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Everything you do for the Lord is useful. When you serve the Lord, no job or act of love is too little to matter. -------- Thank you for listening! Your support of Joni and Friends helps make this show possible. Joni and Friends envisions a world where every person with a disability finds hope, dignity, and their place in the body of Christ. Become part of the global movement today at www.joniandfriends.org. Find more encouragement on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.
According to Scripture, no task in God's house is ever too commonplace. -------- Thank you for listening! Your support of Joni and Friends helps make this show possible. Joni and Friends envisions a world where every person with a disability finds hope, dignity, and their place in the body of Christ. Become part of the global movement today at www.joniandfriends.org Find more encouragement on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.
In today's episode, Peter and Robyne explore ways to give meaning to seemingly “menial” tasks to increase engagement, enjoyment, and overall impact. Plus, how to change our perspective on challenging moments and past “failures.”Today's surprise questions:How do we build community as grown-ups?For more: hereintime.caFollow Peter and Robyne on social media:Peter Katz: Facebook: @peterkatzmusic | Instagram: @peterkatzmusic | LinkedIn: Peter KatzDr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe: Twitter: @dr_robynehd | Instagram: @dr_robynehd | LinkedIn: drrobynehd2024 © All Rights Reserved
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Makgeolli Moments 마모 Moment 118 Privilege of Menial (w/ Theresa, Jenna & Minwoo) 08112023 Oh, the privileges of peasantry Follow your guest host: instagram.com/lulamour_beauty instagram.com/jenreally.speaking instagram.com/nonalcoholickmw Art by: instagram.com/mwdoodlydoos Follow us: anchor.fm/makgeollimoments instagram.com/makgeollimoments facebook.com/mamomakgeollimoments --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makgeollimoments/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makgeollimoments/support
The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur presented contemporary Psakim concerning The Issur of Limud HaTorah During Shiva-Making Menial Use of a Teen-Aged Kohen-Giving a Name to a Sick Child before the BrisAvodas Kochavim laced with history, precedent and anecdote “T-Z00M” Zach Easy to Swallow Relevant Halacha The lecture is specifically dedicated to the loving memory of ביילא בת יואל הלוי נפּטרה כ ו אב תש'ן תנצבצ'ה בִּ בְכִי יָבֹאוּ וּבְתַחֲנוּנִים אוֹבִילֵם אוֹלִיכֵם אֶל נַחֲלֵי מַיִם בְּדֶרֶךְ יָשָׁר לֹא יִכָּשְׁלוּ בָּהּ כִּי הָיִיתִי לְיִשְׂרָאֵל לְאָב וְאֶפְרַיִם בְּכֹרִי הוּ א : ירמיה ט -לא- Bella Kivelevitz A'h on her thirty third Yartzheit This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate
In 1975, “Pampered Menial” was released to 5-star critical ratings. It was not a commercial success. However, in the years since, it has become a gem, possibly one of the greatest albums of the 70's! David Surkamp's surreal 4-octave voice has been compared to Robert Plant. Matched with Siegfried Carver's violin and Steve Scorfina's guitar, it creates a stunning work of art – intricate and majestic with guts and delicacy in equal measure. With this episode, we want to open more ears to an amazing piece of symphonic rock/metal. Our “Album you must hear before you Die” is 1974's “Crime of the Century” by Supertramp. Produced by Ken Scott of Bowie fame, this album is where their sound came together as a kind of Pink Floyd-lite. Mick and Jeff saw them live around this time where their light show was similar in many ways to the light/movie show Floyd toured in the mid-late ‘80's. Mick's comments on this album are quite contentious. Jeff wants to awaken listeners to the sport of extreme kayaking, with a proposal for a 970m drop over Angel Falls in Venezuela. Mick is not convinced. While they're about it, Mick and Jeff pay tribute to their teen broadcast heroes - Roy & HG who still address callers to their program “Bludging on the Blindside” with “Happy Rugby League” Enjoy! ____________________________________________________________ References: Roy & HG, Bludging on the Blindside, tandem kayaking, 1001 Albums You Must Hear before You Die, Robert Dimery, Crime of the Century, Supertramp, Bloody Well Right, Crime of the Century, Rick Davies, Roger Hogson, Dreamer, Pavlov's Dog, David Surkamp, Richard Nadler, Siegfried Carver, Steve Scorfina, Song Dance, Julia, Late November, Once and Future King, At The Sound of the Bell, She Came Shining, Yes, Bill Bruford, Roxy Music, Andy Mackay Pampered MenialEpisode PlaylistSkyaking
Nobody cared about this game when it first launched. And then, two years later, a pandemic happened and it became a phenomenon. It mightn't be the biggest video game in the entire world anymore, but it's still pulling in pretty good player numbers in fairness. We are going back five years (but also kind of three years), as we discuss the social deduction game that spawned many others, Among Us.On this episode of Stealth Boom Boom, we talk about the humble beginnings of Innersloth on Newgrounds, how they almost canned one of the biggest games of the last decade, and its rise via streamers and content creators. We also touch on the burnout the team felt bringing the game to consoles, as well as the benefit the studio has being independent.In our review, you'll hear us chat about the wonderful tension that playing against human players can create (and GTA: Liberty City Stories, obvs), trying to convince people of your innocence in the discussion phase, the terrible quick chat radial wheel, menial tasks (and Zombi U, obvs), superfluous roles, the fleeting enjoyment of Hide n' Seek, the Flash visuals, the lack of music, and trying to play catch-up with an established online multiplayer game.Colm tests the gaming knowledge of Adam and Josh in another edition of Who Am I? And then the lads give their final verdict on whether Among Us is a Pass, a Play, or an Espionage Explosion.For those that would like to play along at home, we'll be reviewing Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines on the next episode of Stealth Boom Boom.IMPORTANT LINKS TO THINGS
Menial service turns out not to be menial at all. Acts 6: 1 - 7, Mark 15: 43 - 16: 8
Menial service turns out not to be menial at all. Acts 6: 1 - 7, Mark 15: 43 - 16: 8
Menial service turns out not to be menial at all. Acts 6: 1 - 7, Mark 15: 43 - 16: 8
Menial service turns out not to be menial at all. Acts 6: 1 - 7, Mark 15: 43 - 16: 8
Menial service turns out not to be menial at all. Acts 6: 1 - 7, Mark 15: 43 - 16: 8
Menial service turns out not to be menial at all. Acts 6: 1 - 7, Mark 15: 43 - 16: 8
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(5/2/23) The FOMC meets today with their interest rate announcement tomorrow afternoon; most important will be the language in the Fed's statement. With sticky, stubborn inflation still rampant, no rate cut is in sight, but the Fed could decide to pause after a final 25bp rate hike tomorrow. Joe Biden's Good Credit Mortgage Penalty program begins; the unintended consequences; why housing is really unaffordable; the ObamaCare case study; increased government regulation never has good outcomes. Choosing careers Artificial Intelligence cannot replace: Menial labor, grounds maintenance, skilled trades; at risk are general office admins, architects, lawyers, and investment advisors; the downside of Ai. Jenny Craig's Bankruptcy; Subway Sandwiches sinks; Jobless Claims preview; mild upticks, but no spikes in unemployment. Investors must take economic data at face value because that's what the market is doing. The goal is to win more than you lose, looking at markets from a risk-based perspective instead of a fear-based view. SEG-1: Fed Meeting Preview: Higher Rates Likely, with a Pause SEG-2: Why Housing is Really Unaffordable SEG-3: How to Choose Careers Artificial Intelligence Cannot Replace SEG-4: Risk-based vs Fear-based Investing Hosted by RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer -------- Watch today's show on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbPXNNGAbKo&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=11s -------- The latest installment of our new feature, Before the Bell | "Markets Trading at February's Highs" is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uLfsVOUnc&list=PLwNgo56zE4RAbkqxgdj-8GOvjZTp9_Zlz&index=1 -------- Here are articles mentioned in today's show: "Conviction (Or How To Lose A Lot Of Money In Investing)" https://realinvestmentadvice.com/conviction-or-how-to-lose-a-lot-of-money-in-investing/ ------- Our previous show is here: "Who's Really Holding the Bag for First Republic Bank?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehya-ZesW_8&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=5s -------- Register for our next Lunch & Learn: "Transitioning to Medicare" https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516747839784/WN_yEQ0iBgwQ2WdIexCLAdpPQ ------- Get more info & commentary: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/newsletter/ -------- SUBSCRIBE to The Real Investment Show here: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealInvestmentShow -------- Visit our Site: www.realinvestmentadvice.com Contact Us: 1-855-RIA-PLAN -------- Subscribe to SimpleVisor: https://www.simplevisor.com/register-new -------- Connect with us on social: https://twitter.com/RealInvAdvice https://twitter.com/LanceRoberts https://www.facebook.com/RealInvestmentAdvice/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/realinvestmentadvice/ #InvestingAdvice #FederalReserve #InterestRates #ArtificialIntelligence #JoblessClaims #MortgageEquity #Markets #Money #Investing
(5/2/23) The FOMC meets today with their interest rate announcement tomorrow afternoon; most important will be the language in the Fed's statement. With sticky, stubborn inflation still rampant, no rate cut is in sight, but the Fed could decide to pause after a final 25bp rate hike tomorrow. Joe Biden's Good Credit Mortgage Penalty program begins; the unintended consequences; why housing is really unaffordable; the ObamaCare case study; increased government regulation never has good outcomes. Choosing careers Artificial Intelligence cannot replace: Menial labor, grounds maintenance, skilled trades; at risk are general office admins, architects, lawyers, and investment advisors; the downside of Ai. Jenny Craig's Bankruptcy; Subway Sandwiches sinks; Jobless Claims preview; mild upticks, but no spikes in unemployment. Investors must take economic data at face value because that's what the market is doing. The goal is to win more than you lose, looking at markets from a risk-based perspective instead of a fear-based view. SEG-1: Fed Meeting Preview: Higher Rates Likely, with a Pause SEG-2: Why Housing is Really Unaffordable SEG-3: How to Choose Careers Artificial Intelligence Cannot Replace SEG-4: Risk-based vs Fear-based Investing Hosted by RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer -------- Watch today's show on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbPXNNGAbKo&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=11s -------- The latest installment of our new feature, Before the Bell | "Markets Trading at February's Highs" is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uLfsVOUnc&list=PLwNgo56zE4RAbkqxgdj-8GOvjZTp9_Zlz&index=1 -------- Here are articles mentioned in today's show: "Conviction (Or How To Lose A Lot Of Money In Investing)" https://realinvestmentadvice.com/conviction-or-how-to-lose-a-lot-of-money-in-investing/ ------- Our previous show is here: "Who's Really Holding the Bag for First Republic Bank?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehya-ZesW_8&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=5s -------- Register for our next Lunch & Learn: "Transitioning to Medicare" https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516747839784/WN_yEQ0iBgwQ2WdIexCLAdpPQ ------- Get more info & commentary: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/newsletter/ -------- SUBSCRIBE to The Real Investment Show here: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealInvestmentShow -------- Visit our Site: www.realinvestmentadvice.com Contact Us: 1-855-RIA-PLAN -------- Subscribe to SimpleVisor: https://www.simplevisor.com/register-new -------- Connect with us on social: https://twitter.com/RealInvAdvice https://twitter.com/LanceRoberts https://www.facebook.com/RealInvestmentAdvice/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/realinvestmentadvice/ #InvestingAdvice #FederalReserve #InterestRates #ArtificialIntelligence #JoblessClaims #MortgageEquity #Markets #Money #Investing
AI is coming for your job (or parts of it). If you don't want to be replaced by robots, you need to figure out how to couple your skillset (or job) with three key C's: Cash, Creativity, and Collaboration. We're about to undergo a "skills-based survival of the fittest." Menial, generic labor is quickly being swept up by AI, leaving humans vulnerable to being ousted in certain corners of the market. So, what's the answer? How can you protect yourself? The key is to upskill yourself quickly and then to position yourself in front of AI. Figure out how to make the market dependant on you (not the other way around). Otherwise, you're on the verge being made obsolete. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Daphne Koller (founder ofXero) shares her story of running the now international software company. In this episode, she talks about her struggles early on, including the time she nearly lost everything because she made a critical mistake with her company's finances. Through persistence and hard work, she was able to turn things around and now her company is thriving.
