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This time we're-a stand up and shout with the returning Dave Ryan as he and Kieran tell Mark why they both put Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock from WrestleMania X-7 (April 1, 2001) on their Must See Matches lists, and of course we talk about THAT video… PLUS: the insanity that was US wrestling at this time, the WrestleMania 19 match, the overall quality of WrestleMania X7, (lack of) memories of WrestleMania 2000, other video packages, Highlander, Disturbed, Forceable Entry, young Rock, a comedy of errors including uncooperative furniture, a story from Kieran's past life, the Shartshooter, Joe Bloggs vs. Mike Whatever, Linda getting out of her chair, Zoidberg, Beaker, and top blading tips. Follow the project and podcast on Twitter, Instagram.Mastodon, BlueSky and Threads: ⁠@MustSeeMatches⁠ Discord: bit.ly/mustseematchesdiscord Follow Mark: ⁠@monkey_buckles⁠ Follow Kieran: ⁠@kieranedits ⁠http://linktr.ee/mustseematches⁠ Follow Dave: ⁠@TheDayToDave⁠ Follow Days of Thunder: ⁠@WCWThunderPod⁠ // ⁠alargemanappears.com⁠

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Support us on Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/missingepisodes Tip us on https://ko-fi.com/missingeps Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/drwhopodcasters It's episode 13 of The Missing Episodes Podcast! For the first time proper, the TARDIS is back on contemporary Earth, indeed in contemporary London, and The Doctor and Dod… uhh… the Doctor and new, groovy companions Ben and Polly face down the mechanical menace in the Post Office Tower and The War Machines. Master podcaster Steven Schapansky (@RadioFreeSkaro) and Doctor Who Historian Jon Preddle (https://broadwcast.org/) join to help analyse this most seminal of stories, as Season 3 draws to a close and Doctor Who marches on in a new format under Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis. Then it's off on a world tour, as Jon talks us through the sales process, censorship in Australia and New Zealand and how and why four prints of The War Machines ended up in Nigeria, to be found by Ian Levine in the 1980's. This is the deepest of deep dives and summarises years of Jon's cutting-edge research. We also explore why, perhaps, The Wheel in Space wasn't in Jos when Enemy and Web were recovered over ten years ago! So leave your Dodo at home, put on your fab gear and join us as we take a look at The War Machines. If you enjoy this podcast, we ask that you share it on social media to help us find our audience! Tim is on Twitter @drwhopodcasters, and please do come and like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/drwhoandthepodcasters. Executive Producer: Rich Tipple Become a patron and help us cover our fees and keep us in biscuits via https://www.patreon.com/missingepisodes. Thanks to much to the exceedingly lovely Alex TheSkapes, Andrew Llewellyn, Andy Kitching, Anthony Carroll, Tony Carroll, Anthony Fusco, Anthony Wainer, Ashton Withers, Bedwyr Gullidge, Bluey111, Brendan McKenna-Nicoll, Charles Geers, Chris Arkle, Chris Fone, Colin Brockhurst, Craig Thomson, Darren Howard, David Gillespie-Pratt, David Green, David Matthewman, Dean Poole, Deetz Easterwood, Dominic Jackson, Garry Byrne, Gav Rymill, Harry Townsend, Huw Buchtman, Jack Sharpe, James, James Cluskey, Jamie Bate, JB, Jess Jurkovic, Jim Trenowden, Joe Lewallen, Joe Bloggs, John Geoffrion, John Rivers, John Thomson, Jon, Jon Sheehan, Jonathan Le Targat, Jonathan Potter, Joshua, Marc Cameron, Martin Ramsdin, Matthew, Matthew Purchase, Michael Elison, Neil Smith, Nick Lawton, Nick Mellish, Oliver Wake, Patrick, Paul Cooke, Peter Cuminskey, Philip Stubley, Pierce Carrig, Ray Badrick, Reuben Hergfindahl, Rich Hughes, Richard Byatt, Richard Higson, Richard Smith, Richie Howarth, Rob Fleming, Sara Irving, Sarah Crotzer, Sean Martindill, Sidney Troat, Simon Exton, Simon Whitehead, Sinead Morse, Stephen Hartwell, Stephen Moffatt, Stephen Wolterstorff, Steven Manfred, Steven Quinn, Steven Schapansky, Steven White, Stewart Boyles, Stuart Hargreves, That's Chroma, Tim Arding, and last but not least, Toby Hadoke. With thanks the wonderful Bea Garrido https://twitter.com/BeaGarrido00 for her art, assistance and her patience. Check out her brilliant Doctor Who art https://beagarridoart.weebly.com/ This free podcast borrows snippets of music from “Marche, Les Structures Sonores” – Lasry Baschet. We lovingly pilfer original music cues by from the BBC's original production of The War Machines.

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When our kids were younger, I served a couple of terms on the Board at our local primary school and never, during that six years, did it enter my mind that some of my fellow board members might be ex-prisoners. I'm pretty sure none of them were but there could've been, because we're finding out today that if someone has served a prison sentence of less than two years they can put themselves up for election to a school board of trustees. We're finding out about it because it's election time for school boards around the country and someone by the name of Philip Arps has put his hat in the ring to be a board member at Te Aratai College in Christchurch, which is being described today as one of Christchurch's most multi-cultural schools. If his name rings a bell, that's because he's the white supremacist who used to run the insulation company which charged $14.88 per metre for insulation, with 14.88 being a hate symbol popular with white supremacists. Back in 2016, he delivered a pig's head to the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch and, more recently, he's had connections with the anti-vaccine mandate movement. But he's probably best known for sending the video of the March 15 Christchurch mosque shooting to 30 people, and asking a friend to modify it by adding cross-hairs and a "kill count". That appalling, sickening behaviour earned him six-months in prison. But because he was sentenced for less than two years he is fully entitled to run in school board elections. Which is what he's currently doing. In fact, anyone who has served a prison sentence of less than two years can. So, in light of Arps trying to get elected to the Te Aratai College board, there are calls today for the rules to be changed because they provide no safeguard at all against parents with extremist views ending up on school boards. When I first heard about this I thought ‘if they're the rules, let him stand, and if people don't like him they won't vote for him'. But then I thought about the fact that while people might know who Philip Arps is, it doesn't mean they necessarily know every other ex-prisoner who might be trying to get themselves onto a school board. And so I definitely think the rules need to be changed because there will be some people who won't want ex-prisoners being anywhere near a school board. But not all ex-prisoners are the same are they? And while Philip Arps went to prison for something that 99.99 percent of us were appalled by, there are people who also go to prison for six months, 12 months, or 18 months whose crimes are completely different. They could be for driving offences or dishonesty offences which, most of the time, aren't necessarily linked to extreme views. And so there may be someone who did a short period of time inside who may be perfectly ready to make a contribution to their community and who shouldn't be prevented from doing that. That could even be Philip Arps. So I think letting someone stand for school board elections if they've served a prison sentence of less than two years is going to be fine in most cases - but much more transparency is needed. That's why I think that if there's going to be any change to the rules, it shouldn't be along the lines of banning ex-prisoners from school boards - but we should be requiring these people to be completely open and transparent from the outset about their past. And I think the best way of doing that would be to require candidates to include their convictions in the blurb they write that goes out to the parents when it's time to do the voting. So in this case with Philip Arps running for the Te Aratai College board, he would have to say that he was sentenced for doing what he did with the mosque shootings video. And anyone else who'd been in prison for less than two years would do the same. Example: My name's Joe Bloggs, I'd love it if you voted for me. I've done this, this and this; I've also served a six month prison sentence for stealing $10,000 from my employer but that's in the past, I'm a different person now and I'm ready to do my bit for our great school. This approach would achieve two things: it would let ex-prisoners move on with their lives but also ensure the parents doing the voting weren't surprised after-the-fact and find that they'd elected the last person they'd want to be a Board of Trustee member.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Essex local discovers life-story writing flow after Autism diagnosis. No Joe Bloggs is a warm, personal and funny life story by a humble and unassuming Englishman. Indeed it began as a short story but 'flowed' on to be so much more. ⇨ YOU WILL LEARN: * About this English writer and his humorous book * How he wrote successfully with Asperger's Syndrome * Writing tips from a World-Cup lover and Ilford local * Know genuine writing joy like Morris ⇨ FULL ARTICLE Click to read: https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/no-joe-bloggs/ ⇨ VIDEO PODCAST Click to watch: https://youtu.be/GIcshXwY8B0 ⇨ FREE GIFT Structure Success video training: Four steps to plan your life-story book chapters - FREE training, click to sign up: https://wp.me/P8NwjM-3o ⇨ YOUR SAY Does your family have a claim to fame like Morris's? Leave me a comment below or here https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/contact/ ⇨ RELATED LINKS Publishing: The ultimate guide to publishing a life story https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/publishing/ Case study: French memoir Blown Out of Proportion by author Rachel Caldecott https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/blown-out-of-proportion/ Why write: Why is writing important and why do we write https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/understanding-your-why/ Painful stories: How to write about sad memories and hard conversations https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/painful-stories/ Memory recall: How to fast track remembering childhood memories + long-term memory retrieval https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/memoryrecall/ ♡ Thanks for listening - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE if you are new and SHARE THE SHOW if you found it helpful! Happy writing! ⇨ ABOUT ME Hi and welcome! My name is Nicola and I help you learn how to write and self-publish life stories for family and friends so that unique memories live on. For decades I've told thousands of people's stories as a print journalist and would love to hear yours! ⇨ WEBSITE https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com ⇨ YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nfZWWTeRpBWMcxluLDa-w ⇨ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/foreveryoungautobiographies

Here we are for episode 469! Bettina recommends a gent named Joe Bloggs to do some work down in the laboratory, only it rather looks like he might have been working for Control Inc. Paul explains to the listeners what probably occurred... This edition also features clips from some Sutton Park episodes which were recorded in late 1995; some of them on location in Lanzarote! Our next episode, #470 sees us catching up with Martin Holmes to discuss the big hits of 1971 on both sides of the pond! Do join us, won't you?! Please email me at shyyeti@yahoo.co.uk if you have any comments - you can even send me a sound-file and I'll include it. The music is by Shy Yeti and Luca. Sounds effects by Soundbible and Paul C. All content of this episode is Copyright Paul Chandler, 2021. Episode 469 was recorded between the 23rd and 24th of June 2021, with Cuthbert's links recorded on the 11th and 12th of September 2021.

There a lot of marketing "experts" and most of them give very similar advice with a broad brush. But convincing someone to call you to discuss their finances is very different to buying a pair of trainers from sports direct right? So shouldn't we have a different strategy when marketing financial services? We think so, and we discuss why and how it's unique in this episode. Giving you some ideas to think a bit differently to Joe Bloggs the marketing expert who insists you need to write an eBook lead magnet.

