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In this engaging episode of The Deep Life Podcast, Elise welcomes Megan Price, a compassionate healer specializing in Medical Qigong, Reiki, and shamanic healing. Megan shares her profound journey from a stressful corporate life and an early MS diagnosis to becoming a holistic healing practitioner. She delves into the interconnectedness of various healing modalities, emphasizing the importance of breath, energy, and self-transformation. The discussion covers the concept of 'purge, tonify, and regulate', the significance of interconnectedness in human existence, and practical exercises for lasting well-being. Megan also offers a free healing session to listeners as a generous gesture.01:00 Meet Megan Price: A Compassionate Healer01:47 Megan's Journey: From Diagnosis to Healing04:28 The Turning Point: Research and Self-Discovery06:48 Founding Healing Time and Helping Others09:46 Understanding the Connection Between Mind and Body23:46 Medical Qigong: The Path to Self-Transformation35:20 The Essence of Medical Qigong35:46 Energy and Frequency in Healing38:19 The Role of Belief and Mindset40:50 Spiritual and Emotional Healing42:59 Integrating Medical Qigong with Other Modalities51:11 The Importance of Breath and Frequency55:28 The Concept of Yin and Yang57:38 Embracing Our Interconnected Humanity01:06:43 Final Thoughts and OfferYou can connect w/ Meghan here:https://www.healingthymeutah.com If you'd like to connect with Dan & EliseYou can find The DEEP Life on social mediaInstagram: https://bit.ly/3TTuUfWYouTube: https://bit.ly/3ScoOWSTikTok: https://bit.ly/3TOX0sUIf you'd like to connect with Dan:You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.comwhere he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coachingOr throughIG @MomentumStrengthWellnessYouTube @MomentumStrengthWellnessFacebook @MomentumStrengthWellness
Tom Rogers discusses how your students can go and study in the USA! He is joined by a panel including Phil Garner from USA Study, Megan Price, Acting Head of 6th Form; Higher Education Coordinator and Head of Psychology at Royal Hospital School in Ipswich and Hannah Legge International Lacrosse player and former student of Moreton Hall School who was able to go and study in the USA. This show is brought to you in partnership with USA Study: https://www.usastudy.co.uk/
NFIB Missouri president Brad Jones says 60 percent of his members tried to hire people in September, but couldn't find qualified applicants. He also says about 53 percent of his members have jobs that they can't fill. Mr. Jones joined us live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Mid-Missouri" to discuss the September jobs report and also community colleges. The role that Missouri's community colleges play in workforce development is the topic of a hearing that is underway this morning at the Statehouse in Jefferson City. The Missouri House Special Interim Committee on Workforce Innovation and Technology is holding the hearing at the Capitol. Veteran State Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal), who chairs the committee, says Missouri has a number of outstanding practitioners who are engaged in great work in different parts of the state. Chairman Riggs tells 939 the Eagle that the key is how to best translate those programs to all parts of Missouri. Brian Millner of the Missouri Community College Association is testifying this morning, along with John Wiemann of St. Charles Community College, Megan Price of the AFL-CIO and others. Mr. Wiemann is a former Missouri House Speaker Pro Tem from O'Fallon who served eight years in the House:
In this exciting new episode of Sweep the League, we're joined by special guest Megan Price, a renowned basketball expert and analyst. Megan shares her valuable insights on the WNBA season so far, including the standout teams and players to watch. We also dive into the latest NBA news and storylines, from blockbuster trades to championship contenders. Don't miss this action-packed conversation with Megan Price!
Baiting with donuts and Chinese food is part of Megan Price's black bear hunting success. Megan shares her adventurous hunt story with She Goes Outdoors podcast host, Julia Plugge and Hunt Nebraska podcast host, Aaron Hershberger.
In this episode, I chat with Megan Price, Positive Psychologist who shares with us the secret to happiness.And what happens when you feel happy? Life feels easier and you get to enjoy it more!Megan supports her clients to become happy through positive psychology. Her mission is to help as many people be happy as possible! How amazing is that?! With more happy people, we create a happier world.She tells us the story of how she realised she wasn't happy, after following a path of ‘shoulds' and how she turned it around for herself. Find Megan here: Instagram - @happy.bymewww.happybyme.co.uk ____ If you loved this episode, please subscribe and share - it helps me to help even more Warrior Bosses! Click here to take my FREE quiz to discover what's getting in your way to becoming unstoppable! Find out how you can work with me, here: www.clairehill.uk You can find me on Instagram: @iamclairehill ____ happiness, positivity, positive psychologist, self-belief, coach, productivity, fulfillment, success, money --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iamclairehill/message
From time to time here on RNIB Connect Radio we like to talk with blind and partially sighted people to find out what life is really like living with sight loss, how they have coped throughout their life with the level of sight they have and the advice they would give to other people who might be starting to lose their sight or finding it difficult to cope with the sight they have. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey spoke with Megan Price from rural Wales who has lived with the eye conditions aniridia and glaucoma for all of her life and due to recent deterioration of her sight has been supported by a local Rehabilitation Officer of Visual Impairment (ROVI) both in her home and when moving twice into a new home with her partner and their young child. Megan told Toby about living with her eye conditions, life growing up with parents and family who are also visually impaired, how the local ROVI helped her and her partner when her sight was starting to deteriorate with help both in the home and navigating a new environment. If you are looking for support or advice around anything related to sight loss do either call the RNIB Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or visit the RNIB website - https://www.rnib.org.uk Image: RNIB Connect Radio Bright Green 20th Anniversary Logo
Margo is joined by artist and illustrator, Megan Price, otherwise known by her business name The Darling Fig. Megan feels like she has had many creative incarnations but it wasn't until she dusted off her paintbrushes and embraced the fact that she was an artist, that she finally found a medium through which she could fully express her full creative vision. Megan paints by hand to capture the joy in life's everyday moments. She believes in slowing down and finding the magic in the little things. Her work can be seen as a collection of sustainably printed greeting cards and fine art prints, or as bespoke artwork commissions for clients. Topics discussed: Her journey of creativity and why she started The Darling Fig Finding enjoyment in the process of artistic creation The sweet spot of creative flow Her experience with art challenges What art is really all about to her and why she doesn't necessarily care if people love or hate her work but rather how it makes them feel Gratitude and how journaling fosters a positive mindset as well as posts her creativity Finding stillness in her creative practice And more! Connect with Megan: www.thedarlingfig.com.au www.instagram.com/thedarlingfig
Megan Price from 806 Sports returns to talk about Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs. Tune in as she and the guys from the Lakers Fast Break go over just what the future is for the #1 draft choice, what the team looks like surrounding him, and how well the team will progress this season. Plus we hear her thoughts on how the Lakers look this upcoming year. Is it just baby steps for Victor and the Spurs? Find out on the Lakers Fast Break podcast! Please Like, Share, and Subscribe to our channel and our social media @lakersfastbreak on Twitter. If you have questions, give us a shout-out on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook, or send us your thoughts to lakersfastbreak@yahoo.com or become a supporter of the Lakers Fast Break today at https://anchor.fm/lakers-fast-break The views and opinions expressed on the Lakers Fast Break are those of the panelists or guests themselves and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Lakers Fast Break or its owners. Any content or thoughts provided by our panelists or guests are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, anyone, or anything. Presented by our friends at lakerholics.com, lakersball.com, Pop Culture Cosmos, Inside Sports Fantasy Football, Vampires and Vitae, SynBlades.com, YouTube's John Mikaelian, the novel Congratulations, You Suck (available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble), The Happy Hoarder, EmpireJeffTV, and Retro City Games! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lakers-fast-break/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lakers-fast-break/support
Women's World Cup action in Austrailia and New Zealand has wrapped up and Spain's been crowned the champion. After players and fans headed home, residents were left to clean up after them. Hosts of such tournaments are also left to tackle the human rights implications of hosting an event that massive. The human rights impacts of something like the World Cup are incredibly hard to measure and that is the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest Dr. Megan Price. Dr. Megan Price is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Price designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data for projects in a variety of locations including Guatemala, Colombia, and Syria. Her work in Guatemala includes serving as the lead statistician on a project in which she analyzed documents from the National Police Archive; she has also contributed analyses submitted as evidence in two court cases in Guatemala. Her work in Syria includes serving as the lead statistician and author on three reports, commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR), on documented deaths in that country.