Although Australia is currently experiencing a cost of living crisis, new research has revealed a growing reliance on the gig economy with some extreme examples of task-based gig workers being paid to remove moths or iron 20 kind's of football shirts while parents relax. Associate Professor David Bissell from the University of Melbourne, told Simon Beaumont on Perth Live that platforms like Airtasker have become increasingly popular over the past two years. "People are particularly valuing their time after Covid, people they are burnt out and exhausted and might not want to paint that kids room they would've done a few years ago," he told Simon. "And of course with regards to cost of living maybe people are less willing to reach out to tradies and are looking for cheaper ways to do things." Professor Bissell highlighted that more will need to be done in order to protect gig workers as the sector grows in popularity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Rhea Tregebov is the author of fiction, poetry and children's picture books. Her second novel, Rue des Rosiers, released in May 2019, was short-listed for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and won the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, The Knife Sharpener's Bell (2009), a Globe and Mail Jim Bartley Top 5 book, won the J.I. Segal Award and was shortlisted for the Kobzar Award. Tregebov is also the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently All Souls' (Véhicule Press 2012). Her poems have earned the Pat Lowther Award, Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award. She has published five popular children's picture books, among them the Sasha series, illustrated by Hélène Desputeaux, creator of the Caillou television series. Tregebov has edited numerous anthologies, including Arguing with the Storm, an anthology of stories by women writers which she co-translated from the Yiddish. She is currently working on an eighth collection of poetry. “Menial” was in published Fiddlehead. No. 284 (Summer 2020). You can purchase her books, here. You can follow Rhea on Twitter, here. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried send me a message on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet? If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message
Episode 2 – DiGIANT A research group called DiGIANT. Menial recruitment labor. Experimental helmets called IRUS-STIM. Post-SCAARS rashes. Scales. Valdemour Casino. It's been too long, right? https://thegreattitisabird.com/
Host Dave Anderson recently sat down with Anders Sörman-Nilsson, a Swedish-Australian Global Futurist, and made a striking observation about the very table where they were having their chat—there was no spittoon. This may not seem surprising in 2022, but prior to the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, most restaurants and bars would have featured a spittoon next to the bar. “So things do change. I do think we're going to see that same change to the physical infrastructure, but also who's going to be living in cities, who's going to be investing in the central business district, et cetera.”Anders—who states that futurists are a bit like “reverse historians”—uses his love of history and deep knowledge of past and present technology to predict what the future and a more intelligent tomorrow might look like. Don't Throw the Analog Baby Out with the Digital BathwaterA profound maxim lies at the heart of Anders' philosophy: One need not necessarily throw out the analog baby—the physical baby—along with the digital bathwater. He believes that digital transformation can combine the best of both worlds and that the pandemic compressed 10 years worth of digital transformation into two—but that everything in the physical world needn't go the way of the spittoon. Anders states that digital transformation, “doesn't mean that we're going to (fully) live our lives in the metaverse. It doesn't mean that we're going to disconnect from the physical world. (It) just means (that) now as the world is starting to open up that we're going to crave the best of the face-to-face or the best of the interface to interface.”Anders cites examples of his positive personal experiences of delivering in-person presentations compared with Zoom sync ups. “The physical world actually allows some of the perfect imperfections to come through a little bit better.” He also explains what it was like to take an online course through a traditional university, the University of Cambridge: “I think some of the learning experiences lift some things to be desired, but it just showed you (that) the way we consume now and keep reeducating ourselves as needed is evolving.”This experience is directly related to a core message he delivers when consulting various companies: “Content is really just chemistry wrapped in narrative—or content is chemistry wrapped in story.”Good Stewardship Protects the Environment and Attracts InvestorsThe iPhone, meanwhile, represents the best of total digital transformation—particularly Apple's massive investment into the circular economy through product stewardship and recycling. “They've got Liam and Daisy, the recycling robots. I think Daisy is built from parts of Liam, who was her predecessor. They recycle 200 iPhones every hour and split the components. And as a result, Apple's now one of the largest gold miners in the world.”Anders also observes that the only way to truly be sustainably profitable is to ensure that you're not a climate risk so that investors will keep backing you. “Consumers will punish you as well. If your products and services are not seen as being sustainable and achieving environmental, social and governance (goals).”Listen to this episode of More Intelligent Tomorrow to learn about:Becoming a good storyteller in a digitally democratized world and giving people a platform to produce and publish new works.Understanding how technology is enabling the world to decouple from planetary constraintsFinding ways to be sustainably profitable and to ensure that investors keep backing you Switching from fast thinking to slow thinking Pinpointing the overlapping concentric circles of doing something that you're really good at and also passionate about
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
Menial Labor, Physical Abuse, Forced Marriage: Christian Ministries Sending the Gospel to Iran's Most Vulnerable
McDonalds gave him a taste of being a steward for a brand, not just a customer-centric thinker. Worked his way up through McDonalds and into Coca-Cola and learned a ton of lessons Menial jobs and starting jobs gave insight into how restaurants operate and what it takes to make the back of house work Went to University of Illinois Had a radio show during college and was interested in an actor Attended Second City Training Conservatory Importance of holding a brand true at McDonald's internship Forayed into the Happy Meal toys company Then moved to Coca-Cola working with restaurants and concessions Role at The Green Room Collective combines everything known about brand and business into a perfect dream job Goal at The Green Room Collective is to help team get unstuck around big problems they face. Liberating minds and imagination Restaurants are always something special even if you're refueling Discussed the Coca-Cola Alum putting out amazing thinking and expertise All about insourcing creativity Transcript 00:00.00 vigorbranding Everyone I have the honor today of being joined by my friend pat mcgill pat and I met a couple years ago during covid actually fostered a relationship through a mutual love of food and strategy and just thinking and so um. Just made sense to have pat on. He has a great history that you're going to unpack on the call today or call their session today I should say but pat say hello give a quick little backstory. 00:24.25 Pat Magill Sure, thank you very much and I'm glad to be here I'll have to say that in terms of the ah the 3 things that you mentioned I brought the food aspect to it. You brought the strategy and the thinking for sure. But ah anyway, thank you very much for having me on joseph. It's great to be here. Um, and yeah, the. Love of food. Not so much as well as an eater as well as um, ah as someone who's been in the restaurant industry almost my entire life. Um, my very first job my very first job that wasn't a paper route and I'm not going to date myself too. Badly. 00:57.15 vigorbranding Um. 01:01.44 Pat Magill But was at a ponderosa in the little town that I grew up in ponderosa steakhouse for those that might remember it where I bust tables and then eventually was the dish picker which was the guy in the back with the big spray and and got all the dishes clean and sent it through and I did that for a couple months and then i. Joined ah a local Mcdonald's as 1 of their crew as you know Burger guy flipping burgers doing all the things. Um, which was a great experience for me as a teenager because it it gave me um, especially ah in the Mcdonald's experience it gave me an idea of. Serving the customers but also being um, 1 that had a stewardship of a brand to a certain extent. Um and and I'll kind of come back to this in a little bit I'm sure. But when I did this so I will date myself. It was in the mid 80 s mid to late 80 s I was in high school. 01:46.20 vigorbranding And. 01:57.74 Pat Magill And we weren't on the the coasts. So this happened where I lived a little bit later in the eighty s but the malls and the video stores when they really started to come up. Um, it became a. A more attractive place for teenagers to go to work because it was basically it was air conditioned. Um I mean the video store and I'm really dating myself Joe. So if I didn't need to do this. This is where I need your strategic thinking but you know the video stores you know is air conditioned and you just sat and checked out videos where we were working working working but um. 02:16.40 vigorbranding Are. 02:32.27 Pat Magill It was a great experience for me in the sense that I got to learn a lot about busines
This interview features Brian Volk-Weiss, CEO at The Nacelle Company. We discuss why betting big on standup specials got him Netflix's first streamer deal, how Iowa taught him about empathy in content production, bombing on stage and the genius of comedians, producing The Movies That Made Us, toy shopping as therapy, and why he'll retire when his first feature film is greenlit.Subscribe to our newsletter. We explore the intersection of media, technology, and commerce: sign-up linkLearn more about our market research and executive advisory: RockWater websiteFollow The Come Up on Twitter: @TCUpodEmail us: tcupod@wearerockwater.com---EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Chris Erwin:Hi, I'm Chris Erwin. Welcome to The Come Up, a podcast that interviews entrepreneurs and leaders. Brian Volk-Weiss:I'm shocked any of this worked. So much of what we built was theoretical for so long. And the fact that there's almost no greater feeling than watching the moment a theory becomes a fact. We were making stand-up specials at scale, 20 to 30 a year for years spending millions and millions of dollars. We didn't know if it would work or not, probably until year seven. We started this plan in '08, and I didn't know it would work for sure until 2014. Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Brian Volk-Weiss, the founder and CEO of The Nacelle Company. Brian grew up in Queens with an early love for the Star Wars in 1989 Batman films. But upon realizing these worlds weren't based on reality, but instead imagined through the magic of Hollywood, Brian fell in love with filmmaking. So after college in Iowa, he moved to LA to become a production assistant. He then took an early career bet on producing a catalog of stand-up comedy specials, which almost bankrupted him, but the bet paid off big and enabled Brian to found his own production company, which is behind hit titles like The Movies That Made Us on Netflix.So Brian exudes an incredible love for his work, as well as constant amazement he's got to where he is today, which makes telling his story really fun. Some highlights of our chat include why comedians are geniuses, empathy and content production, doing Netflix first streamer deal, toy shopping as therapy, and why he'll retire when his first feature film is green-lit. All right, let's get to it. Brian, thanks for being on The Come Up Podcast. Brian Volk-Weiss:Thank you for having me. Very honored. Chris Erwin:Awesome. Let's rewind a bit. And why don't you start with telling us where you grew up and what your household was like? Brian Volk-Weiss:I grew up in Queens, New York. Was born in the late '70s. It was my mom, my dad and me and that's it. Chris Erwin:And early on, when did this love for toys, entertainment, storytelling, when did that really come to be? Was there a glimpse in your pre-teen years or as you were growing up in your house, any inspirations from your parents? Brian Volk-Weiss:I obviously, I got to get my mom credit because at three years old I could not have bought my own ticket to Star Wars. So I guess I can give her credit for my whole career in that regard. But I'm very lucky. It's the luckiest thing in the world. I saw Star Wars when I was three and I was so young, and by the way, everything I'm about to tell you, I