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Kev and Spencer talk about Paleo Pines Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:21: What Have We Been Up To 00:14:37: News 00:37:08: Paleo Pines 01:45:09: Outro Links Garden Buddies Release Garden Buddies Release Trailer Ikonei Island Friends Pass Farming Simulator 22 Carrots Preview Garden Galaxy Autumn Update Mineko’s Night Market Patches Paleo Pines Patches Animal Crossing Lego Paleo Pines Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:31) Kevin: Welcome farmers to the harvest season! (0:00:48) Spencer: Spared no expense. (0:00:49) Kevin: Hello. See what I wanted… I would have preferred the kazoo version. Have you heard that one? The kazoo version of Jurassic Park? Oh, I’ll have to send you a (0:00:50) Spencer: I have not heard that version. (0:01:00) Spencer: Aha. (0:01:01) Kevin: link. It’s an amazing one. I’ll do that right now. But in the meanwhile, hello listeners, farmers. I’m your host, Kevin, and with me today is Spencer! (0:01:14) Spencer: Yes, they thought they could get rid of me after the last episode I was on, but I’m back, (0:01:21) Spencer: so deal with it. (0:01:22) Kevin: And why? Because dinosaurs, of course, um, we are here to talk about, uh, (0:01:32) Kevin: Heliopines and Spencer, our resident dinosaur lover, alongside me. (0:01:40) Kevin: Um, I’m also a big fan. Um, we’re, uh, we were both very excited for this one. (0:01:46) Spencer: Yeah, I remember seeing it and I was like, “Oh man, I gotta wedge my way, force my way in with Al this time again.” (0:01:50) Kevin: Yeah. (0:01:53) Kevin: Yup, yup. (0:01:55) Kevin: But before that, um, you know–oh, see, I sent you the kazoo cover of Jurassic Park. (0:02:03) Kevin: Um, but before we get into paleopines, as usual, we’re gonna cover some news and other stuff. (0:02:11) Kevin: As usual, you can find the show notes and the transcript on the website, as always. (0:02:20) Kevin: Alright, but what we- (0:02:23) Spencer: Ah, games I’ve been playing. Well, I was playing Tears of the Kingdom for a while, and then, honestly, I’ve been playing a couple mobile games, so I started playing Monster Hunter now. (0:02:35) Spencer: Are you playing that? (0:02:36) Kevin: Oh, I am not okay first off for have you played Monster Hunter not mobile version Okay Uh-huh, right Okay Okay, but you hunted some things you have familiarity, okay, okay (0:02:37) Spencer: Oh, yeah. (0:02:45) Spencer: So I have Rise, and I also have Worlds, I think it is, for PS4. (0:02:51) Spencer: I just barely scratched the surface of both of them. (0:02:55) Spencer: I think it got a little bit farther in Rise than I did in Worlds. (0:02:59) Spencer: Oh yeah, I definitely hunted some things. (0:03:05) Spencer: See, the issue with me in those kind of games is like… (0:03:06) Kevin: Uh huh. (0:03:07) Spencer: The feedback loop for that kind of stuff is actually really… (0:03:12) Spencer: I like really enjoy it, but I get stuck on like (0:03:15) Spencer: the first level, because I’m like, “Oh cool, I hunted this monster. Let me like, hunt it again. Let me hunt it again.” (0:03:21) Kevin: Uh-huh, right. (0:03:21) Spencer: I just keep on hunting the same thing over and over again, and I never end up proceeding to the next level or the next area or wherever. (0:03:23) Kevin: I mean, that’s fine. You’ve got to do that at app points. (0:03:29) Spencer: Yeah, that’s true. So I am familiar with the series a little bit, but yeah, it’s been playing a lot of now. (0:03:41) Spencer: Well, I was playing a lot of now. (0:03:42) Kevin: Oh, okay, so tell me about now, because I’m fascinated how this works, but this is by Niantic, the Pokemon Go people. (0:03:43) Spencer: kind of… (0:03:49) Spencer: Yeah, so… (0:03:53) Spencer: So basically, like, while you’re walking around, you know, there’ll just be like, monsters kind of out where you are. (0:04:00) Spencer: Um, god, I think someone pointed out… (0:04:02) Spencer: It’s almost like the movie, in that it’s our world, but the monsters have now kind of like, invaded our world. (0:04:10) Spencer: Um, so you’re just walking around, there’ll be like, lesser monsters, you know, (0:04:15) Spencer: and like, ones that would actually be like, a hunt in the real game. (0:04:18) Spencer: And, you just fight ’em, you’re kind of timed, similarly to how you would do like a, say like a raid in Pokemon Go. (0:04:26) Spencer: Um, a lot more… (0:04:28) Spencer: Intensive than Pokemon Go, if you’ll believe that. (0:04:32) Spencer: You’re still basically clicking. (0:04:34) Spencer: But you can like… (0:04:35) Kevin: Okay, sure I right you’re you’re on mobile there’s only so much you can do right uh-huh (0:04:36) Spencer: Yeah, you can like, swipe to dodge. (0:04:40) Spencer: Yeah, you can swipe to dodge, you can get perfect, like, you know, perfect dodges and stuff. (0:04:45) Spencer: Um, and then there are some combinations. (0:04:48) Spencer: ‘Cause I’m using, um, what is it, Greatsword? (0:04:51) Spencer: And you can like, kind of do this thing where you like, if you start swinging and then you swipe, you’ll do kind of that shoulder, you know, shoulder charge attack. (0:05:03) Kevin: - Yeah, yeah, right. (0:05:03) Spencer: So there are definitely like, combos and stuff that you can figure out. (0:05:06) Spencer: It would benefit from a like, tutorial, you know, like in a fighting game, you have your little like, tutorial, you know, practice area. (0:05:15) Kevin: - Right. (0:05:15) Spencer: Or something like that, ‘cause you can like, then you could figure out, yeah, training room. (0:05:16) Kevin: - Oh, okay, yeah, training room, yeah. (0:05:20) Spencer: Um, but yeah, so you walk around, you fight monsters, you collect, uh, collect different resources, your little, um… (0:05:29) Spencer: What are the little cats called? (0:05:32) Kevin: Uh, the Palicos? (0:05:33) Spencer: Palakos, yeah, you have one, so it runs around and collects resources for you. (0:05:34) Kevin: Right, right. (0:05:38) Spencer: Um, it’ll also mark monsters too, so you can like, come back. (0:05:41) Spencer: back. Yeah, it’s pretty, my understanding is it’s a little bit more leaning. (0:05:45) Spencer: towards the world’s aesthetic. So the different monsters from there and stuff. (0:05:48) Kevin: Yeah, okay, sure. (0:05:50) Spencer: It’s fun. You kind of plateau a little bit if you aren’t able to go out and get resources. I’ve needed to upgrade like my weapons for a while now but I just simply can’t find find the resources I need. So it is what it is. But yeah, it’s been fun. (0:06:00) Kevin: Ahh. (0:06:02) Kevin: Okay. (0:06:04) Kevin: Have you tried any other weapons? (0:06:09) Spencer: Well, in Rise and in World I was using Swishax, which is not in this. (0:06:14) Kevin: Right what what (0:06:15) Spencer: Unfortunately. Yeah, they left it out. So I had to go with the next best thing. (0:06:22) Spencer: They do have, you know, your like kind of daily challenges that give you experience for your rank and some of the challenges will ask of you to do things with other weapons. So they do try to like kind of get you to branch out. It’ll be like, “Oh, (0:06:40) Spencer: kill three monsters with like a hammer or something like that.” So you will inevitably have at least one of each weapon somewhat, you know, upgraded and stuff so that way those little challenges won’t be such a pain. (0:06:40) Kevin: Okay. Okay. (0:06:52) Kevin: Uh-huh okay okay I I asked because so for people who aren’t familiar with monster hunter as the name implies right you’re just out hunting monsters but there’s different types of weapons and they all play significantly differently so I wonder like is that the same here does a bow hunt player feel different (0:07:20) Spencer: They definitely do. The, you know, like the sword and shield is a lot faster. You start off with that too. (0:07:27) Spencer: So you kind of like, I think you don’t even get to choose a different weapon until you reach rank 10. (0:07:33) Spencer: Which can go by pretty quickly depending on like the area you are and you know how close you are. (0:07:40) Spencer: Much like Pokemon Go, you know, it’s a lot of it’s dependent on how close you are to like stops and other points of interest, right? (0:07:46) Spencer: So, you know, if you’re close to things like that… (0:07:50) Spencer: …you’re ranking probably go up pretty quickly within the first day. (0:07:54) Spencer: And you can get to the other weapons. (0:07:56) Spencer: But yeah, there is definitely a different playstyle to each one. (0:08:00) Spencer: You know, for as much as it is just tapping and swiping. (0:08:04) Kevin: Okay, all right, that’s interesting, but the fact that they don’t have the Switch X weapon I’ve played for Decade Plus, yeah, I know that game goes in the