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Dust Bunnies, it’s time to turn the LIGHTS OUT (2016)! But as always, we’ll permit a night light and endless stuffed animals, duh. We think this film should be a cult-classic, deep-analysis phenomenon, & maybe to some it already is! Join us under the bed as we explore dynamic emotions, realistic relationships, a rocker boyfriend with a heart of pure gold (we heart Bret!), missing scenes we somehow manifested into our memories (r we ok?), & our love for our possibly tired & absolutely stunning queen: Teresa Palmer. Bring a candle, we’ll grab our flashlights, & hey - can someone get a UV ray light? No? Okay, that’s fine. We’ll manage. Now’s the time to be (a ‘lil bit) afraid of the dark!

Hello Tapers! Whoa, are you READY for a new episode?  No?  Okay, we'll wait.  No later than Wednesday... PSYCH!  This week, the Tape Daddies are joined by the majestic and wonderful actual Daddy, Justin Cowan for 1988's The Adventures of Barn Munchausen!  Does this Terry Gilliam classic, featuring such stars as Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, Eric Idle, and more stand the test of time?  Or does it rot like a lime?  Find out this week on Tapes! Tapes! Tapes! Love, Tape-Daddies

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Welcome to Episode 51 Nooks and Crannies! Poopy-UFO Stories and No-Prep Homemade Political Soup :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Welcome to a Nooks and Crannies 1st! No topics, No Prep, Somehow our best episode this year! Evan leads us in with a dental water-boarding experience he had and suggests a round-table style discussion on book-binding, before Matty blows his socks off with: Not 1, But 2!! UFO Stories!!!  Here is our previous Alien episode: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nooks-and-crannies/e/66680398 Watch for this to be played on Somewhere in the Skies: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/y3iyn-4fdc6/Somewhere-in-the-Skies-Podcast (11:55) Okay, back to our regularly scheduled topics..The De-Masked Joe Biden has chosen his running mate, Kamala Harris who also went to High school in Montreal apparently. No surprise here, so we spin this into a discussion on the disappearance of the Center, why Libs cannot Meme, and polemics. (19:57) Matty would love to recommend two podcasts from The Ringer: Higher Learning: https://www.theringer.com/2020/5/26/21270685/introducing-higher-learning-with-van-lathan-and-rachel-lindsay The Bakari Sellers Podcast: https://www.theringer.com/bakari-sellers-podcast (24:38) For some reason we started talking about how much of a douche bag Rex Murphy, Canadian opinion columnist and professional curmudgeon…Matty gets a little cheap shotty and Evan is lost for words. I highly do not recommend you Google image him..its jarring  (28:42) On a much more tragic note, we discuss briefly the Nova Scotia massacre from a few months ago…Evan read in Macleans *big deal publication up here, that the shooter had some very suspicious looking ties to the RCMP as not an informant, more so an Agent..I will link two articles here, you decide: https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-nova-scotia-shooter-case-has-hallmarks-of-an-undercover-operation https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-nova-scotia-murders-end-the-farce-call-the-inquiry   (35:35) So, that’s why we don’t cover true crime on the pod…okay, better taste in our mouths you say? No? Okay whatever, looks like im talking to myself again…Here is another Cooking Time with Sous Chef Evan: Soup and Stock! Talk to you all soon, aren’t we lucky, peace and solidarity, be well and keep fighting those good fights! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: N&C Links All The Episodes https://nooksandcrannies.podbean.com All Our Links in One Place https://linktr.ee/nooksandcrannies Drop us a line: Nooksandcranniespod@gmail.comTweet a little Tweet at Us: https://twitter.com/NooksCrannie Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/nooksandcranniespodcast Ponder Evan’s Blurry Pictures: https://www.instagram.com/nooks_and_crannies_pod/ Find Nooks and Crannies on Spotify Follow, Rate and Review on Podchaser (please!) Graphics by Donna Hume ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Theme Music Attribution: Cullah - "Neurosis of the Liver" on "Cullah The Wild" https://www.cullah.com/discography/cullah-the-wild/neurosis-of-the-liver Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Zach has the honor of welcoming Howard Bryant back to the podcast on this special Saturday episode. He and Howard touch on several elements of our current civil rights protest, and Howard graciously explains why he disagrees with the sentiment that white folks are just now really understanding and seeing the evils of racism. Check the links in the show notes for ways to pledge your support!*This episode features occasional explicit language.*Connect with Howard on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and don't forget to check out his website.Learn more about Howard's latest book, Full Dissidence, by clicking here.Interested in finding out more about Howard's other books? Click here to be redirected to his Amazon page.Donate to Black Lives Matter by clicking here.Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers by clicking here.You can pledge your support to a variety of institutions by clicking the following links: Know Your Rights Camp, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Campaign Zero.Check out our website.TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach with Living Corporate, and I have my daughter Emory in my lap. Say something, Emory. You gonna say something? No? Okay. And, you know, this is not the norm, right? Like, typically you're gonna listen to See It to Be It with Amy C. Waninger or The Link Up with Latesha with Latesha Byrd. However, as we look at the world around us and the chaos that continues around us--like, we're not teetering towards chaos, we are in a chaotic time. And we see the state by way of their police force abusing everybody. It's a unique time, and so we wanted to make sure today--not Tuesday, but today--that we actually had a really in-depth and frank conversation with someone who understands the concept of dissidence, and that's Howard Bryant. Howard Bryant is a senior contributor and writer for both ESPN and NPR, and he wrote a book titled Full Dissidence, and it tackled the reality of protest, and he really analyzed and assessed Colin Kaepernick's protest and really broke down white power structures that maintain the status quo in spite of dissidence. And, you know, we also talked a little bit about--and you're gonna hear this--the responses of many of these corporations and how authentic they were in actually addressing the problem. And so, you know, one point of feedback, and you'll notice this, is that organizations are going to--and they're doing it now, and they're going to continue [to do it]--to treat racism as this abstract concept, and so it's up to those who are in positions of authority and have courage to speak to tie those words and concepts into tangible actions, right? So it's not enough to say, you know, "We have to do better and be better and treat people better and open our hearts and minds." That's not actually what changes. What changes is actually structures and policies to actually make a difference, right? Enacting pillars or means of accountability and repercussions for bad behavior. That's how you change, and so to all the organizations who are seeking to make these statements, understand, like, we're in a different place, and folks are looking to hold folks accountable in a different way. [laughs] I just saw a Google Sheet that's been going around that actually really starts getting tangible about how authentic some of these folks are when it comes to anti-racism, and, you know, it doesn't just stop out there. It continues within organizations, right? Like, your company does not have this magic barrier that stops racism, and so that's important, and so we talk about that, and I wanted to make sure--because we didn't have a lot of time with Howard Bryant so I didn't have time to do a bunch of intro stuff, we just got right into the questions, so I wanted to make sure to give a little bit of context. I pray that everyone who's hearing this is staying safe. Definitely support everybody protesting. You're seeing on Living Corporate, we are trying to amplify as much as we can. You're gonna see some links to donate to different protestors and bail funds and things of that nature. You're gonna see that in there. My hope and my desire is if you're an aspiring ally and you listen to Living Corporate regularly that you would check those links and donate. You don't have to donate to Living Corporate, just donate. Just click the links. Just please donate to those links. Shout-out to all my people. Love y'all. 'Til next time. Peace.Zach: Howard, welcome back to the show. How are you doing? Howard: I'm good. How are you?Zach: Man... you know. [chuckles]Howard: [chuckles] Staying sane during all of this?Zach: Trying to, trying to, trying to. Look, you know, we had you on not too long ago, and you've seen a lot, I know, in your life in terms of civil struggle. I think I was a kid when the Rodney King riots happened. In your estimation, is this the largest civil rights protest that you've seen in your lifetime?Howard: I don't know. That's a good question, that's a really good question, considering a few things, right? I was, what... Rodney King, I was 22, and that was nowhere near close to this. I mean, that was--that was disbelief followed by sort of [retrenchment?] followed by rage, because let's not forget that Rodney King happened over a year. Because first it was the beating, then there was the trial, you know, and then there was the uprising, and that happened in '92, but Rodney King actually got beaten down in '91. And so there was that, but this is also--then there's also Ferguson, and so what was happening in Ferguson and Baltimore, all of these things were sort of separate. So I think yes, actually when you really think about it in terms of one sort of linear scale moment, yes, this is the biggest reaction, this is the greatest singular reaction that I've ever seen, and I think that it's been a long time coming. I think that there's so many different avenues that you can take when assessing something like this. Obviously if you're Black you're sort of wondering "What took so long?" I think even if you're just an observer you look at it and say, "Okay, why now? Why Minneapolis? Why was this one the one that linked everybody?" All kinds of great questions there, and then I think the other question that you have here too when you look at it is "What is going to come of it?" And happening during a pandemic. I mean, I swear, man, I believe--I woke up the other day wondering if I had, like, fallen down the stairs and been in intensive care and nobody told me. I mean, I woke up--I woke up and had all these messages from all these people, all my white friends. "If there's anything I can do." I'm like, "What happened?" Then I get another one going, "Oh, I'm so worried about you right now." I'm like, "What happened?" I'm checking my phone, I'm checking the news. I'm like, "What happened? Why is everybody texting me making sure I'm okay?" Then I check my email. "Just really worried, you know, about you and yours, and anything I can do," I'm like... "What happened?" And now you're recognizing that "Oh, they're getting it now. This one got to them." And I'm not even trying to be funny. I literally had no idea why I was getting all these messages, because for us this is normal. This was like, "Okay, this is one of many."Zach: Exactly, right? And I saw you tweeted about this, and I've actually talked to my colleagues about this too, but there seems to be, like, this large sentiment that white folks are just now really understanding and seeing the evils of racism, and, like, what do you make of that? What do you make of this phenomenon?Howard: Yeah, I don't make any--I don't believe that for a minute. I think it's something totally different, and I think that we're in the middle of... I don't know if you're an Alfred Hitchcock fan or not, but Hitchcock mastered the art form of the MacGuffin, and the MacGuffin was essentially the red herring. It was the thing that made you think the plot was, but it wasn't. Like, if you're watching--like, if you watch Psycho it's like, "Okay, it wasn't about the $40,000 he stole after all, was it? It wasn't that. It was this." I don't believe that I'm actually gonna say this, but I'm gonna say this, and I was talking to Roland Martin about this the other day. I really believe that racism in some ways is a bit of misdirection, [that?] racism is not the issue. The issue is policing. The issue I think white people are tired. I think the country's tired. I think after three and a half years of this administration and this buildup, I think that people are recognizing there's no way out, and I think that if you combine that with a pandemic where everybody's been in the house for three months, I think things are starting to--I think it's sort of, like, a perfect storm in a lot of ways, and I think that the visceral nature of that killing... I think Eric Garner was one thing, and I think Eric Garner was every bit the same type of killing that this one was, but I think Eric Garner happened in such a flurry that I don't think that people paid as close attention because Eric Garner and Ferguson were right next to each other, and I think that there was still enough misdirection--and I also think there was something else, and I think that there was a feeling too that there was going to be some form of accountability because you had Barack Obama in the White House and he was talking about accountability and talking about [?], and so there was this feeling that maybe the system was actually going to maybe kind of do something down the line, but here with this administration, I think they've made it very, very clear that this is the norm, and watching that murder and having it be a physical murder--it wasn't that he got shot or anything, you literally put your knee on the neck of somebody while he was held down, you know, apprehended by three other officers. There was no reason for it. It resonated. I think people saw it because their lives have shut down. I think it's easier to ignore this stuff when your life is moving on. You, like, take a little look and you keep going, but everybody's been stuck in the house, so everybody's been paying--I think people paid much more attention to this because they didn't have anything else necessarily, because it feels like the country is falling apart, right? I mean, it already feels like, "All right, we're talking about the economy and everybody's losing their jobs and you have 40 million people out there on unemployment AND you're in the house watching videos all day in-between Zoom chats." All you're doing is you're online. So something about it hit in a way that it didn't hit in other ways, and then on top of that the marshal response is very different, where you have a bunch of white kids out there, this looks like--I mean, so when you say "my lifetime," technically my lifetime? No, because I was born in 1968. So this feels like '68 in terms of when you see a whole bunch of anti-war people and, you know, when you see white people--when you see white people getting the shit beat out of them by police, you know that something's happening.Zach: They getting whooped out here.Howard: Exactly, and they're out front. And I think there's something else too worth paying attention to, and that is this may be a delayed sort of effect of the last 12 years. I think that if the 2008 election was your first election, you were 18 years old, you're 30 years old now, and in 2008 you had a belief that this was gonna be different. Not just black people, but everybody on that side had a belief that that election was finally going to turn a corner and that these corners were going to keep being turned, and they're not, and now you see this frustration. And on top of that, that generation, that generation believed. I mean, we talked about this last time. The thing that I was really worried about, I was worried about it for black people, I'm now somewhat worried about it for white people in a lot of ways, is that they believed in 2008, that this country was free and that all you had to do was break that logjam, and I think that logjam, first you break it with Obama, but then after that you break it with his reelection. So you think, "Okay, maybe we normalized this idea that anybody can be president," then it's been backed up with nothing but retrenchment. You know, 1. you look at how Hillary lost, 2. you look at how Brett Cavanaugh got to the Supreme Court, 3. you look at how Elizabeth Warren was essentially humiliated, even though she was clearly one of the smartest if not the smartest candidate who was running for office. So now you have these white people, and white women in some ways especially, finally realizing what it's like to get punched in the face politically, you know? Where you finally start to realize "Oh, we're getting it too," and if you start to add up this accumulation on top of an administration that has essentially been cracking down, whether you're talking about immigration, you're talking about--it's all of these things together, and then you see this black man getting killed in essentially slow-motion for 8 minutes and people are like, "Enough," and then the dam breaks. And it's an election year as well. So I think there are so many things that are happening. You know, and this is how it usually works, right? And how it usually works is that it's all the things. It's never "the one thing," it's all the things combined that create the breaking point, and the Trump reaction to the breaking point, to essentially build a fortress around the White House, to have prison guards who are unidentified out in the streets policing D.C., to essentially unleash police on everyday citizens, you know, to do that, to have them fire into crowds of white people... this feels like dystopia. It's not like, "Oh, we're nearing chaos." No, we are in chaos right now. We're in it.Zach: I want to pivot a little bit and talk about some of the responses, like, that we're seeing from these major brands, and I'd like to stick to sports [chuckles] for a second. Is there any bigger example of cognitive dissonance than Washington making statements or [?]