Visit Bonjoro onlineSupport the show--Fabian Geyrhalter:Welcome to the show, Matt.Matthew Barnett:Hi, Fabian, great to be here.Fabian Geyrhalter:Absolutely. I'm so thrilled to have a B2B tech brand on the show at last, but Bonjoro is not the typical tech company. I mean, it has brand and culture at its heart, it is about creating customer love, and it's a weird brand, it's a fun brand, it's a brand that is not afraid to stand out. It's probably more afraid to blend in. You started as a designer, if I saw that correctly on your LinkedIn. How did you end up running Bonjoro? Take us on that journey. Take us on the journey of how the brand came about, the brand formation, how did you get into video and all that stuff?Matthew Barnett:Yeah, so I trained as an industrial designer back in the UK many years ago. Industrial design is a terrible word, it's basically product design, but that obviously stretches from the engineering side all the way to the creative side. So I was always going to go into product. I think I had a personal affinity for ... I don't even know if I knew it was brand, just being a bit weird, I guess. I've always worn kilts my whole life, I always go on stage. I like going out and making a lasting impression personally. I used to work in agency a lot and pitching was part of my DNA, I thrived on that.I moved to Australia many years ago and fell into the tech scene. I actually originally went on a date with a co-founder and we didn't hit it off, but we did start a company. That was the first company, and then 10 years later Bonjoro is now the company that I'm in, and started, and I guess I found that space. I think that brand side, that brand attention has always been something I'm passionate about. Initially it was personal brand, I guess, if you look back and brand within other peoples products, and then I guess this was a great time to experiment and see how far I could take a brand myself. Initially it's got a lot of me in it, I'll be honest, and then it's evolved from there.Fabian Geyrhalter:That's how it usually works, right? A founder has a personality and they use that personality to launch a brand, and to quote-unquote, sell people, on what they have to offer.How did you get into ... was it always video for Bonjoro? Did you start like that? How did you decide that there's a painpoint out there, and you can solve it in a very unique way.Matthew Barnett:Yes, well I actually run an agency, so we had an agency here dealing with clients overseas. So Australia, great place to live, not a great place to be if you want to do global business because the time zones ... in my time now it's 6:00 AM, but you got to do these early calls.Fabian Geyrhalter:I know, thank you, I appreciate it. 6:00 AM for you, we have to call it out, that's a true trooper.Matthew Barnett:That's pretty normal, and so when we had an agency here we'd have a lot of leads coming overseas. That agency had headquarters but an office in London as well. We would essentially have these leads coming over at night and one of the things we did in terms ... so sales, but with a very big brand slant is that we tried to get our personalities across, and that creativity across, which is how we sold these agencies and we decided to use video to do that.So obviously agencies do rely on the team and the individuals, they are a massive part of how you sell, we were very good at that, we were very creative, we were very out there and so we would collect any leads that came in over night from other countries, and rather than send them an email which we originally did, but again it just didn't get us across and our brand across, we started doing individual videos for every single inquiry that we had.I used to take a ferry to work here in Sydney, so I would go across the harbor and pass the Sydney Opera House, so I would wait until that moment and then I would plant my smart phone, do these views, and we'd see the account manager from Budweiser in London and Ogilvy would sign up, and I'd do a video talking about Budweiser and the projects that we'd worked on, while the wind was in my hair and there were seagulls flying around. We packaged this up and we sent it to them, and most of the time people would reply and they'd go, "I can't really understand what you're saying because it's too windy, but this is hilarious, absolutely come in and see us." So we ended up getting all these extra meetings just because we were being a bit more creative in our approach.Obviously, this feeds the brand because as that agency, our very comms, our very first interaction we ever did with the company was a creative approach, and it was a very personalized approach as well, which is how our brand was in that company. Ultimately, long story short, one of those clients asked if they could use this video messaging system that we built. We let them use it, they started sending them, some of their clients came in, etc. etc. Then this just started to snowball and build its own company. So it was never an intention but we were trying to embody what we had as our original brand, in our way that we communicated, and then that ultimately became its own company, and its own product of the back of that.Fabian Geyrhalter:You called it a matching system, how does that algorithm work, tell us a little bit about how the whole, quote-unquote, system works, if I'm a client and I sign up. What's going to go down if I'm part of Bonjoro?Matthew Barnett:It's all about personalization and scale. So we are a video tool, the reality is it's not actually the video that is the key, the video is an amazing way to communicate, it's actually about turning up and taking time with the customers. So what we do is the system will sit on top of any customer data source you use, so a HubSpot, a Salesforce, even a Shopify. Any tool at all. What happens is we basically suggest triggers as to when it makes sense to send a customer or a lead a personalized one-minute video. The most common use case, of course, is with leads. So when a lead comes in, and like we were doing in that first case, one of your team gets notified and then you're going to record a 30 second, 1 minute video to welcome this lead on board and say, "Hey, this is Fabian here, awesome to have you sign up. If you have any questions let us know." Etc. etc.What we do specifically though, is we also pull in data about who that customer is. So we'll tell you what their job title is, where they work, where in the world they are. We'll even tell you what they've done in your software, or on your lead forms, or in your products, so we can show you ... for instance, in our instance, if you were a software company we could show you that this lead in the last hour has done steps one to four of onboarding, but they haven't done steps five to six. So when you do a video you not only use their name, their job and where they're from, you can also say, "Hey, also I noticed you didn't do these three steps, here's a link to go and do them. They're really important, and if you need help let me know."So you're personalizing the content in terms of saying their name and the company, and that kind of thing, and then you're also personalizing the direction that you're driving each and every lead to obviously try and get them to a better success.Fabian Geyrhalter:Very cool, and the reason why video is obvious right? It makes it personal, people actually know who you are and when we started our little interview here this morning you had your camera on, I had my camera because I always have my camera off because of bandwidth. I just want to make sure, especially with Australia, and you're like, "No, let's keep that on, let's get to know each other a little bit." That makes it more personable, right?Obviously, there must be people in a company who are like, "Well, I don't feel like I should be on camera." Or, "I'm a little shy." But you are specifically catering to people who should not be shy, or whose job title is to ... either they're an educator, or they're in the sales force, but those are people who should be more outgoing and that's why this is a great match for them.Matthew Barnett:It depends, I think everyone in your company should be happy to stand up and face customers. I mean if you go to any business that's not online this was the normal. It's the online and the not getting on video which is weird. Actually getting a person. You go back generations, you go into your grocer, he would know what it is you're buying, he would have your produce ready for you. Your baker was the same, your butcher was the same, you had all these relationships with our suppliers on a daily basis and then we all went online, and got in a [hoey 00:08:42], and we started to lose those relationships. So really it's just reigniting that.So going into the whole video thing, the reason why I believe video is seen this way where some people are nervous to go on video is because for generations, over a long time, video was actually put on a pedestal because it was essentially the realm of film and TV only. So we now have this deep, ingrained, subconscious feeling that the video is the realm of TV and movie stars, and make up, and looking perfect, and film, whereas actually it is ultimately just a window. That's all it is. Its no different to, again, meeting your coffee barista in the morning in person, versus remotely. It's just a window and it just shows you who you are.Humans are built to communicate visually more than they are to communicate in terms of audio, or words. 70% of communication is visual. So it's actually just very natural, we just need to get over this little hump of where video came from, and that's a psychological change to make. Which for the last 18 months, as terrible as it's been, this is one thing it has helped, is it's got people just to get over that and say, "Okay, well fine, video is just a window."Fabian Geyrhalter:I was wondering, I love the idea of video is a window, I think that's really poetic even, but it tells the truth, that's just how it is. Covid-19, it impacted everyone's brand. Some brands it impacted positively, it's hard to say that, it's difficult to say that because obviously it's been a horrifying situation for mankind. But there have been brands that just had the right product and the right time. How has this entire idea of video becoming the main means of communicating with clients even, how did that change the trajectory of what you're doing over the last, I guess at this point, it's 12 months.Matthew Barnett:It does, with hindsight looking back the challenge here is you could never tell what would have happened otherwise. I actually believe that the world was going in this way anyway. So, we were seeing a trajectory into video and more importantly, again I said at the beginning, it's not all about video. It's the main trajectory into personalizing the customer experience. I think this is the more important point for us as a company, brands were starting to find that customers were wanting connection again. Those that were taking the time, and front-loading customer service and support, were getting much better results. Video is a great enabler for this. Now the last year, what we've had is a lot of people train on Zoom. So we no longer have that challenge of getting over the fear. But again, obviously where we work and where we tend to be used, which tends to be a bit more front line. So customer success, sales, those individuals were already getting into video, it was already happening in quite a large way anyway.So as a business we have accelerated this year, it's a great place to be, I don't think it's been incredibly different because I think for us, and where we play, this was actually already happening. So we already saw that trajectory kicking off before the world changed. I think off the front lines, so where you have teams communicating and maybe the more introverted, and the back of house teams, that's where Zoom has kicked off because now teams have to communicate. But frontline was already starting to get over this hump I feel anyway. That tidal wave was coming, it has just got bigger, obviously. Maybe it wouldn't have got as big, as fast, I couldn't tell you, but it's not like the world changed on a dime for the video space, I don't think.Fabian Geyrhalter:Well, and now everyone has the perfect lighting, and everyone has the perfect mic, it's definitely a beneficial thing. For you, and on the other hand, there is a company like Clubhouse coming around, where it's like, "We're so sick of video, let's just listen to people, and let's be passive." It's really interesting and yet with the whole Clubhouse thing I see so many startups that are saying, "Oh shoot, Clubhouse would be so cool with video. Let's build Clubhouse with video." So who knows where all of this is going to go. I think it's just interesting because when people have too much of one thing they're just going to get sick of it, and right now it's the idea of everyone is over Zoom, and I just don't want to be on camera all day anymore.But in hindsight, we're all ready for it and to send a client a quick ... or a potential client a quick video message, it just feels natural now, and to your point, that's what it should be because it's just that's how you say hi to the baker, or the butcher, you actually know their face, you know their personality.Matthew Barnett:I think with communication it's an interesting one because you can't unpack it more and more and what it really means to communicate. There are different ways to communicate for different scenarios. So with a Clubhouse ultimately if you want to you can choose to be more passive because it is a more passive form of communication. What I mean is, you don't need to have 100% attention, whereas with video, you need to look in someones eyes, you need to be there, you need to be engaged and if you're not people can tell. Audio you don't have to have quite that level, which is great because it allows you to potentially multitask at the same time.Obviously written communication is great because it can consumed on the recipients own time, how they like, they can jump out and jump back in again. There are different pieces of communication that work at different points for different reasons, so no one communication style is better than another, it's about matching it to the situation. In situations where trust are important and connections are important, and I think getting your team and brand across, because for me team is brand as well, that's obviously where video, or in person, tends to have the biggest impact.On that note, you stated somewhere, I don't know where I found this, but you said, "My love of building great product is only surpassed by that of building great culture." I literally wrote the same thing to switch products with brands, where I believe that you simply cannot build a strong brand on a weak culture. What are some company culture tips ... We're going to talk a little bit more about company culture, but are some company culture tips from your experience running a company with what looks from the outside in as having a pretty admirable culture? What does it take?Matthew Barnett:I think a good start with this is to work out truly what the culture that you enjoy is. I say enjoy, because with all things in business if you're not enjoying it then you're doing something wrong. This is a large part of life. So I think with culture, when you first start, you don't think about this, it happens, and you hire people who will help influence that culture in a big way. I think about it as a drop of dye in a glass of water, and when you're a small team you put one small drop into a small glass and all the water goes blue instantly. As that team grows, and grows, and grows, that color has a danger of fading away because you're only putting one drop in.So at the beginning its easy, you all make the color, or the culture, as you get bigger you actually start to need some drivers. There comes a point, and you probably notice this, where you need to take a bit of a switch. The first step is to really be very honest with what it is that makes your culture. You hear people talk about writing down the key company values within this. There is no hard or fast rule, I wouldn't worry too much about this. I think the key to getting this right is just to be honest, don't use big words, just write it down, whatever makes sense to you and your team, run it past everyone and be like, "Is this us?"Don't think your values are something that you want to use to make sure that people come and get jobs, write them for what they are. If one of your values as a company is that you need to be quite ruthless to succeed, honestly, if that worked for your company and the environment you're in, that's okay, you need to be very honest and you need to understand that's what happens because that's how you're going to hire. This is going to influence how you build the team. Whatever the value is, be honest about it, understand what it is that you know needs to make your business a success and then ultimately you go hire.So have those values in mind, write them out, your early team will check them, yes or no. Then, as you start to grow that company this is going to be your blueprint for the first stop before you hire. This is why it's really important to have this, because again, back to the first point with the glass of water, as your team expands and grows, the biggest issue you're going to hit is that your culture has potential to dilute, and there's a stage when you're not too small, not too big, where making wrong hires culturally can actually disrupt the whole thing and throw off kilter.Fabian Geyrhalter:It can disrupt your product even, right? Because if suddenly not all of your staff is aligned and has that same emotion, and conveys the same kind of feeling, then suddenly people think of the brand as a whole as a different kind of company than you thought it was.To me, talking about culture, is a perfect segue to talk about bears. Bonjoro's logo mark is a bear, a very friendly, happy, pretty bear. Your title is Papa Bear, which is awkward when I say it like this, but it is, and in context it's really great. I think you have some explaining to talk, let's talk about the bear. How did the bear become the logo, and it's a really cool logo, it's really amicable. How did everything become about bears when it comes to video, and CRM?Matthew Barnett:I think with this company there was some through on my behalf about what kind of brand we want to go and build. So it wasn't so much that we kind of fell into it, I guess this was partly pre-meditated, we kind of knew where we wanted to go. I think playing around in video, and what we were doing. We would try and encourage people to get on video and to open up to customers. Ideally to have quite a lot of fun while doing it, because what we understood innately was that the more open you are, the more you're having fun, the more you drop the barriers, actually the more trust you build with the customer. It's more authentic, this tends to work.So you look at that, and you go, as a brand and a company, and bear to mind we are B2B, so we're in the business space-Fabian Geyrhalter:Bear in mind, I see your hint, I bear in mind.Matthew Barnett:I don't actually think it these days, it just happens.Fabian Geyrhalter:Very subliminal.Matthew Barnett:I think what you have to do, I think the job of a brand, is to not just reflect your customers but actually to try and bring them on the journey with you. This is how I see brands. So where we're having a company who have a product saying to them, "Look, you need to let go a little bit more, you need to relax a bit more, you need to open up a bit more." We want our brand to go a little bit further that you're going to go, so that you come on this journey with us.So when we looked at it, we looked around brands, we looked at what was happening in the space. We kind of knew it had to have almost like a bit of a B2C slant, even though we're in a B2B place. We didn't want to go out corporate and serious. I think a great company who did this in the B2B space is someone like MailChimp, and they've changed and matured their brand over time, but they've actually held really well back to that core ethos and the stuff their doing now, it's kind of perfect in my eyes.We, I guess, took a similar approach. I thought characterization was a way to do this, I can't remember how we came to the bear, I think it was maybe over a few beers. But the bear, I think at first it was a bee. I think animals as a characterization was an obviously direction for us, because it's fun, it's playful, you can take it a long way. The bear happened and then it just started to come more and more to life. This was partly driven by us. It was actually a lot driven by customers as well, I think especially in those early days you get your innovators coming on board, and there's a lot of energy, a lot of excitement, and everyone's like, "This is great, let's go further."I remember one of the first things we ever did was we started sending bear suits to customers children when customers hit certain points on the funnel. I'm not going to lie, it was a stroke of genius, because basically we then had customers sending us back pictures of them and their kids in bear suits. I was like, "Look, they're literally wearing our brand." That's when the penny dropped. People think this is actually pretty fun, and then it starts to go beyond just being a company.I look into the value of any company that you build, and we talk about non-tangible assets, and the biggest one of these that you could possible build is the brand really, which does include the team. But I think in those old days by getting everyone into a brand, and getting everyone to talk about that brand, we got a lot more excitement, we got a lot more fun back. We generated case studies a lot easier. People who are that way inclined jumped on us because we were refreshing and different from the norm. I think the brand equity ended up become more valuable than probably the product, especially in those early days where the product's catching up.So that just compounded it and we took it as far as it had to go, the title naturally fell out. My title is Papa Bear. I don't think I came up with that, again I think a customer came up with that and then it just stuck, so there we are. And now anyone who joins the company, we have a team of grannies in the North of England that build custom bear onesies for us. It's great if you live in the Northern Hemisphere and you have winters, in Australia they're a little bit too warm so we don't get to wear them that much.It's the idea of being fun and playful, it helps for hiring and it really helps for culture. We want everyone to enjoy their job and have fun, if they're not having that fun its kind of, for us, what's the point of business? We also want customers to have fun, and it helps with everything. Frontline comes in more positive. If you have problems people talk to you, they don't go and leave reviews, it just helps in every single way. But ultimately, it's all for us. The core thing is it's all about having a bunch of fun, while we're doing what we love.Fabian Geyrhalter:Look, it was such a fun story about there were so many pieces of brand nuggets in what you just said. It's so important for everyone listening to really dive into that. This is about personality, this is about culture, but this is also about translating what your product does, where you should open up, and you should feel a certain way, into the brand.So, one of the questions, when I'm in your shoes and I'm being interviewed in podcast, or interviews, or Q and A's or whatever it is, one question that I'm being asked all the time, literally pretty much every single time I speak, and I'm going to let you answer it for this time, because I kind of think you already did. They all ask me, "Does branding for B2B companies even matter? You're talking about all these B2C companies, and I get it, they're consumers and they want something. It's the Nike's and the Apples, but B2B, really? Does it Matt?" I think you've got an answer.Matthew Barnett:I don't know why anyone would ask this question, there's a million examples out there in the world. Absolutely, of course it does. You're selling something. People aspire to values and companies they want to work with in any market you're in. Anyone at all, you will have competition. You might have a unique product that's a world first, you're going to get people coming after you, and if not, people always have alternatives. If you're a coffee company people can drink tea. There's always different things people can do. So when you're in that space one of the most effective ways you can compete is brand, and this is your attitude and how you treat customers, and the decisions you make on products. It influences everything you do, it influences how you build the company, how you go to market, the kind of people you work with.Very, very importantly, if you want the easiest bit to understand where brand makes sense in a business actually is probably around hiring. So why does somebody want to work for Google? Why does somebody want to work for Atlassian? Why does somebody want to work for X bank, or Y fund? They have choices they go to and they're going to pick ones because they aspire to those values. The same will be for your customers. Having a brand strategy, and working certain ways, will get you opportunities, will get you different types of opportunities and give you different ways to compete.It's hard to say because for me it's so black and white. Of course the brand matters.Fabian Geyrhalter:Yeah, well it's hilarious because you were shocked that I say that pretty much every time I speak people come up to me and ask me that question. To me, it's like, why? You're selling to people, and people are people and they want to have something that's personable, right? It doesn't matter if it's a B2B sale that they're making or if it's an actual retail store that they're going to, in the end it's still the same thing. They want to have that connection.It's kind of great that you were so shocked that that is something people actually question. It comes across really, really nicely in what your brand does. I think not only from an empathetic point of view, which we talked a lot about, the strategic point of view, but the design, the language, the UX perspective that you take as a brand, it's so important.For you guys, you're doing a really, really great job. That alone is a huge differentiator in a sea of sameness, because just to defend the ones that come up to me and ask me that question, there's a boat load of tech companies, and apps, and services out there that are all pretty much doing the exact same thing. They use the same kind of web template. You know what I mean? It's like, here are all our features, it's like, feature, feature, feature, and then they go to Bonjoro and it's like, brand, brand, brand, and by the way we've got features.But it's different, it's a very different kind of mindset. Sadly a lot of B2B marketers don't have it because they come from the IBM days of doing B2B marketing.Matthew Barnett:I wonder if the challenge is, to be honest, that people don't understand what we mean when we talk about brand. Obviously if they'd just seen you speak, different group, but a lot of people think brand is a logo. They think that's literally the all encompassing world of brand is the logo that you put on your site, and maybe the type font. That is not brand, that it is one of the smallest elements of your brand, it's probably the least important element of your brand.Your brand, it's a culture, it's a style, it's a feeling, it's what makes you, you. I mean, individually we all have brands. If you walk into a room and somebody can't see your face do they still know it's you because of the way you walk, because of the way you talk, because of what you're wearing, that's what it is. How recognizable are you in a sea of mundaneness? That does not come down to logos, it doesn't necessarily come down to the whole visual piece, like copywriting is absolutely key to this. The way that you communicate with customers, it's your operations. Do you decide to put customers first, or team first, how does that work? It's about every element of your company, how you treat your employers, how you operationalize. Are you going to have centers in each country, or work remotely?So many things come into this, and it's not just a logo. If you ask me, it's probably the element that touches every part of the business. There's two things that do, your brand does, and then obviously money touches every part. Everything in the business is driven by money, I think everything is also driven by brand. It is absolutely all encompassing. It's the glue that makes your company what it is. So when you say do B2B companies not have a brand, I don't know if you're just thinking about logo, maybe that's the problem there, because it's so much more than that.Fabian Geyrhalter:Well the problem is I already educated them, so that's post my education. I appreciate your benefit of a doubt. I just really believe that there's a lot of start up founders, and I know that because they come to me, and they're like, "Well, all the other founders in my incubator are whatever. They're all doing consumer centric stuff, so of course brand is important, but I feel left out because I'm doing B2B." So it's kind of like this stamp of if you're a founder in the B2B space, invest in feature, feature, feature, that's all. That's where you invest. You actually shouldn't invest in branding and marketing, because that comes much later, and it's much easier, it's a different funnel.Obviously, we know the golden path, and I'm glad that you shared that with my audience as well. And talking about golden paths, I'm talking about how branding touches everything. I love on your website the way that you funnel very different customer segments through your beautiful and smart online journey on your site, by saying, "Bonjoro for" in the nav, and then you can select what you would use it for. So it's like, "Bonjoro for online education." Or, "Bonjoro for customer success."This sounds like a simple and logical solution but I see many companies screw that up by creating sub products. It's a different target audience, or creating this maze of an experience. You guys nailed it by saying, we do one thing, we're all about this one thing, and we just happen to do it for many people. So if you're this person this is right for you. Has this been an ongoing conversation, and big strategic brand decision, or was this just kind of like it fell into place? I assume it didn't just fall into place.Matthew Barnett:I think this is part of the maturity for the company as well, I'll to B2B and B2C. You basically have, and you'll know this as you grow, you have ideal customer profiles. So you will have ISP's. You will have certain customers that will utilize, and connect, and stay with your company. You see these in research projects, we do user profiles, Jenny is a greengrocer from wherever, that kind of thing. The more data you have, the deeper you start to understand who it is that's using your product. You start to understand that there's not just one bucket of people. There are different people with different motivations. If you can help tailor parts of product, or parts of your messaging, to different people because again, different people have different motivations.If you're a bank, it's very different talking to a 20 year old starting an account versus a 70 year old retiree who's saving for the grandkids. Very different market, very different messaging. How do you work out, because you can't target everyone, who you target and it's probably three or four types of people only. Maybe a little bit more, but small numbers. How do you then really bucket those up, and one thing here as well is to focus on the customers that are the best for your company. You might have a million Joe Bloggs but they don't ever spend any money, whereas you have a thousand Susie's who spend 10 grand a year, focus on those obviously. So how to you cater, and then how do you work out who these are? How do you change your messaging to really hit the core value that each of these different type of users are going for.Again, to the bank idea, a 20 year old opening a savings account versus a retiree with a fund, they're using the exact same bank and possibly the exact same products, but they're using them for different ultimate goals and reasons. The better you can understand this, the better you can tailor your message to those individuals with the ultimate goal that the better you're going to be at converting and convincing people to come and work with your company.Fabian Geyrhalter:Totally, absolutely, I love that bank metaphor because it is, and most banks actually don't do that, right? They're like, "Hey, here are our services, here are our features." Again, back to that conversation. Also aligning a company or a product around the big picture thought. So for Bonjoro, I assume it's not about video, but it's actually about connection, right? Creating this personal connection you and someone else, and video is the means to get there.With that said, if you could distill your brand all the way down to one word, or two words, what would it be. I call it brand DNA, but you can call it anything. For Coca-Cola it used to be happiness, everyone thinks about that, or at least that's what they made us believe. It's a sugary drink and we don't really think that anymore, but that was the idea, the messaging. With Zappos, which I'm sure must be close to you guys, because it's all about the customer service, for them I think it now distilled into just simply, wow. So with Zappos, you think Zappos, you usually think, "Wow, that's amazing customer service."What is a word that can describe your brand at its heart? Now we're talking about everything, from culture, to product, to what is the brand in a word?Matthew Barnett:Delight, I think would be the word.Fabian Geyrhalter:Delight?Matthew Barnett:Yeah.Fabian Geyrhalter:I like that, just like the bears, it all goes back to it. Taking it lighthearted and giving value at the same time, I really like that.There's one more question that I wanted to ask about your brand, and I just never got around to it, because we started chatting about so many other things. Don't just say hello, say Bonjoro. Does that tagline pretty much encapsulate the story behind the name, was it from bonjoro, was that the idea?Matthew Barnett:Yeah, so when you're coming up with a name, and I do think this is important, to my point anyway it's not all about logo. I think my preferred way to start a company is to make up a word. I think that way you avoid other existing words out on the market so there's no confusion. Also you can get a domain name, and you can obviously get better SEO of the back of that. So there are tactical reasons too. But what you want to do with this word, you want to have connotations, and you want to inspire a subconscious thought towards what it is your ultimately looking to do as a company.So, Bonjoro obviously comes of influence from bonjour, or from buongiorno, which Italian and French for hello. Obviously the main reason we use with these videos is to turn up and say hello and welcome to customers. So, there's this subconscious feeling behind it of this welcoming open feeling to the company. And like I said, there was a domain name available so it was a win-win.Fabian Geyrhalter:In a past life you and I went to the same brand school. When we work on names for clients it's the exact same philosophy. It makes so much sense. It's a really smart move.All right, slowly we're coming to an end here. What it is a piece of brand advice, I know you already gave tons of advice, but what is a piece of brand advice that you might not have talked about that you think founders should just really keep at heart when they create their company, when their still young, they might have a couple of employees, maybe they're just two co-founders out on a pizza night figuring out what's our brand going to be. What is some advice from your end now that you've come through this multi times it sounds like?Matthew Barnett:I think a really good starting point is to find another company that aspires the value, that has the values, and the brand that you aspire to grow into. Very specifically do not just look in your industry. So with us, honestly, you mentioned Zappos and Zappos is one of the companies that we aspire to be. Zappos is not a tech company, they are a shoe and product company, but the way they approach customers, the way they put customers first, the whole delight and happiness, the whole leadership style, that to us is how a company should be built. We want to take some of that and it gives us a North star and a really good, I guess, baseline to check on and say are we getting there?Do this, it makes it a lot easier because there are going to be great leaders that are doing things that you want to do. Again, be that Zappos, be that [inaudible 00:39:04] bank, whatever it is you want to get to, have that North start and it just makes it easier as you grow to keep checking in and saying, "Are we on the right direction?"Fabian Geyrhalter:I love that and I also often advise founders to just stop looking at their industry, period. If you come in and you want change things, and you've got a mindset then everyone gets stuck with okay, let's put in a browser window with our six companies, and guess what? Your website's going to look the same like the other six people, because you are so focused at looking at your competitors. Oh, that's how they're structured, that's how their flow is, that's what they talk about themselves. And that's why everything is a sea of sameness. So yeah, look at the flower shop that disrupts the marketplace. Look at something totally different where you say they lead with empathy, or their trying to do something different in a space that is old and needs to be disrupted. Whatever it is, like you said, for you it was all about the customer first and so you gravitated to how it is at Zappos because they're really great in that space.It's unbelievable how many founders don't do that, and they're just so fixating on their industry, because it makes sense, right? Especially when they come from that industry, but I think that's super important.Matthew Barnett:As I say, it's definitely a wood for the trees situation. It's hard, if you're building something for the industry that you understand, you've been that for years, that's actually a good way to build a successful business because you understand what you're doing. The downsides are that you might have blinkers on when it comes to some strategy for sure.Fabian Geyrhalter:Yeah, totally. I made it my thing, and that was pre-Covid obviously, hopefully it's going to happen again soon. I only worked on our website copy, or strategic thoughts about it, I only used to work on it in airplanes, especially those gruesome trans-Atlantic, 12 hour, 9 hours flights where I did not pay for internet, and I was just basically there with a blank page. I worked on three sentences for like 8 hours. But that's it, it was so personal, and it was so deep, and it was just as clear as possible. Those are the lines that really stand out, and they always make it for a long time. In my eyes, that's how you create something when you already know what your brand DNA is, you know what your brand is all about. You just have to, I guess the idea of sitting on a rock, it's the same thing.Matthew Barnett:Exactly. 100%.Fabian Geyrhalter:What's next? What's next for the Bonjoro brand as we're slowly to coming to a close here? What are you excited about in the next six months? I mean, I think mankind is excited about things in the next six months after the last six months, but for your brand specifically are you brewing up something that you're excited about that you want to share?Matthew Barnett:I think this is the great thing about doing a start-up and taking that through growth is that your brand will change over time. It will hopefully refine and mature, is how I kind of think about it. So I think I see our brand doing this, I see us tailoring it down deeper and deeper to the kind of customers that we know are good for us, and that work with us, and the kind of people that we want to hire. We talked about the idea of personalization at scale.We have an ethos here which I think dictates a lot of our brand which is automate processes but never relationships. As it's interesting, when we look 12 months ahead about what we're going to go and build as a product company we start with that ethos first and then we start and going, well let's actually put together a mock up website and some mock up messaging and let's design the company the messaging that we want to be, and let's work back from that and build product afterwards. So we actually don't go product first, we tend to go almost brand messaging positioning first and then we go, what's it going to take to go and fulfill that dream?So we've just come out of that process, I'm not saying it's easy, but I think we've got a pretty cool North star for the end of the year, a lot to do in the next 12 months but it is going to be vision lead, and then products going to back fill in all the innovation that helps us get there.Fabian Geyrhalter:That's so awesome, I'm excited that you just went through this exercise, it's so liberating afterward just to say, "Okay, now let's open the floodgates, let's make it happen." I like the way that you guys work, it's just really cool. The great news is, and you know that, it's very easy for people to see it when they visit Bonjoro online that there is so much thought put into it, and it's very, very brand focused. Brand lead.With that being said, where can people find Bonjoro online? I guess everywhere because you own the word, right?Matthew Barnett:Yeah, if you type in B-O-N-J-O-R-O you will find something from us, so go have a play. If you want to test our video, try it out, it's free. You'll get a video from one of us somewhere in the world, so do say hello, reach out, we are human. If you want to chat to me in person, you can always go on LinkedIn, search of Papa Bear. That's the other benefit about having a title. I think there's three of us, and I'm the only guy in a bear suit. I don't know why the other guys aren't wearing bear suits, but there you go. So please do reach out.Fabian Geyrhalter:This is a call to action for the other Papa Bear's, this is competitive now.This is awesome. Hey, Matt, you did not come across as a 6:00 AM kind of, I just woke up and have my coffee interview. I really appreciate it, this was awesome. So much good stuff. Stay in touch, appreciate your time, and thanks for being on the show.Matthew Barnett:Thanks for having me.

