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Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Yusuf In The BUILDING of the Relationship Status Podcast for a bonus crossover episode covering podcasting, dating culture, and a deep rewatch of a 1990s Black cinema classic. Yusuf shares the origin of his seven-year-old show, launched in 2019 with co-founder CL after an earlier coaching podcast attempt, and traces its breakout moment back to a viral clip involving Cocktails with Kiki and Medina and a discussion about "flying somebody out." The conversation moves into a pointed critique of Tinder, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish as subscription-driven businesses rather than matchmaking tools, along with the generational shift from Facebook to Instagram to TikTok and its effect on how younger daters learn relationship habits. Yusuf also recounts a personal story about flying to meet a woman he had only FaceTimed, illustrating his argument that physical attraction cannot be judged through a screen.The back half of the episode is dedicated to A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, the 1996 film starring Martin Lawrence and Lynn Whitfield, with debate over whether Darnell or Regina King's character functions as the true protagonist, Lynn Whitfield's calculated pettiness as Brandy, and Regina King's Air Force training informing her response to an onscreen hostage situation. The group also touches on Bobby Brown and Tracy Morgan's supporting performances before landing on a 3.5-out-of-5 consensus rating. The episode closes with Ode recounting an underwhelming Marlon Wayans stand-up set built around jokes about his feud with 50 Cent, and Mo discussing the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ahead of its Steel Ball Run arc premiering September 25th, alongside Yusuf's Patreon and an upcoming Singles Game Night event on October 25th.Social Media: @Relstatpodcast Website: Relationshipstatuspodcast.comConnect with the Snerdy Crew: Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠

Send us Fan MailA life can look perfect on paper and still feel hollow in your chest. My guest Shün tells the story of hitting every goal early, standing on the “top of the mountain,” and realizing he didn't know who he was or what actually made him happy. When COVID stripped away the image, the parties, and the external validation, it forced a ruthless reset and gave him a single north star: absolute surrender to truth.We talk about what it really means to let everything burn, including the identities, possessions, attachments, and relationships that once defined you. Shün shares the intensity of ego dissolution, the terror of having no ground to stand on, and why he chose three years of solitude in a mountain cabin as a period of renunciation and spiritual practice. From there, we explore meditation, the devotional path of bhakti yoga, and how his relationship with God became experiential rather than theoretical, with Eastern teachings and Shiva becoming an important part of his spiritual path.But this conversation isn't only about letting go. It's also about what happens when you come back.Shün shares how self-acceptance and self-love became the foundation that allowed him to open more fully to other people, to God, and ultimately to life itself. We talk about the difference between having profound spiritual experiences and actually embodying what you've learned while living in the world. For Shün, that meant eventually leaving his solitude and landing in the middle of Harlem, where New York City became a new kind of spiritual practice: enjoying beauty, pleasure, creativity, pizza, people, and all the wildness of being human without making any of it responsible for his happiness.And perhaps that's where the art of letting go ultimately brings us: not away from life, but more deeply into it.We close with joy, play, creativity, and dance. After years of finding transcendence through stillness, Shün now finds that same presence through movement and Five Rhythms, where meditation and dance become two different doorways into the same experience of being completely here.In this episode, we explore surrender, ego dissolution, solitude, self-love, devotion, spiritual awakening, embodiment, creativity, conscious dance, and what it means to loosen our grip on who we thought we were so that something more authentic can emerge.Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who's standing at the edge of a big change, and leave a review so more listeners can find The Ode to Joy Podcast.RESOURCES:Follow Shün on Instagram: @slayer.shunExplore Five Rhythms conscious dance: 5Rhythms Support the showBuy your copy of Elena's book "Grieve Outside the Box"Follow on IG @elenabox

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome author, speaker, and Brace No More founder Casey Muze for a bonus conversation built around a phrase Casey Muze repeats after being told a music therapy idea was "stupid": this is stupid, but I'm going to do it. Casey Muze traces a path from a depressive episode in a Dallas, Texas apartment through discovering box breathing and the drum rudiment known as a paradiddle, to founding the community nonprofit Star Avenue Co in Nacogdoches, Texas, and later being co-signed by a California-based organization called Trap. Casey Muze also details the structure of the book Cadence and Clarity and explains Avenue Speak, a music therapy program built for neurodivergent, special needs, and dementia care populations, including partnerships with Alzheimer's alliances and associations. Ode and Mo press Casey Muze on the difference between resilience and endurance, and on outdated mental health ideas that prioritize diagnosis over symptoms instead of treating the whole person.The cultural lens portion of the interview turns to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with Casey Muze using Splinter's kidnapping by the Foot Clan and the near-death of Raphael in the film versus Leonardo in the comics to talk through boundaries and bouncing back from hardship. Casey Muze also breaks down turning an overwhelming dream into a written goal, advice Mo connects to his own early stand-up comedy attempts in Washington, D.C. The Mental Health Check-In includes Ode discussing travel exhaustion and Mo discussing an ongoing period of mania and new access to medication, alongside a lighter debate over anime-themed glasses versus a One Piece Halloween costume of Dracule Mihawk. A DMX tribute opens the We're Big Mad segment, where Casey Muze addresses assumptions about drum circles, before the episode closes with Freakazoid's return to Tubi, a nod to Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Road Rovers, Waynehead, and Histeria!.Find Casey's Work at BraceNoMore.infoConnect with the Snerdy Crew: Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠

Meigl und Guido stechen nach einem gemeinsamen Frisör-Besuch ganz in der Nähe de LVZ-Podcast-Studios mit kürzeren Loden und einem sehr flachen Flachwitz in See. Meigl: „Kommt ein Cowboy vom Frisör …“ Guido: „Pony weg!“ Nicht ganz so doll fanden die beiden Oldies das Leipziger 0:2 in Leverkusen, das, na klar, einen völlig anderen Verlauf genommen hätte, wenn die Unparteiischen unparteiisch gewesen wären. Guido: „Antonio Nusa sieht wegen einer Schwalbe, die keine war, gelb, statt einen sehr verdienten Elfer zu bekommen.“ Meigl: „Außerdem kann mir bis heute keiner erklären, welcher Zipfel des Sportkameraden Romulo vorm Tor von Christopher Kolumbus im Abseits gewesen sein soll.“ Das Podcast-Duo stellt fest, dass RB unterm Bayer-Kreuz unbedingt und rechtens 2:0 hätte führen müssen, diese verdiente Führung niemals aus den schwieligen Händen gegeben hätten, ergo der moralische Sieger des vierten Bundesliga-Spieltages sind. Und weil das ganz bestimmt auch die Herren Oliver Mintzlaff, Marcel Schäfer und Jürgen Klopps Nachfolger Roger Schmidt so sehen, muss sich Coach Martin Demichelis keinerlei Gedanken um seinen Job machen. Meigl: „Außerdem warten nach den Knallern gegen Bremen, Gladbach, Hanburg und Bayer jetzt machbare Gegner, da sind Siege nachgerade logisch.“ Frankfurt, Eindhoven, Bayern München und Real Madrid: Meigls Expertise trifft beim Blick auf diese minderbemittelte Laufkundschaft natürlich absolut zu. Weitere Themen der frisch Frisierten: Die Verletzungsorgie am Cottaweg, die nach Meigls Meinung ausschließlich mit der kruden Ernährung zu tun hat. „Wer nur an Salatblättern lutscht und Elektrolytgetränke trinkt, fällt zwangsläufig vom Fleisch, Güüdoo! Hattest Du bei Mainz 05 je eine Zerrung, Güüdoo? Nö, weil Du Dich anständig ernährt hast!“ Anschließend flöten Meigl und Guido eine Ode an Weck, Worscht und Woi ins Aufnahmestudio. „Hält Körper und Geist zusammen!“ Die Podcast-Präsentatoren von Reinker-Reha-Atlhletic (reinker-Reha-athletic.de) bieten in der Bornaischen Straße 18 in Connewitz einen High-Tech-Service mit persönlicher Note. Personal-Training & Coaching, Physio-Einheiten & Workout, das perfekte Zusammenspiel zwischen Fahrrad und Fahrer/Fahrerin (Bikefitting) - Sven Reinker und Co. lassen bei Spitzensportlern und Freizeitsportler keine Wünsche offen. Der allumfassende Fitness-Test, den Old Shatterhand Schäfer unter der Obhut von Sven Reinker absolviert hat, wird im aktuellen Podcast ungeschönt besprochen. Lob oder Lob? Bitte Mail an g.schaefer@lvz.de

