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1994 saw some of the most classic releases in hip-hop and among them was the underground classic Between A Rock And A Hard Place from rap duo The Artifacts. Tame One and EL Da Sensai brought hip-hop back to its roots, focusing on MCing, DJing and graffiti-writing over boom bap beats making this album a masterpiece from start to finish.

From windblown garbage cans to music legends on tour, this Wednesday episode of The Coffee Club blends local updates, health alerts, upcoming events, and lively banter into a perfect morning brew. Janae and Ronnie start off chatting about wild wind stories and cleanup week adventures, but the highlight is a deep-dive interview with Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner, who discusses the Sheriff's Office's extensive new annual report. The hosts later explore fostering pets, Farm Aid 40 with Willie Nelson and friends, navigating weird dreams about casinos, and what skill they'd love to master (spoiler: musical dreams abound!). They cap off the episode with salt survival facts (seriously, it does everything), Gen Z dating trends, karaoke fails, and the hardest jobs on Earth. A balanced blend of community, comedy, and curiosity!

Gang Starr Foundation month continues! This week we are joined by Blockhead to discuss the 1994 Group Home classic Livin' Proof.We discuss why the album is so beloved, whether or not the level of MCing hurt the project and we are joined by CHATCOC (see what I did there) for a round of AI generated Group Home related "Would you rather" questions.You can find all things Blockhead here:https://blockheadmusic.store/If you want exclusive content or wish to see the video of this episode you can become a Patreon member using the link below: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/calloutculturepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You can find our music here:Zilla Rocca:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://5oclockshadowboxers.bandcamp.com/music⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Curly Castro:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://curlycastro.bandcamp.com/album/little-robert-hutton⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shrapknel.bandcamp.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alaska:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thatrapperalaska.bandcamp.com/

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Loren. They dive right into great topics like horse stall mats, country music, posting kids on the internet, and MCing a powerlifting meet. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab (https://www.massenomics.com/shop/unpaidpo-underrated-tee) Get Your Own Keith Head (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/articles/keith-head) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast) Our Guest On Instagram @lo__koe (https://www.instagram.com/lo__koe/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big Loren.

Chi-Chi and Bobby join fellow instructors LAUREL RYAN, JAVIER JOHNSON, and CARLA HEINEY to discuss a myriad of topics at this LIVE BEANTOWN episode! (...from 2023.) To those who don't know, LAUREL is a Black American woman instructor known for her Lindy Hop, solo jazz, and MCing, JAVIER (pronounced with a "J" as is his preference) is a Black American man instructor best known as a Balboa badass, but also does Lindy and some award-winning soul dancing, and CARLA is a White American woman and a living legend of the modern scene, being one of the most influential Lindy Hop instructors of the modern era. ("The Woodside 5" was because we all stayed together in a "Woodside" dormitory suite and are a crime-fighting team.)HUGE thanks to Beantown Dance Camp for not only allowing us to have a platform, but for helping record the episode and elevate minority voices in the dance. And of course, huge thanks to our patrons! (You can find us on patreon!)Sasha KJustnigelAnn Sofie van EnisKatja AlexandriaJuly BelberRebecca BurWeiDee MathewsBrooks PrumoJessie BrooksAryn KellyAudrey BuiIan DawsonKaren ComposMcCormackAmy SorensonNika JinEmily BenzeAngel JenioNick CruickshankTaylor StenderLeila GassSelena KruseRyan LemarCalTara SliwinskiRebecca HarrisLori TaniguchiChristian FrommeltAllison FreyLucie Q MazzantiGary ChyiLaura WindleyLynn MaslenAriane ProteauStephanie KawalskiTove LundströmCharlotteLaurelRyanPaul GrafCassandra FiliosAnd huge thanks toLawrence Kalantari and Karen ShrieberWho donated big in order to help us pay for the work!

Coming on Saturday, March 29th, the newly rebranded Playing It Forward is making its return after five years. MCing the tribute is Steve Lunburg who joins X101's Matt Brooks to[Read More...] The post Playing It Forward Returns! appeared first on X101 Always Classic - WXHC.com.

Back with a bang and Ajmal is ranting about everything! We get big updates on his cars, his feelings about changing up and how there's a sniff of spring in the air! Marc has been making some moves at events and can be seen MCing at some of them. There's mega excitement building with the imminent return of F1! Will Marc be at the first race of the season?? This is the Porsche Talk Radio Show! Ajmal is @flatcapdriver Marc is @marcandcars We hope you're listening from behind the wheel!

Send us a textWe are ON! Greeley is a Rapper hailing from Tasmania that came up and paved his way in the Battle Rap scene in its infancy in Australia. Being a part of the biggest moments in Australian Rap Battle History including his own battle with #360 and MCing the battle between 360 & #kerser In this episode we dive a bit into that, his obsession with his ancestry & even recounting the wild time that was hanging out with #spanian in Tasmania.This one was an absolute banger, make sure to comment, share it and like the video if you're into it.OSSSS=============================COP MY MERCH AT | www.theseshwithsav.comInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/theseshwithsavSpotify for Podcast Audio -https://open.spotify.com/show/0hDu3Q4rIgRivTl2OJDmfA?si=8e550b4042924567Direct Message via Instagram for all guest enquiries.#podcast #theseshwithsav #trending 

Bob talks to former Irondequoit Town Supervisor Rory Fitzpatrick about the evolving situation involving Andrae Evans, Bob talks about the Irondequoit town board investigation, Bob talks to Thad Brown about the end of the Bills season, and talks about MCing the West Walworth Fire Department banquet

Episode Summary: Shawn Byfield, an accomplished Canadian performer, choreographer, MC, and author. With an extensive career spanning film, television, and live performances, Shawn shares his personal journey, starting from a hyperactive child to becoming a seasoned dance professional. He recounts how his passion for dance ignited after watching the legendary Gregory Hines perform tap dance on television, leading him to pursue a diverse range of dance styles and eventually transition into the professional dance world. Shawn discusses the importance of creating your own opportunities, emphasizing how dancers should take initiative instead of waiting for their big break. He also dives into the lessons he's learned from his experiences in the competitive dance world and how it shaped his artistic growth.  In addition, Shawn shares insights from his latest project, You Came to Slay, a workbook designed to help dancers boost their confidence through thought-provoking questions. The episode highlights the significance of embracing feedback, overcoming imposter syndrome, and setting big, meaningful goals to achieve success in the dance industry. Show Notes: (00:00) - Introduction to Shawn Byfield, performer, choreographer, MC, and author (03:00) - Early dance journey, inspired by Gregory Hines and discovering tap (10:00) - Competitive dance, growing through competitions and learning (12:30) - Going professional, deciding to pursue dance full-time (17:30) - Performing highlights, roles in Hairspray and Pixels (25:00) - Choreography career, winning a Dora Award for I Think I Can (30:00) - Becoming an MC, transitioning to MCing and energizing audiences (35:00) - You Came to Slay, a workbook to boost dancer confidence (42:00) - How to handle and grow from feedback (47:00) - Advice for multifaceted dancers, exploring different dance paths (52:00) - Overcoming imposter syndrome, staying true to passions (57:00) - The power of setting big career goals (01:02:00) - Final thoughts, building a sustainable and successful dance career Biography: Shawn Byfield, Canada's Favourite Emcee, Entertainment Coach, and Distinguished Award Recipient, and performer has left an indelible mark on the Canadian entertainment industry. As an acclaimed performer, Shawn's credits include memorable appearances in films like "COBU 3D" (2012), "Turn The Beat Around," "HAIRSPRAY," and "Blues Brothers 2000," showcasing his captivating on-screen presence. He has also graced the stage in productions such as "Taal," "Bojangles," "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," "The Music Man," and "The Ladies Man," further solidifying his status as a versatile entertainer. Shawn's talents extend beyond the screen and stage, as he has lent his charisma to TV commercials for brands like Dentyne, Best Buy, The Bay, Got Milk, Rogers Video, McDonald's, Molson Canadian, and Joe Fresh, becoming a sought-after talent in the advertising world. Shawn has been featured in esteemed publications such as the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Now Magazine, Eye Weekly, Toronto Sun, and Canadian Living Magazine, offering valuable insights into the entertainment industry. In addition to his media presence, Shawn's engaging personality and wealth of knowledge have made him a frequent guest on popular television networks, including SLICE Network, Much Music, CBC's The National, Rogers TV, and Breakfast Television. His accomplishments include prestigious awards such as: Canada's DORA AWARD for Choreography (Canada's version of a Tony Award) and nominations for the GEMINI AWARDS and BLACK CANADIANS AWARDS. These accolades reflect his exceptional talent and industry recognition. Furthermore, Shawn Byfield is the author of the transformative NEW playbook, 'You Came To Slay!' This empowering guide goes beyond dance steps, offering a mental pass to unlock a dancer's true potential.  Connect on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/shawnbyfield https://www.facebook.com/ShawnByfield

Introducing Nikki Glaser Won't Be Roasting Anyone at the Golden Globes (Or Will She?) from The Run-Through with Vogue.Follow the show: The Run-Through with Vogue Nikki Glaser, host of the 82nd Golden Globes Awards, stopped by The Run-Through studio ahead of her big night! From workshopping material, to deciding what to wear, Nikki shares the “marathon” level of preparation that goes into MCing the star-studded event. Plus, she shares some of the unexpected downsides of being a roast queen.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

Nikki Glaser, host of the 82nd Golden Globes Awards, stopped by The Run-Through studio ahead of her big night! From workshopping material, to deciding what to wear, Nikki shares the “marathon” level of preparation that goes into MCing the star-studded event. Plus, she shares some of the unexpected downsides of being a roast queen.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ferg is back with a great new album Darold. We talk about the album, the job of MCing, the impact of being molested as a kid, and what's up with Rocky. 
Toure Show Episode 462 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Desta Wondirad Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plongez dans les origines fascinantes du hip-hop, ce mouvement culturel né dans le Bronx des années 70 et devenu un phénomène mondial. Découvrez comment cette culture a révolutionné la musique, l'art et l'activisme. Un voyage rythmique à ne pas manquer pour tous les passionnés de musique urbaine ! Le hip-hop, c'est la fusion de cinq éléments danse, le djing, graffiti, le graff, le beatbox, et le MCing qui forme une culture révolutionnaire. L'émancipation pacifique d'une jeunesse laissée à l'abandon qui se prend en main dans un contexte économique et social désastreux. Ou comment canaliser la violence de quartiers en proie à la misère et aux guerres de gang par des battles de danse et de musique. Comment peut-on définir le hip-hop ? Qui est à l'origine du mouvement ? Et comment le hip-hop a-t-il explosé ? Ecoutez la suite dans cet épisode de "Maintenant vous savez - Culture". "Maintenant Vous Savez" c'est également deux autres podcasts qui décryptent la culture avec "Maintenant Vous Savez - Culture" et la santé avec "Maintenant Vous Savez - Santé". Quatre fois par semaine, nous vous proposons de découvrir les meilleurs épisodes. Un podcast Bababam Originals, écrit et réalisé par Jonathan Aupart. Date de première diffusion : 24 février 2022 A écouter aussi : Pourquoi les statues de l'Antiquité ont-elles un si petit penis ? Quelle a été la première séance de cinéma de l'histoire ? Comment le Pop Art a-t-il bouleversé le monde de l'art ? Retrouvez tous les épisodes de "Maintenant vous savez". Suivez Bababam sur Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back from MCing a rowdy room and I talk about it. What else do you want? This is it. Mostly.

