Podcast appearances and mentions of John Mason

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Three Northern MakersEpisode 181A bucket of goat urine pleaseSteve is having a clear out and Pierre Chat GPTHuge thanks to our top tier PatreonsChris @back.to.the.workshop. Mat Melleor @Makermellor, André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreates obsession this week is KATLA on Netfilx a strange Icelandic Drama well worth a look Pierre @theswedishmaker Pierres obsession this week is The White Lotus on HBO in Sweden he's already on the second series it must be good go take a lookIf you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Its Glory Hole Time This week Pierre Is exhausted and Steve had a strange request to build somethingHuge thanks to our top tier PatreonsChris @back.to.the.workshop. Mat Melleor @Makermellor, André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreates obsession this week is a  movie on Netflix called Electric State a sci-fi movie with a really good story go check it outPierre @theswedishmaker Pierres obsession this week is a series  on Netflix called Adolescence its a short drama and Pierre loves the fact that the first episode which is an hour long is all one take go take a lookIf you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Cinematic SteveSteve is in full Spielberg mode (God Help Us) and Pierre Has Wifi Woes We have a new Patreon this week Big thanks toMegaweasel for their support for the podcast Huge thanks to our top tier PatreonsChris @back.to.the.workshop. Mat Melleor @Makermellor, André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreates obsession this week is a YouTube channel for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he interviews Gary Oldman in London particularly the fart episode Pierre @theswedishmaker Pierres obsession this week is The Bambu Lab new release of their new £D Printer thingy who knows hay it will be If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern MakersEpisode 178Doctor Sparky your online Permits GrantedThis week Pierre is on a rant again and Steve is intimidatedWe have a new Patreon this week Big thanks to Robert Larson for his support for the podcast Huge thanks to our top tier PatreonsChris @back.to.the.workshop. Mat Melleor @Makermellor, André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreates obsession this week is the show Paradise as recommended by John McSherry last week He's binge watched the whole thingPierre @theswedishmaker Pierres obsession this week is a YouTube channel called Ideal Idea and his video upgrading my desk with 3d printing go take a lookIf you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Its Dead To Us!!Big thank you to our new top tier Patreon this weekChris @back.to.the.workshop thanks so much Chris for your great support Huge thanks to our top tier PatreonsMat Melleor @Makermellor, André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreates obsession this week is a young English Girl Who has bought a Cabin in Northern Sweden and she is a wildlife photographer and video maker she has a great YouTube channel Danni Conner Wild go take a lookPierre @theswedishmaker Pierres obsession this week is the Netflix Political dram Zero Day with Robert De Nero Its exciting and tense and Pierre loves itListener John McSherry sent in his obsession which is a show on Disney Plus called Paradise which John says is as good as Silo go take a look If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

President Trump has taken office and made a lot of progress in a very short time that most Christians in America would agree with and think would lead us all to a better life. However, when it comes to picking a Christian advisor for his new Faith Office, this decision was made very poorly. John Mason explains why Paula White is not only disqualified from advising anyone on the Christian faith, but also a documented false teacher and heretic that denies biblical Christianity.#livinggodstruth #presidenttrump #paulawhite #Christianity #Bible #podcast #Identity #faithoffice #falsteacher #apologetics Hoodie I'm WearingCash AppPayPalPodcastWebsiteFacebookXInstagramLIFEwithTheMasons

Three Northern MakersEpisode 176Have You Seen My Screws? Huge thanks to our top tier PatreonsMat Melleor @Makermellor, André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekThis Week Both Steve @stevebellcreates and Pierre@theswedishmaker Have the Same Obsession Both ion us are blown away with Jason Grissom's new video on YouTube called A Woodworking Story Thats Never Been Told honestly it is too good well done Jason If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern MakersEpisode 175Don't Give Me Advice!!!! Huge thanks to our top tier PatreonsMat Melleor @Makermellor, André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreates Steves obsession is an AI app called Claude He's downloaded the free version and he really likes it go give it a try@theswedishmaker Pierre's obsession week is A Show “The Last Week Tonight” on Youtube with John Oliver it a sarcastic news program if thats your thing go check it out If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern MakersEpisode 174The one with the videoThis week the podcast can be seen on YouTube. https://youtube.com/We have a new Patron this week  Massive thanks to Maker Mellor. @makermellor Also a big thanks to Carl Heyes for upgrading.  Huge thanks to our top tier PatreonsAndré Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreates Steves obsession is his girly little car - the Skoda city go@theswedishmaker Pierre's obsession week is Magnus Midtbø. If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Is that really a bat ?????We have a new Patron this week  Massive thanks to G Petrousis  thanks so much let us know if you have a handle for YouTube instagram etc and we can give you a shoutout Huge thanks to our top tier PatreonsAndré Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytterenAnd a big thank you to all our other patreons If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow we have a Patreon page please click the link https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio. We would love to see you there.Our Obsessions this weekSteve @stevebellcreatesSteves obsession is a Oscar winning short movie on YouTube called The Neighbor's Window it won an Oscar to on a channel called Marshallcurry its only 20 minutes long and its so good@theswedishmaker Sadly Pierre is obsessed with Morly Kert's Latest  YouTube video where he builds a dome, Also Pierre is obsessed with Singapore Smash a table tennis competition and also he watching the Apple TV plus show Prime target its a wonder how he gets anything done   If you have any questions or comments please email the show atthreenorthernmakers@gmail.com

 The Oddjob Pod returns with another edition of the Action Movie Landfill.On each episode of the Landfil, Gary, Graham and Terry fish out a DVD from the vast, imaginary pile of action movies from the sell-thriugh era and decide of they shoud be placed on the shelf or returned to the Landfill.In this edition we have unearthed Michael Bay's The Rock starring Ed Harris, Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery. Many Bond fans have looked at Connery's character, John Mason; a retired SAS officer incarcertaed in the US for 30 years and wonder if this Mason is an alternative unuverse James Bond. The film makers have been at pains to deny this.In any event it is a film with much to admire and the Oddjob Pod trio spend a happy hour and a half ruminating on this 90s classic.Download the podcast here or listen on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts,  Spotify and Amazon. Alternatively, add our feed to your podcatcher of choice. Love the OddjobPod? Please give it a 5-star rating. Like our Facebook page. Follow @oddjobpod on Twitter and on Insta   

Three Northern Makers Episode 172 Did You see the Mouse??? We have a new Patron this week  Massive thanks to Rik in Provincetown thanks so much Rik let us know ion you have a handle for YouTube instagram etc and we can give you a shoutout   Huge thanks to our top tier Patreons André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren And a big thank you to all our other patreons  If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates Steves obsession is a movie called Flaming Hot he saw on UK TV a true story about a young Mexican guy down on his luck who invented the Flaming Hot Cheetos Its an inspirational feel good movie go find it Pierre @theswedishmaker Sadly Pierre is obsessed with the Apple TV show Severance and he cant get enough of it watching every day  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Most Christian women in today's modern world chase after an education and life long career, but what does the word of God say about the value of a woman in her created design and purpose and why don't more Christians live that out as a priority in their lives? Feminism and the sexual revolution have played a major role in shaping the ideological framework of most Christians today without them even knowing. The question is, how can Christians bring God glory while giving their minds over to secular humanistic philosophies? In this episode, John Mason answers the question, "What is the greatest career in human history?" from a biblical worldview. #livinggodstruth #feminism #motherhood #Christianity #Bible #podcast #Identity Hoodie I'm Wearing Cash App PayPal Podcast Website Facebook X Instagram LIFEwithTheMasons

