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The Shadow Games
S21:E16 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 30]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025 93:17


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #PrimalOrigin #PRIOSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The CPG View
The Future of Brand Experience: Retail Media, DTC, and Creative Strategy with Michael Lovegrove (Chief Experience Officer at Omnicom Commerce)

The CPG View

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 21:27


As the Chief Experience Officer overseeing a wide range of teams—Creative, Strategy, CX, Retail Media, and DTC—how do you ensure alignment across these diverse functions to deliver a seamless customer experience?Creative and customer experience are often seen as separate disciplines, but you manage both. How do you balance creativity with customer insights to craft experiences that are both engaging and effective for clients? Retail media and direct-to-consumer channels are evolving rapidly. What trends are you seeing in these areas, and how is OCG adapting its strategy to help clients stay ahead in an increasingly competitive marketplace? With customer experience being more crucial than ever, what innovative approaches or technologies are you implementing to enhance the customer journey? Can you share any recent successes where these innovations made a significant impact? Looking to the future, what excites you the most about the evolving landscape of retail media, DTC, and customer experience? Are there any emerging trends or technologies that you believe will have a lasting impact on how brands connect with their audiences?

The Shadow Games
S21:E13 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 29]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 79:52


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #LegacyoftheValiant #LAVLSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S21:E09 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 28]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 76:27


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #ShadowSpecters #SHSPSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S21:E06 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 27]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 91:03


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #JudgmentOfTheLight #JOTLSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S20:E13 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 26]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 90:46


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #LordOdTheTachyonGalaxy #LTGYSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S20:E08. Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 25]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2024 96:18


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #CosmoBlazer #CBLZSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S20:E05 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 24]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2024 78:51


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #AbyssRising #ABYRSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

Heart of the Cast
BAN LIST! OCG Are going to get rid of Maxx "C"?! How good are Mimighouls!? | Heart of the Cast #33

Heart of the Cast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2024 101:59


The ban list! But it's OCG! What does this spell for the TCG and how good are Mimighouls!? Let's explore! Patreon is only $1 granting discord access and Patreon question submissions! http://www.discord.gg/NdRYpQPymw https://www.patreon.com/HeartoftheCast

The Shadow Games
S19:E19 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 23]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2024 62:33


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #ReturnOfTheDuelist #REDUGRACIAS POR #OtroAñoDePodcast!Síguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S19:E16 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 22]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2024 68:47


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #GalacticOverlord #GAOVSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S19:E11 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 21]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 56:36


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #OrderOfChaos #ORCSSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

Vertigo - La 1ere
Les invités : Dominique A et Raphaël Merlin au Théâtre du Jorat

Vertigo - La 1ere

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2024 20:05


Lʹauteur-compositeur-interprète français Dominique A nʹest plus à présenter. Et pourtant, sa collaboration avec l'Orchestre de chambre de Genève (OCG) pour un concert exceptionnel lui permet de traverser trente années de son répertoire pour le renouveler. En concert au Théâtre du Jorat, le 13 juin 2024. Dominique A et Raphaël Merlin, chef dʹorchestre, sont les invités de Pierre Philippe Cadert.

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The Shadow Games
S19:E07 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 20]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2024 82:11


Sosa y Vicente me acompañan hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #PhotonShockwave #PHSWSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S19:E03 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 19]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2024 85:50


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #ExtremeVictory #EXVCSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

IMNerd Podcast
IMN - Yugioh Talk ft YCS Champion Andy Tsang

IMNerd Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 151:28


Anderson Tsang stops by the IMNerd Podcast to share his epic stories of becoming a YCS Champion and how his time in the OCG helped him to perceive the game differently. Support the show***Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IMNerdSend listener letters to: imnerdpodcast@gmail.comLinktree: https://linktr.ee/IMNerdPodcastThanks for listening!

Lead From Within
59. Emotional Intelligence Is The Gateway To Leadership Success with guest Kat Frey

Lead From Within

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2024 58:15


In this episode I talk to Kat Frey about emotional intelligence being the gateway to leadership success. Introduction Kat Frey is the owner and founder of Oxygen Coaching Group and The Thalassa Group, speaker, author, and coach. ​ What started as Oxygen Equestrian, her brainchild of helping business professionals learn more about their body language and relationship styles through hands-on work with horses has turned into an elite training and coaching company where her experience in the intermodal transportation industry (BNSF & UP Railroads), industrial manufacturing industry, and wireless communication industry (Verizon Wireless) allows owners, managers, and business professions to learn more about how their actions affect every part of their results and how they contribute to their lives.   OCG has built programs such as the Tie Game Theory, Conflict to Growth, and the online calculator to determine the optimal rate of pay, B.L.I.S.S. ©™   Brought up in a family-owned business, the best lesson Kat learned was to stretch and risk which led to her being co-owner of multiple companies before developing OCG. This diverse background helps business owners and their teams see outside the box when looking to take their business and personal relationships to the next level. She is a Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt. She has post-secondary education in engineering, human resources, manufacturing engineering, and project management along with CAD/CAM.   Kat is an advocate of the American Lung Association, and a frequent volunteer with the young people in her community through programs like Sources of Strength, Girls on the Run, Just Keep Living Foundation, and High School Swim and Dive at her Alma Mater.   Her passions include her two adult children, reining horses, rescuing Great Danes, gardening, and running. Resources mentioned in this episode Follow Kat: LinkedIn: HERE Facebook: HERE Instagram: HERE Website: HERE   Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and leaving a review. Leave comment on what you enjoyed from the episode and if you have any suggestions for future episodes, I'd love to hear from you. Even better, share it with a friend or colleague and turn on the notifications so that you never miss an episode. It really helps the podcast gain more listeners so that we can grow our Lead From Within community. Thanks everyone! Keep reaching for your highest branch!   Let's Connect Follow me on LinkedIn Here Visit my website Here Email: mthomson@curisconsulting.ca      Leave me a voice note HERE and have it included on a future podcast! Just click on the "message" tab.  It is greatly appreciated!  

The Shadow Games
S18:E15 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 18]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2024 78:27


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #ExtremeVictory #EXVCSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

The Shadow Games
S18:E12 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 17]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2024 57:40


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #StormOfRagnarok #STORSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

Capital Spotlight
Fund Friday E18: Exploring Due Diligence and Financial Projections with Mathew Owens

Capital Spotlight

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 67:53


Welcome to episode 18 of Fund Friday! Today, we are joined by Mathew Owens, the founder of OCG properties. We talked about how he discovered his passion for real estate and built a successful business, investment strategies, and many more! Learn about the importance of due diligence, cultivating relationships, and achieving financial freedom. We'll also discuss the benefits of passive investing, diversification strategies, and the impact of economic factors like interest rates.Regardless of your experience level in investing, whether you're well-versed or just starting out, this episode provides valuable insights. Tune in now and share your thoughts with us!Learn more at www.lscre.com Follow Rob Beardsley:YouTubeFacebookLinkedInRead Rob's articles:https://www.lscre.com/blog

The Shadow Games
S18:E09 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 16]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2024 71:15


Sosa y Vicente me acompañan hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #StarstrikeBlast #STBLSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesApóyanos aqui!

Coffee Talk With John Papaloni
233. Oxygen Unleashed: Navigating Success with Kat Frey – From Equestrian Insights to Business Brilliance

Coffee Talk With John Papaloni

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 40:09


Oxygen Unleashed: Navigating Success with Kat Frey – From Equestrian Insights to Business Brilliance Kat Frey is the owner and founder of Oxygen Coaching Group and The Thalassa Group, speaker, author, and coach. What started as Oxygen Equestrian, her brainchild of helping business professionals learn more about their body language and relationship styles through hands-on work with horses has turned into an elite training and coaching company where her experience in the intermodal transportation industry (BNSF & UP Railroads), industrial manufacturing industry, and wireless communication industry (Verizon Wireless) allows owners, managers, and business professions to learn more about how their actions affect every part of their results and how they contribute to their lives. OCG has built programs such as the Tie Game Theory, Conflict to Growth, and the online calculator to determine the optimal rate of pay, B.L.I.S.S. ©™ Brought up in a family-owned business, the best lesson Kat learned was to stretch and risk which led to her being co-owner of multiple companies before developing OCG. This diverse background helps business owners and their teams see outside the box when looking to take their business and personal relationships to the next level. She is a Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt. She has post-secondary education in engineering, human resources, manufacturing engineering, and project management along with CAD/CAM. Kat is an advocate of the American Lung Association, and a frequent volunteer with the young people in her community through programs like Sources of Strength, Girls on the Run, Just Keep Living Foundation, and High School Swim and Dive at her Alma Mater. Her passions include her two adult children, reining horses, rescuing Great Danes, gardening, and running. Kat's daily goal is to take on life's experiences, good and bad, and all that they teach you.

The Shadow Games
S18:E01 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 15]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2024 69:47


Sosa y Vicente me acompañan hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #DuelistRevolition #REDUSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-shadow-games/support.

Strange Stories UK
Strange Stories UK, Ten Days at Winchester Crown Court, Nov 2023.

Strange Stories UK

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 59:34


This is the first episode of Season 7. I spent a couple of weeks at Winchester Crown Court watching a few cases. There was a murder trial in Court 1, a stabbing on the Isle of Wight, there were a few Organised Crime Gangs ranging from drug smuggling to human trafficking. I found it difficult to accept the description OCG, especially when applied to a 'dodgy' roofer who worked with some other cowboy builders cheating vulnerable house owners.An Albanian gang  snatching items from elderly people in deserted car parks. There were of course the usual historic sex cases and County Lines cases. Court 4 had a home grown terrorist downloaded and sharing illegal content.  The podcast ends rather abruptly and I did not thank the people at Winchester Crown court, or Damselfly for the background music, or those that downloaded and listened.I have some rather quirky episodes planned, some shorter podcasts than normal that may not be to everyone's tastes. I aim to post the normal paranormal episode for Christmas.www.strangestoriesuk.gmail.com

The Shadow Games
S17:E10 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 14]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2023 63:52


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #TheShinigDarkness #TSHDSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes socialesConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-shadow-games/support.

The Pod of Greed
Yu-Gi-Oh Pack RANT! Pokémon Marriage Proposal, State of the MCU, EA Video Games Take Your Voice

The Pod of Greed

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 106:20


This week we're catching up on Yu-Gi-Oh news like the new Master Duel ban list and Valiant Smashers, plus some exciting OCG card reveals! We also witness a man propose using a Pokemon card, discuss the state of the MCU, and talk about an EA patent that could use your voice in new video games! And of course, we're answering more of your questions from the Pot of Greed! Submit topics or questions for the podcast! ➡️ https://forms.gle/nAtzEordbSpSb4we8

The Shadow Games
S17:E03 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 13]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2023 83:23


Sosa y Vicente me acompañan hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #AbsolutePowerforce #ABPFSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes sociales

The Shadow Games
S17:E01 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 12]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2023 85:07


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #StardustOverdrive #SOVR#DiaInternacionalDelPodcastSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes sociales

The Oasis Podcast
236: Half The World Away Review #OasisA2Z and discussion of The Royle Family with Fergal Kinney plus Kyle from the OCG on meeting Zak Starkey and more!

