of inadequate Japanese aircrew training and American radar-directed fighter interception rendered a significant Japanese strike ineffective. Ozawa conducted an intelligent battle, accurately assessing American intentions to launch carrier air strikes that would have been catastrophic to a carrier task force by 1942 standards. Nevertheless, his tools failed him. Despite Ozawa's skilled fleet handling, he lacked the airpower to inflict serious damage on Task Force 58. Admiral Spruance has faced criticism for his cautious approach, which exposed his carriers to attack without a strong chance of striking back at the enemy. Only the significant difference in skill between American and Japanese aviators and some good luck prevented this strategy from failing.  Now back over on Saipin, General Watson continued to focus mainly on patrolling, while the 8th Marines worked to secure Hill 500. Colonel Wallace's 2nd Battalion encountered minimal resistance, enabling them to quickly advance to the O-4 Line. Around 09:00, the 25th Marines moved towards Hill 500, subjecting the Japanese to a severe, thundering beating administered by the 4.5-inch rockets. As the Marines charged up the hill through the thinning smoke, artillery shells walked ahead in sturdy escort. Shortly before noon the hill was seized, and mopping up of the cave network began. Compartments at different levels and angles made it possible for the Japanese occupants to retreat from one cave-room to another, and the cleaning out process was a slow one. The price for Hill 500 was not light. Chambers' battalion suffered 49 casualties, nine of whom were killed. Counted Japanese dead numbered 44. Upon examination, it was found that Hill 500 had been well organized for defense but that the positions were not strongly manned. As darkness approached, the Marines dug in to defend their newly won possession. Meanwhile, the 24th Marines also reached the O-4 Line near Tsutsuran, but the 27th Division struggled to push the Japanese forces onto the challenging terrain at Nafutan Point. Additionally, the 106th Regiment arrived on June 20, and Aslito Airfield became operational, putting the security of the Japanese home islands in jeopardy. The following day involved reorganizing, resupplying, mopping-up, and patrolling to prepare for the next day's attack into central Saipan. General Smith's infantry continued their offensive south toward Nafutan Point, making incremental progress through each cave and ravine.  At 12:15, while engaged in the Nafutan Point attack, the 27th Division received a change of mission and disposition. NTLF Operation Order 9 dictated less one battalion and one light tank platoon, to assemble northwest of Aslito Airfield in NTLF reserve. Control of the division artillery would pass to the 23rd Corps Artillery. The designated infantry battalion was ordered to “operate in the Garrison Area and mop up remaining enemy detachments, maintain anti-sniper patrols within the Garrison Area and along the coast line to protect installations within its zone of action with particular attention to Aslito Airfield.” At 5:00, after consideration of the NTLForder, Ralph Smith telephoned Holland Smith and urged that a complete regiment be used to clean up Nafutan Point, rather than one battalion. He said that he planned to use the 105th Infantry for the job and that he believed they could finish in a couple of days. Holland Smith agreed to this but specified that one battalion of the 105th must be retained in reserve for possible use elsewhere. For this task, the 2nd Battalion would be selected. This modification was later confirmed in a mailbrief from NTLF which arrived at the 27th Division command post at 8;30, 22 June. Ralph Smith then issued an order to his division, the 105th will hold the present front line facing Nafutan Point, with two battalions on the line and one battalion in regimental reserve. It would relieve elements of 165th now on the front line by . Reorganization of the present front line to be effected not later than 11:00, 22 June and offensive operations against the enemy continued. Reserve battalion will maintain anti-sniper patrols in the vicinity of Aslito Airfield.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The Battle of the Philippines  was the last hurrah of the once proud IJN carrier fleet that had humbled the American two and a half years earlier. Admiral Spruance's strategic patience led to a decisive American victory. Japan's carrier threat, which had driven its early wartime expansion, was annihilated in the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.

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In this podcast episode, learn how Jack and Jill successfully flip land. They emphasize the importance of experience and knowledge in the land flipping business, and highlight the value of learning from those who have been in the industry for a long time. They outline the 10 steps involved in flipping land, including identifying a target market, sending out mailers, managing inbound responses, acquiring properties, listing them with a real estate agent, and closing the deals. They also provide insights into what makes someone successful in this business, such as taking action, making quick decisions, and being willing to ask for help and funding. They conclude by encouraging listeners to be prepared, motivated, and committed to their land flipping endeavors. Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: I’m Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I’m Jill DeWit, and this is the Land Academy Show. Steven Jack Butala: This is episode number 1,998, and today we are talking about how to flip land successfully. Jill K DeWit: You know what’s cool? I need to add up the numbers, but we’ve been doing this now going on 10 years. Not just our land business, that’s decades. We’ll get to that later. Steven Jack Butala: We’ve been teaching for 10 years. Jill K DeWit: But just teaching and sharing our business model now for going on 10 years. We have people who have been in Land Academy with us since the beginning. They’re going on 10 years. So my point is- Steven Jack Butala: Totally, I didn’t think about that. Jill K DeWit: If anyone is qualified to talk about how to make millionaires, and I don’t like to drop numbers like that, but it’s the fact, and really teach people how to start and grow and make a really successful land flipping