Special thanks to our top tier Patreons André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates Steves obsession is a Youtube Channel called Model Strangers. A guy called Chris walks up to strangers to ask if he can take their photo and he talks too them about their life the videos are only 3 -4 minutes long and are inspirational go take a look  Pierre @theswedishmaker Sadly Pierre is all out of Obsessions this week If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern Makers Episode 170 The Hairy Episode  Happy New Year We hope you all have a fantastic 2025 Special thanks to our top tier Patreons André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates Steves obsession is a Youtube Channel called The Scandinavian Fika all about Swedish Bakeries Its really goo but you end up so hungry  Pierre @theswedishmaker Pierre is obsessed with the TV show on Disney Plus  called Goosebumps the Vanishing Pierre likes the Vibe go check it out  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern Makers Episode 169 Stephanie is Back !!! Happy New Year We hope you all have a fantastic 2025 Special thanks to our top tier Patreons André Jørassen, Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates Steves obsession is that he has started to meditate again and is meditating every day is goal is to meditate every day in 2025 go on giver it a try  Pierre @theswedishmaker Pierre is obsessed with the Rubik's  Cube and he his doing every day in January dig out your old one and give it a go. Pierre is also obsessed with playing virtual Table Tennis on his new virtual reality set. If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Andrew Wilson recently debated Nala Ray on Whatever podcast episode #210 about if people can sin absent demonic influence. This exchange was very interesting and helps us see why sound doctrine is critically important to speaking and living right theology that is consistent from Scripture. Many people have written off Nala Ray because she is an ex-only fans girl, but what does Scripture say about the worst of the worst in our society and what lesson can someone as astute in reason, logic and Christian ethics like Andrew Wilson learn from this conversation. John Mason responds. #AndrewWilson #Nala #Whatever #LivingGodsTruth #biblicaltheology #Christianity #Demons Original Whatever Podcast Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8QPByKliCI&t=28330s Become a supporting listener Hoodie I'm Wearing Cash App PayPal Podcast Website Facebook X Instagram LIFEwithTheMasons --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/livinggodstruth/support

Three Northern Makers Episode 168 Merry Christmas Steve and Pierre want to wish all our listeners a very merry Christmas and a fantastic new year. Thanks so much for listening and for all your support in 2024. We are having a couple of weeks off over the holidays but we will be back with a bang in 2025   Big thank you to André Jørassen who has upgraded his pattern to become a Top Tier Patreon thanks so much André Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates Adam Savage on YouTube and his videos behind  the scenes in the Silo Series on Apple TV it so good and so interesting toes how things re made Pierre @theswedishmaker is obsession this week Black Doves on Netflix he's right into it so go take a look for youself If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Steve Suffers with AMS We Have a new Patron this week Big thanks to Ian Elgie cheers  Ian and thanks again for your support Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a new Series on Netflix called Black Dove its a spy thriller abdd its really good  Pierre @theswedishmaker is obsession this week is yourself. Pierre says treat yourself and buy yourself something for Christmas  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern Makers Episode 166 We Took Our own Advice Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with the New Beatles film Beatles 64 a documentary made by the Beatles about their first trip to the USA in 1964 it's soooo good and available on Disney plus Pierre @theswedishmaker is obsessed with a series on Swedish TV called Chopper Heist a true story of a daring Security cash raid in Sweden Pierre loves it  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern Makers Episode 165 Doing things Differently  We have a new Patreon this week Massive thank you to Bret Sway Pork Show (I think Bret likes anagrams) anyway thanks so much Bret for supporting the show Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with Doing things differently this week and stepping outside of your normal routines and habits give it a go Pierre @theswedishmaker is obsessed with a series on Swedish TV which is all about the Pirate Bay I'm sure most of us have been on the high seas with Pirate Bay in its day  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Three Northern Makers Episode 164 The Oslo Episode  Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a Netflix Christmas series called Jullstorm or a Storm before Christmas all set in Oslo Airport its really good honest  Also a Young lady who's is channel called Nelferch  transforming a barn into art studio  Pierre @theswedishmaker is obsessed with the New series of Yellowstone though he's not happy that there is no more Kevin Costner  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

John Mason returns with an update on where he and his family has been, and how God has sustained them. Become a supporting listener Hoodie I'm Wearing Cash App PayPal Podcast Website Facebook X Instagram LIFEwithTheMasons --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/livinggodstruth/support

Episode 163 21 Orgasms Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a Youtube channel Matthew Encina had a new video out called DIY custom desk setup really nice chilled video and great home office build Also a Young lady who's is channel called Nelferch  transforming a barn into art studio  @theswedishmaker is all out of obsessions  his week what a guy If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

John Mason is a much sought after TV host and correspondent. His natural on-screen energy and versatility have established him as a regular personality in the European & international markets, particularly in Olympic aquatic sports. John has been the face of the FINA Swimming World Cup Series for the last four years. In addition, he has covered some of the biggest events in the world for Eurosport, BBC Sport, Channel 5 and FINA TV including, the European Championships, World Championships, Commonwealth Games, and Diving World Series. John was born in Australia and after graduating from Charles Sturt University, he moved to London and started his career as a model. Shortly after, he served as the host of the Elite Model Look Competition – a worldwide search for the next fashion superstar. He is an avid competitive Crossfitter and enjoys being creative in the culinary art world. John prides himself on staying connected to the trends in pop culture, music, and travel – he has been to thirty-two countries and counting. As an out gay man, he is also an activist for LGBTQI visibility and human rights.

Today's guest is quite out of the ordinary for the Voice of Insurance. Normally guests on the podcast can recount multi-decade careers in insurance from the time they fell into the industry up to the present day. Today's guest is extraordinary because he is someone of vast experience in his field but who has only just been recruited into the insurance industry. John Mason is the CEO of London Market electronic placing provider PPL and can boast a glittering career running the core systems and platforms that support hugely important global financial markets in other financial sectors outside of insurance. From this encounter I can tell you straight away that I think that we have a lot more to learn from John than he does from us. But thankfully for us John is not the sort of outsider who has come to lecture us on how to drag our antiquated trading systems into line with markets that fully digitised decades ago. John is an experienced leader and the type of communicator who understands that a market that syndicates bespoke structured insurance coverage across the globe is bound to throw up many unique complications and challenges He gets the tone just right – he is here to do an important job and he has a clear vision of how to go about it, but he is very conscious of the need to meet us where we are and show how tech is going to make the way we already work way more efficient and higher added value, rather than try and force us to completely change the way we do business. And that's where this extraordinary podcast adds its value. John is easily the most eloquent leader running a core insurance technology platform I have ever interviewed. He knows where the pitfalls lie and has the experience to know how to execute large, complicated, transformational projects. He hasn't been with us long, but the ideas we discuss in the time that follows are highly impressive and are set to transform frontline brokers' and underwriters' day-to-day relationship with the technology they use to carry out their jobs. They could unleash a wave of productivity and creativity that would completely re-set the market's relationship with itself and with the rest of the world. It's extraordinary stuff – but as I said at the beginning, John is very much out of the ordinary. LINKS: We mention a video that PPL has produced outlining the vision behind its recently-announced partnership with Microsoft. I highly recommend a view: https://vimeo.com/1017109828  https://placingplatformlimited.com