On this sentimental September afternoon, Jann reflects on her song Ode to a Friend off her record Happy?, released on September 23, 1997 - 30 years ago next year! The song was released as a single in 1998 and received important recognition for the writing in Jann's 1998 JUNO nomination for Songwriter of the Year. Jann reflects on her experiences in the studio letting some tears flow, the special guest drummer from the Traveling Wilbury's, and the bittersweet nature of friendships, and the impact of music on our lives.  Jann also cited this Sting song...have a listen and let us know what you think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A #ASKJANN - tell us what song you want to hear about next! Or, want some life advice from Jann? Send in a story with a DM or on our website. Leave us a voicenote! ⁠www.jannardenpod.com/voicemail/⁠⁠ Get access to bonus content and more on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/JannArdenPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Connect with us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.jannardenpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/jannardenpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/jannardenpod Proudly produced by Women in Media Network: https://www.womeninmedia.network/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome rock journalist and MP3s and NPCs founder Terrance Pryor for a conversation that traces his path from a college radio host at UCCR through booking tours and writing for NJ Underground and Examiner, all the way to launching his own outlet in June 2019 after years of frustration with industry access. Terrance recounts publicly calling out Metal Sucks and Metal Injection over how the metal press treats Black writers, and he describes being passed over for credentials in favor of comedians and Twitch streamers with large followings despite two decades of experience. He connects that fight to Cheryl Lee Ralph's Emmys red carpet remark about building a table when none is offered, the same instinct that led MP3s and NPCs to eventual distribution through Microsoft Start and Apple News. The conversation moves through fandom territory covering Bocchi the Rock, The Devil Is a Part-Timer, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, and Samurai Pizza Cats, alongside newer game favorites like Vampire Survivors and Fear & Hunger, plus a detour into Slipknot's real-life Burger King collaboration from his time on AXS TV's Music's Greatest Mysteries.Terrance closes with direct advice for anyone breaking into journalism: start a blog, own the platform instead of renting space on TikTok or Instagram, and treat BET's recent deletion of its journalism archive as a warning about what happens when writing lives on someone else's server. Mo shares an update on new medication and describes the adjustment period using a Goldilocks analogy, while Odie discusses recently connecting with a psychiatrist ahead of upcoming talk therapy. The big mad segment covers Terrance's exhaustion after PAX West travel, Mo's frustration with YouTube's repeated interface changes and his past experience working for the MTA, and Odie's breakdown of designer Telfar's 9/11-themed shirt and the backlash to its accompanying Instagram caption. The episode ends on lighter ground with Terrance's love of LA's improv scene at UCB and The Pack Theater, Odie's upcoming trip home to North Carolina, and Mo's seasonal apartment cleaning ahead of Halloween.Terrance Pryor's Website: terrancepryor.comInstagram: instagram.com/terrancepryormp3sandnpcs.comConnect with the Snerdy Crew: Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠

Ben Leber makes his weekly appearance to review the Vikings win over the Bears before Dan continues playing Vikings Talking Points (including an Ode to a great running game!). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Leber makes his weekly appearance to review the Vikings win over the Bears before Dan continues playing Vikings Talking Points (including an Ode to a great running game!). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lords: Farbs https://farbs.org/ Hallie https://moveslow.info/ Topics: The only way to truly beat Dark Souls is to achieve enlightenment Writing is a serialization problem Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies was lead programmer on Space Station Silicon Valley for the Nintendo 64. Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Learning by copying Meandering thread of execution: https://mastodon.social/@Farbs/112679557654266096 Microtopics: Systems where people make meaning out of joy and suffering. Weighing in on whether video games will still exist a month from now. Linking the fire or not linking the fire. Video games that were popular when saving games was expensive. Who invented corpse runs? Finishing your whole life believing you're the hero. Whether the narrator of the Dark Souls trailer is a character in the game. Doing the thing you've already proven you can do. The three stages of grief: betrayal, anger, sense of victory. Secondhand lore. Seeking paleblood to transcend the hunt. Lounging Carl: he's just chillin'. Getting all the platinum trophies to achieve enlightenment. If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. It's worth 50 souls every time! A meter going up and a bell ringing and you're a better person now! Daoism Dives. Force Witches. Tedious and annoying programming problems. Taking a nebulous interconnected cloud of data and turning it into a stream of bytes, and vice versa. Metaphorical Kevin Bacon Game. Developing your serialization scheme iteratively. Sorting your evidence by persuasiveness. Working with data in different ways. Turning a video game into a sequence of experiences. Looking at the world as a set of events rather than as a set of objects. A video game series where you steal cars. Having just one good work in you and being proud that you made that one good work. Shipping a game that's not in the Grand Theft Auto series for the first time in decades. Clicking on the blog button and it just says "nope" and then clicking on the games button and there's a PHP error. Void Bastards printing sound effects on the doorways, just like Hunt the Wumpus. Making the math do pretty things. Plugging functions into each other. Doing all your level design by writing stacked modifiers in C code. Stacking up a bunch of quality of life features and that's it, that's your content authoring system. Forever panting and forever young. A sad sack with consumption, bullied by Lord Byron. Isn't it nice to not be subject to the passage of time? This urn is never going to catch its breath. Following your feelings and always being right. Poetry as form of lossy compression. Roger Ebert claiming that poetry can never be art. Rebuilding Zelda 1 in Voxatron. Pausing the whole game while a single important thing happens. Making games inside-out. How they made games before we killed GOTO. Trying to explain setjmp/longjmp to a non-programmer. Committing to the bit and refusing to work with anyone who isn't committed to the bit. Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Explaining to Tim how Jamestown could've had online multiplayer. Rowdy in Different Ways. Talking to every doctor in order to become a doctor. Finding a tutorial and deliberately following it wrong. Acquiring facility in translating between two domains.