have no memory of whatsoever, but my mom told the story her entire life. So I have it memorized. But basically at three years old, I did not know the word documentary, but basically the way my mom described my reaction to seeing Star Wars, it was as though I thought it was a documentary. Brian Volk-Weiss:And you have to understand, my mom was one of the first women to get a PhD from St. John. My dad was a lawyer. It was very concerning to them that their son for months, when he was asked, "Hey, what do you want to do when you grow up?" My answer was, "I want to fly an X-wing fighter. I want to join the Rebellion." And I mean, this really freaked my parents out. So my mom bought me this book that I still have, that was about the making of Star Wars, but it's written for five-year-olds. And I opened the book, the Death Star that was supposed to be the size of the moon was only six feet across C-3PO. There was a picture of his helmet off and it's Anthony Daniels. Brian Volk-Weiss:From that moment, and by the way, before that I wanted to be a limousine driver, just to show you how young I was. When people would say, "What do you want to do?" "I want to be a limousine driver." And then they'd say, "What do you want to do?" I'd say, "Oh, I want to join the Rebellion." After I saw the book, when they said, "What do you want to do?" I would say, "I want to make movies." And I mean, I've never wanted to do anything else ever. Obviously, now that includes television, but that's what led to it. Chris Erwin:Okay. And were you involved, in your pre-teen years or in high school involved in the theater in any capacity where you're writing stories, any of that? Brian Volk-Weiss:So I wasn't involved with the theater. I did one theater thing in college and that was what it was, but I did make little movies all the time. I made five-minute short film. By the way, I do have to say, when it was really hard to do, I mean, forget about shooting on 16 or even 8mm film, the camera I had literally shot on VHS tapes. It must've been three or four feet long. And by the way, that was the easy part. Editing in those days, I mean, you had to buy a machine for 250 bucks when my allowance was $5 a week. I mean, it was not easy to make these films, which by the way, were all garbage. I mean, they were terrible films, but yes, I did a lot of that. I did crappy little films in high school, a lot of them. Chris Erwin:I imagine you're casting your neighborhood friends and your peers. And were you getting some feedback of like, "Hey Brian, there's something special here. You're really good at this. You have some good vision. You're telling stories that need to be told, or you see things in a different way." Were you getting any early feedback like that as you're starting to put together your first contents [inaudible 00:06:03]? Brian Volk-Weiss:So I don't want to make you seem like my parents and friends were jerks, because they were not, but I made crappy movies and they were crappy. So nobody could look at them and truthfully say, "Oh, Brian, this is great." I mean, I'll tell you this, I was in show business for at least 10 years before my parents realized, "Oh wow, he might have turned this into a career." They were in denial my entire high school and college time that I would turn this into a career. Like I said, both of them were children of immigrants. They wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer or a dentist. The whole idea of going to show business with no job, I didn't know anybody when I got here. Brian Volk-Weiss:So again, their personalities, but I really do think being the offspring of immigrants that had to flee the Holocaust and everything, I chose a very risky career path. Chris Erwin:Understood. Like you noted, your parents were looking for the traditional route for you, for stability, for something was familiar for your parents who are immigrants coming to a country that was unfamiliar to them, trying to find things that were stable and known. And you're like, "No, that's not for me. I'm going to give something else a go." So you make a decision that this is the career for you, but when you go to University of Iowa, were these ambitions in your sites? Were you planning to go into the entertainment business then? What was your focus on for your study? Brian Volk-Weiss:Again, I never wavered for a billionth of a second from this being my career choice ever since I realized that Star Wars was fake. So it was always the plan. Like I said, not only were my parents highly educated, all of my grandparents were also, my grandfather was a doctor. My other grandfather was a dentist. And even the women, which traditionally, 100 years ago were not going to schools and becoming doctors and lawyers and stuff, they were also very ambitious, very hard working. So if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have even gone to college. I would have gone straight to LA at 18. Brian Volk-Weiss:Because of that, it never occurred to me until I was out of college, long out of college that I could have skipped college. But I did know when I chose where I went to school, it was irrelevant to my career. So that gave me a lot of freedom not to go to NYU, not to go to UCLA. I decided it was more important to me to have an experience that I could carry with me throughout my career, which I got to tell you, I think that was in retrospect one of the better decisions I've ever made for myself, because whenever I'm trying to look at things, should I green-light this or should I green-light that or whatever? I have a million friends in the Midwest. And a lot of people that I know, the majority of their friends are in LA or New York. Brian Volk-Weiss:So I get this point, I was in Minneapolis this weekend, this past weekend, was like eight or nine people that I know there. So that's who I think of when I'm making creative decisions, especially in the editing bay, by the way. Chris Erwin:In a way, are you saying that you can empathize with a broader audience mix than maybe those that have lived and grown up in LA, or the LA consumer is all they know where you're like, "No, I've traveled from east to west, in the Midwest. I've been in parts of the country where others have not. And I understand what they care about, what they don't care about, how they communicate with one another." Brian Volk-Weiss:Absolutely. I mean, 100%. And just to use a non-show business example, if I only had LA and New York friends, I would have a point of view of Trump that I do not have because of my Midwest friends. I still hate the guy's guts, no offense to anyone who likes them. And I respect your opinion if you like Trump. And I think I get that because I have friends in the Midwest, because I have friends that I've known for 30 years almost that like Trump. And I understand why they like Trump. I don't agree with it. I think it's terrible, but I understand why they do. Brian Volk-Weiss:So when I see Trump, I look at him from a point of view of, again, I truly think the guy might one day be responsible for the literal actual apocalypse. But I do know that I look at him differently from almost everybody I know in LA and New York. And that is because I have friends in the Midwest that voted for him and I understand why they did. And I know they're not racist. I know they're not antisemitic. It's that point of view that when I'm in an editing pay, I can think about what they care about, what they value, and not just LA and New York and Miami. Chris Erwin:I think that's very well said. And it's something that I feel that is an important value to me too. Look, I'm from the tri-state area. I grew up in Jersey, schooled in Boston, and then I worked in finance in New York. And then I did go to grad school in Chicago, but then I was in LA for 10 years and now I'm in San Diego. But I feel that my time in Chicago for a couple of years, as well as the fact that my brother's wife is from Ohio, and I have friends from Ohio. Chris Erwin:And sitting down with parents of my friends who have run steel mills in these manufacturing plants for over 40 years, and when I just talk politics with them, the notion of empathy is to understand their story is very different than what I hear from my coastal friends and my coastal peers. And not making this a political conversation of picking one side or the other, but just context and empathy, not only in the world is critical for political decisions for economic, but in telling story and reaching different audiences and understanding what they care about and thinking about what the marketing campaign is going to be is really, really critical. So I like how you've touched on that. Brian Volk-Weiss:You just said I think is, first of all, it's pretty much my favorite word. Second of all, I think if our country has lost anything as everybody says we have, it's context. It's a sense of context. Many times people I work with, trying to be nice, trying to be funny, whatever, kiss my ass a little, I don't know. But they'll write a script or something and they'll name something after me. And it's usually like a ship or a character, spaceship, boat, whatever. And it'll be like the USS Volk-Weiss. Brian Volk-Weiss:And I'll always say, "First of all, thank you. That's very kind. Second of all, that's not me. I don't like that kind of shit. Please change the name. And if you change it, please change it to the USS context." Because that's how powerful I think that word is because anything is nothing if you don't take into account its surroundings. And that's why I liked that word so much. And that's why, again, going back to your question, because I feel like I'm rambling, but that's why I went to Iowa. It gives me a sense of context I knew I wouldn't have if I had gone to school in LA or New York. Chris Erwin:So going back to your decision for you, Iowa, was there also in addition to context, something else that you received from that school or that experience that maybe was unexpected, but a delight you've brought with you for the rest of your life? Brian Volk-Weiss:I learned a lot from the school. I mean, just the experience of getting somewhere at 18 and leaving at 22. Just that experience is a great thing, but one of the things I learned because I learned a lot, but the thing that had a lot of value to me to this day is if you go to a school in LA or New York for the most part, again like UCLA or USC or in NYU, you're getting filtered in with lots of other people with the same beliefs. Another way to say it is, if I had gone to NYU, I would have been surrounded by people just like me who had made lots of student films. Brian Volk-Weiss:At Iowa, I mean, two of my best friends from Iowa, they were from farms. And by the way, that's another thing I learned, when you think of farm, you think of like, "Hey, there's a barn and a house and maybe 30 cows and a couple of pigs." These people were from... I was this New York guy. My mom had a PhD. My dad was a lawyer. These people from farms, they probably made 10 times what my parents made for a living. But you don't think that way when you hear farm. Brian Volk-Weiss:So just needing people who are the children of farmers, the first person in five generations to go to college and they're sitting next to me in the same class on the same first day of college, I took that, it's not destined that just because you make stupid films when you're in high school that everybody else around you doing that is going to end up in the same place. You can come from a farm. You can come from... One of my best friends, his parents owned a roofing company. Brian Volk-Weiss:The other thing that was great about Iowa was, Iowa City was very different than Iowa. So the minute you were five miles outside of Iowa City, you might as well have been in Nebraska or Oklahoma. But Iowa City had a lot in common with New York compared to the rest of the state. So just all of that knowledge and experience is just wonderful. Chris Erwin:Very well said. I think there're some themes that we can come back to there, but in moving your story forward, after Iowa, you move immediately to LA and you become a PA on Castaway. Brian Volk-Weiss:Eventually. That wasn't my first job. My first job, I always like to say this was a independent film called Going Back to Cali. It was a all white producers, but it was literally an African American copy of Swingers as my first job. I booked it six days after I got to LA. Every night, the producers would watch Swingers and the director. And then the next day we would basically redo the same scene with an entirely African American cast. That was my first job. I think six or seven months after I got here, I got here July, and about four months or five months later, I got Castaway. Chris Erwin:Got it. When you made that first move, and you got this first job, this call it African American copy of Swingers, did LA still feel right to you. Were you're like, "Yes, this is it. I'm excited?" Or were you like, "Actually, this is a little bit different than I thought and I'm questioning somethings." Brian Volk-Weiss:I'm not going to talk about LA because I hate LA the day I got here and I hate it now. But if you're asking me about show business, it was exactly what I thought it would be. If anything, it was more exciting, more fun, more awesome than I had even hoped it would be. I look back