?Howard: Oh, and the Chicago Blackhawks or the Braves? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah, you know, but once again, people talk all the time about weaponizing your politics, right? And usually when they talk about these types of weaponizings they talk about political correctness or they talk about virtue signaling or they use all of these very insulting terms to essentially ridicule people of color or people who are gay or Black people or whoever about their identity choices, identity politics. You hear all of these different insulting terms, right? There's no greater example of political correctness than the National Football League acting like they care about this. All they're trying to do is send a message that they're on the right side of this when their history shows 100% they are not on the right side of this. They're on the opposite side of this. And the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Blackhawks and the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians and all of these teams with their racist logos are gonna say that they care about this, that they actually care? And all of these teams, every team in the National Football League who essentially took Colin Kaepernick and ruined his career, they took his career from him, are now going to say that they're in support of Black people? But if you notice, it's a very delicate dance because they don't want to mention the word "police." Zach: I was just about to say it's interesting to see that machine coming together, right? Like, they'll talk about [?] "Racism does not align with our values," [but] they don't talk about the police brutality. Mainstream media isn't talking about widespread police abuse.Howard: Well, that's what I mean about racism in its own way being a red herring. It's a MacGuffin. The goal here is not to eliminate racism. That's not the goal, right? The goal is for the system that you tell us to trust to do its job and arrest those four cops and prosecute them and have the juries out there recognize that crimes were committed and convicting them and of course putting them in jail, and on top of that we're forming laws that give police this wide latitude to do these things in the first place. But if you focus on racism, you don't have to change anything. You don't have to do anything. So you concentrate--so all we've been seeing here is "Oh, we've gotta--oh, Black Lives Matter, and, you know, we have to be better and be kinder to people, and we need to--you know, racism is the pandemic, it's the second pandemic." I don't care about any of this. What I care about, I care about the actual concrete structures changing, and they're acting like this, and what they're doing is that they're selling this to the public to make it sound like there's nothing they can do. They could go back to session right now and change the damn laws. That's what they can do. And when you think about on the other side, right, when there is a scourge that they feel is affecting society and affecting crime and everything else, all of a sudden there's plenty of concrete steps when it comes to black people. When they find black people as a scourge, all of a sudden you've got all kinds of tangible, concrete resources and solutions. You've got tougher laws. You build more jails. You put more cops on the street. You have more resources. You have longer prison sentences. Suddenly the entire machine actually works with concrete steps. But when you're asking white people to hold police accountable, it's "Let's abolish racism. Let's be nicer to each other. Let's one day open our hearts and be the society we say we want to be." No. No. You guys go to session and you take those cops and you put them in jail. Let's have a little conversation about one other thing, right? Fear. Let's talk about fear for just a minute, right? One of the reasons that you don't walk into an office and you look at your female coworker and you say, "Nice rack," or you say, "Nice ass," or you make some comment on her, right, you don't do that. Not anymore you don't. Why don't you do that? It's not because the minute you walked into that building suddenly your heart opened up and suddenly you were a nicer person and you weren't a frat boy misogynist asshole anymore. It meant that when you walked in that building you knew the fear of what was gonna happen to you if you talked to your coworkers by that. So what we're really talking about is you know damn well you're not a nicer person. You just know not to talk like that 'cause you know you're gonna lose your career.Zach: There's consequences and repercussions to that, absolutely.Howard: Right, there's consequences and repercussions to that. So why doesn't that get applied to policing? That you are going to lose everything if you act like this. If you changed the laws and you changed the cultural attitudes and said, "Listen, if you do what you guys did to George Floyd, your careers are over, we take your pensions, you are prohibited from working in this field for the rest of your lives," it would change. And on top of that, and to you police departments, these civil settlements that we have to pay that are in the billions, they're coming out of your budgets and your pensions. You would see a behavioral change overnight. "And if we catch you on video punching some teenager who's already in handcuffs, you're done," and it's an immediate felony charge, and all of a sudden if you start applying three strikes to the police the same way you apply three strikes to some dude buying a dimebag, all of a sudden you would see change, but instead what you're seeing is "Oh, well, open your hearts and let's be kind," and they're using racism and the utopian society as some sort of goal when actually none of this would have happened if you had arrested those guys and put them in jail the minute it happened.Zach: 100%. You're absolutely right, right? And I think it's actually happening also in the corporate space too, you know, and I want to talk about dissidence, and I know we have a little bit of time left, but I want to get to this. So the last time we spoke about, you know, we talked about the concept of full dissidence, and it's interesting because I think Black professionals across the industry in North America that I've definitely seen, they're seeing these companies treat race as an abstract, and they themselves, similar to how you're saying about, you know, the policing system and how there are things that we can tangibly change, they too are seeing how things can be tangibly changed. I'm curious though, before we get even into work, what are your thoughts about the video that just dropped from the NFL players. Is that an example of the dissidence that you're speaking about?Howard: Partially. It's on its way. It's on its way, and what I like about that is I feel like they're recognizing that you have a responsibility here. And let's face it, the NFL opened up the door here. They all did. Hollywood did, sports did, everybody did, and now the question's gonna be "Are you gonna walk the walk? What are you gonna do?" And now people want to see what you're gonna do. So if you're the NFL, are you gonna put out 33 of these statements, 32 teams and one league all putting out statements, and then blackball a guy? Well, what good is the statement? Are you going to put out all of these statements about how much you're down with Black people and then prohibit them from expressing themselves? Are you going to do this and, at the same time, make everybody celebrate police? And how are you going to celebrate police and military when you have the police knocking down 75-year-old men and you have the National Guard pointing weapons at its own citizens?Zach: And killing folks.Howard: And killing folks. Are you able to do that? You aren't going to be able to do that anymore. So I like what the players are doing. I also feel like the larger unspoken part of all of this is also the idea that your white fans are more important than your black fans. Because let's face it, if you had respect for your black fans, you wouldn't have done that to Colin Kaepernick because most black fans supported Colin Kaepernick. So what you were really doing was you were sending the message to your white fanbase saying, "We got this," right? And I understand it at some level. I understand it at a fear level, the fear level being, "Well, listen, this is our business model, and if people abandon our business model what are we gonna do?" But then, you know, it's fear versus courage. Do you have courage to also say to those people, "Listen, A. it's a free country, this is his protest, B. he's right, we have issues and we need to fix them, and C. in a sort of way, I dare you to leave. You ain't going nowhere. You're football fans. You love this sport, you love this game. Are you really going to tell us that you're no longer gonna watch the National Football League because one guy on a team you don't even follow is taking a knee about an issue that he cares about?" But that's really not the issue. The issue is that what he did inflamed all of them, the people who run the game. He offended their politics, and he forced a reckoning that you're seeing right now with the Saquon Barkley video that those guys did, and interesting respect seeing Pat Mahomes on there because, you know, for lots of reasons. You know, I mean, 1. people have been talking about the biracial element of this, you know, where does this leave the biracial kids? Well, Pat Mahomes told you. "I'm Black. That's where it leaves me." And it also leaves you somewhere else. When the superstars get involved things change, and the superstars have a quarterback, and Pat Mahomes is a superstar quarterback.Zach: Right, arguably the best quarterback in the league right now.Howard: Arguably the best quarterback in football, and if he's gonna be the guy, then all of a sudden the whole game changes. Zach: Right. So let me wrap up on this one. You know, the last time you were here, you called out how a lot of this diversity and inclusion, corporatized stuff, is actually anti-Black, and I think we're seeing, like, a watershed moment right now where these organizations and this industry that has largely been focused on white women, if queer identities white queer identities, is now scrambling to hire consultants and create new programs and create new statements to really address their actual black employees, and I'm curious to know, what do you predict is going to happen, and where do you see this ending now that we're in a situation where corporations and businesses are focused to actually talk about blackness explicitly?Howard: Well, I'm not willing to go there yet, and I'm not willing to go there yet for a few reasons. One, it's too new, because I think everybody right now is just in damage control mode. That's what I think, so that's my first reaction is "I'm gonna wait and see. Let's play this out." What's gonna happen two, three, four months from now? The world has been moving so quickly that this--who knew that a global pandemic was actually going to be second on the news items now to something else? You never know what's coming. And to me, I need to wait and see what they do with it, because right now the first thing that these guys are thinking about is putting out the fire, and once they put out the fire, are they going to go back to their regularly scheduled racism? And are they going to go back to the old way that they do things? Look, the bottom line with everything corporate to me, if you want to talk about diversity and inclusion and if you want to talk about advancement and if you want to talk about all of the different ways that the corporate world can be a hostile environment or it can be an encouraging one, to me it's usually been hostile because I think that people in these industries have always wanted diversity of color without diversity of thought. The real question to me when I think about the corporate world has always been this - "Are you grooming me to replace you?" That's the question. "Are you grooming me to be the face of your company? Are you grooming me to be the head of your corporation? Because if you are not, then what you're really saying is I will always have limitations and that you're always going to be scrambling to mollify whatever crisis we have in the day, that whatever the crisis [?] we're gonna find some way to calm it down and then go back to what we usually do." If you are at a point one day where these corporations look at you and they say, "Hey, it's okay to have two of our top three officers be Black, and one of them is the CEO and one of them's the CFO, and we're good," instead of having your top Black officer always be corporate comm. If that's the case, then maybe you'll see some serious change, but to me the real issue has always been the actual limitations. When you look at the--you know, I talk about big government, and you think about advancement and the rise of the black middle class and the destruction of the black middle class, you're usually talking about government. You're not talking about corporations. You're talking about the post office and you're talking about civil service jobs and you're talking about--those are the jobs that built the middle class. Corporations generally still do not hire black people in great enough numbers where you're not relying on the government, you know? When black wealth starts to decline, usually it comes from the shrinking of government, of government jobs. So to me, when you start to see, if you ever start to see, a movement or a shift in those numbers where you have corporations who are willing to groom African-Americans to be real players in their industries, when you start to see that, then you'll start to see change, and then I'll look at it and say, "Hey, this is different," but until then I'm gonna take a wait and see. And then also there's one other thing to consider about that too. We don't even know what the world is gonna look like, right? I mean, Black people right now are in the middle of this because of what's happening in Minneapolis and around the country, but let's not forget, we are still in the middle of a pandemic, and we are still--we're only in the first wave of that pandemic, because when flu season hits we may be shutdown again. So we still need to take a long look at the larger picture of what's happening, but as of today, the corporations have certainly put themselves in the position where it is appropriate to ask them if they're going to walk the walk.Zach: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for listening to Living Corporate. This has been Zach. You've been listening to Howard Bryant, ESPN senior writer and contributor and NPR writer and contributor as well. 'Til next time, y'all. Peace.