On this week's episode, Writer/Showrunner Bill Martin (The Unicorn, The Neighborhood, 3rd Rock From The Sun, and many many more) talks about his showbiz career and starting out writing in sketch comedy then eventually transitioning over to scripted. Tune in as he also talks about his experiences working with a writing partner.SHOW NOTESBill Martin's IMDB Page - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551979/Free Writing Webinar - https://michaeljamin.com/op/webinar-registration/Michael's Online Screenwriting Course - https://michaeljamin.com/courseFree Screenwriting Lesson - https://michaeljamin.com/freeJoin My Watchlist - https://michaeljamin.com/watchlistAUTOGENERATED TRANSCRIPTBill Martin:When we got on board, we just got an overall deal with A, B, C. So we were assignable to this and we thought, this is insane. We'd love the commercials about anybody, but there's no way they're going to put on. So we thought it was just like, we'll help out a pilot, meet some new people, and then we'll do something else. It was shocking to us that they put it on tv.Michael Jamin:Oh, howBill Martin:Interesting. Because it just seems so unlikely, but with anything you do, you know how it is. Once you're given your assignment, you've got to find a way to take pride in it.Michael Jamin:You're listening to Screenwriters Need to Hear This with Michael Jamin.Hey everyone, welcome back to Screenwriters. Need to hear this. I got another great guest today Actually. Ordinarily I would never have a sitcom writer who's more successful than me on my show. I out of Insecurity, but I'm doing it today to prove that I'm more magnanimous than he is. And so welcome to the show, bill Martin, whose credits are fricking crazy good and he had so many great credits. I'm going to list some of the great credits and I'm also, maybe I'll throw in some not so great credits to humble you, to keep you humble.Bill Martin:There are plenty of,Michael Jamin:But you started in Living Color and I wanted to talk about that. I love that show. But then she tv, third Rock from the Sun, grounded for Life, and I'm skipping many. Okay, cavemen, the singles table. Hank How to Rock Malibu Country Soul Man, which I believe, I think we met on that and I think you guys beat us out with good reason.Bill Martin:That's what I'm really here for. Revenge.Michael Jamin:Yes. Right, right, right. Living Biblically. We'll talk about that. And the, the unicorn, the neighborhood, the unicorn, which you and your partner created and the neighborhood. Are you guys running that as well, neighborhood or no? We are. You are. Damn. What's it like to be welcome to the show and what's it like to be a working sitcom writer? What's it like working on a network TV show nowadays?Bill Martin:Yeah. Well, I mean, I will point out that it's fantastic and I know that because I've also been a non-working sitcom writer. Plenty. I mean, that's the awful thing about this life we've chosen is that every spring is the panic of, oh my God, am I retired? I just don't know it yet.Michael Jamin:What do you know? Brian Bihar? Do you know who he is?Bill Martin:Yes.Michael Jamin:He said me and he said to me that people in the business are retired seven years before they know it.Bill Martin:Yes.Michael Jamin:I hadn't heard that. I was like, oh God, is the clockBill Martin:Running? I knew that makes perfect sense though. Yeah, yeah.Michael Jamin:But the thing is not even about staffing season anymore now you don't even know when you're not working. You justBill Martin:True. True.Michael Jamin:So what is it like, how is it, honestly, haven't written on a network television show in many years we've been on cable or whatever, streaming. And how has it changed? How has Network changed? More notes, last notes.Bill Martin:That's the weird thing is it has not changed. I mean, we are preserved in Amber. The neighborhood is just the good old days. It's a big writer's room. It's run throughs, it's show nights. It's really almost unreal. When we took the job, we expected it to, COVID obviously jumbled everything up, but once the covid restricted to Lifted, it was like, oh, this is exactly the classic sitcom situation.Michael Jamin:See, one of my fears is that multi cameras will go away because there's so few people still doing it. I mean, do you feel that way?Bill Martin:Yeah, we keep thinking that they're done, but at the same time, people are still watching friends in Seinfeld and there still aren't that many single camera comedies that are that sticky with people. So I'm not sure that they're being given up on yet. I mean, there's pros and cons to them, but I think that kind of warmth that you only have when you're watching an audience show is something that people still crave.Michael Jamin:But I mean in terms of there's so few multi-camera shows being made now, then let's say in 10 or 15 years if they want to make more, who's going to know how to do it?Bill Martin:The breeding pool is, yeah, the breeding pool has shrunk to the point where we'll all be just inbred ligers. Yeah, you're right. Frankly, that's why I'm working because there's not a minor league for it anymore. Yeah, I know N B C and a BBC are trying them. They are developing them, but really right now it's Monday night on c b s and that's about it. So we are fully prepared to just turn off the lights when we leave and that'll be the end. ButMichael Jamin:Now tell me how you broke in, because I think your first creative was living single, I mean not living single, but living color.Bill Martin:Living color andMichael Jamin:Living, which, so there was a sketch show, which huge for the young people. I mean it, Jim Carrey and all these huge stars came out of that, which you couldn't have been imagined back then. It's one of the first shows on Fox. But how did that come to be? How did you get on that?Bill Martin:That was purely a situation where Keenan burned through writers so fast that they were always hiringMichael Jamin:Really.Bill Martin:And we got our first agent and this says 92, and she said, there's openings that in living color. There's always opening today in living color because Kena was demanding and he was hard to work for, but it was a great job. And so we went in and pitched, and I think it was kind of a conveyor belt of new writers coming in there all the time. And we actually managed to stick for the final two years of the show and not get fired, which is a very small club for people who've worked for Keenan, I think.Michael Jamin:And so you put together a sketch packet. How did you even know what to do? I wouldn't know what to do to get hired in a sketch show.Bill Martin:It was write a couple of sketches for existing characters and write a couple of sketches that are new ideas or commercial parodies or something likeMichael Jamin:That. And did any of those ever make it to air?Bill Martin:No, but I think because of how anal my partner Mike Schiff is what we came in with were very thoroughly thought out ideas. I think that's what must have impressed Keenan, was that we didn't come in pulling stuff out of our ass. We were prepared.Michael Jamin:It was such an amazing show. And then you went to she tv, which is interesting. That show was produced. I don't know if it's any interesting for anyone other than me and you, but it was produced by Tamara Rawitz who gave me my first Yes, sheBill Martin:And Tamara was also the producer of In Living Color, where she wentMichael Jamin:There. Oh, I guess I did know that. And she, TV was another sketch show, but it didn't last very long.Bill Martin:Yep. No, I don't even know if they aired all the episodes. It was a summer replacement show when that was still a thing, and it was produced by George Slaughter of Laughin Fame and it felt Laughin vintage even in the mid nineties. It felt a little like a good old fashioned throwback variety show.Michael Jamin:Interesting. Because she went on to produce the Mike and Maddie show, and so she hired me on that and then she jumped ship. I thought she was going to be a big break in, but alright. And then Third Rock on the Sun. I should make it clear we've never even worked together, but you're one of these people. I always felt like one of these days we're going to work together and just never happened. ButBill Martin:Yes. And we also have the Alschuler Krinsky Bridge between us. That's right. Weirdly, they're some of my oldest friends and I've never worked with them either.Michael Jamin:Oh, I didn't know thatBill Martin:Either it's inevitable or we're like the opposite ends of a magnet that can never work together.Michael Jamin:Yeah, right, right.Bill Martin:We'll find out.Michael Jamin:But also, yeah, Abramson Thompson, we worked with him for many years and we great guy. But alright, so then Third Rock from the Sun, another great show. Tell me a little about your experience on that.Bill Martin:Well, those days there were sketch writers and there were sitcom writers and we were sketch guys and we'd written lots of spec sitcoms. We couldn't get a job. We kept working on sketch shows and we had, after she tv, we actually did a House of Buggin in New York, the John Zamo.Michael Jamin:Right. He's great.Bill Martin:That was a blast. It was fun to work in New York, although our producer had to take a brown bag full of cash to some guy in Brooklyn so that we were allowed to film there. So we're kind of in Sketch jail. But Bonnie and Terry Turner, who created she TV then created Third Rock in the Sun. And because they'd come from Saturday Night Live and they'd written movies, they'd kind of done a lot of different things. They didn't have those expectations that you hire, sketch people for sketches and sitcom people for sitcom. So we had a great experience with them on ctv. So we were some of the first people they thought of for Third Rock. So they helped us break out of the sketch jail.Michael Jamin:And did it feel like that? Why does it feel like a sketch jail? It seems fun to me. IBill Martin:Don't know. I think it's just that it took such a specific skillset to just crank out, joke, joke, joke, parody, parody, parody. I think it was just, it may not have been a bad thing. I think it was just because there weren't a lot of people who'd had a track record with it that they were desperate to find you. Yeah, I don't really know. It wasn't fair though.Michael Jamin:I'mBill Martin:Never going back to sketch jail.Michael Jamin:Right. So you don't want to do that ever again. You don't want to write sketches again.Bill Martin:Well, I guess there aren't really any sketch shows left. The sketch shows now I think you should leave is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life, but it doesn't need me.Michael Jamin:But you don't have, in other words, that craving, we've never done it. I was like, well, I wonder what that been like. ButBill Martin:Yeah, sometimes the idea for a fun parody, it's still hits you every so often and there's just no place for parity other than that. So yeah, I do find myself saying, oh, that's a good idea. I hope Saturday Night Live does thatMichael Jamin:BecauseBill Martin:That's kind of the last game in town,Michael Jamin:But it's a whole new skillset that you had to learn. I mean, what was that jump like to go into scripted narrative to television?Bill Martin:Actually, it was pretty easy just because that's what we set out to do when I met Mike in film school in New York, and we were just cheers fanatics. And so we had written seven or eight sitcom specs before we got that job at a leaving color. So it was all we wanted to do it just that Keller was a job we could get.Michael Jamin:Right.Bill Martin:Interesting.Michael Jamin:We worked with the Stein Kelner who ran Cheers a couple of years. Oh yeah. To me that was so exciting to be, I don't know, because I love Cheers. Cheers was everything. That's why I wanted to be a sit car writer. It was so exciting to be able work. By the way,Bill Martin:Our cheer spec, the plot of it was was a John Henry man versus Machine Cliff Klavin racing a fax machine. That's how long ago it was. SoMichael Jamin:One of the wordsBill Martin:That was a legit idea.Michael Jamin:So he would deliver a letter faster than a fax machine could.Bill Martin:He claimed he could beat a faxMichael Jamin:Machine. That's funny.Bill Martin:The fax machine still took 18 seconds, but it was faster than Cliff.Michael Jamin:That's pretty funny. I like that idea. Oh, well. So then tell me your career. Honestly, you've so many shows way more than we have, so, so then you just jump after Third Rock. How many seasons were you there? You were four Seasons?Bill Martin:Five.Michael Jamin:Five