Welcome to Let's Talk Family Enterprise, a podcast that explores the ideas, concepts, and models that best serve Family Enterprise Advisors in supporting their clients. All views, information, and opinions expressed during this podcast are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Family Enterprise Canada. In our latest episode, Host Steve Legler speaks with recently arrived CEO of Family Enterprise Canada, Steve Beauchesne, to discuss the organization's evolution through the merger, COVID and what's ahead for our community. Guest bio Steve Beauchesne Steve is no stranger to the family enterprise world. His journey with his father, from creating Beau's, a leading craft brewery, to spearheading charitable initiatives, showcases his exceptional leadership and commitment to making a difference. Steve's vision for FEC and FEF revolves around empowering our members with valuable resources and a strong community support system. His track record of visionary leadership, strategic planning, and impactful communication promises to elevate our mission to new heights. You can learn more about Steve Beauchesne on his LinkedIn and the Family Enterprise Canada website. Key Takeaways [:26] Steve Legler welcomes Steve Beauchesne and asks him to share his first experience with Family Enterprise Canada as a former Family Enterprise of the Year Award recipient. [3:17] Steve talks about MCing and how he has enjoyed connecting with people in the community.  [5:48] From the two constituents of Family Enterprise Canada to the future ahead, Steve shares his vision for getting back to basics and getting some wind into FEC's sails. [10:22] The impact stories and venting Steve has heard over the past months are great ways to set guide posts and indicate how truly passionate people are about FEC.   [13:27] New members are looking to find advisors, and FEAs are looking for collaborators; the future is about getting the right people connected. [16:13] Steve doesn't see finding opportunities as his challenge as CEO. The opportunities are there! [18:08] Why Steve applied and how he is expecting to effect change. [20:48] Steve is taking the full FEA course to attain a few specific goals, he explains how he thinks it will help guide him as CEO. [23:25] The importance of learning before doing, but also champing at the bit! [26:36] Steve's thoughts on the team that surrounds him. [27:51] Steve asks Steve to share one surprising thing about himself as well as one of his aspirations for the organisation. [28:49] Steve Legler thanks Steve Beauchesne for sharing his passion and knowledge and closes this episode by reminding listeners to rate and subscribe. If you enjoyed today's episode, you can subscribe to Let's Talk Family Enterprise on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast apps. Please remember to share this episode with family, friends, and colleagues. Share your thoughts with us at fea@familyenterprise.ca.   Mentioned in this episode Audio Visceral More about Family Enterprise Canada Family Enterprise Canada FEC on Facebook FEC on Twitter FEC on LinkedIn  

This is The Beer Is Fundamental Show. This is Episode #138 and we want to welcome you once again to the NeighBeerHood where craft beer is always the talk of the town. I am BT aka O-Beer-Wan Kenobi the Jedi Knight of craft beer and (this is Lady T. It was everything we expected and more! It was a true Craft Beer and Hip Hop Festival all in one. Hip-Hops Hooray!, was the first hip-hop beer festival in the Midwest. It took place on October 25 & 26, 2024. The Festival featured over 25 national, regional, and local craft beer brands, including several Black-owned breweries. There was also MCing, DJing, breakdancing, graffiti. We were able to talk to most of the breweries that were at the festival. We also were able to talk with Woodie Bonds, co-founder of Vine Street Brewing Co. and founder of Hip-Hops Hooray. Enough from us. Check it out for yourself. Check Us Out On iHeart Radio, Spotify, Apple Podcast, and many more platforms. Or you can subscribe HERE! Beer Is Fundamental is dedicated to all of you who love craft beer. Here at Beer Is Fundamental, we take craft beer seriously. However, we never lose sight of the fact that craft beer is supposed to be fun. That's why we love it. At Beer Is Fundamental, we are beer enthusiasts who like to drink, talk about and search for great craft beer. We like to call our time here as being in the NeighBEERhood. As you participate with us, you become members of the NeighBEERhood community. Follow our podcast to here from us frequently. Join us and let us be your #1 source for all that is craft beer.

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCijzViDaoVljjDXyEPTIwyQ?sub_confirmation=1 This week's guest is Criso! We discuss his standout experiences at festivals like Infrasound Equinox, where boutique sound systems and intimate setups take the energy to the next level. Criso also shares his thoughts on the essential role of MCs in live performances, their historical significance, and how they enhance the crowd's connection to the music. With a focus on respecting the roots of dubstep and pushing its boundaries, Criso gives listeners a glimpse into the artistry behind his tracks. Criso previews some unreleased music and reflects on his upcoming shows, including a major back-to-back set with Youngsta at Mission Ballroom. He opens up about his creative process, the importance of networking, and how his new management and agency have fueled his rapid growth.

SP:MC is an MC (ofc), DJ, and producer from the UK, mostly inhabiting the DnB space but who also regularly ventures into other areas of bass music and beyond.We discuss the DnB scene in the US (where he was on tour when we recorded this conversation) as well as in the UK, his formative years MCing with DJ Friction, his journey as a producer, and also a few of the topical scene issues we've been discussing in recent weeks too.I'm still on holiday but will be back next week!If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features the show without ads, regular bonus podcasts, and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.You can also make a one-off donation to the podcast using a card, with Paypal, or your Ethereum wallet! Head over to scubaofficial.io/support.Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation in the public channels.Listen to the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I am travelling this weekend so today's thought piece is a conversation, which Mining Network recorded last week week between veteran gold guru, Alasdair Macleod, and myself. It's heavyweight goldbug stuff. I hope you enjoy it.You can watch it below, but I have also ripped the audio so you have the option to listen to that if you prefer to escape the clutch of your screens. If you are thinking of buying gold to protect yourself in these uncertain times, I recommend The Pure Gold Company. Pricing is competitive, quality of service is high. They deliver to the UK, US, Canada and Europe or you can store your gold with them. More here.I'll be MCing this year's Moneyweek Summit this coming Friday November 8th. Readers of the Flying Frisby can get a 20% discount by entering the code FRISBY20And if you are interested in hearing more from Alasdair, he has a Substack too. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Send us a textIn this episode of the Self-Reflection Podcast, host Lira Ndifon sits down with her friend, Nde Nkimbeng, a dynamic individual who seamlessly blends his engineering background with his passion for entertainment. Nde, a Cameroonian-American, shares his inspiring journey from a young boy in Lowell, Massachusetts, to a skilled MC captivating audiences across the United States.Nde's early life took an interesting turn when his parents sent him to Cameroon to immerse himself in his cultural heritage. This experience shaped his worldview and instilled in him a strong work ethic. Upon returning to the US, he navigated the challenges of adapting to a different cultural landscape while embracing his identity.The conversation delves into Nde's transition from engineering to MCing. He discusses the importance of stepping outside of one's comfort zone and embracing opportunities. Despite initial shyness, Nde's determination and passion for performance led him to become a sought-after MC, particularly known for his ability to connect with diverse audiences.Nde and Lira discuss the impact of social media on modern relationships. They explore the challenges of navigating the digital age, where unrealistic expectations and comparisons can hinder genuine connections. Nde emphasizes the importance of authenticity and genuine human interaction in building meaningful relationships.The conversation also touches on the evolving dynamics of relationships and the changing roles of men and women. Nde shares his perspective on the importance of open communication, shared responsibilities, and mutual respect in a partnership. He encourages listeners to challenge societal norms and embrace a more equitable approach to relationships.As the episode concludes, Nde provides practical advice for those seeking to improve their communication skills and build stronger relationships. He emphasizes the importance of active listening, empathy, and understanding.Nde's inspiring journey and insightful perspectives make this episode a valuable resource for anyone seeking personal growth, cultural understanding, and relationship advice.Get Your Prolon Deals Now#SelfReflectionPodcast #CulturalIdentity #PersonalGrowth #RelationshipAdvice #CareerJourney #Inspiration #MentalHealth #Immigration #LifeAdvice #Authenticity Support the show