Three Northern Makers Episode 162 How do you like your wood. Rare, Medium or Well Done Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri, Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a Youtube  Channel Scott Brown Carpentry a Guy from New Zealand who went to Japan to buy some tools it was really good  @theswedishmaker is obsessed with a Youtube Channel Called Works By Design and the video that makes a pawn automatically change to a queen using 3D printing  Pierre loved it If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Bex Scott is back for a new season of Pyrex with Bex and in this first episode of the season, she's diving into the rabbit hole of collectible salt and pepper shakers. Her own collection started when she found lots of them in an online estate sale and discovered that her favorites are the kitschy anthropomorphic shakers. Why were so many made? When were they popular and why? Which ones are most valuable now? Bex reveals what she learned in this episode. Salt and pepper shakers were easy to collect because of their size, small, and they were also very affordable. They date back to around 1858 though there is some dispute over the exact person who created them. Strangely, the kitschy eye-catching salt and pepper shakers were one of the few things whose sales didn't dip during the Great Depression. Because they were small and cheap, they were easy to continue producing and still affordable to collect or gift. Bex explores how salt and pepper shaker designs reflected the time periods they were created in, the themes that became most popular, the rarest and most valuable salt and pepper shakers to look for now, and a family who collected 80,000 sets and started a museum just to house them. You don't want to miss this episode. It will make you look twice at salt and pepper shakers when you come across them.Resources discussed in this episode:Lefton Bluebirds salt and pepper shakersExtra long dachshund salt and pepper shakersPink poodle chef salt and pepper shakersHolt Howard pixieware salt and pepper shakers“Would You Like Some Salt and Pepper? How About 80,000 Shakers' Worth?” by Derek Workman, Smithsonian Magazine, January 23, 2012—Contact Rebecca Scott | Pyrex With Bex: Website: PyrexWithBex.comInstagram: @pyrexwithbex—TranscriptBex Scott: [00:00:02] Hey everybody, it's Bex Scott and welcome to the Pyrex with Bex podcast, where, you guessed it, I talk about vintage Pyrex, but also all things vintage housewares. I'll take you on my latest thrifting adventures, talk about reselling, chat with other enthusiasts about their collections, and learn about a bunch of really awesome items from the past. Subscribe now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you love listening to podcasts so you don't miss a beat. Hey, everybody, this is Bex Scott and you are listening to the Pyrex with Bex podcast. And on today's episode it's salt and pepper time. We are talking all about salt and pepper shakers. And for me, this is a super fun topic because I have been collecting salt and pepper shakers on and off for the last couple of years. I don't have a huge collection, but they are one of the easiest things I've found to collect and to unfortunately amass in large quantities. Bex Scott: [00:01:04] So my salt and pepper shaker collection started back when I found a bunch of huge lots of them in an online estate sale, and I didn't actually know how many I was buying until I picked them up. And I probably had three moving boxes full of them, and unpacking them and cataloging them and photographing them was a massive endeavor. But one of the most fun things you can do as a collector, as you guys probably know, is unboxing and seeing what's inside, what you've bought from a sale or an online auction, and finding the little nuggets of maybe a really collectible item or something that you really love. Bex Scott: [00:01:53] So most of these salt and pepper shakers that I did buy, I ended up selling online on Facebook Marketplace or on Poshmark and some of them even on Whatnot now. And I've had a few friends on Whatnot who have had full on salt and pepper shaker sales, and it's so fun to watch them go through each of the shakers and to see just how fun they were. My favorite ones, hands down, are the kitschy salt and pepper shakers, and my great grandma had an absolute love of Lefton Bluebird, so I've been lucky enough to inherit some of her bluebirds. I have the salt and pepper shakers. I also have some of the more kitschy anthropomorphic ones. I have little kittens that are sitting on balls of yarn. I have some skunks that are sitting on logs and they're just very fun, cute, and you can store a lot of them in a small place. So this led me down a hole of looking into salt and pepper shakers, their appeal, their history. And I actually learned quite a bit about them. Bex Scott: [00:03:07] So. Salt and pepper shakers were easy for people to collect because of their size, and they were so affordable and they were just really easy to come across as well. They held on to them or passed them down. And you could, before, get a figural set of a dog, a cat, a bird for 5 to $7. Now the prices have gone up a little bit because they are in higher demand. People are reselling them and there are more that are collectible, some more than others. Salt and pepper shakers, they go back to about 1858 and they were created, some believe, by a man named John Mason who also created the Mason jar. So some people kind of refute this and are questioning whether that's actually true. But this is what I've found so far in my research. And before the salt and pepper shaker came to be, people used a bowl of salt called a salt cellar. And I've come across a lot of salt cellars in my collecting days, and a lot of the really cute ones are the little hens on the nest. I didn't actually know the purpose of a salt cellar. I knew that it was called that and you scooped the salt up with a spoon. People often added rice to it to keep the moisture at bay. And then it wasn't until 1911, when the brand Morton Salt Company introduced magnesium carbonate into salt that helped it to not clump, which is why people don't often put rice into their salt shakers now. Bex Scott: [00:05:02] So with these cute little kitschy and fun sets on home and restaurant tables, there was a high demand for the aesthetically appealing styles, and it was important for homemakers to have these on their table to show them off and to just have fun collecting them. So many people purchased them on road trips back in the day. One of the most popular types of salt and pepper shakers was the souvenir shaker that you got on your road trip that may have said the location it was from and where you got it. Now the Great Depression came along and there was no dip in salt shaker sales because it was one of the cheapest items in the kitchen. And during the 1930s and into the 1940s, the salt shakers went from glass and tin containers to the ceramic or plastic figurines. Most were from occupied Japan after a halt in production during the war. And the kitschier the better. So salt and pepper shakers became more cute, more eye-catching, and the number of salt and pepper shakers sold at local five and dimes and the fancier stores was just increasing. So some of the fun ones that you could find were the anthropomorphic fruit, fish, dogs. There's a set called the Extra Long Daschund that is really cute if you want to look up these funny little skinny wiener dog salt and pepper shakers. Bex Scott: [00:06:45] So by the 1970s, these cute figural shakers had completely gone out of style, out of production, and they were replaced by what we now have, which is a more standard boring cylindrical-style salt and pepper shaker. Don't get me wrong, there's some beautiful salt and pepper shakers out there now still, but it's just not the same anymore. And some of the ones that they were replaced by that people still collect are the Tupperware salt and pepper shakers, which were really popular during that time and not so much the conversation starters of all the cute, anthropomorphic, kitschy ones that you used to be able to find. So by the 1990s, people started to realize that the salt and pepper shakers were worth something because of the demand that collectors had made for them. And some of the most popular ones are cute little ones hanging from trees that have little baskets. I just sold a set. It was an adorable little dog that had two hanging baskets on the left and the right that you could remove, and those were the salt and pepper shakers. And the baskets were filled with flowers. Lots of kissing and hugging shakers. I have two little bears that when you put them together, their arms wrap around each other. Lots of Christmas ones. And some of the most sought after are from Lefton, Napco, Holt Howard. Bex Scott: [00:08:18] So a lot of this information that I found from my friend Worthpoint, and in this article that I was reading they went through the most collectible shakers from Lefton, Napco and Holt Howard, which I thought was super interesting because as a collector, I'm always wondering which ones I should be on the lookout for. So if you want to start the hunt, Lefton's most collectible are Bluebirds, Christmas angels, Miss Dainty, which is the girl with the red and white hat, Mr.Tootles the Maltese dog, Miss Priss the Blue Kitten, Thumbelina, The Green Fairy, Kissing Santa and Mrs. Claus, Christmas birds which are green, the Puppy Pal dogs wearing blue hats, and pink poodle chef, which in brackets they say is beyond expensive. I've actually never seen the pink poodle chef. Bex Scott: [00:09:21] Napco, you have number one, Miss Cutie Pie, two anthropomorphic fruit people, so that would be the artists, musicians, kissing Valentine birds, the bowler and hard hats, devils, flower girls, and long neck animals. And then Holt Howard, you have the Nodder Rock and Roll on springs, merry mice,they are pink and mischievous, Holly Poinsettia girls, winking Santa, Daisydorables, rooster, and pixieware are the most desirable of all the Holt Howard shakers I've seen. Not in person, but on a lot of my favorite collectors Instagrams and some on Facebook Marketplace. The pixieware salt and pepper shakers. They are so cute! Next up we have Enesco. Number one is the Sweet Shop. It says very pricey and rare. Anything anthropomorphic, fruits, vegetables, forks and spoons. I have had some forks and spoons. They're very cute. You can't really hold a lot of salt and pepper in them though, so definitely more for display. Golden Girls, Country Kids, Snappy the Snails, Missy Mouse, Doctor WO Owl, and Jonah and the whale. Bex Scott: [00:10:37] So going into more of the research, I discovered as well that people have local chapters of salt and Pepper shaker clubs. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. There are clubs for Pyrex collectors, Facebook groups and pages, many of which I'm a part of. So it would make sense that these salt and pepper shaker lovers would come together and sell and swap stories about their salt and pepper shakers. So after digging into some of this research about salt and pepper shakers and finding out that there was a salt and pepper shaker museum, I looked into this article by the Smithsonian magazine by Derek Workman, and it goes over this family's 80,000 shakers worth of salt and pepper shakers. So they have 40,000 pairs of shakers. They are called the Ludden family. And they have enough shakers to fill two museums. So it's Andrea, her son Alex, and her daughter, and they are in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, with all of their salt and pepper shakers. So andrea said she started completely by chance when she bought a pepper mill at a garage sale in the mid 1980s. I'm sure that most of the collectors out there listening can totally relate to this. You find one item at a garage sale and it takes you down a spiral of collecting. I know that that's how things usually start for me with my addictive collecting personality. That's how my Pyrex started with finding it in my grandparents garage. So Andrea says that she had this pepper mill. It didn't work, so she bought a couple more, and she used to stand them on the window ledge of her kitchen, and her neighbors thought she was building a collection. Bex Scott: [00:12:32] She said nothing could have been further from her mind, but her neighbors started to bring new ones over, and eventually she had 14,000 on shelves all over her house, even in her bedrooms. And her husband Rolf told her that she needed somewhere else to put these or they're going to get divorced. So that's when they decided to create this museum. So you can wander around the museum. It says there's fat chefs, ruby red tomatoes, guardsmen in bearskins, Santas, feet sticking from a chimney, pistols and potatoes, a copy of the salt and pepper shaker cufflinks worn by Lady Diana. That is very cool. And Andrea, she was or is an archeologist by training, and when she moved to the States, she couldn't find work in her field. So she turned her attention to social anthropology, and she studied everyday life since the early years through her growing collection of salt and pepper shakers. And she says here in the article, "there's almost nothing you can imagine that hasn't been copied as a salt and pepper shaker. And many of them reflect the designs, the colors and the preoccupations of the period", which is very true. And when you think about it, when you look at a salt and pepper shaker you don't really think that deeply about it, but a lot of these designs were reflections of what was going on in the time. Bex Scott: [00:13:58] So they go into how, in the article, it was because people could travel more freely, either for work or on vacation, that the souvenir industry came about. And salt and pepper shakers were cheap, easy to carry, and colorful, and they made ideal gifts. So among the earliest producers of salt and pepper shakers were the German fine pottery maker Goebel. They introduced its first three sets in 1925, and today its Hummel shakers, introduced in 1935, are highly collectible. And ironically, it was the Great Depression of the 1930s that gave a major boost to the popularity of salt and pepper shakers as a household item and a collectible item, and ceramic producers worldwide were forced to restrict production and concentrate on lower priced items, and this helped because salt and pepper shakers were small, easy to produce, bright and cheery, and really could be bought for a few cents at most local hardware stores. Soon other ceramic companies got into the act, and Japanese firms had a large share of the market from the late 1920s through the 1930s. As well, from the late 1940s through the 50s, and production halted during World War Two. So the shakers they produced in postwar years labeled 'made in occupied Japan' or simply 'occupied Japan' are extremely rare and highly sought after. In the 1950s and 60s, they began producing shakers made from plastic. Plastic was very fragile, so fewer of these examples exist, making them extremely valuable. Which is another good thing to know because I have seen a lot of the plastic shakers around. Bex Scott: [00:15:49] Sometimes they're not in the greatest shape, but knowing this, that they are more rare and collectible, definitely makes that a bit exciting for me to try and find the plastic ones over some of the other ceramic ones that you can find. So they go into how, at first glance, the museum seems bright and happy, if a bit haphazard. The displays are well thought out and organized, especially considered the many models on display. I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would be to categorize and organize that many salt and pepper shakers. And because you can work by style, age, subject matter, color, Andrea says they try to do it in a way that combines all of the elements at the same time. There are hundreds of themes, and in those themes there will be many colors. But her mom has a way of laying out displays that are highly planned so that the colors within a theme are displayed together. For example, she continues, all the greens, yellows and reds of the vegetables are arranged in vertical rows. You get bright color bands, but all the shakers are on the same theme. It's a lot more complicated than it sounds because there are so many. A large number of the shaker sets are humorous. There's an aspirin salt shaker, a martini glass pepper shaker, and when they're all set up, there's sometimes an opportunity to create a visual joke. Andrea says that you see what looks like models of the southwest US Adobe houses of the style found in New Mexico with cactus and cowboys and Indians but behind them are two UFOs that have crashed and two aliens that glow in the dark. Bex Scott: [00:17:33] It's amazing how many of these shakers tell a tale that isn't obvious to everyone. One of her favorites is a chef holding a cat in one hand and a cleaver in the other. I always thought it was just a fun item, says Andrea, but her mom explained that it was very significant to older people who had been through the Depression and major wars. Food was short, but you still had to eat, so if a cat strayed by, it went into the pot and came out as chicken surprise! Oh my. As they continue the tour, they're absorbed by all the weird and wonderful shakers. Coca Cola cans, Dolly Parton's photo on a souvenir from Dollywood, the Smokies most fun place, Mickey and Minnie in chef tucks and aprons, the Beatles with the cropped hair and collarless jacket of the early days, a turquoise TV with Lucie Arnaz and her neighbor Ethel Mertz on the screen, and a sofa with an I Love Lucy heart shaped cushion, alligators with sunshades from Florida, bullfighters and bulls from Spain, kangaroos from Australia, a bobby and double decker bus from London, before and after versions of Mount Saint Helens made from the actual volcanic ash. Very cool. There are also familiar ones, shakers your grandmother used to have, or you saw when you went on vacation somewhere, or you gave as a gift once. Bex Scott: [00:18:48] "People come back over and over again and think that we are adding to the displays," says Andrea, "but we aren't. It's just that they didn't see them the first time around." The museum doesn't display all the shakers it owns, but it does exhibit a few Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom shakers, the cook and butler stereotypical characters from the 1950s, knowing some people might be offended by the negative portrayal of African Americans. They are part of the history of salt and pepper shakers. We display them, but we do it discreetly, she says. You can't change history by simply pretending it didn't happen or ignore it. So that article, if you want to read more in-depth, Smithsonian Magazine, 'Would You Like Some Salt and Pepper? How About 80,000 Shakers Worth?' by Derek Workman. And diving into the world of salt and pepper shakers has definitely been a fun one. I would love to know your favorite salt and pepper shakers, how many you might have in your collection, where you find most of them. It is a super fun topic, and if you do want to find salt and pepper shakers out there, I would highly suggest looking at Facebook Marketplace. A lot of the Canadian sellers that I know, including myself, we sell them on Whatnot, so find us there and also on eBay. Bex Scott: [00:20:11] They can get a little bit pricey, but I really find that the thrill is in the hunt. So check out garage sales. Even ask your family members. I'm sure your grandparents, your parents might even have some stuffed in their china cabinets that they're not using. It's just fun to see how many were produced, how many different kinds are out there, and just to see the evolution of them over time. And if you are buying them to resell them, it is really important to look for damage on them. They, I've found, are one of the easiest things to chip and to break, even the smallest little bump. They chip quite easily, especially if you have, like the little Lefton bird shakers, looking on the ears of animals and the beaks. And just anywhere where there's a corner that they may have been hit against something, just keep an eye out. But if it's for your own personal collection, then it's a lot easier just to pick them up in any condition that they are. So I'd love to connect. You can find me on Instagram @PyrexWithBex. You can find me on Whatnot. Selling weekly on Fridays at usually around 2 p.m. Mountain Standard, and my username on Whatnot is Pyrex with Bex. I sell a variety of vintage items, including Pyrex, of course, but a lot of smaller items and jewelry as well. So I hope you enjoyed this episode of salt and pepper shakers. And when you're sitting down at dinner tonight, you might think of the shakers on your table in a different light. 