until the end.Bill Martin:Yeah, halfway through our fifth season we left to create Grounded for Life, but it was all at the Car Seat Warner Company, so we didn't really say goodbye. We just moved one building over.Michael Jamin:Now it's so interesting because what was creating that life? Because back then, back then you might leave a hit show to create your own show. I'm not sure you'dBill Martin:Do that to Yeah, no, I think And we didn't know better. And because it was all part of Cari Warner, the risks were low. If it had failed, we could've gone back to Third Rock. I assumeMaybe It felt like we had a net, at least we weren't jumping ship completely. But because at that point, Cy Werner had five or six shows on networks. They owned network comedy, and we thought, and we pitched the show and it sold that, oh, this is easy. You just have an idea. And then Ly Warner puts it on tv. It's great. We were batting a thousand and in very short order, we were batting a hundred and then batting 50. And we realized we had a very skewed idea about how easy the business was at that point.Michael Jamin:And how did you come up with that idea? Walk me through the whole process of,Bill Martin:Well, Mike Schiff, my partner is a bit of a jerk. He's a curmudgeon, he's a grumpy guy, and he was itching to do something different. He didn't want to just do a multicam that hit all the same notes we'd already been hitting for a while. And we went out for lunch one day with our friend Chris Kelly, who ended up writing on the show, and Chris told us a story about taking his daughter to the CAMA dome and having to wait outside the ladies room down those stairs. And it turned into a really horrible, awkward situation. And the story was just hilarious. And we came back from lunch and Mike said, why can't we make a show? That's as much fun as hearing someone tell a great story. And that's kind of the genesis of Third Rock, which was, it was a hybrid back before, the word hybrid was kind of thrown around, but it was a show where you started in the middle, something had happened and someone would say, what's going on here? How did this happen? And you'd go back and tell the story in single Cam. And so it's just a way to make stories more fun to tell, and much, much harder to produce. It was a nightmare because we'd shoot three days of single cam and then two days for the audience. So everybody you worked on, it was gratified by it, but it was hell.Michael Jamin:But did you think about that when you came up with it? Because that would've been on my mind, do I really want to produce this show?Bill Martin:At the time, we thought it was going to be a breeze.Michael Jamin:WeBill Martin:Just didn't know any better. We were young and we'd never run a single cam show before. And the problem also was directors. It was interesting. A lot of Multicam directors had no problem doing the single cam stuff, but then we had single cam directors who were absolutely gobsmacked by the Multicam, the demands, the Multicam.Michael Jamin:Yeah, it's veryBill Martin:Different. It almost killed some of them. DidMichael Jamin:You spend a lot of, how did you divide up time on set? Was it one of you guys on set at all times or what?Bill Martin:Yeah, we'd always thank God we were a partnership because someone would always be on the, we had 12 hour shooting days for the single cam, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And one of us would always be down there, and usually whatever writer had gotten their name on that episode. And then upstairs we were keeping the sausage factory.Michael Jamin:And while the other person's writing the scripts or rewriting whatever, let's say, let's say you're on the set and you come back, what's your involvement with those scripts? If you are not a hundred percent on board at that point, are you, how do you handle that?Bill Martin:Yeah, you're in a partnership that's kind of, if you don't have a lot of trust in the other person, I mean, it could be a disaster. I've heard stories about shows, I don't name them, where the creator would spend the whole day on the set and then come into the writer's room at nine o'clock at night and throw everything out, and you just can't do that. And we would have lots of disagreements, but we also, we still had table reads, so we still had a chance to try things out and fix them. At that point, a lot of single cams weren't even doing table reads. The production demands were so intense that you just had to kind of go with it. But we loved having table reads, nothing like hearing it once and getting that one day to take a whack at it. And we also had hiatus weeks, unlike a lot of single cans. So we do three, but then we'd have a week to decompress and reload, and that made it a lot more doable.Michael Jamin:And how many episodes were you doing in a season? Most of the timeBill Martin:It was crazy. We got a 13 order, but then they asked for six more and then we got a full order. But then Fox canceled us in the middle of the third season. But WB picked us up and added more episodes. So we kind of had this weird staggered thing where it could be as few as 18 as many as 21. And it was crazy.Michael Jamin:I remember back, I haven't done multi-camera in a while, but we were on these multi-camera shows. That's not really true. I did one kind of recently, but towards the end of that long season, if it was like you're up to 20 episodes, you're just exhausted, man, and you're like, oh, how am I going to do another one? But we never ran one. And I think the amount of stress on a showrunner for that, that must've been something else for you guys.Bill Martin:Yeah, it was a lot. But you know what I got to say? The stress of working on a show where the cast is difficult, even if the writing is easy, is much, much more stressful than a show where the cast is great, but the writing is hard. And that's the thing is that for me, I get stressed out, but if I go to stage and the people there are good and they appreciate what you're doing, the stress is always, you can always maintain. Right. It's when you get called to the stage and it's going to be a nightmare and someone's mad, then that's when the stress boils over.Michael Jamin:Right. Because then you've got to do a giant rewrite and there's no time for it. Yeah. Yeah.Bill Martin:We've been pretty lucky on that front. And this was Donor Logan, Kevin Corrigan and Megan Price. They were just great actors and pros and we're thrilled to be there. And if something was wrong, they trusted us. And if something wasn't working, we trusted them. So despite the fact that the workload was grim, it never destroyed us.Michael Jamin:Some people don't realize that. Sometimes you'll get an actor on a show who, who's not that happy to be there, even though you're paying them and they auditioned or whatever, got an offer, they're not happy to be there. So it's odd, but okay. And then Caveman, which is based, that was based on a giant hit commercial, right?Bill Martin:It was a hit commercial and it was a hit show. It was just one of those shows that just America embraced. They loved it. And I think it went five seasons.Michael Jamin:I got to check the numbers there.Bill Martin:I can see your face going, wait, does he?Michael Jamin:I got the wrong show. I'm turning Red.Bill Martin:Oh, yeah.Michael Jamin:But that must've been hard because you guys developed that as well, right?Bill Martin:We did not, actually, that was one where the original directors and the writer of the original commercials developed it, and the studio felt they needed some experienced hands to come in and help. So we were actually brought in during the pilot after it was already mostly cast and on the way to production. So it was kind of a runaway train at that point.Michael Jamin:See, I love hearing stories when other writers were being tortured.Bill Martin:Yes.Michael Jamin:That's what I'm getting at. Yes. So is that what Yeah,Bill Martin:It was torture. And the weird thing was it wasn't, first of all, it wasn't a bad idea, it just that because it was perceived as such a cynical idea, the knives were sharpened for it. So I don't think any of us realized how ready critics would be to hate something that was based on a commercial, because that said, the creative people behind it were all fun and interesting and good. We ended up being friends with all the guys. It wasn't a bad creative situation other than it was a fool's errand. We were being sent into the Lion Stand, and once it got into production, a single cam show with a certain, the visual stylists of the show, the guys who did the commercials really wanted to be sleek and clean and neat looking and modern, like the commercials. And that was a high bar to reach. But add to that, that every single cast member had to be in makeup for four hours before they could shoot. I mean, literally by the end of the second episode, their faces were chafed and red and they were in agony, and they were upset and met. And these were good professional actors. Like Nick Kroll, wonderful, but you can only torture a man's face so many days in a row before they go, oh my God, what's happening? So it was almost reproducible.Michael Jamin:But that's interesting. You said, I think you're exactly right. There's something, it was already labeled with a cynicism of like, oh, okay, it's based on a commercial and therefore it can't be any good. But did you know that when you signed up, could you even possibly have thought about that when you got on board?Bill Martin:Well, when we got on board, we just got an overall deal with A, B, C. So we were assignable to this, and we thought, this is insane. We love the commercials budget, anybody, but there's no way they're going to put this on. Okay. So we thought it was just like, we'll help out a pilot, meet some new people, and then we'll do something else. It was shocking to us that they put it on tv.Michael Jamin:Oh, how interesting.Bill Martin:Because it just seems so unlikely, but with anything you do, you know how it is. Once you're given your assignment, you've got to find a way to take pride in it. You can't blow it off. So we dug in and the pilot had some issues, and the first episode that we ran, we kind of got into shape. It wasn't quite there. And then suddenly the third episode, I said, okay, that's funny. We figured out, and in no small part, Nick Kroll was a secret weapon, but by the time we figured out on episode three how we could make a show that we could be somewhat proud of, after the first episode aired, we were already dead. We were summarily executed, but go to YouTube and watch some of the later episodes of Caveman, which are still illegally out there. And it's actually a pretty funny show, and it's got a great cast. I'm not sure Steve McPherson was in his right mind when he picked it up.Michael Jamin:It's so interesting. I mean, you're absolutely right. No matter what show you're working on, you're going to find something that you love about it. You'll take pride and you'll lean into that. But yeah, you're right, because we did an animated show and for some reason they decided to put a laugh track on the first episode. And I remember yelling, why wouldn't there be a laugh track on an animated who exactly is laughing? Are we going to see the other animated characters in the audience who's laughing and lost that fight? For sure. And we got raked over the coals justifiably. So once you had that stink on you,Bill Martin:Yeah, yeah.Michael Jamin:We fought it. You can't fight. You can't win every fight. What are you going to do?Bill Martin:I don't think you can win any fight, can you?Michael Jamin:I wouldn't know what that's like.We did a show, oh my God. We did a show that was very low budget, and we had a slow mall budget for food. And so I sent the PA to go to the Whole Foods and get me these yogurts that I like that has the fruit on the side. It was a hundred dollars, whatever, just get some yogurt. And we submitted it in, and then we got yelled at by the studio saying, why is this bill from Whole Foods? And I remember saying, well, whatever, it's a hundred dollars. Does it matter where we spend it? And they go, yeah.Bill Martin:Oh no,Michael Jamin:You're not. A Whole Foods kind of show.Bill Martin:This is a Ralph's show.Michael Jamin:This is the Vaughn's Show. Yeah, that was So, yeah, you don't even win that fight, but maybe you wouldn't morph. I don't know. You must be able to win some fights.Bill Martin:Well, it's also one of the things, I think because I'm not an aggressive person, I always start every show with, I'm so lucky to have this. How lucky I got a parking space