business, it’s us. Steven Jack Butala: So I have a whole framework about how for this episode, about how to actually flip land successfully, but Jill brings up a good point. I wonder if it’s a good thing with all this experience or a bad thing. Jill K DeWit: It’s a great thing. Steven Jack Butala: I do too. Jill K DeWit: Are you kidding? I was talking to somebody the other day and they even said it to me or they’re like, “Duh, why would I want to learn from someone who’s done 100 deals versus someone who’s done 10,000 deals?” And we’re going on and we have like 17,000 deals and these are our deals. I want to make sure everybody knows it’s not the community deals. I can’t even imagine as a community how many deals we’ve done, because we’ve got some heavy hitters that are just male and flip like crazy. They’re always the quiet ones in the group. You don’t hear about them very often, but they’re there. I know they’re pulling a lot of data. I see the charges go through and it’s really, really cool. Steven Jack Butala: When I was young, I was always the smartest in the room professionally when it comes to computers. This is when Apple just started and Windows started to become names and products you could buy that could really enhance your business. And so as you can imagine from the older people that I was doing business with at the time or working for, there was a lot of pushback. They literally thought computers and technology was a fad. Jill K DeWit: Oh, gosh. Steven Jack Butala: It was going to go away, and there’s no real replacement for personal relationships. And I think half of that’s true. So I do think there is no replacement for personal relationships and there never will be. It’s the reason we still have real estate agents and we still go to buy a car to car dealership, God forbid. Jill K DeWit: Right. Steven Jack Butala: It’s because people just need to have a face and talk to somebody. So I understand that, and the technology part, that’ll apply too. It certainly applies to everybody. There are over the years since what, 25 years I’ve been doing this, the technology changes are staggering without going into the details. Jill K DeWit: Oh, my gosh. Steven Jack Butala: And I decided a long time ago to keep up with them, but the basic stuff’s never changed. Jill K DeWit: Well, even be ahead of them. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah, be ahead of them. Jill K DeWit: I’m going to say, “You’re not a, ‘Oh, I’ll catch up with you guys.'” What do you think? No, you find something and tweak it and say this and pull us all with you in a really positive way. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah, so my point is you keep up with or stay ahead of the technological changes, and I’ve made a commitment to that a long time ago. But I think that there’s young people, and I love this by the way, who think that people who are older and have a lot of experience in stuff might not be the best place to learn from, because they are not embracing these brand new concepts. The newest one now is AI, which that term is grossly misused. AI is now what I believe is a term that’s used for querying a database. And there is such a real thing of learning intelligence out there. It just doesn’t apply to the internet. And so I think that there’s so many buzzwords that go on with things on the internet now, like, “Oh, well. We’re applying AI to buying and selling land.” You’re never- Jill K DeWit: Please define. And if you ask them, explain and then it goes into a black event. Steven Jack Butala: Well, I’m just not, you know? Jill K DeWit: I don’t know. Steven Jack Butala: That’s not going to be a title for us. Jill K DeWit: Oh, yeah. Steven Jack Butala: It’s just not, because I understand the implication of AI and we can sit here and talk about it for two hours if you want. Probably looking at me or Jill and I, probably don’t look like the people that are capable of talking about that stuff. Jill K DeWit: You know what? There’s stuff behind the scenes. I have two points to make, first about the AI thing. There’s stuff behind the scenes though that our team is using that, so we really are using it. It’s not like, “Oh, we’re old school, we’re never going to do that. And I have an IBM electric on my desk.” No. So there’s stuff that we are behind the scenes utilizing this new intelligence and way of doing things. We’d be nuts not to. And the second thing I wanted to say was back to your point when you said in the very beginning of this paragraph, I don’t know what to call that. Steven Jack Butala: I call it a rabbit hole. Jill K DeWit: Yeah. You were the smartest one in the room in these areas always. I may not have been the smartest one in the room in a lot of environments, but I was probably the most talkative. Steven Jack Butala: And most energetic. Jill K DeWit: Thank you. Steven Jack Butala: And none of that’s changed. Jill K DeWit: Oh, thank you. None of that’s good or bad. Boy, who’s that person in the corner and what are they talking about? Steven Jack Butala: I’m almost never the smartest person in the room any more about anything. Jill K DeWit: Oh, please. Steven Jack Butala: But I was really early on. So my point is there’s a real serious value to the amount of transactions that Jill and I have done. And that was my lead into our topic, How to Flip Land Successfully. We’re qualified to talk about this topic. Jill K DeWit: I’m going to argue the fact that if you are in any room of real estate professionals, you are the smartest one, period. I’m just going to say it. Steven Jack Butala: Oh, boy. Jill K DeWit: Come on. You’ve been doing it the longest. Steven Jack Butala: It’s too much responsibility. Jill K DeWit: You invented all this stuff. Look how many people are following in our footsteps and it’s beautiful. You started this thing. Steven Jack Butala: Yep. Jill K DeWit: Thank you. Steven Jack Butala: All right, so what’s the very first step about how to flip land successfully? Number one- Jill K DeWit: Are we jumping into the topic? Steven Jack Butala: Oh yeah, right. We have to do this. Three [inaudible 00:06:22]. Jill K DeWit: Like we have no question and I’m like, I missed all this. Steven Jack Butala: Each week on the show… I’ll get back to that in a second. Jill K DeWit: Okay. [inaudible 00:06:29]. He got us all excited. Steven Jack Butala: Each week on the show we answer a question from our Land Academy Member