Podcast appearances and mentions of neil neil

Neil Patel's story shows how hard work, persistence, and learning from failure lead to success. As a teenager, he started businesses, including building websites, but struggled with ineffective marketing agencies. This pushed him to learn digital marketing, and by 16, he helped a client make $20M, marking the start of his career. After facing challenges with his earlier ventures, he shifted from starting businesses to acquiring and turning underperforming ones into successes. Now, as the founder of NP Digital, he runs a global marketing company that helps businesses grow. In this episode, Neil talks with Ilana about his journey, the strategies behind his success, and how businesses can overcome challenges and scale in today's competitive market. Neil Patel is a New York Times bestselling author, digital marketing expert, and the founder of one of the top 100 most brilliant companies, according to Entrepreneur Magazine. With over 15 years of experience, Neil has been instrumental in helping businesses grow their online presence and revenue. In this episode, Ilana and Neil will discuss: (00:00) Introduction  (01:11) The Power of Hard Work Over Privilege (01:39) From Teenage Hustle to Launching His First Website (08:01) Learning Digital Marketing After Agency Failures  (08:55) Helping a Client Reach $20M in Revenue at Age 16 (10:17) Attending College Due to Family Expectations (11:55) How Experimentation Reveals Your True Strengths (14:26) Lessons from Surviving Legal Battles at Kissmetrics (19:53) Businesses That Found Success Despite Their Flaws (22:35) Balancing Personal and Corporate Branding for Success (25:24) Shifting from Building to Acquiring Businesses (27:10) Neil's Strategy for Improving Acquired Businesses (31:15) Why “Renting Your Dreams” Can Lead to Future Success (33:29) How Consistency and Networking Create Opportunities (35:48) Empowering and Trusting Your Team for Results (37:44) Hiring Experts to Reduce Risk and Drive Growth (40:57) Neil Patel's Digital Marketing Services Neil Patel is a New York Times bestselling author, digital marketing expert, and the founder of one of the top 100 most brilliant companies, according to Entrepreneur Magazine. Recognized as a top influencer by The Wall Street Journal and one of Forbes' top marketers, Neil has helped companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google grow through marketing. He is also the co-founder of NP Digital, a leading marketing agency. With over 15 years of experience, Neil has been instrumental in helping businesses grow their online presence and revenue. Connect with Neil: Neil's Website: https://neilpatel.com/  Neil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkpatel/  Neil's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/neilpatel  Resources Mentioned: NP Digital: https://npdigital.com/  Neil's Book, Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum: https://www.amazon.com/Hustle-Power-Charge-Meaning-Momentum/dp/1623367166  Leap Academy: Ready to make the LEAP in your career? There is a NEW way for professionals to Advance Their Careers & Make 5-6 figures of EXTRA INCOME in Record Time. Check out our free training today at leapacademy.com/training

Suvi makes a decision about how her song is sung as the combined group of former KIT-10 members, family and people of responsibility deal with the Kels situation. Greff takes other peoples' pain, Ivoris transforms, Kaz makes a hard sacrifice and Suvi hides behind her taller friends. Is the cleric of the eclipse coming back with a game plan? I guess we're about to find out... Get early access to the [Kino] campaign on Patreon! You can help support the show at http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse Find us - Email: TheLuckyDiePodcast@gmail.com Website: www.TheLuckyDie.com  Twitter: @TLDPod [Arch - @Arch_DnD] [Eyþór - @Abyzzinn] [Karin - y2kpod@gmail.com] [Neil - Neil@blighthouse.studio] [Volonda - Volonda@blighthouse.studio] This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Upon the shores of the Chaos Island, the team make their stand against those seeking to kill their gods. Greff is encouraging, Ivoris considers a ship, Kaz takes off and Suvi helps a friend. Will the guardians step up to stop Kels, or will they get stepped on? I guess we're about to find out... Big thank you to Tanja for voicing Kels! Get early access to the [Kino] campaign on Patreon! You can help support the show at http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse Find us - Email: TheLuckyDiePodcast@gmail.com Website: www.TheLuckyDie.com  Twitter: @TLDPod [Arch - @Arch_DnD] [Eyþór - @Abyzzinn] [Karin - y2kpod@gmail.com] [Neil - Neil@blighthouse.studio] [Volonda - Volonda@blighthouse.studio] This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this episode of Sutton United Talk Time on Podcast, we dive into Sutton United's thrilling 3-2 home win against Ebbsfleet United. Join host Mike and panellists Neil and Neil as they discuss the standout performances, defensive challenges, and the team's resilience in securing back-to-back wins. We also look ahead to Sutton's midweek clash against Yeovil Town, breaking down key players to watch and predictions for the match. Don't miss our community shout-outs and all the latest news on Sutton United!

Matt has invited Sam for lunch to discuss the upcoming film premieres There is an industry buzz about the singing she did for the actress Polly Howard Harry's out of shape after an indulgent festive season and wants to get fit He has taken out a gym membership and plans to go five times a week Alyson admits she has enjoyed spending Christmas and New Year with Neil Neil thinks they should take their relationship to the next level by booking a holiday Bianca wants a restyle, but doesn't want her Mum to do it, so has asked Fiona Fi creates a tousled lob with curtain bangs. Bianca loves it. Sees haircare products... Sarah is helping Duncan clear up after the pub has closed. Says she wants new start Now Heather's murder case has been resolved, perhaps it's time to leave the police? Barry wants to buy a scented candle for Fiona and some figurines for himself Confesses he's a nerd who's into Dungeons and Dragons – hence the figurines