and a computer. I get to make a TV show. And sometimes I don't realize until I'm doing something I hate, I'll go like, oh, shit, I should have this. Didn't have to be this way.Michael Jamin:SoBill Martin:I think as we've gotten older, we've gotten crunchier, and we'll be a little more blunt about things, but certainly early on it was just like, pinch me. I can't believe you guys are letting me drive the car here. It'sMichael Jamin:Great. Yeah. But that's a big jump because was the first show you ran, was it grounded for Life?Bill Martin:No, the first show we ran was actually House of Bugging because of some weird politics. The showrunners got fired and we got bumped upstairs out of nowhere, and we were in our twenties and didn't know what we were doing, but we were already in Queens and they needed someone to,Michael Jamin:You were in Queens?Bill Martin:Yeah, we were the only ones in QueensMichael Jamin:WhoBill Martin:Could possibly do this job. So when we came back to do Third Rock, we had artificially inflated titles because we'd run House of Buggin. But then during the second season of Third Rock, the Turners tapped us to take over for them. Oh,Michael Jamin:I didn't even know that. I'm sorry. I didn't know that. Was that scary for you running?Bill Martin:You know what? It wasn't because it was the happiest place on earth and curtained. I mean, I hate to be Mr. Aw Shucks show business so fun. But that cast made work such a joy that there was no way it go wrong. Had an amazing writing staff, and the actors were delightful. It felt weirdly easy to do. I mean, we were stressed because we knew that we were being handed a baby and the baby was successful and 20 million people watching the baby every week. So there was certainly some pressure on us, but at the same time, we knew we could do it. And we knew that everybody had our backs with a very nice familial situation.Michael Jamin:It really was. I mean, that show really was, it was a big show. It was one of the shows everyone talked about if you were trying to break into show business, you had a spec for that show. It was a big responsibility. It was an honor to get tapped.Bill Martin:Yeah.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Everyone loved that. Yep. Then, okay, what shows should we talk about more? I don't know. What shows do you want to talk? They're all great. I dunno. Tell me some experiences that you've had. I don't want to go one by one, there's too many.Bill Martin:Yeah. Well, so far the ones you've skipped are good ones to skip. You steer running into caveman, but that's fine.Michael Jamin:I did.Bill Martin:I guess really for me, shows are divided up into the shows we ran and the shows you worked on. And typically, if you're not running a show, there are creative frustrations that you feel because you wish things were different. That said one of the most fantastic experiences of our career was working on trial and error because Jeff Astro of the showrunner and he'd worked for us. So we kind of had that, you got to listen to us a little bit, Jeff, and we helped get John Liko to agree to do it. And at that point, we'd been on a few Multicam that weren't great, and this was a real interesting single cam, fake doc with John, and he was super serialized, like a true crime series. And that was just a blast. And I'm still very proud of that season. We did not work on the second season. They sent it to Canada and shaved off half the staff and it killed Jeff Astro.Michael Jamin:Really? When you say,Bill Martin:Well, was Christian Chen, it was still a great season, but it was not as easy. It was kind of Warner Brothers was trying to cut every corner they could on it. SoMichael Jamin:When you say killed them, they overworked him and cut the staff. Yeah, yeah. People don't realize that I think be brutal. And then of course, the Unicorn, which went two seasons, and that's a big deal. That's really, when I think about it now, it's actually quite a big deal that you got your own show on a network these days when they pick up two shows a year, maybe it's nothing.Bill Martin:No, that was really threading a needle there because we had pitched it all over the place, and it's based on a true story, based on a friend of ours who went through this awful situation where he lost his wife when his kids were young. And we finally sold it c v s on the last day of selling anything. It was like October and Julie Per Worth calls the last second and said, we want to do it. We went, oh, no fucking way. So I mean, it was something that was both a passion project and just endless sadness for us. And so we started doing it and it went back and forth single multi, single, multi. We're trying to find the right guy to play the guy. And we knew, we'd always said, this is a single cam and it's going to be serialized and it should probably be on a streamer because that was when streamers seemed like the promised land, but c b s one, even though their forte was malteses. But then we met Walton Goggins who only came in because one of our producers is Peyton Reed, who's an old college friend of ours, and the guy who inspired the show and he'd worked with Walton on Antman. And so Walton trusted him and he came in for a meeting and Walton is just the greatest guy.Michael Jamin:SoBill Martin:He saw this, he found he had a personal identification with the guy, and once he jumped in, he said, I'll do it. I mean, it's going to be single, obviously, but I'm in. And David Nevins and everybody at CCBs were so thrilled that Walton Goggins wanted to do a sitcom that's like suddenly we were fast tracked and it was all the way onto television.Michael Jamin:Wow. Did you pitch it cool with the title The Unicorn? Because I was like, that's a smart title. I would think that, yeah,Bill Martin:It's funny. It did. And Mike Schiff never liked it.Michael Jamin:Oh really?Bill Martin:By the way, Mike's usually right, and I'm wrong about stuff, but I do like to Lord it over him. I assume he's going to listen to this. He didn't care for it. But it's one of those things, once it leaked out, people said, oh my God, oh my God, that's perfect. And the fact was it had to happened to coincide with a time when unicorns were everywhere. Unicorn kitty pools. And it was the unicorn moment anyway. Yeah,Michael Jamin:Yeah. I remember hearing about it. It was like, ah, damn, I'm surprised you said it took so long to sell. Like damn it, that one sells right away. That's an idea that sells. SoBill Martin:It's interesting.Michael Jamin:Yeah,Bill Martin:We didn't make up the title. It's whatMichael Jamin:I know.Bill Martin:Guys like Grady are known as on Tinder. They check all these magical boxes for what a perfect guy should be.Michael Jamin:Yeah, right. That's such a great, and then after that, the neighborhood which you jumped in, it had already been running for, no, tell me if I'm wrong.Bill Martin:Yes, it had, here's my vindictive tale of revenge. It's not vindictive at all by the way, but we had a pilot with Cedric. We had run his show, the Soul Man on TV Land for a couple of years.Great guy. We had a great time there. And when that ended, he said, let's do another show together. So we pitched out a show that it was his idea and his manager, Eric's idea, to do a show where he's a fire chief. So we pitched it and c b s bought it. We wrote it, it was a single cam, was kind of gritty because we wanted to do something that was hard to produce as usual. And at the end of the day, they didn't want to pick it up. But we were producing with Eric Kaplan, I should me, Aaron Kaplan. And Aaron quickly plucked Cedric out of our pilot and put him in the neighborhood, which was his other pilot. So we were basically just for him, a Cedric delivery system.So we weren't bitter because we knew Jim Reynolds. He's a great guy. And we were happy for everybody except that shit. And there goes our pilot. But it's funny, when we were producing the Unicorn, we were in the neighborhood's offices. It just happened to be that we were having the same line producer, pat Kinlin, who had done Third Rock with us. And Jim was in the midst of the first season of the neighborhood. And it was hard because first seasons are hard. And he was like, oh my God, this is killing me. And I jokingly said, don't worry when you get fired season three, we'll come in and take over. And it seemed hilarious at the time. And what do you know? It happens. And to Jim's credit, he did think it was funny that my smart ass remark had come full circle.Michael Jamin:And what was it like stepping into the show that wasn't yours? I mean, you've, not that you've done it before, but stillBill Martin:It's hard. Yeah, it's hard. And we came in with a whole new people. The feeling was clean slate, let's reboot this. And we had heard from Pat Kinlin the producer, you're going to love it here. It's the happiest set since Third Rock. And I was like going, yeah, yeah, yeah, nice try. But it kind of was, the cast had jelled and the crew was cool, and it was a very happy place. I mean, there had been issues, but we pretty quickly felt at home there. It was nice. And that's why we would love to stay there as long as possible.Michael Jamin:Maybe you will. I mean, well, we'll see what happens to the strike, but maybe you will. I mean, it seems like now they're giving shows a longer, tell me if I'm wrong, networks are giving shows a longer chance because it's too risky almost to not.Bill Martin:Yeah. Yeah. And I think for c b s shows built around someone that people love, said it's hard to recreate that when you have someone who's that warm and magnetic at the center of a show. You're halfway there already and the show is steadily. I mean, obviously all audiences are declining and atomizing all over the place, but it feels like the numbers have defied gravity a little.Michael Jamin:Hey, it's Michael Jamin. If you like my videos and you want me to email them to you for free, join my watch list. Every Friday I send out my top three videos. These are for writers, actors, creative types. You can unsubscribe whenever you want. I'm not going to spam you and it's absolutely free. Just go to michaeljamin.com/watchlist.What's it like now? Because one of the biggest things, you've obviously staffed a million shows and you got to read specs from, you must stick through a pile of specs every season when you're doing this. What are you looking for in new writers?Bill Martin:Yeah, it's funny. For the last 10 years or so, you only read pilots because there aren't any spec shows to write anymore because there aren't any water cooler shows that everybody knows.So I mean, it used to be, and I kind of like it because someone could write a good per enthusiasm that sounded right and had the rhythms, but it might not mean they were capable of a lot of things. It just meant they had created a good version of this very specific thing. Pilots, the writer's whole personality comes out. And I think it's nice to you get a peek into how weird someone is, and we just want people who are different and weird, and you want that array of points of view to be very, you don't want eight Mike Schiffs lock, Lord, help us. And I think it's really just if someone catches you off guard with something you didn't expect to be funny. And people who just write characters, the one thing I hate more than anything, and if your spec starts with single people in an apartment talking about sex, I'm not going to read page two. It's like there's thousands of them, and it's very hard to get anything out of that.Michael Jamin:That's interesting. I've said the opposite. I've said to me, it's easier to read a speck of an existing show. I know the characters, I might know the characters, and it's easier for me to see do they get the voice. But if it's a pilot, it'sBill Martin:Easier. That's the key, Michael. It's too easy.Michael Jamin:But if it's a pilot,Bill Martin:Someone's,Michael Jamin:It's hard for me. Don't make me do more work. If I'm reading, that's the problem. If I'm reading an original pilot sometimes, okay, first I have to remember with the characters, okay, who's this character? What's their relationship? And then I'm like, okay, what's the tone here? It's hard for me to, are they trying to be big or is this just bad writing? You have to figure that out too. No, you're more of thatBill Martin:Mind. It's more work to read a pilot. It is, but I think when someone pops out of a pile, it's a bigger pop when they've created something entertaining whole cloth.Michael Jamin:Right. Well, that's true. That's true. AndBill Martin:Also for Multicam, s, jokes matter, but for single cams, you need