Discord Forum and take a deep dive into a land-related topic by popular request from our Land Academy community. So let’s take that question, Jill. Jill K DeWit: Okay. So Sandy wrote, “Hello all. I’m new to Land Academy, but not new to land flipping. I came from another online land group where I realized about 10 land deals in” Excuse me, “Where I completed about 10 land deals and then I sold them on terms. I realize now that buying for cash and selling for cash is where the real money is. I’m a Jack, not a Jill. What advice do you have for me in making this transition and any advice in general to be successful in this space?” Steven Jack Butala: Well, welcome. Jill K DeWit: Yay. Steven Jack Butala: You are joining the ranks of probably more than half of the people who have ever passed through Land Academy here in an existing membership group. For whatever reason, I don’t think that we’re the best marketers out there, but people seem to land. They choose us last after going through other programs. Jill K DeWit: You may not start here, but you’re probably going to end here if you’re good. Yes. Steven Jack Butala: No. So what’s my advice for you for starting out? Or I don’t know, you’re probably in second gear right now, which is great. Jill K DeWit: That’s good. Steven Jack Butala: I would clear your mind, go through the programs and utilize all the tools that Jill and I have put in place to help you be successful from wherever you’re joining us. So you’re joining us in the middle, which is great. You have some experience. Join our Discord Forum, get through Land Academy 3.0, the education. Somebody told me recently, it’s like 26 hours. Jill K DeWit: Oh, it was like 14 hours. Steven Jack Butala: Okay, good. Jill K DeWit: Yeah, I don’t think it was 26. I think it was like 14. Steven Jack Butala: It’s a lot. There’s a lot of detail. Jill K DeWit: But I think we thought it was like six or eight hours and they’re like, “No, no. It’s more than that.” I’m like, “Okay.” Steven Jack Butala: And then there’s a user dashboard where you can access everything. We have a Thursday member webinar. There’s 100+ people on there every Thursday where we look at our deals, ask any questions. There’s a lot. There’s that and a lot more. We will do your mailer for you with a product called Concierge Data. We own… This is not a sales pitch. She’s asking where she should start? Jill K DeWit: Utilize the tools, utilize the resources. Steven Jack Butala: That’s it. Jill K DeWit: That’s the main thing. We provide you with, not only the education, but all the tools and support that you need. You only have to ask. Steven Jack Butala: They’re all there. And so it’s your job to get yourself organized, stay on track with the program and execute each little piece. And then there’s all kinds of support for wherever you’re coming, we will meet you there. Jill K DeWit: Can I add one little note too, because she said she’s a Jack and not a Jill? Steven Jack Butala: Yeah. Jill K DeWit: There are other Jills in this group that need Jacks. So if you’re not sure what we’re talking about, he’s always the data guy, picking the areas, pricing the mailers, doing all that stuff, right? Getting it out there and making my phone ring. And then the phone starts ringing now, and that’s where I jump in, getting these sellers to getting the deals, getting them to fall in love with me and my team and wanting to do the transaction with us, make it easy for them all the way to the sales point when it’s all done. So it’s interesting that there’s a lot of Jacks. Now more Jills are coming around. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah, it’s true. Jill K DeWit: But in the beginning when we started Land Academy nine years ago, we had way more Jacks, way analytical and nobody could answer the phone. It was actually funny, and now it’s like we pivot a little bit, pivot a little, even more women, which is a whole nother conversation. But more Jills. So my point in bringing this up is there are so many partnerships I have seen made successfully running that met within Land Academy, and so that’s a huge thing. So don’t worry about that too, Sandy. If you’re like, “Great, I can do all this but I can’t do this.” Then again, all you need to do is reach out to your peers, because there’s probably somebody there that said, “You know what? I need you, Sandy.” No, I’m serious. Steven Jack Butala: Today’s topic, How to Flip Land Successfully. So I want you to just clear your mind for a second and think about what flipping a piece of land really is. You’re buying something and you’re selling it for more. And through that transition, you’re taking money, you’re buying an asset. You’re redressing it up on the internet, not physically, but redressing it up on the internet and selling it for more. And keeping the money, that’s in between. So if you buy a piece of property for 20,000 bucks, you sell it for 40,000… I’m oversimplifying here, you’ve made $20,000. You put it in your pocket. That’s what this is. That’s the goal. It’s never changed. I don’t care how much AI or whatever is called AI is involved, how many employees you have don’t have, that’s it. So what I did, and I didn’t realize this and I was thinking about this early this morning for some reason, I don’t know why. Well, I knew the topic was going to be this today. I know you did it too, long before we ever crossed paths, is bought stuff and resold it. I don’t care what it is. So if you’ve done that, if you bought a house, let’s say, cleaned it all up, and I don’t mean renovated it, I mean bought a house. Your life circumstances changed and you need to sell the house, how’d you sell it? Did you sell it for more? Did you lose money on it? Did you put your heart and soul into reselling that house? If you ever had a garage sale, you got 25, 30, 300 things out there, a couple of them you probably sold for more than you had into it. Maybe somebody actually gave whatever you sold and so you made money on it. That’s either in your soul or it’s not, buying something and reselling it for more. It certainly is in mine. Jill K DeWit: I was going to say too, the point I want to make sure it’s clear, because I think this is going to attract people who are new to us, and they don’t know who we are, and you’re probably maybe listening to this for the first time. We’re not saying, “I’m buying something off the MLS that’s a bad listing with bad photos and