Neil Patel, Co-Founder of Neil Patel Digital, will be the first to admit no single person is great at every single thing they do. But one of the keys to his decades-long career in entrepreneurship is continually pushing forward and learning from his mistakes. On the latest episode of Talking Too Loud, learn why Neil thinks it's important for CEOs to work their way out of a job, and where they should focus their energy when more time has been given back to them.ALSO... Neil Patel is talking too loud about the economy. On the one hand, things are bad for business: multiples are down, people aren't funding, interest rates are too high. But funnily enough, this is also probably one of the best times to buy a business!Chris Savage is talking too loud about his 40th birthday extravaganza: a weekend of competitions (of course) where friends and family got together for bake-offs, Survivor-style obstacle courses, and Savage-themed trivia.And Sylvie is talking too loud about weddings, specifically how to strategically position yourself during the appetizer hour so you can get first dibs on the passed hors d'oeuvres, which, let's face it, is the star of any wedding.Links to learn more about Neil:Neil's LinkedInNeil Patel DigitalFollow us:twitter.com/wistiaSubscribe:wistia.com/series/talking-too-loudLove what you heard? Leave us a review!We want to hear from you!Write in and let us know what you think about the show, who you'd want us to interview on future episodes, and any feedback you have for our team.

不论是安排日程还是制定预算，有时需要预留一些 “允许变通、商量的空间”。英语表达 “wiggle room” 就指这种 “回旋余地”。主持人菲菲用表达 “wiggle room” 告诉同事 Neil 自己会争取更高的团队聚餐预算。听菲菲和 Neil 的对话，学习这个地道英语表达的含义和用法。

新年要到了，主持人 Neil 送给菲菲一个茶壶作礼物。菲菲很喜欢这个礼物，她告诉 Neil 这个礼物是 “the gift that keeps on giving”。难道她是想让 Neil 接着给她送礼物吗？听他们之间的对话，学习如何使用表达 “the gift that keeps on giving”。

主持人 Neil 中了彩票，十分高兴！他说自己可以用奖金还清账单、买新衣服、修理保养汽车。菲菲用 “sitting pretty” 来形容 Neil 的处境。这个表达和人的坐姿和外貌有关系吗？菲菲和 Neil 在节目中告诉你答案。

Being a modern professional security driver in the world of executive protection takes a lot more than just knowing how to get your client from point A to B. On today's podcast we're going to take a deep dive into this often under-appreciated role to find out what it means to be classified as a legitimate security driver. If you're a protector, you know the sense of relief you feel when you turn up to an assignment and realise, you're working alongside a skilled and professional security driver. But what does it take to get to that standard?  On today's show, our guest is Neil Davis OBE, Co-Founder of Secure Ground Transportation, and a long-time veteran of the industry. We're going to discuss the role of the security driver on EP operations and we'll also cover… How has protected Mobility evolved, coming out of the pandemic, and what changes have you seen in client vehicle selection? Where will the next generation of security drivers be sourced from and what makes a quality driver as part of an executive protection team? What are the limitations of self-driving vehicles and do they have a place in executive protection? With all the advancements in tech, what is being done to address the threat of espionage and safeguard privacy for principals when on the move? Neil's passion for this subject is evident, and as he reminds us:  “The term security driver and security driving. They're not marketing buzzwords. That is a statement of training.” More about Neil: Neil has been a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists for over 20 years and holds a 1st which is the highest driving qualification they award. He also holds an iQ (Industry Qualification) Level 4 in Security Driving, Vehicle Management.  This is the highest civilian security driving qualification in the United Kingdom. The course was designed and is run by a former Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group training Sergeant.  Neil is First Aid trained and as one would expect carries a full First Aid Kit and AED in his vehicle at all times.  Neil has a passion for helping others and giving back to the community.  He recently completed a charity bike ride from Cardiff to Swansea raising money for a cancer hospital in Cardiff. He was a school governor which is a voluntary position and ended up as the National Chairman.  He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to Education.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-davies-obe-a42313125/ (LinkedIn) https://securegroundtransportation.com/ (Secure Ground Transportation) More about the Circuit: The Circuit Magazine is written and produced by volunteers, most of who are operationally active, working full time in the security industry. The magazine is a product of their combined passion and desire to give something back to the industry. By subscribing to the magazine you are helping to keep it going into the future. https://circuit-magazine.com/read/ (Find out more >) If you liked this podcast, we have an accompanying weekly newsletter called 'On the Circuit' where we take a deeper dive into the wider industry. http://bit.ly/OntheCircuit (Opt in here >) The Circuit team is: Elijah Shaw Jon Moss Shaun West Phelim Rowe Connect with Us:  https://circuit-magazine.com/ (Circuit Magazine) https://mailchi.mp/the-bba.org.uk/bba-connect (BBA Connect) https://www.theprotectorapp.com/ (NABA Protector) https://the-bba.org.uk/ (British Bodyguard Association)

Welcome to the first-ever DISCUSSION episode on the Soul Driven Podcast! DISCUSSIONS involve one topic, one specialist, and me for a full-on geek-out session. This week, Neil Disyamonthon returned to deep dive on the Akashic Records with me in celebration of me launching my spiritual guidance practice this month. We share what the Akashic Records are, how we found them, how we experience them, the benefits, and much more. SHOW NOTES In this episode, we discuss: A fun, deep-dive on the Akashic Records with Neil Neil's definition of the Akashic Records How Neil & Ahna found the Akashic Records What is channeling? Ahna's Akashic Records discovery How Neil experiences the Records Some reasons people go into the Records What has Neil gained for his personal benefits from the Records LINKS Neil Disyamonthon neildisy.com Woke Wasted Podcast Edward Cayce on the Akashic Records AhnaHendrix.com Soul Offerings @ahnahendrix on Clubhouse If you were inspired by today's interview, leave a review on iTunes and subscribe! Sign up for the email list to receive podcast updates and free tools & meditations. And don't forget, "When we invest in ourselves, the world benefits." Until next week!