a couple of people who write jokes. But also then it's a lot about story and character. And I think it's harder to get that from sitcom specs. It's easier to get that from something that's personal to somebody.Michael Jamin:Do you have a preference as to what you want a single or multi?Bill Martin:The artist in me wants to do single. The person who has to wake up and go to work and then get home and be happy, likes multi,Michael Jamin:But the Multicam, the hours are worse,Bill Martin:Is so great.Michael Jamin:Wait, multi. If you're doing a rewrite on a multi-camera after a network run through, you might be there at all midnight or whatever.Bill Martin:Never.Michael Jamin:Never. You always have good,Bill Martin:Well, no, by the way, yes, you're right. But on the neighborhood, I don't think we had dinner three or four times. There is, and that's not because we're so fantastic. It's because the show works. If a Multicam works, the hours are great. If a Multicam doesn't work, then you're right. If the run through is so bad that you're reworking the story. And we've been there too, and we had even Third Rock early on, we had some late nights. But in the ideal world, when a Multicam is working, it's the best job in the world, and Sedric knows what he wants. He's also approving the stories. He's approving the pitches early on. So we're not taking something to the table that he's not invested in. So I think, and if he were an ogre or had bad taste, it would be terrible. But the combination of him trusting us and us trusting him has made it a really sweet gig.Michael Jamin:So you'll pitch him, okay, I'm curious how it works. You'll start breaking a story. You won't get too far. Maybe you'll have some act breaks and then you'll bring it to Cedric. But you won't do more than that. You won't do more work than that. Right.Bill Martin:You never know when he'll say, and sometimes he does that thing too, where he'll go like, no, I don't know about that. How about that? Instead like, oh, okay, that fine. That's easy to do. He's great at having that natural story sense of what his character would do.Michael Jamin:Now, did you ever pitch him or anybody else? This is my fear. You pitch them, here's a great story idea for you. And they go, oh yeah, they love it. And then you go take it to the room and you go, I don't know how to break this.Bill Martin:Yes,Michael Jamin:I thought I know how to break it, but I don't how to break it.Bill Martin:That is what I would do if I didn't have a super anal partner. But Mike, and we know we still have those times, but once I have an idea, I'm good to go, Hey, look at this great idea. Let's go. But Mike's only like, I need to stare this for a day. So we say we give Cedric ideas early in the process, but the fact is we send them through the ship Aron 8,000 beforeMichael Jamin:TheBill Martin:Upgrade, they get out of the room.Michael Jamin:And so I'm just curious. So it's a couple of you may spend, let's say two or three days on a story idea and then bring it to him.Bill Martin:Yeah. I mean, some are easy, some are one day, some we will break five different times and still get it wrong. And the six time will do it. I mean, we work hard and Lord knows when we go back into production and we're going to have a three minute pre-production period, we're going to be fucked. But last season we had eight weeks. It was plenty of time to find our rhythm there,Michael Jamin:Right then. Okay. Then after that, you still got a picture to the studio and then the network, and they can still say no or to you saying, well, Cedric really likes this.Bill Martin:Yes, we do. And the thing is, it's not just Cedric, it's also Wendy Trilling who used to be the head of CCB ss. And she is cool, and she's smart, and she's not afraid to hurt our feelings, which I love about her Eted, her trust her. So in a weird way, by the time the network sees it, they know Wendy likes it. And if Wendy and Cedric like it, they tend to say, in fact, at a certain point, we said, can we stop doing outlines and go, we have a very detailed story document. Can we just go to script? And they'll say, okay. So that also helped us that they would trust that process.Michael Jamin:Yeah, that's actually, it's a big advantage that Wendy's producer in the show because yeah, she knows what the network wants. They trust her. And so it's almost like it almost removes an obstacle in the future. You get it out of the way. Now that's interesting.Bill Martin:And also, it's something that we want to do, and Wendy has signed off on it. It's like, we don't have to be dick's. We can say, I know, but let's see it on its feet because everybody over here likes it. It usually works for us.Michael Jamin:And are they bringing audiences back now? How does it work?Bill Martin:They started to, the problem we had last year was they did the whole season before we got there, block and shoot, because they had no choice. And it frankly made everybody a little relaxed because it was very easy lifestyle. And the fact is, when you have an audience that's basically crew and extras, it's easy to not go hard for the laughs on the other side when you have Tashina Arnold and Cedric, the Entertainer, and Max and Beth, these are people who swing for the fence every time. So I honestly don't think you can tell they weren't doing it for audience because they're selling it so hard in a great way. So last season we still did block blockage shoot, and we kept saying, the audience is going to be back any second. We're about to go back to audiences. But it was working. WhatMichael Jamin:Do you do? So now that you're on strike, what is it like for you now on strike when you don't have these creative muscles to flex? What, are you craving anything? Or are you doing anything on the side, a novel or something?Bill Martin:No, I mean, I think me and Mike are revisiting things that we had to put aside and doing brain work on them, because we don't want to waste this time completely. But early on, early on, it had been a long time since we had an off season where we knew we had a job to go back to. Third Rock was like that, and Grounded was like that. But it's been years since we had a non panicky off season. And this finally, we had a pickup. This was like, ah, I'm going to go on vacation, A real vacation. And that vacation turned into the strike, but I was like going, it's a strike, but still, we're going back. It's September. And it just gradually dawned on me like, oh, this is really hurting the show. So I've kind of been in denial that I needed to worry.I mean, all signs are that when the strike is over at whatever, we are going to go back to work. And people still want the show, and Cedric's still ready to go, but it takes some of the fun out of it, obviously. And I shouldn't be complaining because we're still in such an ideal position. The last strike, we had to walk off the set on cavemen and let other people edit the show and completely divorce ourselves from that. We've been killing ourselves on and getting force majeure out of a deal. I mean, it just destroyed our career completely. This is a much less terrifying strike, even though it's plenty terrifying.Michael Jamin:It's so interesting because howBill Martin:About you? I mean, are you able to function creatively? Are youMichael Jamin:Retaining yourBill Martin:Wife?Michael Jamin:No. Well, I have definitely both, but I have a book that I'm writing on the side, so that's my little passion project that keeps me entertained writing and performing it. But in terms of, it's interesting that you still panic about that next job. And for me, it feels like, wow, I guess I stopped panicking a long time ago. I don't know why, but you're so successful and you always get that next job and don't know.Bill Martin:That's how it looks. I'm looks,Michael Jamin:I'm looking at your I M D V page. It definitely looks that way,Bill Martin:Yes. But it's a lot of times where we were falling off the building and grabbed onto the ledge with our fingernails, and we took a lot of jobs that were under our quote just to keep working. We've had our feast and famine. Certainly I M D B looks chock full of stuff, butMichael Jamin:We've taken jobs who always, I mean, plenty of jobs under our quote. I mean, it's just like, while it's that unemployment, so you take the job, yeah.Bill Martin:After you take three jobs in a row under your quote, it's no longer a quote.Michael Jamin:Well, I remember on that first one, I was like, we have a quote. We have no anonymous quotes anymore, so why is it a quote? What's going on here? But yeah, it's so interesting that you still have that feeling looking at, for me, from where I stand, wow, the grass is really green where UI guys are. So it's interesting. Well,Bill Martin:I hope I'm relaxing now. I finally got my kids out of college, so this was my first year without tuition payments.Michael Jamin:Interesting.Bill Martin:In 25.Michael Jamin:What are they going to do now? Are they going to get in Hollywood in theBill Martin:Business? Nope. Nope. None of them are interested. I mean, one of them in particular certainly should be, he's hilarious. But the thought of putting himself out there creatively in a business that has no easy way in anymore, I think he just is very happy to be a barista, not put himself out there because it's nerve wracking. And I get it.Michael Jamin:How do you see most people, the new people that you're working with, the young kids, how are they breaking in then?Bill Martin:Yeah, I don't know. That's the scary thing about this tipping point we're at right now is when I hear stories about young writers who make a year out of four mini rooms on shows that they've even heard of. I mean, the fact is that the business has become so diffuse that those clear paths, pa, writer, assistant writer's room, job, those are so few and far between now. I can't figure it out. People aren't going through these main arteries. They're going through these weird tiny capillaries to weird things.Michael Jamin:Right?Bill Martin:Pretty good analogy.Michael Jamin:I love it. You should be a doctor. But don't ask, would they show up? I mean, you have a staff and you don't ask 'em where the script has somehow got on your desk to an agent or a manager, and you're like, okay, you're hired, basically.Bill Martin:But the thing is, on the neighborhood, it's quite a few standups,And it's a few people that we know and trust from years of working with them and a couple of young people who were writer assistants who are knocking on doors. But it's funny because we had so many people in place, it wasn't like we were out beating the bushes for new voices that were coming out of nowhere. But I'm sure that's true in a lot of places. It's just that when you're at a C B S studio show that's already running, it's kind of like that old fashioned machinery that's feeding you. These writers is already there.