In today's episode, coach Jessica Marie Rose Leggio addresses the misinformation you will run into online. If you are someone who turns to social media for help with your running injuries, listen up. This episode is for you.  Why you shouldn't ask for injury advice on social media We've all seen it. A runner makes a post desperately asking for advice to treat their injury. In response, every man and his dog offers up their two cents on what a runner should take "corrective" action. We've seen everything from advising runners to stretch more, foam rolling your IT band, to getting a particular set of stability sneakers. Spoiler alert, these are all terrible ideas.  "This advice is a huge contributing factor as to why 80% of runners are injured every year." The reality is you have at best a 1% chance of having a qualified person responding to your post. This statistic means, 99% of the time, you will be taking advice from someone who doesn't have a clue what they are talking about. The result is you are even more likely to exacerbate your injury or develop new ones.   This reality is why posting on social media for advice on running injuries is a big no-no.  Seriously, avoid all advice from runners?   At #RunPainFree, we are big advocates of runners supporting fellow runners. Running is a challenging sport that requires a lot of will and determination each time you step out the door. So following runners that motivate and inspire you is excellent.  Tips like local running routes, discussions on race course specifics, and sharing info on local running clubs and coaches are great ways to use social media to run.  But when it comes to injuries, give any social media advice a wide berth. That's when injuries happen. No two bodies are the same, so no two training regimes or corrective work is the same. Applying whatever worked for Joe Bloggs, the marathon finisher won't guarantee injury free running for you.  Direct injured runners to professionals  Unfortunately, there is a tremendous amount of misinformation on long-distance running online.  What makes it challenging for us at #RunPainFree to witness is that it is usually shared by fellow runners who have the best intentions in mind.  "The best thing you can do is refer the question asker to a qualified professional." You wouldn't go to Facebook for advice if your spleen ruptured. So, treat your physical body the same way you would treat an organ inside yourself.  Get yourself checked by a professional.  Skip social media and head to runpainfreebootcamp.com In response to the mountains of spurious advice online, #RunPainFree developed the runpainfreebootcamp.com. It answers all the common questions runners have on injuries and provides you with the nuts and bolts you need to run pain-free.  The Bootcamp covers what you need to know from the moment you get injured to the moment you line up for your next race. The course is delivered by our seasoned running injury and correction specialist, coach Jessica Marie Rose Leggio.  We have an entire section on advice from Facebook's 'running doctors.' It includes real examples of the nonsense that gets posted online. What can we say? It's an engaging course. The more you learn, the more you laugh.  Take-home lesson We want runners to run pain-free. And while we can correct those who come to us, so many runners are injured by applying misinformed advice online to their running regimes.  We are on a mission to make a dent in the statistic that 80% of runners are injured each year. That's why we created our Academy. Do yourself a favor and start learning more about what will keep you injury-free. And next time you see Joe Bloggs, the marathon finisher dishing out some wacky advice online, link the person in pain to this podcast.  As always, comment, share, and ask questions.  We are here to help.  TIMESTAMPS 1:36 – Why you shouldn't ask for injury advice on social media 4:26 – Seriously, avoid all advice from runners?  14:50 – Direct injured runners to a professional 17:23 – #RunPainFree Bootcamp  18:18 – Take home lesson KEY LEARNING POINTS Don't post online for injury advice Get a qualified professional in injury prevention, biomechanics, and sport conditioning  Refer injured runners posting online to a professional Learn the fundamentals of running injury free at runpainfreebootcamp.com LINKS MENTIONED Get an Assessment With Jessica: https://www.runpainfreenow.com. Resources & Programs To Run Injury-Free: https://members.runpainfreeacademy.com #RunPainFree Bootcamp: https://www.runpainfreebootcamp.com/ Protect Yourself From The Stability Shoes Scam: https://www.runpainfreepodcast.com/blog/protect-yourself-from-the-stability-shoes-scam Planta Fasciitis Facts For Runners: https://www.runpainfreepodcast.com/blog/plantar-fasciitis-facts-for-runners