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcomed Cleo and Callie of the Melanin Muses Podcast for a bonus episode built around Hamilton trivia, anime, and mental health advocacy. The conversation traced how Melanin Muses began during the pandemic, moved through the meaning behind the podcast's name via Disney's Hercules, and dug into how algorithm bias against Black-branded content shaped their marketing decisions. Cleo and Callie used Fruits Basket's Tohru Honda to illustrate self-neglect, referenced Naruto's Sasuke and Fullmetal Alchemist while discussing community building, and pointed to Avatar: The Last Airbender's Zuko as an example of using pop culture to spark connection. Callie, a clinical therapist, grounded the discussion in practical guidance for creators, including warnings about parasocial relationships and the permanence of internet content.The Mental Health Check-In featured Kendrick Lamar's "United in Grief" as a reference point for Mo's disclosure of living with bipolar II and a prolonged manic episode, alongside Ode's discussion of unmedicated ADHD and PMDD and Cleo's reflections on upcoming travel to Japan and Korea. The Big Mad segment covered postpartum depression awareness, the loss of public figures including Tim Curry and Dolly Parton, and the arrest of Milo Yiannopoulos by ICE, closing with a critique of science fiction's robot-as-oppressed-minority allegory. The episode ended on Making Us Happy, featuring the Love and Deep Space character Valko, a karaoke callback to Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century's "Supernova Girl," and mentions of the Melanin Muses Fruits Basket episode.You can find Melanin Muses Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/melaninmusespodcastConnect with the Snerdy Crew: Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠

Před deseti lety jsem udělal krok, který mnoho lidí nechápalo. Odešel jsem od provizního modelu, začal znovu a postavil firmu, kde sedíme na stejné straně stolu jako klient. V této výroční epizodě sdílím, jak se za 10 let proměnila cesta od správy investic k péči o rodinné bohatství, proč o osudu majetku nerozhodují výnosy, ale rodinné vztahy, a jakou vizi máme pro další dekádu.

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Året 1989 står ut i modern europeisk historia. På mindre än ett år förlorade de kommunistiska regimerna i Polen, Ungern, Östtyskland, Tjeckoslovakien, Bulgarien och Rumänien sitt maktmonopol. Folken reste sig och Moskva ingrep aldrig.De kommunistiska regimerna hade etablerats hårdhänt i länder som Röda Armén erövrat under andra världskriget. Frihetsvågen 1989 blev möjlig genom en kombination av långvarig ekonomisk stagnation, regimernas förlorade legitimitet, ett uthålligt civilsamhälle och ett avgörande politiskt vägval i Moskva.I detta avsnitt av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med Leos Müller, professor i historia vid Stockholms universitet. Han har skrivit boken Europas vändpunkter – 1492, 1914, 1989.Vid konferenser i Jalta och Potsdam förhandlade andra världskrigets segrarmakter om efterkrigsordningen. I Jaltas deklaration om det befriade Europa åtog sig de allierade att verka för representativa regeringar och fria val. I praktiken blev Röda arméns militära närvaro avgörande för maktutvecklingen i stora delar av Öst- och Centraleuropa.De kommunistiska partierna var efter kriget för svaga för att vinna fria val på egen hand. I stället skaffade de sig med Moskvas stöd stegvis kontroll över statsapparaten och slog ut politiska motståndare. I slutet av 1940-talet hade Polen, Tjeckoslovakien, Ungern, Rumänien och Bulgarien blivit kommunistiska enpartistater under starkt sovjetiskt inflytande. DDR bildades 1949 i den sovjetiska ockupationszonen i Tyskland.Under 1940-talets slut och 1950-talets början konsoliderades makten med stalinistisk brutalitet. Skådeprocesser och utrensningar drabbade både civila dissidenter och partimedlemmar som misstänktes för bristande Moskvatrohet. Jordbruket tvångskollektiviserades och ekonomierna underställdes en strikt planekonomi med ensidigt fokus på tung industri. Samtidigt byggde hemliga polisorganisationer som östtyska Stasi och rumänska Securitate upp massiva nätverk av informatörer som genomsyrade vardagslivet med ständig övervakning.Trots den hårda repressionen upphörde motståndet aldrig helt. Östberlinarna reste sig 1953, den ungerska revolten bröt ut 1956 och Tjeckoslovakien försökte 1968 genomföra reformer under parollen "socialism med ett mänskligt ansikte". Dessa försök krossades dock snabbt och våldsamt av sovjetiska stridsvagnar under Brezjnevdoktrinen, vilken gav Moskva rätt att militärt ingripa mot varje hot mot det socialistiska systemet. När den oberoende fackföreningen Solidarność växte fram i Polen 1980 tvingades regimen svara med undantagstillstånd och massarresteringar för att hålla fast vid makten.Att revolutionerna 1989 lyckades där tidigare uppror misslyckats berodde på en samverkan mellan strukturella kriser och nya politiska förutsättningar. Ekonomiskt präglades östblocket av kronisk varubrist, teknologisk eftersläpning och växande skulder till västvärlden.När Michail Gorbatjov tillträdde som Sovjetunionens ledare 1985 inledde han reformprogrammen glasnost och perestrojka. Framför allt signalerade Moskva att man övergivit Brezjnevdoktrinen och inte längre tänkte ingripa militärt för att rädda satellitregimerna. Tillsammans med ett alltmer organiserat civilsamhälle, underjordisk litteraturspridning och ett internationellt ramverk genom Helsingforsavtalet 1975 bröts den politiska apatin.Bild: Berlinmurens fall 1989. Bilden visar öst- och västtyskar vid Brandenburger Tor, återgiven på en permanent offentlig dokumentationsvägg i Berlin. Foto: Lear 21, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Musik: Ludwig van Beethovens nionde symfoni, fjärde satsen med ”Ode an die Freude”, i en inspelning från 1956 under dirigenten Jascha Horenstein, med Wilma Lipp, Elisabeth Höngen, Julius Patzak och Otto Wiener. Public Domain Mark 1.0, via Internet Archive.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back in December of last year, a guy reached out about wanting to come on the show to talk about the Barkley Fall Classic in 2026. Once I had the date, I added it to my potential future episodes spreadsheet, and when the time came around, I reached back out to him! John Calbarese comes on the show to talk about many of the events that he has done, how he feels about DNFs, what he loves about the adventure, the magic of food related ultra races, the Barkley fall classic, and more! Start – 6:20 – Intro 6:20 – 12:04 – Quick News 12:04 – 12:49 – Content Preface 12:49 – 1:11:18 - John Calbarese Interview 1:11:18 – End – Outro Next weekend may be an episode with a dog trainer, DoggyDash planners, local Ultramarathon finisher, a 10 year anniversary celebration of a huge niche documentary, coverage of the event we are doing in Boston or something else! ____ Meme of the Week Badass of the Week News Stories: Liz Schlägel Dog Died Matt Novakovich Returns to Killington Brooklyn Nichols and Epstein-Barr Virus Hyrox Poop Issue Hyrox Addresses Poop Issue Paramus Racefaster Half Marathon Flooding Pentagon Survivor Runs 2977 Miles to Honor Lives Lost in 9/11 Sydney Sweeney Ad Cali Schwiekhart Reply Corinne Nicewick Reply Cait Keen Harris Reply Spartan Angel Stadium Podiums Nautical Romance Secret Link Jump Scare Secret Link Link Words Secret Link Pitbull Singing Secret Link Paintball Spin Secret Link ____ Related Episodes: 211. New Jersey Point2Point FKT with Cole Crosby! 236. Ode to Laz Backyard Ultra: The Battle of Davis and Chace! 277. Michael Wardian is Running Across America! 414. Running Across Massachusetts, Designing Shoes, and Personal Growth with David Filar! 434. Mike's First DNF and reRUN of 17. Tri-State Spartan Ultra Beast and Tri-State Spartan Beast! ____ The OCR Report Patreon Supporters: Jason Dupree, Kim DeVoss, Samantha Thompson, Matt Puntin, Brad Kiehl, Charlotte Engelman, Erin Grindstaff, Hank Stefano, Arlene Stefano, Laura Ritter, Steven Ritter, Sofia Harnedy, Kenny West, Cheryl Miller, Jessica Johnson, Scott "The Fayne" Knowles, Nick Ryker, Christopher Hoover, Kevin Gregory Jr., Evan Eirich, Ashley Reis, Brent George, Justin Manning, Wendell Lagosh, Logan Nagle, Angela Bowers, Asa Coddington, Thomas Petersen, Seth Rinderknecht, Bonnie Wilson, Steve Bacon from The New England OCR Expo, Robert Landman, Shell Luccketta Jules Estes, and Alan "Muddy Duck" Moore. Sponsored Athletes: Kelly Sullivan, Joshua Reid, Kevin Gregory, and Joe Rucco! Support us on Patreon for exclusive content and access to our Facebook group Check out our Threadless Shop Use coupon code "adventure" for 15% off MudGear products Use coupon code "ocrreport20" for 20% off Caterpy products Like us on Facebook: Obstacle Running Adventures Follow our podcast on Instagram: @ObstacleRunningAdventures Write us an email: obstaclerunningadventures@gmail.com Subscribe on Youtube: Obstacle Running Adventures Intro music - "Streaker" by: Straight Up Outro music - "Iron Paw" by: Dubbest