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Yeah. It's so interesting because I don't know, I'm not sure how people are doing it. We gave a talk at, I think at L M U, and there's a young woman, and she just made a hit podcast, and then that got her discovered. It was like a scripted podcast. I was like, oh, tell me about that. Interesting. So do you have advice then for people listening, words,Bill Martin:Encouragement? Last night, I was giving advice to this year's crop of interns from the U N C Chapel Hill, which is where I went to college. In fact, look, there it is. And I had to apologize because I said, look, here's the traditional way in. If you want to get in the writer's room, become a pa. And I also admit that that way of getting into the business may disappear. And if you have other creative outlet, if you can do a great podcast, if you put stuff up on YouTube or you have TikTok, there's a lot of ways to express your comic voice that aren't writing sitcom specs and waiting for your turn in the writer's room as a dinosaur. I'm not really the perfect person to ask,Michael Jamin:But I think you're right. It's about put the creative energy out there, stop begging for work, start making your own opportunities, and probably good things. Good things may come your way, I guess. Right?Bill Martin:Hopefully. And I also would like to think as the strike goes on, people will periodically say, why doesn't someone do what Charlie Chaplin did? Do United Artists start a creator, talent driven production? And I do feel like when I listen to a great podcast like Valley Heat, which we were talking about before we went on, you realize there are ways to create an entire world for a show for no money. And in my mind, valley Heat, everyone should listen to this thing.Michael Jamin:Yeah, listen to it. TheyBill Martin:Should just take that, put it on camera, it's ready to go. I mean, it's a show that is fully developed that no one owns a piece of. And I guess that would be what my hope is, that if we don't like working within the system with these jerks, if you're young and have that energy, make something. Yeah. And who knows? I mean,Michael Jamin:See, we agree on that. We didn't agree on spec versus original pilots, but we agree on this.Bill Martin:That turned into a pretty ugly fight.Michael Jamin:It was contentious.Bill Martin:But that's the kind of heat that I think gets these podcasts to catch on.Michael Jamin:I think so. But also as you're learning your craft, you're getting better at it. And I don't know. I see it happening. I see people making a name for themselves. I was on the picket line, I think it was at Disney, and I ran into this guy. He was on my podcast, and he recognized me, and he was a joke writer on Kimmo. I go, how did you get that job? He goes, well, I was just tweeting Day and Jokes. I like doing it. And after about a year or two, they found me and they hired me. Good for you. But he was putting the work out. He was doing the work and getting better, and that's how he got hired. SoBill Martin:GoodMichael Jamin:For him.Bill Martin:And it's been, I guess, shit, my dad says was the original tweet becomes a show, andMichael Jamin:We all rolled eyesBill Martin:That from the caveman syndrome of cynicism about how are you tuning it Twitter into a show? But if you're funny, people will find you.Michael Jamin:Yeah. But like I said, I remember that happening, really? Is this how it works now? But they were just at the forefront and yeah, that's how it works now.Bill Martin:Yeah. Yeah.Michael Jamin:Damn right. I'm always late to the trend. So Interesting. And I guess before I wrap up, what is it like for you working? People want to know, working with a writing partner, how does that dynamic work with you guys?Bill Martin:Well, there aren't a lot of writing partnerships that last this long. I mean, you guys and Al and Krinsky, there's a few. And I think for me, it's having that yin yang thing. I'm not a worrier, I'm not detail oriented. I don't tend to stress out, and Mike does, and I only really want to do half the job of running a show. Luckily, he can do the other half. So I mean, I think a lot of partnerships are based on people having the same sense of humor and just getting along, and that's great. But for me and Mike, we don't actually get along all that great, but we do agree on what's funny and we respect each other and it makes the job doable.Michael Jamin:Wait, you said you don't get along that great?Bill Martin:Well, we get along great, but I mean, one of us is a drunk pot smoking redneck from Florida who doesn't give a shit. And the other's an incredibly neurotic, buttoned up Jewish guy from the priest side. The only thing we have in common is Cheers and Albert Brooks.Michael Jamin:But you met in school, right? In film school,Bill Martin:Yes.Michael Jamin:Right.Bill Martin:Yeah. We just met because he was the only person in our writing class first year who I thought was funny. And so we just kind of found each other because we're the two guys writing comedy in that big screenwriting workshop.Michael Jamin:And you leapt into each other's arms. Yeah.Bill Martin:Yes.Michael Jamin:It's so interesting. But it is so funny when you said about it, you only want to do half the job of a showrunner. Yeah, it's a lot of work. It's a big job. That's something my partner and I say all the time, I don't really want to make this decision. Can you make it? It's a lot of work.Bill Martin:Yes.Michael Jamin:And a lot of times we'll punt it to even a hair and makeup. Well, what do you guys think? All right. You guys seem to got a good handle on what the wardrobe should be that you do it. Yeah. SoBill Martin:Interesting. I'm always very happy to let someone else do that.Michael Jamin:Yeah,Bill Martin:We do take turns firing people. That's the one awful, horrible thing. We haven't done it a lot. But the last guyMichael Jamin:Are talking about writers or other people.Bill Martin:Anything. Anybody. Yeah.Michael Jamin:Interesting. Because when we were on set on a single camera show, if one of us has to run onto the stage to give the actor a note or the director a note, it's always like, you do it. You do it. I don't want to, how many times am I going to go on set and tell them they're doing it wrong? Can't you tell them they're doing it wrong? I don't want to be that guy all the time. Yeah.Bill Martin:We had a great run for several years where whenever we would get a pickup, I'd be on stage and get to announce it, and every timeMichael Jamin:We Good news gotBill Martin:Our order cut, Mike would be on stage and it was hilarious. I was the hero with the, and it was killing him. It was happening over and over again, just by God smiling onMichael Jamin:Me. Oh, that's so funny. That's freaking great. We did an episode, I think it was Andrew shoot me, we're writing a script and I was adamant that this joke was going to work, and Seever it was like, I don't even get it right. And I'm like, no, this joke is great. You have no idea what you're talking about. And so we take the descrip, I guess it got to the table somehow, and at the table we hit this joke, nothing, and the room's just silent. And I just start busting out laughing. I was like, oh my God, I can't believe how wrong I was. And I'm laughing at her wrong. And then afterwards, everyone's looking at Seabert. They're like, assuming it's his joke because I'm laughing at him and now I'm laughing even more pushing him under the bus. But yeah, there's that. But yeah, there's always, I guess I feel like maybe you feel the same way. If he comes up with a line, great. That's one last line I got to come up with. You know what I'm saying? It's mine now. Anyway, so yeah,Bill Martin:For me, the great thing about writing teams is, well, you're a single writer. You turn on a draft. When a team turns in a draft, it's a third draft because you've already fought it and it just makes things better. I mean, everybody has their partners. It just may not be there, someone they write with, but when you take it to the table or you take it to the writer's room, everyone's going to get a whack at it anyway. But for me, I think it just makes that initial idea, everything has to kind of, you beat things back and forth and you find 'em out and you end up with better drafts.Michael Jamin:Yeah, I totally agree. I always see that with writing teams. Their scripts just tend to be a little tighter. Just somehow they're a little tighter. They've already fought it, fought over it. So yeah. That's interesting. Well, bill Martin, thank you so much for doing this. This is a real pleasure. Honestly, it is an honor to have you on this and talk about your experience as a showrunner and a creator of really great television and yeah, it really is an honor. Thank you.Bill Martin:This has been great for my self-esteem. I don't normally talk about myself a lot, but man, I come off great.Michael Jamin:You certainly do. I'll fix that in editing. I'll ask these questions then put a long dead pause before you answer. People are like, what's wrong with this guy? Why is he taking so long to answer? But thank you again so much. Anything you want to promote or plug other than your shows orBill Martin:Watch Season six of the Neighborhood when it comes on sometime in 2024? Yes.Michael Jamin:Hopefully that's sad. Yeah, that is sad. Well, thank you again so much. Alright, everyone, another great episode. I have to say of my podcast screenwriters, need to hear this. Keep following me and keep writing more. Good stuff coming. Thank you. Again,Phil Hudson:This has been an episode of Screenwriters. Need to Hear This with Michael Jamin and Phil Hudson. If you're interested in learning more about writing, make sure you register for Michael's monthly webinar @michaeljamin.com/webinar. If you found this podcast helpful, consider sharing it with a friend and leaving us a five-star review on iTunes. For free screenwriting tips, follow Michael Jamin on social media @MichaelJaminwriter. You can follow Phil Hudson on social media @PhilaHudson. This podcast was produced by Phil Hudson. It was edited by Dallas Crane Music, by Ken Joseph. Until next time, keep writing. I.
Megan Price is a Florida native turned Las Vegan. Megan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Culinary Management from the Art Institute of Jacksonville in 2013. Her culinary career has taken her through a myriad of cuisines and service styles with the brunt of her experience being in upscale dining and pastry chef roles, even owning her own cake business. In 2020, Megan and her husband took a leap of faith and moved to the desert, where she realized her heavy passion for cannabis education could be easily incorporated into her cooking methods. Price has now infused her culinary and hospitality expertise with her knowledge of cannabis and opened her own Vegas business, 'True Heart Chef Services'; elevated private dining with THC all in the name. She is also Culinary Director for Green Therapeutics whose brands include: GT Flowers, Provisions, and Tsunami. Megan will continue to impact the lives of those around her because you know the easiest way to a persons heart is through their stomach! https://www.instagram.com/trueheartchef/ Watch full episode at https://www.fadedtruth.com/
The ‘See Sport Differently' campaign is all about getting more blind and partially sighted people involved in sport and exercise. Hywel speaks to Megan Price, who after a difficult start with sport, found her place in Goalball. You can find more information at See Sport Differently I RNIB | RNIB Image shows a logo. Atop a white background 5 stripes run at an angle narrowing down towards the upper right corner, thy take the shape of a running track. Beneath: 'See Sport Differently' written in black.
This week Jim welcomes Megan Price to the show to discuss her work applying the theories of conflict analysis and resolution to the real-life practice of policing in the United States. Megan Price, Ph.D. is Founder and Director of the Center for Applied Insight Conflict Resolution (CAICR). She is an expert in the Insight approach to conflict analysis and resolution, which explains how conflict affects decision-making and how targeted curiosity can turn adversity into opportunity. Her research and practice focus on designing reliable, context-based solutions to conflict, from the interpersonal to the organizational to the social. Dr. Price specializes in Insight Policing: Conflict Resolution for Law Enforcement, which brings a conflict skill-set to challenging police-community interactions for effective problem-solving and trust-building. Dr. Price teaches Conflict Resolution at the Master's level at George Mason University in Virginia and Royal Roads University in British Columbia. Help us grow! Leave us a rating and review - it's the best way to bring new listeners to the show. Don't forget to subscribe! Follow The Political Life on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for weekly updates.
Title: So I Married an Axe Murderer [Wikipedia] [IMDb] Director: Thomas Schlamme Producers: Robert N. Fried, Cary Woods Writer: Robbie Fox Stars: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker Release date: July 30, 1993 PROMO: Online Warriors Podcast (@OnlineWarriors1) SPECIAL GUEST: Megan Price SHOWNOTES: Woman. Woe-man! WHOAAAA, man!! Featuring a woman (yes, an actual woman), our long-time friend and returning podcast guest Megan Price, Collateral Cinema is diving into the hallowed time known as the 90s to discuss the cult classic romantic black comedy film starring Mike Myers: So I Married an Axe Murderer. And with Myers' upcoming spin-off miniseries The Pentaverate releasing next month on Netflix, there's no better time to talk about this 1993 flick from our childhoods! If you enjoy this episode, stay tuned for our 4/20 Special on Evil Bong and next numbered episode on another early 90s movie, Sidekicks (starring Chuck Norris)! Collateral Cinema is on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and is on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, YouTube, iHeartRadio, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts! (Collateral Cinema is a Collateral Media Podcast. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and movie clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don't sue us; we're poor!)