Neil Gordon helps experts become the face of a movement. He works with executives, influencers, and thought leaders and has helped them get six-figure book advances, be seen on shows like Ellen and Dr. Oz, and double their speaking fees. On this episode of Product Launch, Sean and Neil discuss What the ‘trudge to the bathroom test' is all about and why you need to run it “Marketing is made or broken by how well we understand the problems experienced by our customers” Why testing your product ideas are so important Figuring out what problems people are hungry to solve How he markets his products and what you can learn about how to market yours Defining your marketing hooks and figuring out what your next product should be Conducting the twitter test, (struggling with this problem and add a bitly link, spend a couple bucks on each and measure the results) Figuring out the marketing hooks, landing page content, testing your messaging Neil's magic wand product for transforming webinars Resources: Visit Neil on the web at https://neilcanhelp.com/ Neil's Silver Bullet at https://neilcanhelp.com/silver-bullet/ A Prayer For Owen Meany at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany Connecting with Neil: Neil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilcanhelp/  Email Neil at neil@neilcanhelp.com

In this episode, we discuss: -How Neil views training and education -How the Marine Corps seems to focus more on training enlisted Marines over educating them -What professional military education (PME) was like when Neil joined the Marine Corps -The lack of PME he experienced as a young Marine in the fleet -Where Neil's interest in PME began -The influence that the Infantry Small Unit Leaders Course had on Neil -Neil's initial reaction to working with me (a non-Marine civilian) -Why Neil thinks decision-forcing cases (DFCs) are effective teaching tools -How creating and facilitating DFCs helped Neil trust his Marines more -Neil's favorite DFC -Neil's process of researching and developing DFCs -If Neil were the Commandant of the Marine Corps, what's the one thing he would change about enlisted professional education? -Neil's ideas on how to get Marines of all military occupational specialties interested in the profession of arms -If Neil could change one thing about Marine training, what would it be? -What about changing one thing about the infantry community? -Neil's thoughts on Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 7 Learning -Neil's journey to writing, the trials of publishing, and his advice to Marines who are interested in writing -The need for honest critiques of one's writing -Some of Neil's ‘a-ha' moments with maneuver warfare -The dichotomy between maneuver and attrition warfare -What does the Marine Corps' warfighting philosophy look like in garrison? -As a former platoon sergeant, Neil's expectations of his Marines, squad leaders, and platoon commanders -What excites Neil most about the future of the Marine Corps -What worries Neil most about the future of the Marine Corps Links to books mentioned The Bear Went Over the Mountain edited by Lester Grau: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a316729.pdf The Other Side of the Mountain by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester Grau: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a376862.pdf Fangs of the Lone Wolf by Dodge Billingsley: https://www.amazon.com/Fangs-Lone-Wolf-Russian-Chechen-1994-2009/dp/1909384771 Errata Lester Grau did not write Fangs of the Lone Wolf. Dodge Billingsley did, though Grau wrote the foreword. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/damien-oconnell/support