trash. (0:08:18) Spencer: Yeah, it was kind of a bummer when I saw that, I was like, “Oh man!” (0:08:24) Kevin: Alright, what else have you been up to? (0:08:25) Spencer: Umm, that and, oh god, this is so embarrassing for me to admit, but have you ever seen the ads for uh, that mobile game, Raid? (0:08:35) Kevin: Rage Battle Legends! (0:08:37) Spencer: Shadow Legends, yeah! (0:08:38) Kevin: Did you get your 300 free heroes? (0:08:39) Spencer: I was just, I was like, I… (0:08:43) Spencer: I did not, I just downloaded it, I was like, “What is this game about?” I keep seeing (0:08:48) Spencer: it, let me just try it, you know, if, for those of you who don’t know me, I download too many mobile games, and then my phone is just like full of them, and I don’t play them, (0:08:59) Spencer: and it’s just, it’s a bad habit that I need to stop and break, but I was like, “Whatever, (0:09:04) Spencer: they have money to hire all these famous actors to promote their game, so maybe it’s good.” (0:09:11) Spencer: And it’s not bad, I’ll be honest, you know what, it’s not bad, it is definitely a mobile game. It has everything you’d expect from a mobile game. It has… (0:09:18) Spencer: you know, timed items, rechargeable energy, you know, all the little… that bombards you with buying packs and stuff, but you know, whatever. (0:09:30) Spencer: I’m not into PvP too much, so I’m not concerned about having the best champions right away and stuff, but you know, it’s a mobile game. (0:09:40) Spencer: I don’t know what else there is to say about it. You wait for things. (0:09:43) Kevin: Okay, like okay, what do the it’s a is it a it’s it a gotcha game? I’m assuming it’s a gotcha game right to get your (0:09:52) Spencer: yeah so there are there are these like hero crystals or something I’ve only been playing it for not too long so pardon me for any any hardcore raid players out there I just called the whatever you know these crystals and you like summon heroes and stuff and you know nine times out of ten you’re summoning one that’s gonna be used for fodder for something else but every once in a while you’ll summon some epic hero or whatever so yeah it’s a gachi game (0:10:01) Kevin: Okay [laughter] (0:10:20) Kevin: Okay, are there any cool designs? (0:10:23) Spencer: » They’re all pretty cool. (0:10:25) Spencer: If you are into like, you know, very like high fantasy and dark fantasy kind of stuff. (0:10:30) Spencer: They have some good stuff, you know, like Lord of the Rings or like, (0:10:34) Spencer: I don’t know what else, The Witcher. (0:10:37) Spencer: If you’re into that kind of stuff, then you’ll probably be drawn to the aesthetic. (0:10:39) Kevin: Okay, hi, Fanny. (0:10:41) Spencer: Yeah, there are, it is a little odd, some of the designs, (0:10:46) Spencer: cuz like they lean into like fantasy of multiple cultures. (0:10:52) Spencer: There’s like a whole subset of like, you know, (0:10:55) Spencer: clearly Asian inspired fantasy people and creatures. (0:10:58) Kevin: Oh, door. Okay. (0:11:00) Spencer: Which is kind of interesting to see with more European style, (0:11:05) Spencer: more medieval style fantasy. (0:11:08) Spencer: You know, you’ll have your like, knights of the round table style knight fighting alongside like a ninja, but I mean, (0:11:17) Spencer: I can see why they have enough money to make ads like that, so it’s very solid. (0:11:22) Kevin: Yeah? (0:11:23) Spencer: I will say that, yeah. (0:11:23) Kevin: And hey, now that it’s been brought on the podcast, I’m sure they’ll approach us for a sponsorship now. (0:11:28) Spencer: Hopefully, yeah, you’re welcome. (0:11:29) Kevin: There you go, Al. (0:11:31) Kevin: I can’t wait for Al to read how much he loves rage at relations. (0:11:37) Kevin: Um… (0:11:40) Kevin: Okay. (0:11:41) Kevin: Oh, hey- (0:11:41) Spencer: What have you been playing? (0:11:43) Kevin: Ugh… (0:11:45) Kevin: Mostly- (0:11:46) Kevin: Mostly paleopines, I don’t lie. (0:11:48) Kevin: Um… (0:11:49) Kevin: This week’s been a lot of paleopines. (0:11:53) Kevin: But, uh, before that, I’m going to plug the other show, Rainbow Road Radio, (0:12:01) Kevin: hosted by my- our mutual friend Alex, and I happen to be on it. (0:12:07) Kevin: We covered Luigi’s Mansion last week, we are back from our break. (0:12:12) Kevin: And, uh, to kick off Spooktober- (0:12:15) Kevin: Well, you know, Halloween, whatever. (0:12:18) Kevin: Uh, we played Luigi’s