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Show note links: Freebies: Sign up for the Race To Recurring Revenue FREE challenge with Lisa Johnson starting June 14th! Grab your FREE ‘Stressed To Success' meditation: https://bit.ly/stressedtosuccess  Book in a discovery call to see how I can help you: https://calendly.com/franexcell/20min Products: Grab Your 365 day Gratitude Journal on Amazon:https://bit.ly/365daygratitude  Grab Your Positive Pants Firmly On Notebook:https://bit.ly/positivepantsonbook  Shop printables and meditations: https://www.franexcell.com/shop/  To sign up for The Positive Pants Planner Waitlist: https://bit.ly/pppimwaiting  Contact: Make sure you're following me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/imfranexcell/ and tag me into your key takeaways! Email me at hello@franexcell.com with any questions or take aways! For more, head over to: www.franexcell.com/   Why You Aren't Doing What You Want To?   There are probably a bazillion little reasons why you aren't doing what you want to in your business or your life...or perhaps you feel like it's just one big kahuna of a reason.     Either way, I'm going to go through a few of the most common reasons I see in the hope that it may make you think slightly differently and perhaps even make you realise how gloriously capable you are of doing the thing you want to do!   Whether you want to scale your business to a particular income level, start a business from scratch or even just believe that you can be doing something that you actually enjoy instead of being ‘trapped' by the rat race that doesn't really suit you anymore.     There will be tonnes of stories your brain and your nervous system will be telling you around why it's not possible.   We're fed (or brainwashed, whichever way you want to look at it ha!) so many messages of you go to school, you get qualifications, you get a job, you work your way up, you retire, you die.   You learn to validate yourself by your job title or salary.  I fell into it too!  But, I remember being 26 years old in a really successful career in media and advertising thinking to myself.   There must be more.  I know I'm capable of more.  The truth was I'd got to a great position, was respected in my profession and by my bosses, all good.  But there was a sense of just not doing anything ‘meaningful'.  I'd stopped feeling that sense of achievement or purpose.  I'd ticked a lot of the boxes.   But it took me to my 30s and through a little anxiety ridden existential crisis to figure it out.  Mainly because I was telling myself so many things that weren't true, but accepting them as truth.   Plus, I didn't know anyone who had their own business, I'll talk more on that in a minute.  It felt like an impossible hill to climb in terms of even having a clue where to start.    The biggest message running round my head was that it's highly unlikely that you're going to love what you do, almost like you're not supposed to. The work to live vs live to work mentality.That was only reserved for people who'd been born into wealth.  Not for us muggles.     The next message was that even if you do end up doing something you love, you'll pay for it in terms of ability to earn good money.   So the ONLY way to do what you love, was to in my mind, struggle for money.  Then you're trying to balance different levels of happiness.   Which one is less painful, more financial freedom to do what you love in your spare time, or do what you love and NOT be able to do what you want in your spare time because you can't afford it.   There's also the live for the weekend and wait for retirement mentality that's rife through society.   If these are running in your noggin as truth, and we're all run by our unconscious programming 95-99% of the time...you can see how that's never going to change, right?   BUT...so many people have that little niggle in the back of their minds about what they'd love to do...quickly followed by all the reasons they can't.   Write a book, work for yourself, have an income you could never dream of achieving in a corporate job, to not be stressed and overwhelmed all the time, to actually HAVE time and freedom to choose what you do with.     What is that ‘thing' for you.  What's that ‘niggle'?   Whether you've started your business or not.  What's that thing that if you weren't ruled by paying the bills (and your stories around that), or if you knew you couldn't fail, that you would LOVE to be doing?   Now we've got that...i'm going to give you some of the biggest reasons so many people DON'T go after it, if what i've already said isn't reason enough ha!   One of the biggest reasons is you genuinely don't think it's possible for YOU.  What I'd love for you to do is grab a journal and start to draw out those stories.     What makes you think that's true?  Why NOT you? What makes you believe THOSE things that come up? Who's beliefs are they really?  Yours?  Someone else's?  Based on how you were brought up, or what a teacher said to you?  Or the strong opinion of a parent or sibling?  What is the reason you believe it's possible for other people but not YOU?   That leads me nicely onto the next biggie.  Your friends and family's opinion.  Ohhhhhhh this is a big one.  The number one way people often find me is often through an episode I did called ‘why your friends and family don't support your business'.     I know from google search stats and analytics this is HUGE.  It's SO common.  If you want to go deeper into this one go have a listen to that episode.     But essentially, what was modelled for you growing up in terms of doing something you love?     You'll often find with a lot of entrepreneurs that their parents, or someone in their family ran a business, or someone they were close to.     For those that weren't modelled that, you usually have to break through a few unconscious beliefs first, but that's totally normal.     It's about creating awareness around what was modelled and what was taught to you about the way things ‘should' be with regards to earning an income.     What was ‘prized' by your primary care givers.  What did they value? What did THEIR parents value? It's not about being right or wrong, good or bad, most of us just don't really know we can challenge these ideals for ourselves as adults because it's unconscious...but you know now :-)    Next, what's modelled for you now?  Are you around people who own their own businesses?  Or are working their way towards it?   It's SO fundamental to have people who are working towards the same goal, or have already achieved what you want.  It's giving your brain and nervous system the evidence that it's possible AND that it's safe! Plus it gives you motivation and encouragement to keep going.  It's hard to just muster that for yourself!   That leads me nicely onto the next reason...You just haven't had the hard and fast, brain can't argue with you evidence that it's possible.  You need that.  Don't underestimate the importance of it. Seek it as much as possible.  Join groups, memberships, communities, go to events.   Your self esteem and the stories you tell yourself, about yourself.What are they.  We touched on this already but it's worth repeating. What are the reasons you're telling yourself you can't have it?  They may be surface level reasons, but they could be a lot deeper than that.  Self sabotage is a biggie!   Next up is that you don't know where to start.  This is the more surface level reason, but a powerful one nonetheless! I mean...there's a LOT to take in and a lot of different messages that can just leave you in a state of confusion.  TOTALLY understandable. It's about finding that person that has done or is doing what you want to do and learn from them.  Step by step.  Do this, do that!   And lastly for today, you might actually just don't want to do the work that's required to get it.  AND...guess what...that's ok!     There's a BIG difference between telling yourself you can't do something because there's something inherent in you that means it's not possible vs not actually wanting to do the work.     BUT there is a very different emotional charge from ‘I can't do it because I'm not capable and I feel guilt and shame about that' to ‘I'd love that but I can't be bothered to be honest.' So just be honest with yourself.     Also check that your story about the work that's required is true.     Check that there's not another way, stay curious about the possibility that comes with ‘how can I' vs ‘I can't' It's always going to require one or the other of time or money.  Usually a bit of both. But this is one of the reasons I think it's far more sensible and easier on the noggin to start your business, alongside your job and look at your job as your venture capital investor.    But so many of these aren't true.  They aren't reality. Pick out those stories and challenge them!  Reframe ‘I can't' to ‘how can I'.  You'll be amazed at what comes up.    So if this has made you feel even the slightest bit different about what you're capable of achieving that makes me do a happy and I 100% encourage you to find yourself a TONNE of evidence for that lovely brain of yours that money, freedom AND time is achievable when you're working for yourself...go to bit.ly/franandlisa or hit the link in the show notes, or on instagram, whichever way is easiest for you and join Lisa Johnson's Race To Recurring Revenue free challenge.(recurring revenue is things like courses, memberships, subscription boxes, drop shipping, ebooks, print on demand.  So many options where you do the work up front and then keep making money from the knowledge already in your head...even if you don't think you have any of that, trust me you do, i've helped enough people through this programme and my own to know that to be absolutely true!)   You'll learn ways that you don't have to trade time for money, you can have the security of knowing what's coming into your bank account every month, you'll be around people who've been there, done it and got the T-shirt.  You'll find THOUSANDS of people who want what you want so you'll find the evidence AND the community.    I'm going to be doing some bonus episodes with some very special people for you in the next couple of weeks to show you what's really possible.     I want to give your brain as much real, tangible evidence that it's possible for YOU.  Without all the mind gremlins whispering ‘that's for them not for you, you can't do that, who do you think you are!'   Hopefully you will see, or hear, how passionate I am about people truly understanding that this option for your life reality exists.  You can go into it with the mindset of scaling your existing business past that income ceiling you hit.     You can go in with the mindset that you KNOW you're starting a business and you KNOW the recurring revenue model is what you want because that certainty is important for you before you take the leap.   Or you can go into it with the mindset of I want to start a business but I haven't got a clue where to start and i'm just going to surround myself with some like minded people, take on some hugely valuable information, maybe dip my toe in the water with a side hustle and generate some extra income.   Or...I'm just curious!!   Lisa's been on the podcast a few times, has been my friend for a few years and I'm a partner because I fully believe in her work...and I don't recommend people lightly, I certainly don't partner with them lightly but she's the real deal.     If you've even listened to just one episode of the podcast I hope you can tell integrity is high on my values list and she's the same.  I've watched her over the last few years go from just about hitting the 6 figure mark to £3 million per year, 90% of that is passive or semi passive income.  I've seen it, I've done it, I know you can do it too if I can just get you to believe in yourself.   I'm living proof of what's possible.  Going from a negative, anxiety ridden, sleep deprived mess with zero self esteem to someone who's had almost quarter of a million downloads of a podcast teaching people how to change their businesses and their lives.  To creating a successful business that I love, in the dream home and launching my own signature group programme teaching people how to overcome stress and overwhelm and live a calm, balanced, happy life not being ruled by your emotions.  I mean...that's some magic to me right there and if I can do it, you absolutely can!    There's just a few pieces of the puzzle you're missing right now and the challenge will help you fill in some of those blanks...and so will I, I'll absolutely be in your corner every step of the way.  If you sign up through my link bit.ly/franandlisa then my DMs and emails are FULLY open to you. I want you to see that you can do it and one of my super powers is seeing the money generating ideas and I want to do that for you.  It's an easier process than you think!   Let's call out the elephant in the room now!  The challenge will of course lead into her telling you about her amazing One To Many programme, which i'm a partner for and I talked a lot about last year, but she is NOT one of those people that will give you the what but not the how, and I wouldn't recommend something for you that did because it's a HUGE bugbear of mine and I'm grateful to you for having me in your ear buds and leeting me share my message.  I absolutely don't want you to waste your time. I want you to see your potential.     You can get results just from the challenge if you take action! I just really want you to have this information, whatever you choose to do with it!   You can absolutely do this.   You get one life and I fully believe we're supposed to live it doing what we love. So go to bit.ly/franandlisa it's free, you have absolutely nothing to lose and SO much to gain!  I can't wait to support you!   Fx  

Ohhhhhhh my goddddd YOU'RE BAD. What up johnnnnns.  This week we got Naomi Osaka, Bob Baffert, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day Lewis, The Crown, like, a lot of shi*. Plus Danny's jealous girlfriend bought some lingerie apparently. Follow me on Insta if you wanna: @dannypalmernyc @thedannypalmershowSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thedannypalmershow)

The guys catch up with one of their favorite actor/comedian/midnight ranter Dean Napolitano, we learn about the beginnings and if you pay attention watch how one question branches into 47. Dean gives us a wine taste review from popular rapper Snoop Dogg newest wine collection.  Love,Life and Pasta.  This and lots more on episode 32 of Nah Doo! Ohhhhhhh!!!     Check out http://www.KermitGonzalez.com for more content  Join the team on our Patreon Channel: Keyword - Obligatory Network 

I love watching movies…don’t you? I especially like to see people overcome their challenges and win in the end. You know the type of movie that for a part of it you start to question how anyone could get through that and then you are super happy to see them do it? The best part for me is if they have a power statement or catchphrase. You know that thing they say that makes you say Ohhhhhhh crap! Here we go!!! Don’t you think you deserve a power statement of your own?  Listen to today’s episode and when you’re done come over to the website for more caregiver support. www.caregiverconnectionpodcast.com  

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"...Tolerance or Acceptance? Which has a more open heart? Which way sets up less resistance, stress and anxiety?" Welcome to Episode 59 of Roll With Peace, In Mind. Today's riff is Tolerance or Acceptance? Which Has A More Open Heart? Ohhhhhhh you may say BIRD! you're splittin' hairs on this one, it's a bit of a stretch don'tchathink? And I'd say well...hear me out on this one. Definitely a serious thing to consider if you want to lower stress and anxiety... And I've got a workshop & a group class to tell you about-- ** click to register: ChillOut ChillDown Chillax Renew: StressBusters Guided Meditation a Virtual Guided Meditation 30 minute group chill. My End of The Month group sessions **click to register: Gratitude is The Love Frequency: Guided Medtiation & Journaling Workshop   Check out my website for testimonials!   * * * Please consider becoming a patron by subscribing to "I am a friend of the Roll With Peace, In Mind Podcast" and click on this link: Jacquie Bird, Spiritual Wellness and choose the Podcast Sponsor plan. Your support is greatly welcomed and Appreciated. Join my mailing list to keep up with new events, products and workshops Click here #JoinListenEngageShare in my Facebook Group Riffin' About The Roll With Peace, In Mind podcast Come be a part of the conversation. Discuss episodes, ask questions, tell me what topics or themes you would love to hear in a future episode. Come hang with me in the Riffin' About The Roll With Peace, In Mind Podcast Facebook Group! *** And lastly, who am I? I am Jacquie Bird of Jacquie Bird, Spiritual Wellness. I have lived as a performing artist, Creative, and teacher since the age of 18. Bumps in the road? Um yeah...a LOT! They hurt? Uh huh, made a grown girl cry. But everything is a step in The Journey, to be Experienced and to be Learned from. Today I navigate with much more Grace, Wisdom, Joy, Intention, Mindfulness, Humor and GRATITUDE. In these podcast episodes, I share what I have learned and am still learning, with YOU. For more on my products and services, hit me up on my site Jacquie Bird, Spiritual Wellness  Thank you for listening!          