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with advertising veteran and author Mark Robinson to discuss his book Pitch Black: The Best Black Ads of the Past Fifty Plus Years. Robinson explains how he assembled a panel of Black creative directors, each assigned a specific decade, to select the ads that shaped the book rather than choosing them himself. The conversation traces a three-decade evolution in Black consumer advertising, from 1950s ad-buy inclusion that funded publications like Ebony and Jet, through 1960s representation demands, into the 1970s Black pride movement that gave rise to Black-owned agencies such as Procter and Gardner. Robinson also shares his hopes for the book's future, including an exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and a possible PBS documentary, and mentions that historian Henry Louis Gates has read and supported the project.The trivia round covers Pepsi-Cola's 1940 Negro Markets Department, the surprising role of Black-owned VJ Records in bringing the Beatles' music to America ahead of Capitol Records, Coca-Cola's "Hilltop" commercial and its songwriter Roquel "Billy" Davis, and the real woman behind Aunt Jemima, Nancy Green. That trivia leads into a broader discussion of how platforms like Disney Plus handle older, racially outdated content such as Song of the South and Aristocats. They also run a Star Trek-themed matchup covering Benjamin Sisko, Michael Burnham, Nyota Uhura, Guinan, Geordi La Forge, B'Elanna Torres, Worf, and Tuvok, weighing each character's place in the franchise's history of representation. The episode closes with a candid Big Mad segment touching on ICE and immigration coverage, before Robinson points people toward his book and his website, markrobinson-writing.com.Connect with the Snerdy CrewWatch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠⁠⁠

Michael Russo from The Athletic joins with an Ode to Barry Melrose as well as his review of Quinn Hughes comments regarding his contract situation with the Wild. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Russo from The Athletic joins with an Ode to Barry Melrose as well as his review of Quinn Hughes comments regarding his contract situation with the Wild. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This podcast is sponsored by Earn Haus.  More information at www.EarnHaus.com/Bobandtom The BOB & TOM Show — September 9, 2026 6:00 Hour 6:00 — Mary Schneider — Queen of Yodeling 6:11 — Got his puppy gloves — Tom 6:12 — Tom's puppy talk 6:14 — Opening day for the NFL today 6:16 — We are having fun — Chick 6:16 — Are you trying to be unpopular, Tom? — Chick 6:28 — The NFL is just a distraction — Tom 6:33 — Letter — First dream about a cast member of the show — Chick 6:34 — Letter — Still laughing about the “calm down” comment 6:36 — Dial tone sound — Does not exist anymore — Tom 6:37 — Letter — Josh, you are the highlight of my day 6:38 — Letter — Piggly Wiggly store — Hogly Wogly vegetable stand 6:41 — Letter — Smoking room at Paris airport 6:52 — “I'm in with the In Crowd” — Copyright 6:53 — U.S. Open update 6:55 — Enya talk 7:00 Hour 7:04 — In studio — Jess Hooker 7:07 — “I'm in with the In Crowd” — Bryan Ferry — Copyright 7:08 — “Smoking in the Boys Room” — Copyright — Brownsville Station 7:10 — Sports 7:11 — Kristi, we all are laughing at you — Chick 7:12 — Shoe-in — Chick 7:24 — Ode to Brodie — Pat 7:25 — Don't go to Aruba — Chick 7:26 — Strongman has longest time to restrain cars — 13 seconds 7:29 — New Girl Scout cookies — Kristi 7:35 — Wellness parties at colleges — During the day 7:37 — We would go to a party — Josh and Chick 7:52 — CPAP party 7:53 — “Making Love with My CPAP On” — Pat 8:00 Hour 8:09 — Tom sleeps with his shoes on 8:11 — Josh bullies himself 8:13 — Can greet people at luggage gate — Tom hates this 8:23 — Would it help or hurt our show if Tom paid attention? — Chick 8:26 — Tom says equal is disappearing 8:30 — Face-related discussion 8:33 — Birds and unusual behavior 8:35 — A beak joke — Tom 8:45 — Tom said “Wake up” to all of us, then walked out of the room — Josh 8:50 — Today in History 9:00 Hour 9:06 — Chick's 50th high school reunion — He will participate 9:13 — Can duct tape passengers on a plane if they are out of control? 9:22 — Zoom-in Florida — Alli 9:24 — Letter — When boyfriend asks me to borrow money, says it's for the great sex 9:24 — In studio — Jessica 9:26 — Letter — Guy I'm dating is separated — Ex-girlfriend having a baby shower 9:28 — Letter — Boyfriend inherited his house — Wants me to pay rent 9:30 — Letter — My date had red wine teeth 9:33 — Letter — Boyfriend and I do location sharing — Sometimes his phone is off or out of service 9:36 — Letter — In couples therapy with husband — Thinks husband likes therapist 9:48 — Three people died at Burning Man 9:50 — Poopcrete — Concrete made with human waste 9:52 — Fish without friends have smaller brains Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gwyn and Ode say goodbye! The website will remain up until the end of December 2026: 3pagansandacat.fireside.fm The discord server will remain up permanently: discord.gg/ENF867k Thank you for almost 9 years!