Three Northern Makers Episode 160 The Very Hairy Episode Special thanks to our top tier Patreons  Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a  show on Disney Plus called Rivals its a bit saucy but a great show. Steves also obsessed with the YouTube channel The fusion Essentials and there playlist Fusion 360 for woodworkers   @theswedishmaker is obsessed with the latest Matt Estela video How I built my woodworking career Mat is also on instagram @mattestlea. Pierre is also obsessed with another YouTube video called meet the real life ironman an interview with the Hacksmith on the Jon Youshaei channel   If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

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Welcome to Episode 159 - Lost In Translation Special thanks to our top tier Patreons  Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with an old movie thats in his top 10 that he watched again recently Its Called LA Confidential its a good old bad cop corruption story at its best go give it a look  @theswedishmaker is obsessed with nothing Although he watched a documentary about Bitcoin on HBO Max which he enjoyed slightly  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

This week we look at SpaceX success; the death of Alex Salmond; Not the Nine O'Clock News;  expelling John Mason; the religion of Harris and Trump; Harris fundraising and plagiarism; aiding illegal votes; Trump Biopic and the truth; banning allotments to save the planet; BP drops oil target and worldwide coal production goes up; Goldman Sachs and Global debt; Country of the Week - Kenya; Euthanasia in the UK; Banter Cops; Weight Loss Drugs; Chat GPT, Islam and the Bible; Planned Parenthood, Premier and Prostitution; Feedback and Luther's advice on the US Election!  with music from Elton John, Muddy Waters, Lufus Wainwright, Israel Mboni, Weird Al Jankovic, City Alight. 

Welcome to Episode 158 The Week Our Patrons Broke Steve Massive thanks to our New Patrons this week they are  Toni Kaic @oringe_finsnickeri and Kieran Whte @eucharistbrewing  Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons  Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a  YouTube channel Make With Miles and his lates build of a bed lamp He's a cool young lad who not only makes great project he also makes awesome videos go  check him out also on instagram @makewithmiles  @theswedishmaker is obsessed with a new app for Sony cameras that helps him control all the functions of the camera on an iPad  the app is called Monitor and control  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Life through a Cracked Lens Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons  Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a show on Netfilx a three part documentary called Ashly Maddison Sex Lies and Scandal  all about the infamous dating website, believe me its well worth a watch   @theswedishmaker is obsessed with Sylvester Stallone in Tulsa King on Paramount he just cant get enough of the big guy  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

The Day of Doom We have a new Patreon this week Big thanks to Carl Hayes our new Patreon thanks you so much for your support Carl Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons  Thor Halvor @thwoodandleather, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a show on Apple TV called Sunny. Its set in Japan and is a mixture of comedy and mystery I'm hooked  @theswedishmaker is still  obsessed with his running and he has found a great YouTube channel to help him out with coaching and tip the channel is Göran Winblad so if your in the running mood this is for you also on instagram @goranwinblad If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Johansson & Johansson We have a new Pateron this week Big thanks to The Bradbury's of Hailing thanks you so much for your support Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons  Tor Halvor @thwoodand, Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk, Mike Eddington @geo.ply, @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed with a YouTube video from a very small YouTube channel Called Christian Søes from Denmark and his video It doesn't have to be perfect to be meaningful making a record layer cabinet. It was such a great build and story go check it out and subscribe  @theswedishmaker was obsessed with a new podcast called the Garage Avenger Podcast. Yes you've guessed it. The podcast is hosted by Justin White AKA the Garage Avenger and his brother just shooting the breeze go have a listen  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

John Mason is the President of Mason & Associates, an RIA based out of Virginia that oversees $370 million in assets under management for approximately 390 client households. What's unique about John, though, is how joining a firm that served the niche of Federal government employees allowed him to quickly accelerate his own learning curve and demonstrate his expertise early in his career as a 20-something—ultimately enabling him to more quickly begin bringing in his own clients. Listen in as John shares how his firm's specialization in serving Federal employees allows it to operate efficiently and develop deep relationships with clients, and how his firm generates client leads through a podcast focusing on the issues facing its ideal target client. He also discusses his firm's transition from a broker-dealer to the RIA model, which boosted its per-client revenue while bringing down all-in costs for clients, how he managed the delicate process of transitioning unprofitable clients to more suitable advisors, why he thinks fee-only advisors sometimes underrate the importance of insurance planning, and more. For show notes and more visit: https://www.kitces.com/402