involving an agent,” or something like that. That’s not what we’re talking about. We create a deal where there was no deal and then so we’re taking something… It’s almost like I’m going back to your garage sale thing. It’s like I walked in my mom’s house and said, “You know that vase in the corner that’s collecting dust, that’s worth something. Can I buy it from you for 20 bucks?” And then all I’m going to do is give it a bath maybe. I wash it and put it on a table and sell it for 50 bucks. Kind of like that. That’s what we do with land. So I want to make sure that that was clear how we do that. Steven Jack Butala: There’s 10 basic steps to buying and selling land successfully. Number one, you have to identify a market where you think this is going to work. This works in all markets. I’ll say that again. Buying land and selling it for more works in every single market. The variable is time. So I can buy a piece of property in the most rural market in North Dakota that there ever was for a reasonable price, and clean it all up and resell it and it will sell. It might take 20 years. We don’t want that. We want to choose intelligently-used data to choose markets where we can do it a lot faster than that, hopefully inside of a month. So you need to really understand how to use data to find a target market to buy and sell land. We are experts at that. There’s no other way for me to say it. That’s how I spend most of day. Jill K DeWit: That’s one of the unique things about us. Steven Jack Butala: Number two, you need to test that market and then get the data of all the people that own real estate in that market. The universe of property owners, we are experts at that. We are licensed providers of the best source of data, and when you look at all the costs associated with it, there’s no place cheaper to get data than it is from us in the long term. Jill K DeWit: And training. Steven Jack Butala: Let’s keep this real simple. Jill K DeWit: Okay. Steven Jack Butala: Let’s just go right through the 10 steps. Jill K DeWit: I won’t talk. Steven Jack Butala: You can talk. Now you’ve got the data. What we do is we send every single one of those logical sellers an actual offer. “Sally Smith, I would like to buy a property for $3,122 and 13 cents.” That we have found gets the best response. Jill and I own property all over this country. Every week we get offers that we crack up, like, “This is never going to work. The seller’s never going to respond to it.” What was the most recent one we got? Jill K DeWit: Oh, in the mail? Steven Jack Butala: Yeah. Jill K DeWit: Oh, my gosh. It was like a fake handwritten envelope with a fake yellow pad, and there wasn’t even a number in there. It was just, “I want to buy your property in this county.” They didn’t even tell me which property. They didn’t have my name inside there. It was really weird, and they only use their first names. They didn’t even really give their company name or their last name, and they gave me a Yahoo email account. I’m like, “This is not, this is,” I feel bad. I want to help this person. Steven Jack Butala: So these are examples often. Jill K DeWit: That’s not going to send the right message. Steven Jack Butala: I’m only on step two, and we’re already identify… The name of the show here is, How to Flip Land Successfully? Jill K DeWit: True. Steven Jack Butala: And so if you’re not identifying a target market based on data and results, that’s number one. You’re not going to do it successfully. Number two, if you’re not sending out pricing, creating a mailer and sending it out, based on very intelligent data-driven pricing and sending out an offer, not just a letter of interest, what Jill just described as a letter of interest, you’re probably not going to do it successfully. In fact, I’ve done all these things. Jill K DeWit: That’s going to slow you down. Steven Jack Butala: And I’ve done all incorrectly. Jill K DeWit: It’s time and money wasted, unfortunately. You want them to call you back with a number. Steven Jack Butala: And so I’m skipping ahead in steps, not necessarily, but steps between creating a mailer and pricing it, and then approving the mailer. Whoever you get to do your mailer, we have a company called Offers 2 Owners that does mailers for you. All you have to do is check our pricing. That’ll get you to step number five, which is managing the flow of inbound responses. So let me be super clear. Step one is to identify and test for logical places to send mail. Number two is to get the ball rolling down the mailer road, and so you’re creating a mailer. Number three is managing the mailer, whether you manage yourself or you manage it through our mailing company or anywhere else. And number four is you price it and you get it out in the mail. So number five now is managing the flow of inbound responses. This is where I stop working and Jill starts working. Jill K DeWit: Right. Steven Jack Butala: So she will utilize something, some phone-answering service. We use PATLive. There’s a ton of them out there. Or you can answer your phone yourself. Jill K DeWit: Back in the day, I did it myself. Steven Jack Butala: And manage all this inbound flow of people saying, “I do want to do this deal and thanks for letting me know, and what’s the next step?” All that to go pond sand, because you’re crazy. My properties were $13 million and you offered me 13 cents. Jill K DeWit: I personally love this part. This is my favorite part. Can I just want to pause for just a second? This is when the win happens for me. You know when you’re buying it, what you’re buying, how valuable it is and all that good stuff. So that’s for me, that’s so exciting. I love it. I love getting the calls and talking to the sellers and making these transactions happen. So that’s step five. Steven Jack Butala: Step five is what I call, because the name of the show is How to Flip Land Successfully, this is where I believe most people fail. Jill K DeWit: Really? Steven Jack Butala: Yep. I think that. There was a… I said this in Career Path. Jill and I teach a class called Career Path. It’s in a real advance for people who make this their career or it is their career and they want to get better at it. One of the things that I remembered from going to school to college is that in every business there’s a moment where the customer is receiving your product or your service. There’s this magical moment where they decide, “Wow, this