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome filmmaker and musical artist Marck Angel to discuss the making of his film Seraphim: The Motion Picture, tracing its origins back to the Trayvon Martin verdict and his 2019 album Angel Dust. Marck Angel walks through the film's COVID-disrupted production, the diverse cast and crew he assembled, and the specific influences behind his lead performance, citing the Nina character from Love Jones and Dow Stevens' role on Noah's Ark. He also details the musical lineage behind the Seraphim soundtrack, naming Janet Jackson's Reformation, Michael Jackson's Bad and Moonwalker, Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Prince's Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times, and Beyoncé's Break My Soul and Lemonade as touchstones, alongside his father's early introduction to Alvin Ailey's choreography.The conversation moves into a mental health check-in where Mo "Kid" Licorish speaks about living with bipolar II disorder and Marck Angel discusses the exhaustion of a four-year independent film process. A news segment follows in which Marck Angel raises the case of Nolan Wells and the absence of Black-led queer films at the Toronto International Film Festival, while Ode covers the death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday amid plagiarism accusations, a lost publishing deal for Southern Methodist University student Jerry Falade, and ongoing disaster recovery in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Cuba. The episode closes with a tribute to actress Hayden Panettiere and her past work on Remember the Titans, Bring It On, and Heroes, along with details on where to stream Seraphim: The Motion Picture on Deku through Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime.

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Dominic Jordon, founder of Slevin Studio, for a bonus episode of Black and Snerdy. Jordon traces his path from an early clothing brand and freelance photo and video gigs into founding Slevin Studio, drawing a comparison to the HBO series How to Make It in America along the way. He points to his manga-style photo book, Tei Travels Volume One: Tokyo, Japan, styled after the visual work behind Your Name and Weathering With You, as the project he is most proud of, and offers advice to aspiring Black creatives about building community through Facebook and Discord groups. The conversation turns to anime-inspired tattoos, with Jordon explaining a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood piece pulled from a Roy Mustang scene and naming A Silent Voice as a story about forgiveness that shaped his outlook, while Mo shows off a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure tattoo of his own.The Watch Out Now segment breaks down the first three episodes of the English dub of Ghost Stories, tracing how the anime flopped in Japan before American voice actors were given free rein to rewrite it, with comparisons made to Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Bleach Abridged, and Bob's Burgers before Jordon, Ode, and Mo each score it out of five snerds. A One Piece trivia game called Emoji Me Senpai follows, running Jordon and Ode through emoji clues built around characters including Luffy, Nico Robin, Trafalgar Law, Shanks, Mihawk, Big Mom, and Orochi. The Big Mad segment covers the industry's move away from physical media following the Funimation and Crunchyroll merger, ongoing MTA service disruptions, and concerns about AI tools such as Claude replacing literacy and critical thinking in education and medicine. Making Us Happy closes things out with the Kingdom Hearts 4 release window, an SVU return that may include New York Knicks player Jalen Brunson by way of Mariska Hargitay, and a family conversation Mo describes as difficult but rewarding.Dominic Jordon (aka creative_teddy7) is the founder and creative lead of Slevin Studio, a media production company based in Ogden, Utah. He specializes in cinematography-driven storytelling, helping brands and organizations create meaningful, high-quality content for digital platforms.Drawing on a background in both cinematography and photography, Dominic blends strong visual composition with intentional narrative to help businesses communicate who they are, what they stand for, and why it matters. His work spans branded films, social-first video content, and authentic behind-the-scenes storytelling — always aiming for visuals that feel human, cinematic, and purposeful.www.slevinstudio.comdominicjordon.myportfolio.comConnect with the Snerdy Crew:Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠

It's a new hard-hitting Davey Mac Sports Program as we're talkin' a ton of baseball!   We're officially heading down the stretch in the MLB regular season...will the Rays hold on to the A.L. East or will the Yankees find a way?   Meanwhile, Cam Schlittler gets called ugly by a female podcaster and then she gets mad when he calls her "a four."   What?!   Plus, terrible Yankees who suck and should be never heard from again!   A crazy-ass Red Sox announcer makes stupid remarks and then apologizes like a dork!   We look at our favorite baseball fights of all time!   Also, Gary from SportsCenter is in our crosshairs again as he tweets out a strange comment!   Male cheerleaders hit Boston and Philly!   Ode to the Traveling Wilburys!   And more!   It's an epic 446th episode of the award-winning Davey Mac Sports Program that you need to experience!   BOOM!    

Eastern redcedar is native to Kansas, but what happens when a native tree becomes too much of a good thing? In this episode, we talk with Dave Bruton of the Kansas Forest Service, Sheena Parsons, Station Manager, KUField Station, and Jeannette Blackmar of the Lumberyard Arts Center about the Ode to Eastern Redcedar project. They explore the challenges eastern redcedar can create for Kansas woodlands, the restoration work at Rice Woodlands and Baldwin Woods, and how trees removed for conservation were given a second life through milling and community art. Hear how artists and community members transformed eastern redcedar into artwork, what participants gained from the experience, and how the project brought conservation and the arts together in anew way.Lumberyard Arts Center:https://www.lumberyardartscenter.org/ University of Kansas Field Station:https://fieldstation.ku.edu/Sawmill Listing:https://www.lumberyardartscenter.org/https://www.kansasforests.org/forestry/service_providers/sawmills.htmlView photos of the projects and events:https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjD2E7WThe Rice Woodlands is part of the Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve, managed as part of the University of Kansas Field Station. The KU Field Station is administered by the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, a designated research center at the University of Kansas. 

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) are joined by stand-up comedian and film critic Rallo Boykins for a conversation that moves through his path from Howard University to stand-up comedy and Instagram film criticism, including his takes on I Got the Hook Up, Christopher Robin, and the difference between Joker and its sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. The discussion turns to Marvel's recent handling of Black characters, covering the cancellations of Wonder Man season two, the long-delayed Blade project starring Mahershala Ali, Ironheart, and Iron Wars, alongside the fallout from Jonathan Majors' exit from the Kang Dynasty storyline and the newly cast Maya Boyd as Storm in the upcoming X-Men film. Ryan Coogler's outsized role in Marvel's Black-led projects and the franchise's post-Endgame slump, including Shang-Chi and Black Widow, also come up as part of the larger conversation about representation.The group then reviews House Party, breaking down the film's cast of Kid 'n Play, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, John Witherspoon, and the late Robin Harris, along with its lasting cultural footprint and the age gap between the actors and the high school characters they portrayed. Rallo Boykins shares frustration over Jonathan Majors' MCU exit and praises his performance in Magazine Dreams, while Mo "Kid" Licorish closes the episode with an extended look at the manga and anime Dandadan and how its use of assault as a plot device is discussed within anime and manga fan spaces. Rallo Boykins closes out by pointing to his channel, Rallo TV, and his upcoming series, See Me in a Madden.Rallo's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ralloConnect with the Snerdy Crew:Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠⁠

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on August 12th, 2026, with guests Suzanne Palmer & Kailee Pedersen Support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series by clicking here!​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​​ Suzanne Palmer Suzanne Palmer has won Hugo Awards for her novelettes, “The Secret Life of Bots” and “Bots of the Lost Ark”, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for her novella Waterlines. Her latest novel, Ode to the Half-Broken, is a standalone SF tale about a retired old war mech living in the old Botanical Garden in the ruins of New York City. She also completed her four-book series, The Finder Chronicles, about an interstellar repo man. She is currently working on new things, both short and long, as one does. & Kailee Pedersen Kailee Pedersen is the author of queer poetry chapbook Pastorale and the Midwestern Gothic novel Sacrificial Animals, which was named one of the New York Public Library's Best Books of 2024 and a finalist for Best Horror at the 2025 Libby Book Awards. Adopted from Nanning, China, she works as a software engineer and opera singer in New York City. The Minimalist is her second novel.