We are down to the Final Four in both the men and women's NCAA Tournament. Minneapolis will be seeing red while a monster in blue is lurking in Twin Cities. South Carolina, Stanford, Louisville, and UConn for the crown as best. For the men, New Orleans is Blue Blood city. Coach K's final dance reaches NOLA with Duke, but Carolina Blue feeling the jazz as well under Hubert Davis. Rock Chalk Jayhawks flying over the Superdome and Jay Wright's Wildcats of Nova pouncing for some birds in Saints country. The Queen of Hoops, Megan Price joins The Playmaker recapping the Madness to the Final Four. Subscribe follow, like the podcast on your favorite streaming platforms as well as leave a rate & review. Follow The Playmakerz Blog on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) & our Website for all our other podcasts. Follow The Playmaker on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaymakerzblog/message
This week's guest on our Chat with Dr. Gregg Mays is the first ever Miss Florida Volunteer, Megan Price. These two have been friends for a few years. Listen in as Megan shares her faith journey and a little about her time at the Miss Florida Volunteer competition. Please plan to support Megan on her journey to become Miss Volunteer America. How can Agape Leaders serve you? Please find us at: Website: http://www.agapeleaders.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-mays/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agapeleaders.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agapeleaders10/ Find Megan at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/megan.price.1023 Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/missflvol/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/megan_elizabeth07?utm_medium=copy_link Instagram: https://instagram.com/missflvol?utm_medium=copy_link
The NBA continues to deal with the issues of players entering the Health and Safety protocols. Should the NBA step in and pause the season? We talk about this and also an update on the promise of Charlotte and the direction for San Antonio and Boston with Jennifer Matthews-Lewis and Megan Price of the NBA Carousel on our latest Lakers Fast Break podcast! Gear up with your favorite Lakers Fast Break shirts and gifts in our Pop Culture Cosmos TeePublic store at https://www.teepublic.com/user/pop-culture-cosmos For the best in daily fantasy sports betting, check out ThriveFantasy, the leader for Daily Fantasy Sports for the NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA, and E-Sports Players and Props! - Use promo code LFB when you sign up today and you will receive an instant deposit match up to $50 on your first deposit of $20 or more! - Download ThriveFantasy on the App Store or Play Store or by visiting their website www.thrivefantasy.com. Sign up and PropUp today! (Check your state for availability) Don't forget to Subscribe to our shows and leave us that 5-Star Review with your questions on Apple Podcasts or e-mail us at lakersfastbreak@yahoo.com! Presented by our friends at the Hoop Heads Podcast Network, ThriveFantasy, NBA Draft Junkies, lakerholics.com, lakersball.com, Basketball University, Pop Culture Cosmos, Inside Sports Fantasy Football, the novel Congratulations, You Suck (available for purchase HERE), and Retro City Games! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lakers-fast-break/support
I denne episoden av Utenriksmagasinet Mir tar vi for oss utdelingen av Raftoprisen, klimatoppmøtet COP26 i Glasgow og gnisningene på grensen mellom Hviterussland og Polen. I studio hører du Jakob Kirkholt og Victor Botnevik. Intervju av Raftoprisvinnerne Patrick Ball og Megan Price ble gjennomført av Victor Botnevik og Hannah Johansson.
Megan Price from the NBA Carousel, 806 Sports, The Sip-Off, and Snowman in the Morning joins us to talk about the San Antonio Spurs outlook for this season and her thoughts on the Lakers and Minnesota's surprise firing of GM Gersson Rosas. For the best in daily fantasy sports betting, check out ThriveFantasy, the leader for Daily Fantasy Sports for the NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA, and E-Sports Players and Props! - Use promo code LFB when you sign up today and you will receive an instant deposit match up to $50 on your first deposit of $20 or more! - Download ThriveFantasy on the App Store or Play Store or by visiting their website www.thrivefantasy.com. Sign up today! (Check your state for availability) Don't forget to Subscribe to our shows and leave us that 5-Star Review with your questions on Apple Podcasts or e-mail us at lakersfastbreak@yahoo.com! Presented by our friends at the Hoop Heads Podcast Network, ThriveFantasy, NBA Draft Junkies, lakerholics.com, lakersball.com, Basketball University, Pop Culture Cosmos, Inside Sports Fantasy Football, the novel Congratulations, You Suck (available for purchase HERE), and Retro City Games!
In this week's episode, Tracy and Mike interview Mary Beth Knapp, Board of Directors President, and Megan Price, Rescue Manager at the Humane Society of York County located in Fort Mill, South Carolina. This episode is part of our non-profit spotlight, where we explore how leaders suppor their teams, and allow our audience to share their ideas and insights via our social media at #askteames. Show Highlights: Introduction to Mary Beth, Meghan and “Avril Lavigne” with the Humane Society of York County. The group shares the mission and an overview of the team operations (1:03) Mary Beth and Meghan share how they support their teams and support both staff and volunteers in the pursuit of a common mission (3:49) The group discusses an innovative idea that they have to level up their brand with something as fun as cat yoga! (11:00) Tracy poses a good question about the extended team, and broader partner community for the Humane Society of York County (11:16) The group shares advice for business leaders who struggle to juggle many priorities (15:25) The group shares their thoughts on the process of delegation (21:15) Mary Beth and Megan share the awesome things coming up for their organization in the coming weeks and months: (24:21) Related Links: Do you want to learn more about the Humane Society of York County? Check them out here! https://humanesocietyofyorkcounty.org/ (https://humanesocietyofyorkcounty.org/) or on their https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=york%20county%20humane%20society (Facebook). Learn more about how TEAMES & CO builds effective and empowered teams that deliver results athttps://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design ( https://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design) Follow TEAMES & CO onhttp://www.facebook.com/teamesandco ( Facebook) https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesandco ( LinkedIn), Twitter (@teamesandco) and Instagram (https://instagram.com/teamesandco (@teamesandco)) Want to watch the podcasts on video visit TEAMES & CO onhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA2UUugYGYBvfCcEYOwjLwQ/videos ( YouTube). TEAMES Global is live!!! We will be launching new courses throughout the summer to support leaders and organizations as they empower their teams, connect with customers and reach their goals!!! Follow TEAMES Global on https://www.facebook.com/teamesglobal (Facebook) and https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesglobal (LinkedIn), and https://teamesglobal.teachable.com (sign up for a course today! ) Related Podcasts: To check out another great episode listed to our https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leah-craig-fieser/id1530838871?i=1000519181472 (interview with Leah Craig Fieser,) the Executive Director of Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, non-profit that also has a heart for serving animals,. Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of TEAMES & CO. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by TEAMES & CO. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice. Our podcast is edited by Nodderly (http://www.nodderly.com/ (www.nodderly.com)). A huge thank you to their team for the great video, audio and editing support!
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Mayah Charles in conversation with Megan Price, manager of Roumulus Netball Club. original broadcast date: 23th January 2021 www.switchradio.co.uk
Megan Price is a media buying executive for M&C Saatchi Performance. She is based in the U.K. and graduated from the University of Glasgow with an M.A. in Economics.Questions Megan Answered in this Episode:What was your greatest challenge coming into performance marketing?Have you found that when you think about different verticals your strategies change in regards to creatives, or do you think there are fundamental learnings that apply across the board?Did your team really dig into having a diversity of creatives because of 2020?Is there anything more you can do to create active engagement with creatives beyond playables and shopables?Timestamp:2:30 Megan’s background6:17 Entering into performance marketing7:57 The media buying team at M&C Saatchi Performance11:09 Distinctive and engaging creative12:38 Avoiding creative fatigue15:58 The future of creative strategy18:58 End-of-year wrap-ups for brandsQuotes:(5:37-5:55) “[Performance media] isn’t a one-size-fits-all case. And that’s where you have networks, these media owners having fantastic ways of targeting people in a specialist manner. So, that’s actually where it ties in really nicely with understanding that everyone is different and that if you target people in the way that’s best for them you are going to get the best results.”(13:58-14:09) “[Gen Z/Millennials] grew up with phones, with technology, with all the platforms that we’re using to advertise to them so they can spot an advert and they want something out of it, so something like a value exchange.”9Mentioned in this Episode:Megan Price’s LinkedinM&C Saatchi Performance
Meghan Price takes the helm for part 7 of Pirate Utopia and guides us on a vision-quest through her experience of psychedelics, the tarot, catching Covid-19 in India, alternative healing modalities, as well as lucid dreaming. Aaron taps in, and shares his experience of the Tarot as we try to piece together what it means to dream, & co-exist as our best selves through the pandemic... Don't Panic! Take a deep breath, and do not miss out on this epic human. WE LOVE YOU!!! INSTAGRAMZ: @cloudninewellnessco, @rythmicity_media, @j_brgr_ Aaron's tunes: https://soundcloud.com/shadowsweatsounds P.S. Jesse references an author and get the name wrong, its Neil Kramer not Brett ;) https://neilkramer.com/
General Summary: An interview with Brian Ott covers the interaction between Donald Trump's rhetoric and the format of the social media platform Twitter as discussed in his book, The Twitter Presidency. A few undergraduate students conduct the interview and provide commentary in response to Professor Ott's insight on Trump's use of rhetorical devices, the effect of twitter's format on its users and how Trump's style has grown on this platform. Detailed Summary: The podcast begins with Megan Price inquiring about Brian Ott's scholarly career and his book that was recently published (0:00-4:45) Then, they go on to talk about the actual tweets of Donald Trump, and Rachel goes onto ask Brian Ott about the popularity of Trump's tweets (4:45-8:01). Megan then asks about doubling the character allowance on Twitter and its effect on Trump's tweets, and Ott explains his thoughts on the subject (8:01-11:22). Then, Rachel, Megan, and Ott discuss the rhetorical strategy of Trump's tweets and how he influences people to think a certain way. Ott states that impulsivity is central to our national ethos, and questions why (11:22-15:44). He goes on to speak to the use of communication technology, and the filtering of our political discourse through these technologies (printing press, television, twitter) (15:44-18:47). Megan asks about the differences between Trump's speech and his tweets throughout the presidential campaign, and Ott talks about how simple (4th grade level) Trump's speech is and how well that translates to tweets. (18:47-21:48). Rachel then asks about how Twitter plays a role in the upcoming election, and Ott explains the difference between Trump voters and Trump followers and how they view his tweets in regards to the upcoming election. (21:48-23:47). The last segment of the podcast is a discussion about if/how Trump's tweets have changed between his candidacy and presidency, and Ott discusses how Trump himself changes the presidential norms in our country. (23:47-26:10). Scholarly Book Informing this Production: Ott, Brian and Greg Dickenson. “ The Twitter Presidency: Donald J Trump and the Politics of White Rage. Routledge, 2019. Credits: This podcast was produced by Stefi Hsia, Evelyn Voelter, Megan Price, Rachel Chan, Srivalli Karri, Phoebe Loya, with resources and assistance provided by Mark Longaker. It features the voices of Brian Ott, Megan Price, and Rachel Chan. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround " was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and incorporated under Creative Commons 1.0 license.