Got Faded Japan ep 587 Tom Tom Tokyo and Jeremy breakdown Alice in Borderland, the Mortal Kombat trailer as well as the MCU. PLUS! Ohhhhhhh so much news, in this week’s weird and bizarre line up we have, never stop your taxi on a bridge, 70-year-old granny is more than loved by many, convenient store breakdown, it’s better to shave than to die and oh so much more! FADE ON!   NOW YOU CAN DIRECTLY SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON! Supporting GOT FADED JAPAN ON PATREON directly supports keeping this show going and fueled with booze (seriously could you imagine the show sober?? Neither can we) SUPPORT GFJ at: https://www.patreon.com/gotfadedjapan   CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS AND SUPPORT THE SHOW!!!! 1.THE SPILT INK: Get prints and art at: SITE https://www.thespiltink.com ETSY https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSpiltInk?ref=hdr_shop_menu 2.Soul Food Househttps: //soulfoodhouse.comAddress:2-chōme−8−10 | Azabujūban | Tokyo | 106-0045 Phone:03-5765-2148 Email:info@soulfoodhouse.com Location Features:You can reach Soul Food House from either the Oedo Line (get off at Azabujuban Station and it's a 7-minute walk) or the Namboku Line (get off at Azabujuban Station and it's a 6-minute walk). 3.Ghost Town Pomade FADE IN STYLE with Ghost Town Pomade.Get yours today by contacting: ghosttownpomade@gmail.com     4.MITSUYA: 1　Chome- 13 -17 Asagayaminami, Suginami Tokyo 166-0004　 Tel & Fax: 0303314-6151Email: saketoyou0328@gmail.com     5.Harry’s Sandwich Company 1 min walk from Takeshita Street in HarajukuCall 050-5329-7203 Address: 〒150-0001 Tokyo, Shibuya City, Jingumae, 1 Chome−16−7 MSビル 3F https://www.facebook.com/harryssandwichco/   GET YOURSELF SOME GOT FADED JAPAN MERCH TODAY!!! We have T-Shirts, COFFEE Mugs, Stickers, even the GFJ official pants! BUY NOW AND SUPPORT THE SHOW: http://www.redbubble.com/people/thespiltink/works/16870492-got-faded-japan-podcast     The Got Faded Japan Podcast gives listeners a glimpse of the most interesting side of Japan's news, culture, peoples, parties, and all around mischief and mayhem. Hosted by Johnny and Tom who adds opinions and otherwise drunken bullshit to the mix. We LOVE JAPAN AND SO DO YOU! Send us an email on Facebook or hell man, just tell a friend & post a link to keep this pod rolllin' Fader! Kanpai mofos!  

Welcome to the fourth installment of a 4-part series called “The gift of being fully present.”  During these episodes, we've been getting you powerful and practical strategies to help you to BE IN THE MOMENT and be FULLY PRESENT more often.  With this episode, we're going to get you a strategy that might seem counterintuitive to living more in the present… BUT… trust me… it's going to help to infuse the here and now… with some joy, some hope and even some fun.  And it's something that's going to be soooooooo important as we all march into 2021.  It's called “Intentional Anticipation” and I can't wait to get it to you!  #letsdothis RESOURCES: PART 1 of the Give the Gift of Being Fully Present: The First Question www.mitchmatthews.com/302  PART 2 of the Give the Gift of Being Fully Present: The Experiment www.mitchmatthews.com/303  PART 3 of the Give the Gift of Being Fully Present: The Christmas Carol Method  www.mitchmatthews.com/304  The Study on Travel and Anticipation: US National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health  The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor:  www.shawnachor.com/books The Undefeated Mind by Dr. Alex Lickerman: Click here. The best 100 Movies Ranked by the American Film Institute: Click here Episode Minute By Minute: 0:02 Welcome to part four! 1:33 What to expect today 2:42 Episode begins 4:20 What is coming up in January 5:07 The concept of novelty 7:30 The gift of anticipation 16:00 Giving yourself permission 19:15 Set a date 21:09 How Mitch is implementing this in his family 23:02 Grow your hope muscle 24:11 Mitch's wish for you this season 25:40 Share this episode with a friend THE EPISODE - TRANSCRIPTION:  Okay… in episode 304… you may remember that we talked about something I call the “The Christmas Carol Method” of being in the moment. We talked about questions about your past and questions about your present... to help you feel more gratitude and to help you to live more in the here and now. Well… today we're going to be talking about the future and something I call, “Intentional Anticipation.” It's a strategy that can build a sense of hope and excitement… and even joy… right here.   Right now.   Now… you might be saying… “Woah amigo, hold up!!!  I thought we were talking about living more in the NOW… and being more present.  Doesn't thinking about the future move us out of that?” And… if you're asking that… you're flippin' brilliant.   Because yes… sometimes… thinking about the future… and all the things that are outside of our control… can… let's be honest… start to freak us out. In fact, I love a quote I recently heard from the late great Janice Joplin, she said,  “You can destroy your NOW,  by worrying about your tomorrow.”   Amen to THAT. BUT… I want to be clear… that's not what we're doing. What we're talking about today is “Intentional Anticipation.” And since this is DREAM THINK DO… we're going to introduce you to the concept… get you some science to back it up… AND most importantly… show you how to use it in 15 minutes or less.   How does that sound?   Okay… cool… let's do this! Now… in January… we're going to be getting you a few episodes that focus on the subject of happiness.   Not in some airy-fairy kind of way… but we're going to be digging into the science and application of feeling happy… more often.  And… I can't wait to get those episodes to you. But… as we start to head that direction… I want to share a few things I've been learning there… and add them to our subject of being more present and living in the moment more. So… one of the things I've been learning about as a key to having more happiness is the concept of “novelty.”   The idea… that although we like it when certain things stay the same… one of the things that brings a sense of happiness is a sense of novelty. That sense that every so often… we get to experience something NEW. Something out of the norm.   Something unusual.   It can be little things like…  Buying and wearing some new clothes.  Or reading a new book.  Or… trying a food we haven't tasted before or driving down a road we've never explored. Or… things like... Visiting a city we've never gone to before. Meeting a new person and getting to know them. Buying a new piece of technology… or a new toy. Novelty. Just think about it… and I'm betting you know exactly what I'm talking about.   That sense of NEWNESS can spark a sensation of joy and excitement. And… just as importantly… ANTICIPATING something new can spark that feeling almost as much… if not more… joy and excitement… as the experience itself.   Heck, there's a LOT of research to back this up.   In fact, it's called the Science of Anticipation. Let me give you some examples: There was one study published in the National Institutes of Health that looked at people who were getting ready to go on vacation.   It tracked them and their sense of self-perceived happiness before, during and after the trip… compared to a control group who didn't take a trip at all.   One of the things that surprised researchers was that the highest levels of happiness seemed to occur leading up to the vacation… as opposed to during the trip… or post trip. Maybe you can identify with that.   Seriously… think about vacations you've taken in the past.   Can you remember the excitement you felt leading up to the trip?  The planning?  The fun you had imagining visiting that one particular restaurant… or riding that one ride you'd heard so much about… or dipping your toes in that sand of that one beach a friend had told you about.   Ohhhhhhh yeah.   The anticipation. I came across another example of this in the book, The Happiness Advantage.  The author cites a study in which people who just thought about watching their favorite movies actually raised their endorphin levels by 27%.  He said researchers concluded that,  “Anticipating future rewards can actually light up  the pleasure centers in your brain  as much as the actual reward itself will.” I bet you've experienced this too… right?   Just looking forward to something made you feel better. It's like how Dr. Alex Lickerman put it in his book The Undefeated Mind,  “Anticipating something pleasant seems to  have almost unequaled power to make our present glow.” I bet you know exactly what these researchers are talking about. I bet you've felt that anticipation of something new… and got some good mental juice out of it.   Right?   It feels good.   And… the research suggests… we can do some things to intentionally harness that joy… and experience the joy… the fun… even the hope that comes from that anticipation… more often.   Especially IF we're intentional about it. Hence… our term: “Intentional Anticipation. And I'm going to get you those strategies in just a second. BUT before we go there… I HAVE to speak to a couple of things. Let's call them a couple of big ol' elephants… or maybe… in 2020… better said, a couple of potential grizzly bears in the room. Here's the deal… I bet you're tracking with me… BUT we have to deal with that big ol' BUT that might be brewing deep down on the inside for you. We have to admit that our ability to enjoy anticipation has truly taken a beating this year.   Can I get an amen? There's a good chance that if you're listening to this… heck… if you're breathing… you've had something BIG get postponed or canceled this year. A trip.  A big event.  Something important. A graduation. A dance. A wedding. A business event. A vacation. A conference. Heck… we've got a lot of college students that listen to DREAM THINK DO… so there is a VERY good chance it's impacted the way you're doing college or even made it so you're delaying college for the year.   Or… maybe you have young kiddos… and it's a day by day thing on whether you're going to be teaching MATH… SCIENCE… and SOCIAL STUDIES… WHILE also navigating your life and your career. Or… maybe it's the 17th hundredth zoom meeting… as opposed to being in the same room with people. And… heck… even the holidays.  Everything feels like it's up in the air… and that it constantly has the potential of shifting on us. So yeah… we've got to talk about THAT… right?  Because if we don't… this all can seem pretty empty… and all rainbows and unicorns… as opposed to something you can REALLY use. So… IF YOU ONLY HEAR THIS ONE THING… I would love for it to be this: INTENTIONAL ANTICIPATION in THIS season means giving yourself permission to cherish and look forward to the small stuff.   Or… more accurately said… this might mean looking forward to things that we might have considered the “small stuff” in the past… but we're realizing it's the wildly BIG stuff. I'll give you an example.   Admittedly… this might be a bit dorky… but I think it will help. If you've been listening to DREAM THINK DO for a while… you know my family is into movies.   It's our jam.   And I don't know how many opening night movies we've been to… but… seriously… if the Matthews clan was looking forward to a movie… there was a VERY good chance… we were there on opening night. We did it for the excitement of it… the fun of it.  Heck… I didn't realize it at the time… it was for the anticipation and the novelty of it. AND to be COMPLETELY honest… we wanted to make sure some major part of the movie or the big twist wasn't ruined by some jackhole who put a spoiler out on social media. It was always fun… BUT if I'm honest… it had started to become a bit of a “given” that's what we'd do.   Heck, I'll be the first to say we'd probably even started to take it for granted… and could almost be passe about it. Well… as you can imagine… we haven't been to an opening night movie premiere since March.   So when I heard Wonder Woman 1984 was going to open on Christmas night… I bought tickets that same day I heard about it.   And we've been looking forward to it ever since. BUT… if I'm being fully honest… I have to admit that part of me that didn't want to look forward to it… because so many different things have been canceled… or changed… or postponed this year. So… I had to give myself PERMISSION to look forward to it. And… as the research would suggest… I've been enjoying that sense of anticipation.  Yes… part of it feels like a risk… BUT… I'm allowing myself to enjoy it. Now… in full disclosure… I have a backup plan… because in this scenario… if something happens and the movie theater gets shut down for COVID reasons… I'll grab a subscription to HBO Max… because they're premiering it on the same day! By the way… although I really enjoyed the first one… I'm not a HUGE WonderWoman fan.  BUT my wife is a HUGE Wonder Woman fan… and I'm a HUGE fan of my wife… so we're doing it.   AND… we're both allowing ourselves the chance to look forward to it. Oh… and as a side note... I want to also say… that neither Wonder Woman 1984 or HBO Max are currently sponsors of the DREAM THINK DO podcast…  but we ARE willing to discuss that with you… if you or someone you know… are connected to either.  HA!!! But seriously… deep down… I realized I had to give myself permission to LOOK FORWARD to something like this again. I know it might be kind of a weird example… but can you relate? Here's another quick example.   Obviously… many of our family gatherings are looking WAY different.   Yours probably are too! I have to admit… around Thanksgiving time… I was pretty GRUMPY about that. But… as I started to understand this concept of INTENTIONAL ANTICIPATION… especially after THIS year… I started to realize the importance of permission. That we have to give ourselves permission to… first... feel all the feels. With this year… we need to give ourselves permission to feel the frustration… the weariness… the crabbiness… all of it. But then… when we're ready… to start to also give ourselves permission to look forward to some NEW things. So… like I said… over Thanksgiving… I was still pretty grumpy about how different things needed to be. But now… I'm giving myself permission to get creative with some of these NEW… and very hopefully… temporary ways of doing the holidays. So… we're going to do a bunch of things with our extended families… virtually… and I'm going to give myself permission to look forward to them and be in the moment as we do them. And… I'm actually starting to feel the difference.   I'm starting to feel some hope… some joy… heck… even some fun… start to break through.   And hey… #realtalk… those feeling have been hard to come by this year.   And that's what I want for YOU too.   THE STEPS: So… if you're tracking with me...  let's start to talk about some SPECIFIC steps to help us to harness the POWER of INTENTIONAL ANTICIPATION.   STEP 1: PERMISSION So… INTENTIONAL ANTICIPATION starts with PERMISSION. We have to give ourselves the permission to look forward to something again.   It's so simple… and so important…  After that… the rest just flows.   STEP 2: Get SPECIFIC  Get specific with something you want to do or experience. Now… since it's 2020 and 2021… we need to keep things simple.   So, for this to work  RIGHT NOW… these things most likely can't be BIG things like… global travel… or big events involving thousands of people. BUT they can be fun… and they can be important things.   AND... they can pull in some of that NOVELTY we were talking about earlier. Some examples might be… What's a park (within a 2 hour radius) you've never been to?   Set a date and go check that out.  What's a favorite movie you haven't seen in a while? Or… what's a movie you've always wanted to watch… but haven't? Set a date and watch it together. I'll put a link to some of the top 100 movies of all time in the show notes to get you some more ideas here. What's a favorite food we haven't eaten in a while? Or… what's a food you've always wanted to try? Set a date and cook it together. The key is to get specific. STEP 3: PUT IT ON THE CALENDAR Seriously… write it down.   Or put it on your google calendar.   Invite someone to do it with you… either virtually or in person. And then…  STEP 4: ENJOY THE ANTICIPATION Seriously.  Simply enjoy the anticipation. That's right.   Give yourself permission to enjoy looking forward to it. And… give yourself permission to not have it have to be PERFECT to enjoy it when that THING comes.  Sound good?  I'll give you one last example as we're wrapping up.   As I said earlier… my family is kind of a “movie family.”   We enjoy watching them and our two sons write, direct and act in some.   AND… thanks to COVID… both sons are currently home and living with us. Well... a while back… we were looking for some fun ways to mix things up… find some novelty… and… let's be real… we were looking for something that couldn't get canceled or postponed.   SO… we decided to challenge ourselves to EACH come up with a list of our 10 favorite movies.   Super simple.   By the way... this list… was not about how successful they were or their critical acclaim.   This list was all about the movie's impact on US… and how much we enjoyed them. Then… we set up a date to reveal the lists. And… on that day… we all presented our lists to each other.  As we did… we each talked through our lists and why each movie was in our top ten.   It was a lot of fun. But the best part… is that since then… we've been systematically… going through our lists to enjoy the movies together.   Each month we've been setting some time aside to watch a movie and then talk through it.   It's been fun and although… I'll be the first to say… that each movie we've watched hasn't always been my favorite… we've had fun and we've learned a lot about each other!   So, I offer that… not as prescriptive but as descriptive of something you could do. Maybe… for you… it's not movies... maybe it's board games. Or… maybe it's favorite sports ball memories… (Yeah… sorry… I'm just not much of a sports guy… but you get what I mean!) Maybe it's watching favorite youtube videos together. Decide on something. Put a date on the calendar… even if it's tomorrow. Enjoy the anticipation. And then… BE in the moment… whether it goes EXACTLY as you planned… or not… enjoy it. What do you think?   Are you in? I hope so. And one last thing.   I wanted to share why I think THIS episode might be the most important of our 4 part series. I'll TOTALLY admit that I didn't realize this when we started… but it dawned on me as I was thinking through all of this. It's that… I really do think we're going to need to heal up our ability and our willingness to look forward to stuff. To anticipate GOOD stuff… and not just dread bad news… postponements and changed plans. You know what I mean? I think we're going to have to work that “hope” muscle and the “anticipation” muscle a bit… because they've taken a bit of a beating this year.   Right? That's why I think THIS subject is so important. But hey… if there ever was a time of year to talk about giving yourself permission to feel hope again… and to anticipate some good things...  it seems like Christmas time is the PERFECT time to do that.    And hey… I know our DREAM THINK DO family is very diverse… and I know that not everyone who's listening right now celebrates Christmas… but whether you do… or whether you don't… I hope you know that I love you… and I'm so grateful we're on this journey together! And for those who do celebrate CHRISTMAS… I hope you have a wonderful… wonder-filled time! And to everyone… I hope over this Holiday season…  even though it may look very different than other years… I hope you can find specific things to look forward to… and then get to fully enjoy them… as you're more fully present and more fully in the moment… as they come! Cool?   Cool. Okay… just a few last logistics… as we're wrapping up.    I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Hit me up with your thoughts and comments below!    PLUS… please please please… share this episode.   If it resonated with you… please share it with others… because I really do think we're going to need to be intentional about working our “hope” and our “anticipation” muscles… and it's a whole lot more fun to get to do that together! And lastly… know I'm going to be taking next few weeks off to be with my family. So… we'll skip a week or two and then we'll be bringing you our next episode… episode 306… which is going to be awesome… and so much fun… in early January.  And I can't wait to get it to you! But until then… until we connect again… keep bringing your awesome.  Because the world… needs more of it!