In this episode, coach Jessica Marie Rose Leggio offers up a complete checklist to keep you running injury-free. So get out your pen, paper, phone, computer and take note! Never miss foam rolling and sports specific prep work.  Foam rolling and athletic conditioning is a runner’s warm-up. By definition, corrective conditioning and functional movement are to prepare the body to perform. This prep work gives your body the ability to move and be mobile. It is a mini-workout before you start running. If you don’t have time for your warm-up, don’t run.  Only do sport-specific training.  A long-distance runner trains for long-distance running. That’s why track work doesn’t help. Listen to our podcast on the topic, Speed Work! Why Marathoners Should Avoid Doing It! Speedwork for a marathoner is akin to asking a basketball player to train for football. It’s not sport-specific.  Cross-train  Sport-specific cross-training is crucial for long-distance running. The key is to have an activity that builds functional muscle endurance and your aerobic system. For more information on cross-training pitfalls, listen to our podcast on Cross-Training No No’s.  “Focus on your sport, and what cross-training activities will support those dynamics. That’s what gets you to your best baseline for your sport.”  Long-distance runners need the ability to endure hours of cardiovascular work. At the same time, track workouts are anaerobic with ballistic bursts of energy and then nothing. Does that sound like a long-distance run? No, so don’t do it when cross-training.  Stay in constant contact with your coach.  Your coach should oversee everything you are doing and everything you don’t. Everything impacts how your body conditions and respond to the workouts. Your job is to be an athlete; your coach’s job is to make sure you can be an athlete.  Get a qualified coach. Make sure you have a qualified coach in injury prevention and biomechanics. Joe Bloggs, the marathon finisher, won’t cut it. You may opt for an injury prevention specialist and a strength coach. In this case, you need both parties to talk together. The injury prevention coach should inform a strength coach’s approach.  Be completely honest with your coach.  Consider your weekly chats with your coach, like going to confession. There is no way you are going to running heaven if you are not honest with them. It will help if you put it all on the table, from your running workouts to what you’re eating, how you are sleeping, and how much time you spend on the couch.  “There is no movement conditioned more than daily activity.”  Your lifestyle also impacts how your condition as a long-distance runner. Most people do their sport and workouts with intention, but they don’t lie around with intention. You need a coach to expose what daily habits are dysfunctional.  Honor any pain  The only way to avoid injury is to honor any pain your feel. If you feel even a twinge of pain, you should stop. You will progress more if you call your coach and talk it through rather than finishing your run. To stay injury-free, always lean on the side of safety and precaution.   #RunPainFree hot tip: If in doubt. Stop, drop, and foam roll.  Do all of the above.  It would help if you used every tool available to stay injury-free. Any pain or tweak needs to be addressed early, so it doesn’t become an injury. Document how you feel after each run, and share your running log with your coach.  Take away lesson: listen to your body and take action. The common denominator of this checklist is your body. Your body is your baseline. On any given day, your body is telling you where your fitness is at and where it is not. Listen to it, don’t run through pain. Conditioning is about having a conversation with your body and taking action on what it needs. This practice is what separates injury-free athletes from injured athletes.  Bonus tip: Keep running! Running will ultimately give you the best feedback you need to address any dysfunctions before becoming injured. Drills and cross-training won’t necessarily reveal running-related injuries. So under the guidance of your coach, keep running, and keep listening to your body.  If you start ticking the boxes of this checklist, you will be on your way to running injury-free. If you need assistance with an existing injury, head to runpainfreenow.com for a free consultation. We are here to help.  TIMESTAMPS: 1:30 – Never miss foam rolling and sport-specific prep work 3:20 – Only do sport-specific training 4:22 – Cross-train 9:36­ – Stay in constant contact with your coach 11:32 –Get a qualified coach 13:34 – Be completely honest with your coach 18:17 – Honor any pain 19:21 – Do all of the above 23:25 – Take away lesson 25:43 – Bonus tip! KEY LEARNING POINTS ·     Foam rolling and conditioning work is a prerequisite before a run ·     Cross-train with activities that build endurance and your aerobic base ·     Get a qualified coach that is specialized in injury correction for runners ·     Listen to your body. Every ache and niggle is feedback for something to be addressed in your conditioning work LINKS MENTIONED Get an Assessment With Jessica: https://www.runpainfreenow.com Resources & Programs To Run Injury-Free: https://www.runpainfreeacademy.com  Speed Work! Why Marathoners Should Avoid Doing It:https://www.runpainfreepodcast.com/blog/speed-work-why-marathoners-should-avoid-doing-it Cross Training No No’s: https://www.runpainfreepodcast.com/blog/-cross-training-no-nos-