on those days, I know this might be a weird thing to say, but I only PA'ed for about a year, I was only an assistant for about a year and a half. And I'm sure if I could speak to 22 or 23-year-old Brian, they would tell me I'm smoking crack, but I wish I had PA'ed a little longer. I wish I had been an assistant a little longer because, especially a PA, I really enjoyed it. Like I really, really enjoyed it. Brian Volk-Weiss:I always joke, and if there's anything I've learned about myself over the years is as I've gotten older, a lot of times when I make the same joke over and over again, I'm not joking and I'll probably do it, but we'll see if I do it with this one, but I've always joked, "Maybe when I retire, I'll go back to PA-ing." I really enjoyed. Chris Erwin:What was it about it that you loved so much? Brian Volk-Weiss:There were two things about it. One of which I was aware of at the time, one of which I'm sure is now me looking backwards, but at the time, what I loved was it was such a tiny job. I was usually making 75 bucks a day, but you had such an important role. I'll never forget my first PA on a real job, it was a big car commercial. I'll never forget, at the end of the day... The whole day I got people, coffee, I did all those, "Menial jobs," which I actually enjoyed quite a bit. Brian Volk-Weiss:But at the end of the day, I'll never forget the producer handed me all the cans of film because it was filmed back then and said, "Take these to photo cam to get developed." And I was just like, "No problem." And he goes, "Never forget, every penny we spent from paper clips to producer salaries is in these cans." And I never forgot that. And that was what was so exciting. I'm 22 years old, I don't know a thing about anything, and yet, I have the most important job bringing these cans somewhere for an hour. Bringing an actress coffee may seem menial, but she needs the coffee. It's very hard to be an actor. Chris Erwin:You're delivering coffee, but you're seeing an actress preparing for when she's going to be performing. What's her headspace, what is your routine before, what is the hair and makeup and everything's happening in advance of her going on set. So you're seeing the full experience. That absorption so early on is so valuable. Brian Volk-Weiss:So valuable. And also, a lot of fun. I mean, a lot of fun. And then in retrospect, looking backwards, the other thing I liked about it is, it was so simple. My job now, I mean, we're planning stuff for 2024. Almost everything we do now, if not everything we do now is connected to other things. So we're not just putting out a TV show, we're putting out a TV show, a book and a podcast. When you're a PA, they say, "Yo, go to Walmart, buy a hammer." You go to Walmart, you buy a hammer, you go back, they say, "Thank you." And then they tell you to do something else. And it's just very A to B, A to B, A to B. And I miss that. Chris Erwin:I hear that. It reminds me of a story. There is this very famous IP lawyer that had a very complicated job, dealt with complicated legal cases. And on the weekends to relax and decompress all he wanted, like you said, Brian, was the simplest task and actions. So he got himself a bulldozer in his backyard and he would just move mounds of dirt. A mound of dirt from one corner of the yard to the other, do that for four hours on a Saturday, that's how he cleared his brain. Brian Volk-Weiss:I get that. You wouldn't even believe. I might go buy a bulldozer now. I totally get it. That's brilliant. Chris Erwin:And I hear you. Look, as an owner of a smaller business than yours, just the weight of the responsibility, taking care of your team, taking care of your clients, making sure that you have payroll, you're planning years ahead. I hear you. So what are the simple things that you do to keep your sanity? Brian Volk-Weiss:Honestly, buy toys, collect. It's like going to church or temple or whatever. It's so peaceful to me to walk around a vintage toy store and just see what they have and buy some things, bring them home and put them in my collection. People have every right to say I'm hoarding. I get it. I mean, the volume in which I'm buying toys, I know it's ridiculous, but it gives me tremendous joy just exploring vintage toy stores, even antique stores. It really gives me a lot of peace. Even if I don't buy anything, just seeing the way the world was, seeing little bits of history. You'll see an ashtray from [Bell and Root 00:21:59], knowing that it'll eventually become Halliburton. Just seeing that in a store, an antique store like that gives me a lot of peace. Chris Erwin:When you go shopping or looking at vintage toys and vintage items, do you like to do that alone? Do you do that with certain peers that are also aficionados? Brian Volk-Weiss:My favorite way to do it is alone. Well, that's not true. The only exception to that is my wife, because my wife is just like me. If we go to an antique store, she doesn't want to talk until we're walking out. So I don't talk to her. She don't talk to me. We just shop and explore. But most people they want to talk and everything and I'm very focused. I'm really focused on what I'm looking at. The exception to the rule, even though it's not helpful to my relaxing is of course with my kids, it's the opposite of what my wife and I do, but I love my kids like any father does, but they're just so fucking funny that it's worth the distraction being with them because of how funny they are. Chris Erwin:Going back to your career trajectory, so after being a PA and then you're on Castaway, you break into, I think, BKEG talent management. And there you start managing comedians and then you start producing stand-up comedy specials. And it kind of kicks off this incredible run that you have there and then through New Wave Entertainment, which I think acquired BKEG in 2003. So I'm curious, right now with the creator economy where every major social and incoming platform and all the major streamers, they realize that the talent, the creators, they bring the audience and thereby the audience then brings the money and the revenue. When you started working with talent early on, what were some of your key learnings? How did you gravitate towards them? And then why did you start working with comedians in particular? Brian Volk-Weiss:I started working with comedians completely randomly. It was all random. I'd only been in a comedy club once in my life before I went to BKEG. I was interning at a tiny company that on the floor that his office was at, there was a communal copy room and all the assistants to all the producers and other people in the floor would get to know each other because you would be in the copy room copying stuff together and you'd have to wait while people were using the machine. All I knew was this guy I knew was leaving his job. He needed to replace himself. He was making 50 bucks cash a day under the table. That's all I knew about the job. Brian Volk-Weiss:I knew that I was broke. I had saved up about three grand during college. I had burnt through the three grand. I was about to start waiting tables on the weekend. I was still PA-ing, even though I was an intern five days a week, I had still been PA-ing on the weekends, but I still was burning through my money. So I met with his boss and I just needed the 50 bucks a day cash so I didn't become a waiter again because I waited tables in college and I got the job, and about a week into the job, I understood what a... I didn't even know what a manager was when I took the job. It was a tiny management company. Brian Volk-Weiss:I basically was like, "I can't think of a worse job than being a manager." So I basically gave my two weeks notice. The owner of the company, a guy named Barry, Barry basically said, "What do you want to do for a living?" And I was like, "I want to produce movies." And he was like, "Well, as a manager, you can do that." And he started walking me through how you do that. So I stuck with it. Then I started managing and that's exactly what happened. I mean the first movie I ever got on into a movie theater was through a client. The first show I ever sold on television was through a client. And the entire foundation of our company is from that process. Brian Volk-Weiss:To answer your other question, I understood talent very quickly. It was very easy to understand. They're not like the rest of us. And as a manager or somebody who becomes a manager or is thinking of becoming a manager, you have to make peace with that or not do the job. Because if you're a manager for any other profession, you just say the obvious thing and you tell your client what to do. So if I was managing engineers and I had the client working at Boeing, and my client was like, "I'm mad at my boss. I'm not going to work today." I'd be like, "Well, you work for Boeing. You got to go to work or you're going to be fired." It doesn't matter what you think of your boss. Brian Volk-Weiss:When an actor, you can't say that nor should you, because I cannot tell you this enough, I had clients I talked to every day. I would go on vacations with them. I would go to movies with them on the weekends. These were people I talked to seven days a week, 18 hours a day, that kind of stuff. And I would still be on set with them and we're just hanging out like friends, and then the second [inaudible 00:27:11] comes over and is like, "Hey, so and so, you're up." And they would go and start doing a scene. And I'm like looking at them like they're levitating or flying or can split at, it never wore off on me how amazing it is that people can become other people. Brian Volk-Weiss:I know this sounds insane. I've been doing this for 23 years and I'm still amazed that actors can act, but I made peace with that on day one. And for me at the time, because pretty much all my clients were stand-up comedians, they're complicated people, but you have to be complicated to become a stand-up comedian. You also have to be a genius. There is no stand-up comedian I've ever met that can sell 100 tickets or more that wasn't a genius. So when they say they're not getting out of bed for any reason, you have to engage with them, find out the reason and then work with the studio or the network or the producers or the director to get them simpatico. And I enjoyed that because I respected how hard it was to do what they did. Chris Erwin:Hey listeners, this is Chris Erwin, your host of The Come Up. I have a quick ask for you. If you dig what we're putting down, if you like the show, if you like our guests, it would really mean a lot if you can give us a rating wherever you listen to our show. It helps other people discover our work and it also really supports what we do here. All right, that's it everybody, let's get back to the interview. Chris Erwin:I'm hearing two things from you, Brian, that I think are really interesting. One, which speaks to the longevity of your career and why I believe there's so much more ahead is because it really feels like, just from talking the last 30 minutes, how much you love what you do. When you were describing Star Wars and your early impressions of Batman and making movies as a teenager and in high school. And then even just describing back then working with talent, watching them instantly transform on set and that wow factor for you. And then you still have that same feeling today, it's that you're captivated by entertainment in Hollywood. And that even if you despise LA, you love the entertainment industry, you love show business. And I don't think that star is ever going to fade. It feels like it's just going to get brighter for you. Brian Volk-Weiss:I say this, this could sound like a metaphor. This could sound like I'm trying to be humble, I don't know. But I'm telling you, I mean this, the way I tell you the sky is blue. When I tell you, I cannot believe any of this is happening to this day, I mean it. I absolutely made it. I'm shocked any of this worked. Absolutely shocked. So much of what we've built was theoretical for so long. And the fact that there's almost no greater feeling not connected to family, there's almost no greater feeling than watching the moment a theory becomes a fact. And we were making stand-up specials at scale, 20 to 30 a year for years, spending millions and millions of dollars. 