In This Episode:   Justin is back in California. You know what that means?! Quarantine and Covid test tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime. John is in New York. OK, I want you to listen to how crazy I drive John in this episode. Listen to his voice. His job consists not only of finding meaning in my rants and having to sit through them, but also, in this episode particularly, how I never want to talk into the mic and how I never remember which episode is which. I am a major liability for John and the podcast. I have a foul mouth with a VERY annoying voice this week. I am uncouth and unhinged and easily triggered. Okay, moving along. My Covid test was not comfortable, y’all. However, that does NOT mean you shouldn’t go get one. It felt great to do it once I was done. (Have you gotten a flash jingle yet? Get one.) Okey doke. So. We were fortunate and blessed to be invited back to V&Ts Laundry Box to interview Vincent and re-listen to our first season of jingles before sending them off to be re-mastered for our season one album. Ohhhhhhh, it’s coming, guys. It’s a’comin’.   Vincent @LaundryLikeUs is such a great guy for so many reasons. You know him from our jingle for his laundry spot, but this episode we get to hang with him and hear about what is going on in his life and with his business. He continues to stay positive and dedicate his business to hospitality, positivity and creating a great and welcoming neighborhood laundry experience and atmosphere. BUT. Drumroll, please. He has ventured into podcasting! He is launching a podcast called THE RINSE. It will showcase people he has met as customers only to discover later that they are talented artists. There are instrumentalists, rappers, singers, poets, you name it. All local Harlem and NYC talent that has been walking the neighborhood in disguise. DAMN, WHY DIDN’T WE THINK OF THIS, JOHN?! It’s an amazing idea for a podcast and YouTube channel. Thank you Vincent for having us and for all you do. The song this week is too cool. It’s TOO COOL. But, back to my earlier point: Listen to when I ask John if he likes the opening riff. His answer is: “Sure”. I’ll translate. “Sure. Now get your goddamned face facing the mic while you’re playing. I’ll like anything as long as you talk into the mic”. HE GETS EVEN MORE PISSED LATER. I KNEW IT! I KNEW HE WANTED TO KILL ME THIS EPISODE.   This week is City Lights Theater Company in San Jose, California. Their executive artistic director is Lisa Malette, an awesome lady who we met working on the Leigh Weimers jingle. They give us “Thought-provoking plays and musicals, along with concerts showcasing hot local artists.” Enjoy!!   CITY LIGHTS THEATRE COMPANY 529 S. Second Street San Jose, CA 95112 408.295.4200 https://cltc.org Check out their website, links to their online programming and their podcast FILAMENT!

The. Big. 5 Ohhhhhhh. Matt and Dennis breakdown the Giants third win of the year and get all sorts of testy with each other on what the next 7 weeks could like look and more so mean for Big Blue.

We get it on, uncensored, for 2 hours. The hot and heavy action never ends. OHHHHHHH!

A big content dump this week as big things happened and sometimes to you need time for the dump to happen. Also did James get upto much as he was away? And Chris slipping into your DM's! Ohhhhhhh myyy!

Ohhhhhhh great... what the hell are these two vatos talking about now? How in the HELL did a trip to the wrecking yard become a discussion about how dark you need to be to spit real talk with the homies? Where is Busta Rhymes when you need him? We definitely need a mediator on this. And a good lawyer. Daaaaamn foo.