Lets Do It All Again We have a new Paterons this week Big Thanks to Erland Lewin and Torbjorn N thanks so much guys please let us know your handle so we can give you a shout out. Also massive thanks to our new top tier Patreon Mike Eddington @geo.ply thanks so much Mike for your support And Huge thanks to Tor Halvor @thwoodand leather and Neil Hislop @hbrwoodworksuk who have both upgraded to become top tier patrons  thanks so much again Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angel @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed  with the TV show Bad Monkey on Apple TV its so good go give it a try. Pierre @theswedishmaker was obsessed with Fishers workshop latest video on YouTube all about how he got hacked and how he got his channel back , If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Alan Versteeg, an engineer turned sales management expert, initially approached the sales world with skepticism, but soon turned it into a thriving career by applying the engineering principles of cause and effect to sales and sales management. This success led him to co-founding Growth Matters, where Alan and his team have developed over 2,000 sales managers across 45+ countries and diverse industries.  Known for his candid and light-hearted approach, Alan's passion for the sales profession shines through in his insightful talks, leaving audiences engaged with his wisdom, expertise, and memorable one liners.  Questions · Now, could you start by sharing with our listeners a little bit about your journey, how it is that you got from where you were to where you are today. · Can you share with us maybe two overarching themes that you try to help sales professionals master in terms of their mindset, to get them to where you need them to be in order to master their sales? · What are some barriers that you believe a lot of salespeople face, why it is you believe they're not successful? · Now, Alan, could you also share with our listeners, what's the one online resource, tool, website or application that you absolutely can't live without in your business? · Can you also share with our listeners maybe two books that you've read? It could be a book that you read recently, or even one that you read a very long time ago, but it still has had a great impact on you. · Could you also share with us what's the one thing that's going on in your life right now that you are really excited about, either something you're working on to develop yourself or your people. · Where can listeners find you online? · Just want to ask you as well, Alan, in your experience, in the journey of your lifetime, if you have a quote or saying that during times of adversity or challenge, if for any reason, you got derailed. Do you have a quote or a saying that once repeated or just remembered it helps to get you back on track? Highlights Alan's Journey Me: Now, could you start by sharing with our listeners a little bit about your journey, how it is that you got from where you were to where you are today.   Alan shared that he started as an electronic engineer, it wasn't his fault, he grew up watching Airwolf Night Rider and MacGyver, so he thought that's what he'd be doing. Unfortunately, he lost his dad when he was quite young, he was about 12 years old, but he was an engineer, so he thought that'd be a good thing to do. But he was doing it for about 3 years after graduating, and he read a book called You're Born an Original, Don't Die a Copy by John Mason, and he said, “If you passionately hate what you're doing for more than 2 weeks, you need to stop,” and he'd been doing it for two years. And a friend of his suggested he goes into sales, which he then tried and please if your listeners don't drop off now, but he got asked to leave his first sales jobs, but it was frustrating. As an engineer, he believed in cause and effect. He believes that there's things you do that get you certain outcomes. He was doing everything they told him to do, but he couldn't find a way to get through, he'd be good at his product, he was passionate to what he was doing, but he wasn't able to succeed.  And then he worked under a manager, he said to him, “Alan, is sales a job or a profession?” So, he knew the right answer, the right answer was, it's a profession. And he said, “Well, how hard did you study for this profession?”  And then the penny drops, and from there on out, been a passionate reader, 50 to 60 books a year, generally related to psychology, self-development and sales and over time, realized that the big change in sales is sales management, and that's a short view of his journey to where he was and how he got here.   Mindset Needed for Sales Professionals Me: Now you deal with a lot of sales professionals, and I can imagine it starts with their mindset. Can you share with us maybe two overarching themes that you try to help sales professionals master in terms of their mindset, to get them to where you need them to be in order to master their sales?   Alan stated that it's a great question, and it speaks to the tone of your podcast. So, the first mindset they have to own is that “Selling won't help, but helping will sell.” That the sale is the reward for an intent to create value. And that's the starting point when we realize that we are service orientated, that we're there to drive value into the client's business or life, that there's something specifically we're trying to do, that were truthfully customer centric it's not just a word, and we realize that selling won't help, but helping will sell.  You'll find that salespeople do really well. There's a wonderful book called Selling With Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud by Lisa Earle McLeod, and it shows the research behind the top performing sales professionals globally sell with that noble purpose, with an idea to serve. So, it's definitely one of them.  The second one is probably an extension, he said to sales professionals, “If you believe in the product you sell and you believe it can add value to the person you're serving, then it would be borderline negligent to avoid offering them that value.”  Many salespeople, specifically today are fearful of cold calling or proactive sales calling or reaching out or picking up a phone or speaking to someone, and they take on a very much non-human sales approach, as opposed to going, “I believe, with certainty and conviction that what I have to offer will make their lives or their business easier, and I'm here to help, and helping will sell. So, I'm going to depart from that point.”  And what you find is doing that, apart from that point, the skills, the body language, all the risks that start to develop quite naturally, but often we avoid that, we try to train the skill, but we avoid the mindset.   Barriers To Overcome as Salespeople Me: So, once you tackle their mindset, now you have to ensure that what they're selling, as you mentioned before, is actually helping the customer and adding value to the customer's life. What are some barriers that you believe a lot of salespeople face, why it is you believe they're not successful?   Alan shared that he thinks the big barrier specifically in professional selling is conviction of the value proposition, and before that is clarity. And he'll give a couple of examples.   When he speaks to business leaders, they often say to him, “You know what Alan, the challenge with our sales teams are they just don't understand our value proposition.”  And he says, okay, great. What is your value proposition? And they struggle to articulate it. Now, if you think about this, why is it that entrepreneurs can sell quite effectively without ever having been trained in that skill, and the reality is they have clarity and conviction of their value proposition. He thinks with many sales professionals, we're teaching them the product, we're not teaching them the impact it has on the customer's life.  Once we buy into the impact, once we have the conviction, selling is a natural part of how we are as humans and Dan Pink wrote that book To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others.  And his (Alan) example is we have a brand over there, it's called Woolworths, it's a high-quality brand, high quality food brand. And if you said to anyone, “But why shopping in Woolworths? They're so expensive.” They dive into a defense, without being paid by this company, they will sell very hard the value of doing that.  The same could be said for someone who's an Apple phone fan. And he can continue, once we have conviction of something, the ability and need to persuade is actually quite natural. So, he thinks what's missing from an individual's perspective is that conviction of the mindset.  From a corporate, it's the fact that we speak about customer centricity, but none of our measurement metrics or meetings actually align to that.   Me: Now, I found that in a lot of organizations, they're heavily sales driven, right? I find it as a customer service trainer when companies hire me to come in and train their team, especially the leadership teams in customer service, or even customer experience design or customer journey mapping, there's a lot of emphasis that I hear them talking that they have these exorbitant sales targets to meet on a month to month basis, and with these targets that they have to meet, they don't have as much time to give to customer centricity or to give to the experience, because it's all about meeting the target. How do you strike that balance as a salesperson? What would be your recommendation?    Alan shared that there'd be two components. The first would be at an organizational lens, speaking to what you're saying. He thinks organizations have forgotten that when you take care of the customers, the number takes care of itself. So, we are so focused on the month, on the quarter, on the year, we're not focused on the value, and that's a shift that needs to happen.  But practically, the way that shift happens is in the account planning process, when we start treating our customers and accounts and saying, what is the value we're delivering. Many companies go, what more can we sell them? What's the white space we can sell into? What does that look like? And that's the big organizational.  From a salesperson's perspective, the only thing you can do is you need to figure out how to allocate your effort. And the way he says that is you have to beat everyone equally but handle them differently. You have to segment your customers, otherwise you can't take care of the ones that need to be taken care of, and your competitor is going to snatch them up. And in any sales business, he's ever worked with, if you lose, and it's generally about 10%, if you lose about 10% of your customers, you lose about 90% of your revenue.  But organizations are just focused what's the next sale, what's the next sale, what's the next sale? And what happens is, we're putting two barrels on the truck, and three barrels are falling off the truck because we're not focused on the customer service.  And we almost see it as something separate, and it's not. The way he articulates this is there's a thing called the value gap, it's the gap between what customers expect and what they experience. And it is everybody's job in the organization to close that gap.   It's not, “Hey, sales go set the expectation. Hey, service go and deliver against that expectation.” It's an organizational mindset that we exist to close the gap between the customers expect and what they experience.  And he thinks their leadership needs to start realizing that taking care of customers, the numbers take care of themselves, and that talking to a spreadsheet or talking to a CRM system or talking to data doesn't change people's behaviour.  So, leadership needs to take a different perspective on this and going, what is it we do now that lays the soil in the seeds for the numbers we need?   App, Website or Tool that Alan Absolutely Can't Live Without in His Business When asked about online resource that he can't live without in his business, Alan shared that right now ChatGPT. He thinks that we are negating its value in sales if we're using it incorrectly. So, he'll give you a context.  As salespeople, we need to be creative and optimistic, and we're not fans of admin. So, the good news for sales professionals is a lot of our admin is going to be replaced by technology, but that's going to leave a lot of sales professionals wanting because what do you do with the time that you used to spend putting your data. But he really leverages the tool to shorten his learning curve, understanding a customer, understanding what the challenges are, understanding key things. It's a tool to summarize, it doesn't replace him as it shouldn't, it enhances him.  And he was listening to one of Yanique's earlier podcasts, you talk about the human-to-human connection, and there's this thing now where we talk about human-to-human selling. And he's like, well, if you think human to human selling is new, then you haven't been around for millennia, because that's what it is. It's a human-to-human task enhanced by technology. But right now, if he talks about probably 60% to 70% of his time is given back to him because he knows to leverage ChatGPT.   Books that Have Had the Biggest Impact on Alan When asked about books that have had an impact, Alan shared that that's a tough question with all the books he read, but he's going to give one that he always recommends. The first one is called The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson, and the premise of the book is that simple disciplines practiced consistently over time, lead to a life of greatness, and simple errors in judgment made consistently over time, lead to a life of blame. There's no Hollywood moment, there's not one big movement, they're just simple disciplines. Look at any leader, any sports hero, any person who succeeds in their profession, they practice the disciplines. So, there's definitely one that guides his life.  And then the other one is a book called The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, and it's really about forgetting this construct of work life balance and finding out what's the one thing I can do such that by doing everything else is easier or unnecessary. And it talks about this work life counterbalance, and how you just keep the things that matter, you don't make them extreme fluctuations and the things that don't matter can be extreme. You can be heavily buried in a work project for three months, but during that time, don't forget your health, your family time, the things that matter. Just tone it down a bit, not all the way down. Those are two books, he'd say, personally, really drove him.  As a business professional, recently read that 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Dan Sullivan, wonderful resource for anyone that's listening, that is an entrepreneur or business owner, 10x Is Easier Than 2x.   What Alan is Really Excited About Now! Me: Now, Alan, could you also share with us what's the one thing that's going on in your life right now that you are really excited about, either something you're working on to develop yourself or your people.   When asked about something that he's excited about, Alan shared that he's recently moved to a smaller coastal towns that's been really good for him personally, but the big thing happening for him business wise, is there's a very large global brand that they've managed to secure that's 10x'ing our business, which is a plan they had based on that book that he's read, and starting to see how that effort, energy and focus is paying off, is really rewarding. When you read a lot of books, you can get sometimes caught up in the story and not in the action.  And what's really great to see, in a proud moment for their business, is now really starting to take on some recognized global brands who are looking at effectively three guys from South Africa and saying, “We want to partner with you to do this.” So, it's a proud moment that's come, your overnight success is the longest night of your life.  But really what it's been powerful is seeing the practices that they put in place now starting to bear fruit. And when you say, take care of the customers, the number takes care itself, it's actually quite prolific, how?  And you know this, he's preaching to the converted, but when you understand that the only thing that matters is how customers experience you, then everything else becomes a lot easier, because their ability to grow is because they just have a track record where they phone a customer, and they love what they've done with them. And that doesn't mean it's easy to scale, it's still hard to scale. But he thinks that'd be the big thing right now, is seeing how by applying certain principles, you can stretch your own mindset, stretch your own goals, stretch your own vision for your business, and really start to play where you always believed you can.   Where can listeners find Alan online? LinkedIn – Alan Versteeg   Quote or Saying that During Times of Adversity Alan Uses When asked about a quote or saying that he tends to revert to, Alan shared that he has quite a few, but one of his favourites, because of its depth is, “How you do anything, is how you do everything.” And the reason that's so important is it's easy to be in a good mood when times are good, it's easy to be of a good character when times are good, it's easy to be a pleasant person when times are good, but when things are challenging, that's where your character gets tested.   And how you do anything, is how you do everything. And he says to leaders all the time, Richard Branson said it so well, “The best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your employees.” Because the minute you take care of the employees, the customers feel that. And it's because how you do anything, is how you do everything.  You can't be polite to your customers but rude to the person waiting at you at a restaurant or trying to help you at the airport. Airports are so fascinating because everyone complains to people who are really just trying to get you somewhere safely and within strict guidelines that people, they don't treat people well.  And he believes that how you do anything, is how you do everything. And in challenging times, that tests you, can I remain of good spirit? Can I remain a good demeanor? Can I remain patient as a person when things are difficult? Can I maintain my faith?  Because it's easy to maintain my faith when things are great, it's difficult when you're in the lion's den, and that's for him, a quote that just guides him and says, just remember, they still shape your character, this is a test of your character and a bad day for the ego, is a beautiful day for the soul. It's time to grow.   Me: Well, thank you, Alan, so much for hopping on this podcast and sharing all of these great insights with us. It was very insightful to understand your perspective as it relates to sales and customer service, and to reinforce a lot of what we do talk about on this podcast, Navigating the Customer Experience as it relates to ensuring that the customer experience is not just managed effectively on the outside, but it needs to start on the inside. And you said it beautifully when you gave Richard Branson's quote that if you take care of your people on the inside, and they'll definitely take care of your customers on the outside. So, I think it was a really great conversation and I just really wanted to extend our deepest gratitude for your participation in our conversation today.   Alan shared an extended thanks to Yanique and the work she's doing in this space. One of the things that he definitely picks up in everything Yanique shared, the customer experience is not a thing, it's a culture and when we actually realize this, everything becomes easier, because it seems obvious, it does take a lot of work, as you know, it's a profession. But when companies understand it, the only reason we exist is to create value for customers, then the customer experience is the report card. So, thank you so much for the work you're doing in this space and for having him on the show.   Please connect with us on X @navigatingcx and also join our Private Facebook Community – Navigating the Customer Experience.    Links •    You're Born an Original, Don't Die a Copy by John Mason •    Selling With Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud by Lisa Earle McLeod •    To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink •    The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson •    The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller •    10x Is Better Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Dan Sullivan   The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience Grab the Freebie on Our Website – TOP 10 Online Business Resources for Small Business Owners  Do you want to pivot your online customer experience and build loyalty - get a copy of “The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience.” The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience provides 26 easy to follow steps and techniques that helps your business to achieve success and build brand loyalty. This Guide to Limitless, Happy and Loyal Customers will help you to strengthen your service delivery, enhance your knowledge and appreciation of the customer experience and provide tips and practical strategies that you can start implementing immediately! This book will develop your customer service skills and sharpen your attention to detail when serving others. Master your customer experience and develop those knock your socks off techniques that will lead to lifetime customers. Your customers will only want to work with your business and it will be your brand differentiator. It will lead to recruiters to seek you out by providing practical examples on how to deliver a winning customer service experience!