The Oasis Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2023 73:54


Hello and welcome back to the Oasis Podcast! It's a double header today as I interview Fergal Kinney @Fergal_41 about Half The World Away plus The Royle Family and Caroline Aherne. Check out his article here - https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/09/the-royle-family-at-25 Plus I catch up with Kyle Dale on all things OCG - join the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/4056050934503051/plus is if you are reading this in the future then the website might be live https://www.bittersweethome.co.uk Support me - Patreon.com/oasispod Email - oasispod@gmail.com YT - YouTube.com/@oasispodcast

The Shadow Games
S16:E13 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 11]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2023 63:34


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #AncientProphecy #ANPRSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes sociales

Finding Favorites with Leah Jones
Ronnie Raviv only dabbles

Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 73:13


Ronnie Raviv joined Leah to try and figure out if he has any favorite things. We talk about cocktails, cocktail bars, books, TV, great meals and our friendship origin story. For someone who claims to have no favorite things, there was no lacking in conversation. Like my beloved Zouks, Ronnie is not on twitter. Show Notes Second City Conservatory  Quipfire Improv  Sally Albright Chicken Pot Pie origin story  Mexican Mule Journeyman White Whiskey Jasper Fforde  OCD TLV Taizu  Fantastic TLV  Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde Blind Barber Duck Duck Goat Aviary Rosemary Tango Sur Bar Roma Frasca Monte Verde Dear Margaret  Yom Tov Deli (Tel Aviv) Harry's Epic Israel Food Tours Transcript follows Ronnie Raviv  0:00   Hello, my name is Ronnie Raviv. And I don't think I really have favorite things, but I have a lot of things that I like a lot, and you can hear all about them. In this week's finding favorites. ----more---- Announcer  0:10   Welcome to the findings favorites Podcast where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones. Leah Jones  0:23   Hello, and welcome to finding favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. It's Sunday, August 27. Really a beautiful, perfect day in Chicago after that brutal heatwave earlier in the week. Nice to have the windows open and to eat dinner outside today. Not too much to report other than my shoulder MRI shows a what seems to be a completely boring, small rotator rotator cuff tear. So hopefully, I will have some resolution to my shoulder pain soon. The orthopedist I saw last week said shit your shoulder is jacked. Which I think is sports for let's take this injury seriously. This week on the podcast I am talking with my one of my very dear friends Ronnie Raviv. You have heard about him on the podcast for years because he kept me company during a lot of chemo therapies and steroid Saturdays. We went to Israel on overlapping trips recently, so we just had that fabulous dinner in Tel Aviv. We talked about that a little bit. So I twisted his arm and said, Come be on a podcast. Now he does not listen to podcasts. He's not a he's not into the audio medium of podcasting. So I don't know if he will ever listen to this. But we have a fun conversation. Just sitting around bullshitting on the couch for an hour or so. And hit record. So without further ado, wear your mask. Wash your hands. Get your booster. I know a new booster is coming out soon. So I guess, wear your mask more diligently while you wait for the new booster to be available. And keep enjoying your favorite things. Leah Jones  2:43   Hello, and welcome to finding favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. And this is the podcast where we learn about people's favorite things and get recommendations without using an algorithm. Today I'm joined a rare in person interview for finding favorites. With my own personal algorithm. You do all the research that wire cutter doesn't do for me. So I don't have to do it. Yeah. What do we just found out recently? You didn't know what wire cutter Ronnie Raviv  3:08   was? No, I had no idea. You introduced me to wire cutter. Leah Jones  3:11   Right. So wire cutter is consumer a modern consumer reports. Yeah, basically. And then anytime I need a new phone. You are my Consumer Reports. Ronnie Raviv  3:23   Yeah, I would just from like the one article that I read or the one article with all the links to the other articles that I read. It it I wouldn't describe it necessarily as the modern consumer reports. I would describe it as the less nerdy Consumer Reports. So let's let's charts and figures and more. Recommendations. Leah Jones  3:49   Yes. Ronnie Raviv  3:50   It's a curated fair Consumer Reports. Leah Jones  3:57   I'm fine with him doing all the research for me. Sure. Because I am too lazy. Yeah, I would rather buy it. It'd be the wrong thing. Never return it and buy another thing. I wouldn't rather that but that's more likely how my life goes, Ronnie Raviv  4:10   right? Yeah, no, I'd much rather would buy the right thing to begin with. Leah Jones  4:14   Yes. Right. Which is why every two years when I'm a Verizon, it's time to buy a new phone. I call you with no warning. And I'm like, What phone am I buying today? Right. I've done that for 15 years, at least. Once I went away from my Blackberry, Ronnie Raviv  4:29   which I think we're all happy for. Leah Jones  4:31   Yeah. So Ronnie, usually, this is when so this is like the time of the podcast where people get to know the guest. And often we're I'm getting to know the guests because usually they are a complete stranger. Right? And you're not No, Ronnie Raviv  4:48   no, we've known each other for I was trying to do the math. I feel like 21 or 22 years we've known each other. Yeah. And we've known each other well, for maybe 18 years. Yeah, we know each other very well for 15 years. Yeah, maybe that's I think Leah Jones  5:06   that's about right. I moved here in Memorial Day 2002. Okay. And started going to open mics immediately. Yeah. And very quickly. Got to the tequila Roadhouse. RIP, RIP tequila Roadhouse and Ronnie Raviv  5:25   their crack fries. Yeah, they were surprised that were I don't know what they put on. There were so bad. Leah Jones  5:33   Well, there was my cousin's Friend's Boyfriend maybe wasn't conservatory with you? I don't remember. Okay. I think he was Greek. Okay, or he had a friend and I don't remember. Somehow I want to but one of your conservatory shows Ronnie Raviv  5:55   site. Yes. Second City conservatory Right. Leah Jones  6:00   Which quickly led to tequila Roadhouse. Yes. Ronnie Raviv  6:03   Because my many of the people I would go into group and that improv group, not only did stuff but also held an open mic. First tequila Roadhouse, then they went to Weiss fools. Yep. Neither of which are around because this is over 20 years ago. Leah Jones  6:19   Yeah. So it was a mixed bag. Open Mic. Yes. Very. So I did stand up comedy. And you were reading your as of yet unfinished novel Ronnie Raviv  6:31   as of still yet unfinished novel? Yes. And you would read a chapter a week? Yes, that was probably the most productive time because I had the actual deadline to like, do the chapter, right. But the way I write I don't outline or plan ahead, I sorta have to get into the, into the fugue state, which means that every time I sit down and write I don't necessarily remember what it was that I wrote, because I'm in a bit of a fugue state, right. And that's generally how I read books as well. I don't remember things after I just sort of get the good feeling. Yeah. And so I, so now it's just become this daunting mountain, because as the chapters pile up, every time I sit down, I have to read the whole thing to get into that flow. And it's just like, you know, if I have an hour to write, that's all well and good, but it'll take me like three or four hours just to read the thing to like, get into the meat into you know, and I don't have three or four. Let's be honest, I probably do. I just don't have the, Leah Jones  7:28   you don't have it set aside. You haven't scheduled in, right. Reread the novel, Ronnie Raviv  7:33   right? Before I read a new chapter, right? You know, so I'll like read, I like spend three hours rereading it to the right, a few pages. And then the next day, I have to like, reread a bunch to get into, this doesn't really happen. Maybe one of these days, I'll outline what I actually want to have happen. And that will help spur me on to like, Oh, now I need to read. Now I need to write this thing that happens. But I don't even know what will happen. It just sort of happens as it happens. Yeah. That's why I always wrote short stories when I was in college. Yeah, Leah Jones  8:06   I was gonna say maybe your short story guy. Ronnie Raviv  8:08   I am. But I don't like I want to write a novel. Yeah. I like I'm better suited for short stories. It's the same. It's the same thing with improv. Like, I did improv in college and we did short form improv improv games. And then and that's what I was good at, because I'm like, I'm good at that kind of quick joke thing. And then I went through the conservatory program at Second City, after many different things like twists and turns of my life and then ended up there. And I appreciate improv long form. Improv is an art form. And I sort of denigrate short form improv is just gimmicky, right? And so I don't like the short form improv as much. But that's the thing I'm better at I'm not good at the long form. So now I can't really do improv because the thing that I like, I'm not as good at writing that I I'm better at I don't like as much right. Leah Jones  9:01   But do you have? When's the last time you I don't I've never I don't think I've ever seen you do short form improv. I've seen you do sketch. Yeah. No, you haven't because I don't even know if I've ever seen you do long form improv. You have. Ronnie Raviv  9:13   I think, Okay, what if you? Well, I guess no, because it's because the seconds are the conservatory shows were more your sketch. They were born they were born out of improv to do with the improv in the class. And there was, there was a certain amount of improv, improvising on the stage. Like we make beats, we didn't have anything written out. Right. Sketches weren't, weren't scripted. But we sort of knew what was going to happen. A little more like, Curb Your Enthusiasm type. Leah Jones  9:37   I remember I guess I mostly remember your musical numbers. Yeah. White people brown line. Yes. Ronnie Raviv  9:43   I did not write that one. No, Leah Jones  9:45   but somebody asked you that you look at your watch. And somebody asks you the time and you were like, I don't know what time it is. And you put your hand down. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  9:54   You have more memory than I do. Leah Jones  9:56   I think because of the time I lived on the brow, I took the brown line about Each and every time I get on the Brown Line, I would think about the song. Yeah. So Ronnie Raviv  10:04   yeah, no white people brown line. That was that was a brilliant piece of work. I did a song that was a parody of modern gender. Yeah. That was a mouthful. It was like a victim of the new new economy or something, which at this point is like, three economies ago. Because this was in the early aughts. Yeah. It's been awhile. It's been a lifetime. It's been so long. So yeah, so the last time I did improv, I think is when my undergrad improv group. This is pre pandemic came through Chicago, they would come through Chicago, New York or LA. So every three years it comes to Chicago. And then they, they they did a little show to basically no audience is just really for us. Yeah. And then they called on the alums to come. And I thought they were gonna just kind of, we were just gonna do a quick little scene, like what we would do at reunion is like a world's worst. I like my women or men, like I like my blank or whatever. Yeah. But no, they then said, Okay, now you're going to do now, all the alarms now you're going to do a long form improv. Which, so when I was going through that group, it's called quickfire? Yeah. When I was going through it, we only did short form improv, right? Leah Jones  11:21   Because it was before UCB. It was before the Herald had New York. Ronnie Raviv  11:25   Yeah, this was this was in the mid in the early mid 90s. So we only did short form improv. And so the only reason I even knew like, luckily for me, I had gone through the second city experience. So I had had experience with long form, right. But so this was in I think, 2017. Okay. And my last experience with long form improv was in 2002. Yeah. So, and I was by far the oldest alarm there. The next oldest alarm was from the class of 2009. Okay, so the next oldest alarm was sort of complaining that they hadn't done improv in a while. had done it at like at that point. quickfire had done long form improv when they were in school. And so they had last done in 2009. You know, I had last done it before they were even in school. Leah Jones  12:22   Right before they were in grade school. Ronnie Raviv  12:25   Not quite that far, but