Almost every day we seem to get new data about the COVID crisis. Whether it’s infection rates, death rates, testing rates, false-negative rates, there’s a lot of information to cull through. Making sense of COVID data is the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with Megan Price and Maria Gargiulo. Megan Price is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Price designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data for projects in a variety of locations including Guatemala, Colombia, and Syria. Her work in Guatemala includes serving as the lead statistician on a project in which she analyzed documents from the National Police Archive; she has also contributed analyses submitted as evidence in two court cases in Guatemala. Her work in Syria includes serving as the lead statistician and author on three reports, commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR), on documented deaths in that country. @StatMegan Maria Gargiulo is a statistician at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She has conducted field research on intimate partner violence in Nicaragua and was a Civic Digital Fellow at the United States Census Bureau. She holds a B.S. in statistics and data science and Spanish literature from Yale University. She is also an avid tea drinker. You can find her on Twitter @thegargiulian. Timestamps 2:55 What’s the reaction been? 11:10 How important is the information in supporting these decisions. 14:30 What stories are we missing? 18:14 Schools and Covid 23:30 How to Make Sense of all of the COVID data
On this episode I speak to newly promoted Huddersfield Giants Women's players Bethan Oates (C), Megan Price and jamie-Leigh Scott https://hgct.co.uk/
Often it can get a little overwhelming buying or selling property. It’s important to have some professionals on hand to ensure you know what you are doing in a timely and cost effective manner. It is a huge amount of money that you are dealing with so be sure to get a good solicitor involved from the start. Today I talk to a solicitor about things that people should consider when buying or selling property. Megan Price joins me.
Title: The Princess Bride [Wikipedia] [IMDb] Director: Rob Reiner Producers: Andrew Scheinman, Rob Reiner Writer: William Goldman (book, screenplay) Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Robin Wright, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal Release date: September 25, 1987 PODCAST SHOUTOUT: The Cuntry Club PROMO: Podcoin – The Podcast Player That Pays (www.podcoin.com) SHOWNOTES: Thank you Collateral Cinephiles for an absolutely fun and successful second season! We're happy to celebrate it with our finale episode on a cult classic very near and dear to our hearts: The Princess Bride! Featuring for the first time on the show our friend and fellow movie fan Megan Price, we analyze the massive impact of this culturally and memetically significant film, itself a member of both the Criterion Collection and National Film Registry. Adapted from the 1973 novel of the same name, The Princess Bride also leaves much for us to discuss in its unforgettable cast of characters; many, many memorable quotes; well-done use of a frame narrative; and fairy tale plot style. We felt this movie was the perfect send-off for an incredible season, and we hope you'll share our excitement for both the film and our podcast! Look forward to our interim bonus episodes (to be announced) and Collateral Cinema Season Three—starting with the divisive Suicide Squad this October! Collateral Cinema is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, Podcoin, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive full-length commentaries on our favorite movies soon! (Collateral Cinema is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat by Roger Plexico. All music and movie clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)
Megan Price is the executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), and designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data for projects in a variety of locations including Guatemala, Colombia, and Syria. She has contributed analyses submitted as evidence in two court cases in Guatemala and has served as the lead statistician and author on three UN reports documenting deaths in Syria
Megan Price is the executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), and designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data for projects in a variety of locations including Guatemala, Colombia, and Syria. She has contributed analyses submitted as evidence in two court cases in Guatemala and has served as the lead statistician and author on three UN reports documenting deaths in Syria. Megan is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, on the Board of Directors for Tor, and a Research Fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science. She is the Human Rights Editor for the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and on the editorial board of Significance Magazine. Before she was executive director at HRDAG, Megan was the director of research there.
Just in time for the holidays: the intersection of courtesy, conflict and curiosity! Rebecca Czarniecki of Tea With Mrs. B and Megan Price of George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution on the art of good discourse in any company, all in 5 fast minutes. Theme music by Sean Balick; "Lick Stick" by The Nursery from Blue Dot Sessions.
Data scientists are involved in a wide array of domains, everything from healthcare to cybersecurity to cosmology. Megan Price and her colleagues at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), however, are using data science to help bring human rights abusers to justice. The nonpartisan group played a key role in the case of Edgar Fernando García, a 26-year-old engineering student and labor activist who disappeared during Guatemala’s brutal civil war. Price, the executive director of HRDAG, says the investigation took years, but their work led to the conviction of two officers who kidnapped Garcia and the former police chief who bore command responsibility for the crime. “It was one of the most satisfying projects that I’ve worked on,” she says. Price discussed the case in more detail as well as other cases she’s worked on over the years and the role data science played in an interview recorded for the Women in Data Science podcast recorded at Stanford University. For a recent project in Syria, Price’s group used statistical modeling and found information previously unobserved by local groups tracking the damage caused by the war. Similarly, in Mexico, she expects HRDAG to gain a better understanding of in-country violence by building a machine learning model to predict counties with a higher probability of undiscovered graves. Price hopes that in the future human rights and advocacy organizations will have their own in-house data scientists to further combat social injustices around the world, and she believes that data science will continue to play an important role in the field. She advises young people entering the field of data science and social change to learn a programming language, pick an editor and find mentors and cheerleaders to help them along the way.
In this DataTalk, we chat with Dr. Megan Price, Executive Director of Human Rights Data Analysis Group, about ways to use data to promote social justice and human rights around the world. Megan earned her PhD in Biostatistics and a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also holds a master of science degree and bachelor of science degree in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University.
Viewing Paul Feig's overly-praised 2011 comedy, "Bridesmaids," is like watching a series of bad deleted scenes from a better movie. The film is a mediocre and forgettable “Saturday Night Live” sketch that keeps dragging on for more than two hours of your life that you will never get back. Kristen Wiig plays Annie Walker, an immature, bitter and self-destructive former bakery shop owner who cannot stand to see anyone around her experiencing happiness. Despite the fact that she can barely pay the rent on her crummy apartment that she shares with two weirdo British roommates, Annie commits to being the maid of honor in a wedding that has a budget of at least a million dollars. Everything she ends up touching falls apart and cheeseball antics ensue. Also, there's some lame love story about Annie and a dopey Irish police officer. Maya Rudolph plays Lillian Donovan, an anus-bleachin’ diarrhea in the middle of the street havin’ Wilson Phillips lovin’ bridezilla who can’t seem to decide which one of her sociopathic friends is her true bestie. She plays the BFF candidates against one another in a series of elaborate wedding-related events until one of them breaks down from sheer exhaustion at the amount of drama that she can bring to bear. Rose Byrne plays Helen Harris III, a snooty and possessive mean girl maniac who’s hell-bent on edging out her competition for the title of Lillian’s best friend. Throughout the movie, Helen sets up one china shop after another for her adversary, Annie, to bull through while trying to isolate herself as much as possible from the collateral damage. Melissa McCarthy plays Megan Price, a well-meaning, lovable buffoon who awkwardly blunders her way through one contrived scenario after the next, almost exactly like Chris Farley. Her performance produces a couple of the rare funny moments this movie has to offer. Oh, and Rebel Wilson plays the most annoying character ever conceived of in the history of mankind: herself. Join us as we discuss Jim’s binders full of funny women and how the scenes in this film are as long, and as painful, as the gestation of an elephant. Tell us what you think by chatting with us (@filmsnuff) on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, or by shooting us an email over at mailbag@filmsnuff.com. This episode is sponsored by Personanongrata.tv. Visit our website at https://www.filmsnuff.com.
Curiosity and conflict resolution have some fascinating - and maybe surprising - commonalities. Dr. Megan Price of George Mason University's Insight Conflict Resolution Program joins me to talk about learning to bring questions to conflicts of all sorts. Join us next time when Michael Swisher and Kate McCauley take on curiosity and adolescence.
Kevin Sampson turns the focus around and interviews me - host, Lynn Borton - about the wild and wonderful path that led me to "Choose to be Curious" and where it might take all of us next. Be sure to join us next time when Megan Price, director of the Insight Conflict Resolution Program joins us to talk about curiosity's role in resolving conflicts.
By day Jesse Robinson coordinates a radio station, by night he takes to the stage. In this episode he reflects on the role of curiosity in performing, appreciating and building skills in improv theater. We talk about "yes/and", what businesses are learning about the power of improvisation and why having others' backs is so important. Be sure to join us next time when Megan Price, Director of George Mason University's Insight Conflict Resolution Program, joins us to talk about the importance of curiosity in resolving conflict. A timely conversation, if ever there were one.
Megan Price provides an update on the missing capybaras from High Park Zoo.
The problem with sorting out failures and successes is that failures are often muted, destroyed, or somehow removed from view while successes are left behind, weighting your decisions and perceptions, tilting your view of the world. That means to be successful you must learn how to seek out what is missing. You must learn what not to do. Unfortunately, survivorship bias stands between you and the epiphanies you seek. To learn how to combat this pernicious bias, we explore the story of Abraham Wald and the Department of War Math founded during World War II, and then we interview Wald's modern-day counterpart, Megan Price, statistician and director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group who explains how she uses math and statistics to save lives and improve conditions in areas of the world suffering from the effects of war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.