In this episode we chat with Paul Mort! UK Mastercoach of the year 2020, International Speaker, Author of F*UCKING UNSTOPPABLE Paul describes himself as A Straight Talking, High Performing Leader of Business Men. Formerly Suicidal, Overwhelmed, Diagnosed Bi-Polar. Stood on the Edge of a Cliff, Ready to end it all... Until his Wife stood in front of him And asked him ONE Pivotal Question. "Do you really want the kids to grow up as the kids whose Dad killed himself..." He has since transformed his life as well as the lives of many others! We talk all things personal growth in this episode... As well as booze, cocaine and addiction And we also discuss the delicacy of mash... which Paul claims is seriously overrated #mashistrash --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This week we have a huge podcast with former Olympian boxer and World Championship contender, Savannah “the silent assassin” Marshall... Savannah talks about growing up in Hartlepool, the pressure of the olympics, challenges she's faced, being signed to Mayweather Promotions and much more... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This episode we chat with Davie McConnachie. Davie suffered trauma as a child and substance misuse followed into adult life. Davie talks about how he changed his mindset and his life around. Davie is now a mindset and fitness coach and runs his own successful business. This episode talks addiction, spirituality, plant medicine, ayahuasca, and much more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This week we have a huge podcast with the Teesside Taxman: Brian Cockerill... Brian talks about Lee Duffy, the sayers,Viv Graham, mindset, mental health, addiction and much more... This one isn't to be missed... We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

Ross Smith is a former military man turned high performance coach. This episode offers some fantastic insights around mindset, which our listeners would be sure to benefit from. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This episode is an interview with one of the hosts, Joe. We discuss his story, his battle with depression and lack of fulfilment in life, and how ultimately this lead to him creating the Joe Bloggs brand. As always there are some great take home messages and tools given for the listener, which they can apply to their own lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