they weren't probably Junior High. Last time I did long form improv, right. And that only by like luck, because previous to Second City, I'd only done short form improv. So I was like, I felt like it was a fish out of water, but somehow didn't. Didn't crap the bed too bad, I guess. I don't know. We did. Okay. It was only for us. So it didn't really matter, right. low stakes, no stakes, stakes improv. Leah Jones  12:50   I did. Eventually I gave in and I did the five classes at annoyance when I was managing the ice cream parlor, right? Because so many lifetimes ago, many, many lifetimes ago. Because I was so tired of people asking me if I did improv, I was like, I do stand up comedy. Sometimes, Ronnie Raviv  13:12   ironically, because literally everybody who does improv their families all assumed that their stand up comedian, right, right. Oh, do some do some stand up comedian comedy Ford's like, that's not what I do. I do improv. Okay. Well then do improv. Right? No, it's a group thing. Right. Stand up here and do improv. Leah Jones  13:27   I know. But you did have me come out once and do stand up comedy. For your parents friends. For Param. Yes, I remember that. Ronnie Raviv  13:37   I wasn't, I don't think you would not have gone without No, I wouldn't you did it. And you were brave. They were they were they were welcoming audience. Leah Jones  13:48   They were welcoming audience. You had Ronnie Raviv  13:52   you had my favorite joke, my favorite Lea joke. But it will have been we don't necessarily have to. Leah Jones  13:58   Was it about the date with a little person? No, I remember that one being Ronnie Raviv  14:02   No, it was the learning Hebrew. Oh, yeah. That you the needle pointed for me. And I still haven't hung but I will in a minute. Yeah. Leah Jones  14:10   Right. So Ronnie helped me. When I was learning the alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet. We would like go to Jack's for chicken potpie. And sometimes I would drag out these giant workbooks and make them help me with Hebrew. And when I had finally gotten really confident that I could like, kind of like know the alphabet in order. I was like, Ronnie, I have learned everything from Alif to Zion, Ronnie Raviv  14:37   which you know, translated from A to Z except it's really more like if you're familiar with the Greek alphabet from alpha to zeta, and that's like the seventh letter. Right? But Leah Jones  14:48   you know, yeah. So I for Ronnie's 40th birthday, I cross stitched him something that said met LF Ronnie Raviv  14:57   Zion Yeah, from A to zeta Right. So essentially, Leah Jones  15:00   right, I've learned everything from A to F. Yeah. Which honestly appropriate. Yeah. Because I had not learned Hebrew from A to Z like, No, probably not. I can. I can't even function anymore. I used to use my Hebrew used to be better, but everybody in English, everybody in Israel's English got way better. And also technology got way better. Ronnie Raviv  15:23   Yes. Not as important anymore. No. But I remember that crowd really liked that joke, right because it was a crowd of Hebrew speakers. Right. So they, they were all right there they that was the that was the crowd. That Leah Jones  15:36   was the only crowd I didn't have to explain the punchline to Yeah, yeah, like we just did here. Right. Ronnie Raviv  15:43   But you know, jokes are always better when you have to explain the punchline. Leah Jones  15:46   Yeah. Right. So I did improv it annoyance. But I've never performed it outside of a class. Ronnie Raviv  15:57   So that's alright. That's fine Leah Jones  15:58   with me. Yeah, it's okay. I understand it. And I understand I don't want to do it. Ronnie Raviv  16:04   Yeah. Yeah, I'm sort of I'm sure I'm right there with you. It took me longer time to understand that. Leah Jones  16:10   Yeah. That you didn't want to do it anymore. Or that or to understand it? Ronnie Raviv  16:15   Both, I guess. Yeah. Because I was in a more because they started with the short form, right, which is like the games and the, the joke Enos right. Leah Jones  16:23   The Whose Line Is It Anyway, who's that's exactly boarded for puns and jokes and dad jokes and quick thinking, right. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  16:30   Which is what we were, which is what I was really good Leah Jones  16:33   at. Yeah. So you're still really good at? Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  16:36   I think so. I'm okay that for sure. Yeah. But you know, when it comes to like, improvising long scenes where you have to like, react and have emotions and whatever, I'm not as good as that. Leah Jones  16:51   Till we met, and then comedy ended, comedy didn't really end I got transferred to London. So I was like, and you finish conservatory. And I think by the time I was back from London, I think the tequila Roadhouse might have been closed. Ronnie Raviv  17:09   I think it was around for maybe a little longer than that. But we were but they were no longer doing the open mic. Yeah. Leah Jones  17:15   Yeah. And we ran into each other at a board game. It's a bar on Addison started with a G threes. threes. Ronnie Raviv  17:23   I have no recollection of this. You know, me. I'm, you know, me. I sort of have no recollection of things. Yeah. Leah Jones  17:30   I remember it clearly, somewhat clearly. And then I recently searched my blog to see if I had when it happened. Okay. And I reference people that I'm like, I referenced someone named Jamie. And I'm like, Who the fuck is Jamie? Jamie Allen? Probably no, no. Like I was there with my friend Jeff from high school. Were Jeff from college. Jamie might have been his girlfriend at the time. Ronnie Raviv  17:52   Oh, girl. Okay. Yeah. Leah Jones  17:55   I don't know. Like, I don't know the description of the people that I say I walked in with Oh, okay. And then you watch because I moved to London and quit comedy. And we figured out like, Oh, hey, what's up? Sell your number. And so then we went for chicken Popeye. Nice. Shortly thereafter, Ronnie Raviv  18:14   yeah. Chicken. Popeye was so good. Yeah. Last, Leah Jones  18:19   so rip jacks. Yeah. And long before they were closed. Rip the chicken pot pie. Ronnie Raviv  18:23   Right. Rip that chicken pot pie. More so than jacks. Yeah. And then the Diag. Yeah, it's Leah Jones  18:28   rip. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  18:31   Yeah. But yeah, the chicken pot pie was gone long before that. And that was really the big tragedy of the whole thing. Leah Jones  18:39   Was the chicken potpie gone before your ability to process? Dairy? Ronnie Raviv  18:45   No, it was worth it. Ya know, my ability. My inability to process dairy disappeared before the dream pop. I did. But it was worth it. Leah Jones  18:53   Yeah. That's another conversation locked in my brain because it was so insane. Because you picked me up from the 14th station. And you pretended like I had any choice about where we were going to dinner. Right? Which was nice of you to pretend. Right? And then you said, Leah, you know, the type of chicken Popeye that you dream of? And I was like, I do not dream of chicken pie. I Ronnie Raviv  19:14   see. You remember this as dream of I feel like I wouldn't have put it that way. Maybe I did at that point. But I sort of always see it as you know, when you have a hankering for chicken, Popeye. And you sort of have in your mind's eye. What? You're sort of picturing like, Oh, I could go for that. Right? And then you order it. And it's like, oh, well, that's not really what I was picturing. Chicken Popeye, but it's not the chicken coop I had in my brain. Yes. This place had that chicken. Leah Jones  19:45   Yeah. And I was very skeptical. Of course, Ronnie Raviv  19:49   as was everybody I told this story to right there. Leah Jones  19:53   And you were of course correct because they they baked it an individual that you had a cross pinched on To the top of your bowl. Ronnie Raviv  20:01   Yeah. But it was just it wasn't it was beyond that it was I think it was like the way the sauce that like Allah King sauce or whatever it is. It's like the like just the chicken, the combination of vegetables, the proportions, the sauce, the flavor, the cross, like all of it. It was like the platonic ideal of a chicken about pie, right. And I had many a convert to that chicken. Popeye was good. It was great. And then the chef left and they could not recreate it. No. And then it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. And then they closed and it became a sports bar. Leah Jones  20:38   Yeah. And then somehow that was the last time we went I think was probably my 40th Ronnie Raviv  20:45   Yeah, I don't know what's been called for a while. Leah Jones  20:47   Yeah. But we went that's where we went after. That was where the after party was okay? Was Diag. Okay, because it was walking distance. So, according according to the pictures I have. Yeah, I don't I don't recall that either. No, I don't have a lot of memories. Right that night. Ronnie Raviv  21:07   Yeah, no, that and that was a bit of a blur. Yeah. Yeah. Leah Jones  21:12   Um, yeah. So that's the origin story. Yeah. Is comedy. And then happened to happen? Chance happenstance, happenstance. Yeah. Yeah. And people were listened to the podcast have heard about you, Matthew. David brozik. One of your good one of your best friends from college has been a guest. And people have certainly heard about you on steroids. Sunday. Steroid Saturday's one of my Mayo Clinic. Road trip buddies. Yeah, the OG hospital host the OG hospital husband. Yes. And you still probably wear your pen. That was that was really sweet. Leah Jones  22:02   So one of the things when we talked about favorite things, like what would you talk about? As favorite things first, you're like immediately I don't have anything. Ronnie Raviv  22:12   No, I still I've been racking my brains. And I have. I have no favorite things. I have a lot of things I dabble in and things I like, right. Like a lot of things. Yeah. I'm a fairly easygoing, sometimes guy. Usually going in a sort of very high maintenance way. Leah Jones  22:31   I joke last night about you being Sally Albright. But you are Sally Albright from When Harry Met Sally. I mean, I'm you are easy going in the way that Sally Albright is easygoing. Ronnie Raviv  22:42   I think maybe not quite that heightened. But yeah, there's just there's no, there's certainly some truth to that for sure. No, I'm, I like a lot of things. Yeah. I also hate a lot of things. But I like a lot of things. And I'm sort of, you know, generally fairly open to whatever. Is there a certain way Leah Jones  23:01   you'll eat almost anywhere as long as you can order around the menu. Which is true. Ronnie Raviv  23:06   Yeah. Because you're a lot of picky eater. Bit of a super taster. Yeah, not an adventurous Well, no, that's not true. I Leah Jones  23:14   don't think that's fair. Ronnie Raviv  23:15   You know, I'm an I'm adventurous. I just picky. Leah Jones  23:18   You are adventurous. If you trust the chef. Yeah, that's true. Because we could just talk about, we can even just talk about great meals we've had together. Yeah, we've had some good ones. Yeah. Because Thai zoo and Tel Aviv last year. Yep. And OCD. Yep. Are both to where it was where? You would? I mean, they both places where they took our tastes seriously? Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  23:49   Yeah. We said what we liked and didn't like whatever and pointed them in a direction, right? And they said, Okay, trust us, and they delivered. Leah Jones  24:00   Yeah. So I think if the chef can't deliver at that level, you are less adventuresome. Right, for sure. Or you will amend the menu to make something better than they have on them. And yeah, Ronnie Raviv  24:13   well, I mean, I try not to be as annoying about it as Sally. I try to, I generally try to say, just eliminate these one or two things that I don't like. And also like if there's like a thing that I have to eliminate five things. I'm not going to get that thing, right. I'm gonna just get the thing like okay, I can have this like just take out the raw onions and avocado and I'm good. Yeah, you know, just like the things I don't like. I don't try to like have them do a concoction. Except for if there's mac and cheese on the menu and there's chili on the menu. That's a thing where things have to be put together. Yeah, because that's amazing. Chili Mac is the best thing ever. And I don't know why any restaurant that has chili and then has mac and cheese does not have Have a chili Mac. Yeah, option. It's silly. Leah Jones  25:03   Yes. I do think we have to get the purchase doesn't have Mac and mac and cheese right? Ronnie Raviv  25:09   I don't believe so they have an amazing chili. Chili was so good. Chili was so good, but I did not see mac and cheese. Yeah. Leah Jones  25:16   So we'll have to get it to go and then take and then go to the mac and cheese. Max. Yeah, yeah. Be like don't worry. We have purse chilly Ronnie Raviv  25:28   we got chilly to go. Leah Jones  25:30   Yeah. Um, I don't know, do you wanna talk about with CD? We could. Or something? Ronnie Raviv  25:37   Oh, no, I could. I could. I could throw this back on you. Okay. I mean, the name of the podcast is finding favorite. Yes. So find my favorite. What's my favorite? Leah Jones  25:51   Well, your favorite liquor right now is Mezcal. True? That is? Yes. It's Mezcal number is affirm. Number one. This Ronnie Raviv  26:01   girl is affirmed. Number one, but with a huge caveat. Like the bartender was mixologist. Whatever has to be Mezcal is pickier. It's harder to blend. Okay, well, so if I don't trust the bartender, I will fall back on tequila, which is easier to deal with. But if the bartender is really good in Moscow, they can do a better job. Leah Jones  26:29   Right. So the the Mezcal meal has been your go to cocktail this summer? Ronnie Raviv  26:37   Yes. If I again, if you trust them, trust them. Otherwise, I'll go with Mexico meal because that's a lot more right. Reliable, Leah Jones  26:46   yeah. But I don't know when that because not you were never really you're not really a Gen drinker? Because that's a little too aromatic. Yeah. But for a long time, it was like vodka or rum, but like tequila, I feel like is new on like, in the last five years has gone up your list? Ronnie Raviv  27:11   Well, I think it probably was, realistically, it was there longer than that. Maybe afraid. Like I figured, because I'm like, I don't love the taste of alcohol, like vodka is my thing. And I like you know, and if you go to a bar that doesn't have anything, like you go to a like, an event, right? And all you know, they had the most basic stuff, then I'll get a vodka cranberry, right, you know, splash soda and some wine. Ronnie Raviv  27:40   But if there's a place that and then for a while, I was like, oh, but if you have ginger beer, I'll do a Moscow Mule. Yeah. And then I discovered the Mexico mule. And that is so much better than the Moscow Mule. Right. And then I was also like, at that point, I was like, But wait, but also if there's a margarita, I will go for a margarita. Yeah. And it's like, well, maybe, you know, really the only vodka drink I like is the vodka cranberry. And I like the Mexico mule as my fallback, right? You know, my my go to and I like the the the margarita, right? Maybe, maybe tequila is my favorite. And so then I'm like, You know what, maybe I want to kill a guy and I didn't know and then like, and then I discovered the Moscow Mule. And I'm like, wow, that elevates the, the Mexico mule to a whole new level. But you go to a bar that doesn't know what they're doing a Moscow Mule is gonna be hit or miss. Yeah. Leah Jones  28:33   I also I mean, mezcal has come into its own in America in the last few years. So Ronnie Raviv  28:38   it's more popular. You it was there, there were times where you there are a lot of bars that still don't have it. Yeah. Leah Jones  28:44   And they also suspect as you and your friends as like all of our paychecks have changed. And our base level to Keela has changed in our houses. Like in the I think there's like grote, we're older. We're middle age now. So we're not getting like the cheapest tequila and none of your friends have the cheapest tequila in their house and and so like I also think there's something to be said for like access to better quality. Yeah, I Yeah, that's a killer you were introduced to at 21 You probably want to drink today. Ronnie Raviv  29:25   Maybe or maybe it's about the mixers the quality of the mix. Like ginger beer just really solves a lot of problems. Yeah, alcohols in general. But also think that vodka is a much, much more consistent thing. So you know, there's bad gin and bad tequila and certainly bad Moscow. Yeah, vodka. It might be mediocre you know, but But by the same ticket there's excellent tequila is an excellent Moscow's right and excellent gins. And there's not really an excellent vodka. Maybe there's a few I have a very Leah Jones  30:00   nice vodka right now. Ronnie Raviv  30:02   Exactly a very nice vodka. Leah Jones  30:04   It's a Polish. It's the buffalograss. Polish vodka. Ronnie Raviv  30:08   Very nice vodka. It's not an excellent vibe. But it can't be excellent because there's just not enough complexity there. Right? It's like the best vodkas are the ones that taste least like anything. Right? Like the bad vodkas are the ones that like tastes a little bit like gasoline and the ones that the excellent bikers are the ones that taste less like gasoline fare, whereas tequila has the complexity of the brown liquors that I don't like right without being the brown occurs and I don't like Leah Jones  30:34   right, because the brown look, error is not on my favorites. No. Ronnie Raviv  30:40   But it's not just a bitter there's it's just that gasoline, turpentine sort of alcohol it tastes Yeah. And I don't know there's the peatiness I don't know there's something the barrel. Yeah. Because I because journeyman, we're plugging so many should get. You should get all sorts of free stuff. Leah Jones  30:57   Oh, I don't link to all of it. And they they give me nothing. Yeah. But Ronnie Raviv  31:02   journeyman, in three oaks, Michigan. They have a white whiskey Leah Jones  31:10   that's aged in glass, Ronnie Raviv  31:13   or it's not aged. They distill the whiskey but then they don't agent in the barrel, maybe a moonshine? No, it's whiskey, right? But it just doesn't have that PD. Yeah. Woody, barely taste or whatever it is that I don't like about it. That makes an excellent mule. And they also have this drink called OCG. The old country goodness, it's like an apple cinnamon, nice cider that they do either straight up or is a frozen slushy. And it's really, really good. It's good. Yeah. So with a white whiskey, that's the only whiskey to drink. Unless it's like a really, really cool, complicated, right drink where the whiskey sort of really balanced out by other stuff. Like get at the aviary. Yeah, plug plug plug. Leah Jones  32:05   Right so that the aviary and like less so the violet hour or what's the one on Damon? Ronnie Raviv  32:16   Violet hours on Damon? Oh, what's Leah Jones  32:18   the other one on Damon? closer to me? Damon on LinkedIn. Victor or Victor Victor bar? Ronnie Raviv  32:24   Yeah. Just like the sticks. Used to be Yeah. Leah Jones  32:28   So you do you also have I would say also a favorite thing of yours is a well crafted complex, very Ronnie Raviv  32:35   well crafted. Interesting cocktail. Yes, I do like that. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Well crafted, interesting cocktail or fantastic. In Israel. Yeah. Or bellboy? Right? In Israel in Tel Aviv, Leah Jones  32:53   Imperial. Ronnie Raviv  32:55   Imperial was good. Like Ultra. Yep. also has very good cocktails. Leah Jones  33:04   Yeah, I do Ronnie Raviv  33:05   have one Barber has good cocktails. Yep. There's another place that has had really good cocktails. I can't remember. There's a lot of places with good cocktails. Yeah. Leah Jones  33:17   So I think that is I think, like if you're in a new city, not that you go to new cities often, right? No, I don't if you are returning to a city. So like my friend Dave. He uses hardrock cafes as like, an excuse to go to a city. He collects going to them just because it gives him a reason to put a city on his itinerary. Ronnie Raviv  33:41   In and of itself, that's a terrible excuse. But if it gets you to a new city, it gets you there. But it's terrible underlying excuses. Leah Jones  33:49   Check off boxes. Yeah, right. There's a list you can check out against the list. Okay. So that is not, you know, not implying it is. So if you are returning to a city you've been to before Tel Aviv, New York. Chicago, I think you will seek out a new interest. Like you will seek out a cocktail bar. Yeah. Something to do. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  34:16   I'm usually if I'm if I'm there on my own. No, that's not true. I'm usually there with somebody. Visiting somebody seeing somebody. Yeah. So I will get from them. What's the good? What's the good cocktail, right? So I went to business. I went on business to Copenhagen. And so I made sure that our business contacts told me where the good cocktail bar Leah Jones  34:39   right was. Yeah, yeah. So all right, so there I've already found Mezcal and fancy pants cocktail bar, Ronnie Raviv  34:51   Fancy Pants cocktail. Yes, girly drinks, girly, girly drinks. Leah Jones  34:56   I was just reading an article this morning about how sometimes men to freak out when they're served something in stemware and will like make the bartender put it in a rocks glass. Oh, my Ronnie Raviv  35:08   friend Bob hates coupe glass. Really? I don't like martini glasses because martini glasses are stupid. Because they spill everywhere. Right? But a coupe glass that doesn't spill as much as a little bit because it's up to the rim. Yeah, but no, my friend Bob hates Kool Aid. He like will reject cocktails if they come in. Like he's not if they come to him that he won't reject them. But he was like, sometimes if you if you remember his he'll say, Is that coming to coupe? Like, oh, and then I want it? Leah Jones  35:33   Yeah. I mean, I will sometimes say like, is it up or on the rocks? And I will often ask for something that's served up to be served on the rocks. Yeah. But that's because I love ice. Right? Yeah, that's a whole different thing. And not because I hate Well, it's I love ice. I will drink it way too fast and a coupe. Like if there's not ice in it. It's just might as well just be a shot. Right? So Ronnie Raviv  35:57   I don't know why I feel myself to ice. I do a good job of sipping when it's in the coupe glass. Yeah. Something about the coupe glass. Not that I love it or hate it and anything else but something about it always. Like if it's in a tall glass. I will down that like nobody's okay. Yeah, I'll go and like down. Yeah. Whereas in the coupe glass that's like, oh, it's like I can see the whole thing. And I can sort of take little, little dainty sips and none of Leah Jones  36:25   its hiding behind the ice. Right. Exactly. Exactly. And they're not served with a straw. Ronnie Raviv  36:30   Which I never use. I very rarely use. Yeah. Only if it's like, really, really like impossible. Like it's piled high with ice and other things like, like sticking out of the rim. Leah Jones  36:43   Like the so we had a drink at fantastique in Tel Aviv with Ronnie Raviv  36:48   Chuck flowers, electric flowers, look them up on Google, which are Leah Jones  36:53   I have smuggled them home. They're in my purse. Ronnie Raviv  36:57   They're crazy. Yeah. It's just this little. It's like It's like almost I don't know how to describe it. It's Leah Jones  37:07   not quite a thistle. Yeah, because it doesn't. It doesn't poke you hurt, right? It's kind of like Ronnie Raviv  37:15   it's like the dandelions like the inside of the puffball. Dandelion. Yeah, before it's opened. No, after after it's open. When you've blown all the puffs off. It's like the round ball. It's a little bit bigger. And it's a little bit fuzzy, Leah Jones  37:28   right? Oh, you know, it's kind of like a pussy willow. Like the Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  37:34   but yellow. Yeah. And you bite into it just a teeny tiny little, tiniest, tiniest amount. It's bitter, and it's not great. And it doesn't taste good. But you just the tiniest amount just a little tiny nibble, like Alison Wonderland noodling on, nibbling on it and mushroom, just the tiniest little nibble. And then for the next, depending on how big the nibble was. 1015 minutes. Your tongue feels like it's constantly licking a nine volt battery. And as you drink something, it enhances that. Yes. And it's really, really interesting and cool and different and bizarre. Yeah. And unpleasant and pleasant at the same time. Leah Jones  38:18   I think you have been telling me about it for like four years. Ronnie Raviv  38:21   Yeah. And you and you still didn't quite picture it in your head. Leah Jones  38:25   No. Even in my mouth. I did not. It was so in SAM. It was you are as giddy right now as you were in the moment. So wonderful Ronnie Raviv  38:35   to see. For the look of a horror and shock on your face of like, what is this? What am I done? What is happening to my insides in my face right now? It was so awesome. Leah Jones  38:49   It was so weird. Yeah. And then it was right like a tequila based drink with a lot of ice. Yeah, a lot of drama. Oh, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  38:57   There was a plan sticking thorns. I'm all sorts of stuff. It was. Yeah. I think the drink was called like, dangerous. Something deep something like danger in the world in the name, Leah Jones  39:06   right. But it was very, it was it was very fun. Ronnie Raviv  39:12   Yeah, yeah. It was really, really tasty drink, too. Yeah. Leah Jones  39:18   I think that was the I think you did a better job or I got whatever. Oh, might have a good and plenty, isn't it? Ronnie Raviv  39:25   Well, yeah. Because you wanted something that tasted like licorice. Leah Jones  39:29   Yeah, but it was such a literal interpretation of tastes like licorice. It was was good. And plenty is melting in the bottom of a whiskey drink Ronnie Raviv  39:37   with some bitters that you could inject with? Yeah, syringe? Yeah. Leah Jones  39:42   It was dramatic and creative, but not delicious, right. I mean, it was fine. Yeah, it was but I'll never order it again. Ronnie Raviv  39:50   No. My drink was better. But honestly, the best drink was the one that we went with the electric flower. Yeah. Leah Jones  39:59   Was very funny. It Ronnie Raviv  40:00   was just for the gimmick would be fine. But it was not just a gimmick. It was a really, really good drink. Right. Really well balanced with the gimmick. Yes. Leah Jones  40:06   Yeah. So that was that's That was great. And I had gone to loutra earlier in the weekend in Tel Aviv and had some very nice cocktails to I don't remember what they were. Because it was all tequila. Yeah. And Ronnie Raviv  40:24   very few Mexican restaurants in Israel. Yeah. A little surprising. Yeah, but I mean, just from like, the palate like you would think like spicy foods and right. Cilantro. Yeah. It's like all these things. Oh, yeah, it's all rice. You'd think that it would be really popular in Israel and for some reason. There aren't that many of them Leah Jones  40:50   for many years. When I would like check a huge bag instead of checking a small bag or three Ronnie Raviv  40:57   small bag, three medium sized. Leah Jones  41:01   Um, and I would take like my friend David, when a trash bags like Benji and tall Tali both wanted like, El Paso taco seasoning. Like my friends were like, bring me like envelopes of taco seasoning. And American trash bags. And American toothpaste. And aspirin. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  41:24   And then what would you bring back? Israeli ketchup? And my friend who is a modern Orthodox would ask me for Doritos, because Oh, because they're kosher isn't Israel. They're kosher. Leah Jones  41:39   I I remember, early trip bringing you back like olives. Ronnie Raviv  41:44   Yes, you brought? Yeah, but now you can get them. Yeah. I still have those olives and pickles because they were the wrong ones. They're the cracked olives that are bitter, as opposed to the sort of the more the Arabic olives that are bitter as opposed to the kibbutz olives that I like, and it was the the cucumbers in vinegar instead of in Brian. Leah Jones  42:11   I still I still have entries been at minimum 10 years that I gave you those possibly longer Ronnie Raviv  42:20   I think more like eight but yes, it's been a while. During the probably not. They're not. I'm moving in six weeks or so. Leah Jones  42:28   Yeah, I will sneak in and take them and throw them out for you. You're not moving them? Ronnie Raviv  42:36   Probably not. But it's against my religion to throw food away. Leah Jones  42:40   I understand. I understand that. Ronnie Raviv  42:42   I know. I know. It's possible I gave the olives to my mom because she does like those correct olives. Yeah, but none of us like the pickles and vinegar. Brian, Leah Jones  42:52   it's also sweet of you to wait eight years to tell me that I brought you the wrong thing. Ronnie Raviv  42:57   No. It was like it was so sweet of a gesture I'm not gonna I didn't have the heart to tell you know, beggars can be choosers I don't like the free thing you got me. Leah Jones  43:09   Um, when my nephews were of a certain age, which is much younger than they are now I would bring back I would go to the shuk and Jerusalem and buy like all of the fake Kinder eggs like I would go to the Kinder Egg store that had like all the off brand unlicensed Kinder eggs Ronnie Raviv  43:30   because they were legal here for a while. They're still Leah Jones  43:31   illegal here. Ronnie Raviv  43:32   I thought they weren't I thought they just thought they figured out how to because now you can buy it now they just buy them but they suck. Right because they don't have because they they've been protected for the litigious American mark. Yes. Leah Jones  43:43   So there were times when I would like have an entire layer of Kinder eggs and bootleg Kinder eggs for the kids of Leroy, Illinois, for the O'Briens and the DeVivo is to have like a Kinder Egg Unboxing party at my sister's house. Nice. Yeah. Leah Jones  44:12   Okay, other favorite things of yours. You consume a lot of TV for someone who is not a TV critic. Ronnie Raviv  44:21   Right? I do. I used to consume a lot more admittedly. I consume less nowadays. Yeah, still consume a lot. Leah Jones  44:28   Right? For sure. When we met you had three VCRs. Correct. Ronnie Raviv  44:32   And then you worked on a client on the TiVo account and the TiVo account. And so I got a TiVo that can record six things at once. Yeah. Which I still have. Yeah. Actually, no, between those I had a DVR I had like a I had a Windows Media DVR that could record four things at once. Yeah, but the hard drives kept going out. Yeah. And then I got the TiVo. I have that to this day. But now I'm not going to have cable in my new place. Right? So I'm gonna have to figure out what's going on with that whole new era. It's a whole new era. Yeah. Because YouTube TV isn't going to quite do it for me, but I'm not sure that ATT DirecTV is going to do it for me, but like, I can get you like I can get internet for sort of free because the building has internet, but I don't know if it's reliable enough, and it won't have the 18 T. Like, I'd have to pay extra. So do I want to pay the extra it's a whole big thing that I have to Leah Jones  45:30   sort of figure out it's, it's going to be a major lifestyle, it is going to be a major lifestyle change. But how what is your origin story with TV? Like, how did you become? When did you go from one to two to three visa like when I've only ever known you as someone with a huge queue of TV to watch, but I don't know why you watch so much TV. Ronnie Raviv  45:56   I don't either. Um, because it's good escapism, I always like watching TV. Like I had a TV, I got it, I got a small little TV. Like, I don't know, like a 13 inch TV or something for my Bar Mitzvah that I had in my room. So I'd watch TV there sometimes. And then I took that to college, and then we would watch Whose Line Is It Anyway, like we'd all crammed right, and we didn't have cable, freshman and sophomore year. So I would like take speaker wire and toss them out the window, click attach to the rabbit ears in hopes of getting a decent signal on. Because that's how old we are Lea. And so yeah, so I was watched that and then and then I guess maybe after college I started recording things on on the VCR so I wouldn't like because, you know, I'm I have friends who will not have plans because they want to go do something they want to watch TV or something. So I would like record whatever because why not? And so maybe a little bit after college that started but then it really was in earnest it during business school. That's when I collected sort of like a second and maybe even my third DVR. VCR. Yeah. In business school. So I could record things but not miss out on social occasion. Right. And also, there's an additional advantage of that is because if there's an hour long show that you record, you can zip through the commercials and watch it in 45 minutes very efficient. So yeah, so I think it's, I'm all about if you if I had to pick a favorite thing would be efficiency. That's which is really the polite way of saying lazy. But yeah, so it was really the efficient thing to do. Leah Jones  47:50   Right. And when and when, like comedy so much of it wasn't right. Yeah. I mean, classes might have been during the day, but like so much of comedy was Yeah, evenings and yeah, Ronnie Raviv  48:01   so I wouldn't be never home but I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want to miss out on things. Like you know, I'm, I'm a very much a homebody, right and need an inordinate amount of me time, right? I don't like having plans day after night after night after night after night after night. Right? Even if I'm enjoying all those plans it just like I get stir crazy. I need my time. But I don't want to be the kind of person who misses out on plans with friends. Because Oh, no, I have to watch this at home. Right? That's I feel like, you know, that's You can be addicted to the thing, but not make it ruin your life. Right. So, yeah, so I just like started recording anything that was vaguely interesting. And I would watch it. Yeah. And my bar for vaguely interesting is pretty low. Right? Leah Jones  48:51   It's not reality. No, I Ronnie Raviv  48:52   don't I don't do reality TV. And I don't like shows about unpleasant people making bad decisions. Leah Jones  49:02   It's a madman. Ronnie Raviv  49:03   Yeah. Madman Breaking Bad. I watched a few episodes and like, succession. Haven't you watched that? Yes. Like at this point, I kind of know, oh, this is a show about shitty people making bad decisions, right? I'm not gonna like it. Because if it's a good person making bad decisions, okay, if it's a shitty person making good decisions, like an antihero kind of a thing. You know, like a Dexter or whatever, fine. But if it's like a crappy person who's making bad decisions and gets in trouble for their bad decisions, like I'm not gonna root for them to get out of trouble. Like you just you do this yourself. Yeah. Why do I care if you get out of it? Leah Jones  49:38   That's how I felt. I feel like I watched the pilot of girls. The TV show it was on HBO. Lena Dunham. Yeah. Adam Driver. Yeah. And I think I watched the pilot and I was like, Oh, I agree with the parents. This show is not for me because I think the parents should be kind Putting her off. And then I think that was like one of like five episodes of the whole series that I ever watched because I was like, No, I think I think she should be cut off and have to like, figure it out a little bit better. Yeah, I Ronnie Raviv  50:13   think that was on during the years that I didn't have HBO. Yeah. Because I had HBO for many years while I was, you know, when I first moved into my apartment, because for some reason, the cable company screwed up and it wasn't scrambled. Great. So I had free HBO and Showtime and then one day they caught on and they re scramble them and it's not like I could pick up the phone and call them and say Hey, how come he scrambled the free Why am I free cable that I'm not taking away? Yeah, so I you know, watch the first several seasons of sopranos and the first couple seasons of Kirby enthusiasm, and then I lost HBO so then I didn't watch those shows anymore. Well, sopranos Leah Jones  50:51   was on Sunday nights right before the tequila Roadhouse. Open Mic. So sometimes people would watch it at kill Roadhouse in the front and the bar and then go to the back for the open mic. Yeah, maybe I recorded it. Yeah. Right. You're gonna have to find a whole new system. Ronnie Raviv  51:10   Yeah, well now so they all it's streaming DVR, so you could just have hit it, but from what I read, they're not good about time shifting. Yeah, like in my current on the on the TiVo, I can say, okay, record this show, like when it supposed to be but then keep recording for another, you know, three, five minutes, another hour and a half. Like if there's a baseball game on before a football game before? And they're gonna like start it late. I can just keep recording. Yeah. But now with these online, these these streaming DVRs. You have to sort of set to record the show after it because he can't like extend the show. They don't know well enough, and but you might be able to go back and I don't know. It's a whole complicated thing. Yeah. I'm gonna have to figure out yeah. So yeah, TV is sort of a favorite. Yeah. But again, okay. I have a lot of things I like but none of these are my favorites. The the cocktails is probably the closest Yeah, but like people ask me, oh, what's your favorite show? If you watch too much TV? I don't have a favorite show. Just like I watch a lot of shows. Yeah, I don't favorite. Yeah, efficiently. I don't have a favorite though. Yeah. I have a bunch that I like. So I like more or less, where I'd be hard pressed to even say what those are. Yeah. I also like with books, I watch a TV show or a movie or a book. And I get the good feeling of it in the moment. And I appreciate it. I enjoy it in the moment, but then asked me what it was about. Right. When I'll have a tough time. Yeah. I just like it goes out of my head. I'm like, Oh, I remember I liked that book. What's it about? I don't know. What happens and I don't know. I just remember that it came away thinking it was a great book. Leah Jones  52:49   Do you ever come away thinking it's a bad book? Yeah. Okay. Ronnie Raviv  52:54   But I'll still read it. i There's only there's only, I think, two books on my list that I have started and not finished. Which are Moby Dick. And gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Which is weird, because there was a time period where I was when every book I was really enjoying and reading. Everyone was describing it as pinching ask. And I'm like, well, it's weird that the one book that I didn't finish is by Thomas Pynchon. But all these bitchiness, yes. I liked Leah Jones  53:30   I thought you were gonna say Moby Jack, either because you have told me before or because in the airfare she is sentence to live until she finishes the most boring book in the world. Ronnie Raviv  53:46   Book airfare and I don't remember. I have no, Leah Jones  53:49   not in airfare. It's it's further along in the series. Ronnie Raviv  53:53   I've read the whole series, and I have no recollection of what you're saying. This is what I'm talking about. Right. No recollection of these things? Leah Jones  53:58   Yeah. It is. It's one of my top topics I recommend to people. Ronnie Raviv  54:06   It's a good it's a good series of books. Yeah, sure. Leah Jones  54:08   Especially if people are readers. You're rewarded for being a lifelong reader. Yeah. And in his books, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  54:16   And there's good wordplay. And there's just clever. Yeah, yeah, it's good stuff. Yeah, Jasper Ford is very good. Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to eventually reading the sequel to my favorite book of his the great. The shades of grey shades of grey. Yeah. Not to be confused with 50 Shades of Grey, right. Shades of Grey is an awesome book. Again, don't ask me what it's about because I don't remember. I just remember thinking it was an awesome book. Let me tell you what I know. I know. It's I vaguely know it's like some people can't see certain colors, but some people can see certain colors, but not all of them. But then some people can like the more of the spectrum we can see. I don't remember what it signifies. But I just remember there are people who can like see greens and People can see reds. And there's like, sort of, but I don't really remember anything beyond that. Leah Jones  55:04   The it's the caste system is based on how much how colorblind, you are right with the people with the best cut the best vision at the top, and the most limited vision or at the bottom. Ronnie Raviv  55:18   But even the best limit, even the best vision, it's like, you only see one spectrum of colors, Leah Jones  55:23   right? And it's a coming of age story because of the age 16. You take the test, right? You're allowed to live without a caste until you're 16 or whatever. And then you take the test. And it is is the protagonist, I believe is realizing that if his parents are who his parents are supposed to be, he should not be able to see what he can see. Right. So they his mom stepped out to get his to get the kid better vision of a chance of a better future. You don't remember any of that that Ronnie Raviv  56:06   part? I don't remember. Yeah, no. No, I like read the book I enjoyed in the moment. And then I just come away with a good feeling. Leah Jones  56:14   Yeah. No, I'm excited for the sequel to Yeah, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  56:20   Yeah, it was really? Yeah. Because for a long time, it looked like he wasn't gonna do the sequel because it didn't sell that well, even though it's his best book, like by far. Yeah, the goal is because all of his books are good. But that one is the best book by far. Leah Jones  56:32   I think I've heard about him a lot during this current war in Ukraine. Why is that? Because a detail you don't remember from the era fair, right, is that the Crimea, the Crimean War has been ongoing for 20 years. Okay. Everybody in the UK eventually fights in the Crimean War, and it's unending. Ronnie Raviv  56:54   Yeah. I bet you remember something about the Crimean War? Yeah. Leah Jones  56:58   And so when it when it was annexed ahead of the war, a couple years ago, I was like, this Jasper Ford, like, actually, psychic, because it was like that. There was something wild that happened with Amazon and Kindles and like the deleting of content. And, you know, you don't really own your digital content. And so it was like Crimea, digital content going away, and something else and I was just like, what is Jasper Ford on? Like, how can he, as a futurist, and a science fiction writer have such a clear vision of where things are going, Ronnie Raviv  57:43   especially since it was written in such an almost absurdist fantastical way? Like nothing here is even remotely close to reality, right? Leah Jones  57:52   Yeah, I forget what your airfare is from. Ronnie Raviv  57:59   The 80s? Maybe? Oh, no. Like when it was published, or when published? Oh, like takes place in like, what feels like the 80s? Yeah. But I think it was, yeah, I Leah Jones  58:09   think I'm looking at my early aughts. I'm looking at my bookshelves as if it's there as if I haven't loaned it out for the 50th time, right. I've given it to so many people. Ronnie Raviv  58:19   I mean, I can Oh, takes place in alternative 1985. Right. Publishing 2001 According to Google, July 19 2001. So So pre 911, but Leah Jones  58:34   yeah, a pre Kindle. Ronnie Raviv  58:38   Yeah. You know, yep. Leah Jones  58:42   Amazon was only Amazon existed. But barely, barely. And only for books. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Cocktails, efficient TV watching. chicken potpie. That doesn't exist anymore. Right. Trustworthy chefs. Yeah. So which dinner do you think was better? tysew or OCD, OCD by far? Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  59:09   I mean, he was great. But OCD was amazing. Yeah. OCD was some of the best food I've ever read. Leah Jones  59:13   I was so nervous. I got so anxious that week, leading up to it that we oversold that we had oversold it. Ronnie Raviv  59:22   No, no, no, no, I wasn't nervous about that. I knew no matter what it was going to be good and fun and an experience and interesting. Yeah. And what was all those things, but it also was delicious. Yeah. Leah Jones  59:34   It was it was just a remarkable. Yeah. And every bite with one exception was phenomenal. For me. There was just that one salad. That was a little too sour. The chard? The chard, lettuce, chard greens. Yeah. And like the lemon sauce. Ronnie Raviv  59:55   Oh, yeah. You have you have a thing with sour right now. Leah Jones  59:58   Yeah, yeah. I made a face. I made a face when I tried it and I saw the staff see me make the face. And I was like, Oh, it was like unintentional, right? Because everything had been so perfect. Yeah. And even that one I appreciated but like just my Ronnie Raviv  1:00:16   I'm just off, ya know, just hit your jaw. Yeah, sour in the sour spot. Leah Jones  1:00:20   I mean hard in the sour spot. I still am thinking about the the freeze dried parfait the cloud? Oh, yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:00:30   Which you would think that the top layer of it would be the melty part would be the melt in your mouth part. And the bottom layer would be sort of like the, but it was the opposite for me. Like the bottom layer was the stuff that melted and disappeared in your mouth like candy. Almost. It wasn't. And the top layer was sort of like it crunched down like those like, green plant. You know, the green Styrofoam look really thick. Yeah, Styrofoam stuff. Leah Jones  1:00:57   I know. You're talking about floral, floral Styrofoam. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:01:01   Yeah, so it was like it's sort of that just got dense. So I would, I was expecting that top layer to just melt away like cotton candy. But it got dense. Yeah, and really good. And the bottom stuff, which was like more ice creamy sort of that. I figured it was going to just be like sort of become liquid and it just sort of disappeared. I don't know how Yeah, that was that was really good. Leah Jones  1:01:22   Yeah. And then like cuz it started with like, that was like a celery. Grenada. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:01:30   And the creme brulee that mean made out of potatoes. Yes. With like little potato chips on it like yeah, like shoestring potatoes, but sweet. Yeah, that was and what was the ice cream with that? Leah Jones  1:01:45   It wasn't it was non dairy. I think it was salted like a salted caramel maybe. Ronnie Raviv  1:01:50   I feel like it was also something that was savory. Yeah. Like a savory like some of you would expect to be savory but they made it a sweet Yeah, ice cream. Yeah, potatoes, but like some like not potato ice cream. But like some other kinds of something like turnips. Yeah, like something. Yeah. Leah Jones  1:02:08   And now they've already changed. We were we went for the smoke and fire menu. They're already on a new menu. And it's like, Ronnie Raviv  1:02:22   yeah, we have to we have to go back. Right. So good. It was so good. Leah Jones  1:02:25   I think Thai zoo because it was so I think Thai zoo is what unlocked for us. Like, we can have a nice time if we don't have plans. Yeah. So Thai zoo was like a friend of your cousin's got us a last minute reservation. It's hard. it hard to get reservation but not impossible. Like OCD, right? We went a year ago. And it was they interviewed us at the beginning of the meal. And we were like, Yeah, take it away. Like what they ordered for us. Yeah. And my only the only thing I told them about me was like they serve like whole fish like racinos like whole fish. And I was like, I don't face. I can't deal with a face. I'm already embarrassed thinking about how to eat that in public. Right. So like, I don't want the full fish. But other than that, like, I'll try anything. Yeah. And that was such an amazing dinner because it was just like, didn't know it. We didn't know what we were gonna do. Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  1:03:29   we didn't know what to expect. Yeah. Yeah, we were very good at the sponge. We've had incredible luck with the spontaneous. Yeah. dinners in the last few months. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, like your birthday was awesome. Leah Jones  1:03:44   We couldn't if we had planned if we had made all those reservations, it wouldn't have worked. Ronnie Raviv  1:03:48   No, we couldn't have planned that. Yeah, the one thing we did plan like we did plan Yes. But we just decided to skip it at the last minute. Yeah. And go completely plan LIS Yeah. To like the most the busiest part of town for like restaurants like where you can't get reservations for anything. No. And we just went to four different places all without reservations. And ended up being we just went from place to place to place all within like a block and a half. Yeah. Leah Jones  1:04:21   Because that's all I could do at the time right? Yeah, blind barber for drinks. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:04:28   And then Duck Duck go duck duck go for a last minute dinner right Open Table reservation Yeah, yeah, that Leah Jones  1:04:34   we did make a reservation but then like literally just walked across the street. Two minutes later. Yeah, we looked Ronnie Raviv  1:04:39   looked like oh, look, they have a table. It's 15 it's six. Let's go. Yeah, we put our name down. Yep. Went Leah Jones  1:04:46   and then and before every stop. We've went to aviary and tried to get an aviary Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:04:54   So tried to start the evening at aviary. We were denied because it was closed for private event. Yeah. So We went to get drinks at blind Barber. Yeah. And we went to dinner. Then we tried to go back to a beer. Yeah. And we're denied again. So then we went to to get dessert. Leah Jones  1:05:08   And we said, where would you go for dessert? And they told us about rosemary. This Croatian restaurant. Yeah. It's like what do you have now been for dinner? And I have not been Yeah, Ronnie Raviv  1:05:15   it is. Really good. Yeah. Leah Jones  1:05:20   So then we just like so rosemary, also very hard to get a table at Ronnie Raviv  1:05:24   like I've looked. Yeah. And I might, it's not an easy get. Leah Jones  1:05:28   But we just waltz in. And they Ronnie Raviv  1:05:30   sat us like, at the kitchen. Yeah. Like, at the counter at the kitchen. We were the only ones and yeah, had dessert there. Leah Jones  1:05:38   So we have like three, we ordered two. And they brought us a third because it's my birthday. Yeah. So we had these amazing desserts there. Ronnie Raviv  1:05:45   And as soon as they pop them down, we get a text from the aviary saying okay, you can come over Yeah, so we just download desserts and went wander over the aviary and had a nightcap there. Yes. A really good evening. Leah Jones  1:05:57   It was a fun night. Yeah. Yeah, so we've had good luck and we had good the night before your birthday party. We went to Frasca. Ronnie Raviv  1:06:06   Yeah, fresca, fresca. Braska fresco Frasca? Yeah Leah Jones  1:06:10   oh my god, we ordered so much food we Ronnie Raviv  1:06:12   ordered so much. Leah Jones  1:06:16   Delicious. Got it got a table right before it started to rain again. Right before everybody from the patio had to come inside. Yeah. Tremendous luck. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:06:28   A few other like one or two other places to that we just lucked out on. Leah Jones  1:06:32   Yeah, like we went to Tango sore after we saw Oh, yeah. Heimer. Yeah. Ronnie Raviv  1:06:35   And that's like, yeah, we're just like, hey, let's walk towards your car, and then maybe go drive somewhere. It's like, oh, or we could go into here, right. Oh, and then. Oh, and a few months before that we had we went to Barbara Roma. Yes. Where my friend is my friend's husband is the headshot. And so we went there and just like got a table there. Also not a particularly easy get that's pretty popular place. Leah Jones  1:07:01   Because it was a day after Ronnie Raviv