SEASON 2: EPISODE 3 Activist and filmmaker Jacques Servin talks about shoplifting in airports. ABOUT THE GUEST Jacques Servin is co-founder of the Yes Men, an activist filmmaking collective that's plagued dozens of entities including Exxon, Shell, the NRA, and the US Department of Energy. In the process he's co-written, co-directed, and co-starred in three award-winning documentaries, with a fourth expected this fall. Servin has recently co-launched the Yes School, which teaches writers, theater people, and artists how to strategically bring creativity to ongoing activist campaigns; this spring, "students" are working with groups in Tanzania, Belfast, Istanbul, Toronto, and Budapest that oppose housing financialization and other forms of land theft. Servin has also published dozens of articles in all sorts of magazines, as well as two collections of short stories. ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that The New York Times has described as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny.” His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, he’s a Guggenheim Fellow, and teaches at the Yale School of Art. More information at neilgoldberg.com. ABOUT THE TITLE SHE'S A TALKER was the name of Neil’s first video project. “One night in the early 90s I was combing my roommate’s cat and found myself saying the words ‘She’s a talker.’ I wondered how many other other gay men in NYC might be doing the exact same thing at that very moment. With that, I set out on a project in which I videotaped over 80 gay men in their living room all over NYC, combing their cats and saying ‘She’s a talker.’” A similar spirit of NYC-centric curiosity and absurdity animates the podcast. CREDITS This series is made possible with generous support from Stillpoint Fund.  Producer: Devon Guinn  Creative Consultants: Aaron Dalton, Molly Donahue  Mixer: Andrew Litton  Visuals and Sounds: Joshua Graver  Theme Song: Jeff Hiller  Website: Itai Almor Media: Justine Lee Interns: Alara Degirmenci, Jonathan Jalbert, Jesse Kimotho Thanks: Jennifer Callahan, Nick Rymer, Sue Simon, Maddy Sinnock TRANSCRIPTION  NEIL GOLDBERG:  I am sitting in the apartment of my dear, very long term, long term friend. It sounds like a disease.  JACQUES SERVIN:  I'm sorry, I'm a disease.  NEIL:  No, you're the best disease. You're, you're, you're the kind of chronic, you're the kind of chronic, I like.  JACQUES:  That is so romantic. NEIL:  Hello, I'm Neil Goldberg and this is She's a Talker..  NEIL:  Today, I'll be talking to activist writer and filmmaker Jacques Servin. If this is your first time listening, here's the premise of the podcast. I'm a visual artist and for the past million or so years have been jotting down thoughts, observations, reflections on index cards. I've got thousands of them. I originally wrote the cards just for me or maybe to use in future art projects, but in, She's a Talker, I'm using them as prompts for conversations with some of my favorite artists, writers, performers, and  beyond. These days, the cards often start as recordings I make into my phone here and there over the course of the day. Each episode I start with some recent ones. Here they are.  I always feel proud of doing the math of calling something 19th century rather than 1800's .  (Card Flip)  Weird that sun can shine into an apartment.  (Card Flip)  The way people talk when they're trying not to wake you in the other room.  (Card Flip)  I'm so excited to have as my guest, my dear friend and fellow lower East sider Jacques Servin. Jacques is one of the two founding members of the activist group, 'The Yes Men', who take a unique, really powerful and subversive approach to political action by basically impersonating officials from corporations and government agencies and taking public positions on their behalf. He'll explain more in our interview, which took place just after the new year in the apartment complex where we both live.  (Card Flip)  Hi, Jacques.  JACQUES:  Hi, Neil.  NEIL:  do you remember, we met around the same time that the original, she's a talker, was being filmed. Do you remember that?  JACQUES:  Of course. I remember I wrote a short story called, 'She's a Talker.' NEIL:  Oh, that's right.  JACQUES:  Yeah.  NEIL:  Shock. In addition to being a perpetrator of corporate identity theft is also a writer whose writing. I fell in love with way back in 1993 and you wrote a story called, 'She's a Talker' in one of your two, first books.  JACQUES:  Yup. Yup. Yeah, I remember it really well.  NEIL:  So for many years you were principally involved in the 'Yes Men'. What would be the elevator pitch? Just for our listeners of what the 'Yes Men' do?  JACQUES:  Oh God. Okay. The 'Yes Men' are best known for impersonating captains of industry and representing them at  conferences and on television and so on. Giving versions of what those people should say. Or doing what has been called identity correction in civic identity theft, where you kind of like represent them as as they actually are. NEIL:  Right. I remember a signature action of yours was impersonating someone from Dow Chemical going on BBC and announcing that at long last out chemical was going to be compensating the people of Bo Paul for that disaster there. And it had this implication for Dow Chemical stock.  JACQUES:  Yeah. They said it was seen by 350 million people, which is the audience of that show. BBC world.  NEIL:  Same audience as She's a Talker.  JACQUES:  Yeah, exactly. And but yeah, I ended up on, on BBC making this announcement on behalf of Dow chemical, spending $10 billion, I think, on compensating the  survivors all this great stuff. Yeah. And yeah, Dow stock tank to immediately, I mean 4%  NEIL:  It was surreal.  JACQUES:  In that in their case it meant $2 billion. I think these days, my elevator pitch, which I'm refining, is I work with activist groups around the world to help them be more creative in their work.  NEIL:  Well, I love it. That's a real elevator elevator pitch.  JACQUES:  Yeah, but there's a second part of it too. That's equally elevator, but another elevator, which is, and I'm training people to do that also.  NEIL:  So like, so you're both helping and training people to help.  JACQUES:  Yes.  NEIL:  You're training people to do the job that you're currently doing? Yes. Okay. And what does that mean to, what does the first part mean?  JACQUES:  It's like we went to South Africa in September and worked with like 800 squatters. It's kind of amazing. They reached out to us long story, but they  NEIL:  were speaking  to  the Yes Men'?  JACQUES:  The 'Yes Men'. And they wanted to kind of do something. 'Yes Men-ish' around their issue, which is existence. Like they. Have a right to be there under the South African constitution. Everybody has a right to housing, but typically the government, if you demand your right, they'll give you some corrugated iron and send you 30 miles outside the city. Just like under apartheid, where they have these like racial settlements. Now it's economic. Basically the same apartheid policies are being replicated for economic reasons. Big surprise, and. So these people basically have squatted this on these two medical places that were empty, that are located in the most pricey real estate in Cape Town.  And, and they've got a fully functioning society, not perfect.   NEIL:  Versus all those other perfect societies.  JACQUES:  Exactly.  NEIL:  Let's be  realistic,  JACQUES:  you know? But yeah, but anything that goes wrong and it's like says, you know, see, they can't do it. And you know, in like, they do amazing stuff already, but, but it doesn't get attention because everybody's used to it. So they wanted to. Try to think of something that people weren't used to that would surprise people that would get across these ideas. And they came up with the idea of a Zombie March. So it's like, you know, apartheid ideas back from the dead. So the za, they all dressed up as zombies and all the kids, especially dressed up as zombies and they had zombie dance offs and zombie, you know, all this, these crazy activities for a week, getting ready for the Zombie March. Which were in themselves, a big point, you know, like the education and the connection and all that. And then they did this big March on the city, building. It was all super fun and it got front page news. There was tons of press. they got a new metaphor. Zombie embodying the should  be dead ideas that were not dead  NEIL:  of apartheid  JACQUES:  of apartheid, zombie ideas. NEIL:  Ah, so Jacques. Your parents were, remind me your parents' names.  JACQUES:  Henry and Genevieve.  NEIL:  Okay. So what would in turn Henry and then Genevieve, how might they describe what it is you do to their  JACQUES:  friends? I think they would say he makes movies or when I made movies,  NEIL:  cause the Yes Men made movies.  JACQUES:  We made movies, we made three movies. So I think, I think they would say that they would say they make funny movies.  NEIL:  Oh huh. I remember at some early point, your mom asked you something like, "Are you still making mischief?" Was that it?  JACQUES:  Yeah. Yeah. She characterized, the first thing I did as mischief.  NEIL:  So they've moved beyond just seeing what you do as mischief? JACQUES:  It was mischief at the time.  NEIL:  So she was correct. JACQUES:  She was correct. NEIL:  Interesting. what is something you find yourself thinking about today?  JACQUES:  You mean like bigger than me? Cause like  NEIL:  Anything, what, what you  happen to be thinking about today?  JACQUES:  God, what was I thinking about? Like insofar I was thinking today, I was, I mean, one of the things I was doing was trying to, I did headstands. Our mutual friend, Joe , who's a super adept, adept of Iyengar. NEIL:  Yes. Relatively.  JACQUES:  Yeah. Showed me how to do headstands, which I used to do like 20 years ago, but that was a long time ago, and suddenly I was doing them again because the teacher wasn't there. The real teacher just didn't show up.  NEIL:  And Joe led the class  JACQUES:  No he led me and some other people kind of eavesdropped and did the same thing, but he, that's  NEIL:  That's very advanced to have you do a headstand. While he was just kinda like, filling in, you know. I remember back in, we're, if we're talking like 1991 at Jivamukti yoga center, when I had just really gotten deep into yoga and they had windows looking out onto second Avenue, I remember doing a headstand  while it was snowing out. Oh my God. And seeing the snow fall up. Oh my God. It was just so great.  JACQUES:  That sounds amazing.  NEIL:  That was a yoga turning point for me.  JACQUES:  Oh my God.  NEIL:  Shall we go to the cards?  JACQUES:  Yeah, more cards. Didn't we go to one? NEIL:  Now? These are, this is like the evergreen questions as it were. These are the questions I ask everyone. Now, these are bespoke cards that I've curated for you and only you. JACQUES:  Oh my God.  NEIL:  So first card Jacques is actually  something we came up with, or we found ourselves discussing together. First card is the way a couples bed feels, at a party. The way it kind of excludes you, you know? Oh, and the type of specific,  JACQUES:  Oh God.  NEIL:  Intimacy. I've seen a couple’s bed at a party  JACQUES:  Covered with coats, usually  NEIL:  That's true. That's true.  JACQUES:  That always strikes me as weird. Like, Oh.  NEIL:  Putting the coats on it.?   JACQUES:  Yeah. It seems like a shame or something, or it's like, yeah, there's a little shame in it. You feel shame. No, I feel like there is shame in the offering of the bed for the coats. It's like, you know, it's like a way of acknowledging the bed without highlighting the bed. I t's like, just put the things on it.  NEIL:  Maybe that's what it's about though. Maybe it's about kind of hiding. Literally and metaphorically. Yeah, the bad.  JACQUES:  I think so. I think it's like the bed is there and you got to use it. A bed is made to be used, but clearly they're not going to have sex in front of everybody at most parties, so you put the coats on it to use it, you know, not obscenely or not, not embarrassingly. And, and, and there's a little shame in that.  