Quick heads up. I have made some video versions of recent articles. Here they are, in case you are a watcher rather than a reader:I don't know about you, but I use artificial intelligence (AI) all the time. ChatGPT has become my right-hand man. It gives me advice (really – and good advice too), it helps me make decisions, it gives me exercise workouts, recipes, it proofreads what I write, it helps me write titles, it even helps me write song lyrics. Midjourney does all the imaging for this newsletter. Even a simple Google search now involves lots of AI.I know I'm not alone. Almost everyone is using AI, consciously or not.Guess what? AI requires bucket loads of power. That's why Microsoft recently agreed to pay Constellation Energy, the new owner of America's infamous nuclear power station, Three Mile Island, a sizeable premium for its energy. There is cheaper wind and solar power to be had in Pennsylvania, but it isn't as reliable as nuclear, 24 hours a day.It's not just AI. The widespread political desire to rid ourselves of fossil fuels means the world needs electricity, and fast.Nuclear is the solution, of course. But nuclear takes a lot of time, even with AI now “re-routing” the anti-nuclear narrative. It takes especially long in the UK where any kind of infrastructure project requires billions to be spent on planners, lawyers and consultants before a brick is even lifted.It's so stupid of course. Nuclear power stations have been operating commercially for 70 years, providing reliable, affordable, and almost infinitely renewable “clean” electricity. Nuclear has the best safety record of any energy technology. Almost all environmental concerns, such as waste disposal, have been solved. But if you want to know the name of the point at which stupidity, hypocrisy, waste and weakness meet, it's called British Energy Policy.Layer upon layer of safety is demanded in nuclear plant design. The regulatory process is slow, cumbersome, and complex. There is a long lead time between planning, building, and operation, which adds to expense. Political uncertainty meant many proposals for nuclear power stations in the UK were shelved. It all drives away investment.But governments around the world are waking up to the fact that the silver bullet is nuclear-powered. Thus, the narrative is changing. The dawn of the new age of nuclear power is upon us, and it can't come quickly enough.That's why the focus has shifted to small modular reactors (SMRs). These have been operational for almost 70 years now in submarines, aircraft carriers, and ice-breakers, but in the last few years, land-based SMRs have been developed to generate electricity.They use simple, proven technology, and are safer than current nuclear power stations. They can be manufactured in factories and then rapidly erected on-site. Modular refers to the design principle of breaking down a system into small, independent, and interchangeable components, or “modules”, that can easily be combined, modified, or replaced without affecting the rest of the system. This flexibility means they are scalable. It aids manufacture, transportation, and installation while reducing construction time and costs.SMRs don't occupy much land, so they have little impact on the landscape. Some can even be constructed underground – surely preferable to wind turbines and solar farms. In the UK, they could be erected on the redundant sites of closed nuclear and coal-fired power stations, where grid connections are readily available. A 440 megawatt (MW) SMR would produce about 3.5 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year, enough for 1.2 million homes – or to provide power to Wales, the Northeast of England, or two Devons. It would require about 25 acres of land. A solar farm would need 13,000 acres for the same output; a wind farm, 32,000 acres. Three 440MW SMRs would be enough for London, which has around 3.6 million homes.What's more, their output is not dependent on the weather. Reliability is why Microsoft paid a premium of more than 85% for Three Mile Island's power. SMRs produce electricity that can easily be adjusted to meet the constant, everyday needs of the grid (baseload), and they can also ramp up or down to follow changes in demand throughout the day. They spin in sync with the grid, so they help keep everything stable. When they're running, they act like a steady hand, providing momentum that makes it easier to manage sudden changes in electricity supply or demand.Why not subscribe to this amazing publication?How To InvestThere are all sorts of ways to invest in nuclear power. The simplest and least risky is to buy the metal itself. Current demand for uranium stands at around 200 million pounds per year, while mining output totals only 140 million pounds. Another 25 million pounds comes from secondary sources, such as scrap and recycling. So there is a uranium supply deficit. I'm surprised the price isn't higher. London-listed Yellowcake (LSE:YCA) has been set up with this purpose in mind. It is, essentially, a uranium holding company. You buy the shares, and thus own a share of the uranium it holds. It makes up part of the Dolce Far Niente portfolio.You could also buy uranium miners, though I have to say I do not like the miners at all. There are the large producers, such as Cameco (Toronto: CCO) and Paladin Energy (Sydney: PDN). You can also gain exposure via large caps, such as Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO), but they are not pure plays. There are mine developers too, such as NexGen Energy (Toronto: NXE), whose Rook 1 project should be producing a whopping 30 million pounds a year by 2030, almost enough to solve the uranium supply deficit single-handedly.If you don't fancy your stock-picking skills, go for a fund instead. The London-listed Sprott Uranium Miners ETF (LSE: URNP) is an exchange-traded fund that gives you exposure to a basket of mining companies, as does closed-end fund Geiger Counter (LSE: GCL). Another popular ETF is the Global X Uranium UCITS ETF (LSE: URNU).Why don't I like uranium miners? About 90% of those listed in the funds do not have any production coming in the near future and are, therefore, huge vortexes into which capital will disappear. At present, they are fully valued. That's not saying they won't go up. But when the time comes for them to fall, they will bomb.When I last looked at SMRs in 2021, the companies I tipped were Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR) and Fluor Corp (NYSE: FLR). Both have been real winners. Rolls-Royce has built seven generations of SMRs for use in nuclear submarines and, with its modern designs for SMRs, has been winning contracts all over. Rolls-Royce is not a pure SMR play. But it has put its SMR business into a separate entity (Rolls-Royce SMR) and I presume this will be spun out and listed at some later stage.The stock has been going great guns under its new CEO, Tufan Erginbilgiç. I tipped it around the 100p mark and it's now at 530p and there's no stopping it. It was 1,350p in 2013, so there's plenty of upside left, and that was before there was any urgency about SMRs. I've taken my original stake off the table, and the rest I'm holding.I also mentioned NuScale, a US outfit, which in 2021 was unfortunately still private. There was a way to get exposure to NuScale, however: via majority shareholder and engineering company Fluor Corp. It has been a real winner too. We tipped it at $18. It's now $50. The stock remains a hold, although it is not a pure play. Worth $8.6bn, Fluor has $200m of free cash flow and trades at 42 times earnings.But the company we were looking at, NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE: SMR), has now listed – good ticker – and you can buy the stock at not far off the flotation price. Be warned, however: this is a volatile company. Since its initial public offering (IPO) at $10, the stock has been as high as $15 and as low as $2. It is now at $13.NuScale designs, develops, and commercialises SMR reactors for nuclear-power generation, aiming to provide a “safe, flexible, and scalable nuclear-energy solution”. Its flagship product is the NuScale Power Module, a self-contained pressurised water reactor (PWR) that is far smaller than traditional nuclear reactors. Each module has an electric capacity of about 60 megawatts, but they can combine to scale up.NuScale has partnered with various organisations, including the US Department of Energy (DOE) and global energy firms, but it does not yet have a solid sales pipeline, so it is hard to value. Instead, it's a bit of a meme stock that rises and falls when it gets tipped. NuScale has a market capitalisation of $1.2bn and revenues of $23m; it lost $273m last year. It now has $180m in negative free cash flow, $130m in cash and a burn rate of about $35m per quarter. (So it's got enough money for another year.) Caveat emptor.Another option is BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), but again it's not a pure SMR play, more of a picks-and-shovels play. The company manufactures nuclear-reactor components, systems fuel, and other critical parts for the nuclear-power industry. It really is wide-ranging (think anything from naval nuclear propulsion to nuclear defence) and its history goes all the way back to the Manhattan Project.SMR developers will often rely on BWX's expertise and manufacturing capabilities to ensure the safety and functionality of their designs. As demand for SMRs grows, so will the appetite for BWX's products and services. BWX has a market value of $10bn and $1.2bn in debt. Earnings per share are just shy of $3, and the price/earnings (p/e) ratio is close to 40. But it is profitable and pays a yield just below 1%.If you want to go really small and speculative, there is always the mining exploration option (not recommended), or uranium enrichment firms. If this technology of enriching uranium to make it more powerful comes good, then the efficiencies of the industry will improve even further, and the problem of uranium supply deficits will quickly vanish, along with the high prices of many uranium miners. Silex Systems (Sydney: SLX) – market cap A$1.1bn (£565m), 50% owned by Cameco – is the market leader here, although Centrus Energy (NYSE: LEU), worth $1bn, is not far behind.We are still some years from successful enrichment, but it is coming. I doubt we will see it before the uranium price itself breaks to new highs above $140/lb, which it hit in 2006, and probably not until $200 uranium. High prices have a habit of accelerating everything. Uranium is now at $70/lb.That's when tiny-cap nuclear-fuel tech firms such as Lightbridge (Nasdaq: LTBR), worth $46m, could rocket. Lightbridge, looking to improve the safety, economics, and proliferation resistance of nuclear power, is developing a fuel that operates about 1,000 degrees cooler than standard fuel. It's got $27m in the bank, is losing $10m a year and, like NuScale, seems to rely on memes and tipsters. The stock costs $3 so there is plenty of upside. But be warned: this is an illiquid Nasdaq stock. Don't chase it.Amazing chart. From $4,000 - to $2. Talk about wealth destruction. It's like an NHS IT project. Looks like it might, finally, have bottomed though. This article first appeared in Moneyweek Magazine.I'll be MCing this year's Moneyweek Summit on Friday November 8th. Readers of the Flying Frisby can get a 20% discount by entering the code FRISBY20If you're interested in nuclear, Wednesday's piece might be of interest: I had an email from Nick Lawson, CEO of investment house, Ocean Finance, which has put together some research on Lightbridge. I share it here, in case of interest. And here once again are those vids: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comThis episode's focus on the (lack of) effectiveness of radical climate activism was perfectly timed. Right after Marshall recorded the intro, activists from Climate Defiance stormed the stage of the Abundance 2024 conference he's MCing in DC. They interrupted Matt Yglesias's interview with The Atlantic's Derek Thompson on the "Abundance Agenda" because of Matt's support for fracking. Today's guest is Foreign Policy's Cameron Abadi, author of Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn't Working. Marshall and Cameron discuss why doom-centric radical activism isn't advancing the environmental policy agenda in Europe, the state of climate politics in the U.S., and the broader debate over whether it is best to work outside or within the system to enact change.

This podcast came about after watching the Michael Jordan - Nike movie - 'Air' How to turn a 10 minute phone call into $400 million annually. There are so many great lessons on such things as : DMP - Decision Making Processes Negotiation and the Argy Bargy Dance Handling No's and Objections The Power of Stacking Why's The Power of the Customer Planning Tool The Structure of the Deal Going beyond 'this is our best offer' The Power of Pause and Silence The Power of 'sharing the wing of the whole chicken' The Power of win-win residuals and recurring revenue The Power of Personal and Business Branding The Power of Future Pacing - the Future Success Movie How to engage both Left and Right Brain - Heart ... and so much more We also talk about the great deal Art Linkletter did with Walt Disney for MCing the opening of Disneyland. (in the podcast I say it was Walter Cronkite, but it was actually Art Linkletter..)