is something I’m going to utilize and I believe in it,” or, “I don’t want any part of this.” It’s when you sit down in a new car in a dealership and you decide, “This is exactly what I’m looking for,” or, “Oh, my God. I never want to see this car again.” It’s the time. It’s what bedside manner is for healthcare workers. Every business has that moment, and it’s at this moment when they talk to Jill for the first 15 to 30 seconds, the seller does. They’re going to decide whether or not they want to talk to her and sell a piece of property or deal with her at all. This is imperative, and I used to think a perfectly priced mailer, “Oh, we don’t need to do this other stuff over here. It’s just not the case.” I used to think that before Jill and I joined forces about what, 15 years ago? Jill K DeWit: Mm-hmm. Steven Jack Butala: So it’s imperative to get somebody who knows how to do this. If you’re somebody like me or just if you’re in corporate sales for your entire life, then you already know all of this. Number six is now you’ve got a list of people that have called you back or a list of potential deals. You’ve created, congratulations, real estate deal flow. This has eluded the vast majority of people in all real estate of all time. Creating deal flow, what Jill referred to earlier, is you’re creating a real estate transaction. You’re not out on the MLS looking for one to sell for a higher rate. You’re not in Walmart trying to buy something to resell it for more somewhere. It’s very unlikely that that’s going to happen. In fact, I would say it’s probably not going to happen. So you’ve got these 10 real estate deals that you have created and just like 10 of anything, some of them are going to be great, some of them are going to suck and the rest of them are going to be in the middle. And so you take some time and decide which ones you want. Or if you’re Land Academy- Jill K DeWit: Well, the great ones. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah. Well, if you’re a Land Academy member and you’re new, then if you’ve been doing this for a long time, you’re going to jump up and down when you get off the phone. Jill K DeWit: You know. Steven Jack Butala: If you’re new, you’re going to utilize the resources that Jill and I put together in Land Academy to make you successful. Jill K DeWit: Or ask us. We’ll help you. Steven Jack Butala: We’ll tell you if it sucks or not. We’ll tell you if it’s great. If it is, we’ll fund it. If it sucks, then we’ll tell you that too. Jill K DeWit: We’ll save you. No, no. The whole point of that is we save you. That’s one of the big values I see every week on our member calls and say, “Hey, would you guys do this deal? I’m on the fence.” And we’re like, “Okay. You need to look at this, this and this,” and guide them. Or like, “Uh-uh. Because of this and this, I wouldn’t even do it.” They’re like, “Whew. Thank you. You just saved me all that work and energy and time and money potentially.” So absolutely. Steven Jack Butala: Hey, now’s a good time to ask you to Like this episode if you do or follow our channel. We’re here every week, every Wednesday. I think that these programs air at 3:00. Jill K DeWit: Yep. Steven Jack Butala: And then we also have just redeveloped a product called Concierge Data where our guys that work for us, they’re the same people that do our mailers, will do your mailer for you. So if you go to Offers 2 Owners, offers2owners.com. Just check it out. Give them a call, actually. Talk to Aaron. Tell him Jack and Jill sent you from the podcast. So step seven, you actually acquire the property. You looked at, let’s say 10, and a healthy number is two of them really meet after talking to the sellers and checking it all out and using the due diligence program that we have provided, let’s say eight A’s, which that’s for a different conversation. We try to make due diligence as simple as possible, and you decide you want to buy two, so you buy them, and if you are brand new at this, that can be intimidating, that process. But again, that’s why you have Land Academy and a bunch of people at your fingertips, literally. You can ask questions all day long and get the deal done correctly without any fear of missing steps. I’ve noticed that people, that was one of the things I was concerned about when I started was, “What steps am I missing in this actual transaction?” Or, “What should I be reading? There’s a big stack of papers in front of me on these two deals. I don’t know what a lot of this stuff means.” That’s why you have your peer group here, us. Number nine is just quite simply, you’ve made a decision. You bought the property, and so now you’re going to travel down the path of listing it with a local real estate agent. And so that can be a tricky little path too. Again, we’re all going through the same thing. Hundreds and hundreds of us here at Land Academy are going through the same thing. So picking a real estate agent, Jill, we could spend hours. Jill K DeWit: That’d be a whole nother show. That’d be fun to talk about. So I love that. Steven Jack Butala: So you listed it with a real estate agent and then you manage the real estate agent, geez, like you manage your children. Unfortunately, it’s a very- Jill K DeWit: I hope you manage your children. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah, yeah. Jill K DeWit: I’m sure some of you don’t. Steven Jack Butala: Bad example. Jill K DeWit: Yeah. Steven Jack Butala: The property eventually gets sold. It may get sold for the price you want. It may not, most of the time for us, almost all the time. Jill K DeWit: It’s pretty close. Steven Jack Butala: We sell for what we want, otherwise we wouldn’t buy it. Jill K DeWit: Yeah. Steven Jack Butala: I think that’s step eight or nine. And then step 10 is you collect the money. You approve the sale, close the deal and collect the money. It’s a 10 step process. The difference between doing it successfully, in my opinion, or not successfully, is all about who’s in your life. If you have people that are buying and selling land and doing real estate deals all the time who have had a ton of experience and they’re available to you, that’s the difference between all the people on the internet right now who believe that they can flip land and actually the people who do it successfully. Jill K DeWit: That’s a good point. Can I look at that for just a minute before you close it? Steven Jack Butala: Sure. Sure. Jill K DeWit: It’d be nice to just identify some of the trigger points here. What makes someone really wildly successful? I would like to add that. So of these steps, step number one, okay, taking the time to dig in and not have a dart board, not trust your friend, not trust somebody you’re watching, doing what you think you know. “Oh, San Antonio, I got to hit San Antonio. Let’s just mail that.” But really taking the time and testing these markets, that’s a huge thing right there, and that separates the successful from the unsuccessful right out of the gate. Number two, just taking action, going through the process, learning how to do a mailer or hiring someone to do it for you, but knowing. Don’t have an automated easy button and you know someone who really knows what they’re doing. They understand this whole process. They know how to scrape comps. It’s again, not an easy button in a machine that doesn’t really look at these numbers and knows what is real and what is not real so you can take them out and not mess up your numbers and have an overpriced mailer kind of thing. But taking action and getting through that is huge. These are places… Like someone coming in, I’ve seen them go through the step one, but actually getting the mail out, huge obstacle. For some reason, people get hung up right there. We’ve had people in Land Academy for months who haven’t sent out a mailer, and I know in their hearts they’re here for the right reason. They’re like, “Okay, next month I’m going to do it. Next month I’m going to do it.” But there’s something that holds them back. So you’ve got to just, who cares? Push through it. If it’s not the greatest work, that’s okay. Get it out there, but you have us, and we’ll show you and teach you and coach you and help you to make sure you did everything you possibly could. Do your best job here. Now hit it, get it out kind of thing. Looking through here where people get hung up and what’s successful. Okay, when we got to the part about the calls are coming back, that is huge. The successful folks answer the phone themselves, A., or have some other live body that they know, they’ve vetted, they’ve tested, even a service that we all use or other people have used and trusted, huge. You would have so many missed deals, if it goes to voicemail or you have some other… What if you only had an email? It’s just people aren’t going to use that. They’re going to pick up the phone and call you kind of thing. And you have to have someone there and have the right person there, by the way, who knows how to talk to these sellers and work with them. Let them know who you are. It’s a real person and talk money with them right away. That’s another just a light bulb, successful moment. Making the decisions, what’s a really good, successful person there? They know how to make quick decisions, and they’re very good with their time, and they are not afraid to cut a deal that they’re not comfortable with. I see people getting hung up here trying to make a bad deal work. A real successful person knows what we’re talking about. They study their eight A’s. They go, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Got them all. Let’s go.” And they’re not afraid to just move forward and buy the property. What’s another point? Well, when we’re buying the property, what’s a real successful person doing? They’re not afraid of money. They’re not as afraid of spending money, and if they don’t have the money, they’re not afraid to ask for money. I know people that don’t utilize the deal funding resources that we have right here, even from us. Ask. If it’s a great deal, I will happily write that check. Steven Jack Butala: If it’s even a reasonable deal, there’s somebody in our group- Jill K DeWit: They’ll write the check. Steven Jack Butala: … may or may not be us, they’re here to fund deals. They’re not here to do what you do. Jill K DeWit: That happens and what’s great too, it’s confidence and experience and knowing what you’re good at. I am not too proud to say, and I’ve done this like, “Hey, I think this is a great deal, but you know what? I don’t know this area quite as well as this person, and I know they are loving to do deal funding. If I were you, I would reach out to this person and tell them I sent you, see what they say. And if it’s a real good deal, they’ll tell you. And if they want to fund it, oh, they will,” kind of thing. And there you go. I’m trying to find the… I’m thinking of successful light bulb moments is what I’m doing here. Signing paperwork, there’s no light bulb moment there, other than do it. Let’s see what else here? And make it easy. Just make it easy. Don’t overthink stuff. Steven Jack Butala: Can I jump in here? Jill K DeWit: Yeah. Why? You’re going… I can’t go through with this? Steven Jack Butala: Oh, are you… Just go ahead and finish it. Jill K DeWit: Oh, yeah. I want to finish my little light bulb moments through the list. Listing with an agent. Real successful people know how to pick up the phone and vet an agent and to not take the first person you call until you find someone that you connect with. And then the last thing, you already know how it’s going to end. Real successful people already have, when they bought it, already have in their head a targeted sales price. So it’s no surprise. Now you can take that. Steven Jack Butala: That’s a recap. Let’s recap. The first step in this process is to locate, based on data, locate a place to send mail. The second step is to identify all the people that own property there and get an offer in their hands. The third step is to manage the inbound flow of deals and make some decisions about which ones you like, which ones you don’t, and why. The next step is buy the ones you like. This next step after that is sell the ones you like or sell the ones that you own, and that’s it. And it’s those five basic steps. There’s a lot of stuff in between that happens, a lot of details, but that’s what groups like Land Academy are for. Jill K DeWit: We’ll help you. Steven Jack Butala: It’s a five step process. Yep. Jill K DeWit: Well, the whole thing is too, people don’t understand I think though. We go into great, almost too much detail sometimes, but you brainy folks love it. So if you’re questioning, “Hey, does Land Academy talk about fill in the blank?” 99.9% of the time, it’s yes. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah, we do. Jill K DeWit: The only thing I’m not going to do is to sit down with you and fill out your tax return kind of thing. But outside of that, every possible conversation you can imagine, because that’s who we are. I’m here to help. The whole thing is Land Academy is helping you start or grow or both your own successful company. That’s it. And then we’re all just doing deals together and it’s awesome. Steven Jack Butala: Here’s a profile after 10 years of teaching that we think really fits who’s successful at this and who’s not. First, who’s successful? If you’ve been successful at anything in your life in the past or let’s say most of the stuff that you’ve tried, you’ve been successful at it, you’re going to be successful at this. You probably don’t even know it. You don’t know that you have that go-getter type personality, and you’re not going to lose. You’re not going to even know when you’re defeated. You’re just going to keep barreling through. We have tons of people in our group who have sold their companies or own companies now, and they want an extra place, diversification, an extra revenue stream. And so those people do very, very well with us. The second type of really successful member for us is somebody who’s just really, really new and really, really energetic. Jill K DeWit: I was going to use the word hungry. Steven Jack Butala: Both. It’s the same thing. We’re talking about the same type of person. So those are real, and that comes down to a personality type. It doesn’t come down to whether or not they’re smart enough to understand the processes or whether they’re a Jack or a Jill. That personality type is going to overcome all of that anyway. That’s just how they do it. Jill K DeWit: And age doesn’t matter. Steven Jack Butala: Yeah. As you can imagine, on the flip side, the people who don’t do this successfully are the ones who quite simply just don’t follow through. They don’t follow through on the steps and that’s it. Jill K DeWit: Well, I just call it sometimes it’s like I say, “They let life get in the way.” That’s what happens. So I understand. So that’s part of it too, when you’re going to come at this… Oh, I could use it for that. All right. Steven Jack Butala: No, no. Jill K DeWit: I’ll save it. Oh, no, I can save it for my inspiration. Steven Jack Butala: I’m just saving it next. Jill has something inspirational to share. Jill K DeWit: Something [inaudible 00:35:15]. Okay, I can save it for that. So all right, so I’ll just say that. What my inspiration is, don’t let life… Well, life will get in the way if you’ll let it. Steven Jack Butala: With anything. Jill K DeWit: It really will. And I know I don’t need to minimize. Sometimes there are major life events, so I’m not referring to that. But there are a whole lot of life events that people could overcome, but they let them get in the way. And it’s interesting to me. I’ve had people even four times, it’s the sweetest thing. Steven Jack Butala: Really? Jill K DeWit: You know who you are and I love you guys. People have left. There’s been a life event. They left and then sometimes weeks, sometimes months, sometimes even a year, they’re like, “You know what? I did not give that my full attention and energy. I know what’s going on in Land Academy. I’m still hearing about my buddy that I started with and how much money he’s making right now. I need to go back and get back to this.” And they come right back, and I’m happy to have you back and I love that. So my inspiration is the first thing would be, get yourself mentally and physically ready to do this. I want you to have the budget so you can afford to get educated. Just like anything, I wouldn’t say go buy a 7-Eleven with no money and take out a loan. And I wouldn’t say… There’s no business I would say, “Oh, just take out a loan and see how it goes.” No way. No matter what business you’re going to do, save up, get some education, do everything you can before you jump in so you know what you’re getting into, and then prepare your whole family and your whole life, your vacation schedule, your kids, every little thing. This is the same thing. It shouldn’t be taken lightly. If you want to really be successful, get everything in a row. Prepare everybody. “We’re not going to take a vacation this summer. This is what we’re doing, because wait two years and wait until you see the vacations we can take,” kind of thing. That’s the goal. So just get everything ready and go at it 112%. Remember that 12 degrees thing. I think that was 12 degrees, whatever that book was, that was so long ago. That’s my inspiration. And if it’s not the right time, and I tell this to people all the time, I talk to people that call in, I say, “You know what? Wait six months. I’m not going anywhere. You need to be in the right place. You need to be ready to do this, and I don’t want you to do this half blank. I want you to come at this full speed, and we’ll get you there.” What do you want to share today? Steven Jack Butala: So I was having a conversation with one of the people that worked for us a couple of weeks ago, maybe a week ago, and we were talking about how this generation, it is an absolute. It’s expected of you and it’s a norm to have some type of side gig, to be working on something on the side that eventually, if it goes right, is going to be your entrepreneurial shot and mark in life. And I could not have grown up in a more different environment. I grew up where you were very rewarded for, this is a lot of years ago in Detroit, rewarded for either being in a company person and working there forever and getting a gold watch and you retire. Or going off and starting your own company, which is nearly impossible back then unless you had all kinds of backing and people that were involved in the businesses and the contacts and the money, because starting a metal stamping plant costs back then even millions and millions of dollars. So most or all of us chose number one. Fast-forward to now, it’s 180 degrees different. You are expected to have a side gig. But I don’t think that most people have any idea what that means from a personality standpoint and what Jill just referred to about sacrifice, personal sacrifice. The more stuff you pile on in your life like children and marriage and a mortgage and all of that, the further you’re going to get away from accomplishing whatever’s making that side gig that we’re all now expected to have a reality. And I think that makes