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The Menu O Menu Hi, there! My name is Ivan and I am your waiter for today. Olá! Meu nome é Ivan e eu sou o seu garçon hoje. You want more time to look at the menu? No? Okay! Você quer mais tempo para olhar o menu? Não? OK! Now, our chef this evening is Jean Paul and everything on the menu is really great. Agora, nosso chef esta noite é Jean Paul e tudo no menu é realmente grandioso. Maybe I can give you my personal recommendations hier. Is that ok? Talvez eu possa dar a vocês uma recomendação pessoal aqui. Tudo bem? Folks, well, I love everything on the menu but tonight the grilled tuna is fantastic. Pessoal, bem, eu amo tudoo menu mas esta noite o atum grelhado está fantástico. This is deep sea blue thin tuna from unpolluted pacific ocean waters. Este é o atum azul fino de águas profundas não poluídas. It's grilled with a little genuine italian olive oil, fresh basil and garlic. Ele esta grelhado com um autentico azeite de oliva italiano, manjericão fresco e alho. Then, a fresh lemon sauce. Depois um molho de limão fresco. When I say fresh I mean the sauce and the lemons are fresh. Quando eu digo fresco quero dizer que o molho e os limões são frescos The lemons were picked from the trees this morning. Os limões foram colhidos das árvores esta manhã. The sauce is drizelled over tuna that comes with a vegetables selection. O molho é polvilhado sobre o atum que vem com uma seleção de vegetais. We have zuccini, eggplant and tomato this evening. Nós temos abobrinha, beringela e tomate esta noite. Ok madam, are you ready to order? Ok madame, você está pronta para fazer o pedido? Sure! I will have the melon with the Parma Ham followed by the steak. Com certeza. Eu vou querer o melão com presunto de Parma acompanhado do bife. How do you want the steak? Como você quer o bife? Hum, well done. Hum. Bem passado. Okay. What do you want with that? OK. O que você quer acompanhando? The salad. A salada. Do you want dressin on that? A senhora quer tempero? Yes. Oil and vinegar. Sim, Azeite e vinagre. And for dessert? Do you want to order now or later? E para sobremesa? Quer pedir agora ou mais tarde? Now. The strawberry please. Agora. Morangos por favor. Ok. Thank you! OK. Obrigado. Are you ready to order sir? Está pronto para fazer o pedido senhor? Thanks. I'd like spinach and bacon salad. Does it have a dressing? Obrigado. Eu gostaria de espinafre e salada com bacon. Tem tempero? Yes, it does. It has an extra virgin olive oil dressing with lime, garlic and fresh herbs. Sim, tem. Ele tem um azeite extra virgem temperado com lima, alho e ervas frescas. That's fine. And i'd like the tuna. Esta ótimo. E eu gostaria do atum. Sounds great. With baked potatoe. Parece ótimo. Com batata assada. Thank you. Would you like to order the desert now? Obrigado. Você gostaria de pedir a sobremesa agora? No. I'll choose the desert later. Thank you! Não. Eu vou escolher a sobremesa mais tarde. Obrigado! You're welcome! And for you madame? De nada. E para a senhora? I'll try the tomato and mussarela salad as starters. Eu vou experimentar a salada de mussarela e tomate como entrada. Then ..... vegetables.That comes on it's own. Depois... vegetais. Eles vem sem tempero. Is that ok? certo? Yes that's fine. And I'd like a key lime pie please. Sim está bem. E eu gostaria de uma torta de limão , por favor. Thanks. - obrigado Ok! I'm starving Eu estou faminto S01 : I'm starving. Let's have something to eat. S01 : Eu estou morrendo de fome . Vamos ter algo para comer . S02 : What do you usually eat for lunch? S02 : O que você costuma comer no almoço ? S03 : I mean, what sort of food do you like? Lamb? Beef? S03 : Quer dizer, que tipo de comida você gosta ? Cordeiro? Carne? S04 : Actually, I'm on a diet, S04 : Na verdade , eu estou em uma dieta , S05 : and today I don't have much time. S05 : e hoje eu não tenho muito tempo. S06 : All right, let's just have fish and chips. S06 : Tudo bem, vamos apenas têm de peixes