North St. Louis, MO native Craig James Mitchell has established himself in the intersection of storytelling, culture, and business for nearly 16 years as a Voiceover Artist, MC/Curator, Marketing Executive, and Community Builder. Since 2013, he has enhanced connections between purpose-driven brands and their respective communities under his creative and talent service, Craig Mitchell Effect LLC. His campaign, 'The People's Voice,' showcases his role in his creative network as a "mouthpiece for hustlers" who are shifting the world with their stories and experiences to curate the culture he wants to see with the gift of voice. Craig's voiceover journey began in 2015, when he initially provided scratch reads for pitch work at his former agency, Translation + United Masters LLC. Embracing their ethos of 'pushing culture forward' early in his advertising career, Craig carved a unique niche as a voiceover artist. His approach helps amplify stories and messages by infusing them with his infectious personality, genuine discernment, and innate tone and gravitas. These qualities deeply resonate with listeners, making him a go-to artist for his community of creatives. Under CM Effect, Craig has delivered storytelling magic for an impressive array of clients, including the NBA, NFL, Moët Hennessy, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Footlocker, Statefarm, and Google, to name a few. In 2023, Craig was cast as the inspiring voice of Budweiser's "6 Degrees of Bud" nationwide Commercial Campaign, featuring fellow hometown hero Metro Boomin. Roc Nation subsequently called on Craig to reverently narrate Jay-Z's Tribute exhibit, "The Book Of Hov," celebrating the icon's career for the 50th year of Hip-Hop. He was then chosen to be the voice of Courageous Conversations Global's groundbreaking DWB Automobile concept, designed to protect Black drivers during routine traffic stops, stirring the entire advertising industry. And he's no stranger to immortalizing monumental moments – having narrated Nike's tribute film to the NBA's 75th Anniversary, leaving an indelible mark on audiences worldwide. Craig's impact extends beyond voiceover work. He is a true Master of Ceremony, fostering a sense of unity in any space through the universal language of music. This passion led him and his friends to co-found Melodies NYC, a community that uses music theory and their gifts to bring feeling and identity to various spaces across the city. His unique style of MCing and live community management has shaped unforgettable experiences like Brooklyn's favorite family reunion: Brown Sugar Bounce, Lavender & Velvet, Fun With Friends, Everyday Ppl, and many others. Outside of the spotlight, Craig is a dedicated advocate for his community. He serves on the board of the Creative Heritage Foundation, a role that allows him to support and elevate black creatives in St. Louis. This commitment is deeply rooted in his upbringing and education at Gateway HS and Alabama A&M University. Craig's ultimate goal is to inspire the next generation of creatives to be their best self, pursue their dreams, and think beyond their imagination.With a career that spans from the boardrooms of major brands to the airwaves of cultural phenomena, Craig Mitchell is a catalyst for disruption and a testament to the transformative power of storytelling. For more information about Craig and his work, visit craigmitchelleffect.com or contact connect@cmeffect.com. 

하성운 debuted in 2014 as a member of the boy group HOTSHOT. He then gained significant attention on an audition program, showcasing his exceptional skills, positive personality, and passion. This led to his role as the main vocalist in the project group Wanna One, where he shined as a talented idol.In 2019, he released his self-produced album 'My Moment,' continuing his career as a solo artist. Known for his unique charm, he has released many distinctive albums, steadily building his musical career. He's a ‘composer idol' who produces his own albums and displays his talent in various fields such as performances, OSTs, variety shows, radio DJing, and MCing.하성운 is a complete artist, loved for his solid skills, unique voice, and emotional expression.Let's dive into the music of the all-rounder 하성운.Today's playlist1. Blessed2. BIRD      3. Can't Live Without You4. FOCUS5. Snowy Stars - Nive's Pick6. BLUE - AIVAN's Pick

This episode about Mcing, Djing, Breakdancing and all other topics about creative process.

Dan records the podcast in the heart of Shibuya, he trails off multiple times due to the over-capacity of J-Babes in the area. He wants recognition for MCing a streetball event and getting dunked on while having food poisoning. He also explains in Japanese what the opposite of tunnel-buddies is. FREE EDCON 2024 TICKETS https://www.edcon.io/jp/ticket/apply?type=crypto&id=23&CODE=DANYUUKI Support the Dan Wilson in Tokyo Podcast https://www.patreon.com/DanWilsonUSAJPN?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Become a Patreon member for 5 bucks a months (that's like one tall boy) and Dan will give you a shoutout and read your questions on the podcast. Current Sponsors: sarvermovers.com/quote Promo Code- Danielsan for 5% off your move (512-596-9696). brakechimps.com (512-525-8950). The Dan Wilson in Tokyo Podcast Your one-stop podcast for everything Japan and Japanese culture...kind of. Dan Wilson is an American living in Japan working in the entertainment industry as a comedian in the comedy duo Badonkadonk (バドンカドンク). Instagram/TikTok = @danielywilson

Send us a Text Message.Brainorchestra, born Andrew Melo, is one of Elizabeth's best kept secrets, but with his onslaught of quality hip hop projects and masterful approach, he will soon be a household name. He's a native of the place affectionately known as E-Town, and has been cooking up his own brand of unfuckwithable hip hop for years.Whether it's a concept album or a casually collated beat pack, each Brainorchestra instrumental presentation is his way of telling stories without words. His oeuvre shifts between nostalgic Golden Era homages, piano-heavy ruminations, and sepia-toned soul loops, veering towards ambient electronica whenever he's in his lovetones bag. It's this aural variety that's earned him co-signs from one of his chief inspirations, The Alchemist, as well as beloved figures like Evidence, Pink Siifu, and Lord Apex – with the latter two confirmed to be featured guests on a future Brainorchestra album.Visit Brainorchestra's website Here to buy his latest releases & sign up for the Patreon.Support the Show.WEBSITE AND MERCH! - http://www.officialchopshoppod.com

Diasporic Care: We Show Up for Each OtherWelcome to Part 1 of 2 of this live recording from our Crosspollination community block party series. This event took place on June 8th, 2024. This episode features our opening prayer with Dr. Uzo Nwankpa, & the beginning of our speakers panel, featuring the brilliant hearts & minds of:Sarah O'Neal, Oakland-based poet & organizerLubna Morrar, Palestinian Feminist CollectiveAnt Lorenzo, Liyang NetworkMansi, ASATA (Alliance of South Asians Taking Action)Jesse Strauss, IJAN (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network)Mira Stern, JVP Bay Area & EducatorWhat we get into throughout these two episodes: How do we take care of us? What practices sustain us in these challenging times?What wisdoms are we drawing from to strengthen each other & our movements? How are we engaging in a diversity of tactics? For many of us, as we show up for each other here in Huchiun, we are also caring for our communities in our motherlands. We know all land is connected, all waters are connected. Like seeds, we know the power of diaspora, the potency of biodiversity to nourish & create liberatory ecosystems, never forgetting where we come from. From Huchiun to Palestine, from the Philippines to Mexico, we honor our interconnectedness across borders.Gratitude to We Rise Advisor, teaching artist & theater worker Tierra Allen for MCing this event. If you feel nourished by this work, please share it! And if you're able, please support We Rise by contributing via Patreon or PayPal. We'd love to hear from you! Reach out at WeRiseProduction@protonmail.com.