It's a perverse question, but what's an acceptable number of unarmed people that the police may accidentally shoot every year? Of course, many people's knee-jerk answer will be, "Zero!" If you answered that way, it's time to take a deep breath and relax. We're going to embark on a cold-hearted exercise that requires rationality, logic, and a heavy dose of realism. The implications are profound and important, so please bear with me. After reading this long article, you're welcome to write a constructive comment at the bottom. Include what you think is a reasonable number of annual unarmed deaths and why. I will update this article as I get thoughtful and intelligent feedback.  The Black Lives Matter Thesis A central argument in the Black Lives Matter movement is that (white) cops are disproportionately killing Black men, especially unarmed Black men. It's Exhibit A in a long list of exhibits that prove systemic, structural, and institutional racism in America's police. This argument has been repeated so many times that it has become an axiom. Thus, questioning the Black Lives Matter thesis is tantamount to questioning whether our planet revolves around the sun. We won't question it. Instead, we will seek to do is to quantify it.  Metrics: Quantifying success and failure Metrics allow us to objectively measure the size of a problem. Metrics help us measure our progress.   Metrics also help us answer crucial questions: when can we declare victory? When will we know that we've solved this crisis? In other words, when can we put down our signs, stop protesting, hug, give each other high-fives, and scream, "Mission accomplished!"? Declaring victory ought to be based on facts and evidence, not a group's feelings or one man's opinion. Therefore, we must set reasonable benchmarks.  We must quantify where we want to be. What does a fair and just world look like, numbers-wise? Assuming the current number of police killings of Blacks is disproportionately high, then what number would be disproportionately low? And what number would be tragic, but understandable? To understand what I mean, consider other tragic numbers. Every year, hundreds of babies die at daycare centers, thousands die in traffic accidents, and millions die of preventable diseases.  Since society is not vigorously protesting all these deaths, one could conclude that these deaths, while sad, are understandable. Our society deems that all those preventable deaths are tragic but tolerable. Therefore, the aim of this article is to help you calculate 3 numbers regarding the number of US police killings of unarmed victims: A shockingly high number that's worth protesting about. An expected number that we can begrudgingly live with and accept. A remarkably low number that's almost worth celebrating. Great. Now let's analyze the data. USA police kill way more people per capita than any other rich nation In a list of 62 random countries, the USA ranked slightly below the median in the per-capita police caused fatalities. This is embarrassing. High-income countries outperform the USA handily. It's humiliating that the DRC beats the USA. Why isn't the USA in the top 10? Why isn't it clumped next to its rich allies instead of several poor and dysfunctional nations?  Doesn't this prove the US police are excessively violent? Before we jump to that conclusion, we must consider two critical facts. 1. America's gun-filled environment The USA is the only country that has more firearms than people. Indeed, it has 20% more guns than people. We have twice as many guns per capita than the next country on the list: Yemen. The USA has four times more guns per capita than the next two major countries on the list: Serbia & Montenegro. We have approximately 10 times more firearms per capita than Somalia, Russia, Chile, Albania, as well as the homicide-happy Guatemala and El Salvador. We have approximately 100 times more firearms per capita than the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Palestine, Tunisia, and Chad. And we have nearly 1,000 times more firearms per capita than South Korea. Knowing that, imagine you're a police officer, patrolling a country that is literally overflowing with firearms. Ask yourself: Would you be more nervous and quicker to reach for your gun than a cop in the Netherlands?  Do you think it's statistically probable that police killings in the USA would be comparable to South Korea? Would you expect and predict that if Country A has 100 times more firearms per capita than Country B that they would both have the same level of police shootings? Should we be shocked that the US police kill far more people per capita than Sweden?  2. The USA is unusually murderous for a high-income country Not only does the USA have far more guns per capita than anyone else, but it's also a remarkably murderous country when compared to other high-income countries. When you examine the intentional per capita homicide rate of 230 countries/territories, the USA is just below the global median, which lines up with where it falls in the police shootings rate.  Meanwhile, the homicide rate of other high-income countries is also much lower than in the USA.  In other words, the USA's ranking on the global homicide scale is roughly the same as our ranking of police shootings: slightly below the median. Meanwhile, high-income countries have far better rankings on both metrics. You plot the two stats together, you get this: Should we be surprised that our law enforcement officers end up killing criminals and suspects in their effort to stop the carnage? Given all the firearms, should we be surprised that American cops are more likely to encounter an armed and dangerous suspect than a Japanese cop? Watch this short video. I've watched it 10 times and I still can't believe how this female police officer didn't get killed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0SsIZbkQGQ After watching that video, you can get a sense that an American cop must make life-or-death decisions in milliseconds. Do you think you could have done what this female cop did? I sure couldn't.  Imagine you're in a tense situation, perhaps responding to a 911 call. You have a suspect a few meters away. It's night and hard to see. The suspect reaches behind his back. What do you do? Wait for him to shoot you? In theory, yes. Officers are trained to not fire on someone unless there's evidence that the cop's life is threatened.  However, in the heat of the moment, humans may forget their training. Their instinctual desire for self-preservation may override their training.  Have you ever been in an extremely fast-paced and stressful situation where you, in retrospect, made a lousy decision?  If not, do you know anyone who has made a poor decision when under stress? Or at least can you imagine that some people would, in a split second, make the wrong call?  Some panicked people involuntarily freeze or feint, which is often a terrible idea in a bad situation. We can't always control ourselves. When my friend was assaulted by 4 men in South Africa, his fight-or-flight brain told him to fight. In retrospect, he says, it was an extremely stupid thing to do. He miraculously scared them away. A pair of Cameroonian thugs nearly strangled me to death because I wasn't giving them my wallet and phone. My instinctual reaction was to fight. While I was being strangled for 30 seconds, it was impossible for me to say, "I can't breathe." I thought I might die, but my instincts told me to resist. I was foolish, even though I "won" that battle and kept my phone (my wallet only had $10 so I let it go). Which profession kills more people accidentally: cops or physicians? Although it's been declining over the decades, for the last five years, US cops kill about 1,000 people per year. According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, more than 250,000 people in the United States die every year because of medical mistakes, making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Given that Blacks are 13% of the population, that means physicians kill 32,500 Blacks every year. Since Blacks are generally poorer than the average American, they disproportionately get physicians who are cheaper, less competent, and more error-prone than average. For the same reason, Blacks probably also get inferior medical equipment and technology. Therefore, perhaps 26% of the 250,000 physician-caused deaths are Blacks. That would mean that 65,000 Blacks die at the sloppy and careless hands of a physician. Those Blacks entrusted their doctors to protect and save their lives in a similar way that we all trust our police to protect and save our lives.   Society doesn't revolt when we hear that physicians kill 65,000 Blacks every year. Indeed, few even know that statistic! Nobody says that there's "systemic racism" among physicians. Nobody is burning down clinics.  When a physician enters an operating room, it's unlikely that he is planning to kill his patient. It is also doubtful that when a cop pulls someone over that he plans to kill him. It's a bad analogy because patients enter into operating rooms naked, sedated, and unarmed. Police often deal with hostile, belligerent, and armed suspects. Metrics matter. We ought to celebrate if physicians "only" accidentally kill 50,000 people in a year because that would be an amazingly good year on a relative scale since they consistently kill 250,000 without society flooding the streets. "But physicians aren't trying to kill Blacks!" you scream. "Those are mistakes! Malpractice! Accidents! When the police kill, it's MURDER!" Calm down. Let's analyze this morbid topic. The psychopaths among us Neil deGrasse Tyson told Coleman Hughes that it's possible to screen police applicants so well that we'll get rid of all the bad apples. Hughes disagreed. Here's why Hughes is unfortunately right.  According to psychologists, one percent of the population is a psychopath. A psychopath isn't what you probably think he is. Although 25% of male inmates are psychopaths, psychopaths are rarely violent. You probably know a few psychopaths. There's a 1% chance that you are one. There are 1 million physicians in the USA. That suggests about 10,000 physicians are psychopaths. A few are diabolical. Here are just a few of the many doctors who were caught and convicted: Dr. Death was accused of killing or maiming 33 patients and was condemned to life imprisonment. The Angel of Death killed about 250 patients, mostly elderly women.  Jayant Patel was an American surgeon who was convicted of three counts of manslaughter and one case of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment (later overturned). Michael Swango was a physician who admitted killing 4 of his patients, but some believe he killed as many as 60 patients. He's serving 4 consecutive life sentences. Dr. John Bodkin Adams had more than 160 of his patients die of suspicious causes—132 of whom had put Dr. Adams in their wills before passing away. Like a police officer whose wrist gets slapped and continues working, Dr. Adams had his license stripped and then later reinstated. Although she's not a physician, a nursing assistant murdered 7 military veterans. (That news broke as I was writing this article in July 2020).  Imagine if one cop had systematically killed as many people as one of these murderous doctors. Boy, would we hear about it! Did we condemn all doctors when we learned about the callous way those evil doctors murdered people whom they were supposed to protect and serve? Of course not.  Should we conclude that there's systemic racism in our healthcare system that is killing Black bodies? Why aren't people torching hospitals and beating physicians?  Nobody is chanting, "Abolish hospitals! Defund medicare!" We know it's wrong to condemn an entire profession because a few "professionals" were immoral or exercised horrible judgment. Why? Because we've done a simple mental calculus: we know that in a large sample size, there is a statistical certainty that there will be some who will be crazy, cruel, incompetent, or immoral.  Police universally condemned Derek Chauvin's killing of George Floyd just as physicians universally condemned Dr. Death. In our polarized country that struggles to agree on anything, we ought to be grateful that we had a universal agreement that Floyd's death was tragic and wrong.  If you're skeptical about psychopathic physicians, answer this question: Can you imagine that among 1 million US physicians that 1 in 1,000 is an extreme racist?  If so, that's 1,000 racist physicians who have opportunities to "accidentally" kill Blacks. Given that physicians accidentally kill 250,000 people each year, isn't it plausible that 1 in 10,000 of those deaths was not an accident? That's 250 murders a year. Almost one every day. Sticking with our 26% number above, that means diabolical, racist physicians murder 65 Blacks per year or about one per week. We can debate about the number of psychopaths or the number of white supremacists among our 1 million physicians, but we know it's not zero. There will always be bad apples among a large sample size. With 250,000 annual deaths, there's a high chance that some of those were murders that were covered up with malpractice insurance claims. Now, back to cops. . .  Police psychopaths There are 800,000 police officers in the USA. Since 1% of our population is a psychopath, we can assume that there are 8,000 police officers who are psychopaths. In fact, it's probably higher than that. According to Dutton, the police is #7 on the list of careers with the highest number of psychopaths. Thus, we could have 20,000 psychopathic police officers on our streets.  However, let's be conservative and assume it's "only" 8,000.  Although few psychopaths are violent, handing them a gun is probably unwise. CEOs are far more likely than police officers to be psychopaths, but they don't go to work with a pistol on their hip. American CEOs are the highest paid people around. They are heavily scrutinized by their Board of Directors, investors, and employees. Before they are hired, the Board of Directors will dig up as much dirt as they can about the CEO candidate. They will probe everything because they're about to pay him millions of dollars and entrust him with an enormous corporation.  Despite all that intense pre-hiring scrutiny and a battery of tests, 21% of CEOs are psychopaths.  Imagine how the hiring process of a cop differs from that of a Fortune 500 CEO. Do you really think the government is going to delve that deeply into a potential cop's psyche? Do you think the police leadership will be better at catching psychopaths than the army highly paid and trained people who are analyzing the next possible leader of Ford? Just to be stupidly optimistic, let's assume that we institute an insanely good screening process that is superior to the expensive and time-consuming CEO screening process. As a result, we manage to weed out 90% of the psychos from the police force. That still leaves us with 800 armed psychopaths patrolling the streets.  Another problem: people change Being a cop can be stressful and cause PTSD. You're surrounded by more negativity than the average person. You're constantly dealing with the worst of society. It can warp your worldview. It can change you. It can make you callous. Think of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Therefore, even if we only accept mentally stable people, some will degenerate while serving. Sure, we can do annual screenings in an attempt to catch such an ethical drift, but it's hard to fire a police veteran. After 10 years of service, how easy would it be to fire a police officer because he failed a psychological exam? Moreover, won't that veteran, who passed multiple annual screenings, know how to answer the psychological questions "correctly" and fool the government psychologists? Here's an even bigger problem: even if you screen people perfectly, it's almost impossible to predict how people will behave in life-and-death situations when you have microseconds to react. Training helps, but even well-trained soldiers can freak out when live bullets fly. An intense situation can temporarily hijack our ethics or clear thinking.   A cop could go for many years (or his whole career) without ever drawing his gun. Suddenly, after eight years on the job, he must respond to an emergency situation in milliseconds for the first time in his life. Will the training he did years ago kick in automatically? Or will he panic, shoot first and ask questions later?  Are cops infallible? We all make mistakes: Coal miners accidentally kill their fellow miners due to negligence.  Bus drivers accidentally skid schoolchildren off a cliff. Planes crash due to human error. We accept that every year, such tragic things will happen. When I say that we "accept" such tragedies, I mean that we don't riot, assault innocent bystanders, and protest for weeks when such things happen. We don't abandon Uber, become atheists (when priests sin), pummel bus drivers, or burn down hospitals. Instead, we punish the individual who made an inexcusable mistake. We accept that despite our best efforts to weed out the bad apples: Uber will accidentally hire a rapist or a murderer. A few doctors are murderous psychopaths. Teachers and priests will be pedophiles That's because we know that we are all humans and therefore imperfect. We know that it's impossible for everybody in a large profession to be error-free saints. What if none of the 800,000 cops were psychopaths or white supremacists?  Even if none of the 800,000 police officers are mentally unstable or racist, you still have 800,000 cops who make mistakes. Obviously, most mistakes are not deadly. For instance, this cop put a guy in jail because he thought he had found meth in his car (the "meth" was actually part of a glazed donut). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8XqYkrlntA This cop accidentally tased another policeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tz8Q3ajmI0 There are many incidents where a cop accidentally shoots another cop with a pistol. That's what happened here when three Black cops stormed into the wrong home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pjNCXlVbE  Should we be surprised that cops are also capable of making a far more serious error: killing an unarmed person? Whether you believe in slips and capture or not, it's obvious that in the heat of the moment, mentally stable humans can make grave errors.  Friendly fire: with friends like these . . .  Humans with firearms accidentally kill people all the time. According to the CDC, in the USA, there are about 500 accidental firearm fatalities per year.  According to the International Hunter Education Association, in an average year, fewer than 1,000 people in the United States and Canada are accidentally shot by hunters, and of these, fewer than 75 are fatalities. Since the USA has about 10 times more hunters than Canada (and the Canadians have better aim), it's safe to assume that every year, about 65 American hunters accidentally kill a fellow hunting buddy.  Unlike police shooting accidents, hunting accidents are situations where there are no adversaries. You're out there with your buddies. Wildlife isn't armed with AR-15s. In the military, up to 23% of all battle deaths are friendly fire incidents! For example, during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the US Department of Defense reported that the US forces suffered 148 battle-related deaths (35 to friendly fire). Nearly a quarter of all deaths were from US forces accidentally killing a fellow soldier!  Shooting a fellow soldier is like shooting your own brother. It's one of the worst tragedies of war. But friendly fire tragedies happen all the time. Why? Because we are human beings. We are imperfect. If enough people play with deadly toys, people will get hurt - it is a mathematical certainty. Moreover, in the heat of battle or any fast-paced emotional situation, humans are even more likely to make grave mistakes.  Here's a police officer who accidentally shot an undercover police officer whom he been working with for two years 9 TIMES! That's right. In the heat of the moment, the boss didn't realize that he was shooting nine bullets into his fellow employee. They knew each other well. Not only had they worked together for two years, but they had also gone on 20 drug stings together. They probably ate many donuts together.  They were at point-blank range in broad daylight so they could easily see each other. But the boss still pumped his fellow employee full of lead! In this disturbing video, you will see the cop shoot Jacob (the undercover cop) 9 times, and then the cop says, "Oh shit! That was Jacob! Are you OK? I'm sorry man! I didn't know it was you! Come here, Jacob! Jacob's been shot! I thought you were the bad guy!" He says all this as he is sobbing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fQcjmt2Q_o Are you beginning to understand just how error-prone and dangerous policing in the United States can be?  If armed people accidentally shoot their best buddies, should we be surprised our police might accidentally kill unarmed criminal suspects? Fine. But what about George Floyd's killer? That cop was calmly resting on Floyd's neck! It's true that Officer Derek Chauvin (the cop who killed George Floyd) wasn't faced with a life-and-death, split-second decision. He had over eight minutes to contemplate what he was doing.  First, it's quite possible (likely) that Officer Chauvin was one of the 8,000 psychopathic cops. Psychopaths have impaired empathy and no remorse. They are callous. They are cold-hearted people. Such a description seems to fit Officer Chauvin. That would explain his actions. Case closed. On the other hand, it's also possible that he was not a psychopath. "WTF?" you say. Yes. I've been trying to imagine what Chauvin's lawyer will argue in court. He may argue that Officer Chauvin accidentally killed Floyd. The defense will argue the following. . .  With 20/20 hindsight, we can all self-righteously claim that it was obvious that he was snuffing Floyd's life out.  However, it's also obvious that Chauvin knew he was being filmed from multiple angles. It's also obvious that, given his age, Chauvin knew about the Rodney King riots, the Ferguson riots, and the outrage that comes whenever white cops kill Blacks. Did he really think that, with all the cameras rolling, it was a marvelous time to lynch a Black man? It's possible that Chauvin had done this restraining technique many times in his career. Other cops have. At the time of Floyd's death, the Minneapolis Police Department's Policy & Procedure Manual said that trained cops were allowed to use "neck restraints" and "chokeholds."   It's possible that Chauvin was just as surprised that Floyd died as these cops were when they killed Tony Timpa in almost the exact same fashion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c-E_i8Q5G0 Indeed, one could argue that the cops who killed Tony Timpa were even more callous than those who oversaw Floyd's death because Timpa's cops were joking around as Timpa was dying. However, few know about Timpa's tragedy (which happened a few years ago) because he was white.  What's telling is the reaction of the cops when Timpa stopped breathing. They became concerned and wondered if they had just accidentally killed him. It's possible that Chauvin was equally surprised that he killed Floyd.  The officers who killed Timpa were acquitted. Timpa had cocaine in his system. Meanwhile, Floyd had fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cannabinoids in his system when he died. Perhaps that cocktail made Floyd have a heart attack (which is what the County Medical Examiner's controversial autopsy concluded).  Frankly, I don't know if Chauvin murdered Floyd on camera on purpose or by accident. Nor do I know if he is a psychopath or a racist. That's for the courts and jury to decide. I'm not defending Chauvin. I'm simply imagining how Chavin's defense team will explain Floyd's horrendous death.  My point is that somewhere along the line, someone made an unforgivable error. Either a police chief accidentally hired (and for 20 years kept on the payroll) a murderous psychopath or Chauvin accidentally killed a man. My other point is that, statistically speaking, such a barbaric event is guaranteed to happen. 3 billion annual police interactions The Wall Street Journal estimated that there are "375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians." It's unclear how they calculated that, but it could be an underestimation. I suspect a "contact" means a documented contact, where a cop logs an official incident.  However, I've often asked cops questions on the street and I doubt they logged my encounter down, but it was an interaction with the public. Every single day, 800,000 cops are interacting with the public. Let's assume 10 interactions per day (e.g., traffic stops, chatting, responding to non-emergencies, and emergencies). That's 8 million interactions per day.  That's 3 billion interactions per year. If there's a one-in-a-million chance of something going terribly wrong, then that means 3,000 things a year will go terribly wrong. That's 8 times per day! If we accept the WSJ's 375 million figure, then that means a one-in-a-million tragedy would happen about every single day. You can adjust the assumptions, but the point is clear: in any given year, many tragic, heartbreaking events will happen. To expect perfection is utterly unrealistic. Six Sigma Robocops In business school, I learned about how Motorola and other major companies implemented six sigma operations. That means that 99.99966% of all opportunities should be defect-free. In other words, they aimed for defect levels below 3.4 defects per million opportunities. This is an extraordinarily high standard. Companies usually implement six sigma in operations that involve computers and robots, not humans, since a human is often going to make more than 3.4 errors per million tries. However, given our intolerance for police mistakes, it seems that we expect all our cops should be Robocops. And yet even Robocop would make 3.4 errors per million tries. With 3 billion interactions, that means our Robocops would make 10,200 errors per year.  