Mansion. (0:12:20) Kevin: Um, the original for the GameCube. (0:12:20) Spencer: Oh, okay, okay, I was going to ask, didn’t they re-release it for DS, correct, or 3DS? (0:12:22) Kevin: Uh, yeah. (0:12:24) Kevin: Yes. (0:12:27) Kevin: Actually, that’s interesting because Alex played it on the DS. (0:12:31) Kevin: He did the remake, I did the original version. (0:12:34) Kevin: Um, and it’s interesting to hear those comparisons, but I will say, overall, like, that’s still a really good game. (0:12:43) Kevin: I never ha- I hadn’t played it before, actually. (0:12:45) Kevin: This is my first time playing the original. (0:12:45) Spencer: Oh wow, really? (0:12:46) Kevin: Yeah, um, so no nostalgia rose-colored glasses or whatever. (0:12:52) Spencer: I think that was the first game I got for my GameCube. That and Wave Race, yeah. (0:12:52) Kevin: But I enjoyed it. (0:12:53) Kevin: Yeah. (0:12:57) Kevin: Ooh, waveries, that’s a good one. (0:12:58) Spencer: Yeah. (0:13:00) Kevin: Um, uh, yeah, it was a launch game, I think, for the GameCube, so that makes sense. (0:13:05) Kevin: Um, I was surprised- one thing I was surprised by, because I had seen- I played the second one, Dark Moon, (0:13:14) Kevin: and I watched my brother play Luigi’s Mansion 3. (0:13:18) Kevin: So what I didn’t expect is Luigi’s Mansion 1, boy that they… (0:13:22) Kevin: Saw Resident Evil and said “What if we do Resident Evil with the Luigi?” (0:13:27) Kevin: Um, because boy that feels like a Resident Evil game, both the tank controls and the aesthetic, um, but overall very fun. (0:13:36) Kevin: Uh, so yeah, uh, check that episode out if you want more details on that, um, (0:13:36) Spencer: Mm-hmm. (0:13:44) Kevin: But yeah, aside from that, uh, a lot of the usual stuff, uh, (0:13:50) Kevin: a holly right it’s october now so every (0:13:52) Kevin: thing’s getting spooky and whatnot masters has yeah masters has Pokemon masters has spooky costumes rock sand looks great in her witch outfit Pokemon unite is getting mimic you in a week or two and Marvel snaps getting all sort of spooky cards for this season and I love the dumb monsters that they have in Marvel so I’m really happy uh but yeah that’s what I’ve been up (0:13:55) Spencer: Yeah, all the spooky updates. (0:14:22) Kevin: to like I said though a lot of paleopines I don’t think I’ve played anything else on my switch this week of the paleopines right right ok and we’ll get into wide later but before that let’s talk about the news alright first up let’s see here garden buddies. This is… (0:14:31) Spencer: Yeah, that’s been consuming my time too, as far as actual console games go, it’s just (0:14:52) Kevin: This is our previously announced game, but regardless, we have a trailer for it. (0:14:59) Kevin: Let me actually take a look at it. We have it announced for October 20th. (0:15:05) Kevin: Oh boy, that’s quite an aesthetic. I don’t remember this game at all, but these are little (0:15:16) Kevin: crops and vegetables with faces… and a bat… uh… (0:15:22) Kevin: It’s really funny. (0:15:23) Spencer: Now I watched this trailer and the voices… Man, I don’t know if they’re gonna get a cease and desist from Rare, but boy oh boy do they sound like your typical Banjo-Kazooie, uh… You know, little babbles (0:15:37) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, they do they do or for people who haven’t played rare on Animal Crossing pretty close to that, too Yeah, so you don’t remember this what is this game exactly? (0:15:45) Spencer: Yeah, yeah. (0:15:53) Kevin: yeah, because I don’t remember the trailer here, but it is releasing the 20th of October I said which oh my gosh actually that’s gonna be like almost (0:16:07) Kevin: These people are listening to this podcast. It’ll be out and it will be on Steam and on switch So you can look forward to that. Let me double check (0:16:19) Spencer: Yeah, I was curious too, because I mean, the trailer that I got here was just the release date and as far as I can tell, you’re the vegetables themselves? (0:16:26) Kevin: Yeah Yep, yeah, you are it’s a unique blend of cozy gardening simulator and mental self-care that’s Okay, that’s a lot of buzzwords The art. I don’t know how I feel about the art. I kind of like it. I kind of hate it (0:16:55) Kevin: The eyes are very (0:16:56) Kevin: Very very like Toa’i baby eyes Umm But there’s a little mushroom guy riding a frog So that looks cool