Street Smart Success
346: Get Solid, Consistent Returns Against Lending Or Owning Single Family Homes

Street Smart Success

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 55:19


Single family homes are the most conservative asset class to both operate and lend against. Right now, inventory levels are the lowest they've ever been, so prices have maintained despite dramatic interest rate increases. Matt Owens, CEO and Owner of OCG properties, has bought, renovated, sold or held over 1000 single family properties in the last 15+ years. Matt currently has a debt fund where he lends against single family homes in the Midwest that generates a consistent above market return for his investors. Matt is also starting a fund that provides fractional ownership of a portfolio of 25 homes he has acquired for himself over the past few years.

The Shadow Games
S16:E02 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 10]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2023 71:13


Sosa me acompaña hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #RagingBattle #RGBTSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes sociales

Die Frage
Meine Eltern, ihr Guru und ich: Alles verlieren, um der Sekte zu entkommen?

Die Frage

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2023 43:49


Ruth ist eine Außenseiterin in der Schule. Sie kennt kein Harry Potter, kein Herr der Ringe, hört keine Pop-Musik, trägt keine kurzen Hosen und hat nie am Wochenende Zeit. Das hat einen Grund. Ruth ist nämlich Teil einer religiösen Gruppe, die viele als Sekte bezeichnen: die OCG – die Organische Christus Generation. Sie erzählt uns, wie sie über ihre Eltern in diese Sekte gerutscht ist, was sie von dem Anführer und selbsternannten Propheten Ivo Sasek mitbekommen hat und wie sie mit 16 Jahren entschieden hat, auszutreten. Und das obwohl ihre Eltern immer noch Teil der OCG sind. Was hat diese Zeit mit ihr gemacht? Habt ihr eine Frage an Frank, dann schickt uns doch gerne eine Sprachnachricht an die 0174/2745065. Hier findet ihr unseren YouTube-Kanal: https://youtube.com/diefrage Und hier findet ihr Infos zum Sektenausstieg: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/so-gelingt-der-sekten-ausstieg-hilfe-und-beratungsstellen,THxlH0X

Creative + Cultural
Taryn Palumbo

Creative + Cultural

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2023 29:03


Taryn Palumbo serves as the Executive Director of Orange County Grantmakers, a regional association of philanthropic funders in Orange County. As Executive Director, Taryn provides strategic leadership, oversees and executes programming, communication, member services and community engagement, and supports the operations of the organization. Taryn joined OCG as a part-time Executive Administrator in January 2017 and was promoted to Executive Director in February 2018.Prior to joining OCG, Taryn held roles in public policy, government affairs, education, small business engagement and community relations. She has also served as a consultant with United Way Orange County, helping to launch UpSkill OC, a middle skills job initiative and with The Olin Group, supporting a variety of nonprofit clients.Before moving back home to Orange County, Taryn spent four years with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, first as their Manager of Public Policy and later as their Director of Strategic Partnerships. In this role she created, grew and implemented UniteSF, an education/workforce development initiative, and co-chaired San Francisco's Small Business Week Committee.Taryn earned her Juris Doctorate from Chapman University School of Law and passed the CA Bar in 2011. She earned her B.A. from Loyola Marymount University. Taryn currently serves on the Executive Board of the OC Forum and is the proud mother of 3.5 year old boy and 1 year old girl.Adjust Accordingly: Placing Equity into Practice is a series of discussions about personal experiences of inequity and how industries, organizations, and people are working to move equity forward.Each conversation will highlight the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for confronting these issues in our communities while collectively progressing toward a more equitable future.Produced with Orange County Grantmakerswith support from Orange County Community Foundation.Guest: Taryn PalumboHosts: Jon-Barrett IngelsProduced by: Past Forward

FanboyNation
Orange County Grappling Masters Wrestlers Defend their U.S. Open Titles - Updated

FanboyNation

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2023 24:06


Orange County Grappling (OCG) Masters Wrestlers, Dr. Petros Petrosyan and Bryan Jones Defend their U.S. Open Titles on April 19 in Las Vegas, NV. Editor's Note: This article has been updated following the victories of Dr. Petrosyan and Mr. Jones at the U.S. Open, who will now go on to defend their titles at the World Championships. Dr. Petrosyan won gold in freestyle and Greco-Roman at 88 Kilos, while Mr. Jones took Bronze in Freestyle and Gold in Greco-Roman Wrestling in the 130 Kilos weight class. In 2022, Dr. Petros Petrosyan and Brian Jones competed on behalf of Orange County Grappling (OCG) at the U.S. Open Wrestling tournament in Las Vegas. At that year's tournament, both Dr. Petrosyan took gold while Mr. Jones won bronze in their respective weight classes in the Masters Division for Freestyle Wrestling.  Upon entering the World Championships, Mr. Jones had a horrible first round match in Freestyle, where he immediately switched to Greco-Roman Wrestling and became the new World's Heavyweight Champion in the Masters Division. Dr. Petrosyan won yet another world title in the 88 kilos weight class and brought home two championships to the United States. This year, Dr. Petrosyan and Mr. Jones will be aging out of the their divisions allowing them to go one more run as both will be competing in Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling in Las Vegas, NV, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Dr. Petrosyan is the head coach for OCG, who hold their practices at Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach, CA. Mr. Jones, an assistant coach with Orange County Grappling has downplayed his wrestling skills claiming to be just an average wrestling, but being able to pivot from a loss at the world championships in Freestyle to comeback and bring home the gold to the good ol' U.S. of A. proves otherwise.  Both men plan on repeating at the U.S. Open, with Dr. Petrosyan competing in both styles will put him at 10 U.S. Championships.  If you live in the Southern California Area and wish to train with two world champions, visit www.oc-grappling.org for their full training schedule from youth wrestling to the masters division. Follow Orange County Grappling on Instagram @orangecountygrappling.  The U.S. Open begins in Las Vegas, NV, on Wednesday April 26, 2023 and runs through April 30, 2023. #orangecountrygrappling #freestylewrestling #grecoromanwrestling #freestyle #grecoroman #wrestling #fanboynation

The Shadow Games
S15:E07 Exclusivos de TCG [Parte 9]

The Shadow Games

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 93:22


Sosa y Vicente me acompañan hablando sobre las cartas que en algun momento fueron exlcusivas en TCG, asi como las que al mismo tiempo fueron importadas de OCG en la misma expansion y lo que esto trajo al Yu-Gi-Oh! #ExclusivosDeTCG #CrimsonCrisis #CRMSSíguenos en nuestras diferentes redes sociales

Six Pixels of Separation Podcast - By Mitch Joel
SPOS #866 - Dr. Tina Opie On Breaking Down The Walls Of Inequity At Work

Six Pixels of Separation Podcast - By Mitch Joel

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 48:25


Welcome to episode #866 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast - Episode #866. Founder of OCG, Dr. Tina Opie, brings over twenty years of expertise in strategic management and organizational behavior. She is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, an award-winning researcher and a consultant. As a consultant, she provides organizational guidance to create more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces. Her work has been featured in O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, and more. Tina's research has generated high-impact solutions that promote authenticity in organizations. Her latest book, Shared Sisterhood (co-authored with Beth A. Livingston), is for all of us and shows organizations and teams how to unleash their potential. In this episode, Tina shares the Shared Sisterhood framework and effective strategies to motivate everyone to become part of the effort. She explains foundational elements about workplace equity (and what it should look like), helping leaders and their organizations move forward faster… and together. Enjoy the conversation… Running time: 48:24. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. Check out ThinkersOne. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Dr. Tina Opie. Shared Sisterhood. Beth A. Livingston. OCG. Follow Dr. Tina on LinkedIn. Follow Dr. Tina on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

The Oasis Podcast
208: The Holy Grail is found! Sawmills Sessions including I Am The Walrus discussed with Kyle and Dan from the Oasis Collectors Group. Plus new Noel song and album announcement!

The Oasis Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2023 42:59


Hello and welcome back to the oasis podcast - today's guests are Kyle and Dan from the Oasis Collectors Group. We are discussing the previously unheard Sawmills Studio Sessions (including the studio version of I Am The Walrus). If you want information on getting hold of a copy head to the OCG here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/oasiscollectorsgroup/ Also audio message from Steve Mahoney, give him a follow @MahoneyReturns

The Black Financial Initiative Podcast
Interview with Cedric Nash of The Black Wealth Summit

The Black Financial Initiative Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2022 56:39


We had the pleasure to speak with Cedric Nash who is founder of The Black Wealth Summit annual event and author of forthcoming book Why Should White Guys Have All the Wealth? How You Can Become a Millionaire Starting from the Bottom and The Millionaire Money Moves Supplemental Investment Guide. Nash also founded Oakland Consulting Group, Inc. (OCG), an information technology consulting, software and staffing firm that has over 150 employees. In the interview Cedric explains how to build generational wealth for Blacks from his own experience. He teaches us about developing a millionaire mindset and using millionaire money moves to achieve generational wealth. He also talks about the importance of side hustles and what to do during a recession.   Cedric can be found at https://www.instagram.com/MillionaireMoneyMoves/ Please give us a 5 Star Review  Below is our Instagram, YouTube and Yahoo Finance Article  https://www.instagram.com/blackfinancial_initiative/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQSZRmlWhMkD0sjFkEVMdQ https://finance.yahoo.com/black-financial-initiative-starting-financial-114658676.html    

X-2 Drop: A Yu-Gi-Oh! Discussion PODCAST
Tear No Longer Tier 0! Banlist Decimates The META! [S5E3]

X-2 Drop: A Yu-Gi-Oh! Discussion PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2022 27:36


Welcome to the "X-2 Drop" Podcast. Where we discuss the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. Check us out every Monday!In this weeks episode we talk about returning the Remote Duel YCS top cut breakdown, the OCG banlist and future TCG implications!_________________________________________________________The BEST Yu-Gi-Oh! Podcast:https://youtu.be/3aF38ITOZ3s_________________________________________________________Want to help support the me? Here's some links!► Join the Discord Server:https://discord.gg/yJfdXAa► Follow me on TikTok:www.tiktok.com/@bingohhhhd► Follow me on Twitter:@BINGOhhhHD► Follow me on Instagram@ bingohhh_hd►Follow me on Twitch!http://www.twitch.tv/bingohhh#YuGiOh #YuGiOhTCG ...

The Top Cut Podcast
OCG Meta Breakdown

The Top Cut Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2022 54:58


The OCG is deep in the Tier Zero format!=========================Music provided by:TGSAnimehttps://twitter.com/TGSAnimehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5dVemhy1ykLud and Schlatt's Musical Emporiumhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbtXFIaAJ0fOtgyeDs8Joghttps://pmmusic.pro/==========================Sponsor Links!Gem Tech Accessorieshttps://gemaccessoriesus.com/https://twitter.com/xGemAccessoriesDiscount Code: thetopcutEnter the Battlefield Gameshttps://www.etbgames.com/Millennium Threadshttps://www.etsy.com/shop/MillenniumThreadsDiscount Code: TOPCUT10=========================TCG Player Affiliate Linkhttps://tcgplayer.com/?utm_campaign=affiliate&utm_medium=TheTopCut&utm_source=TheTopCutDragonShield Affiliate Linkhttps://www.dragonshield.com/webshop/us/?aff=50==========================Our LinksLink Tree: https://linktr.ee/topcutyugiohSonny's Twitter: https://twitter.com/datchumleyCaleb's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamTheMan17Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sonnytopcutpodcastTeam DaD: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKBb4pEWant to send us something?Top Cut PodcastP.O. Box 2471Natchitoches, LA 71457Please send all business inquiries to topcutyugioh@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Legalpreneur Podcast
230 Breaking All of the Rules with Alex Solorzano

The Legalpreneur Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 26:51 Transcription Available