ACC Head G Lane joins Manaia Stewart fresh off MCing the bi-annual DB Conference to react to State of O Game 2 and the latest in the Euros (0:00). Then the fellas discuss the theme Razor has set out for the All Blacks this year and what the ACC's theme should be before breaking down yet another record Over of 43 runs (10:20). Finally, they get to your feedback on 'Yours Please' (24:00).Brought to you by Export Ultra - The Beer For Here!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A book that reads like a novel; it's humorous, it's a love story. Dr. Christopher Labos, an imaginative cardiologist and epidemiologist at McGill University, takes us through multiple longstanding misconceptions about different foods and drinks, and along the way provides outstanding educational value.Video snippet from our conversation. Full videos of all Ground Truths podcasts can be seen on YouTube here. The audios are also available on Apple and Spotify.Transcript with external links and links to the audio recordingEric Topol (00:07):Hello, it's Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and with me today is a cardiologist, Chris Labos from Montreal, who has written an extraordinary book. I just read it on my Kindle, “Does Coffee Cause Cancer? And 8 More Myths about the Food We Eat. Chris teaches at McGill University. He is a prolific writer at the Montreal Gazette and Canadian broadcast system, CBC, CJAD radio, CTV News. And he also has a podcast on the Body of Evidence and he probably has other stuff, but welcome Chris.Christopher Labos (00:49):Hello. Hello. Hello. Thank you for having me. It is a great honor to be on your podcast. I am in awe of the work that you've been doing, I mean, for all your career, but especially during Covid. So it's a big thrill for me to be on the podcast.Eric Topol (01:03):Well, for me, I have to say I learned about a person who is not only remarkably imaginative but also humorous. And so, have you ever done standup comedy?Christopher Labos (01:16):I have not. Although I was asked to chair the research awards that we did here at McGill one year because I've been doing local media stuff and they said, can you come and be like the MC? And I said, sure. And I said, do you want me to be funny? And they were like, well, if you can. And I went up there and people were laughing and laughing and laughing and then people, like some of my former attendings had come up to me and they're like, Chris, I don't remember you being this funny as a resident. And I was like, well, I guess you come into your own when you start your own career. But I think people were very, it's tough MCing a research awards because you're essentially, it's kind of like a high school graduation where you don't read the names in alphabetical order, right? It's like one name after the other. And I went up there and I tried to throw in a little bit of humor and people seem to like it. So I think that was the first, that was when I started to realize, oh, if you inject a little bit of levity into what you're doing, it tends to resonate a little bit more with people.Eric Topol (02:13):Well, no question about that. And what I love about this book is that it wasn't anything like I thought it was going to be.Eric Topol (02:21):Amazing. It was a surprise. So basically you took these nine myths, which we'll talk to, hopefully we'll get to several of them, but you didn't just get into that myth. You get into teaching medical statistics, how to read papers, all the myths. I mean, you are the master debunker with entertainment, with funny stuff. It's really great. So this is great, before we get into some of these myths and for you to amplify, but this is a gift of communication, science communication that is you get people to learn about things like p-hacking and you throw in love stories and all kinds of stuff. I mean, I don't know how you can dream this stuff up. I really don't.Christopher Labos (03:10):I sort of look back at the inception of this. This book did have sort of a few iterations. And I think the first time I was thinking about it, I mean I wrote it during Covid and so I was really thinking about this type of stuff. It's like how do we educate the public to become better consumers of scientific information? Because there was a lot of nonsense during Covid. So teaching them about confounding, which I think through a lot of people when we started talking about low vitamin D levels and Covid and outcomes and all that. And so, I started like, how do I write this type of book? And I thought, yeah, this should probably be a serious science book. And the first version of it was a very serious science book. And then the idea came and try to make it a conversation. And I think I sort of wrote it.(04:02):There's a book that may not be that popular in the US but it was kind of popular here in Canada. It was called The Wealthy Barber. And it was all about personal finance. And the idea of the book was these people would go into a barbershop and the barber would talk to them about how to save money and how to invest in all that. And it was fairly popular and people liked that back and forth. And I said, oh, maybe I could do something like that. And then I wrote the first chapter of the doctor who goes in to talk to the barista and I showed it to a friend of mine. I said, what do you think? Do you think this would work? And her response to me by email was two lines. It was pretty good period. But I kept expecting him to ask her out at the end. And the minute she said that I thought, oh my God, this is a love story. And so, I reshaped everything to make this a love story. And I don't think the publishers were expecting that either because they were like, the first comment from the editor was, most science books don't have a narrative arc to them in character, but this one does. So there you go.Eric Topol (05:00):This is a unique book. I hope that people who listen or read the transcript will realize that this is a gift. It's a model of communication and it just is teaching things almost like you don't realize it. You're just learning all this stuff. So let's get into some of these because they're just masterful. I guess I should start ask you, you have nine of them. You could have picked 20 more, but which one is your favorite? Or do you have one?Christopher Labos (05:31):I think the one, it's hard to say. I think the first one in the book is the vitamin C one. And I think it's the most interesting one to explain to people, not just because vitamin C to fight the common cold is so pervasive as a product and a thing that people believe. But it also, I think has the greatest opportunity to teach people about what is one of the most important ones, which is subgroup analysis and p-hacking. And it's so easy to bring that back into a comedic level with some of the graphs that I put in there. I think a close second would probably be the coffee one where I was talking about selection bias, because those examples of online dating and then all the jokes that came from it. And it's hard to say how much of it was the subject and how much of it was the character.(06:21):Because I'd always heard stories of authors when they say like, oh, the characters will tell me what to say. And I always thought that sounds like bollocks. How could that be possible? You're the author, you write what's on the page. But then the minute I started actually writing it and started envisaging these characters, all of a sudden the characters took on a life of their own and they were dictating how the story ended up. So the coffee one I think is also good too. And I guess it became the title of the book. So I guess that's a good indication that was popular. But when you can really spin it out and make it obvious to people using common examples, I think those are interesting ones. So the vitamin C and the coffee ones, I think were probably the most interesting.Eric Topol (07:02):Let's take those first because you've mentioned them and then hopefully we'll get into some others. Now in the vitamin C, you're going on a plane and you hook up with this guy, Jim, on the plane. I know none of this stuff really happened, and you're explaining to him the famous ISIS-2 trial about the Gemini and Libra subgroup. So for those of people who are listening, can you review that? Because that of course is just one of so many things you get into.Christopher Labos (07:33):I know it's almost amazing how short a memory we have in medicine, right? And again, this is sort of surprising me. I sort of knew the study and then I went back, and I looked at it and I thought ISIS-2 was in 1988. That's not that long ago. The fact that we didn't give aspirin. So for people who don't know, I mean, we did not give aspirin to people with cardiac disease for a very long time. And it was really from 1988 afterwards. So relatively recently, I mean I realized it's been a couple of decades, but still. So ISIS-2 was really the first trial to show that if you give aspirin to somebodywhen they're having a heart attack, you see a benefit. But what was fascinating in the study was this one subgroup analysis of people in whom it did not work.(08:19):And when I give public lectures, I often use this example because it's such a beautiful teaching case, and I go ask people, what do you think it was? And people are like, oh, hemophiliacs, smokers, people who drink alcohol. And then you find out, no, the subgroup in whom aspirin does not work is Geminis and Libras. And everybody sort of laughs and they think it's funny. And it's a beautiful example because a lot of people think it's like, oh, it was a joke or it was sort of silly science. But no, it was actually done purposefully. And the authors put that in there because they wanted to make the point that subgroup analysis are potentially misleading. And I sort of am a little bit in awe of, I mean the power or the intelligence to actually make it a point with the editors like, no, we're going to put this in here essentially as a teaching tool.(09:09):And it's amazing to me that we're still using it as a teaching tool decades after the fact. But it was just to show that when you have these tables where you have umpteen subgroup analysis, just by random chance, you will get some spurious results. And though our brain understands that Zodiac signs have nothing to do with the effectiveness of aspirin, you do the same subgroup analysis and diabetics and non-diabetics, and everybody was like, oh yeah, that's plausible. And yeah, it might be, but the computer doesn't know the difference, right. To the computer these are all ones and zeros. So if you don't go into it with a healthy skepticism about the limitations of subgroup analysis, you will eventually get fooled. And the problem with vitamin C research is I think a lot of very smart people have gotten fooled on this because they're like, well, overall the data is negative, but if we slice it up, we can find something that's positive. So maybe there's something here. And the number of people who have fallen in that trap over the years is unfortunately quite high.Eric Topol (10:10):No, and it's still happening and it is a famous subgroup story, but I just want to remind everybody that this was in the chapter on vitamin C and it's going into aspirin and subgroups. So each one of these chapters is not confined to the myth. They go into all sorts of other teaching examples in a humorous and fun way through conversations. Here it was with Jim on the plane. Now another one you mentioned, I forgot about this one. In the British Medical Journal, there was a paper, the Miracle of DICE Therapy.Christopher Labos (10:45):Miracle of DICE Therapy. Yeah, that's another brilliant one, because again, you couldn't do a study like this today, but basically for people who aren't aware of the paper, I mean, I think it was published in the Christmas issue. So again, just to show you how sometimes even in medical science, the humor is really, really effective. So what researchers did was they went to this neurology conference and they got all the people to participate in this live study, and they gave them dice and said, you're going to roll these dice. And they had white, red, and green dice and said, the exercise is for all of you to roll this dice and then analyze the data and tell us which color dice is off which one has been weighted. Because if you roll a one, two, three, four, or five, the patient has survived their stroke. If they roll a six, the patient died of their stroke.(11:33):So you go, you roll these dice dozens of times, generate your data. I mean, what we would do today with a random number generator but they were rolling dice. And they said, you figure out which of these dice is skewed. And so, the people at the conference went, they rolled their dice, they crunched their data, and they said, the red dice are skewed. There's a difference between the red dice and the white and green dice. And then the researchers revealed aha jokes on you. All the dice were the same. And the funniest part about that is that a lot of the people in the room didn't believe them. They refused to believe them that the dice were weighted because, and one of my favorite quotes was when student A refused to believe that his days were really loaded, he rolled one six and then a second and then a third, and he said, the room felt eerily quiet as he rolled a fourth six.(12:25):He had never rolled four sixes in a row in his life. And if you're there, I mean, yeah, you're going to be like, how do you doubt the power of your own eyes? You roll four sixes in a row, you think to yourself, gee, this must be the loaded dice. But that thing would happen. You put enough people in a room rolling enough dice, you will eventually get four sixes in a row in the same way that if you put enough monkeys in front of enough typewriters, eventually you're going to get all the works of William Shakespeare. So it's shocking how much our own human biases make us immune to the realization that random things are going to happen. And there was another, I think there was a quote in that paper too, where doctors are very willing to admit that chance affects whether they win a raffle, but they are surprisingly unwilling to admit that chance can affect the results of their medical research. And we don't appreciate it, even though, I mean, the reality is it happens all the time and we don't take the necessary steps to fix it sometimes and to address it, and we keep making the same mistakes over and over again.Eric Topol (13:32):Yeah, no, that's a great paper to illustrate. Again, a lot of important teaching points. Now as we get into the coffee, does it cause cancer? It brings up another theme in the book that I noticed. What you do is you pick up on papers or broadcasts that were decades ago that have become inculcated in our minds and our thoughts. And in this case, it was a famous New England Journal paper in 1981 raising the question about does coffee, if you drink too much coffee is that a risk factor for pancreatic cancer? So maybe you could take us through that, and somehow that gets into the NBA, it gets into H. pylori for ulcer. I mean, but maybe you could help get us through this coffee and cancer story.Christopher Labos (14:23):Yeah, I mean, well, and it's still happening isn't it, right? In 2018 in California, coffee was declared a carcinogen after that court case. I mean, it was ultimately overturned. So I sort of explained that saga in the chapter as well. And of course, we're going through it now with the decaf coffee, right? There are people trying to petition the FDA to get methylene chloride removed from decaf coffee, even though, I mean, I'm fairly dubious that that's a real significant risk factor in the grand scheme of things. And I was a little bit sort of worried when we were trying to pick a title for the books. I was like, are people going to think this is absurd? Are people going to think this is a pseudoscience book? And I was a little bit worried because people are not going to, they're going to think, oh, this is silly.(15:03):Obviously, coffee doesn't cause cancer, and yet we still talk about it. And so, I mean, the 1981 paper just to sort of go way, way back, and this was not a nothing paper. This was in the New England Journal of Medicine with some of heavyweights in the field of epidemiology. And I don't want to discount what these people did. They have more illustrious careers than I will ever have in the field of epidemiology. But this one paper, they made a mistake. What they did was they went around to the local area hospitals, recruited all the patients with pancreatic cancer, recruited controls from the same hospital, and then gave them questionnaires about what they ate, what they drank, how much they smoked, fairly standard stuff. And so, when they were analyzing the data, they saw some associations with tobacco and alcohol, but they saw this really strong association with cancer where the patients who drank a lot of coffee had a near tripling of their risk of pancreatic cancer.(16:02):And so, this made headlines, I mean, this was in all the major US newspapers of the time, interviews people were like, well, maybe we should stop drinking coffee. And they pointed to the Amish and other groups that don't drink coffee and have very low rates of cancer. And what was critical in the critical mistake that they made, which is now taught in intro epidemiology classes we know about it, is that if you pick hospital patients as your control, you have a problem. And it's become so common that actually has a name now it's called Berkson's bias. But the problem with picking hospitalized controls is they are not the same as the general population. And in 1981, why were you going to be admitted to a gastrointestinal ward in a major US hospital? It was probably because you have peptic ulcer disease and you tell this to people now, and of course they have no living memory of this.(16:53):They've forgotten that we used to do partial gastrectomies to treat peptic ulcer disease, which is a shocking thing to say out loud. And then it gives you also the opportunity to teach people about H. pylori and everything that happened. And then the discovery and the famous case of the researcher drinking a broth of H. pylori to make himself sick and his wife having to drag him to the hospital throwing up every morning. And really how it changed the field of medicine because now we treat peptic ulcer disease with you eradicate H. pylori with two weeks of antibiotics, and we give people a proton pump inhibitor. But back in the day, the people who were in hospital had peptic ulcer disease and other gastrointestinal complaints because of those gastrointestinal issues. They didn't drink a lot of coffee because it would upset their stomach, because coffee can upset people's stomach a little bit.(17:48):And so, it wasn't that the pancreatic cancer patients drank more coffee, it's that the control group drank less, and that's why you saw that discrepancy. Whereas if you did the same study in the general population, which was subsequently done, you see no influence of coffee consumption. And so, it's a prime example of how selection bias can happen. And it's a seminal paper because it has become a teaching case, and it's become, for the most part, so well understood that most people are not going to make the same mistake again. And so, the point of highlighting these things is not to make fun of people, which is an unfortunate trend I've started to see online of people being very, very critical and dismissive of the publish research. Like, no, listen, this is how medicine is supposed to work. It's an evolution. We learn from our mistakes and we move on and we have to keep talking about these stories so that people don't make the mistake because choosing the right control group is important.(18:44):And so, that's sort of the message of that chapter because each chapter, you're right, it's about a food, but it's also about an epidemiological concept, be it p-hacking or selection bias or information bias or confounding or reverse causation. So I often joke that if you read this book each chapter, you will become very, very smart at dinner parties. You'll be able to figure out terms that no one's heard of before. They're like, Bob, I know you've heard that red wine is good for you, but are you familiar with the concept of reverse causation? And people are going to be very, very impressed with you and keep inviting you to dinner parties the rest of your life afterwards. So there you go. That's another reason to read the book.Eric Topol (19:20):Yeah, really. Well, I do want to get into the red wine story too, because it exemplifies this time instead of that New England Journal, this was a 60 Minutes segment in 1991, and then a paper, I guess I went along with that about how red wine is great to reduce heart disease. It still, here it is, what, 30 some years later, 34 years later. And people still believe this. They still think that red wine is preventing heart disease or reducing it. So can you set the record straight on that one?Christopher Labos (20:06):Yeah, listen, if you want to drink red wine, you can. I mean, I have nothing against red wine. I mean, I'm drunk right now. No, I'm not.Eric Topol (20:15):By the way, that chapter you were drinking wine with your friend, maybe imaginary friend Alex or Alexi. Anyway, yeah. So it was great to hear you are drinking red wine and you're talking to each other about all the cockamamie stuff about it.Christopher Labos (20:30):I mean, yeah, the thing, if you're going to do a story, if you're going to do a book chapter about red wine, I think one of the important things is to have two friends drinking at a conference. I mean, let's be honest, that's what usually happens. And so, throughout the evening, they're sitting there polishing off the wine, and then they go on almost a drunken pub crawl. Not quite, it's not quite that bad, but it was almost fun to sort of introduce that element to it of the story. But the red wine thing is fascinating. I get this a lot. I mean, I'm still practicing. I'm still seeing patients and patients come up. I've had, this is not rare, I have had patients literally come to me in clinic and say things like, doctor, my blood pressure is good. I'm checking it at home. I got my blood tests.(21:12):My cholesterol is good. I'm eating healthy, I'm exercising. But I find it really hard to drink two glasses of red wine every day. I just don't like red wine all that much. It's like, wow. No, please sir. Please, for the love of God, stop. It's still there. And what's fascinating is that if you ever go back and watch the 60 Minutes clip by today's standards, it's very weird. You go back and again, it was a product of its time. They were very, very focused on cheese and fat, which of course now we have a much more nuanced understanding about with regard to cholesterol. I mean, a lot of it's genetically mediated and all that, but you go back, it was partially about the red wine being good for you, but it was also there was this really strange subplot, if you will, where they were saying that milk was bad for you and that we should stop getting kids in the US to drink milk. And they thought that a lot of the cardiovascular risk in the US was attributed to the fact that children drink milk routinely, which again, weird by modern standards. Again, I was aware of the 60 Minutes story, but I'd never seen it and I hadn't seen it at the time. And going back to watch it, you're like, wow, that's odd. That's odd.(22:26):Again, this idea that, oh, we should be having kids drink wine at a young age. And it was like, really? Do we really want to start having our kids drink alcohol? I'm not so sure about that. It was weird stuff there. But again, it was all part of this French Paradox, which again was a product of its time in the eighties and nineties, this desire to really understand why was heart disease increasing so much in North America and our real failure to really get a handle on it. And with 30 years of hindsight, I think we're in a much better position now to understand why it was the residual effect of all that smoking. It was the residual effect of our more sedentary lifestyle that was starting to happen post World War II. And I think we've largely got a handle on most of those risk factors now.(23:13):But the red wine thing persists because I think people like drinking wine and there are not, what's the word I'm looking for, there is not a significant number of people who still believe this. And we had a change in guidelines up here in Canada where the amount of healthy drinking was really reduced down from 2 drinks a day to 1-2 drinks per week, and it caused a bit of a fury. And there was a local cardiologist here who was going on news and saying is like, I don't believe this, red wine is good for you. And I was a little bit taken a breath like, you're a senior cardiologist at a university hospital. You should not be saying stuff like this. And so, they actually had us on to have a debate, and I think they were expecting us to go at each other.Eric Topol (23:59):Oh, wow.Christopher Labos (24:00):And I was a little bit diplomatic because I've gotten used to this. I know how to bob and weave and avoid the punches. And then at the end, I think it was either me or the reporter asked him, he's like, so what do you tell your patients? And he was like, well, no, I do tell them to drink less because of the AFib risk and the blood pressure and the blood sugar. So I was like, well, you see, you're telling your patients to drink less alcohol for any number of reasons. And irrespective of the U-shaped associations, which is the main statistical argument of the chapter, there's a lot of other reasons to be wary of alcohol. I mean, I think we've proven pretty conclusively the AFib risk. There was that Australian study where if you get people to abstain, you decrease their AFib burden.(24:42):So a lot of sugar in alcohol, I mean the blood pressure and diabetes, there's a lot of reasons to not drink this particular sugary beverage and not to mention sort of the cancer associations too that we've seen as well. So it was an interesting thing to argue with him. But the point of the chapter was really to explain why do we see this U-shaped association? And I'll spoil the chapter for people. The statistical concept is called reverse causation. And that happens because it's not that abstaining from alcohol makes you sick. It's that people who are sick end up abstaining from alcohol. So if you have high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, AFib, cancer, you've probably been told don't drink alcohol. And so, if you do just a single cross-sectional study where you ask people, how much do you drink? And they say zero, you're probably identifying a high-risk population because most studies, most, not all, but many studies do not make the distinction between former drinkers and never drinkers. And there's a big difference between somebody who used to drink and then quit and somebody who never drank throughout their whole lives.Eric Topol (25:47):Yeah, no, it's great. And I think I just want to come back on that. I think Norway and several other countries are now putting on their alcohol products. This may cause cancer, and the American Cancer Society has put a warning on this. So the cancer story is still out there, but you also make among hundreds of important good points in the book about how these food diaries are notoriously inaccurate. And you already touched on that with the survey thing, but it's hard to get, we don't have randomized trials of people drink a lot or don't drink. You can't drink with adherence to that. So it's out there, and of course, people like to drink their wine, but there's a risk that I think has been consistent through many of these studies that is a bit worrisome. I don't know what you would, if you'd say it's conclusive or you'd say it's kind of unsettled.Christopher Labos (26:49):I mean, I think it's as settled as it's going to get because I don't see somebody doing a randomized controlled trial on this. And this is the problem. And there has been this trend recently for people to say, well, if there's no randomized controlled trials, I'm not going to believe it. You're like, okay, look, a fair point. And when you're talking about interventions and therapies, then yes, we should absolutely do randomized controlled trials. And I've made that point vociferously when it comes to vitamin D and a lot of the other stuff. The problem is it's going to be very, very hard to do a randomized controlled trial with alcohol. I mean, that was tried. It fell apart and it fell apart for many reasons, not the least of which was the fact that the alcohol industry seemed to be influencing what outcomes people were going to look at.(27:34):So that was problematic. I sort of mentioned it right at the tail end of the chapter as well. So if you're not going to have an NIH funded trial to look at in a randomized fashion, does alcohol effect atherosclerosis or cancer outcomes? You're not going to get it. No private industry is going to do it. You're not going to be able to get it done. So given that we have to live in the real world, and I'm always a firm argument in us basing ourselves in reality and living in the real world, we have to make the best decision we can with the evidence that we have available. And I would say, look, I'm pretty sure alcohol is not good for you. I think it is actually detrimental to your cardiovascular health overall. And I think we can say pretty definitively that any potential benefit that people think exists in terms of myocardial infarction, I think that's all a statistical artifact.(28:26):I think if you were to analyze it properly, it would all sort of vanish. And I think it largely does. And there's been some really interesting genetic studies using instrumental variables. So what the Mendelian randomization studies that really do suggest that there really is a linear relationship and that the more you drink, the worse it is. And there's no plateau, there's no floor, there's no J shaped curve. It really does appear to be linear. And I've been, I think, fairly convinced because I think the Mendelian randomization studies are as good as we're going to get on this issue.Eric Topol (29:01):No, I think it's an important point. And I think there again, the book will hold on so many of these things, but we keep learning all the time. And for example, going back to coffee, there's many studies now that suggest it will reduce type 2 diabetes, it will improve survival, cardiovascular, the mechanism is unknown. Do you think there's, so not only does coffee not cause cancer, but it actually may make you healthier. Any thoughts about that?Christopher Labos (29:35):Well, I can state, again, I'm ruining the book. I can state, I think fairly unequivocally coffee does not cause cancer. I think that is pretty clear. Even protective is harder, I think it's possible that a lot of the benefit that's been seen, because it is very observational, could just be the result of residual confounding. I think that is still possible. And again, we have to learn to live with uncertainty in medical research. And when we talk about Bayesian statistics, which is a subject I love, but probably outside of the topic for today, you have to be able to create a framework for what we're certain about and what we're uncertain about. So if you look at the spectrum of risk, clearly the risk ratio for coffee is not above 1. Is it below 1 or is it really straddling the null value? And I'm a little bit uncertain. I think if there is a benefit, it's probably small. I think a lot of it is residual confounding. The one point that would make though, if we're going to talk about coffee being beneficial, we have to talk about coffee. Not a lot of the stuff they are serving at coffee shops now, which are probably more akin to milkshakes than actual coffee.Eric Topol (30:52):Yeah, that's a really good point. Plus, the other thing is the spike of caffeine at much higher levels than you might have with a standard coffee that is typical, these Grande or super Grande, whatever they are. Now another, since we talked about things that people enjoy like coffee and wine, we have to touch on chocolate. The chapter was fun on chocolate, is it a health food and also about the Nobel Laureates. Can you enlighten us on that one?Christopher Labos (31:26):This is another, I mean, again, people are going to think that I hate the New England Journal of Medicine. I don't just, that they provided such great teaching material over the years. And to be fair, the study that we're going to talk about the Nobel Laureate chocolate study, I mean if you read it, it really feels like it was meant to be satire and it probably should have belonged in the BMJ Christmas issue. When you read it and you read the disclosure statement where the author is like, disclosure the author admits to loving chocolate, and you're like, okay, that's a weird thing to write in a serious article. So it was probably meant to be a satire. And when you read some of the interviews that Messerli had given afterwards, it does seem that he was trying to just make a point. But it seems to have taken off a life of its own.(32:10):What the study was, and it's again, first time I've ever seen a single author on a New England paper, which probably should have been a warning sign for people because generally New England papers don't have single authors on them. But basically, what he did was he was at a conference as the way the story goes, and he was thinking up this idea. So he went on the internet, went onto Wikipedia, and was basically looking up how many Nobel prizes have been won by various countries, looked up the average chocolate consumption on a variety of other websites and basically plotted out a regression line and showed this really linear association between average chocolate consumption per country and number of Nobel prizes per country with the suggested rules that if you eat chocolate, you'll win a Nobel Prize. Except, and notwithstanding all the jokes that came up later, there was another Nobel laureate, and I'm blanking on his name right now, there is in the book. When he was interviewed, he said something like, I believe this is true. Now, milk chocolate might be fine if you want a Nobel Prize in chemistry or medicine, but if you want a Nobel Prize in physics, it really does have to be dark chocolate.Christopher Labos (33:20):He said this to the Associated Press, the Associated Press took the quote and put it on the Newswire, and it got reprinted over and over again. And I think he had to publicly apologize to all the people at his university, which to me seemed ridiculous. He was obviously joking, and people took this study very, very seriously. The explanation for why this study is not true, there's actually a word for this, and it's called the ecological bias. And you have to remember something if you're going to look at chocolate and Nobel prizes and look at it in terms of country as the level of exposure, as the unit of exposure. Countries don't eat chocolate and countries don't win Nobel prizes. People eat chocolate and people eat Nobel prizes. And you can't show that the people eating the chocolate in Switzerland are the ones who are winning the Nobel Prizes.(34:10):Right. That's the point you can't show, and this is a humorous example, but we've made this type of mistake before when people were talking about saturated fats causing breast cancer. You can look at countries and show that countries that eat a lot of saturated fat have more breast cancer. But that's also because western countries with other basic differences are the countries where you eat a lot of saturated fats and where women develop higher rates of breast cancer. But that doesn't mean that the women who eat the saturated fats are the ones who get breast cancer. And so, the chocolate one is funny because again, it's exactly what you said. People like eating chocolate, so they want a reason to believe that it is good for you even when it isn't. And so, they will latch on to the cardiovascular benefits, which have frankly been disproved in the COSMOS study. They will latch on to the neurological, neurocognitive benefits, which have themselves been disproved. And what's fascinating about the whole story is that you would say, oh, we need a large randomized trial. Well, we had that, it was called the COSMOS study. It got published. I mean, maybe it happened during Covid, people didn't notice, but it got published. It was negative. That should have been the end of the story, and it's not, people still believe it.Eric Topol (35:23):Well, there's a lot of confirmation bias there, isn't there? Again, the thread through all the chapters is biases, all the different biases that come in play. And this one, knowing Franz Messerli, he's Swiss, so of course he'd want to, yeah, and he eats a lot of chocolate, by the way. And he also comes into play in the chapter you have on salt. It's really interesting. You have chapters on breakfast. Is it really the most important meal? Were there other chapters that you thought about putting in the book that you didn't wind up there, or if you were to write a second edition that you would add?Christopher Labos (36:01):I wanted to do a chapter on fish oils. Actually, there's a tweet that you did that I use in my teaching material, which is two days apart, fish oils are good for you, fish oils are bad for you. Because again, that's one of those things where it's just the cycle of all these studies showing no benefit, and yet there's one study that shows a thing and it just keeps coming back. And so yeah, fish oils would've definitely been one. If there is a sequel to this book, and I'm hoping to make a sequel to it.Eric Topol (36:30):You should, you should definitely.Christopher Labos (36:32):So fish oils is definitely going to be in there because there were originally going to be ten stories. There's only nine in the book. And because it got to the point where the publisher was like, this book is getting a little long, maybe we've got to wrap it up. Maybe it's time to land the plane. And I was like, okay, fair, fair. So we'll cut it at nine. So we had to drop the fish oil one, but that'll be in the sequel if there is a sequel, I want to do, I have a list. It's just off camera actually. I have a little notepad where I've been jotting down ideas. So like fish oils, artificial sweeteners, I'll throw MSG in there, which is a wild story for anybody who's ever dug into the history of MSG. It is a wild and borderline nonsensical story of why we believe that MSG might be bad for us.(37:14):Although, I mean, that was, again, very much a product of the eighties and the nineties. So yeah, there's a lot of stuff out there, but fish oil is definitely one that I want to tackle just because it's so relevant. And I still have patients coming in that are going to pharmacy and buying over the counter fish oil supplements. I have to tell them, it's like, look, the evidence on this is pretty clear. It doesn't help. If anything, maybe it slightly increases risk your AFib risk. There's some stuff there. So yeah, again, you could be easily tempted into thinking this is sort of frivolous and funny, but it actually has an implication for people's daily lives because the people out there walking around the street, they believe these things go stop a hundred random people.Eric Topol (37:59):Yeah, no, everything in this book is approaching things that are the dogma still, or at least uncertainty, and you get it straight. I mean, you're an epidemiologist as well as a cardiologist in your training, but you don't use that in a way that is trying to teach people. You're doing it really subtly. And then the other thing just to bring up is that obviously you're debunking all this stuff, and we live in a time where we got all this misinformation and blurred truths. I mean, that's one of the reasons why I pick Ground Truths for this podcast. But it's diminished or certainly challenged the role of physicians and scientists because things are not reliable. They're not constant. They're changing. You touched on that earlier, but can you address, I mean, one of the things besides communicating in a way that makes it easily understandable and fun, which you do so well, it's also addressing trust. How do we promote trust?Christopher Labos (39:10):I think you have to, yeah, that's a really challenging question because I think the old model is not going to work anymore. The model of issuing a guideline statement to be like, this is the truth, people will just ignore it because we have issued new guidelines on alcohol consumption. It didn't change behavior. If you want to get people to drink less, you have to address the underlying reason why they do it, and it's this persistent myth. So I think one of the reasons why pseudoscience succeeds as much as it does is because so much of their communication is about storytelling. You can go at people with these large randomized control trials, and yet they will still latch onto an anecdote, right? Because, oh, my friend Bobby had a bad side effect with the Covid vaccine. That's why I'm not getting vaccinated. And so, storytelling is a really, really powerful tool.(40:05):And I think the reason why I thought this type of book format could work is it's a story. Because even if you don't remember the details, I was at a lecture last night and I was speaking to a dermatology friend of mine, which sounds like it's an episode from the book, but it's not. But I was speaking to a dermatology friend of mine, and he had read it. He says, Chris, I read it. I really liked it. He goes, I don't remember a lot of the examples you put up. He is a busy guy. He's got young kids. He read the book, and I was giving a lecture based on this book and exploring all of these concepts. And he was like, I remember when you started talking about the aspirin. I couldn't remember what the example was, but I remembered your point that it's all about subgroups.(40:47):And that's the thing is that even if people don't remember the details, even if people don't remember the New England paper about coughing pancreatic cancer, even if they don't remember the COSMOS study about chocolate, even if they don't remember the Nobel chocolate association, they will remember the take home message, which is that you have to be careful. If somebody is torturing the data, they understand why publication bias is a real problem. So that's the point, is that if you tell a story, it sticks in people's minds. So it's almost very Socratic in a way. If you ever read Plato, he's not writing a philosophical treatise in the same way that other philosophers do. It's a conversation between Socrates and other people, and it's a very one-sided conversation because Socrates is telling everybody why they're wrong. So I tried to sort of nuance that and improve upon that framework, but you take away the general gist of it, and that's what we need to give to people.(41:48):We need to tell them, we need to give them the tool so that they can say it's like, oh, well wait a second. You're telling me that broccoli is going to prevent pancreatic cancer? Was this a food questionnaire thing? And you're giving people that little bit of background knowledge that they can ask intelligent questions. And I think that's what we have to do going forward, because we have to introduce that little bit of skepticism into their thought process so that they can question what they see on the internet. Because the reality is a lot of what they see on the internet is going to be wrong because it's clickbait, it's headlines, it's all the issues that we have with our modern communication strategies.Eric Topol (42:31):Yeah. Well, I think storytelling and what you just described is so darn important. And so, just to wrap up this book, Does Coffee Cause Cancer?: And 8 More Myths about the Food We Eat is much more than what that title says. I hope you're going to do a sequel. You ought to have a Netflix special.Christopher Labos (42:54):Please tell somebody that, I don't how to get a Netflix special, but use your clout and make it happen, and I'll invite you over for dinner.Eric Topol (43:01):Sounds good. We'll have red wine together, and drink a lot of decaffeinated coffee. No, this has been fun. You've definitely had an impact. And I hope everybody takes a chance to get through this book because it's like a novel. A novel, which is somehow you've floated in all this really important stuff in medicine, both content, how to interpret data, how to interpret papers, statistics, somehow invisibly in a novel. You've got it all in there. So congratulations on that. It's a new genre medical book like I've never seen before. And so, we'll be following all your next works, and I'm sure your podcast Body of Evidence must be something along these lines as well. So I'll have to take a look and listen to that too.Christopher Labos (43:56):Thank you so much. That is very, very, you have no idea how much it means to me to hear you say something like that, that has warmed the cockles of my heart.Eric Topol (44:07):Alright, well Chris, thank you.***********************Thanks for listening, reading or watching!The Ground Truths newsletters and podcasts are all free, open-access, without ads.Please share this post/podcast with your friends and network if you found it informativeVoluntary paid subscriptions all go to support Scripps Research. 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King Green is a great MC and a serious student of the craft. I found him on Tiktok and we had an amazing conversation about hiphop and the science of MCing. Toure Show Episode 424 Host & Writer: Touré Executive Producers: Ryan Woodhall and Ashley J. Hobbs Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Booker: Rae Holliday Engineer: Claire McHale Photographers: Podstream Studios The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joy chats with Ben Sorensen, quirky, eccentric and neurodiverse media personality about the why of chasing professional hosting, passion, creation and pro techniques of being on a microphone.  We discover Ben's path to MCing huge events from vaudeville performance as a kid, to hosting a hit radio show interviewing major celebrities and how he navigates gigs, agents. sexism, monoculture and diversity.  Ben shares how he hacks his brain to harness his autism diagnosis to create engaging content that builds a connection and greater understanding.  Ben and Joy explore human kindness and jump around multiple creative threads that will bring a cyclone of thinking to the listener that wants to be challenged and seed some new ideas. Listen up! A fun, nerdy, academic and excellent episode. Leave Us a 5 Star Review on Apple Podcast. Joy's Instagram https://instagram.com/joypereiracreative Joy's Website www.joypereira.com Joy's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-pereira-43428025/ Ben's Instagram   instagram.com/bensorensen1   Ben's Facebook   facebook.com/bensorensen1   Ben's Threads   threads.net/@bensorensen1   Ben's TikTok   tiktok.com/@bensorensen1   Ben's Website   bensorensen1.com   Ben's Twitter / X   twitter.com/bensorensen1   Music by Twinmusicom