me sad, because we’re in one of the greatest entrepreneurial times, if not the greatest entrepreneurial time, in the history of our country. It has never been cheaper and easier. You are literally a half hour away from starting your own company. Jill K DeWit: Isn’t it amazing? Can we unfold this onion a little bit here? I was raised differently, which really I saw both sides. I watched my dad hustle with different jobs back in… He had so many jobs it’s comical, from firefighter and selling insurance and radio DJ and mailman, Disneyland. Some of this was before I was born, but I know of these jobs, and to pilot to professional pilot to investor. He too, I always watched my dad have this job that paid very well and then a little side hustle, because he had time to do this stuff. I just think it’s really interesting. I’m trying to think with the kids now. I see when I say kids, I am referring to our kids. So this is the one. I’m not picking on anybody that doesn’t deserve it, but I watch our kids have- Steven Jack Butala: Jill’s caveats. That’s what I call it. Jill K DeWit: There we go. So I watch our kids have an opportunity, squander the opportunity, have to get a real job or just some other job to pay the bills, which you should, not sleeping on my couch, kind of thing. And then realize, “Oh, that’s an opportunity,” and I’m seeing a shift. I feel like there’s a generation where… There’s a generation in the middle of us and our kids where they’re afraid to take on their own company. Have you noticed this? Steven Jack Butala: Go ahead. Yes. Jill K DeWit: Okay. Steven Jack Butala: It’s the same fear that I had and that my parents had and their parents had. Nothing’s changed. I’m going to finish your point. Jill K DeWit: Yeah, go ahead. Steven Jack Butala: Nothing has changed from me staring into the abyss when I was 18 or 17 years old with this insurmountable task of trying to open a metal stamping plant or whatever. Jill K DeWit: That was your thing? Steven Jack Butala: Just hold on. Jill K DeWit: Oh, sorry. Steven Jack Butala: It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what I wanted. You are staring if you’re a young person right now into this seemingly black abyss, because everything’s relative of where do I start? What you have that we never had was education and the internet. Jill K DeWit: YouTube. Steven Jack Butala: And you have answers to every question that you’ve ever, ever… So this is not some old guy saying, “I had it harder than you.” That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying it’s the exact same thing. It’s just relative. The tools that we had were finite back then, and the tools that you have are finite now. You just have to work your way through it, and at some point you’re going to look at yourself in the mirror and say, “I’m set up for this or I’m not.” Or you’re going to motivate yourself. If you have a personality type like Jill, you’re going to motivate yourself and talk to yourself to the point where you’re going to make this successful and that’s it. And that is coming full circle to what this topic is about today is How to Flip Land Successfully, because you’re staring in the mirror saying, “This is it now, this is it, and I’m taking this down to the end. I might not know how to do a mailer. I’m going to find out somebody who does. I might not know how to build a website and that’s easy. It costs 300 bucks on Fiverr. I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know how to do this, but what I do know is I’m going to succeed at it and I’m going to be the quarterback.” That’s all I am. In all of these businesses that Joe and I own is a quarterback. Jill K DeWit: What am I? Steven Jack Butala: You’re like a- Jill K DeWit: I like this. Steven Jack Butala: You’re the wide receiver. Jill K DeWit: I was going to say- Steven Jack Butala: You’re Tron. Jill K DeWit: I know. I was waiting for that one. I’m not the kicker. Steven Jack Butala: No one wants to be the kicker. Jill K DeWit: No one wants to be the kicker. Yeah, I’ll be the wide receiver. I was expecting that. Steven Jack Butala: Calling myself a quarterback is actually not that accurate. I think I do a lot less than what a quarterback does. What I probably- Jill K DeWit: Well, you call the plays. Steven Jack Butala: I’m a general manager more than anything. Jill K DeWit: That makes sense. Steven Jack Butala: Quarterbacks have talent. I’m the general manager that makes sure the lights are on in the stadium and then whoever didn’t turn the lights on in the stadium is going to hear from me. I am not the quarterback at all now that I’m thinking about it. Jill K DeWit: That’s hilarious. Are you the guy that makes sure the Gatorade’s out there and all filled up too? Steven Jack Butala: I am the guy who put the person in place of the Gatorade. Jill K DeWit: There we go. Okay. Well, in that case, now what? Am I still the wide receiver or what am I? Steven Jack Butala: No, no, I think I’m not sure. I don’t know. Jill K DeWit: I’m definitely not the person with the clipboard yelling at people. Steven Jack Butala: You’re the mascot. Jill K DeWit: Oh, I’m the mascot. That is actually accurate. Steven Jack Butala: Although if Jill was a mascot, she would be the mascot with the head on, the head of the mascot on for about eight minutes, and she’d take it off and, “No one can see me with his head on.” Jill K DeWit: No one knows it’s me. This is going to come back to bite us. I can already hear you folks who know us are going to bring this up again. I’m talking about the… What was your job? You’re the manager, the manager of the mascot. Steven Jack Butala: Not even the owner. I’m just the manager. Jill K DeWit: General manager of the mascot. That’s great. That’s like every years ago we had team red, team blue. That’s good. I love this. Hey, don’t forget, if you want to find out more, you have some questions, you can talk to our team, reach out. Send a note to support@landacademy.com. Steven Jack Butala: Join us next Wednesday for another interesting episode. You are not alone in your real estate ambition. Jill K DeWit: We are Jack and Jill. Steven Jack Butala: We are Jack and Jill. Information. Jill K DeWit: And inspiration. Steven Jack Butala: To buy undervalued property. https://youtu.be/MqVbdwkCAcc Thanks for listening, and finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts.

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