99.90 cents of every dollar that came in for five or six years, we spent that money on making stand-up specials. We didn't know if it would work or not, probably until year seven. We started this plan in '08 and I didn't know it would work for sure until 2014. Chris Erwin:Well, that speaks to an interesting point that we were talking about before this recording. What was the catalyst that caused you to keep reinvesting in these comedy specials? Why were you putting 99.90 cents of every dollar that you brought in back into this growing body of work? Brian Volk-Weiss:Well, there's two answers to that question. The first answer is the long-term answer, which is I knew the day I got here, again, I was 22 years old, but I'd been thinking about this since I was five. I wanted to build a studio. That was always my goal. I always wanted to build a studio and I had read about how all the other studios had been built. I knew Disney was built on Donald and Mickey and all of that. I knew Warner brothers was built on this Mack Sennett Library. And that was the key word, library. So I knew I had to build a library. And if I wanted to build a studio, I knew I needed a library. I didn't know how to build a library. Brian Volk-Weiss:A bunch of lucky things happened. The first lucky thing was, like I said, as a manager, you make a stand-up special for your clients once or twice a year. So one day I get a call from an agent, a guy named Mike Berkowitz, and at the time I was a manager. I had all my clients and I was managing full-time. And then 98% of my job was managing, 2% was producing. And I got a call from Mike, and Mike asked me if I would ever produce a stand-up special for a non-client. And I was really offended. And if I'm being honest with you, I was kind of rude to him. It was Michael Ian Black's agent, and I said to him, I'm like, "Dude, why are you calling me about producing a special? I'm not good enough to manage him. Why can't I manage him?" Brian Volk-Weiss:And I was really annoyed about it. The next day in the shower, I suddenly remembered my job was to make money. And as long as it was legal, it didn't really matter how I made the money. So I called Mike back and I apologized. And luckily he forgave me, which if you knew Mike, this doesn't happen very often. No offense, Mike, but it's true. You would agree with me, if you ever hear it. But that being said, we did Michael Ian black special and word got out to the community that we were making specials for non-clients. So that was the first thing that happened. Brian Volk-Weiss:The second thing that happened was in 2006, I read a book called The Long Tail. And the reason that anytime I talk about the long tail, I always mention what year I read it, 2006 was a very important year, not because of what happened, but because of what would happen. The book correctly predicted the rise of YouTube, iPhones, streaming, everything, AVOD, Asphalt, everything. So I took the biggest risk of my entire life and I bet everything that that book would be right. Brian Volk-Weiss:Because the truth of the matter is one of my clients blew up. I mean, I started working with this guy when he could sell 400 tickets and three years later he was selling 15 to 25,000 tickets a night. He was making a million dollars a show. And I could have taken that money and put it in the bank, invested it, and I'd probably have more money now than I do if I had done that. But the other thing is, in addition to wanting to go to studio since I was a little kid, it was always very important to me to leave something behind. I didn't want to die and not have contributed something, anything, but something to the world. Brian Volk-Weiss:And basically, I bet everything that the book would be right. And I'll be completely honest with you, when I made the decision, I basically said to myself, "This is it." If the book's right, I'll be able to achieve my dream. If the book is wrong, I'll have to quit or get fired and either become an agent at a big agency or go back to school and become a lawyer or something. I knew I was making a bet it all bet. By good Lord, the grace of God, that book could not have been more accurate and correct in what it predicted. Chris Erwin:Well, because I think when you read that in '06, Brian, and then your investment in this stand-up comedy special library from '08 through the next 6 to 10 plus years, that also led to growing credibility for you to start going into unscripted and scripted work and TV series and film projects. And then eventually you being able to launch your own production company and studio in a cell in 2017. Brian Volk-Weiss:That's exactly right. I mean, it killed a million birds with one stone. One of the most important birds that literally changed the course of my life, the company's trajectory, everything was, I do not know anybody in my entire life that did a deal with Netflix before me. My first deal with Netflix was in March of 2009. I swear to you, you're going to think I'm joking. I am not joking. I signed the contract. The contract said, all over the contract, streaming, streaming, streaming, s-bot s-bot, s-bot. I hadn't a clue what that meant. Not an iota of a fucking clue, but the deal was for so much money I didn't want to risk losing it. So I just signed it. Brian Volk-Weiss:And that deal did two things. First of all, it brought in the money that allowed me to keep growing the company because that deal was for the rights to specials I had already made, had already aired elsewhere, like Comedy Central or Showtime, and these rights had reverted. And that's the deal I had done with Netflix. We didn't even have Netflix in my house. When I signed that contract, I hadn't even seen Netflix yet. Chris Erwin:It was a DVD company. I think necklace was founded around what? '98, '99. And then 8 to 10 years in, probably exactly in the timeframe you're describing of '09, there was this slow transition to streaming. But I don't even know if it happened at that date yet. They were probably just going to put that into contracts and planning for the future. Brian Volk-Weiss:It had happened. But first of all, nobody really understood it. But second of all, the first person I ever met at Netflix, this woman named Lisa Nishimura. When I met with Lisa, they were in the middle of their biggest crisis. Up until this very second, they were going through, I forgot what it was called, like Flixster or Flicker. They were dividing their DVD business from their streaming business, which nobody understood because nobody knew what streaming was. So it was this whole like, "What?" But the reason I bring this up is that deal I did with Netflix in 2009 got me in the door with them before almost anybody. Brian Volk-Weiss:And because of that, I met this guy named Devin Griffin, and Devin at a very unique job where Devin, he was the guy that whenever we had the rights to a special ending at Comedy Central or something, or we had a special that we shot without a buyer, and again, I feel like that's worth mentioning. To this day, other people I'm friends with who own production companies will say, even though they know our plan worked, they will still say to me, "It is insane that you were making stand-up specials with no buyers at scale." Almost everybody I know would try it once or twice and then quit. Brian Volk-Weiss:Part of how I got through it and survived the risk was we did it at scale. You can't make one or two at a time. You have to make 5 to 10 at a time, which means instead of spending 300 grand, you're spending 5 to 10 million. So when I tell you, we bet it all, I mean, we fucking bet it all. But the reason I bring this up is we were doing this at a time when no one else was. So even though we were tiny, Netflix had no choice but to work with us because we were the only independent company that had a stand-up comedy library. Brian Volk-Weiss:So I knew this Devin Griffin guy, who's now a very good friend of mine for a lot of reasons, by the way. He's the smartest person I know, but you also changed the course of my life. He was transferred after a couple of years from stand-up comedy acquisitions to unscripted. And he was the guy who was like, "What do you got?" I had been trying to sell this show, which eventually was called The Toys That Made Us for seven years. I never could sell it because a lot of people don't understand this, but producers are tight cast just like actors. Brian Volk-Weiss:So I couldn't sell it because I was always the stand-up comedy guy and executives and buyers were always like, "Why is the stand-up comedy guy trying to sell me a show about toys?" But because I knew Devin, because I was friends with Devin. Devin had been to my house. And Devin had seen my toy collection. And he also knew me, he knew he could trust, take my word. So if I told him I could do X and he knew I was a, "Expert," in toys, he green-lit Toys That Made Us and had changed everything for the company, overnight. Chris Erwin:And when you say why it changed things for the company overnight, was it because of the money that was coming in from that deal? Was it the prominence of that, how popular became on Netflix? And then what came thereafter, which is The Movies That Made Us, what was that transformation? Brian Volk-Weiss:It changed a lot of things for a lot of different reasons. The first thing it did was, I mean, it was our first hit. I mean, we had never made anything that resonated in pop culture ever. So just by having a hit, not only do you get phone calls returned faster, but it's easier to sell shows once you have a hit. So that's the first thing it changed. The second thing it changed was it gave the company an identity for the first time other than stand-up comedy. The third thing it did, and I think a lot of people might even say this is the most important thing it did, Toys That Made Us was the first show we ever sold that was about a passion that I had. Every other show before that, and we probably had over a dozen shows on the air before Toys That Made Us, not a single one of those shows got a second season. Brian Volk-Weiss:If you go on IMDb or Amazon, they're all like three stars to five stars. What I learned, and you might be like, "It's really pathetic, Brian, you had to learn this the hard way." But before Toys That Made Us, I would do research on what the buyers want and then develop shows based on that research. And then I would make those shows to pay the bills. What Toys That Made Us show me was, I don't know if I cared about the show and was passionate about the topic, call me crazy, but we'd probably do a better job. So after Toys That Made Us came out, we haven't done anything that we're not passionate about. And knock on wood, not a single show that we've made since Toys That Made Us has not gotten at least a second season. That's what we learned. Chris Erwin:I love that. So then the natural follow up question is, with that new intention, let's create programming that stems from what we love as individuals, what we love as a team, what we're passionate about. Beyond just instilling that in your own mental framework, how did you instill that amongst your team? How did you change your development process to do that? Brian Volk-Weiss:Well, I mean, it was pretty easy because, a, almost everybody that works at the company is some degree of a geek. And by the way, I have to say, I'm very proud of this. The few people that have joined us that are not geeks, well, guess what they are usually six months later? We hired this awesome executive from Discovery, this poor girl. Oh my god, I mean, she didn't have a toy to her name the day she joined us. I mean, I think she has a shelf of toys now. And I guarantee you, she'll have probably five shelves of toys by the end of 2022. But anyway, I just love that. Brian Volk-Weiss:But anyway, so we just shifted into what we loved. I mean, it was such an obvious move, but I missed it. So basically after Toys That Made Us came out, and we were getting incoming phone calls for the first time ever, I was like, "You know how we all love this geek. Let's just do that." And that's not all we do, but it really became what we became known for. And it's funny, the exception to this of course, is Down to Earth with Zac Efron, that's not a pop culture show, but it was the same premise where I love Zac. I love that he was so excited about the environment and food and it was just very easy for us to get passionate about that, because I mean, who's not passionate about food and the environment. Chris Erwin:And I think like a powerful thing, this is a theme from a lot of the other entrepreneurs and leaders I talk to, it's just focus. And if you're trusting your gut, you're focusing on a more narrow lane. It also impacts who you recruit. Recruiting team members that are like, "Look, we want to find people who are nerds like at us, that deeply love things." If I was recruiting to be hired by your company, Brian, I'd be like, "Yeah, that's the type of team I want to work for." Where you're hiring me for my taste and what I love and you're going to help make that come to life and we could sell shows like that to Netflix and the other streamers, I'm going to be pumped to join you then probably some of the other studios. Chris Erwin:And it focuses the conversations around the table, and it focuses as a leader for, you can probably really push your team and say, "Do you really care about this topic? Do you really love it? Give me more. I sense that you're leaving something on the table here and you got to dig deeper." That's powerful. Brian Volk-Weiss:That's exactly right. We just do what we're passionate about, and don't get me wrong, we're not idiots. If I don't think I can sell it or I don't think the public will want to watch it, we're not going to do it. This is the other thing I always like to say, Sam Raimi had this great quote in 2000 when he was directing Spider-Man. I never ever forget this. It's like a real rule for us. He said, he goes, this is before the movie came out. He said, "I'm making Spider-Man. I not making Sam Raimi Spider-Man." And I am very passionate about what we make, but I never forget that we are making a product to be shared. And I don't want to make something that people won't like or be excited about. Brian Volk-Weiss:And by the way, sometimes we try and sometimes we fail, but we got a lot of criticism on a show we made