Tyler is a fellow competition climbing nerd and podcaster, who has been involved in the space much longer than I have, and you may be familiar with his channel, Plastic Weekly! In this episode, we'll talk about what it's like MCing at a world cup, commiserate on the hardships that come with climbing podcasting, go over some climbing HOT TAKES, and talk about the upcoming 2024 season!Guest links:Tyler's InstagramPlastic Weekly IGPlastic Weekly YoutubeReference links:Learn more about the podcast at www.thatsnotrealclimbingpodcast.comFollow on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thatsnotrealclimbingpodcastJoin the FREE community in Discord! https://discord.gg/QTa668g8zpIf you're able to help support the podcast, you can "buy me a chalk refill" :) current proceeds are going toward a webcam! www.buymeacoffee.com/compclimbingTimestamps of discussion topics0:00 - Introduction1:15 - Intro + gym experience7:16 - MCing and commentating at world cups13:35 - Beginnings of Plastic Weekly Podcast17:31 - Starting The Debrief series with John Burgman20:52 - Commiserating on highlights and lowlights of podcasting30:36 - Competition hot take: GOAT is overused42:09 - Hot take: Get rid of isolation?48:29 - People don't care about the overall title anymore?55:00 - NEOM games environmental impact1:01:35 - IFSC's new RED-S Policy1:05:54 - 2024 season predictions1:13:14 - Olympic favorites1:18:54 - Discord Q: Is there an absence of climbing media?1:24:19 - Discord Q: Are gyms are good place to start climbing careers?1:29:04 - Where to find Tyler