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Email Product Manager Gurbir Singh and the Deliverability Godfather himself Andrew Barrett sit down to talk ISPs (Internet Service Providers), ESPs (Email Service Providers, and how they factor in to your emails making their way into the inbox.       TRANSCRIPT: [0:00:18] PJ Bruno: Hi there, this is PJ Bruno. Welcome back to Braze for Impact. I'm very, very excited to have with me today, two of my very good friends, special guests. One, Gurbir Singh, who's a product manager here at Braze, and he owns email. Hello, Gurbir.   [0:00:33] Gurbir Singh: Hey, PJ. How's it going?   [0:00:34] PJ Bruno: Pretty good, man. Also with us, Andrew Barrett, our director of email deliverability in the house. How's it going, buddy?   [0:00:41] Andrew Barrett: It's going well. It's going great. I'm so happy to be here in the same room with you guys for a change.   [0:00:45] PJ Bruno: I know. Andrew's usually in D.C. Doing the remote thing, but we see them all the time on Slack, the deliverability dojo. He is the Sensei. He's there answering all the questions. Today, I wanted to get these two email champs in the room. Just talk a little bit about deliverability, but also more specifically ISPs and ESPs. What are they? What are they responsible for? Let's pretend I know nothing except a small amount of information. Right now, that is, correct me if I'm wrong, ISPs, they provide the internet, they can leverage spam filters and blacklists to protect people from unwanted mail. Examples, I guess would be Comcast, AT&T, Verizon. Is that accurate so far?   [0:01:33] Andrew Barrett: Absolutely.   [0:01:33] PJ Bruno: Okay. Jump in and stop me as soon as it's inaccurate information.   [0:01:38] Andrew Barrett: No. Everything you said right there is absolutely true, but you take it one step higher. What they really are are businesses. They're businesses that are in the game to make money. Same as anybody who's actually sending mail to users of the inboxes that they provide. One of the big questions out there in deliverability land is, how do you make money off of an inbox that you're not charging anybody to use? Right? It turns out that everything we say about delivering email has everything to do with, not just the business model that we're in as marketers and senators, but also what's the ISP's business model here? Once you understand how the ISPs are making their money, all kinds of light bulbs start going off in your head around deliverability. What you find is that when you align your email sending program to the ISP's revenue requirements, what their business model is, all of a sudden, bang, deliverability happens.   [0:02:39] PJ Bruno: It's magic.   [0:02:41] Andrew Barrett: It is magic. You can't avoid it. It is an inevitable outcome of aligning your business model with the ISP. The great news is, is that everybody wants the same thing. Right?   [0:02:53] PJ Bruno: Right.   [0:02:53] Andrew Barrett: Email recipients want email that they love to read. ISPs want to be able to put that content in front of their users of the free inboxes. That's because the more often those recipients can engage with the email, the more and better opportunities the ISPs have on making money, because their customer is not the inbox user, their customer is the advertiser that's putting contextually relevant advertising alongside the email that we're sending. If we're sending mail that users want to read, the recipients are happy, the ISPs are happy, we're happy, everybody's happy.   [0:03:37] PJ Bruno: I mean, and that's the dream state is making everything happy. But I guess does it mean that traditionally, ISPs look out for the email receiver, while ESPs prioritize the email sender? Is that, not at all?   [0:03:53] Gurbir Singh: No, I mean I think ISPs definitely do look out for the users, but as Andrew said, they definitely look out for their own business model as well. Then, ESPs are really focused on working with the brands. Right? These guys are the delivery agents. They're the ones sending out massive amounts of emails on behalf of various brands around the world. Their goal is to say, I want to get you in an inbox. I want to make sure you're successful. It's kind of hand in hand a little bit. The circle of life is really, if you make the ISPs money, you're going to be good.   [0:04:27] Andrew Barrett: That's right. I mean, anytime our business model is in conflict with the ISP's business model, we lose. All right?   [0:04:34] PJ Bruno: Gotcha.   [0:04:36] Andrew Barrett: It's important to understand that the users of those free inboxes are not the ISP's customers. Right? The users of the inbox are the inventory, and it's an inventory with a super short shelf life. The ISPs, their job is to create a pleasant and curated email experience for the users for their inventory, so that they'll last long enough to show them some advertising.   [0:05:04] PJ Bruno: Right.   [0:05:06] Gurbir Singh: That's a good point.   [0:05:06] Andrew Barrett: If you can just keep that in mind, that relationship between those three parties in this little love triangle that is email-   [0:05:15] PJ Bruno: Email is a love triangle. Don't kid yourself.   [0:05:17] Andrew Barrett: That's right. It's very tightly interwoven.   [0:05:21] PJ Bruno: Okay. Let's take a step back. In the beginning, ISPs showed up materializing out of basically nothing. Right?   [0:05:31] Gurbir Singh: Well, I mean a lot of the original ISPs were just the people who provided the internet. Right? Like AOL. They allowed you to connect to the internet, and then they were like, look, there's this thing called email and you can get it. We'll provide you an inbox where you can receive all your email. Same with Yahoo.   [0:05:48] PJ Bruno: At some point along the way, there were abusers. Is that right? Because this has got to be kind of, I'm talking about-   [0:05:56] Gurbir Singh: Anywhere there's volume, there's to be people looking to game the system. Right? There's going to be abusers, there's going to be people who are going to say, "Click here and get 10 free and ringtones," and you know that takes you somewhere else where you don't actually think you're supposed to be going. There's always going to be people gaming the system, and the ISPs, that does not jive with their business models, so they created a spam folder, and they put these guys in the spam folder, and they got really sophisticated at tracking who is a spammer, who's not. That distinction is really where ESPs, I think, really help along with keeping marketers honest and saying, look, if you put this subject line in, that's spammy, don't do that. Here's some best practices. Here's how you should create your content. Here are the people you should target. Things like that.   [0:06:44] PJ Bruno: Right. It doesn't stop at best practices. Right? We got here, the Gmail Promo Tab, which launched I guess, 2013, when Gmail announced the creation of different inbox tabs, including the promotions tab. Now, initially, it was said that Gmail is killing email marketing. Was this the notion that was kind of felt across the board by marketers that this was a tough pill to swallow?   [0:07:08] Andrew Barrett: Well, marketers definitely felt that way. In fact, we saw a lot of ... A couple of guys I remember back at that time were proposing a class action suit against Gmail, forgetting for the moment that Gmail, at the same time was also providing them for use of this infrastructure that they could use to reach their intended recipients. Nevermind that. Right? They're putting us in the fake inbox. I can understand the frustration. It's hard to have something taken away that you had for so long. But the other side of the coin is that way of thinking that, oh, you're putting me in the promotion set. I think that's wrong thinking on behalf of marketers. I think that that assumes a model of advertising that is more interruptive. Right? Like TV and radio, which is very linear. You're watching your story, and wait a second, wouldn't you like to buy some soap? No? Okay, well let's get on with the story then, and so on like that. Right? Email and other digital channels are not linear. Right? I think that marketers are best served when they can get their message in front of the recipients when they are their most receptive to it, and they are most receptive to marketing messages, not when they're reading email from grandma in upper Poughkeepsie. If you interrupt that, right, you're way more likely to get exactly the wrong kind of attention from the recipient in the form of a spam complaint. On the other hand, if you're enjoying strong placement in the promotions tab, people will turn to that tab when they are ready to see the promotions. I'm not a regular guy because I like email, but I like to see what winds up in there, mostly because I'm curious about the content and-   [0:09:12] Gurbir Singh: Right. It's research for you at that point.   [0:09:14] Andrew Barrett: But I do a lot of buying out of that promotions tab.   [0:09:18] PJ Bruno: The most relevant things are pushed to the top of the promotions tab. That's pretty much how it works. Right?   [0:09:24] Andrew Barrett: It can be, especially with some of this newer stuff that Gmail is rolling out, especially on the mobile side.   [0:09:30] Gurbir Singh: Yeah. It's like the new Gmail promotion tab does that. It groups up your messages based on industries, based on relevant, for when the offer is expiring, things like that. There's a number of variables that Gmail has introduced, but the traditional promotion tab was just if you got there and it's at the top of your inbox, it's there. Right? I think that's what was frustrating for marketers is that they spent all this time learning to get into the primary tab and now they're being asked to say, by the way, we redid the promotions tab and we give you all these new levers to pull and play with. Now, go back into the promotions tab, and people are rightfully so, kind of upset because it's just being thrown at them.   [0:10:10] Andrew Barrett: Well, they're are only upset if they don't remember what marketing was like before.   [0:10:14] Gurbir Singh: Yeah.   [0:10:15] Andrew Barrett: Right? They have this beautiful one-to-one direct channel to ostensibly engaged recipients that never existed before in the history of the planet, and nobody writes a check to Gmail to send email to Gmail's users. It's a gift horse. To get angry about that seems a little disingenuous to me.   [0:10:36] PJ Bruno: It feels very human.   [0:10:37] Andrew Barrett: Well, okay fine. They're human beings.   [0:10:42] PJ Bruno: You get something you want and then you get it taken away, you get pissed off. But no, I mean, they've been optimizing that promotions tab. Right? It's card based. It's like, you know what? We know you want to be in the inbox, but let's create something great in the promotions box that actually optimizes for what you're trying to do.   [0:10:59] Gurbir Singh: Yeah. I think it's a really good push by Gmail. One, they're going to collect way more data around what the message really is. Two, they're going to collect, are people actually interested in these offers, or are we going to push people down? You can see the business opportunities there for Gmail to say, similar to ad, you can pay to be at the top or you can pay to be at the top of your own industry bundle. If I'm Nike and Adidas, I could theoretically page email and say, "Put me always above Adidas." Right?   [0:11:31] PJ Bruno: Wow.   [0:11:32] Gurbir Singh: I don't know if they're actually thinking things like that, but I just see a bunch of different opportunities that they kind of opened, that other ISPs don't even have the luxury to even think about right now.   [0:11:43] Andrew Barrett: Yeah, they could do that, but I think they have a longer game in mind. Right? If they do something that appears to inhibit, in any way, the user's engagement with the inbox in its totality, I think they're not doing themselves any favors. What I think that we'll continue to see, and I'm guessing here, too, is that the kinds of changes we'll see in the promotions tab are those that award senders who are doing a better job at sending content that appears to be more engaging to a preponderance of recipients. That is awarded a better placement in the inbox.   [0:12:25] Gurbir Singh: That's true. I think they also, or actually the first ESP in my opinion that's actually adopted a mobile phone. This update to the promotion tab is directly for people who use the Gmail application. Right? They've acknowledged desktops are going out of time and we are getting switched to a mobile only world, and they're one of the first that are actually adopting. It's like this card that's coming out, it's a static image, but future iterations allow you to scroll and tell different cards and have different images and different links.   [0:12:58] PJ Bruno: Right. That's what AMP is, right?   [0:13:00] Gurbir Singh: No. AMP is completely something that's just interactive email.   [0:13:04] PJ Bruno: But within the email you can actually kind of scroll and click in and see different.   [0:13:08] Gurbir Singh: Yeah. It's like having a website right in your inbox so you don't have to leave, which is another pain point I think for marketers because the behavior is always been, I want to drive traffic to my website, and now all of a sudden, when this thing comes out, it's still in beta, but when it does come out, you're basically telling your customers you're living within the Google ecosystem. Right? You're browsing within the Google ecosystem, they're going to do some actions. You have no insight, no way of knowing what they're doing outside of the parameters you provided them. That's it. You can't dynamically change the workflow on your website as you typically do. This is a bigger change than people think it is, in my opinion.   [0:13:56] PJ Bruno: Gurbir, you're a big part of what we do here with our email at Braze. Obviously, you helped push our content blocks live, email preference center, all this stuff, optimizing the crafting and sending of emails, a big part of what you do. How do you overcome that resistance to change? Do you guys give a lot of thought to that when you're like-   [0:14:16] Gurbir Singh: Yeah. First of all, I mean, I work with a really talented engineering and design team that kind of put all these things together.   [0:14:22] PJ Bruno: Shout out.   [0:14:23] Gurbir Singh: Yeah, shout out. I might be at the face of it when it comes down to external, but there are some true heroes back there. But yeah, I mean, we do a lot of research when we're looking into new features. The content blocks is a great example, right? Content blocks, typically known as the email only feature, with other industries. When we looked at it we said, well, wouldn't it be cool if you could use it in Push, if you can use it on web? The same exact offer being tied to a user across every channel you want. You can have that consistency easily as a marketer, without having to replicate and create these over and over again. That operational cost is what we looked at a lot. Right? The cost of a marketer sending up four separate messages, setting up four different channels, and then ensuring, is the QA right on all four of them? Testing that and then sending it out. Right? If we can reduce the time for you to create all of that, those are the things we look at.   [0:15:24] PJ Bruno: Right.   [0:15:25] Gurbir Singh: But yeah.   [0:15:29] PJ Bruno: Andrew?   [0:15:30] Andrew Barrett: Gurbir is the expert there. Every day, I will defer to his expertise there. I like to keep my head down in the inbox. That's where I'm most comfortable.   [0:15:40] PJ Bruno: That's where he belongs.   [0:15:41] Andrew Barrett: Right.   [0:15:42] PJ Bruno: That's good. I'm trying to get all these things straight in my head. Do we see, traditionally, ISPs, they do want to protect the receivers of mail, right? I mean, obviously they want to protect their bottom line, but will be under the guise of this?   [0:16:00] Andrew Barrett: Well, no, I mean it aligns very well at times perfectly with their own business model because if they're putting their own customers at risk to third parties, they're not going to keep coming back to their inboxes just to get shot at again.   [0:16:14] PJ Bruno: Gotcha.   [0:16:14] Andrew Barrett: They want to keep them around. Keeping bad things, malware, spam, other types of things, out of that inbox, speaks directly to the longevity of their business model and the longevity of their inventory, the users.   [0:16:33] PJ Bruno: Launched back last year, in 2018, you guys know about this, the BIMI. I don't know if they call it BIMI, or if it's just brand indicators for message identification? For those of you who don't know, it's a standardized way for brands to publish their brand logo online and lets logos be easily incorporated into messaging and social media applications. It does this with built in protections, which is building off of D-Mark.   [0:16:58] Andrew Barrett: Right.   [0:17:00] PJ Bruno: I mean, I guess we could say at this point D-Mark is starting to catch on more and people are using it more.   [0:17:06] Andrew Barrett: Absolutely. Gmail has been kind of a kingmaker in that regard. I mean, if you ask Gmail, they would prefer that everybody use D-Mark for everything all time, which is fine. For the longest time, it was really a tool for high value targets like financial institutions, insurers, banks, things like that to keep bad guys from trying to spoof their brand in order to capture login credentials and things of that nature. D-Mark, at its roots though is an authentication protocol, or a platform standing, a reporting mechanism that stands on top of authentication. The timing is really kind of interesting because Google Plus business pages are going away. Right? That whole Google Plus social media experiment is going to get killed off here in a couple of weeks. That was how you got your logo or your picture in the inbox next to your subject line was through validating a business page and [crosstalk 00:18:25].   [0:18:25] PJ Bruno: That was the only way to get it in there?   [0:18:27] Gurbir Singh: Well, you could do it through their promotions tab now, too. You can just pass in a logo and it works. That's why I don't get why?   [0:18:34] Andrew Barrett: Well, yeah, but I don't think they would pick up that logo unless they had some kind of assurance that you were using that logo, that you were an authorized user of that logo, which means-   [0:18:47] Gurbir Singh: You can just pass in any logo when you use the promotions tab. We've tested. I can pass on anything, which is why I find it really funny where-   [0:18:54] PJ Bruno: That's crazy. That's nuts.   [0:18:54] Gurbir Singh: Right, but it's Google, right? Look how big Google is, how many teams did they have? Clearly somebody's not talking to somebody.   [0:19:04] Andrew Barrett: Well, I think BIMI will replace that functionality.   [0:19:08] Gurbir Singh: Probably.   [0:19:08] Andrew Barrett: You've got this authentication standard backing up the presentation of this logo, and suddenly you don't have to rely on Google Plus anymore, and align in the header of your html to prove that you actually own the domain, so that the logo or the picture can turn up in the subject line. It comes at a good time and it helps to enhance this message around adoption of D-Mark.   [0:19:33] PJ Bruno: You said Google is really a big advocate of D-Mark. Do they have a vested interest in D-Mark?   [0:19:41] Andrew Barrett: I don't think that they do. I'm not sure why they're so hot and bothered over D-Mark above and beyond the other authentication protocols, SPF and DKIM, which are sort of prerequisites for D-Mark. D-Mark is just the reporting thing. The question I think that's on a lot of people's minds these days that pay attention to this kind of stuff is, does a more restrictive D-Mark policy get you better inbox? I mean, you can publish a D-Mark policy that says, if it fails, don't do anything. Right? Or you can have a D-Mark policy that says if it fails DKIM, reject it, or quarantine it, or do something with it. Do you get more inbox if you say, if it fails? Yeah, don't do anything.   [0:20:30] PJ Bruno: Or if it passes, is there some sort of reporting? If it passes and D-Mark is present, then you could have some sort of reward?   [0:20:37] Andrew Barrett: Maybe.   [0:20:38] Gurbir Singh: Like positive effect, like a scoring system, goes up or down?   [0:20:42] Andrew Barrett: Do not know. Don't know.   [0:20:44] Gurbir Singh: Black box.   [0:20:46] Andrew Barrett: I think it's still working itself out. I'm not at all sure why Gmail is championing D-Mark.   [0:20:53] PJ Bruno: I mean, this thing, the BIMI thing, it was created by [Authenticators] Working Group, which was led by cybersecurity firm, Agari, and then also representatives from Comcast. Failmail, right? Microsoft.   [0:21:07] Andrew Barrett: Well, Agari is in the D-Mark reporting business. Right? So that's their vested interest in participating, but I don't know what Gmail's is other than having a handy replacement for the death of Google Plus.   [0:21:24] Gurbir Singh: Yeah. I mean, I could see if you can be a better inbox provider and essentially wipe out spam, which is the majority of volume that these guys ever see. Right? It's like 90% plus or something. That's a lot of storage costs. Right? ISPs have to keep every email around. They just do. Right? You can scroll back years and years of your Gmail inbox and you'll see, you can still find it, you can still click it. That's sitting somewhere. They're paying for that cost. If they can wipe away 90% of that somehow with a better authentication system, that's a lot of money for somebody. I can see that being a really big beneficial ad for them.   [0:22:05] Andrew Barrett: I agree with you to an extent. There's a lot of spammers out there who are signing their stuff with a DKIM and SPF and that are publishing a D-Mark record.   [0:22:14] Gurbir Singh: Well, I'm assuming with BIMI, it's another level, essentially. That's why they're working towards that one, and hopefully that one solves it. Like anything, there's always-   [0:22:24] PJ Bruno: There's always counterfeiters out there, man.   [0:22:26] Gurbir Singh: Yeah. Someone's going to break it.   [0:22:28] PJ Bruno: Catch me if you can. Moving on, what's the future, what are the big things on the horizon that email senders should be looking for, as far as feature specific, as far as, I mean, legislation affecting anything?   [0:22:48] Andrew Barrett: Well, I think we can call the legislation one absolutely dead and cold now. The Federal Trade Commission recently completed a two year review of the 16 year old CAN-SPAM federal law and decided it was all good, man. They spent two years looking at that sucker and decided, wow, it just can't get any better than how it is, which is really, really frustrating. I was at the Federal Trade Commission in the spring of 2003 for two days of testimony from a bunch of different groups, and there was five different versions of anti-spam language. It's five different competing versions pending in the lower house in Congress. They were trying to merge all those disparate versions of the language together in what would eventually become CAN-SPAM, and they were taking all this input from nonprofit anti-spam, watchdog groups, senders. They actually had a couple of spammers on the stage talking about why they do what they do, and that sort of thing.   [0:24:02] PJ Bruno: Interesting.   [0:24:02] Andrew Barrett: It was all in. Everybody scrubbed in on this thing. What came out in 2003 act, which was largely the [Burns Widen Act 00:24:14] was terrible. I mean, not only did it fail utterly to advance a definition of spam, which I don't blame them for because that is problematic on its face for a whole bunch of reasons, but where they really fell down is that they failed to advance a meaningful definition of email. Right?   [0:24:37] Gurbir Singh: They left it as a digital communications?   [0:24:39] Andrew Barrett: For the purposes of this statute, email means "an electronic message," period. Full stop.   [0:24:48] PJ Bruno: Great.   [0:24:49] Andrew Barrett: What? Really, really bad. Ideally, the definitive quality of email would have been transit via SMTP.   [0:25:02] Gurbir Singh: Right.   [0:25:02] Andrew Barrett: That's what was needed there. You can never look to lawmakers to predict the future. It's not the law we wanted, but it was probably the law we deserved. It was just that, and so I was really astounded when they decided that they weren't going to make any changes.   [0:25:22] Gurbir Singh: Didn't California, or aren't they evaluating their own special law just for the state of California?   [0:25:29] PJ Bruno: Leave it to California.   [0:25:30] Andrew Barrett: Yeah. Well, they had one before 2003. California is great at passing really restrictive laws, only to have them be superseded by federal legislation months and years later. The California anti-spam law was very restrictive and it was in place for only a couple of months before the federal law came in and eviscerated it, superseded it.   [0:25:55] PJ Bruno: All right, guys, we're at about time. Before we close up shop, any last words of advice to email sender's, email receivers? It can be simple to something you want to go out on. What's the big takeaway?   [0:26:11] Andrew Barrett: Just remember that business relationship between those three parties, and if you can keep that in mind, that relationship will inform every decision you ever have to make as a sender. If I had to define deliverability in one sentence, it would be, how not to look like a spammer. That's it. But there's a whole lot underneath that that can keep folks talking for days, and hours, and careers.   [0:26:36] PJ Bruno: And podcasts.   [0:26:37] Andrew Barrett: And podcasts.   [0:26:38] Gurbir Singh: Andrew's going to write a book.   [0:26:39] Andrew Barrett: And career long podcasts.   [0:26:40] PJ Bruno: I have to make this a whole series. Gurbir, you got some final thoughts?   [0:26:44] Gurbir Singh: I mean, I circled back to Andrew. It is a business. Understanding the motivations of each of these guys will help you, and make you successful.   [0:26:56] PJ Bruno: Absolutely. I'll say to spammers out there, if you're looking for alternative forms of revenue, check out the speaker circuit, because apparently, they'll be willing to have you on stage. Thank you guys so much for coming to hang out with us. This is PJ Bruno, Gurbir Singh, and Andrew Barrett. You guys take care. [0:27:14]