Once you begin to consider the number of firearms the US has, the unusually high murder rate, the 20,000 psychopaths in our police, and the statistical possibility that armed humans will make grave mistakes in high-pressure situations, then what's remarkable isn't that cops kill 1,000 people per year, but that they only kill 1,000 people per year. More importantly, 96.7% of the 1,000 people that the police killed were armed and dangerous. As Heather MacDonald wrote: But in light of the number of arrests that officers make each year--around 11 million–and the number of deadly weapons attacks on officers—27 a day in just two-thirds of the nation’s police departments--it is not clear that 1000 civilian deaths, the vast majority occurring in the face of a potentially deadly attack, show a law enforcement profession that is out of control. None of this is meant to suggest that the police don't unjustly harass and target Blacks. Without a doubt, it's hard to be Black in America, especially if you're Black and poor. Blacks deal with daily frustrations and injustices that are exhausting and humiliating.   I wish I could wave a wand and make all Blacks be a cop for one year and cops be Black for one year. At the end of the year, both Blacks and cops would say, "Ohhhhhhh! Now I get it!" The often unmentioned data that changes everything A Washington Post opinion piece wrote, "A study of police-shooting databases published by the National Academy of Sciences found that African American men were about 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police. . . . The Post’s own comprehensive examination of police shootings showed that Black Americans account for just 13 percent of the population but one-fourth of shooting victims. Among unarmed victims, the disparity was even greater: More than one-third of those fatally shot were Black." Does reading such statistics make your blood boil? We've all read similar data that shows how Blacks are disproportionally imprisoned and killed by police.  Now, let's see how your blood boils when you read these statistics: Men get 71% of the traffic citations  93% of prison inmates are men. 96% of those that the police kill are men. 99.6% of those state prisoners convicted of rape are men. You are not outraged, right? Why not?  Because intuitively you know the other side of the equation. Compared to women, testosterone-driven men are far more likely to drive recklessly, murder, rape, and commit violent crimes. You don't know the exact numbers, but you don't jump to the conclusion that there's systemic sexism in the police and justice system because the numbers are skewed against men. The same logic ought to apply when we evaluate police shootings. We must consider the Black crime rate before we jump to the conclusion that lynching squads are targeting Blacks.  Blacks, who are less than 13% of the US population: Commit about half of the homicides, violent crimes, and burglaries. Are seven times more likely than whites to commit homicide. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58.5% of youth arrests for homicide and 67% for robbery. When faced with such facts, activists may answer: "Those stats are misleading because racist police and bigoted judges conspire to falsely accuse and convict Blacks!" That certainly happens. But does it explain everything? As we saw with men vs. women, whenever you categorize people, we're never perfectly proportional. 91% of nurses are female. Is that evidence of discrimination or sexism? 75% of NBA players are Black. Is that evidence of racism against whites? Asians are 5.6% of the USA population, but only 1.5% of prisoners are Asian. Is that evidence of sinister Asian Supremacy?  If our goal is that our prisons match US demographics perfectly, we will always fail miserably. To succeed, we'll need to round up more senior citizens, women, Jews, Asians, doctors, lawyers, nuns, professors, and so on until we get a prison system that matches America's demographics. The same applies to police shootings. Some groups will always outperform or underperform other groups. To expect perfect equality of outcome and performance is unrealistic and naive. Even communists couldn't achieve that goal. Racism explains a lot. But it doesn't explain everything. Now that we're considered many facts, let's get back to the question that started this long article . . .  How many unarmed deaths should the police be allowed to commit before our society says, "That's an unreasonably high number"? A similar question: how many unarmed victims is a "good" number that shows that cops are exceeding reasonable expectations? And what's an "acceptable" number? Whether we're aware of it or not, our society calculates what's a reasonable number of tragedies we're willing to put up with in every profession. If that profession dramatically exceeds that number, then we need reforms or perhaps a revolution. That's what happened in the airline industry. When I was a kid, society deemed that thousands of airline deaths were unacceptable and that we could do better. Over the decades, we got deaths down to a couple of hundred a year. We will probably never get it to zero, but we can celebrate our progress.    Have you come up with your three numbers (i.e., remarkably low, acceptable, and protest-worthy)? Write them down. CONSIDER: Every day, about 40 people shoot at police officers. That's 14,600 armed encounters per year. Knowing that, is 1,000 police-caused fatalities a shockingly high number? Of the 1,000 police killings, only 3.3% of them were unarmed.  In other words, nearly twice as many US hunters accidentally shoot their hunting buddies as the US police accidentally shoot unarmed suspects. Remember that wildlife hunters are not confronting hostile and belligerent foes.  How many Blacks do the police kill? Among those 1,000 police killings, let's see how the WSJ summarizes The Washington Post data: In 2019, police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015.  That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. In other words, you might expect that the group that commits half of the homicides would represent half of the police killings, but they only represent a quarter. How many unarmed Blacks do the police kill? First, let's define "unarmed." The Washington Post, which tracks nationwide police killings better than the federal government, defines “unarmed” loosely. The Washington Post considers the following suspects "unarmed": A suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. Suspects who have grabbed an officer’s gun. A suspect who fled from a car stop with a loaded semi-automatic pistol in their vehicle. Originally, the Washington Post reported that in 2019, the US police killed nine unarmed Blacks. Realizing that some would find that number relatively underwhelming, the Post scrambled to boost the numbers retroactively: After the tally of nine unarmed black victims was reported in certain news outlets last week, the [Washington] Post reclassified over a dozen of its armed victims of police shootings as unarmed. This reclassification occurred six months after the Post had already closed its 2019 data base. The reclassification was not done on the basis of any new information; it was undoubtedly done to get the black victim numbers up. The Post is now showing 15 unarmed black victims in 2019. To put those 15 tragic unarmed Black fatalities in 2019 in perspective, they represent: 3% of the 500 accidental firearm fatalities per year.  0.2% of all Black homicide victims. A 60% reduction of the unarmed Black victims in 2015 (when the police killed 38 unarmed Blacks) Here's another noteworthy statistic: "A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than Black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed Black suspects." Admittedly, this is one (albeit big) police department in the USA. We need more data. But let's not ignore the little data we have. The Black Harvard economist, Roland Fryer, carefully researched 1,000 police killings and admits that he was surprised to discover there was zero evidence of racial bias in police shootings.  Neil deGrasse Tyson told Coleman Hughes that a recent study showed that the chance of "an unarmed person killed by the police (or dying in police custody) is about the same regardless of your ethnic group." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKklcL1WNec Let's review the key points The USA is by far the most heavily armed nation. We're extremely murderous for a high-income country. There are 800,000 cops, of which 20,000 are psychopaths. Even if we reduce the psychopaths by 90%, we still have 2,000 psychopathic cops. There are between 375 million to 3 billion police interactions every year. The police face 14,600 armed encounters per year. Of the 1,000 people that the police kill, 96.7% are armed and dangerous. Only 3.3% of police killings are unarmed and most of the victims are white.  45 million Blacks cause about 50% of the homicides and robberies. About 25% of the victims of police shootings are Blacks, which is disproportionately lower than their proportion of the homicide rate. Unarmed Blacks killed by the police represent 0.2% of all Black homicide victims. In 2019, 800,000 police accidentally killed 15 unarmed Blacks while 1 million physicians accidentally killed about 65,000 unarmed Blacks. Everyone makes mistakes, and those mistakes can be deadly when you're playing with firearms in high-pressure situations. Everyone is now walking with a video camera and a social media account, which amplifies every tragedy. A one-in-a-million tragedy could happen every day.  Given these numbers, one can imagine that the police could shoot an unarmed person every day.  However, in 2019, it happened "only" 44 times. With all the abolish-the-police rhetoric nowadays, it seems absurd to applaud the police for their restraint, but, given the facts above, it is unfair and inaccurate to depict cops as a bunch of bloodthirsty murderers.   We need benchmarks Based on the facts above, here's what I think are reasonable benchmarks: Too many deaths: Over 1,500 police killings overall and/or 100 unarmed deaths. An expected number of deaths: 750-1,500 police killings overall and/or 20-100 unarmed deaths. A remarkably low number of deaths: Fewer than 750 police killings overall and/or fewer than 20 unarmed deaths. We must also have a benchmark for the percentage of those police killings who are Black. For example, if 10% of airline passengers are Black, then we should expect that that 5-15% of airline fatalities would be Black. Any number that deviated much more than that should spark an investigation. With police killings, we could use the homicide rate as a proxy for violent crime. Therefore, if Blacks cause 50% of the homicides, then it should not surprise us if 40-60% of the police killings are Blacks. Currently, it's about 25%, so we're below the expected percentage, which is good news for Blacks, but bad news for whites.  I'm not saying that my proposed benchmarks are right. I'm simply encouraging everyone, especially the leaders of the Black Lives Movement, to think reasonably and logically about this issue and come up with realistic benchmarks. We effectively do with every profession. We "accept" deaths in every profession. The police should be no exception. Benchmarks would change if our firearm ownership and homicide rates would fall (or rise) dramatically. For instance, if Blacks commit only 10% of the murders, then we would expect that they would be 5-15% of those killed by the police. Or if our gun ownership and murder rates collapse to match Germany's rates, then we could expect our per capita police killings to be +/- 20% of Germany's rate. We're setting ourselves up for failure I didn't want to write this article. I know it will ignite a firestorm of controversy and anger. However, if we ignore statistics and logic, we're doomed to always fail because, given our level of gun ownership and murders, our expectations of police shootings are unreasonable. Get this through your head: Unless 80% of our firearms vanish and our homicide rate (especially our Black homicide rate) drops by 80%, then there is no hope of getting the 15 police shootings of unarmed Black men down to zero. In 2015, it was nearly three times that number, and we could easily revisit those levels in the 2020s.  If we want our per capita police killings to match other high-income countries, then we must copy key aspects of other high-income countries: dramatically reduce our firearms and lower our homicide rate so that it equals their levels.  If we're unwilling or incapable of doing that, then we must recalibrate our expectations. We must learn to live with the police killing 20-100 unarmed people and about 1,000 armed people every year. Every year, we live with hundreds of passengers dying in plane accidents, thousands dying in car accidents, and 250,000 dying at the hands of an incompetent physician.  Focusing on other techniques (de-escalation, defunding, no chokehold, no knee on the neck, etc.) are BandAids. They will hardly move the needle especially since 96.7% of police killings are armed suspects. With a herculean effort, perhaps we can cut police killings in half, but we'll still have traumatic numbers unless we adjust our expectations. Cutting the statistics in half means 500 police killings per year. That's still 22 unarmed killings per year. That's still one unarmed Black killed every other month. That means that just as one protest dies down, another protest will pop up. We'll be outraged all year. Forever. Either we change our gun ownership and homicide levels or we change our expectations. Given our passion for the Second Amendment, it's unlikely that our firearms will decrease. Calls to defund or abolish the police have only spurred more gun sales: we added 3 million guns to our country in the Spring of 2020. Given that nowadays everyone walks around with a video camera, that means that about once a month, you're going to get footage of a policeman killing an unarmed Black. If you don't see it, the media will proclaim the tragic story. During the Jim Crow days, the media would amplify any story where a Black man hurt a white person. The media ignored stories of Blacks who coexisted peacefully with whites. The Jim Crow media also ignored stories of whites lynching, hurting, or discriminating against blacks. It was just one story all the time: Blacks are a menace to whites. This demonized Blacks.  We're making the same mistake. We're amplifying police shootings of unarmed Blacks while ignoring other relevant facts. Have you ever heard of: Brandon Stanley Daniel Shaver James Scott Derek Cruice Dylan Noble I doubt it. They are some of the many unarmed whites that the police killed. Have you heard of: Trayvon Martin George Floyd Tamir Rice Michael Brown Breonna Taylor Of course, you have. That proves that the Blacks Lives Matter movement has succeeded in shining the spotlight on Black lives. Two-thirds of Americans support Black Lives Matter:   But don't you want to be on the right side of history? One of my friends has repeatedly told me, "Francis, you're on the wrong side of history."  If carefully analyzing statistics and using logic puts me on the wrong side of history, then crucify me.  If being on the right side of history involves brushing important facts under the carpet in the name of "social justice," then I'm uninterested in being on the "right side of history." If we manage to reduce police killings by 80% without corresponding firearm and homicide reductions, then I will be on the wrong side of history.  I believe that the US will ultimately come to terms with the reality I've presented. Society will have to adjust its expectations once we realize that an infallible police is an impossibility, especially in a country that overflowing with weapons and murders.  But you're tone deaf! A few people hurl the 21st-century insult of "being tone-deaf" against me. This suggests that I'm being callous, insensitive, and unempathetic to the plight of Blacks. On the contrary. Each time a white police officer kills an unarmed Black, our nation (and even the world) suffers intense trauma. Like any sensitive person, I want the trauma to stop. Moreover, I don't want the police to shoot my Black wife. However, what if, after running the numbers, it becomes obvious that it's extremely unlikely for the trauma to stop by simply defunding, abolishing, or retraining the police? Should you ignore those numbers and keep protesting? What if every time a plane crashes, the world ignites in a firestorm of protests, burns airports, and attacks the TSA employees? In that case, I would say, "Folks, expecting zero airplane fatalities when we have 5 billion airline passengers annually is unrealistic. Given all the moving parts and all the humans involved, a couple of hundred airline-related fatalities is remarkably low." Those who have lost loved ones in an airline crash would accuse me of being "tone-deaf." I would accuse them of being blind to the statistical reality.  We're suffering from groupthink Groups are usually right. I love talking about the wisdom of the crowds. On the other hand, sometimes the crowd gets it wrong. Sometimes we succumb to groupthink. In the 1950s, groupthink said that interracial marriages were wrong. Only 4% approved them. I'm sure independent thinkers were bullied by the majority for their contrarian thinking.  Of course, contrarians are often wrong. I don't believe in being a contrarian just for the sake of getting a rise out of people. On the contrary, being a contrarian is exhausting.  I'm not suggesting I'm right. I could be wrong. I am often wrong.  So if you think I am wrong, I welcome your intelligent criticism. Just be aware I'm not swayed by tragic stories or sincere feelings. I demand evidence. Logic. Statistics. Careful analysis. Call me a cold, heartless asshole. But I prefer being realistic and fair, even if the answer is counterintuitive and politically incorrect.  If you base your beliefs on emotion, stories, and anecdotes, then you will find this article incomprehensible and offensive. I wrote this article a couple of months after George Floyd died. I wrote it because I'll need to share this article throughout the 2020s because it's a statistical certainty that there will be more George Floyds, Trayvon Martins, and Ahmaud Arberys just like I know there will be more airline accidents, malpractice deaths, and daycare deaths. Sadly, I'll have to keep sharing this article until either we adjust our expectations or we adjust our gun ownership and murder rates. People are horrible with math We're emotional creatures. We more easily swayed by rousing stories than dry numbers.  We exhibit our awful understanding of statistics when we get nervous about boarding an airplane, but calm when we enter a car.  After September 11, 2001, we became hysterically concerned about terrorism. Thanks to groupthink, we spent trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of people half a world away because 3,000 Americans tragically died. Even 15 years after 9/11, terrorism was America's second greatest fear, which was completely delusional. From 2008 through 2015, the annual chance of dying in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil was 1 in 30 million. Now, groupthink is twisting reality again. In 2019, we amplified the 15 unarmed Blacks that the police killed while ignoring the 29 unarmed whites who were killed. As a result, we've managed to traumatize Blacks so badly that they're more likely to resist the police because we've convinced them that they will get lynched. Resistance escalates a benign situation and increases the risk of another heartbreaking story to hit the news. Even megastars who live in mansions with tight security are caught up in the mass hysteria:      The reality is that an unarmed Black has a 1 in 3 million chance of being killed by the police. That means a Black is twice as likely to be killed by a wild animal in any given year.   How do we reduce Black deaths? If someone ordered you to dramatically reduce the number of Black killings, would you focus most of your effort on police killings? No. That's not where the low-hanging fruit lies. Every year, about 7,500 Blacks are murdered. Therefore, even if we miraculously eliminated all unarmed police shootings, 99.8% of Black homicide victims would remain. It's depressing that Blacks die of homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. Black Lives Matter focuses on police killing Blacks, but if they want any hope of lowering that number, they will need to focus on the elephant in the room: Blacks killing Blacks. According to comments submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives in response to the Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability: Blacks between the ages of ten and 43 die of homicide at thirteen times the rate of whites, according to the CDC. In New York City, Blacks make up 73% of all shooting victims, though they are 23% of the city’s population. In Chicago in 2016, there were 4,300 shooting victims, almost all Black. So does this mean that systemic racism is a myth? No. Roland Fryer revealed that the police are 50% more likely to rough up Blacks and Hispanics. Here are more points from the Washington Post: A study of nearly 100 million traffic stops by police departments nationwide found that Black drivers were far more likely to be pulled over than white drivers. African Americans are far more likely to be arrested for petty crimes. A 2018 study exposed “profound racial disparity in the misdemeanor arrest rate for most — but not all — offense types.” The Black arrest rate was at least twice as high as that for Whites for disorderly conduct, drug possession, simple assault, theft, vagrancy, and vandalism. A 2020 study of marijuana possession arrests by the American Civil Liberties Union concluded that even in an era of legalization and decriminalization, there were “stark racial disparities” in possession arrests, with a Black person more than 3 1/2 times more likely to be arrested for possession than a white person, even though rates of usage are similar. The disparities exist “across the country, in every state, in counties large and small, urban and rural, wealthy and poor, and with large and small Black populations.” There is evidence that Blacks are historically prosecuted more harshly for the same crimes as whites. There is evidence that sentencing for killing Blacks is usually less harsh than it is for killing whites. There is evidence of redlining and various other types of discrimination.   Here is an exhaustive list showing evidence of police bias. At the bottom of the list, there are contrarian case studies that show no bias. The list indicating bias is much longer than the list that shows no bias.  Therefore, there is ample evidence that indicates that the police have plenty of room for improvement. shooting unarmed Blacks should not be Exhibit A in one's effort to prove systemic racism.   I have focused on police shootings because that's what Black Lives Matter (and the protesters) focus on. The data tells us to focus elsewhere. 6 Solutions We must not waste money and attention. Black Lives Matter is a remarkably powerful movement. Unfortunately, it's directing much of its power, attention, and money at the issue of unarmed Blacks killed by the police. Although it's symbolically important, there are many issues that are more impactful. If we want to dramatically improve Black lives, we ought to pursue these causes: Legalize all drugs (including heroin) and free everyone who is in prison on drug-related crimes. Nearly 50% of inmates are there for a drug-related crime. With legalization, we could, overnight, drain our prisons and reunite drug-offenders (who are disproportionately Black) with their families.  Encourage a two-parent household. Fatherless boys too often get into trouble (both academically and legally).  Stop Black-on-Black crime. This is the elephant in the room. The group that kills the most Blacks are the Blacks themselves. Gun buy-back programs may help. Flooding Black communities with (Black) cops would decrease Black-on-Black crime. Follow the advice that Black community leaders have for reducing crime in their neighborhoods.  Free education up to any degree level. There's resistance to paying reparations. There is also resistance to offering free college education to all Americans. I'm skeptical too, but why not do a 10-year pilot project with Black Americans and see how it goes? If a Black person wants to get a STEM degree, or a JD, or an MBA, or a Ph.D., then let's see what happens if taxpayers foot the bill. If the results are good, then we can roll the program out to more disadvantaged groups. Require police body cams. They're useful for a number of reasons. Reduce firearms. Obviously, this is extremely unlikely, but it's worth a shot, so to speak. It's not a panacea. Just because we drop gun ownership in half, doesn't mean that homicides will drop in half. There are many ways to kill a human. Still, if we want our homicide rate to approach the homicide rate of other high-income countries, then we must adopt some of their habits. These solutions would improve Black lives and minimize the number of police killings. Clearly, there are many other solutions we ought to consider. We must think of solutions that will change 45 million Black lives not just 15. And by improving their lives, we all benefit.  Here's what Pew Research learned when they proposed four solutions to improve Black lives: If you think it's important to change our groupthink, share this article. More info and comments Coleman Hughes's reflections of race, riots, and police shootings are worth reading. Sam Harris has an excellent podcast on this issue. On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on:  http://facebook.com/ftapon http://twitter.com/ftapon http://youtube.com/user/ftapon http://pinterest.com/ftapon http://tumblr.com/ftapon My Patrons sponsored this show! Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon Rewards start at just $2/month! If you prefer to do a one-time contribution, you can send it to my PayPal at FT@FrancisTapon.com If you prefer giving me Bitcoin, then please send BTC to my tip jar: 3EiSBC2bv2bYtYEXAKTkgqZohjF27DGjnV What do you think? In your comment below, write what you think is an acceptable number of unarmed people that the police may accidentally shoot every year - and please explain why you think it's a reasonable number. 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a song for all the dnd'ers out there. chords E - F lyrics: on the I-95 that's where I drive drunk WOOOOOOO! where is the road? where is the road? where is the road? where did it go? where is the road? where is the road? excuse me officer the problem is just that IM DRUNK! IM DRUNK! IM SO FUCKEN DRUNK YES IM DRUNK! I don't know where I come from, I don't know where I come from, I don't know where I come from, I just know that I am drunk HEY! GET OUT OF THE WAY! GET OUT OF THE WAY! GET OUT OF THE WAY! WOAH! I CAN'T SEE THE ROAD! I CAN'T SEE THE ROAD! OH WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?? OHHHHHHH!