NEIL:  So, yeah, no, I totally get it. It is almost like a Freudian right? Like, you know, we're a Youngian, right? Like, so that we may have festivities in this room, we must cover the place where  the act of union happens. JACQUES:  Yeah. It's like all about covering up the bed.  NEIL:  Yes. Yeah, totally. Totally. Totally, totally. funny. I, you know, I. Because it is like that bed is almost like throbbing. It throbs with this intimacy from which you are excluded.  JACQUES:  Yes.  NEIL:  Maybe the jackets are effective in extinguishing. Right? ] JACQUES:  Because when the jackets are there, you're just focused on the jackets and your own jacket probably. NEIL:  And yes. And will you be able to find it? You know,  JACQUES:  And then when you go get it, I always have the thought like, are people gonna think I'm stealing things?  NEIL:  Sometimes when I'm in a supermarket, and obviously this is like the product of like deep privilege. Like if I reach into my pockets, as I walk through an aisle, I think, Oh, is someone looking at a camera going to think I stole something? JACQUES:  Right. And sometimes you have. But maybe not you. I steal in airports. I never steal in supermarkets. NEIL:  What do you steal in airports? JACQUES:  Anything I want. It's super easy to steal in airports.  NEIL:  Really? JACQUES:  Yeah. I almost always steal something.   NEIL:  Wow! Have you ever been caught?  JACQUES:  No. No. You can't really be caught at airports. There's no security. They're not looking for that,  NEIL:  Or their security is all riveted on something else. It's like the ultimate, the real misdirection.  JACQUES:  Yeah. Yeah. Right, There's this like potential really bad thing, so you can do the minorly bad thing. and also I always have an alibi, so like, you know how the shops are always open and interconnected? I just like pick something up from one shop and walk to the cash register in another shop as if I think that's where it is. And then kind of like aimlessly wander off so I can always. Say, Oh, I, he, I did thought that was like, all right.  NEIL:  She's a Talker. Pro tip. How to shoplift.  JACQUES:  Yeah. In airports.  NEIL:  See, I feel judgmental of that. I do. I'm always looking for opportunities to feel judgment.  JACQUES:  Yeah. No, I'm glad to provide that.  NEIL:  You often do.  (Card Flip)  All right. Jacques, next card.  Hypothesis - people who do torture, must actually be empathic in order to be effective.  JACQUES:  Ooh, yes, of course. Look, that's terrible. That's dark. That's good. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Otherwise it would be no fun.  NEIL:  It wouldn't be effective because you have to imagine what something would,  JACQUES:  yeah, I think, I think so. It's like sex, right? You, you, you can't really perform a good sexual act on somebody if you haven't had it performed well on you. I mean, is that true?  NEIL:  It may be true, but, but I think buried within that is the idea. I think you can't perform a sex act well if you can't inhabit someone else's subjectivity based on, and that doesn't necessarily have to come from having experienced it yourself, but from being able to like, you know, be in tuned with the cues that you're getting and stuff like  that, which is like torture. I mean, often when I'm getting a massage, which I don't get a lot of, but when I do, I really love them. But I often think, God, massage and torture are so related.  JACQUES:  God, you're so dark. It is not true  NEIL:  because they both require a type of empathic or a type of knowing touch, right? To the extent that torture is physical versus psychological. and I guess with torture, what you have to do is at a certain point you have to cauterize or do something to that empathic connection that permits you to, or turn that empathic connection around to generate pleasure from the fact that you're doing something to someone that you wouldn't want done to yourself.  JACQUES:  Do you have any other cards?  (Laughter)  NEIL:  Yes. Let's move on. I have another card about core torture, but using Kindles read a sample feature of a book about torture. I found myself doing that. A question of torture.  JACQUES:  Oh God,  NEIL:  Read a sample. JACQUES:  Read a sample  NEIL:  Jacques, next card, that part of every Holocaust museum where they acknowledged the folks who are not Jewish, who helped. What if we had the audacity not to include that?  (Laughter)  JACQUES:  Oh my God. First of all, as soon as you said the word words. The part of every Holocaust museum I had to burst out in laughter,  NEIL:  Of course. Which is hilarious. Hilarious.  JACQUES:  Yeah. What if you didn't include that? What would that mean? NEIL:  I'm not advocating it. I'm proposing it as a thought experiment.  JACQUES:  If you just didn't bother, Oh my God, that would be so dark,  NEIL:  Would it be dark? JACQUES:  I think it highlights the rest of the people who didn't help, but it also like makes it a little less dark. It's like not everybody was bad, you know, by and large they weren't. Maybe, but  that's a different lesson, isn't it?  NEIL:  I think that there's an element of internalized antisemitism in it. Like, I'm sorry that you needed to help us, or I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is.  JACQUES:  I don't see that NEIL:  That may be a bridge too far.  JACQUES:  I don't see that, but I do see it exceptionalizing and making people heroes, which is super interesting. Like I always think like blaming the CEOs of big companies is, is bullshit. Also, it's like by the same token, it's sorta like. You know, they're not the problem there. There are these bad people, but exceptionalizing them isn't, isn't where it's at. It's like, just like the exceptionally good people aren't where it's at. It's great. They exist and the exceptionally bad people exist. But no, the main problem is that there's the, that perfectly nice people can do horrendous things. NEIL:  Right. Are you an optimist? Yeah. I know so many people who are like surprising optimists. So many people.  JACQUES:  Ah! That's interesting. Like me, of course. Is it  surprising? I feel obviously an optimist.  NEIL:  I get that.  JACQUES:  Otherwise, why would I be doing anything that I'm doing?  NEIL:  So I'm not an optimist. I don't know if I'd call myself an activist, but I'm politically engaged because I don't want to feel regret. I want to feel like, at least I tried. Yeah, sure. But that's really different from optimism. Isn't it?  JACQUES:  There's a probably a fine line, a gradation, a shades of gray. Ah. Cause it's like you do everything with a suspension of disbelief. Like it's very easy to do things without fully believing them scientifically. You can just do them. Maybe secretly you think it might make a difference, you know? NEIL:  If that's not what drives me, well...  JACQUES:  You wouldn't do it.  NEIL:  That's true. Like that's true. If there was zero chance, I wouldn't do it right. So that implies optimism, doesn't it?  JACQUES:  It does. huh. It does. Absolutely. Cause you wouldn't, it wouldn't work for the regret thing. NEIL:  That's a great point. So maybe I'm a  crypto optimist.  JACQUES:  Yeah. I mean, at least somewhat. And maybe like you don't believe it's definitely gonna work, but you don't have to leave it believe it's definitely gonna work. To be an optimist. You have to believe there's a good chance or a chance, a chance, chance. And. Yeah. When, when, when ever, has there been anything more than that ever in history? Like it's always been just a chance.  NEIL:  You've changed the way I think about optimism and pessimism here on, She's a Talker.   (Card Flip)  What is something that keeps you going?  JACQUES:  Oh, say one thing is. This sense of story wanting to make a complete story. that's only half done, or maybe more than half done, but like, it isn't complete. So it's like wanting to, you know, put a goal on it... The perfectionist. Yeah. The  completest. Is that a word?  NEIL:  Completist. Yeah. Oh, it's like a person who needs to read every book by. JACQUES:  Okay. Or finish every... Which is a lot of people, right. Not me. okay. So, yeah. Well that's, that's one thing is like, Oh, that would be a shame because it's, it's not, it's not done. It's not finished. It's not a package. There isn't a, a knot on it. And that's just, we, I'm not saying that's rational or like, I'm right to think that it's just, that's my psychology. The other thing would be, Like have being ambitious, wanting to do things, wanting to do more things than I've done, thinking that I can do more things than I've done having these like ongoing, like back-burner projects that I know I'm going to get to. having that illusion of getting to them one day, which may not be an illusion or maybe, but having that illusion. NEIL:  Fill in the blank for X and  Y. What's a bad X you would take over a good Y? JACQUES:  Oh wait, there's so many. A bad X over a good Y? I would take a bad, almost everything over a good, almost anything, I think.  NEIL:  Really?  JACQUES:  Yeah, like...  NEIL:  A bad meal. Over a good meal? JACQUES:   Like often if it's good, if it's labeled good, I feel an obligation to enjoy it a certain way. Whereas if it's labeled bad, I can just like if, if I don't, it's no loss. I haven't failed.  NEIL:  I know that. Yeah, there's freedom.  JACQUES:  There's freedom and badness. Yeah. I dunno, there's a theater trick, right? Where you, you like say, okay, we're going to do this thing and we're going to do it as badly as we can.  NEIL:  Right. JACQUES:  Okay. Who's the worst actor here? First role. You do that. And you know, and it's amazing because you're free, right? And you don't have to worry about the quality and  you know it's going to be bad. So you just go with it.  NEIL:  On that note. Jacques Servin, I never use your last name, but... JACQUES:  Let's do it there.  NEIL:  You, you never use your own last name or you never used my last name? JACQUES:  Mine.  NEIL:  Okay. Jacques Servin thank you for being on. She's a Talker.  JACQUES:  Thank you Neil NEIL:  Love you.  JACQUES:  Love you.   (Neil airkisses Jacques, Jacques replies in kind)  NEIL:  Before we get to the credits... As promised, we have something a lot of people have written in with their own responses to the cards, and we're going to be featuring some of them in the show. For instance, Paul van Dakar wrote in about a card we featured in our episode with comedian Naomi Ekperigin. The card is: My favorite TV show is the menu. Paul wrote, "I have a love hate relationship with the menu. Whenever I stay at a hotel or a friend's place who has cable, I probably spend the most time on the menu channel.  When I was growing up, we had channels two four five seven 38 56 and if you're lucky, maybe 68 that's why TV menus for me today are still like how I think Soviet immigrants used to feel when they moved to the US in the seventies and eighties. Astonished at the endless variety of breakfast cereal and deodorants and peanut butter on supermarket shelves. So like a bewildered immigrant to the land of cable. I scroll endlessly through the menu only to realize that the good stuff either ended a half hour ago or it doesn't start for another two hours, or never existed to begin with. And I start to feel dead inside. And then if I don't fall asleep, I might muster the strength to turn off the TV and read a book."  Thanks, Paul, for writing. If you've got a response, please email us that shesatalker@gmail.com or message us at shesatalker on Instagram. This series is made possible with generous support from still point fund. Devon Guinn produced this episode. Andrew Litton mixed it. Molly Donahue and Aaron Dalton are our consulting producers, Justin Lee handles social media. Our interns are Alara Degirmenci, Jonathan Jalbert and Jesse Kimotho. Our card flip beats come from Josh Graver and my husband Jeff Hiller sings the theme song you're about to hear. JEFF HILLER: She's a talker with Neil Goldberg. She's a Talker with fabulous guests. She's a Talker, it's better than it sounds, yeah!