Uhh (0:17:15) Kevin: heartwarming story, players accompanied by Mutzi will explore the magical world creating and building their plant sanctuary. The relaxing storyline will be filled with uplifting narration as well as unexpected twists and turns. They will make lots of friends with animals and plant creatures they encounter. (0:17:37) Kevin: So yeah, okay, it sounds like a lot, but they’re really emphasizing the de-stress and cozy feeling and whatnot, uh… (0:17:45) Kevin: I’m interested to see how this looks like. (0:17:48) Kevin: It’s definitely not your average farming game, it doesn’t look like. (0:17:54) Kevin: Just seeing, uh… (0:17:56) Kevin: From the perspective of being these little crops and things. (0:17:59) Spencer: it gives me kind of like a not to bring a prayer again but like almost like a view of a pinata vibe like you’re caring for these vegetables as like creatures (0:18:00) Kevin: Um, but, whoop. Yeah, go ahead. (0:18:03) Kevin: Yep. Yeah, it seems like that. (0:18:15) Kevin: I didn’t play Viva Pinata, and I heard it was the greatest thing on Earth, and I missed out on it. (0:18:19) Spencer: I only played it a little bit. I just… yeah. (0:18:20) Kevin: Okay. Okay, well… (0:18:24) Kevin: Regardless, people can find out more! (0:18:28) Kevin: Uh, again, October 20th. Very, very soon. (0:18:31) Kevin: Especially for the people who are listening to this. (0:18:34) Kevin: Okay, next up, we have… (0:18:38) Kevin: Ikone Island News. (0:18:41) Kevin: We have the Friend Pass release. (0:18:45) Kevin: It is out now as of recording. (0:18:47) Kevin: And so, you can… (0:18:50) Kevin: Ah! Friends… I thought it was like a battle pass. No. (0:18:54) Kevin: It is multiplayer co-op with three of your friends. You can do it online. (0:19:00) Kevin: And… Oh, what? That’s so cool! (0:19:04) Kevin: If one… only one person has the full version, everyone can play indefinitely. (0:19:10) Kevin: Um, there’s like a demo that you can find out about. (0:19:15) Kevin: Play co-op for a few hours. (0:19:17) Kevin: Uh, two hours of play, it looks like. (0:19:19) Kevin: But, uh, if you have the whole game, everyone can just play. (0:19:22) Kevin: And you don’t have to buy it or four copies to have four people playing. (0:19:28) Kevin: Uh, that is very cool. (0:19:31) Spencer: Yeah, that’s always nice when they do some kind of like, as long as just one person owns something, you know, then everyone has access to it, at least via online, you know, like connecting to each other for multiplayer or something like that. (0:19:47) Kevin: Yeah, that is cool. There is a large list of patch notes. (0:19:55) Kevin: I invite people to look at the link because they are pretty in-depth with their patch notes. (0:20:02) Kevin: But the big new other big news is that this will be launching the full 1.0 version on November 9th of this year, (0:20:14) Spencer: All right around the corner. (0:20:14) Kevin: which will only be two or three. Yeah, two or three. (0:20:17) Kevin: That’s really impressive. Wow. What a feel-good announcement. (0:20:23) Kevin: Everyone can just play together and you not having to buy the game for everyone. (0:20:31) Kevin: That’s great. And so to remind people, IKONOI ISLAND. Let me see, I don’t remember. (0:20:38) Kevin: I talk so many games, I forget which ones are which. This one is… Why is there a shark man in this? (0:20:48) Kevin: Okay, so yeah, no, it’s very Minecraft-y. Gather resources, craft tools, build your base and whatnot. (0:20:59) Kevin: So basically very Minecraft survival type game on an island. The art is cute and there’s like a shark man. (0:21:06) Kevin: That seems cool. That’s exciting though. You know, Minecraft is… or the genre, whatever you want to call it, is great for multiplayer. (0:21:16) Kevin: So this is this. (0:21:17) Kevin: It really is exciting. (0:21:18) Kevin: And yeah, November 9th, that launches on Xbox, Steam, Epic Games, and PlayStation. (0:21:26) Kevin: Yeah, alright, there you go. (0:21:30) Kevin: Good job, Ikune Island. (0:21:32) Kevin: That actually might get me to play with multiple people. (0:21:36) Kevin: Uh, that’s so cool. (0:21:39) Kevin: Next up, we have news on… (0:21:44) Kevin: Oh, do the King of Bar Mee- (0:21:47) Kevin: simulators farming simulator 22 is that a weight? (0:21:51) Kevin: Yeah, okay 22. I thought they could wind up with the years, but I guess not I’m wrong, okay Okay, so