Listen as I explain my post pandemic plans and take you down memory lane. Rant about 2nd amendment and all its nonsense. Ohhhhhhh and yes!!! Fantasy Football mock draft talks!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Wangers are back again for another live podcast for all the beautiful people in the world. How are you? It's important to stay positive during these harsh times. Stay healthy, eat good and keep practicing distancing from others. And we're here today to talk about... well, we're never really sure. We don't have "pre-pro" meetings about this stuff. One of us for sure watch Onward so hey that's something. And Tiger King is going to have a new episode? Ohhhhhhh boy!

This episode starts off with Nick asking Kevin and Robb some follow up questions to our last episode. The guys talk about some trailers which they missed talking about over the past few weeks. These trailers include In the Heights, the most recent Birds of Prey, Morbius, and Guns Akimbo. Kevin also has seen more of The Witcher and awakens some "Ohhhhhhh" moments for Robb and Nick. All of this plus our usual shenanigans and Nerd Grabs!  So grab a large stiff drink and come walk with us on our nerd journey. Please feel leave comments on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages!! We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, or questions!! ~Nick, Robb, and Kevin~   BEST 3SOME ON FACEBOOK Best 3some Ever on INSTAGRAM Best 3some Ever SWAG SHOP CORPORATE MARK (B3E CLOTHING PARTNER)   LINKS TO WHAT THE GUYS TALKED DISCUSSED: IN THE HEIGHTS TRAILER BIRDS OF PREY TRAILER GUNS AKIMBO TRAILER MORBIUS TRAILER     Intro music: Strings and Blips by Adam Selzer, vocied over by Sara H Exit music: Little Clubthing by Pure Black Stabbers, voiced over by Sara H Best 3some Ever is produced, and copyrighted, by KALE WHINN PRODUCTIONS LLC