Tom Duggan welcomes the new mayor of Methuen to Paying Attention.  Neil Perry will be doing a monthly Mayor’s update to talk about what is going on in Methuen. Our host Tom Duggan of the Valley Patriot discusses: Neil is not part of any team except team Methuen Neil is committed to an integrated communication strategy The mayor is all about promoting harmony What was the inauguration like for Neil? Neil is not going to run the city on Facebook The city charter designates when the inauguration will take place What did Tom like about the inauguration? What is the controversy with Neil’s selection for Chief of Staff? Neil is accountable for all the people he hires or appoints Neil want to do measurable and accountable things in year one He’s looking for opportunities to improve processes in city government What projects is Neil focused on? Neil talks about some of the things he’d like to see on the city website Will Neil be attending the City Council meetings? Has Neil talked with the Methuen Police Superior Officers Association? John Saba joins the program to talk about the problems that Tom and he have been having on Facebook John wants to know why Tom is so involved with what goes on in Methuen Do they reach an understanding? All that and much more on this week’s episode of The Paying Attention Podcast! For more information, check out latest edition of the Valley Patriot or www.ValleyPatriot.com. The Paying Attention! Podcast is recorded each week at the Studio 21 Podcast Café and is hosted on the United Podcast Network.

This week we pass off Dominicans as Cubans and out-Neil Neil as we talk about the secondaries from Season 8’s The English Patient! We chat about Ivan's engagement, how crap the Transformers film franchise is, Jerry's new billionaire status, and Hot Shots: Party Duex; Seinfeldisms (3:09), Seinfeld News (5:29), episode trivia (16:13); secondary characters Elaine's episode boyfriend Blaine (18:58), George's episode girlfriend Danielle (24:12), all the Izzy Mandelbaums (30:07), Earl Haffler (40:09) and Guillermo (42:20). Where will the episode and/or any of the secondaries appear in our list of the greatest episodes and characters of all time? Listen and find out!—Support us on Patreon and Paypal! Your donation will help keep the show going. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter. You can email us, too. Listen, download, subscribe to and review us wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Stephen’s Seinfeld Facebook group, ‘Seinfeldisms’,—Seinfeld News Hailee Steinfeld's new songSeinfeld's new comedy Billionaire statusThe final outcome of Jerry's copywright lawsuitJLD's unexpected Emmy loss—Ivan’s other podcast ‘In Melbourne Last Week’ will return for Season 3 in December 2019, listen to his previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify, with this RSS feed for other podcast services, or on the show's website.