Three Northern Makers Episode 153 Welcome to Episode 153 Let's Meet Up!! Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angelo @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed  with a book this week called Things that Matter by Joshua Becker it's all about living an intentional life and I'm really enjoying it  Pierre @theswedishmaker was obsessed with his running he's getting so into it now he is trying to beat Joshua Cheptegei‘s world record he's bought himself some Nike Air Fly running shoes  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Wasps in the Laser  We have a new Pateron this week big thank you to Sally Wise @sallybellcrafts, I wonder who that might be! Sally says she loves listening to the podcast while in her car and needs more of Stephen and Pierres lovely tones. Thanks so much much Sally  Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angelo @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed  with the YouTube channel wooden things and stuff in particular Mikes video called I cant keep living how I m living where Mike opens up about his difficult relationship with alcohol. Pierre @theswedishmaker was obsessed with the Olympic table tennis competition last week. Now he's obsessed with the Olympic Team table tennis competition because Sweden where in the final against China. Guess who wins.  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Have you got a Forklift mate???? We have a new Pateron this week big thank you to Keith O'Muri @middleaisledream. Keith has been a free Patreon for some time and has now taken the plunge. Thanks so much Keith your now our Parkside tools expert. Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angelo @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed  with the YouTube channel  Digital Spaghetti and in particular the recent episode with Beau Miles its so good. Pierre @theswedishmaker has been obsessed with the Olympic table tennis comeptionn as there was a Swede in the semis and finals. Also Pierre is loving The Ministry of ungentalmianly  warfare on Amazon Prime he's loving it so go check it out   If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Welcome to Episode 150 Balls in the Freezer yes thats right  Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angelo @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed  with the a podcast episode by Steve Ramsey and his Creative Culture Podcast, I really enjoyed episode 89 with Dianne Berger all about creativity go give it a listen. Pierre @theswedishmaker was hoping to be obsessed by an Audio Book he has been listening to called The Science of Storytelling but Pierre found it far to boring and the narrators voice was too dull so his recommendation is don't listen to it !!! If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Welcome to Episode 149 Chimpanzee's Toe Nails yes I don't know how we got there but this is the title for this weeks episode  We have a new Patreon  this week Ben Wolk. Thanks so much Ben for becoming a Patreon              it means a lott Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angelo @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed  with the Final series of Cobra Kai on Netflix he just cant wait go watch it  Pierre @theswedishmaker is still Obsessed with the season finale of The Boys on Amazon Prime  he loves it so much   If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