once. I'll tell you the whole story. We put out a show last year on Amazon called A Toy Store Near You. And the first season, every episode, it takes place in toy stores all over the world. The first season, every episode was like 25% about the toys, 75% about how the stores were staying in business during COVID. It was a pretty deep dark show. We put it out. We think we've made a great show. We're all happy. We're all excited. And the feedback, I mean, it was 80% negative. And of the 80% negative, everybody was basically saying some version of this, "My life sucks. I'm depressed. Every news story I see is bad. When I watch TV, I don't want to be reminded about COVID. I want to forget about COVID." Brian Volk-Weiss:So we were in production on season two, and I think a lot of directors may have been like, "Fuck you. This is our show." I was horrified that I had misjudged the public so badly. And if you watch season two, season two is the opposite. It's 75% toys, 25% COVID. Season three is 99.9% toys, 0.1% COVID. And we're in post right now on season four, we literally just reshot something last week because you can see someone in the background wearing a mask. So we do listen and we do take all that stuff very serious with the public things. Chris Erwin:Well, look, I think that speaks to one of the earlier themes of our conversation, Brian, which was context and empathy. I think it's why Ted Lasso performed so well during COVID. People just wanted to escape. They wanted to smile, feel good content. And that was exactly that. And just speaking from personal experience, 9/11 happened. Recently, there was a lot of amazing documentaries on the 20-year anniversary. On Netflix, on the other streamers, I started watching the one on Netflix. Being from the tri-state area, really hits close to home. And I was like, "Look, being in COVID feeling isolated, the whole world going through tough times. I just can't see content like this right now. This is not what I'm looking for." Chris Erwin:Not saying that, that content's not valuable and that I want to come back and visit it, but that wasn't the right moment in time. Hearing you say that, Brian, I think it's like constant balance of staying true to you of telling the stories that are important to you. What you think the world should here, but also, what do people want to hear right now and I want to cater to that as well, which also drives longevity for your business. And it reminds me, we had Alison Eakle on the podcast, I think a couple months ago, she's the head of development at Shondaland. Chris Erwin:And she always says, "When I'm creating a show, I think of what's the movie poster. What's the marketing going to be?" Just as the ideas are coming together. And that just caused you to think, what is the audience reaction going to be? I went to business school at Kellogg, the way that they teach leadership and business management is through the marketing lens, marketing as a management philosophy. And marketing is all about understanding the customer mindset. So I really like how you captured that there. Brian Volk-Weiss:Thank you. And by the way, my best friend in college, Jamie Jackson, he went to business school. All I did for four years was make fun of him for that. "Oh, how was business today? What kind of business did you talk about?" By the way, I went to communications and I was cutting 16mm film together and taping it together with scotch tape, something that would've 0.0 value the day I graduated. Guess what I should have studied in college in retrospect? Chris Erwin:Well, at the least, you can hire people on your team that can now do this. Brian Volk-Weiss:Thank God. Chris Erwin:This has been such a fun conversation because we'll bring up different questions and then Brian, you just go off on these amazing stories and vignettes which have been awesome. But we did gloss over the point about your belief that the top comedians are really geniuses. Brian Volk-Weiss:I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I didn't say to top comedians. I very deliberately said anyone who can sell 100 tickets, which is nothing. I mean, that is nothing. Any comedian that gets to the point where you have 100 people in a market paying money to see them, that is a low bar, but anyone who gets to that point is a genius. It's not just the top comics. It includes them, but you cannot get to a point where 100 people are hiring babysitters and paying for two drinks unless you're a genius. Chris Erwin:Thank you for the clarification that further even reemphasizes my point. Brian Volk-Weiss:I didn't mean to jump on you, but it's important to me to say that because so hard is that job that I just want to make it very clear, long before you're selling out arenas, you need to be a genius. Chris Erwin:I have not followed comedians for my entire life, but I can admit that over the past, call it three to five years, I've really followed Bill Burr very closely. And I'm actually going to see him in Long Beach tomorrow night. And then also through some advisory work that we've done with Team Coco and Conan O'Brien's digital team, starting to pay more attention to what Conan does and his podcast and his interviews. And I think what is so unique about comedians, yes, whether they're they're the top or they're just starting to build their careers, their ability to observe human behavior and society and have really interesting commentary, I think is unparalleled. Chris Erwin:And in a writing class that I take with my brother, great writers just observe. And through great observation, they can make very interesting literary points and stories. And I look at the comedians today where I just watched the recent Dave Chappelle's special in Netflix. And despite the controversy that has driven, his ability to observe and see things that others do not, and then talk about it in ways that others do not, I think that's very valuable for society and something that's treasured. And I look at them, Brian, with awe and I'm like, "How do they see that?" So that's something I wanted to highlight. Brian Volk-Weiss:Like I said, I talk to comedians every day. I already talked to Tom Papa this morning. I was talking to Steve Burn two days ago. I talk to comedians every day. I was with Jim Gaffigan in Minneapolis on Saturday. I have never gotten over who they are and what they do. They're geniuses, but I'll tell you something, everything you said is right. There's nothing I'm disagreeing with, but I'll tell you something on top of that, that I think is also true, maybe. Yes, you need to be a genius. Yes, you need to observe. But you also need to understand how the public perceives you. So what works for Bill Burr wouldn't work for Chappelle. What Chappelle does wouldn't work for Bill Burr. They had to find not only who they were, but who the audience thought they were. Brian Volk-Weiss:And I'll tell you how I learned this lesson. So like I told you earlier, I used to represent this guy that went from selling 400 tickets to 15,000 tickets very quickly. I mean, over the course of three years, that's how big he jumped. And I was with him four to seven nights a week in the clubs, at the shows, everything. I had his act memorized. And I mean memorized, not just the words, I had the intonations up and down. I had his act. One day, we had a mutual friend who was preparing to be on, I believe Conan, might have been Kimmel, but doesn't matter. And he was practicing his set at this place called the Gower Gulch, which is a karaoke bar that had a, every Wednesday night, they had a open mic night. Brian Volk-Weiss:The crowd was very light and it was late. And they were waiting for people to come in. But Jay, our friend, didn't want to go up because the crowd wasn't big enough yet and he didn't want to do his test in front of six people. So my client says to me, "Hey, you know my act, why don't you go up and do my act." And I'm like, "Sure. Oh my god, I can't even believe you're letting me do this." That is such a no-no in the comedy community. Even though I'm not a comedian, you do not do someone's act. You don't do it. And I cannot stress this enough, this night I'm talking about, he was one of the biggest comedians of all time. Brian Volk-Weiss:So this was not a small person asking me to do this. He was a stadium act at that point. So I go up, cocky, whatever. And I'm like, dude, it didn't work for me. I knew every single word of his act. I knew every pause. I knew when to go up, when to go down on the pronunciation. To say, I bombed, this was a set that could make 15,000 people laugh simultaneously. And by the way, not just every single time, he could do 80 shows in a row with that exact same 20 minutes, and never not get a standing ovation. I did it once, I gave up. I was like, "All right, thank you." I didn't even finish the 20 minutes. Chris Erwin:Couldn't even get to the end there. Brian Volk-Weiss:Like, "Thank you. Tip your waitstaff." So I always think that's very important to say that it's not just about the genius, it's not just about the material. There are comedians I know who are geniuses that have great material that have been doing it, I kid you not, for 30 plus years that still have not figured out what the audience wants them to be and who they want to be. And they've been doing it for 30 years. They still can't sell 100 tickets. Chris Erwin:I Really like that. And I just have to ask in closing, Brian, how did it feel for you to bomb? Because I imagine, Bill Burr talks about this all the time on his Monday Morning Podcast, you have to get your reps in. You have to know what it's like to go to bomb because you have to try. And only through failure will you learn what your relationship is with the audience, when you feel comfortable, what your style is. So for you going up there, where you thought you had the best jokes in the world, what did that feel like? Brian Volk-Weiss:Well, I did have the best jokes in the world because I didn't write them. The guy who could sell arenas did. I mean, I was laughing my head off. I mean, I never wanted to be on stage. I never wanted to be a comedian. I didn't give a shit. I mean, it was like a really funny experiment, but, and this I only learned a day, a week, a month later, but it did give me that experience because think about it, there's no flight instructor in history teaching people how to fly planes that did not already know how to fly planes. Brian Volk-Weiss:So think about how weird it is to be a manager that only represents comedians and you've never been on stage telling a joke. So it wasn't early in my career, it was probably barely halfway through the management part of my career, but to have that knowledge, and I've used it the rest of my life, yes, was very valuable. Chris Erwin:Brilliant. Love that. All right. So let's talk about what's the future of Nacelle Company? This business is now around four years old, founded in January 2017, you were just highlighting before the break, some incredible traction that you have. What are you thinking about in terms of what's next? And I think you've recently read a book, again, the second time in your career that's really inspired some big future moves. Tell us about that. Brian Volk-Weiss:So the future for our company is there's two things we're basically doing right now. And if I had to guess, this would be the two things we're doing for the rest of the time. The first thing is we're taking knowledge we have and experience and revenue from an existing business and applying it to bigger and better things. So the example I can give you is we started making stand-up specials on spec, meaning we didn't have a buyer lined up, and then we sold them or licensed them. We didn't sell them, we licensed them, which is, for those that don't know, that's a temporary rental of our title. Brian Volk-Weiss:So we did that with stand-up comedy. We've been doing that now for about 15 years. Now what we're doing, and the first attempt at this was Down to Earth with Zac Efron, we are doing with series what we used to do with stand-up specials, but we're right now only it in unscripted series. So we have a show coming out in two weeks on History Channel called The Center Seat, which is 10 episodes, only about Star Trek. We own that show. We have a book coming out the same day and a podcast coming out the same day. And after a certain amount of time, History Channel will not have access to that show and the rights will revert back to us just like we did with stand-up comedy. Brian Volk-Weiss:So that's what we're doing now. And this is obviously much more expensive making series on spec than making stand-up specials. I mean, every at-bat is seven figures. Whereas in comedy, I would say 70% of our at-bats are under seven figures, 30% are above seven figures. With series, it's all above seven figures. And we're doing that right now. A Toy Store Near You, same thing, we own that show. In the future, we're going to go from doing one or two a year, God willing, to doing 10 to 20 series a year, combined with, we will then get into scripted and we'll start doing the same thing in scripted. So spending 5 million an episode on spec just like Sony, just like Lionsgate. Brian Volk-Weiss:And then after that, and maybe simultaneously, we will be doing the same thing with movies. The moment where if I had to guess the beginning