Ever had any questions you wanted to know about me? No? Okay...welp some people do! I answer YOUR questions that you sent to my DM's! Have fun listening to me talk about myself! 

Carley and Maddie are going back to the 70's to review an American Teen Classic - American Graffiti! This is the first time the two watched the movie and they had a lot to say about it! Or at least they tried to. Maddie may or may not have fallen asleep for the last 20 minutes. Are we selling this episode yet? No? Okay, well listen anyway! Also, let us know if you agree with Carley that a young Ron Howard looks like Nick Jonas! No? Okay, well listen anyway! Instagram: Teenage Dirtbagz Podcast Twitter: We still don't know

Because its Halloween (Meagan's favorite holiday), we're talking about...ZOMBIES! Sean learns more about diseases that she never wanted to hear about. Meagan gets to talk abut her favorite brain-hijacking diseases. And we wash it all down with a bottle of Ravage Dark Red Blend. Get it? Cause its about zombies...and they ravage the country...No? Okay cool me neither. Anyway, in this episode, we give you our favorite parts of Voodoo Fest, talk about the logistics of how a zombie apocalypse would come about, and discuss where Halloween ACTUALLY comes from. There is a lot of nerding out. Beware. So which Halloween movies are our favorites?Sean's is Hocus PocusMeagan's is A Nightmare Before ChristmasProduced by Sean Stott and Meagan TinsleyEdited by Sean Stott and Meagan TinsleyMusic by:This Is Halloween https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGiYxCUAhksMichael Myers Theme Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vtsKGzGVK4I Put A Spell On You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC-WDrvmUQ

We're goin' on a spiritual adventure through the desert!... Well maybe not but wouldn't that be awesome?! No? Okay. Much love to those supporting this cast. Please listen to the backlog of podcast we have up and don't forget to follow us! Check out the intro music!: https://soundcloud.com/steezyasfuck/beats-to-sleep-to-lofi-hip-hop-mix --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thumbsupcast/support

Today I’m back to share another great tip in the Millionaire Agent Mindset series. This time, our conversation will focus on referrals from current clients, as these are our very best lead source.  First, ask yourself this: What is your system for servicing clients at the highest level in this industry? Do you run away after settlement or do you lean in? On our team, we set up an expectation of excellence. Our clients know to expect the best from us. Simultaneously, we also set up an expectation that they will refer us to people they know. This is a staple of low-cost and repeat, or referral, business.  I once learned a script from an agent named Mike Hicks in the small, 70,000-person town of Idaho Falls. Mike does nearly 500 transaction sides per year, with most of his business coming from current client referrals. Upon finding this out, I wanted to know his secret for success. According to Mike, it starts with the script I mentioned earlier, which he calls the “Promise Script.”  I highly recommend implementing this script into your own business. Start by reciting it verbatim, and then, once you’ve internalized it, you can personalize it. So imagine that you’ve just signed a listing with a client. At this point, it’s time to implement the Promise Script, which I’ve included for you here:  “So, before you go, there’s one more thing. Do you have just another minute? Okay. Let’s talk about our promise. You see, our group has this promise—this goal—to create an experience that you, honestly, really cannot imagine being any better. Our systems and everything we do are designed around delivering on this promise. “Everyone in our group is focused on what it is you want and what it is that you need. We make every effort to be out in front of everything—to stop surprises, and keep it as good as it can be. Now, there will be challenges. We know that there will be. It’s real estate, and it’s people. But just know that our group is focused on creating that 10+ experience, if you will. Does that sound okay? Great. So there’s something that I want. Just to say it, we have another goal. And that is, some time from right now until the day that we close on your home, that you’re going to feel so great about what we’re doing for you that you’re going to call me, text me, or email me with the name of somebody who needs help in real estate. “See, they might just have a general question, they might need to buy or sell a home, they might need to refinance, or just need some help in real estate. So while we’re working together, you’re hopefully going to be giving my name out, which I truly appreciate because word of mouth is our lifeblood. Yet I need you to take it to the next step. To make sure I have a chance to help, in addition giving out my name, I want you to call, email, or text us their information so there’s a 100% chance I can get in touch with them. Okay. That’ll be great. So you’re going to call right? That going to be perfect. “Now, if we get to the day of closing, we’ve sat down at the closing table, and we’ve signed all the paperwork, and you haven’t got in touch with me with the name of somebody that we can help, I’m going to have to assume that our group didn’t deliver on the promise—that we could’ve done something better. So I’m going to have to ask you the hard question, and that is what we could have, or should have, done differently in order to have earned that referral. Will that be okay? Great. Well, listen: I’m going to count on it. And I’m going to count on you sending that referral to me, okay?” “The byproduct of excellent service and asking for business is referrals.” At this point, go ahead and shake the clients hand or make a physical connection like placing a hand on their shoulder. This script is the start of our team’s high-level service, and it sets the expectations for what we will deliver throughout the transaction. As a service provider, you’re going to be graded on your systems by your clientele. With our clients, our goal is to communicate early and often over the course of transactions. There should never be a week that goes by where our clients don’t hear from us, even after settlement.  We use a system of good news in making these communications. So, for example, after we begin working with sellers we send them a copy of documents they’ve signed and a short video thanking them for their trust and confidence. It is at this point where we will call them to confirm information like our photography date, as well as our first open house. During this phone call, we’ll also deliver the Reticular Activating System (or RAS) Script. This neurological system is responsible for behavioral alertness, which will come to be important in gaining referrals. We’ve already delivered the Promise Script, so here’s what the RAS Script looks like:  “Hi [Client Name], it’s Joshua Stern calling. Just wanted to make sure that you received an email with a copy of the signed paperwork. Fabulous. Did you get a chance to watch the short video? No? Okay well, briefly, it’s a RAS video. You do know what RAS is, right? Well, the RAS is the reticular activating system within our brain, and the easiest way for me to explain this to you is: Do you remember the last time you bought your car? All of a sudden you notice all the other folks driving that same car. You hadn’t noticed them prior to buying your car. Well, that’s the RAS. And now that we’re working together, I wanted to let you know that you’re going to run into between one and three people who are thinking of buying or selling a home. And I just wanted to remind you to call, email, or text me their information so there’s a 100% chance that we can get ahold of them. And I promise that I’ll make you look good.” We take these servicing touches very seriously. We have an entire series of emails, calls, and videos using scripts we follow up with throughout the transaction, including after closing. Our post-closing plan is actually where 80% of our client referrals come from. Imagine if you had a systematic servicing plan for all of your clients. The byproduct of excellent service and asking for business is referrals. If you have any other questions or would like more information, feel free to give me a call or send me an email. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Honestly, with a title like this, are we expecting anything less then shenanigans? No? Okay.