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with author and world traveler Phil the Blerd Explorer to unpack his journey from a university job board ad to nine years teaching English in South Korea, and eventually a second career as a licensed ESL teacher in Atlanta, Georgia. Phil explains how teaching pay, employer-covered housing, and currency exchange rates worked while living abroad, describes the housing discrimination foreign and Black expats can run into in South Korea, and details getting his Washington, D.C. and Georgia teaching licenses within days of each other. The conversation also covers his Black Travel Guide Series, upcoming travel plans across Namibia, Kenya, South Africa, and Botswana, and his advice for staying safe while traveling in countries dealing with visible poverty.Phil then joins the Anime or AniNay game, guessing alongside Ode whether Mo's anime synopses are real or invented, with titles including One Piece, Berserk, Code Geass, Food Wars, Violet Evergarden, Kill la Kill, and Steins;Gate all coming up in play. Big Mad covers Phil's missing teacher badge, Ode's long-running frustration with never learning to drive paired with a breakdown of MARTA and transit expansion in Atlanta, and Mo's criticism of social media platforms failing to flag graphic content for users. Making Us Happy closes the episode with Phil's excitement for Dragon Con and an Atlanta book festival, Ode celebrating friends' pregnancies, and Mo sharing a correctly guessed gender reveal.Phil the Blerd Explorer can be found on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_blerd_e...and TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@theblerdexplo...IndieGoGo: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects...Connect with the Snerdy Crew:Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠

Send us Fan MailRecording from Kauai during a hurricane watch set the tone for a conversation that keeps coming back to one truth: we're never fully in control, and that can be a relief. I'm joined by my longtime friend Jai Chambers, an intuitive healer and musician who created The Undoing, a practice that weaves kundalini activation, sound, and deep mind-body awareness to help people regulate their nervous systems and release what they've been gripping for years. We start with the big question: what are we actually undoing when we say we want to heal, grow, or transform?From there, we go straight into the messy, honest center of motherhood. Both of us are pregnant with baby girls, and we talk about identity shifts, grief in the first trimester, and the uncomfortable reality that your capacity changes before your life does. We name the constant stream of unsolicited advice, the boundary work of protecting your peace, and the pressure to keep producing and performing even while you're literally creating life.We also get real about body image, disordered eating history, and the way “snapback culture” trains women to treat pregnancy and postpartum like a competition. We talk about trusting the body's wisdom, choosing the slow path, and letting go of the fantasy that you can “get back” to who you were. And we don't skip the hard social pieces either: friendships falling away, the loneliness that can hit even in a partnership, and why postpartum support needs to look like food, presence, and specific help, not vague offers or another onesie.If you're navigating pregnancy, postpartum, healing, or any season of big change, come listen for language, tools, and permission to surrender without giving up. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more people can find these conversations.RESOURCESJai Chambers | The UndoingJai Chambers is an intuitive healer, musician, and facilitator of transformational experiences. She is the creator of The Undoing, a body of work weaving Kundalini energy, sound, movement, and the mind-body connection to create spaces for surrender, nervous system regulation, emotional release, and reconnection with the authentic self.Jai offers 1:1 sessions and group experiences, both virtually and in person, including opportunities to experience The Undoing on Kauaʻi.Website: https://jaichambers.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j_.eye._/The UndoingThroughout our conversation, Jai shares how The Undoing grew out of her own realization that so much of her life, and even her spiritual practice, had been centered around doing: achieving, striving, transforming, and trying to become something.The Undoing invites the opposite: surrender.Through Kundalini energy, sound, movement, and embodied practice, Jai creates a space to release stored energy, feel what wants to be felt, and loosen our grip on the identities, patterns, and conditioning we carry.Learn more + explore Jai's offerings: https://jaichambers.comListen Next: My First Conversation with JaiJai and I first sat down together on The Ode to Joy Podcast a few years ago. If this conversation leaves you wanting more Jai, you can go back and listen to our original episode together.Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gL0F2ukF5CSaiQzC9xnWg?si=afc41239adbb4bb8Sister MorningStarDuring the episode, I share a teaching that stayed with me from Sister MorningStar, an elder midwife and teacher I had the opportunity to study with before giving birth.Her work explores instinctual birth, feminine wisdom, motherhood, and traditional birth knowledge. One of the teachings I carried into my own birth was the understanding that we may reach an edge where we believe we cannot continue, and yet there is something on the other side of that threshold.Learn more about Sister MorningStar: https://www.sistermorningstar.com Support the showBuy your copy of Elena's book "Grieve Outside the Box"Follow on IG @elenabox

Gwyn and Ode discuss how their practices have evolved over time.

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome Davies and Tiffany of the Anime Nokori podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on Black and Snerdy. Tiffany opens up about how Fruits Basket helped her rebuild her sense of self after ending an engagement she entered right out of high school, while Davies credits Princess Mononoke with expanding his imagination beyond Western fantasy storytelling. The four also trace their earliest anime memories back to Kiki's Delivery Service, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, and the original Dragon Ball, before Tiffany and Davies offer newcomer recommendations including Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Samurai Champloo.The group then runs through two original games built around anime trivia, correctly identifying characters like Naruto, Goku, Deku, Shinji Ikari, and Edward Elric, along with real-versus-invented plot summaries for shows including Bleach, Sword Art Online, Devilman Crybaby, and Ergo Proxy. During the Big Mad segment, Tiffany describes having her laptop and hard drive stolen at DreamCon, while Davies and Ode dig into Sony's move to gatekeep Crunchyroll's physical media behind paid tiers and the broader frustration of streaming platforms splitting shows across services. The episode closes on lighter notes, with Davies detailing a new Claude-powered editing workflow built with Audacity and Tiffany celebrating the arrival of the Avatar: The Last Airbender Aang movie on Paramount.The Anime Nokori Podcast is An Anime Discussion Podcast that talk about series from the past and present.Instagram: Anime NokoriTwitter: Anime NokoriBlusky: Animenokori.comYoutube:@AnimenokoriConnect with the Snerdy CrewWatch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠⁠⁠

She Said “Prove It!” Then Did the Impossible? Tricia's Playground Challenge Stuns Everyone Can you still do something today that you were fearless enough to do as a kid? That question sparked one of the most entertaining and unexpected moments on this episode of The JB and Sandy Show when Tricia confidently claimed she could still launch herself off a playground swing just like she did as a child. Naturally, the only response was: “Prove it.” What followed turned a routine Saturday morning into an unforgettable playground showdown, complete with disbelief, laughs, and a stunt that left everyone impressed. The crew dives into childhood memories, playground adventures, and the surprisingly competitive spirit that comes alive when someone gets challenged. Tricia delivers one of the episode's standout moments when she backs up her bold claim, prompting Sandy to admit, “I was impressed.” The fun continues with a lively discussion about old-school games, growing up before padded playgrounds became the norm, and the simple challenges that defined childhood. Plus, the gang shares their thoughts on Austin's intense summer heat, leading into Sandy's hilarious original poem, “Ode to the Hottest Week of the Year.” Memorable lines about scorching steering wheels, relentless temperatures, and even overheated wildlife make for one of the episode's biggest laugh-out-loud segments. Also in this episode:The upcoming Lake Austin drawdown and why it has locals talkingThe possibility of a major film studio expansion in Austin and what it could mean for the cityA debate about how much Austin has changed over the yearsJB's latest household upgrade that has everyone reconsidering their own garagesA classic Jeff Foxworthy comedy moment that delivers plenty of laughsFrom nostalgia and neighborhood challenges to Austin news and everyday life observations, this episode captures everything listeners love about The JB and Sandy Show: authentic conversations, unexpected humor, and the chemistry that makes you feel like you're hanging out with old friends. Be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who still thinks they can pull off their favorite childhood stunt. Then ask them one simple question: “Can you prove it?” 