of my retirement will start is the point where we green-light our first say a hundred million dollar movie. The minute that happens, I will probably be retired, probably about five years after that event. So that's the first answer. The second answer is I'm a big believer and a lot of this comes back to Walt and Roy Disney, I'm a big believer in the flywheel method, which since you went to Kellogg, you know what I mean, but I only learned about this in my early 40s where we are launching departments to service other departments. Brian Volk-Weiss:So that allows us to put out, like I said, we're going to put out a show on History Channel in two weeks, but we're also getting revenue from the podcast. We're also getting revenue from the book, yada, yada, yada. So two answers, answer one, just keep doing what we're doing, but do it bigger and better. Answer number two, create more departments to monetize what we're already doing. And I just want to say for the record, monetizing sounds like some big fancy word. I mean, to say that we're all having the time of our lives, launching a publishing arm not knowing a thing about publishing, that kind of shit it's a lot of fun, but I've been through that cycle now a lot. Brian Volk-Weiss:When we launched our stand-up arm, we didn't know what we were doing. When we launched our record arm, which now to say, it's the number one producer of stand-up comedy, audio is a tremendous understatement. We didn't know what the hell we were doing. I mean, I never have any fear about not knowing what I'm doing, for better or worse. The book you refer to, I just read it probably about less than six months ago, really boring title, it's called Liftoff. But it's a great book about the first 10 and years of SpaceX. But it's funny, the reason I find that book so valuable is the exact opposite of The Long Tail. With The Long Tail, it showed me a possible path forward. Brian Volk-Weiss:With Liftoff, again, I cannot stress this enough. I did not go to business school. So almost everything we're doing is just me trusting my gut and praying to God it works. What Liftoff showed me was a lot of what we're doing is the right thing to do. And what a lot of people don't understand about SpaceX, and I'll be honest with you. I didn't understand this either until I read the book. I mean, what Elon Musk started with SpaceX conservatively was the 15th time a rich person tried to build a space launching company. Every single person and company that tried before him failed. Brian Volk-Weiss:And a lot of the reasons why he succeeded, we were already doing, but I didn't know if it was right or not. And his book showed me, some of the things that we were doing, which were extremely unusual, and even I was questioning, is this smarter, stupid? His book showed me it was the right path. I mean, the example I like to give is, we develop almost all of our internal capabilities. We try to do things outside of the company as little as possible. I have a tendency to have a vendor, and then either hire the vendor or buy the company that was providing the service because I like to have everything under one roof. Elon Musk, in the book, it tells a great story where they needed these special kind of pumps, they're called turbo pumps to mix the fuels to get the rocket out of the atmosphere. Brian Volk-Weiss:There's two companies on the planet, one of which is American that make turbo pumps for everybody. NASA, Boeing, JPL, everybody. Because Elon Musk was the new kid on the block, he was getting them slowly and they were coming and they still needed work and then SpaceX's engineers had to actually finish working on them. Musk eventually said, "Fuck it. We're just going to start making our own turbo pumps." That led to a lot of things. First of all, they didn't have supply problems anymore with the vendor. Second of all, they were able to make them at 30% the cost of the other company. Fourth of all, guess what SpaceX now sells to other space companies? Turbo pumps. Chris Erwin:They've become a supplier themselves. Brian Volk-Weiss:Yeah. And that's what Amazon did with their cloud service. So I have long been a believer in having as many capabilities under our roof as possible. And for those that don't run a business, that's very risky and expensive. Every time your payroll goes up, it's risky. But my theory has always been, if it's all unified under one roof, we will make more money because everybody's talking to everybody all the time. Chris Erwin:Totally agree. This reminds me of a conversation that we were having with a direct-to-consumer retailer this year. And the challenge was their board and investors are thinking about, "Okay, we have this growth vision, but if we want to minimize the amount of capital that we're putting to work up front, how can we outsource some of these capabilities so that if things don't work, we're not on the hook versus this massive investment in fixed costs?" And I was like, "I hear that. I totally get that. But the challenge is you're not creating internal capabilities in intelligence and commitment to your internal teams that this is where you really want to go in the future. And so the quality of your effort, the quality of this business initiative is going to be inferior and will not necessarily outperform who you're trying to beat in the marketplace if it's just all outsourced from day one." So I think what you described is very on point. Brian Volk-Weiss:Absolutely. And by the way, I'll give you a great example, every company out there in theory that owns an amusement park, in theory, has their own version of the imagineers. That is not true. The Imagineering Department at Disney is over 2000 people, highly paid, highly skilled. There's a guy in the Imagineering Department, all he does for a living, I guarantee he gets paid six figures. All he does is designed better fake rock technology. There is an imagineer, all she does is create better realistic looking leaves from foam. That is all she does 52 weeks a year minus vacation time. Brian Volk-Weiss:But my point is, no other amusement park has that capability. And I think Disney might make more than every single amusement park on the planet combined. I could be wrong, but even if I'm wrong, I'm probably not wrong by that much. And I completely agree with you, anytime I hear a company is divesting and blah, blah, blah. I'm always like this is either the beginning or the end, or they will reverse that decision when the next CEO comes to fix the mistake you've made by trying to have a better quarter. Because that's the problem these companies make when they do that, all they care about is beating the same quarter the prior year. That is a recipe for failure. Chris Erwin:I agree. I think the other key variable here that makes SpaceX, that makes Disney perform, and then also the future for you, Brian with Nacelle, is you have to have a leader which then flows down to the team really believe in this business initiative. If it's like, "Hey, we're kind of into this. We were going to outsource some of this stuff, but we're going to bring it in house." But if you're not bringing the passion, the focus to your team every day after that massive investment in fixed costs, it's not going to work. And that really comes from the top. Chris Erwin:And from this conversation, Brian, I can feel that from you as a leader of your business and as a visionary for the industry that you're in. And I hear you, we just hired another person in our team that's replacing a couple contractors that we used to have supporting us. That scares me. I got more mouths to feed. That's more of a commitment for me to do business development, but I know in my gut it's the right move if I want this company to grow. So we are simpatico on that level. Brian Volk-Weiss:You went to Kellogg, I didn't. So take to put a grain a salt, but I believe you're right. Chris Erwin:So Brian, before going into rapid fire, I just want to give some kudos to you. I have really only gotten to know you through this interview and a little bit of prep before. And it feels like to me that you are really fulfilling your destiny as a creator and storyteller, which I put the different interviews of people that I have on the podcast together. And I just had Doug Bernstein, from House of Highlights. And that's a new social media native sports brand. Doug was all about sports since age three.
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David said, ‘I'd rather scrub floors in the house of…God than be honoured as a guest in the palace of sin' (Psalm 84:10 MSG). Along those lines Joni Eareckson Tada writes: ‘Elsie runs a Christian home for young girls who've left lives of prostitution and drug dealing on the streets of Hollywood. She walks the streets, shares the gospel, and leads these girls to Christ. If these new converts truly desire to change their lives and commit to new responsibilities, they've a place in Elsie's home. Pam is one such convert…A Christian with a sweet spirit, she bears scars from knife fights and heroin needles. Her arms are marred with tattoos. I sensed her joy and deep appreciation when she explained her role…“I scrub the toilets and bathrooms…That's my job and I love it!” This young woman was so grateful to have structure in her life, safety in her surroundings, and an honest-to-goodness job of service in Christ's kingdom…that a day of ministry in Elsie's home was far better than a thousand days lived in the sordid pursuit of self-destructive pleasures…Her humble spirit towards her job…her delight in cleaning toilets sprang from a keen awareness of her role in the body of Christ. Few believers have a background like Pam's, but every day each of us rolls our sleeves up to accomplish menial, basic tasks – changing oil [in the car], changing ink cartridges in printers, or changing [nappies] (perhaps on an elderly parent).' So, how's your attitude towards menial work? When you ‘serve the LORD with gladness' (Psalm 100:2 KJV) you find joy in everyday tasks because you remember who you're working for.
Menial tasks are those repetitive, tedious, or dangerous tasks that a robot is capable of doing freeing up time for associates to focus on high-value-added tasks.The types of robots used to automate applications can be different and sometimes confusing, so we're breaking it all down for in this episode.Please join us as we explore collaborative robots, also called cobots. You'll hear the differences between an industrial robot and a collaborative robot. As well as:What makes a cobot collaborative Are there cost savings between an industrial robot and a cobotThe types of applications that are better suited for collaborative robotsHow collaborative robots can be used to empower employeesThe ROI (return on investment) for a cobotDid you hear? elliTek has partnered with Hanwha Robotics to provide United States manufacturers their HCR Advanced Series collaborative robots! Take a look at these sleek cobots.Reach out to us with any questions or future topics!LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ellitek-incInstagram: www.instagram.com/ellitekFacebook: www.facebook.com/ellitekTwitter: www.twitter.com/elliTek_Inc/mediaIf you don't want to click on those links, pick up the phone to call us at (865) 409-1555 ext. 804.
Cooking dinner, cleaning the house, doing the dishes, mowing the lawn. None of these jobs really fill us with joy. So knowing how to motivate yourself to tackle these menial tasks is a challenges we face as we get older. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ REMEMBER: If you have any suggestions for topics please add in the comments and we will be sure to include them. Is the modern man a hunter or a gentleman? A manual labourer or a technophile? In today's culture the modern man usually is a mix of many things. The modern man must be adaptable. Gender roles are changing and blending together and the stay-at-home dad or part time dad population is growing. More fathers than ever are participating in their children's nurturing and upbringing. The thing is that fathers and mothers come into the parenting process differently though. For the mother, the connection is biological. It's a part of her. Fathering, on the other hand, is less so. Therefore, it's important for men to learn the skills they need to be a good dad. For some guys it's more intuitive, like kicking a football, but most guys need a coach or some direction. DADDY EATS LAST discusses what it means to be a man and a father in modern society and all the issues that comes with both.
American Greed Factory-Episode 410: Menial labor skills The second impeachment failure, Money for being famous, weight lifting, Oliver Stone retrospective Any Given Sunday.
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And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his ARMOURBEARER. 1 Samuel 16:21 There are so many Christians who want to start out on top! But the only job that begins at the top is grave digging! If you study the background of many great people, you will discover that they once served at the lowest level in their profession. The best leader is someone who has been a follower for many years. Because you have done menial jobs, you are more reasonable with your subordinates. You understand what they are going through and do not give impossible commands.