In today's episode I am chatting with Alex Solorzano, the founder of Owl Consultancy Group(OCG).  Alex was always strongly focused on the fight against crime.  From her first job in a law firm to anti-money laundering specialist her tenacity kept her moving up the corporate ladder. After climbing as far as she could without being a lawyer she turned her sights on catching criminals with a unique approach and that was the birth of OCG, a boutique investigative and compliance consulting firm.In this episode we will cover:How OWL supports businessThe importance of doing due diligence.Criminals are realCreating a business culture that is safe.If you would like to contact Alex you can email her at asolorzano@owlconsultancygroup.com or go to the website.Pre-Order Legalpreneur the book here to receive:  Master class with Andrea, Legal Protection Playbook, and a Master Class Series with Experts.  Don't wait - Pre-Order Today!!!!Get Legally Protected!Want to legally protect your business without the seemingly over-complicated approach?   We have THE solution for you, the Legal Protection Playbook!  Get started here.Links: Andrea's Instagram Legalpreneur Instagram Website FacebookTwitter TikTokYouTube_____Disclaimer: The Legalpreneur Podcast is advertising/marketing material. It is not legal advice. Please consult with your attorney on these topics. Copyright Legalpreneur Inc 2022

30 to Life - Redefining the Black Experience
103: How To Become A Millionaire & The 6 Levels of Wealth with Cedric Nash

30 to Life - Redefining the Black Experience

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2022 65:10


Cedric Nash, “Your Millionaire Mentor”, is an entrepreneur and investor who educates, inspires and motivates wealth building in the African American Community. He is founder of The Black Wealth Summit annual event. He is author of forthcoming book (select preview arriving October 2022) Why Should White Guys Have All the Wealth? How You Can Become a Millionaire Starting from the Bottom and The Millionaire Money Moves Supplemental Investment Guide. In this episode, we discuss: * Financial mistakes that will prevent you from building wealth * 4 Reasons why Black Americans should strive for high net worth and how to determine which of the 6 levels of wealth you are striving for * How Black families can save money for future generations and build generational wealth * Why Cedric started the Black Wealth Summit * Lessons he learned building a multi-million dollar business Tune in! More about Cedric: An entrepreneur and investor since 1995, Nash founded Oakland Consulting Group, Inc. (OCG), an information technology consulting, software and staffing firm that has over 150 employees. He has been the recipient of the Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year award, Inc Magazine 100 fastest growing inner city firms, listed in the Inc 500/5000 fastest growing firms in the nation (three times), listed as a Black Enterprise Industrial 100 largest black owned businesses (three times), Washington Technology Fast 50, and the recipient of the ITSMF prestigious Beacon Award for entrepreneurs. Nash has experience investing in residential, vacation, multi-family, mixed use and commercial real estate. He has also invested in securities and private equity deals for the past 25 years.   Follow Cedric on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MillionaireMoneyMoves/ Learn more about the Wealth Summit: https://blackwealthsummit.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/30tolifepod/support

ILTA
Managing Outside Counsel Guidelines - Making Sure the GCs Office is in the Loop and Perils of Not Doing So

ILTA

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2022 13:54


Outside counsel guidelines (OCG) are becoming more sophisticated and, at times, cumbersome. What are the provision pitfalls to avoid? What tools are available to manage the volume of OCGs across the firm and to help ensure compliance? Is there room for negotiation with clients? Join us for an open discussion with the GC community regarding the risks associated with not properly vetting and monitoring OCGs. Questions Daniel will ask speaker: · What difficulties are you seeing firms have in dealing with Outside Counsel Guidelines? · What tools are available to assist with management of the guidelines? · Do you see the need for changes in workflows related to the guidelines? Moderator: @Daniel Wood - Director of Counsel Assistance, Womble Bond Dickinson Speaker: @Brynmor Bowen  - Practice Group Leader, Legal Risk, IntApp   Recorded on 07-25-2022 ​​

Reporter
Radikale Christen – Die Sekte von Ivo Sasek (Teil 2)

Reporter

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022 33:51


Sie werden geschlagen und gezüchtigt bis zur Teufelsaustreibung: Erstmals erzählen zwei Söhne über das Innenleben der Organischen Christus-Generation (OCG), einer Sekte im fundamentalistisch-christlichen Milieu mit Sympathien für Adolf Hitler. Begonnen hat er klein: Ivo Sasek gründet im ausserrhodischen Walzenhausen eine kleine christliche Gemeinschaft mit dem Ziel, Randständigen und Familien zu helfen. Noch heute propagiert Sasek, er helfe Familien, doch die Realität ist eine andere. Wer sich nicht seiner Lehre unterwirft und eigene Wege gehen möchte, fällt unter das sogenannte «Aussätzigen-Gesetz»: Aussteigende dürfen keinen Kontakt mehr zu anderen OCG-Anhängerinnen und -Anhängern haben, auch wenn das ihre eigene Familie betrifft. Erfahren mussten dies auch Ivo Saseks Söhne. Simon, David und Joschua Sasek: Alle drei sind ausgestiegen. In seinen Predigten verweist ihr Vater darauf, dass sie von dämonischen Mächten gefangen seien, Infizierte, und damit eine Bedrohung für die OCG. Warum die Söhne ausgestiegen sind, davon erzählt er wenig oder nur zu seinen Gunsten. In «Reporter» schildern die Söhne, was sie bewegt hat, die Sekte ihres Vaters zu verlassen. Und sie decken auf, was ihr Vater seit Jahrzehnten bestreitet und als «Medienlüge» bezeichnet: Sie wurden geschlagen und gezüchtigt, und wenn das alles nichts genützt hat, folgte eine Teufelsaustreibung. «Züchtigung heisst in der OCG: Mit einer etwa ein Meter langen Bambusrute werden gezielt Schläge gesetzt. Das war für uns völlig normal und ich habe das schon als Zweijähriger erfahren. Es gehörte zur Erziehung», erzählt Simon Sasek. Das letzte Mal gezüchtigt wurde er im Erwachsenalter, als er sich wagte, seinem Vater zu sagen, es sei ihm zu eng, er wolle mehr Freiheit. Daraufhin wurde ihm mit massiver Gewalt «der Teufel ausgetrieben». Als Kinder wurden sie von ihrem Vater aufgefordert, «Mein Kampf» von Adolf Hitler zu lesen. «Für ihn kommt das Buch gleich nach der Bibel», sagt Simon Sasek. Ivo Sasek selbst sagt dazu, er identifiziere sich mit Hitlers Biografie, er würde heute von den Medien genauso gejagt und verteufelt wie damals Adolf Hitler. Mit seinem Internet-Kanal «KlaTV» verschafft sich Ivo Sasek zunehmend Reichweite. Ein Internetsender, von OCG-Anhängerinnen und -Anhängern produziert und moderiert, der sich auf Verschwörungstheorien und umstrittene Personen und Ansichten spezialisiert hat. Die Coronakrise hat ihm zusätzlich Publikum beschert. Ängste werden geschürt, bestehende Strukturen in Zweifel gezogen, eine vermeintlich andere, wahre Sicht gezeigt. Sein Sohn dementiert: «Meinem Vater geht es nicht um Wahrheit, er will einzig und allein Reichweite gewinnen.»

Reporter
Radikale Christen – Mein Ausstieg aus der OCG (Teil 1)

Reporter

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2022 33:49


Sie werden geschlagen und gezüchtigt bis zur Teufelsaustreibung: Erstmals erzählen zwei Söhne über das Innenleben der Organischen Christus-Generation (OCG), einer Sekte im fundamentalistisch-christlichen Milieu mit Sympathien für Adolf Hitler. Begonnen hat er klein: Ivo Sasek gründet im ausserrhodischen Walzenhausen eine kleine christliche Gemeinschaft mit dem Ziel, Randständigen und Familien zu helfen. Noch heute propagiert Sasek, er helfe Familien, doch die Realität ist eine andere. Wer sich nicht seiner Lehre unterwirft und eigene Wege gehen möchte, fällt unter das sogenannte «Aussätzigen-Gesetz»: Aussteigende dürfen keinen Kontakt mehr zu anderen OCG-Anhängerinnen und -Anhängern haben, auch wenn das ihre eigene Familie betrifft. Erfahren mussten dies auch Ivo Saseks Söhne. Simon, David und Joschua Sasek: Alle drei sind ausgestiegen. In seinen Predigten verweist ihr Vater darauf, dass sie von dämonischen Mächten gefangen seien, Infizierte, und damit eine Bedrohung für die OCG. Warum die Söhne ausgestiegen sind, davon erzählt er wenig oder nur zu seinen Gunsten. In «Reporter» schildern die Söhne, was sie bewegt hat, die Sekte ihres Vaters zu verlassen. Und sie decken auf, was ihr Vater seit Jahrzehnten bestreitet und als «Medienlüge» bezeichnet: Sie wurden geschlagen und gezüchtigt, und wenn das alles nichts genützt hat, folgte eine Teufelsaustreibung. «Züchtigung heisst in der OCG: Mit einer etwa ein Meter langen Bambusrute werden gezielt Schläge gesetzt. Das war für uns völlig normal und ich habe das schon als Zweijähriger erfahren. Es gehörte zur Erziehung», erzählt Simon Sasek. Das letzte Mal gezüchtigt wurde er im Erwachsenalter, als er sich wagte, seinem Vater zu sagen, es sei ihm zu eng, er wolle mehr Freiheit. Daraufhin wurde ihm mit massiver Gewalt «der Teufel ausgetrieben». Als Kinder wurden sie von ihrem Vater aufgefordert, «Mein Kampf» von Adolf Hitler zu lesen. «Für ihn kommt das Buch gleich nach der Bibel», sagt Simon Sasek. Ivo Sasek selbst sagt dazu, er identifiziere sich mit Hitlers Biografie, er würde heute von den Medien genauso gejagt und verteufelt wie damals Adolf Hitler. Mit seinem Internet-Kanal «KlaTV» verschafft sich Ivo Sasek zunehmend Reichweite. Ein Internetsender, von OCG-Anhängerinnen und -Anhängern produziert und moderiert, der sich auf Verschwörungstheorien und umstrittene Personen und Ansichten spezialisiert hat. Die Coronakrise hat ihm zusätzlich Publikum beschert. Ängste werden geschürt, bestehende Strukturen in Zweifel gezogen, eine vermeintlich andere, wahre Sicht gezeigt. Sein Sohn dementiert: «Meinem Vater geht es nicht um Wahrheit, er will einzig und allein Reichweite gewinnen.»

The Top Cut Podcast
New Cards, and the OCG Banlist

The Top Cut Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2021 62:23


Man, the OCG really doesn't like Fusions, huh?==========================Guest Link:Twitter: https://twitter.com/LegacyCrusadersYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwCCUJOJSWKFnDO2z09rdgw==========================Sponsor Links!Enter the Battlefield GamesWebsite: https://www.etbgames.com/==========================Our LinksLink Tree: https://linktr.ee/topcutyugiohSonny's Twitter: https://twitter.com/datchumleyCaleb's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamTheMan17Team DaD: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKBb4pEPlease send all business inquiries to topcutyugioh@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Top Cut Podcast
OCG Metagame Breakdown

The Top Cut Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2021 73:14


Man, so much changes in the OCG over a couple of weeks.==========================Sponsor Links!Enter the Battlefield GamesWebsite: https://www.etbgames.com/==========================Our LinksDiscord Link: https://discord.gg/GRyWVXPF2KYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwEoAXEpvDCIf1f5w4wVi4gPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/TopCutPodcastSonny's Twitter: https://twitter.com/datchumleyCaleb's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamTheMan17Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/topcutpodcastTeam DaD: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKBb4pE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Moneyless Society Podcast
Ep #3 Post Scarcity World: How Do We Get There From Here

The Moneyless Society Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2021 108:45


In the first two episodes we discussed a plethora of reasons WHY to make the transition from a monetary socioeconomic model to a nonmonetary protopia. This episode will round out the first three with an in depth look at HOW to bridge the gap from here to there with our special guest Jae Sabol, of One Community Global. Tune in to hear about OCG's open source blueprints for the future of sustainability which can be implemented now!  

scarcity ocg jae sabol