it is An expansion okay. This is an expansion that will launch on November 14th They’re adding carrots. Why were carrots not available before? (0:22:10) Spencer: That, yeah, very odd. I had to reread that to make sure that was correct, because carrots are like the most basic crop, right? In just things, in general. You got carrots, you got like potatoes, and like wheat. (0:22:17) Kevin: Uh, in life? I can’t, like, yep, yeah, yeah, that’s really surprising, um, and it’s surprising because, like, looking, all the detail they put into these other machines they’re releasing and stuff like that, um, it’s okay, but, uh… (0:22:47) Kevin: There you go, carrots, um, they’re adding a few other things, what is it, parsnips and a few other crops, but, uh, yeah, I’m curious, yeah, more machines, crops, uh, oh, and there’s, (0:22:57) Spencer: And some more machines too. (0:23:04) Kevin: yeah, there’s new machines that specifically help with these crops, like carrots, oh my gosh, like, oh, this, this is intense, like, they have real intense machine names and stuff like that. (0:23:17) Kevin: But, uh, oh, redbeat, yep, there it is. (0:23:21) Kevin: Uh, anyways, that again is November 22nd. (0:23:24) Kevin: That is the premium expansion, uh, for farming simulator. (0:23:29) Kevin: 20-20, er, just 22. (0:23:32) Kevin: Okay, next up, ah, now this is a game I do know. (0:23:35) Kevin: We have Garden Galaxy, uh, for people unfamiliar. (0:23:40) Kevin: We did an episode on it. (0:23:41) Kevin: It is, uh, you’re building a little garden, (0:23:48) Kevin: everything’s kind of randomly generated, the items you get. (0:23:52) Kevin: Um, so it’s an interesting loop of trying to expand your item and trying to get your garden and get the items you want. (0:23:59) Kevin: Um, but, uh, they’re getting an update. (0:24:02) Kevin: I am pleased to see this game, uh, continue getting support because it is a fun game. (0:24:06) Kevin: I need to go back to it probably now because on October 16th, (0:24:10) Kevin: which means when people are listening to this, it will already be out, (0:24:14) Kevin: There is getting an update with all of the other videos. (0:24:17) Kevin: Autumn themed items, we got pumpkins, jack-o’-lanterns, (0:24:22) Kevin: your fall leaves, and whatnot. (0:24:25) Kevin: So yeah, I think that’s the first set of seasonal items they’ve done like that before. (0:24:32) Kevin: Oh, no, that’s not true, they did a summer update. (0:24:34) Kevin: Either way, that actually might get me back in because I’ve been meaning to check it out. (0:24:42) Kevin: I’m sure they’ve done a lot of patches. (0:24:44) Kevin: the 10 months it’s been out. (0:24:45) Spencer: So I’m looking at this. Are you on like an island or something or are you what exactly it’s like you said Just randomly generated (0:24:50) Kevin: So, you… yeah, so it starts off… you’re basically on a floating island or set… (0:25:01) Kevin: it’s a tile-based grid-type game, right? (0:25:05) Kevin: And so it’s just floating out in space. (0:25:08) Kevin: It’s basically like an island. (0:25:10) Spencer: Okay, hence galaxy. (0:25:11) Kevin: And you’re… yeah, yeah, that’s the name, right? (0:25:14) Kevin: Yeah, Garden Galaxy. (0:25:15) Kevin: And you’re just… you’re generating items to decorate your garden, but that includes… (0:25:20) Kevin: like, new piles of terrain and land to expand your area. (0:25:27) Kevin: So yeah, it is… it’s a fascinating little game because it’s… at least when I first played it, (0:25:28) Spencer: Ah, okay. (0:25:36) Kevin: it requires some patience. (0:25:39) Kevin: I remember calling it the most frustrating, cozy, or relaxing game I’ve ever played, (0:25:45) Kevin: because the loop of how things were generated was… (0:25:49) Kevin: » Thank you. (0:25:50) Kevin: » I recommend people do check it out because it’s only like 10 bucks and it is relaxing. At least when it wasn’t frustrating. (0:26:10) Kevin: Again, that is October 16th for the autumn update. Go get your spooky garden on and whatnot. Uh, oh god, oh no. (0:26:20) Kevin: No, this next news. I don’t like it. No, that’s why I don’t like it. Go ahead. (0:26:24) Spencer: Oh, I saw it. I’m excited. You want me to announce it? (0:26:31) Spencer: Alright, well, our next thing, Animal Crossing LEGO sets. (0:26:38) Spencer: This is an audio podcast, but I’m rubbing my hands together. (0:26:41) Kevin: Can hear it I can oh we have