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome comedian and podcaster Kendrick Tucker, host of I Kennot with Kendrick Tucker, for a bonus episode built around reality TV debate and career advice. Kendrick traces his path from watching Unsolved Mysteries as a kid to launching his own podcast during COVID, and discusses topics from Real Housewives reunions to X-Men '96 on his own show. He explains why he'd only do a low-effort competition show like Big Brother or The Traitors, and weighs in on The Circle's move from Netflix to Hulu and its new Hunger Games-style voting mechanics. The three also debate the merits of networking horizontally versus chasing viral moments, building on a quote from Issa Rae.The episode's centerpiece is a five-round This or That built around iconic Black reality stars, pitting NeNe Leakes against Kenya Moore, Karen Huger against Gizelle Bryant, Jocelyn Hernandez against Cardi B, Stevie J against Benzino, and RuPaul against Bob the Drag Queen, with debate touching on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Real Housewives of Potomac, Love & Hip Hop, and RuPaul's Drag Race. Big Mad turns toward a July jobs report showing 23,000 lost jobs and the difficulty of being hired without prior expert-level experience, while Making Us Happy covers Kendrick's nonstop eating with visiting coworkers in Memphis and closes with direct advice from Kendrick to both hosts about relocation and trusting one's instincts in friendships.Connect with the Snerdy CrewWatch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠⁠⁠

Plus: Crypto stocks gain as bitcoin heads for best week in over two years. And Swedish heating company Nibe Industrier sees sales growth from heat pumps and data centers. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Zach, Jack, and Andrew discuss the recent trade deadline moves, selling high, the Mets offense coming back, the reason for Jorge Polanco's struggles, the young pitchers, the brand new bullpen, Kodai Senga as the closer, Jefry Yan's celebrations, and an Ode to Tyrone Taylor.

SCRIPTURE- Psalm 71:5-6  "For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you." REFLECTION- Mary EllynMUSIC- "In Search of Love" by The Mountain- "Be Not Afraid" by The O'Neill Brothers Group- "Ode to Joy" by The O'Neill Brothers GroupNOTES- Converting Fear Into Faith in God by Mary EllynPRAYER OF LETTING GOTo You do I belong, O God, into Your hands I surrender my life. Pour out Your Spirit upon me that I may love You perfectly, and serve You faithfully until my soul rests in You.

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo aka Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with Coach Toci, founder of Mompreneur Academy, for a conversation on entrepreneurship, branding, and mental health. Coach Toci traces her hustle back to selling CDs and candy as a child, then walks through her path into motherhood in 2021, a home birth experience, and the realities of Black maternal and infant mortality that shaped a decision to build a business centered on staying home with her children. Coach Toci unpacks the message behind stop being the best kept secret, arguing that most entrepreneurs struggle not from a lack of talent but from a lack of visibility, and points to Susan Jeffers' book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway as a resource for pushing past hesitation. The conversation moves into pricing psychology, covering why women and mothers routinely undercharge for their work, and cites business coach Lamar Tyler of Traffic Sales and Profit on the importance of tracking real sales numbers rather than relying on instinct.Coach Toci then turns her attention to Black and Snerdy itself, running a live audit of the podcast's presence across Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and X, flagging hashtag strategy, an inactive-looking X profile, missing YouTube live content, and the case for building an owned email list instead of relying on any single platform. A mental health check-in follows, where Mo discloses living with bipolar disorder while currently unmedicated and Coach Toci discusses navigating a divorce alongside the value of therapy during major life transitions. Big Mad brings frustrations over recurring Apple account charges, rising inflation, and a wave of AI-generated YouTube channels producing fake WWE wrestling news and scraped commentary on shows like The Wire and The Sopranos, including AI-generated music using the likeness of artists such as Timberland. The episode closes on a lighter note with an update on food creator Cabinet Carl.join.mompreneuracademy.biz Instagram: @mompreneuracademyofficial Facebook @mompreneuracademyofficial Connect with the Snerdy CrewWatch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠⁠⁠

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) sit down with Keith and MarkDub of the Blerd-ish podcast for a wide-ranging bonus episode marking Blerd-ish's ten-year anniversary. The conversation traces the show's start around the release of Black Panther, its roots in an earlier basketball podcast called Basketball and BS, and its growth into a platform for independent Black comic creators, with mentions of Tribe creators Todd Johnson and Larry Stroman, whose X-Factor designs recently showed up in an episode of X-Men '97, along with Chew and Farmhand creator Rob Guillory and voice actors Phil LaMarr and Kevin Conroy. Keith and MarkDub also walk through the friction of running a Black-centered vendor table at a regional Comic-Con, a debate over whether Image Comics still counts as independent, and book recommendations from independent authors Milton J. Davis and Jason Reeves, including Davis's novel The Black Rose.The second half shifts into current events and anime. Keith, MarkDub, and Mo AKA Kid Licorish discuss a racist incident at DreamCon in Houston involving a cosplayer dressed as Frieza, while Ode covers a Tennessee news story involving a mother named Kendra Scott who was charged after shooting a man found in her daughter's room. On the lighter side, the group recommends Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, new episodes of My Adventures with Superman and X-Men '97, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, Zom 100, Rooster Fighter, and the new series Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider, with Mo "Kid" Licorish also announcing plans to rewatch Gurren Lagann from the beginning. Keith and MarkDub close things out with where to find Blerd-ish online and news of an upcoming appearance at Anime Conclave in New Orleans.Check out Blerd-Ish Podcast on there LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/blerd.ishConnect with the Snerdy CrewWatch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠⁠⁠

Gwyn and Ode talk about Uncle Bucky, grandfather of American Witchcraft, and his Big Blue Book.