Lee is a Lead Bespoker for Bespoke Financial group and we speak with him about his work ethic, mindset, morning routines, positivity and much more... Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Facebook - Joe Bloggs Talks Instagram - Joebloggstalks Website/Blog - www.joebloggstalks.com Also Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and All Major Podcast Disributors!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

In this weeks episode, we speak about how important “finding your why” is to give you a purpose in life. What it is like when you don't have one, and how you can search for it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

In this episode of The Joe Bloggs Talks Show, we continue on from the subject of Fear and how we let other people's opinions affect and dictate the decisions we make (often to our detriment or letting them hold us back). Again, we know first hand how much it can stop progression and put a halt to any dreams, aspirations and goals you may have. We talk about our views on this topic, how it affects your mindset and how to overcome and combat it so it doesn't inhibit how great your life can be. Thank you for watching! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE/LIKE/COMMENT!! Facebook: Joe Bloggs Talks Instagram: Joe Bloggs Talks Blog: www.joebloggstalks.com Podcast: Joe Bloggs Talks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

In this brand new episode, this week Joe and Josh (the hosts of Joe Bloggs Talks) speak about Fear, how it effects the mindset, how it can stop people's progress and how to combat it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

Steven Green is a hugely successful property entrepreneur, businessman and mindset expert. He talks about his experiences in the military, PTSD and how he has overcome this to build a life on his terms. Steven has a huge passion for inspiring and helping others work on their mindset and he runs his own event ‘strength to succeed' which he hopes to take national. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This weeks episode of joe bloggs talks interviews Paul Smith ... a man on a huge personal success trail in property ... this mans mindset is admirable. We discuss the daily rituals he engages in to stay at the top of his game, book recommendations, as well as a number of fantastic suggestions on how to improve your performance in your life! Whilst also ensuring that happiness is at the forefront of your mind! This episode is not to be missed if you want to get tips on improving your mindset! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

In this weeks episode of Joe Bloggs Talks, we speak with Top-Teesside-Boxing-Trainer Imran Naeem. He gives an insight into what it's like growing up being a practicing Muslim, how that affected him being bullied, his mindset in boxing coaching, and how he likes to promote kindness and love to everybody. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

On this weeks episode we speak to Mike Lancaster. Hear about mikes extremely difficult upbringing and his own personal battles. Mike had fought back from homelessness, suicide attempts, abuse and also a stroke. Mike talks about how a 2 day mindset event first saved him and he later revisited the same event as a speaker to share his own story on stage! Mike now uses his own experiences to help others and is doing amazing work. I often say I don't want this podcast to be the ‘mental health' podcast (although I know such topics will arise) I want to focus more on the positives, overcoming adversity and showing immense strength (and this bloke defines that) Thanks for your message Mike ! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This week we hear from Teesside's very own professional boxer, Smokin' Joe Maphosa. Joe gives his thoughts on how he stays driven and motivated, what life lessons he's learnt so far, and what he'd tell his younger self. Hope you Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

In this episode we speak about why we started this podcast, what we feel the listener will take from it, and take from the podcast going forward. As well as this we discuss what our journey into self development was like, plus what we think Happiness and Success mean to us and what we would tell our younger selves. We hope you Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This podcast is Two typically average guys, or Joe Bloggs, on a journey of personal growth. We hope that through the conversations with our guests...We can find out how they work on their mindset, stay positive, what motivates and inspires them and how they have overcome challenges. We hope the podcast will give both us, and the listener, some valuable take home lessons. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joe-bloggs61/message

This week we're being a couple of Smart Alecs and Clever Dicks and we're exploring the world of names hidden in common phrases... and were they based on real people? Was there an original Joe Bloggs? Did he ever cross paths with John Doe? Why was Jack such a lad? Upon whom was Tom peeping? All whilst being 'on our tod' recording from separate locations. Gyles will be testing our general knowledge with some questions he picked up at a star-studded charity event and, as usual, Susie will be providing her trio of words to take with you into the week. A Somethin' Else production. If you would like to get in touch with us then please email: purple@somethinelse.com Susie's Trio: Clinophobia - a fear of lying down Paralipsis - giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing at all ("I'm not even going to mention...") Skimble-Skamble - rambling and confused. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celebrity Service Derek Arden's 'Work From Home' webchat. We have one of the UK’s best business and inspirational speakers, Geoff Ramm. Geoff is an expert on sales and marketing and travels the world speaking on about his brand, “Celebrity Service”. He asks why would any service business treat, David Beckham any differently to Mrs Bloggs. If you treat everybody like a celebrity then watch your business grow!!! EXTRACT (Imagine Sunderland Accent :-) ) Right now, and this is the question that I ask audiences all over the world. On a scale of one to 10, where would you rate your levels of service?If one is abysmal but 10 is incredible. what number would you give yourself right now?The vast majority of the world will say 8.We get sixes and fives we get nines, the vast majority will group themselves in the seven to eight category.What people are saying to me is Geoff we're pretty good or quite good. But there's always room for improvement. Your Service: What would it take you to go from an eight to a nine, nine to a 10? What would it take you to go up one? And it's that one question? If your next customer client member, passenger, guests were in a-list celebrity. What would be the difference in service, what would you say, what would you do, how would you react, what would you wear, as all of us, you said about David Beckham is exactly the same thing. And I had this conversation with a hair salon business in Dublin, just a few weeks ago. And I said to somebody in the audience, I said what time do you close. She said six o'clock. I said, Okay. And I think I used Chris Hemsworth. And I said okay so if Chris Hemsworth was to fly to Dublin. But he emails you first and says, Look, I need to get my hair done I'm on a chat show tomorrow morning. But I don't arrive till half-past 10 tonight. I said, Would you still be open. She said Oh yes. And everybody started to laugh. And I said, Well, I'm here. Joe Bloggs, Geoff Ramm, Derek Arden. I'm gonna arrive at 1030 tonight. Would you still be able to help me? Quite often people say, Well, you know, NO. And there's a gap, there's a gap between what we think we can deliver as a great service, or what we could deliver. and that gap is called celebrity service. WEBSITE geofframm.com

In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking to Matt Butler, an Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry (don't worry, he explains what that means in the pod!) We talk all things mental health from the perspective of a mental health professional as well as your average Joe Bloggs. Are corporations cashing in on people's problems? Is 'crazy' a bad word? Was Freud a goodie or a baddie? And what IS up with Donald Trump? Listen now to find out! 

Kirsty Thomas runs creative studio Tom Pigeon from the East Neuk of Fife. We go through her journey from fashion design to teaching to the creation of Tom Pigeon and her latest project The Make Bank. After a bit of a false start with Sports Science Kirsty went on to a degree in Design Studies which didn’t exactly prepare her with the skills needed for industry but did give her broad scope which has lead to a really broad and varied career. After a stint with clothing company Joe Bloggs, she experienced what she describes as an ‘itch’. This becomes a theme throughout her career and has led to a sort of cyclical change every few years. I think it’s a really healthy part of human nature to stop ourselves from getting caught in a rut. The most dangerous thing you can do is not recognise the need for change. It is so important to take stock of everything once in a while and allow yourself some perspective on your situation and the direction you’re headed in. Since it’s creation in 2014 Tom Pigeon has become internationally known for colourful minimal geometric work across prints, stationery, jewellery and physical products. They have worked on many collaborations with museums, galleries and companies such as The Barbican, The Tate and made.com. We go into how that collaborative process, how it works and when it doesn’t, when it’s time to walk away. Walking away from projects isn’t something that has come up a lot in the podcast but it’s a difficult area especially when taking into consideration the financial implications. It comes down to your professional integrity and your vision for the future vs your financial situation and potential gain from a project. These really aren’t easy decisions to make. Kirsty’s most recent itch was one of social responsibility. She recognised that Tom Pigeon is in the privileged position of selling to an affluent audience and in general the creative industries are an area of white privilege. We have a massive issue of creative poverty in this country. Where school pupils and students are unable to gain access to basic materials in order to complete course work or create portfolios. This creates an imbalance where those who can afford the basics have fewer opportunities to access the creative industries than those who do. Regardless of talent or determination, it comes down to the ability to afford things like pencils and paper. The Make Bank has been created in order to help address this issue by creating packs that can be donated to those children who need it most. You simply head to the website themakebank.org.uk purchase a pack and they’ll distribute it for you. They also have an amazing range of prints for sale, donated by world-renowned creatives with all profits going towards addressing this UK wide issue. So if you are in a position to do so, I would urge you to please donate a pack or buy a print to help support this amazing cause. As well as providing the materials needed, The Make Bank is also trying to address the knowledge gap. To demystify how to create a career in the creative industries and to help parents and teachers understand that there are viable career options in these areas. Make Bank is doing this by capturing the stories, journeys and thoughts of creatives in the industry in the form of audio recordings, blog posts and video. This falls in line with what I am trying to achieve with this very podcast. Creative Chit Chat is very much Dundee focused and I hope that the podcast has managed to share insight and encourage people to get into the creative industries. It’s all down to how many people we can reach. If everyone was to share it with 1 person it would boost the audience massively so please do. The Make Bank - https://www.themakebank.org.uk/ Tom Pigeon - https://www.tompigeon.com/ How to Fail Podcast - https://howtofail.podbean.com/