Comedian, immigration lawyer, burlesque dancer, trainee wrestler, and absolute legend - it's Sikisa!She tells us how she went from being a barmaid to being on stage, and some of the weirder things she's seen while MCing one of London's most famous open mic comedy nights. We learn what it's like to go on Live at the Apollo with a concussion. There's a bit of serious chat as Sikisa discusses her work as an immigration lawyer, helping refugees and asylum seekers to stay in Britain. We hear what she thinks about the idea of sending people to Rwanda. (Spoiler: she has some choice words for the Government.) Plus, Sikisa talks about what it's like to be diagnosed with dyslexia in your thirties. Then it's back to the usual old filth and nonsense as we chat about wrestling, nachos, and dick pics. Sikisa shares a very strong Scummy Mummy Confession (NSFW, but are they ever) and reveals how she knows if a man is good in bed. Sikisa is on tour right now - go and see her in Glasgow, London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Brighton, Southampton, Manchester, Bristol and Machynlleth. Tickets via sikisacomedy.com. Follow her on Instagram @sikisacomedy.Sikisa's wrestling podcast, Wrestle Club UK, is available now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Please enjoy this full length version of the Venga Boys / Lil Jon mashup. Thank you to Pac-Hole Rickelton for bringing this joy into our lives. *WE ARE ON TOUR!* Come and see our live comedy show in 2024! We are on our way to Worcester, Northampton, Sutton Coldfield, Stockport... And new dates are being added all the time! Keep an eye on scummymummies.com for announcements and tickets. *WE HAVE A SHOP!* Visit scummymummiesshop.com for our ace t-shirts, mugs, washbags, sweatshirts and beach towels. FREE UK DELIVERY! We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe. Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, on episode 163 of the Anybody Can Do This Show, Neighbor and Ralph are back after a week off. After some general cutting up and Polar Plunge updates, the boys are joined by Daniel Morales, MC of the Pittsburgh Polar Plunge. Daniel joins via zoom to chat about his experiences both competing and MCing at the Special Olympics. He also goes into how he got hooked up with ACDT, and what more to expect with him in regards to this years tailgate! Make sure to donate to Team Anybody's Special Olympics Polar Plunge team today! Link is on Instagram. Help us hit our goal of $10,000 for Special Olympics! Remember to fill out a questionnaire on Instagram or send a Counter Punch to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theacdtshow@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ if you want to be featured on next week's episode. Funniest entry wins a tee shirt every week!