Okay, you’re already a Lego man, okay See that’s that’s a thing right cuz I’ve managed to not dive into Lego Like it’s it’s always been there. It’s tempted me But this is the one that’s probably gonna break me I’m I’m gonna be in (0:26:43) Spencer: If there’s one thing I spend more money on than video games, it is LEGO sets. (0:26:51) Spencer: Oh yeah, I’m looking at the Rivendell set right now. (0:27:11) Kevin: So to get more specific, there’s been rumors and leaks of this and whatnot. (0:27:15) Kevin: But we have official announcements that it will be releasing on March 2024. (0:27:21) Kevin: We have a handful of sets. (0:27:27) Kevin: They are Bunny’s Outdoor Activities, Cap’n’s Island Boat Tour, (0:27:31) Kevin: Nook’s Cranny and Rosie’s House, Isabelle’s House Visit, and Julian’s Birthday Party. (0:27:36) Spencer: So, my understanding is that these sets are also modular, this is what I’ve heard through the grapevine, and they are meant to be able to essentially create your own island as if you were actually making an island in Animal Crossing. (0:27:42) Kevin: Yes. That is correct. (0:27:50) Kevin: Yes, that is correct. They come, all the sets come on this flat base or whatever and yeah, (0:27:58) Kevin: you’ll just be able to swap the positions or interlock them. You know, LEGO your way through it and whatnot. (0:28:04) Kevin: Yeah, yeah. (0:28:04) Spencer: Yeah, I mean, they’re Legos, so, like, you know. (0:28:07) Spencer: Yes. (0:28:08) Spencer: But, uh… (0:28:10) Spencer: Which makes me feel like we can expect to see more than just what’s announced in the future. (0:28:15) Kevin: Yes, so one of the kickers the there’s minifigs right of course lego that’s one of the half the fun or whatever From what I saw they’re nothing too crazy. They all look pretty standard minifigs That look like Animal Crossing characters Okay, go ahead go ahead (0:28:26) Spencer: Yeah, now I have a gripe with these minifigs, I’m sorry, but the proportions look a little off in my opinion. (0:28:41) Spencer: When you’re playing Animal Crossing, the characters kind of look very like chibi-like and they’re very small, I guess. (0:28:47) Spencer: I mean, I guess they’re not small because your character also looks like it’s half the the size of a tree, but at the same time, everything is– (0:28:50) Kevin: Yeah. (0:28:56) Spencer: everything’s pretty trunk, you know, it’s just like you kind of have a big head, a little body, (0:29:01) Spencer: and they decided to make these regular minifigs size, so now this big head is on this kind of like elongated minifig body, and I don’t know, I think they should have gone with the shorter legs personally, or something, I just think they could have made it like half-sized minifigs. (0:29:11) Kevin: Yeah Okay I guess Yeah Well, I mean yeah, this is interesting because this is the merging of two very powerful vocal fan bases, right? (0:29:22) Spencer: I realized that would be an unpopular opinion. (0:29:39) Kevin: I will say though like I played since the original Animal Crossing right and they were even more chibi like back then they got a growth spurt (0:29:47) Spencer: Oh, for sure. (0:29:54) Kevin: So, I don’t know, maybe I’m just used to it because of that, but anyways, as for the sets, (0:30:01) Kevin: we have pricings for all of them. (0:30:05) Kevin: The most expensive one is Nook’s Cranny and the Rosy House, which is 75 bucks, which is forgiving for like, no sets, let’s say. (0:30:13) Spencer: Yeah, the LEGO sets are expensive now. (0:30:16) Spencer: So, 75 bucks for… (0:30:17) Kevin: Yeah. (0:30:19) Spencer: I mean you’re essentially getting two houses, right? (0:30:20) Kevin: Yes. More or less. (0:30:21) Spencer: Every other set is kind of more of one house, so… (0:30:24) Kevin: Yes. It’s still going to look small and I’m going to feel it’s way overpriced, but am I still going to get it? Probably. (0:30:32) Kevin: I want nookscranny. Oh, it’s not actually nookscranny. It’s one of the updated versions. It’s not the little shack. (0:30:37) Spencer: Yeah, it’s not the little shack, wow. (0:30:39) Kevin: Oh, that’s disappointing. Oh, well. (0:30:45) Kevin: But yeah, I’m really scared though, like, for myself because I’m worried. (0:30:54) Kevin: That this will be the gateway and I’m going to be buying my nookcranny set and I’m like, oh, you know what? There’s that Lego Green Hill Zone with Sonic. (0:31:03) Kevin: I