"God Created You for a Purpose"1 Corinthians 12:12-20

Welcome to Episode 148 We've invented our own TMN wood finish its so good you could drink it !!! Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angelo @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates is obsessed  with the YouTube channel Make Something and his recent video where he made some Urns for pet ashes. But the interesting part was he explained why he changed his video style go take a look Pierre @theswedishmaker is still Obsessed with a YouTube channel Beau Miles form Australia. Pierre loves his inspiration and story telling skills go check it out  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

Welcome to Episode 147 Life with the Wife !!! A big thank you for listening and supporting the show  We have a new Patron this week big thanks to John McSherry. Thanks John your support is really appreciated.  Thanks very much to all our Patreons on every level. Special thanks to our top tier Patreons Jesper @jespermakes both on YouTube and instagram, Daniel Bengtsson @hemmabygget, Tor @lofotenwoodworks, Thomas Angelo @verkstedsloggbok. Jason Grissom @jgrissom and also on Youtube . P-A Jakobson @pasfinsnickeri Tim @turgworks, John Mason @jm_woodcraft_scotland, Martin Berg @makermartinberg, Nick James @nickjamesdesign and and on YouTube at  Nick James Furniture Maker. Preston Blackie @urbanshopworks and also on YouTube at Urban Shop Works, Kåre Möller @kare_m, Arne @mangesysleren, Marius Bodvin @mariusbodvin & @arendalleather, Richard Salvesen @salvesendesign, Bjorn from @interiormaker.b.hagen. Roger Anderson @rvadesign182. And  Ola Skytteren @olaskytteren If you want to support  the Show and listen to the aftershow  we have a Patreon page please click the link  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81984524 We also have a discord channel that you can join for free the link is in our instagram Bio.  We would love to see you there. Our Obsessions this week Steve @stevebellcreates Steve likes to draw on his iPad using an app called Procreate and he watched a great video tutorial by a YouTube channel Calvin at Drifter Studio where he draws some hot air balloons its so good. Pierre @theswedishmaker is Obsessed with a YouTube channel Beau Miles form Australia. Pierre loves his inspiration and story telling skills go check it out  If you have any questions or comments please email the show at threenorthernmakers@gmail.com

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Did you ever see Runaway Bride and think that was a cool movie? Well, maybe the movie was cool, but for John Mason, it was anything but cool to experience it first-hand. And if you thought that was rough, just wait to hear what happened to his fiancé, Jennifer Wilbanks, in the days following, when Ashley tells us all the hard and gritty moments. Then, we switch gears to an icy land, with lots of snow, and enemies on either side. All you have are skis, a will to live, and a pocket full of candy. Jessica jumps into the story of Aimo Koivunen, a soldier who had an incredible and frightening journey to get back home to his fellow men. It goes nowhere you'd expect, but it's a fun ride (perhaps only for us). So, what are you waiting for? We're waiting... Want more of us "lovely ladies"? Well now you can get more of us on our Patreon! Subscribe https://patreon.com/HistoriesandMysteries