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Menial Tasks from Jason LiangA few weeks ago, while sheltered-in-place at home, I found myself sitting in the living room floor with my little daughter, Lexi, making girly charm bracelets together. She had pleaded with me to help her. As I sat there picking out pendants and trying to put one little metal ring into another, I thought to myself “man, what a waste of my time.” I could be watching my shows on Netflix, playing video games on my Xbox, checking out Facebook, or even writing emails and talking to clients at work.” It was taking time away from the things I want to do. “What’s the point of these bracelets anyway?” I asked myself. “She’s probably going to misplace it or break it in less than a day. And it is such a boring, menial job that I could probably just get my older daughter to help her with it. I don’t need to do this. It is so beneath me.” As I sat there impatient and disgruntled, the Lord reminded me of something. Jesus did not shy away from tasks that were beneath Him. From washing the feet of His disciples to taking care of little children, Jesus showed us that there is no job that we are too big for. Can you imagine the Lord of the universe kneeling before His disciples washing and cleaning their dirty, smelly feet? If you haven’t heard of this, read John 13, verses 4-17. In addition, the Lord reminded me of the things my parents had done for me despite their reluctance at the time. When I was a preschooler, I bugged my dad every evening to play chess with me. Despite being tired and uninterested because I was not a very good player, he still played with me. I took forever making my moves and often made bad decisions so it was not much fun for him and definitely tested his patience. My mom also spent time with me by teaching me how to cook while she was in the kitchen. Because I was not very helpful and often got in the way, I could tell she didn’t really want to do it. If I had to cut some meat, she would sometimes have to recut it because I cut the pieces too big. Or if I had to wash some vegetables, she would have to rewash it because there would still be sand. I can still hear her sighing in my head “Argh…”. She probably thought it was a waste of her time. But these activities with my parents paid dividends. Eventually, I became the captain of my high-school chess team. And the skills I learned in my mom’s kitchen, I still use today to cook for my family. But what’s more important is that these things that I did with my parents became lasting memories. The experiences never left me. The relationship and bond that formed is something I still cherish today. Had my dad not played chess with me but instead, went to watch TV, not only might I not have followed my passion for chess, but I might not have this connection with him. For many years afterwards, I still talked to him about chess moves and strategies. And had my mom not spent time with me in the kitchen, not only might I be useless in the kitchen today, but I might have also missed out on the relationship we built together through that experience. Even today, I call my mom to ask for recipes and exchange cooking tips. So as I was sitting there making charm bracelets with my daughter, I realized what an important moment that was for me, and for my daughter. After we finished the bracelet, my daughter wore it proudly showing it off to everyone and telling them “Daddy made it with me.” When I heard that and saw her face beaming with joy, it melted my heart. I think the Lord was showing me what I could have missed out on had I chosen to go watch TV or do something else. The question I was asking about what else could I be doing instead of making a charm bracelet with my daughter, I should be asking when I’m watching TV, playing games, or checking my phone: “What could I be doing with my daughter instead of doing this?” What am I missing out on? There are 2 challenges I have for you today. The first is to look deep inside yourself to see if there are chores or work that you won’t do or don’t want to do because you think they are beneath you. Maybe it is scrubbing the toilets, helping your child with an art project, or helping out in the nursery, and realize that the Lord stooped much lower to serve others. What kind of servants would tell their master, I’m willing to this, but not that, or that, or that. And once you have that list, look around at who could use your help in doing those things. Turn off your phone, close the laptop, and try joining them. Maybe join your spouse in washing dishes, help your kids with their hobby, or share your testimonies in podcasts. You may be amazed by the experiences and relationships that come out from them. Make lasting memories. Don’t let all the technological distractions of today take them away from you. Let’s pray:Lord, I pray for whoever is listening. I pray that you will reveal to them things in their lives that they have been reluctant to do because pride gets in the way. Help us to look to you as an example. Change our hearts so that we serve You and others first. Lead us to opportunities, even menial tasks, that will allow us to show our love to others, and thereby, build lasting relationships and memories. We pray all of these things in the name of your Son, Jesus. Amen.
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We talk about the immigrant experience where second generation Americans express their appreciation and respect for what their parents went through to get them to where they are, whether it was working menial, low-paying jobs, multiple jobs, being underemployed, or being invisible to their employers. We talk about what occupations are likely to be filled by immigrant workers and what typical pay rates are. The future of the American workforce lies with the second generation, and their stories are similar to those other second-generation Americans back through the last century. You don't have to scratch very hard to find the immigrant in your own family. We also talk about how your parents' jobs can affect your own job choice. An episode of shared American experience.The LA Times article we discuss:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-05/readers-share-inspiring-family-stories-about-parentsThe podcast with my mother:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguide/episodes/2020-01-14T10_10_26-08_00Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :)https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguideSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/discreetguide
We talk about the immigrant experience where second generation Americans express their appreciation and respect for what their parents went through to get them to where they are, whether it was working menial, low-paying jobs, multiple jobs, being underemployed, or being invisible to their employers. We talk about what occupations are likely to be filled by immigrant workers and what typical pay rates are. The future of the American workforce lies with the second generation, and their stories are similar to those other second-generation Americans back through the last century. You don't have to scratch very hard to find the immigrant in your own family. We also talk about how your parents' jobs can affect your own job choice. An episode of shared American experience. The LA Times article we discuss: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-05/readers-share-inspiring-family-stories-about-parents The podcast with my mother: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguide/episodes/2020-01-14T10_10_26-08_00 Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at: https://www.discreetguide.com/ Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :) https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguide Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/discreetguide
We talk about the immigrant experience where second generation Americans express their appreciation and respect for what their parents went through to get them to where they are, whether it was working menial, low-paying jobs, multiple jobs, being underemployed, or being invisible to their employers. We talk about what occupations are likely to be filled by immigrant workers and what typical pay rates are. The future of the American workforce lies with the second generation, and their stories are similar to those other second-generation Americans back through the last century. You don't have to scratch very hard to find the immigrant in your own family. We also talk about how your parents' jobs can affect your own job choice. An episode of shared American experience.The LA Times article we discuss:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-05/readers-share-inspiring-family-stories-about-parentsThe podcast with my mother:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguide/episodes/2020-01-14T10_10_26-08_00Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :)https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deardiscreetguideSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/discreetguide
The Boys explore Arizona as the state opens up too early. Mike’s decision not to wear a mask backfires while picking up an Amazon package. Ben becomes self conscious after leaving planet fitness.
Janine Turner's Front Porch Philosophy & God on the Go Minute.
When the Mundane and Menial Makes You Mad. Ever feel this way? My story and idea here! Col 3:23 Sign up to receive these daily via text or email: janineturner.com/janines-newsletter-signup
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This episode went a little off the rails but we still got some good stuff for you.Matt's headed to Indiana to teach at the Marc Adam's School of Woodworking.Menial progress was made on Joe's tea cabinet.Joe needs a desk for his new office space and Matt answers questions about building one. How to build it, what matches with Ash, to paint or not to paint, so many questions.
In this episode, LaDalia and Cari discuss what is going on with these menial workers! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/funkdisship/support
Amanda Welch was always interested in art growing up. By the time she attended the University of Alabama, design was a natural choice, leading her to earn an interior design degree. Today, she works in Seattle, helping high-end clients to create the beautiful, comfortable homes they’ve always wanted. In this episode we talk about: + how the jobs she liked the least over her career taught her the most + the challenges of communicating the value of her work -- and my tip for doing just that + breaking through industry stereotypes and differentiating herself + her tips for women entrepreneurs, including how she learned to trust her gut and why her mentor has been instrumental Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/value-in-mentoring
What is the value of any job? What stepping stone is your currently job setting you up for? What is your job giving you? How much are you learning about politics? Karma builds on experience. How are you building?
Series: N/AService: Sunday WorshipType: SermonSpeaker: Rodney Pitts
Rubrica Musicale (New Wave, Dark, Synthpop, New Romantics, 80’s)
What can we learn from Ezra as he organizes his travel party from Babylonia to Jerusalem? How should we conduct ourselves in light of what we see there? We dig into Ezra 8 to find out.
Today on Common Candor we go back to Menial Romanticism, this time with significantly more wisdom. If you are chasing any dream, this is a great place to start! Leave a comment to contribute to the conversation.SUPPORT: www.patreon.com/commoncandorShow Notes: commoncandor.com/portrait1-hopepennington/Social: Twitter - twitter.com/QuentinIreyFacebook - www.facebook.com/IreyQ/Instagram - www.instagram.com/ireyq/Minds - www.minds.com/quentinireySoundcloud - @commoncandorProduced and Edited by Quentin IreyMore at commoncandor.com
Whoops. Now you're captured by the Drow. Many lists of random items. Menial labor. Luna being Luna.
Know that no task will be beneath you or will be too hard if you let the Lord's glory shine on you. Isaiah 60:1 gives you the spiritual insight on why even the littlest task can make an impact.
Between traffic-clogged commutes, high stress jobs, and crappy coffee in the breakroom, the daily grind can be painful. Luckily, technology is paving the way for jobs you’ll actually be excited to do. Menial tasks like email can be automated. Decision-making can be done with artificial intelligence. And “deep learning” can teach robots to be creative and even generate ideas. Granted, automation is something Popular Science has been excited (and worried) about for decades, so we turn to our ever-entertaining archives for some historical guidance. The goal today is to integrate these technologies into the workplace in ways that make our jobs easier, safer, or more efficient (without making us humans obsolete). To find out how, we talk to Fumiya Iida, an engineer at the University of Cambridge who builds biologically inspired soft robots to work alongside people. Roboticist Hod Lipson of Columbia University talks up the promise of A.I doctors and lawyers. Judy Wajcman, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, tells us about how these shiny new technologies will soon become so integral to our lives that we’ll no longer notice they’re there. In the coming decades, our jobs, our offices, and even our commutes will likely become unrecognizable. To give us a behind-the-scenes view, Popular Science’s own futuristic information editor Katie Peek takes us on a tour of her ten second commute (via telepresence robot) from Baltimore to New York. And futurist Glen Hiemstra paints a verbal picture of what your next office might look like. (Spoiler alert: It could be on Mars!) Futuropolis is a biweekly podcast on the Panoply network. This week's episode is sponsored by Braintree, code for easy online payments. If you're working on a mobile app and need a simple payments solution. check out Braintree. For your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go you braintreepayments.com/future. And also by Squarespace. Start building your website today at Squarespace.com. Enter offer code Future at checkout to get 10 percent off. Squarespace—Build it beautiful.
Are you focusing on menial metrics, vanity metrics and things that are really not moving your business and life forward? Or are you staying laser focused on the right things. The tactics, strategies and big ideas, concepts and innovations that can bring real meaning to your business, your life, your customers, your community and anyone that comes in contact with your brand? As you end the weekend, start the weekend, start your week or end your week I simply ask you to think about these two words... menial and meaningful. Make sure you are focus on the right things. Take a listen to the 112th episode of the Social Zoom Factor podcast to learn more.
May 18 2012 - First Air Date
WIDB-era show from 1999 featuring interviews with employees at the mall and more embarrassing moments from my adolescence.
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