LISTEN TO SHAUN JOHNSON TALK WITH D'ARCY AND GORAN ABOVEWarriors halfback Shaun Johnson has dismissed stinging criticism of his form in the NRL finals and says he feels no added pressure to perform for the understrength Kiwis in next Saturday's trans-Tasman test against the Kangaroos.The 28-year-old enjoyed his best season since 2015 in helping the Warriors through to their first playoff appearance in seven years, but wore the brunt of the blame for the side's 27-12 qualifying final defeat to Penrith last month.The pressure will again be on him to spark the Kiwis' attack when they face the World Champions at Mt Smart Stadium, and on their end of year tour of England, but Johnson is relaxed ahead of his first test outing since last year's failed World Cup campaign."I don't feel any added pressure. I feel like that's something I want to do," said Johnson."It's not like 'oh, you're going to have to do it now'. I want to do that."It's important that not just myself but every player has that same intention and I'm sure that will be the case. So it's not [something I] need to [do], it's definitely [something I] want to [do]."With the side going through a changing of the guard following the international retirement of several players including Simon Mannering, and the likes of Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Issac Luke, Tohu Harris and Kieran Foran unavailable through injury, Johnson is among the Kiwis' most experienced campaigners with 25 tests to his name.Together with former captains Adam Blair (45 tests) and Jesse Bromwich (24), and Sydney Roosters front-rower Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (24), he is a frontrunner to lead the Kiwis, with coach Michael Maguire due to appoint his skipper in the coming days."It's not something that I've even thought about," he said."I'll get in there and play my usual role. I'll lead with my actions and voice and make sure that boys are feeling comfortable."It would be a massive honour for anyone to captain their country but at this stage it's not in my mind at all."The upcoming tests present another opportunity for Johnson to silence his doubters, who grew louder in voice following the Warriors' limp playoff exit.He admits to being below his best against the Panthers but believes it is wrong to single out individuals for praise or blame in victory or defeat."It was people who have no idea rambling on again," he said of the criticism. "I'm not saying I had the best game of my career, no doubt about it [I didn't]."I know if we win, it's a team sport. People try to pin good performances on me, it's never that case when we win."We're all responsible for what happened that night and people are going to say what they want but ultimately it's in the past now."Wearing the No 7 on his back and being the club's highest paid player means he will always be a target, but Johnson says the only opinions that hold weight are those of his teammates."When you're the halfback of a team and the team doesn't perform you're always going to be in the firing line. So it's nothing new."If I'm getting blamed by my teammates, that's a bit different. But if it's just Joe Bloggs in the public who has never laced up a pair of boots, it is what it is. I'm here for the Kiwis now and really excited."Maguire insists he won't be relying on Johnson to carry the side and says it's up to the other players around him to help make his job easier."I don't think there is [more pressure]. It's about [Shaun] just doing his role," said Maguire."We'll have a very basic style of play that we're trying to build and Shaun's going to be a big part of that but everyone else needs to play their part as well."New Kiwis assistant coach Stacey Jones sympathises with Johnson's predicament but believes he needs to rise to the challenge of being the side's main playmaker and lead the way for young halves Kodi Nikorima and Jahrome Hughes.As an assistant to Warriors head coach Stephen Kearney, Jones says there will be...

The latest episode of the podcast which asks: if Bummerdog was a band, what would they sound like? This episode, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, is one of the absolute landmark moments of the long and storied history of The Pops - the week where all the rubbish of the Laties is finally driven into the sea by streetwise lairy youths with a malevolent shuffle and a drug-induced attitude. And as well as Big Fun, the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays are on too. Those of you who remember this episode as a full-on Madchester takeover - with 808 State on as well, and Vera Duckworth gurning away in the audience in a Joe Bloggs top - are going to be sorely disappointed, however, as the supporting cast is the usual Neighnties rubbish. Jakki Brambles and Jenny Powell come off like the Philadelphia Cheese Advert women. Bobby Brown thrusts his groin at a shockingly young girl who's probably wondering when Tiffany is going to come on. Aaron Neville comes dressed up as a character in a Sega beat-'em-up. The Fine Young Cannibals get bum-rushed by the cast of Dance Energy. The Martians pitch up to blare some Housey rubbish at us. The #1 is cat shit. And Holy Horrible Soundtrack LPs, Batman, it's Prince. Al Needham is joined by Sorted Simon Price and Top Lad Taylor Parkes for a trawl through the car boot sale of 1989, breaking off to discuss such important matters as Top Hatting, raiding your Dad's wardrobe to look suitably 'Double Good', Ian Brown shutting down a bar, sniffing silage, and the introduction of the Chart Music Top Ten. Get on some swearing, matey!    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thursday 5th April 2018. Hi to Mark Fletcher in California who listens on TuneIn and sent a message: “Hi Martyn I listen to podcasts on my way to work, and yours is always the first. For the last couple of days there has been a lot about Tesla, and I like to hear about all the EVs out there. Keep up the hard work”. Well thank you Mark but let me correct you, this isn’t hard and it’s certainly not work! But I get what you’re saying, for one reason or another there was a big Tesla story most days recently. So let’s put that straight. In fact it’s been another crazy day for stories – even this time last year this would have been a week’s worth of EV news, all crammed into one daily update. Such an interesting time to be following electric cars.  I’ve got lots to get through, I think there are 12 stories I want to discuss with you, so let’s see how far we get. A bit like Street Street, let’s count 'em up together!   1 – NISSAN LEAF PRICES, CHARGING AND AWARDS First story and a lot happening in the last day with Nissan LEAF. According to Pedro in Portugal, for Push EVs: “to convince customers to maintain their orders, Nissan started increasing the prices for the Leaf in Europe”. The base model Acenta has gone up from 28.700 Euros to 30.150 Euros. An increase of 1.450 Euros. According to the SpeakEV forum here in the UK, user JHRC said “I was informed by the salesman that the prices for the LEAF would increase from 3rd April, and on their web site a Tekna is now £900 dearer. I ordered my Tekna 2 weeks ago and made a good saving on the price. Delivery est.July 11th.” Mike Proctor replied, tongue in cheek: “Makes sense that they put the price up really. Now Nissan have suddenly added the extra 'feature' of throttled rapid charging!”. Ouch! Back to Push EVs: “With this strategy Nissan seems more worried about keeping current orders than getting new ones. Considering that by now there are probably more than 20.000 orders for the Leaf in Europe, this might be a smart strategy. This way customers who already ordered the Nissan Leaf get the feeling that they got a great deal – and forget any possible rapid charging issue. I don’t think it’s got anything to do with the rapid charging. I think it’s more than likely something like currency rates, or a planned increase after early adopters bought one, or a plan to put it on sale and get headlines at the low price before hiking it. There’s no hard evidence it’s about dissuading people from cancelling orders due to the internet discussion about slow charge speeds. And by the way, a quick podcast thank you to Neal Archer who helpfully left a comment on Youtube to point out the charging speed discussion online has been recognised by Nissan now and they’re talking to owners. Neal asked me a couple of weeks ago why I hadn’t discussed it and, the short version is, I simply didn’t have any proof. All I’d seen at that point is a video on YouTube with JP from Eco Cars, who knows what he’s talking about, saying there was a problem with rapid charging. Then Fully Charged repeated it, along with Transport Evolved. Now a little background, for my day job I have quite a lot of legal training and didn’t fancy repeating a potentially libellous comment. Why is the original person allowed to accuse Nissan of making a faulty car then, you may ask? Well if Jonanthan from Eco Cars was telling the truth and it’s in the public interest, he’s making what’s called an honest comment. But although I trust his superior knowledge than me on EVs, I don’t trust him enough to land myself in court. If what he was saying was untrue, then Nissan could have sued me as well for damaging their reputation. You see in this country anyone who makes or repeats a false accusation, or defamatory comment, is as open to be sued. Simply saying “I was just repeating Joe Bloggs” is sadly not a legal defence. Now would me talking about it have caused serious harm? Well, more than talking to my mates about it in the pub, as this podcast has thousands of listeners, but not as much as those big YouTube channels like Fully Charged. So it’s a risk, but I erred on the side of the law. So that’s why I held back, purely selfish reasons as I don’t know anyone with a new LEAF and couldn’t test it myself. The same goes for social media as well, and it’s why there’s an explosion in people being sued for what they write on Twitter.  As it turns out, Nissan point to their documentation which says this about charging: “Time dependent on charging conditions, including Quick Charger type and condition, battery temperature and size as well as ambient temperature at point of use”. However, I do have sympathy with 24kWh battery owners who have rapid charged all day long and now have a 40, which slows itself down for safety. That’s a huge frustration. And I have sympathy for those new LEAF owners who perhaps read a car website or review, saw that it rapid charged at 50kW, and took that as gospel. Some positive news for the new LEAF, Autotrader have named it as one of their “Must Test Drive” cars, Judges praised it’s updated interior, driver-focused technology and advanced safety features. As for most recent sales, InsideEV’s and their excellent sales tracker point out: “Nissan has finally got the ball rolling with U.S.-based 2018 LEAF production and inventory. Deliveries soared in February, but only due to several months of almost non-existent sales. The numbers are up significantly for March, with 1,500 LEAFs sold, a 1.5% increase from last year’s 1,478. In comparison to last month’s 895 deliveries, this is a heroic eff”   2 – 55% EV MARKET SHARE FOR NORWAY If you want to see a country embracing EVs then Norway, with significant financial incentives, is leading the way per capita. 8,034 passenger plug-ins were registered in march 2018, up 72% year-over-year) at a record 55.8% market share. BEVs were at 5,362 and PHEVs at 2,672. The best selling car for the month is the new the Nissan LEAF with 2,172 – that’s 41% of all pure electrics being that one car, or 15% of all market share. Yes OK it’s a small market with only 14,400 total monthly sales BUT it’s a microcosm of what will happen where you live, sooner or later.   3 – CLEAN FERRIES FOR SWEDEN Third up, and I wouldn’t call myself a regular reader of the World Cargo News website, but I didn’t notice a lovely battery story on there: “Stena Line will be the first Swedish ferry operator to operate a ferry with zero emissions while berthing and in port. This initial stage of the retrofit employs plug-in hybrid technology that charges with shore power and draws on battery power for bow thrusters and manoeuvring when berthing in port. The ultimate goal is for STENA JUTLANDICA to operate fully on battery power, requiring an estimated 50 MWh of stored energy for the 3h 25m trip across the Kattegat. Shore power from clean energy sources is also an important focus area.”   4 – TRUMP WON’T APPLY TARIFFS TO EV BATTERIES. MAYBE. Fourth story, and I’ll just say, Dear Americans, the rest of the world is very confused by Donald Trump. The new trade tariffs to be imposed included electric batteries on the list, but EV buyers shouldn’t worry. “Any impact on EV battery supply would be minimal to nil,” said UBS analyst Lachlan Shaw . “It is lithium-ion rechargeable cells that are the ones that largely go into EVs.” I’m not sure I agree. After all, China is using electric cars and Lithium Ion batteries to become a leading force in the world. Whether they make an 18650 cell for a laptop, or an 18650 cell which is used in an EV, there’s no difference. No offence to Lachlan Shaw, that doesn’t make sense to my tiny brain.   5 – EVS ARE TOO REFINED FOR KIWI MEN We rarely go to New Zealand on this podcast, so let’s rectify that. A new survey has revealed blokes won’t buy an EV because it might dent their macho image. One EV owner reported promoting the climate-friendly cars each weekend at a farmer’s market, and typically found tech-savvy youngsters and mums who wanted a safe, practical and cash-saving car were on board with the idea. But they said that talking to the Dads they never got it. One quote was: ““No noise, no smell, no oil, no mess – how can this be good? Hey, new Zealand men, if you need big, brash, loud car to drive, what else are you compensating for?   6 – CAR MAGAZINE REVIEWS THE ELECTRIC BLACK CAB Car Magazine has driven the new London Electric Black Cab from LEVC, a company owned by China’s Geely. They of Volvo fame. Highlights from the article I read were: “it features both a CCS and CHAdeMO charging socket either side of its grille. The LEVC stores its 23kWh of batteries up front with the driver, leaving the passengers to have as much room as possible. it’s essentially a Volvo. Sure, the screen is in a different place, and you’re in a commanding driving position, but every display runs Sensus (the infotainment system used in current Volvo models), and is strikingly similar to what you’d