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo AKA Kid Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome DJ Sir Daniel and Jay Ray of Queue Points podcast for a bonus crossover centered on Netflix's The Greatest Night in Pop. The conversation traces the recording of We Are the World, covering the roles played by Harry Belafonte, Ken Kragen, Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, and Quincy Jones in assembling the session, along with standout moments involving Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, Cyndi Lauper, and Al Jarreau. The group also discusses points of frustration with the documentary, including Prince's absence, the treatment of Sheila E., and Patti LaBelle missing the recording the year before her own breakout. Before the review, DJ Sir Daniel and Jay Ray walk through the origins of Queue Points tracing the show's start back to the Salt-N-Pepa Lifetime biopic and the public dispute involving Spinderella. A Time Capsule segment rounds out the front half, with selections including Valentino's 1975 recording of I Was Born This Way, Earth Wind and Fire, A Tribe Called Quest's Stressed Out, and the full catalog of Destiny's Child.The back half of the episode moves into a hypothetical modern version of the recording, with the group debating a 2026 lineup that includes Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, SZA, The Weeknd, and Questlove. Big Mad turns to the impact of the Canadian wildfires on air quality, commentary on Dame Dash carried over from a previous live show, and frustration with anime fans who argue that shows like One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood contain no political themes. Small Joys closes things out with DJ Sir Daniel's vinyl copy of Black Milk's Ceremonial, upcoming DJ sets at Stereo Atlanta and JB's Record Lounge, and Ode's read of Jessica Cage's Accidents Happen series. DJ Sir Daniel and J-Ray close by pointing to QPoints.com for the weekly podcast and Thursday night Queue Points Live sessions.Queue Points is the Black Podcasting Award and Ambie Award-nominated music podcast and media platform that celebrates Black music history and culture through smart, entertaining conversation. Hosted by DJ Sir Daniel and Jay Ray, the show blends music commentary, music history, and pop culture analysis to explore the evolution, impact, and cultural significance of Black music across genres. Facebook: https://facebook.com/queuepointspodInstagram: https://instagram.com/queuepointspodLinkedin: https://linkedin.com/company/queuepointspodBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/queuepointspod.comYouTube: https://youtube.com/@queuepointspodConnect with the Snerdy CrewWatch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Title: Would You Survive a Driving Lesson With Your Teen? Plus the Austin Food Debate That Got Heated Description: What's the one food you could actually win an eating contest with? On this episode of The JB and Sandy Show, the crew dives into everything from competitive eating and Austin's best barbecue spots to the nerve-racking reality of teaching a teenager how to drive. Listeners weigh in on parenting advice, JB shares stories about handing over the keys for the first time, and Sandy wonders if surprise driving lessons might be the ultimate test of readiness. The conversation also turns to Austin pride as Matthew McConaughey teams up with Yeti for a uniquely Texas collaboration, inspiring one of Sandy's unforgettable on-air poems. Plus, the gang debates what food they'd dominate in an eating contest, leading to some surprising answers. Memorable moments:The eating contest food each host thinks they could conquer.Listener recommendations for one of Austin area's favorite barbecue joints.Real-world advice for parents teaching teens to drive.Sandy's hilarious "Ode to the Yeti."Trisha's memorable Godfather impression.Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who's survived teaching a teen driver or loves a great Austin story. 

Send us Fan MailA guitar part can be “jazzy,” a little busted, and still perfect if it serves the song and that's the thread we keep pulling while we listen through Mac DeMarco's 2. We're Chris and Tim, and we treat this one like a track-by-track album review with three guideposts: guitar playing, storytelling, and songwriting. If you've ever tried to explain why lo-fi indie rock feels so personal, this is our attempt to put real words to it.We start with “Cooking Up Something Good,” geeking out on DIY overdubs, echo, and the way DeMarco stacks simple parts into a signature guitar tone. From there we hit “Dreaming,” talk about lyrics that don't need a novel to land, and then let “Freaking Out the Neighborhood” kick off a very honest detour about actual neighbors, everyday weirdness, and why humor belongs in songwriting.Cigarettes and vice songs show up as a surprising storytelling tool, especially once we get to “Ode to Viceroy,” where one track turns into a whole nostalgia trigger. We also spend time on songs that hit emotionally, like “Sherrill,” plus the debate-y moments where we can't decide if we love a track, hate it, or somehow both. Finally, we rank our top three and make the case for what deserves a repeat listen.If you enjoy Mac DeMarco, indie music analysis, guitar tone talk, or album breakdown podcasts, hit play, then subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review. What are your top three songs from 2?Support the show

Send us Fan MailAI can produce words in seconds. But what happens to our voices, attention, and creative courage when we hand over the messy, human process of making something true?In this episode of The Ode to Joy Podcast, Elena Box sits down with longtime friend, creative mentor, non-AI conversion copywriter, book muse, and screenwriter Elyssa Jakim for a conversation about artistry, surrender, motherhood, grief, and creating in the age of “robot writing.”Elyssa shares why convenience is not the same as creativity, what it has been like to navigate a “void” season in her business, and how hyperachievement can become a survival response. She also reflects on birth trauma, financial insecurity, receiving support, and the death of her father, renowned translator Boris Jakim, whose devotion to language and literature shaped her own creative path.Together, Elena and Elyssa explore what AI cannot replicate: lived experience, shared history, human witnessing, and the unexpected insight that can spark something entirely new.Elyssa also shares what she is building now, including the Temple of Venus and her Own Your Artistry Salon for writers and soulful entrepreneurs ready to reclaim their voices and creative process.This conversation is an invitation to stop outsourcing your expression and return to the beauty, difficulty, and aliveness of making something real.As Elyssa says, “If we can't be bad and get better, then we don't get transcendent human creativity.”There is nothing like the real thing.Connect with ElyssaLearn more about Elyssa's work: https://www.elyssajakim.com/Explore the Own Your Artistry Salon: https://www.elyssajakim.com/own-your-artistry-salonFollow Elyssa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elyssajakimRead The Dressing Room on Substack: https://dressingroom.substack.com/If this conversation resonates, subscribe to The Ode to Joy Podcast, leave a review, and share the episode with a friend who is tired of the AI haze and ready to return to their own creative process. Support the showBuy your copy of Elena's book "Grieve Outside the Box"Follow on IG @elenabox

Gwyn and Ode discuss plans for winding down 3PAAC, and then pivot into a normal episode that goes very weirdly after that Housekeeping.

Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 before an Ode to former Gopher baseball coach John Anderson who died over the weekend at 71. Jonny Athletic makes his weekly appearance for a wrap on the Lebron James sweepstakes and some NBA discussion in general.

Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 before an Ode to former Gopher baseball coach John Anderson who died over the weekend at 71. Jonny Athletic makes his weekly appearance for a wrap on the Lebron James sweepstakes and some NBA discussion in general. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 before an Ode to former Gopher baseball coach John Anderson who died over the weekend at 71. Jonny Athletic makes his weekly appearance for a wrap on the Lebron James sweepstakes and some NBA discussion in general. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan Barreiro opens the show wondering if we are about to have another Checkdown Charlie on the Minnesota Vikings. Heather Rule joins to help Dan with an Ode to a Dead Guy: her good friend, the legendary prep sports writers David LaVaque who passed away over the weekend.

Dan Barreiro opens the show wondering if we are about to have another Checkdown Charlie on the Minnesota Vikings. Heather Rule joins to help Dan with an Ode to a Dead Guy: her good friend, the legendary prep sports writers David LaVaque who passed away over the weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan Barreiro opens the show wondering if we are about to have another Checkdown Charlie on the Minnesota Vikings. Heather Rule joins to help Dan with an Ode to a Dead Guy: her good friend, the legendary prep sports writers David LaVaque who passed away over the weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heading into the Fight Night in Baku, Din Thomas makes a special appearance and the boys meet up with Ode Osbourne and GiGi Canuto to talk the many eras of MMA, UFC, and TUF.First up, Ode Osbourne returns to the show with his patented humor and optimism to talk about righting ships, the excitement of new fights, niceties throughout the UFC roster, and much more. Ode may not be competing on the IFW card as he intended, but that hasn't deterred his drive and confidence.Right after Ode, TUF standout GiGi Canuto makes her first Unfiltered appearance. With her exciting performance on episode 3 of ‘The Ultimate Fighter,' Din and Matt compare their respective memories of their time on the show now that season 34 is underway. Plus, GiGi dives into her journey from Brazil to Las Vegas.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.