It's that time of the year! Christmas is around the corner and it's the perfect time to hit the slopes. Okay, it's in the upper 40's right now, but still. Let's pretend it's winter for a moment. No? Okay, then learn about someone who thrives in the winter while you wait for that snow day that you're not getting until mid-February. LISTEN as Mort tells the tale of a famous snowboarder. WONDER as it's revealed that he's not that bad a guy. RECOIL as Lizz and Bobbi lavish him with hatred anyways because... reasons. Maybe they never learned to ski? Who knows.

A lot of small things today. Put on headphones! Today’s Topics: Josh explains meditation in terms of computer systems, Casey explains that humans are computer systems Journey to the center of Casey’s notes app Casey complains about the computer they still think is worth $3,000 Arm computers? No? Okay. About the audio trickery being used … Continue reading 5: Start by Crying →

After a few snags in getting the episode recorded, Joh and Russel are back with some new, old cards that will make your game table scratch their heads in utter confusion. Take a trip through the Mirage block with some stops along Mercadia and the time ravaged Dominaria in Planar Chaos. Russel does his best to be "charming" (get it? No? Okay, just listen to the episode, you can groan after wards) while Joh just wants to share the love, and the damage. Contact us: Email: cornercasecast@gmail.com Twitter: @CornerCaseCast @johoso @RogueArtificer Theme song: World (featuring RULS) by Kicks N Licks @kicksnlicks www.facebook.com/KicksNLicks twitter.com/KnLOfficial www.instagram.com/kicksnlicks/

The HR boys are visited by The Oculon, a giant eyeball who's been keeping the ship safe from internet perv-o's since 2467. Meanwhile, Wade, The Professor, and Danica Patrick, No Relation, have all stolen a helicopter. That's fun, isn't it? No? Okay.The Oculon- Brad PikeDoug Doyle- Connor DoyleAlien Beercan- Peter WilliamsP16- Ryan ClearySpecial Agent Danica Patrick, No Relation- Liz AndersonProfessor Barnabus- James FreetlyWade Anderson- Patrick BodenhausenArtwork by Blair Britt

Today's Guest: John O’Hurley, actor, "Seinfeld," host, "The National Dog Show" It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump by John O'Hurley. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above! Who IS John O’Hurley? On Thanksgiving Day at noon, he’s the silver-haired host of The National Dog Show on NBC, a job he’s held for nine years. He’s also written a couple of dog tale-oriented books. JOHN O'HURLEY audio excerpt: "The head of NBC Sports gave me a call. I picked up the phone and he said, 'Woof! Woof!' And that's how it started nine years ago."  And he’s been the host of the daily “Family Feud” game show. Still can’t place him? How about his amazing performance on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” in 2005? No? Okay, okay, try this one on: John O’Hurley played Elaine’s boss, clothing catalog entrepreneur J Peterman, as a recurring character for several seasons on “Seinfeld.” The joke was that Peterman was based on a real person and a real company. But what happened later was no joke: when the J Peterman Company bounced in and out of bankruptcy, it was the pretend Peterman – John O’Hurley – who stepped in as an angel investor to save the real Peterman. True story, folks! John O'Hurley Facebook • Website • Wikipedia • IMDB • Twitter Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!     The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Are you dead? No? Okay then you need to listen to this guide to being fit in every phase of your life from the crib to the grave. You might not be able to go back to the days when you were crawling on all fours drooling but just because you can’t relive your college years doesn’t mean you can’t learn more about how to train athletes who are! What are the best activities to put your kids in pre and post pube? What are realistic benchmarks for your 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and beyond? What should you focus on to ensure you are still a randy rascal when your 60 and not riding on a Rascal? Plus random and unexpected stories from yours truly. What else would you expect from the Coach? Visit my sponsors! Follow @kvest3d and check out their new NEXT Program! @MYTPI 2017 US Schedule is out! The Coach is coming to a city near you so sign up now. Go to @performbetter and order your home fitness equipment that is built for the pros by the pros. “COACHGLASS” in the discount box get you 10% off! If you want to receive my new Advanced Dynamic Warm Up video? Go to coachglasslive.com and we will send you the members only video and a printable PDF of all the exercises to throw in your golf bag! And as always…..#DreamBig #OverDeliver #BeUndeniable Cheers! Coach Glass

"Anyone have some gum? No? Okay, then I'm gonna kick your butt!" Host of So Many Bits Bill Nielsen joins Renee and Pete to discuss They Live at the 2nd annual Podslam Podcast Festival!

I see this a lot in Facebook Groups. Someone is debating whether or not to publish an episode of their podcast despite it having some glaringly wrong issue. So, what should they do? **Spoiler Alert: you’re not going to like it! So, you recorded your interview with this really important guest and for whatever reason it sounds like shit or the whole thing went off the rails. Now you’re facing the horror of ditching it or having to re-do it. Want to know what scares me? That you’re actually considering putting that crappy episode out into the world. Ahhh! It’s a Crapisode! Run! Okay, I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is the very first Just the Tip episode you’re listening to because, ehem, if you’d been listening sooner you wouldn’t be running into this problem (see: 005 Headphones Not Optional and 020 Shit In is Shit Out...and um, pretty much all 29 episodes before this one…) Alright, I won’t belabor the point. I actually do get it. You’ve found yourself with a subpar podcast. Or, maybe you’re too embarrassed to call your guest back and ask for a Mulligan. Maybe it’s the night before you have to publish and you’re just now realizing that you’ve got a steaming pile for a podcast. Who knows why - I’ve seen it all. From ‘my guest was drunk,’ to ‘my guest turned his appearance on my show into a giant infomercial’, to ‘I was really really sick and had no idea how awful I sounded’.  And now you’re humming and hawing, trying to convince yourself that it’s not that bad with your cursor dangerously hovering over the publish button. So, what do you do? I have this feeling you know what I’m going to say. Really, I think you know. No? Okay, but I’m pretty sure when I say it you’re going to be all like, ‘I knew you were going to say that.’ Here goes: Don’t publish it. See, I told you you knew. I know what you’re going through. I know the twisting going on in the stomach. I know the anguish. But let me say this to you. You will feel worse with it out in the world. Plus, we can fix it! In this episode, I go over the many reasons not to publish crap and, a few saves you might just want to keep handy in case you land back in a Steaming-Pile-of-Podcast again. You owe it to yourself and to your listeners to just say no to the Crapisode.

Today's Guest: Lisa Roth, co-creator, creative director, Rockabye Baby Music   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Lisa Roth by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of five-year-old musicians whose parents think they might be starting a little too late in the biz to ever be successful… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! The first rock ‘n’ roll my infant son heard almost 20 years ago was AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.” It was the first time we were alone in the minivan – Charlie was maybe a week old – and I was dying to hear some familiar tunes. I also wanted my kid to get acclimated to my taste in music. I remember wishing there were songs that I could listen to over and over again with him that wouldn’t make me unconscious. Today’s parents have that opportunity. LISA ROTH podcast excerpt: "We do it with great care, great pride, from the sound of the recording to the artwork. It's something the original artists can be proud of. We're not making fun; we're huge fans." You can LISTEN to this interview with LISA ROTH, creative director of ROCKABYE BABY MUSIC, by clicking the audio player above! Lisa Roth’s company, Rockabye Baby, takes hits we all know and loves and painstakingly adapts them for the tender ears of newborns and infants. It’s elevator music for the next generation whatever they might be collectively called. There are 76 different Rockabye Baby albums; more than 1.8 million have been sold to date, including the songs of The Beatles, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, and Guns n Roses. The latest is a collection of Adele’s greatest hits, including “Rolling in the Deep.” Can’t stand another round of “John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith”? Try putting your newborn to sleep with “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. And you haven’t lived until you’ve heard Aerosmith’s “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” played, not with guitars or drums but mellotrons, vibraphones and bells. Not a fan of bayou or Boston rock stars? How about a little Taylor Swift melody, in which the usual pop instruments on “Shake It Off” are replaced by xylophones and bells? LISA ROTH podcast excerpt: "He's David to me. Never 'Dave'; never 'David Lee.' 'David Lee' -- that would be our mother calling him. He was a huge personality and a handful in the household growing up. When he became famous, it was exciting. They broke the mold after my brother. I have never encountered anyone like him in my life" I haven’t lost my mind, folks. I’m talking about the growing catalogue of “Rockabye Baby” albums in which classic rock and modern pop anthems that mom and dad have loved for a lifetime have been adapted for their infants. Even Tipper Gore might approve. Who is Lisa Roth? Here’s a hint; her brother once replaced Howard Stern. No? Okay, here’s another: he’s the voice – and personality – of a little California band you may have heard of called Van Halen. Key interview moments: • 6:30 Lisa Roth, co-creator and creative director of Rockabye Baby Music, talks about the care that is put into converting pop, rock, metal and hip-hop tunes into soothing lullabies for babies; • 13:50 Roth reveals that Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" is one of her favorite conversions and discusses the evolution of baby music; • 19:08 Ever wondered what it might be like to grow up with Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth as your older brother? Rockabye Baby Music Website • Facebook • Twitter • Tumblr • Instagram • YouTube • Spotify • Pinterest // //   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland! The post Rockabye Baby with music from Kanye West,

We're back after wayyyyy too long of a hiatus. On the other hand I published 6 months worth of episodes in about a third of that time, so I earned the break right? No? Okay. This time we deviate from our normal format a bit, as Luke gathers an all too cramped room of guests together to rank five of the most critically acclaimed games of 2015. The results may shock you! Blame Jason, Dina, Dustin, Lau, and Tal for the following crimes against video games. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Super Mario Maker, for Wii U; Rocket League, for PS4 and PC, and I think Xbox One by now?; Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, for PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360, and PS3; Undertale, for PC; and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. You can see the up to date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace.