The song I’ve sent you this week is one you will relate to as you know the subject well “Song of Anglesey” sung by my pal Paul Damian…although it is now on a CD album it was originally the B side of my now viral “How To Say Llanfairpwll….etc”….so in effect it sold just a many…which was a lot….the long word song is approaching a million hits on YouTube. I wrote quite a few songs for Paul and my one regret is I never kept the outtakes….I don’t know whose language was worse…his or mine…..great days…Paul now lives in Spain and I miss him a lot. 2.There is an obesity crisis in this country…or so we keep getting told on the news…along with an increase in dementure….and lung problems with fuel emissions…etc…etc….I’m beginning to wonder whether there is anyone who is actually well out there…..perhaps if people didn’t smoke they wouldn’t have lung problems and if they got off their mobile phones and did some exercise they wouldn’t be obese…or am I over simplifying things….or perhaps if the news was a bit more positive it might help instead of doom and gloom. The latest is they want to ban “tackling” in school rugby….in case the poor little chaps get hurt…so that looks like the end of future top class rugby for this country? We only need 30 minutes of news but we get 24 hours…thus we have 23 and a half hours of padding. 3.We have chosen our song entry for the Eurovision…..Joe and Jake are flying the flag….I watched the other contenders and theirs was by far the best and I think the girls will like them so there is a possibility we will get more than nil pwa this year…..I can’t remember the name of the song … oops…but it was quite good. Apparently the two lads are off the The Voice…so Mr.Cowell wonthave a finger in the pie for a change. I must say I watch the Eurovision and I enjoy it…even though I wish I didn’t. It was amazing…Ant and Dec weren’t involved!!!....can’t understand it….they are NEVER off our screens!!!....perhaps they should take a well earned holiday (couple of years?) and give us all a rest…we deserve it. They are even on the adverts..so there is NO escape. 4.I also watched the Academy Awards….is there some sort of controversy about the lack of black nominees?....er….I think so as they have been going on and on about it for months!! I must say that Chris Rock was brilliant…I am a huge fan of his and think he is one of the best comedians around. I always think it’s all a bit too glamorous and out dated for todays market….and fail to see the point…what do I care if Joe Bloggs wins an award…doesn’t effect ME in the slightest….I think the money could be better spent elsewhere. 5.There is a new programme on TV featuring Julia Bradberry doing Lake District walks…it’s great stuff especially as I recognise the places having walked there myself…plus Julia is very easy on the eye…and Griff Rhys Jones did a similar programme wandering around Wales…I particularly enjoyed the feature on Anglesey as I have walked around the whole island over the years. This sort of programme is of interest to everyone (or should be)….instead of being bombarded with idiots having tattoos removed or cosmetic surgery on their fat out of shape bodies…I can’t imagine anyone watching that garbage…but there you go.

The song I’ve sent you this week is one you will relate to as you know the subject well “Song of Anglesey” sung by my pal Paul Damian…although it is now on a CD album it was originally the B side of my now viral “How To Say Llanfairpwll….etc”….so in effect it sold just a many…which was a lot….the long word song is approaching a million hits on YouTube. I wrote quite a few songs for Paul and my one regret is I never kept the outtakes….I don’t know whose language was worse…his or mine…..great days…Paul now lives in Spain and I miss him a lot. 2.There is an obesity crisis in this country…or so we keep getting told on the news…along with an increase in dementure….and lung problems with fuel emissions…etc…etc….I’m beginning to wonder whether there is anyone who is actually well out there…..perhaps if people didn’t smoke they wouldn’t have lung problems and if they got off their mobile phones and did some exercise they wouldn’t be obese…or am I over simplifying things….or perhaps if the news was a bit more positive it might help instead of doom and gloom. The latest is they want to ban “tackling” in school rugby….in case the poor little chaps get hurt…so that looks like the end of future top class rugby for this country? We only need 30 minutes of news but we get 24 hours…thus we have 23 and a half hours of padding. 3.We have chosen our song entry for the Eurovision…..Joe and Jake are flying the flag….I watched the other contenders and theirs was by far the best and I think the girls will like them so there is a possibility we will get more than nil pwa this year…..I can’t remember the name of the song … oops…but it was quite good. Apparently the two lads are off the The Voice…so Mr.Cowell wonthave a finger in the pie for a change. I must say I watch the Eurovision and I enjoy it…even though I wish I didn’t. It was amazing…Ant and Dec weren’t involved!!!....can’t understand it….they are NEVER off our screens!!!....perhaps they should take a well earned holiday (couple of years?) and give us all a rest…we deserve it. They are even on the adverts..so there is NO escape. 4.I also watched the Academy Awards….is there some sort of controversy about the lack of black nominees?....er….I think so as they have been going on and on about it for months!! I must say that Chris Rock was brilliant…I am a huge fan of his and think he is one of the best comedians around. I always think it’s all a bit too glamorous and out dated for todays market….and fail to see the point…what do I care if Joe Bloggs wins an award…doesn’t effect ME in the slightest….I think the money could be better spent elsewhere. 5.There is a new programme on TV featuring Julia Bradberry doing Lake District walks…it’s great stuff especially as I recognise the places having walked there myself…plus Julia is very easy on the eye…and Griff Rhys Jones did a similar programme wandering around Wales…I particularly enjoyed the feature on Anglesey as I have walked around the whole island over the years. This sort of programme is of interest to everyone (or should be)….instead of being bombarded with idiots having tattoos removed or cosmetic surgery on their fat out of shape bodies…I can’t imagine anyone watching that garbage…but there you go.

After a seven-year investigation into Google’s UK tax affairs, the company agreed to pay £130m to us. Chancellor George Osborne hailed it a huge success. No one else agreed. Especially not the Shadow Chancellor, anyone with a calculator, or even the French, who a few days later announced they were negotiating a much bigger windfall on a far smaller business than Google UK. It amounted to a tax rate of about 3% on its multi-billion-pound earnings in this country. And all this at the time average Jo and Joe Bloggs are filing their tax returns before the end of January deadline. People pay tax at 30% to 40 to nearly 50% on earnings of a few tens of thousands of pounds. You can see why these people are angry. Luckily, there’s no anger in the Share Radio studio as presenter Georgie Frost, This is Money Editor Simon Lambert and Consumer Affairs Editor tackle the big tax and pensions scandals of the week with a sharp insight and warm wit. It’s been a bad week for Osborne. Having announced a ban on raising taxes, the smart money’s on him stealing it from our pensions. Also on the agenda, Have you any idea how much VAT rich people pay when they buy a Rolls Royce car that costs more than a house? And what’s it’s like to drive and park one? Can it really be as tatty as it sounds or is it a must-have motor for the discerning Google executive? Buy-to-let is back in the news, so is gold, which provides another excuse to play Spandau Ballet songs, and finally it’s been a bumper year for British cinema. What’s your favourite film?

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This week our cousins from across the pond give us a LOT to talk about. They're just like us anyway . . . only they don't call it "sausage".Hi guys,Thought I would drop you a line after your recent discussion about the London 2012 coverage or your lack of ;)Over here in Jolly old England we have got pretty much every base covered.The BBC always provides coverage for any Olympics as well as the majority of big events of similar stature.We have 4 BBC channels here in the UK, of which 2 are providing coverage live through the whole day. At points they may even get a third channel also providing coverage.As well as the channels, BBC provides an interactive service where they broadcast every event live and you can choose to watch whatever you want. This is easily accessible (you just press the red button on your remote) and is easy to navigate. It also provides the full schedule for the events.On the BBC's on demand service you can also choose to watch some of the shows after the fact.All sports are provided with commentary on each service, and what's more the commentators are all sports personalities themselves. And for the majority they mainly only appear on sports they have been associated with. So having these types of people calling the shots they are providing much more insight than Joe Bloggs could.I found it interesting when you said about commentators repeating themselves to get on the highlight reel. This is something that doesn't happen over here. The commentary is only repeated if they are later showing highlights or repeating the event. If highlights are being shown on the news or other shows most of the time the clips are shown with no commentary.Between events they do provide interviews but only ever with the athletes, previous athletes or experts. No random celebrities here for the most part.Our coverage is vary fair, if their is an event where we have one of our big athletes competing it will be broadcast on BBC one. But other than this all events no matter what country is competing is given an equal amount of love and attention.This treatment isn't something specific to the London Olympics as this level of coverage was exactly the same at the previous Olympics as well as the winter Olympics, which we are absolutely crap at.Hope this helps answer some of your questions.Keep up the fantastic work.Much LoveWayneHeadlines:Curiosity Rover LandingCuriosity lands on a DMCA TakedownEmbedding is not copyright infringement. Suck it MPAA!Huawei is full of spies?Yahoo is getting sued for letting passwords get hackedE-Books are now outselling actual booksIran is taking its ball and going homeAcer to Microsoft: Don't be stepping fool!Demonoid gets raided and Anonymous gets all revengeBlizzard got hackedIn comic book movie news:I’ll trade you a Daredevil for a Galactus and a Silver Surfer. Allegedly...In a surprise to no one, Joss Whedon WILL write and direct Avengers 2X-Men 1st Class sequel to be called X-Men: Days Of Future PastDoctor Who to play Thor 2 villainRUMOR: Ben Affleck being courted to direct Justice League movieFast LaneGoogle has been ordered to pay $22.5 million in fines for "misrepresenting" Internet privacy. Because, as everyone knows, once you put something on the Internet, you’re the only one who can ever see it.Shaun of the Dead has been transformed into an arcade game. Now fans can play as Shaun and Ed as they battle in front of the Winchester Tavern. Um, you’ve got red on you.A new concept for online password verification would potentially stop hackers in their tracks by having you match pictures you like. Supposedly this can also help find the next Dalai Lama.Facebook has let its voice be heard in the case of users who were fired for "liking" the page of a candidate for sheriff. Their argument is that “likes” fall under free-speech. If the judge agrees, your employer will have to find a different excuse to fire your unproductive butt. Maybe you should be working instead of browsing Facebook.Talking Point:Woz doesn’t like the cloud. MoreAn epic exampleZuke’s Favorite: Mars Lander . . . and dancing BatmanZohner’s Favorite: Mars Lander vs Lucas . . . I just hate him so much...Schmidty’s Favorite: Mars Lander … and Mars Lander photosSquishy’s Favorite: Sarcastic Rover See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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