Jonny Holsten, a seasoned professional with a background in hosting talent shows and MCing sports tournaments, has leveraged his skills in effective communication and strategic word choice to establish a successful career in the marketing industry. Jonny's perspective on creating engaging, customer-centric website content for business growth is rooted in his belief that the right messaging is the first step in optimizing the conversion process on a website. Drawing from his expertise in the Story Brand framework, he emphasizes the importance of consistent messaging across various platforms and channels, and the power of well-crafted sales copy in capturing the attention and interest of visitors. Jonny firmly believes that investing time and effort into creating compelling website content is a crucial factor for business success. Join Kim Thompson - Pinder and Jonny Holsten as they delve deeper into this topic on the next episode of the Author to Authority podcast.

If there's anyone who knows how to get rid of squatters, it's Leka Devatha. Right before MCing the biggest real estate event of the year, BPCon 2023, Leka got a phone call from her property manager with the words no investor EVER wants to hear, “there are trespassers in the property.” What followed was months of legal back and forth, media attention, and some secret agent work from Leka to get these so-called “tenants” OUT of her property. In the end, Leka lost tens of thousands of dollars, but today, she's going to share how to avoid the same fate. Squatters know their rights and how long it takes landlords to kick them out of a property, so they come prepared. With everything from fake leases to moving over utilities, claiming the legitimate owners are liars, and doing ANYTHING they can to prove they belong in the house, modern-day squatters could live in your home for years unless you follow the same steps as Leka. In today's episode, Leka shares how she got two trespassers out of her house without going through the long, costly, and often unsuccessful eviction process, how she beat the squatters at their own game, and what YOU should do to stop ANY squatter from even THINKING about stealing from you. In This Episode We Cover: How to get squatters out of your house ASAP without waiting on the eviction process The one type of rental property owner squatters LOVE to target  Hiring attorneys and why your legal team MUST be ready to make moves quickly Canceling utilities and how to get this done as soon as a squatter takes over your property “Squatters' rights” and how to beat squatters at their own game Leka's BIGGEST pieces of advice to avoid squatters and trespassers in the future And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender Ashley's BiggerPockets Profile Ashley's Instagram Tony's BiggerPockets Profile Tony's Instagram Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group Join BiggerPockets for FREE Ask Us Your Investing Question Apply to Be a Guest on the “Real Estate Rookie” Podcast Grab Your Copy of “Start with Strategy” and Use Code “STRATEGY356” for a 10% Discount Sign Up for the Real Estate Investing Virtual Summit Creative Ways to Get Rid of Squatters: What's Legal & What's Not What Landlords Need to Know About Squatter's Rights Watch Leka's News Story Minut Noise Monitoring Connect with Leka: Leka's BiggerPockets Profile Leka's Instagram Leka's LinkedIn Check the full show notes here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-360 Interested in learning more about today's sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email: advertise@biggerpockets.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An interview podcast giving the inside scoop of what happens in comedy scenes across the globe and dedicated to speaking to the mavericks in the comedy world. We speak to Oldhamer and honorary Scouser, Che Burnley. In the last few years Che has established his own Showcase show in Edinburgh & Liverpool, provided tour support for Reginald D Hunter, written his own solo shows and still found time to gig across the country. At home MCing as he is in any spot Che is currently working on his next show HATE (pt. 1). Here is an overview of what we discussed:[[01:59]] Pay hasn't gone up for comedians [[3:32]][[03:43]] Black comedy showcases [[07:37]][[07:32]] Creativity is stifled by needing to eat to [[07:35]] [[07:46]] Why comedians diversify [[10:09]][[15:00]] Its better not to know everything about people [[17:16]][[19:49]] Joke thievery being everywhere in the past [[22:13]][[27:01]] We all want to be right rather than have interesting discussions [[31:25]][[49:12]] People know what morals are but green is always the colour [[53:17]][[59:51]] Some people shouldn't be doing hour shows [[63:38]]If you enjoyed the episode, please give it a review on Amazon or Itunes, also, if you would like to know more about Che, you can go on his website at https://www.thecheburnley.com/. If you would like to know more on Marvin, you can follow him through his Linktree at https://linktr.ee/theflopmaster. #comedypodcast #standupcomedian #podcastvideo #podcastinterviewer #podcastinterview #comedianYou can follow this podcast on Youtube at https://bit.ly/41LWDAq, Spotify at https://spoti.fi/3oLrmyU and Apple podcasts at https://apple.co/3LEkr3E.

The Northern California Classic, heard of it? We have. Some have. Most NEED to. But why? Bill Grundler just came off MCing the NorCall Classic this weekend and shares his experience and perspective of why this event was one of the most "OG" events there as been in years.

Luke had a wild experience last night MCing a record-breaking drag show, even though he has some major regrets about his sartorial choices. And Andrew's been enjoying his MLB All Star activities, although he's unsurprisingly focussed mostly on the mascots.

Luke has a quibble with the organizers of an event he's MCing, and he worries that his complaint makes him unlovable. Andrew has a quibble with the way Seattle measures his water usage, and he worries that his complaint makes the show unlistenable. 

Send in your question via text to 1-800-485-3139. Question #1 (01:27): Is "high production" vs. "low production" a heart issue? Question #2 (13:13): For announcements it's easy to shift to a model of: inspiration and one next step, but I'm wondering how do you shift the vocabulary of your main speakers? I've notice that most of the biggest churches have preaching and MCing that use a shared vocabulary, some things are vision statements (which is easy to have a shared language around), some things are cultural statements and some things are functional to that church. But I'm wondering how do they unify behind that? Is there a list of statements or is there a quota per service? Is there a comms strategy meeting that they plan out what to say and what's worth saying? How do all these different speakers have the same vocabulary? Question #3 (22:52): How soon should I publish our sermon clips after the sermon was first preached? Also, should I be trying to add new designs onto every SocialSermon? Thanks! Question #4 (35:08): Coffee Corner with Bishop Barista - Question for Alex: what decaf/low caf coffees does he recommend for people with high blood pressure that need to reduce caffeine intake but still want to enjoy a good.

Chris speaks with a young woman who purposefully set herself up for a year of failure to develop a thicker skin. She shares her experiences trying stand-up comedy, MCing a parade, and getting rejected by a dating show. She also wrote a letter to Jason Sudeikis asking if he'd go bowling with her. Did he ever receive her request? Geth texts Jason to find out. She also opens up about getting divorced and how a year of rejection helped her deal with anxiety and depression.