Grab your D20 and get ready for a hysterical adventure only the HIS crew could deliver…Dungeons and Dragons gets the How it Stacks treatment as the terrible 3 take on this most storied of games. Let's be honest, you've looked at their logo and thought… I wonder when they’ll do it. No? Okay well um, it's still a funny/entertaining episode! JD shares his thoughts on why people don't play it and explains its role to him now. The professor lets us know he will beat that ass if you get in his RPG way. Bulldog breaks down what the game compares too and why he didn't play it as a kid. The guys get a little philosophical on this one but it's only for a bit. They also debut Paw Paws Medicine Cabinet (the professors band) during the break. In a game where…“Is kobold sex considered yiffing””Using a gelatinous cube as lube”“I hope you get violated by a beholder while a mind flayer watches”These aren't only said but used as insults you have to wonder, does it STACK? Find out on this most newest of episodes.(Phil--- you're the man)Direct Audio Link: HIS - Ep 51 “Dungeons and Dragons”We would like to thank our sponsors: ThinkGeek: Head on over to www.geek-io.net/thinkgeek for all your geeky accessory needs! And TeeFury: Home of the twofury tee shirt competition! Two shirts enter, only one leaves victorious! Head over to www.geek-io.net/teefury to pick your favorite!” Special thanks to I Fight Dragons for our ending music. And to Paw Paw Medicine Cabinet for our mid-show song - “Get It Back” on their first, and self titled, EP. And additional thanks to The Geek I/O Podcast Network for hosting our show!Geek I/O is currently taking a survey of all their listeners. Please click the banner in the show post via the website (www.howitstacks.com) or the picture/link below. This is a brief survey to help us get to know you and what you like about our shows! They have also started a new way to support the network: monthly subscriptions, starting as low as $1/month! Currently this is a way for the network to improve the website and get new equipment, and help pay for miscellaneous network expenses. But if we start receiving enough sponsors there is a possibility to go ad free! Visit the Patreon site for full details and to sign up! Full Survey Short SurveyAdditional Sponsors:Tweaked Audio (www.TweakedAudio.com): use the code "geek" to receive free shipping and 33% off your order!ProXPN (www.ProXPN.com): use the code "geek20" to receive 20% off your membership (normally $6.25/month).

Nasir and Matt discuss the allegations of American Apparel intimidating and silencing employees from complaining about the company and talk about guidelines for employers in making social media policies. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our business podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: The Staub and Pasha Brothers are here. Why is that so funny? MATT: You’ve never mentioned that ever. That’s kind of funny. NASIR: I don’t know. I was just trying to think, like, what are we? The duo? The Staub-Pasha duo? MATT: The duo, yeah, I guess. NASIR: Yeah, I guess that makes more sense. MATT: Not to get too far off track but you know what I’ve always found was really weird, and you might not have ever even seen this, the commercial for State Farm – I think it’s State Farm – one of the insurance companies. NASIR: Yeah. MATT: Do you know who Chris Paul is? He’s a basketball player? No? Okay. NASIR: I have no idea. MATT: It wasn’t a question to the listeners; it was a question to you. He’s a player in the NBA and the whole thing is Chris Paul and Cliff Paul were separate. They’re twins and they’re separated at birth. It’s Chris Paul wearing glasses, you know. NASIR: Oh, okay, yeah. MATT: It’s this whole thing, it’s like, oh, they were separated at birth and they were adopted by different families and they’ve lived different lifestyles and then they meet each other or something. I don’t understand why they have the same last name if they were both adopted through different families. NASIR: But, wait, are they really twin brothers? MATT: No, it’s fake. It’s him and then him wearing glasses, basically. NASIR: So, even their fake story doesn’t make sense because why would they have the same last name? MATT: Exactly. NASIR: Sometimes, you know, it’s not abnormal for the adoptive child to keep their own name, too. Perhaps that’s what it is, Matt, since you think you’re so clever. MATT: For both of them? NASIR: Yeah, both. MATT: The odds of that happening. NASIR: Maybe that was the condition of the adoption. MATT: I guess, but they were… NASIR: I actually did take a course in Columbus Ohio on adoption law, very interesting. MATT: Oh, I bet. NASIR: If anyone needs an adoption, don’t contact me just because I’ve taken a course. It doesn’t mean anything. MATT: Well, I don’t have a good lead-in for this. NASIR: Yeah, what’s your transition here? MATT: Maybe we’ll adopt this story or something. I don’t know. We’re dealing with American Apparel which, I believe, is a nationwide store. NASIR: I’ve heard of it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one. MATT: I went there once and I bought a shirt but it’s very slim-fitting – not my thing. NASIR: Maybe you should lose weight? MATT: Yeah, that’s true. Well, maybe that’s why these employees that work for them are upset with all their slim-fitting close, that’s probably not even all slim-fitting either but whatever. Anyway, basically, what American Apparel is in the news for is that employees are upset with the company and that happens all the time but American Apparel is taking it a step further and there’s been two complaints filed in the last, as of today, when we’re recording it’s been the last couple of days, but it’ll be a week by the time this comes out. NASIR: Yeah. MATT: But it’s saying that American Apparel is allegedly intimidating the employees and trying silencing tactics, preventing these employees from discussing their transgressions, I guess. You know, some of these employees have met off-site after work hours and have just been, you know, kind of complaining about things there, and American Apparel actually sent, one of the people said, they were accosted and interrogated. But the company sent security to this off-site meeting of people gathering and, according to the complainants, intimidating them and telling them to be quiet about voicing their complai...

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Hello dear listeners to the episode of Just One of the Guys that answers The Meaning of Life!!! Yes, it's 42. The episode number, that is. Hitchhiker's Guide anyone? No? Okay moving on, we've got the wrap up of the storyline with The Predator in Green Lantern #42. We also get cameos from Deathstroke: The Terminator, Arisia, and a strangely pregnant Star Sapphire...And no, it doesn't make any sense in the end. Over in the Guy Gardner issue, writer extraodinaire Chuck Dixon weaves a tale of Guy's early life in the fantastic Year One story arc, Yesterday's Sins. As good as all the stories before this were, this one leaves them all behind. If you ever wanted to know more about the character of Guy Garnder, this is the story that you MUST read. So unless you want to taste the back of Rolly Gardner's hand, you need to grab your mp3 player of choice, download the show, and get to listening! Feedback for this show can be sent to: justoneoftheguyspodcast@gmail.comJust One Of The Guys is a proud member of the Two True Freaks! (http://twotruefreaks.com/main.php) family of podcasts, the best place on the internet to find shows about Star Wars, Star Trek, Comics, Movies, and anything else that the modern geek could ever want. If you are downloading the show through iTunes, be sure to leave a rating, hopefully a FIVE STAR RATING, because every rating we get helps grow the shows on the network! Thanks for listening, and be sure to come back next Friday for another episode of Just One Of The Guys: A Green Lantern Podcast.

Hello dear listeners to the episode of Just One of the Guys that answers The Meaning of Life!!! Yes, it's 42. The episode number, that is. Hitchhiker's Guide anyone? No? Okay moving on, we've got the wrap up of the storyline with The Predator in Green Lantern #42. We also get cameos from Deathstroke: The Terminator, Arisia, and a strangely pregnant Star Sapphire...And no, it doesn't make any sense in the end. Over in the Guy Gardner issue, writer extraodinaire Chuck Dixon weaves a tale of Guy's early life in the fantastic Year One story arc, Yesterday's Sins. As good as all the stories before this were, this one leaves them all behind. If you ever wanted to know more about the character of Guy Garnder, this is the story that you MUST read. So unless you want to taste the back of Rolly Gardner's hand, you need to grab your mp3 player of choice, download the show, and get to listening! Feedback for this show can be sent to: justoneoftheguyspodcast@gmail.comJust One Of The Guys is a proud member of the Two True Freaks! (http://twotruefreaks.com/main.php) family of podcasts, the best place on the internet to find shows about Star Wars, Star Trek, Comics, Movies, and anything else that the modern geek could ever want. If you are downloading the show through iTunes, be sure to leave a rating, hopefully a FIVE STAR RATING, because every rating we get helps grow the shows on the network! Thanks for listening, and be sure to come back next Friday for another episode of Just One Of The Guys: A Green Lantern Podcast.

New location for us... Chick-fil-a. Thanks for the free wifi, but could you do without the really LOUD friend of employees talking about shorts? No? Okay, we'll finish in the car, thanks. Great links here, and already have a great line up for NEXT podcast because it was too much to say in one. 10 Things that CIO’s Can Learn from Angry Birds http://bit.ly/f13aeP GoAnimate http://goanimate.com http://goanimate4schools.com/ Little Bird Tales http://littlebirdtales.com/ MyFakeWall http://myfakewall.com Wetoku http://www.wetoku.com Sweet Search http://sweetsearch.com Quintura Kids http://quinturakids.com/ Trivia question: Which icon on the Quintura Kids site would you click on to “look through Brown University's collection of African-American sheet music from 1850-1920?” Popplet http://popplet.com/ Apptivities http://www.apptivities.org/ Our iApps Momswithapps $FREE http://momswithapps.com/ Three Little Pigs and the Secrets of a Popup Book $3.99 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/three-little-pigs-secrets/id407384876?mt=8 Don't forget our FaceBook Page! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tech-Chick-Tips/170602709625004

Have I ever mentioned how important it is to have a good sense of humor and be a good sport before you listen to this show? No? Okay well I'm doing it now. Aside from our features "Savage Abduction" and "Brain of Blood", this week F13 really tears another podcast apart. It's not gonna be easy for all of you to hear (especially the targeted individuals) but hey we're a family here right? we'll get through it together.. except for them.. fuck them.