We’re back with the second of our double bill of episodes from the Film-Philosophy Conference held at the University of Brighton in July. Hosted by our very own Dario Llinares the event boasted an internationally renowned line-up of keynotes and delegates.  Both episodes are made up of interviews we managed to grab as the conference progressed and, we hope gives you a sense of the eclectic mix of themes, methodologies and films that were discussed. As with part one, Neil and Dario are joined on interviewing duties by Kat Zabecka, from the University of Edinburgh. Show Notes 0.0 Introduction – Dario, Neil and Kat welcome Kat to the Cinematologists fold. 10:06 Evy Varsamopoulou (with Neil) - Neil talks to Evy about how Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017) introduced a philosophical problematic into a cluster of interrelated and (still) topical issues and debates concerning the origin of humanity, procreation and posthuman futures. 22:30 Mark Cauchi (with Dario) - Mark tells Dario how Jarmusch’s Paterson is an effort to counteract Trumpism and the chauvinistic secularism it embodies, not merely by negatively criticizing it, as Richard Rorty lamented the Left usually does but by drawing upon and revamping a tradition of American thought and culture in order to re-envision positively what a distinctly American secularity could and should be. 42:26 Dionysios Kapsaskis (with Neil) - Neil and Dionysios get into about language and translation in the films of Jim Jarmusch, drawn from Dionysio’s paper exploring representations of translation in Jim Jarmusch’s films. Drawing on recent scholarship on the relationship between film and translation, and on critical writings on translation by Derrida and Benjamin among others, the paper focused on several scenes from Jarmusch’s films in which translation is represented or referred to. 56:26 Jenelle Troxell (with Neil) - Jenelle tells Neil how, with its emphasis on political activism, aesthetic experimentation, and psychoanalysis, the film journal Close Up anticipates the feminist film criticism of the 1970s and how the writers develop what Troxell terms a “contemplative aesthetic” - focusing on film’s capacity to generate states of deep contemplative absorption in the viewer. 01:08:22 Shai Biderman (with Neil) – Over lunch, Neil and Shai discuss Fables and parables—two storytelling devices designed to elicit folk wisdom and moral understanding of human situations and predicaments— how they have gained a stronghold in contemporary film-philosophy and how their use in the Coen Brothers’ oeuvre is worthy of special attention, if only because of their sheer abundance. 01:22:34 Sylvie Magerstaedt (with Kat) – For the last of the conversations featured, Kat sits down with Sylvie to talk about Tim Burton’s Big Fish and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie and how although they seem to extol the beauty and power of storytelling and myth creation, and by extension the power of cinema itself, they also raise certain ethical issues when it comes to honesty and truthfulness. Clips featured on this episode include: Trailer for Prometheus (dir. Scott, 2012), a scene from Paterson (dir. Jarmusch, 2016) and the title song from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dir. Coen, 2018), performed by Willie Watson and Tim Blake Nelson. Also listen on: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cinematologists-podcast/id981479854?mt=2 Our Website: www.cinematologists.com PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/series-2416725 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0RjNz8XDkLdbKZuj9Pktyh Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cinematologists  