Are you ready listeners? I can't hear you! Ohhhhhhh! Who got to see the Spongebob show Saturday? K and Warren! Who wants to know if it will be a good play? K and Warren! If Musical Theatre jokes are your wish K and Warren! Then listen as they talk about singing fish! Now on Tone Deaf! Ready? Tone Deaf Podcast! Tone Deaf Podcast! Tone Deaf Podcast! With K and Warren! Special guest: Mama K! (We couldn't help it) Opening song is a parody of "Bikini Bottom Day" by Johnathan Coulton. Promo for this week: Ignorance Was Bliss Podcast Join the Cast Junkie discord and help support indie podcasts at https://discord.gg/napQ3Cb. Follow us on Twitter @ToneDeafMusical and Facebook @ToneDeafMusical for some dank theatre memes, check out the patreon at https://www.patreon.com/tonedeafmusical and visit our website, tonedeafmusical.com!

Ohhhhhhh boy. A mysterious immortal woman with a magical STD that causes immortals to spontaneously combust(?!?) escapes a sadistic science cult that imprisoned her. Mac heroically steps in to... condemn her to an eternity of torture and experimentation? Yup- you read that right! The Rewatchers discuss Mac’s relationship with a bizarre coroner, dish about diamonds, and decry the “Saw”-levels of torture porn that seem to permeate this audio series.

I mean, the thing only sold 800,000 units but damn was there a lot to enjoy on it. The Genesis/Mega Drive peripheral brought 32-bit power (OK that's debatable) to your home for cheaper than a Saturn. But why? Thanks to a mystery source (listen to the pod to find out who) Adrian now has the hallowed contraption. But what does he make of it and his initial batch of games? Ohhhhhhh here goes! Fancy discussing this podcast? Fancy suggesting a topic of conversation? Please tweet us @arcadeattackUK or catch us on facebook.com/arcadeattackUK All copyrighted material contained within this podcast is the property of their respective rights owners and their use here is protected under ‘fair use’ for the purposes of comment or critique.

It's an all new episode of Wrestling, with Respect!!  On today's episode, Matt & Jenny will be discussing the first lady of wrestling, Miss Elizabeth.  They will delve deep into her career and personal life and her sometimes tumultuous on screen and off screen relationship with her husband, Macho Man Randy Savage, and their tragic ends.  Why is Elizabeth so important in wrestling history? How many Macho Man impressions will Jenny & Matt attempt?  Will they actually have Slim Jims to eat? The answers to these questions and much, much more!!!! Download now!!!  Ohhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaa!!!!!  ______________________________________________ Ask to join our Facebook Group, 'Spirit Of Rock Network' Follow us on Instagram @wrestling_with_respect Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/metalrockwhiskeypod Theme song I Stand Tall performed by Bullets Fall Song clips used under fair use with no infringement intended.

It's an all new episode of Wrestling, with Respect!! On today's episode, Matt & Jenny will be discussing the first lady of wrestling, Miss Elizabeth. They will delve deep into her career and personal life and her sometimes tumultuous on screen and off screen relationship with her husband, Macho Man Randy Savage, and their tragic ends.  Why is Elizabeth so important in wrestling history? How many Macho Man impressions will Jenny & Matt attempt? Will they actually have Slim Jims to eat? The answers to these questions and much, much more!!!! Download now!!! Ohhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaa!!!!!  _________________________ Follow us on Instagram (https://twitter.com/respect_pod) Theme song "I Stand Tall", performed by Bullets Fall Support this podcast

Ohhhhhhh shiiiiiit! We are back with more bantz and rantz in this BONELESS episode and trust me when I say, it is extra spicy. We talk high school memories, several bodily functions, selling nudes, and all sorts of ridiculous shit. So make sure you check out this new episode of the FiendCast, unless you hate the sound of your own laughter.

Ohhhhhhh shit on today’s show TK and Katt Williams lacing yall niggaz and bytches up wit some game today. It’s fenna get real. ENJOY

We have our wonderful sister Elisa on this week to talk together about how singles and married people can connect and why they should be friends with each other. Plus, Elisa lets us know her secret method for determining baby genders! Ohhhhhhh boy. Strap in, folks. This thing is like, two and a half hours. This is why Derek and Tanya never have guests, sheesh. So Tanya's sister Elisa comes along for the ride this week. After Elisa gets the obligatory fan-service out of the way, they...well, they get coffee and tea, and talk about cat cafes, and... You know what, let's just skip the pleasantries and go WHAT THEY LEARRRRRRNED: Elisa learned how to change a blower motor Tanya learned that given enough isolation, she will talk the ear off the first person she comes in contact with Derek learned that newspapers are not relevant for kids any more Elisa learned that passports are generally not good 6 months before they expire Then, main topic time! This week, the experts on being married meet the expert on being single. Things not to say to singles and marrieds Why should you have single or married friends? How can you love each other best? Miscellaneous listener questions, wrapping it all up. Though the "miscellaneous" refers to the questions, not the listener. It was one listener. Let's not get all confused about this and assume these people have more listeners than they actually have. And of course, Elisa's baby guessing formula. Don't try this at home, kids. Congratulations on making it through. As a reward, Derek and Tanya offer two methods of further wasting your time, by giving your opinion by voice message or though DM on Instagram.

Ohhhhhhh, Delaney........ TODAY ON THE SHOW: 2nd DATE UPDATE! Suzette's party recap! Grant does (but also doesn't) watch a documentary! Johnjay gets a call from our CEO! PLUS, soMUCHmore!!

OHHHHHHH what a week it was! Injuries here interceptions there. this week we look back at week 5, ahead at week 6 and talk who was our MVPs of the week, Who needs to pick up their game, and much more. Alot of laughs were had, come laugh with us. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fantasyfootballrat/support

Gard og Øyvind var innom og spredde god stemning og ellevill rockings! Smilene satt løst og ikke minst lett. O'hoi så gøy! Detta var stas! Sees igjen bros! Ohhhhhhh shiiiiiiit! (Skrevet i samarbeid med Pappasaft)    

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This week, we discuss this Hanson style-parody. We also ask the serious questions about love, like: "What is love?" All we know for sure is that we don't want our baby to hurt us no more.   Al's Cameo: Robot Dance (with Laura Linney and Weird Al) - Sandra Boynton's Hog Wild! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UZMbjUAIEI   Michael's plugs n' stuff: https://www.facebook.com/michaelwilliamhunter https://www.twitter.com/arctic_ginger https://www.instagram.com/michaelwilliamhunter Click Here for "Aimy in a Cage"! BUY OUR NEW SHIRT! https://www.redbubble.com/people/weirdalphabet/works/27375634-the-weird-al-phabet-podcast?p=t-shirt&style=mens&body_color=black&print_location=front   Special thanks to Allura March (@RetroAutomaton) for the awesome design! https://retroautomaton.tumblr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/retroautomaton/ https://twitter.com/retroautomaton?lang=en   Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/weirdalphabet    Email us at: alscarrierpigeons@gmail.com Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/theweirdalphabetpodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/weirdalpod   Thumbnail by Josh K! https://twitter.com/AnimationJosh http://oneandonlyjsk.deviantart.com/   Show music: "Dvorak Polka", "Marty Gots a Plan", "I Knew a Guy", "Too Cool, "Rollin' at 5", "Breakdown", "Opportunity Walks", "March of the Spoons",  "Easy Lemon", "Fast Talkin", "8bit Dungeon Level", and "Gaslamp Fireworks" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   "What Is Love? (Instrumental)" - Haddaway Bop It sound effects - Bop It! "Goat Scream" - Goat Scream meme "OHHHHHHH!!!" - Supa Hot Fire "Oops. Wrong Hole." - Sabrina the Animated Series "Robot Dance" - Laura Linney and "Weird Al" Yankovic   For the above songs and sound clips, we don't own the rights to the them, but are using them in compliance to Fair Use. Parody & Educational. Thank you.   Find more of our episodes at www.pipedreampodcasts.com

Ohhhhhhh yeah! The time has come for another absolutely great episode of VERY COOL! On the show today, I've got a great dude by the name of Victor Rodriguez comin on to talk about pretty much all things Utah related. Hopefully this one will hit home for some of you. We're gonna talk about living in the booming Draper/Lehi area and why he took his family up that way, a short story about how I first heard of him, the Provo music scene in the early 2000's, his LDS mission, his love of all things soccer, his plan to fix the USMNT, RSL, Utes/BYU, 49ers and muccccch more. It's a real good one cuz Victor is a real good dude and I was beyond excited to finally nail him down. So I say you crank this baby up and LET'S GET TO IT!

Summer, Summer, Summer time. Ohhhhhhh it's summer time folks and we all know that that means - Summer Movies!!! The boys give you their favorite Summer Blockbusters as well as their favorite movies that make them think everything summer! Throw in your earbuds, throw on your sunscreen and enjoy as Tony, Roy and Brian break down this Take Too Summer!   Ratings and Reviews ALWAYS Welcome!! email: taketoopodcast@gmail.com twitter: @taketoopodcast web: Taketoopodcast.com call us: 867-5309    

Episode 81 brings us back to Bethlehem PA, to talk with Dr. Jarrod Spencer, Sports Psychologist at Mind of the Athlete.  Last time Jarrod was on the show in episode 50 we talked about the athlete transition to life after sports.  However, this time we spoke about a topic that I am very curious and passionate about, which is how our society's definition of toughness and masculinity affects athletes. This was our summer intern Alex's first field trip for the podcast, hence the nice action shots we have from the day (below).  George Bright, who has close to 30 years of experience in college athletics, also sat in on our conversation. Dr. Spencer Knowledge Bombs Dr. Jarrod Spencer, Sports Psychologist, Mind of the Athlete Dr. Spencer, Kevin, George Bright Below you will find an outline of our conversation: Dr. Spencer's definition of toughness: like the classic definition; being comfortable being uncomfortable (being in a stressful situation that drains your energy and makes you anxious) Sounds like our dude Nate Boyer from Episode 52 Toughest person in the eyes of Dr. Spencer : Tim Tebow. This is because he has stood up in the face of a culture that has pushed him down, but still does it with lifted spirits and a smile on his face. Couldn't agree more! How the media's portrayal of injuries has masked the reality of being a football player (not showing the icebaths, opiates/painkillers, the difficulty to treat pain). It should be no surprise that this led to a discussion on cannabis. Dr. Spencer believes the science is proving the benefits of cannabinoids. That doesn't mean there isn't a downside. THC w/ athletes: can become a problem for athletes that depend on it to relieve stress/anxiety. The importance of rethinking the culture of Cannabinoids with a more scientific approach. What the athletes need to know: It’s ok to cry and express yourself. The importance that coaches understand the weight their words carry with young athletes. How mental health is going to be the next big problem. NCAA could be a stepping stone for this. Dr. Spencer's Earliest memory of toughness: Jr. High School Wrestler (Phillipsburg, NJ). Finished 2nd, and it felt like there was a death in the family. Playing through injuries subsequently. Memory bank: amygdala serves as a protective mechanism as a guideline Overriding the amygdala: rethinking situations and taking different angles (relaxing, breathing, etc) A moment Dr. Spencer felt emasculated: After suffering a concussion playing football in college because he was failing at the simplest tasks, which made him feel weak. The moment when Dr. Spencer felt like he exuded toughness and masculinity the most: when his daughter became extremely ill about 10 years ago. Proved that even sometimes when you are at your lowest, you will experience moments of toughness. Where does the bar lie when it comes to toughness? Relative to each person and family. How do we redefine where that bar lies?  When we put the science behind injuries that would normalize it and maybe make it more relatable to the public. Gender discrepancy with toughness. How does Jarrod define toughness for his kids? Definition of toughness to Jarrod’s kids Surround them with the right people and role models How they compete, how they worship God, how they talk, how they relate religion to their lives Showing bright spots where they can emulate Fellowship of Christian Athletes Not just for Christians The power of positive thinking. After the interview, Dr. Spencer taught me about the power of positive thinking.  He did so by having me raise my arm out in front of me, think about a negative or positive thought while he tried to press my arm down.  It was amazing to see how much stronger I was when I was thinking positive thoughts.  George Bright noticed that subconsciously my stance also completely changed when I was thinking negative thoughts, which ended up putting me in a weaker position. Photo: John Munson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Ryan Finlay (Game MVP) of West Morris rolling out in the 24th Annual Paul Robeson Classic All-Star Game. To close out this post I just wanted to reflect on my experience of watching the 24th Annual Paul Robeson (I encourage you to do some research on Paul Robeson, he was one tough dude) All-Star Game where I was supporting my friend Ryan Finlay who will be playing safety for Gettysburg College next year.  I have spoken in depth with Ryan about how my definition of toughness has dramatically changed over the years.  This has also had an influence on the way that I watch football today.  There were three instances in particular I witnessed in this game that I wanted to address and this was just in the first half: Early in the game there was a phenomenal pick-six interception for the West team.  With any dramatic change of field like this, there are usually many opportunities for a big crack-back (blindside) block.  One of this players teammates laid a huge hit on the last remaining East defender which sprung him to a touchdown.  The crowd erupted, the sidelines went nuts, and even I found myself saying "Ohhhhhhh!" At that moment I realized that as a culture, we are all conditioned to react that way when we see a big hit and that even I am a part of the problem I am seeking to fix.  There was no replay at the game, but I do believe this player led with his head on this hit to an opponent that had no idea he was coming.  In my mind, a safer and equally as effective shoulder block could have been used.  Would the crowd still have erupted?  Yes, but to the same degree? Probably not, but what's more important? Your brain? Or how "cool/tough/masculine" you look on the field? I think my dude Kyle Turley referred to these types of hits as the extracurriculars that he could have done without.  The second incident happened as the East quarterback was rolled out to pass on forth down (I believe) , saw no one  open, tucked the ball and started running up the West sideline.  The East player still had about 4 yards to get the first down as a defender came in to make a tackle.  The quarterback had two options.  He could either run out of bounds, turnover the ball on downs, and not get hit. Or, he could attempt to run though the defender in hopes of breaking a tackle, but in all likely hood still not get the first down and potentially get hurt.  This player chose to go out of bounds.  All the West players started chirping at this QB and even parents in the stands were yelling "He doesn't want to get hit!" In my 27 year old eyes, this QB was smart, not a sissy.  Guys who want to extend their careers as long as possible should take notes from him. To me, there is a time and a place for lowering the shoulder and trying to gain some extra yards.  Those are near the goal line, and a yard from the first down in a playoff or championship game.  If you try to run people over in pre-season scrimmages, I promise you, you wont make it to the playoffs, but hey at least you looked "tough" for about 3 seconds. The last play was a hit that never happened.  A ball was thrown to a receiver in the flat.  One of the defenders recognized the play early on and made a be-line to make a big hit.  The defender left his feet and launched himself into the air like a missile to make the tackle.  Luckily, the receiver saw the flying defender at the last second and side-stepped him, gaining an additional 5 yards on the play.  I was sitting next to Ryan's brother Kevin and he said that kid almost got crushed. I replied to him saying yeah, but had he broken down and made a form tackle like we are taught, he wouldn't have missed the tackle.  Moral of the story is, are highlight hits worth costing your team yards?  I guarantee if that was a regular season game, the defender would be getting chewed out during the film session for missing that tackle. I am not here to ruin America's precious game of football.  I love football and being at the game gave me that itch to throw the pads back on.  Kenny Chesney's Boys of Fall song says it all.  I brought those points up because in my eyes, those are simple ways to make the game safer without changing any rules.  I hope this this episode helps to reframe what toughness is to you and I believe that together, we can redefine it. WHERE CAN YOU FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MIND OF THE ATHLETE? WEBSITE | BOOK | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | YOUTUBE | LINKEDIN WHERE CAN YOU FOLLOW DR. SPENCER? 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Ohhhhhhh, buddy we had a great time on Dude Soup this week. Chad from Screw Attack joined us for a real zesty discussion about games, and games of the year, and game awards that games win, and which games should be considered for those awards.

WBKE is part of the WB2045.com Podcast Network! This week on #WBKE, we're having flashbacks to Episode 62, which is maybe not the worst thing, but man...something went horribly wrong this week. We recorded 2+ hours of stuff and CUT out an ENTIRE hour! It was looking bleak. But then... Ohhhhhhh but then...something beautiful happened. The future is bright, especially now that Will and Bobby have become The Improv Boys! Seriously: if you find yourself having a hard time with this episode, zip-zoom to 1:11:00!! WBKE@WB2045.com! @WB2045! @WillRogers2000! @BobbyKoester! DONATE! Facebook! Instagram! iTunes! Stitcher! Soundcloud! YouTube!

Joe and Chris are back at the helm of the Digital Noise ship this week as they dive into a massive stack of film and tv titles, sorta kinda get into a fight about The Gambler and Infinite Jest, and in general have a lot of fun. Oh, and we’ve got a copy of one… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 92: Ohhhhhhh yeah…

On this episode of Attack of the Killer Podcast, the gang is going to discuss movies based on... books? What? Wait... that's gotta be a typo. We all know Mike doesn't read.Ohhhhhhh... books with pictures! That makes more sense.Tune in as we discuss horror films based on comic books.FOLLOW YOUR HOSTS!Insane Mike Saunders: Facebook | Twitter | WebsiteJason Bolinger: Facebook | Twitter | WebsiteDustin Neill: Facebook | Twitter | WebsiteTeri Terford: Facebook | Twitter | WebsiteJohn Sullivan: Facebook | Twitter | WebsiteDOWNLOAD

We were going to wait another week to release this episode, but oh -- OH!! OHHHHH! *Sorry.* Do you have a tissue?Kat and Alec are back with another rip-roaring, side splitting guest appearance by Daniel Montgomery! Samantha's getting it on with Charlotte's brother, who is SURE to become a permanent fixture on the show. Miranda's weighing the pros and cons of dating a man who is divorced with a child (SPOILER ALERT: IT AIN'T GOOD). And Carrie's hanging on a little too long in a relationship with a man who can't hang on at all -- OHHHHHH, OHHHHHHH! *Sorry.* Can we have another tissue?Check out Daniel's podcast (with Carrie On favorite matthew scott montgomery) WELCOME TO DEADCAST, free on iTunesLaugh until you SCREAM with Daniel over at BFT Comedy and Mary Kate & Ashtray!We love you.

Ohhhhhhh! It's almost Black Friday, can you feel the excitement? Melissa can. It's pretty much her favorite day of the year. She discusses the good and bad of what Black Friday has become and small things you can do to Black Friday-it-up for your business. Bryan talks online reviews (Yelp and the like). Many businesses feel helpless when it comes to reviews left online, but this week's episode gives some tips to take control of what is being placed online about your company.  Hosts Melissa Epstein and Bryan Laurel can be reached at www.syndicatepr.com

Ohhhhhhh, it's time for NBA Gambling Podcast to recap last weekend's and Christmas' games. Hosts Ryan McKee and Zach Broner give their NBA picks for Tuesday, December 29's games. They discuss each team and recap their previous games so far this season. The talk sticks to Boston Celtics (-1) at Indiana Pacers, Golden State Warriors (-3.5) at Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks at Cleveland Cavaliers (-3.5), Chicago Bulls at Washington Wizards (-5.5), Toronto Raptors at Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks (-4.5) at Miami Heat, Orlando Magic (-5) at Oklahoma City Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves at Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets (-2.5) at Sacramento Kings, and New Orleans Pelicans at Phoenix Suns (-3). Make sure to subscribe to NBA Gambling Podcast on Apple ( http://sg.pn/nba ) and Spotify ( http://sg.pn/nbas ). Stay on top of Zach and Ryan's most up-to-date ATS NBA picks here: https://sg.pn/nbapicks. Also, check out Ryan McKee’s new book Modest Proposal Anthology ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641379766 ) available on Amazon and anywhere else you buy books. Follow - Twitter ( https://twitter.com/thesgpnetwork ) | Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/sportsgamblingpodcast/ ) Support for this episode - MyBookie ( https://record.webpartners.co/_r3-BH6SjvRkWqcfzuvZcQGNd7ZgqdRLk/7/ ) code "SGP" | ThriveFantasy.com ( http://thrivefantasy.com/ ) code “SGP” | BetterThan.Vegas ( http://www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com/btv ) | AcePerHead.com/SGP ( http://aceperhead.com/SGP ) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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