  Today I get to drop this wonderful conversation I had with Neil Crone. I don’t think I was prepared for how relaxed and fun it was going to be to speak with Neil. I always love when I meet someone for the first time and my first thought is, “this is going to be fun!” Neil is someone who has been through his fair share of “Schtuff” but has not let his challenges darken the lens with which he views the world. Instead, he is someone who uses his experiences as a way to reach out and connect with others to shine a light on what bonds us to together as humans and propel us forward into the very things that paralyze us. Neil does this with his writing, improv, acting and motivational speaking, but I have a feeling, after speaking with Neil, it is just how he shows up in the world.   Some of the things we cover in this episode are, What his biggest challenge as an artist has been, as someone who studied and performed in improv what is the most valuable takeaway he has brought with him into other areas of his life and what major change he would like to see happen in the entertainment industry.   A little about Neil: Neil is an actor and writer who lives in a town so small everybody knows where everyone else’s birthmarks are.  He has performed in dozens of television and radio commercials, TV shows and is the voice of numerous cartoon characters every Saturday morning, including ‘The Ridonculous Race’, ‘Ella’ and the upcoming ‘Kody Kapow!’  His most current television and feature film roles include a guest starring appearance in ‘Rogue’, ‘Murdoch Mysteries’,   ‘Remedy’, ‘The Strain’, ‘One Starry Christmas’ , and the soon to be released, ‘Bon Cop Bad Cop 2’ and Stephen Kings ‘It’. He also enjoyed six seasons playing the role of Radio Redneck Fred Tupper in CBC’s hit sit-com ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’ and two seasons of Family Channel’s ‘Really Me’. A Second City Mainstage alumnus, Neil has been performing improvised and sketch comedy for over twenty years and is the recipient of a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Radio Comedy for his work as ‘Bad Santa’ on Q107’s Derringer in the Morning. When not performing, Neil is busy writing; as an award-winning weekly humour columnist for Metroland papers, and a contributor to numerous publications including Zoomer Magazine, Ontario Out of Doors, Dogs in Canada and ACTRA Magazine. His books; ‘Semi-Colon; A Writers cheeky journey through Colo-rectal Cancer’, “Who Farted?’ – Stories in Verse for big and little kids” and “The Farmers Secret Midnight Dance” and his first collection of syndicated columns “Enter Laughing – The Early Years” are currently available at major bookstores. Neil is a cancer survivor and is a National Spokesperson for both the Colo-rectal Cancer Association of Canada and Colon Cancer Canada.  He is available as a motivational speaker, focusing on the power of laughter in healing.  When Neil grows up he wants to be an Astronaut.    https://www.thisischelseajohnson.com/

In this week's episodes: Elaine hates the English Patient, George tries to out-Neil Neil. Then he builds a shelf under his desk to sleep, and Kramer swims in a river.