could just put it right next to him, you know? Sonic could visit the cranny if I wanted to. (0:31:10) Spencer: You just, you know though, like in a year from now, they’re gonna have some, I’m gonna say almost $200 museum set, and it’s gonna have blathers, and it’s gonna have different sections of the museum, and little animals that you can put in there, little octopus, (0:31:23) Kevin: No! (0:31:29) Spencer: a little fish, a little frog, you know it’s in the pipeline. (0:31:33) Kevin: Why did you- I didn’t think about that. Why did you jinx me like this? (0:31:37) Kevin: No! That’s gonna be the best one! (0:31:40) Kevin: No! (0:31:41) Kevin: We don’t have Town Hall either. That one’s gonna be big. (0:31:41) Spencer: They go, “If it’s not in the pipeline, come hire me.” (0:31:44) Spencer: Ugh, yeah, town hall. (0:31:47) Kevin: Oh, it’s gonna hurt me. Okay. (0:31:50) Kevin: But, this is just the tip of the iceberg, because we’re talking Animal Crossing, right? (0:31:55) Kevin: There is very much room for the Animal Crossing blind bag minifigs or whatever. (0:32:01) Kevin: Um, or even furniture set. (0:32:03) Kevin: Animal Crossing has a lot of items, so I could easily dip into that. (0:32:07) Spencer: Yeah, everything in Animal Crossing could be a blind bag for this set. (0:32:08) Kevin: Right? And that terrorized me? (0:32:12) Spencer: It is a little, yeah. (0:32:15) Kevin: Oh, we don’t have a K.K. (0:32:39) Kevin: So yeah, stay tuned to see my demise as I finally dive into the LEGO world, and it all ends for me. (0:32:48) Kevin: All right, so again, that is 2024, still a few months before the end of that. (0:32:55) Kevin: Okay, you know what, I have a question for you. You say you’re into LEGO, (0:32:57) Kevin: I don’t know how hardcore you are, but do LEGOs run out of stock easily? (0:33:04) Spencer: Hear me sigh as I say that, um, trying to think. (0:33:11) Spencer: So in the past I used to just, you know, back, back in the day, you know, when they were still doing kind of just their, their own sets, which they still do. (0:33:20) Spencer: I know people complain that they have like too many licensed sets now, but they have plenty of unlicensed or, you know, only Lego sets. (0:33:29) Spencer: Um, you know, I kind of just got what was there. (0:33:32) Spencer: I was never particularly looking for any kind of (0:33:34) Spencer: set. There was this Mars like Mars set that they had that I really enjoyed that I did try to get like a couple of different sets from but nothing like you know going out of my way and stuff with the advent of the internet though and being able to look all this stuff up like I am now as an adult. There are definitely sets that do you know do just disappear because they’ve sold out of them or they just stop making them. I can’t imagine them doing this with the (0:33:46) Kevin: Okay. (0:33:48) Kevin: Yeah. (0:34:04) Spencer: Animal Crossing set. You know I got to imagine that this is something that they’re planning to continue to release you know new sets for and keep updating with the old sets. For instance the Mario sets I think you can still get a lot of those you know at least if you look you might have to look a little bit harder but they’re generally like available. The set that I totally missed out on and just kick myself every time I think about it is they had a Voltron set and it came with all the different all different parts and they all like you know they all transformed into Voltron together and stuff. Yes it was and I saw that and I was like one day I’ll get it and then I just waited too long and that’s what happens but. (0:34:15) Kevin: Okay. (0:34:16) Kevin: Okay. (0:34:20) Kevin: Sure. (0:34:40) Kevin: You could, in fact, form the head. (0:34:52) Kevin: Oh, I know that feeling um well, i’m just worried because Like I said, I don’t know how the inventory issues are dealt with um in lego, but They’re drawing in the animal crossing nintendo crowd, right? We look what happened with van gogh Oh, come on Look what happened with Remember when julian was a commodity or not julian. Whatever his name was the Pat with the heterochromia (0:35:21) Spencer: Oh, yeah, yeah. (0:35:23) Kevin: And when new horizons drop If anyone could make this is the inventory problem, it would be these fans. Um, but oh boy, here we go uh but maybe the well the price isn’t even the worst for all of them, but uh We’ll see. Um I just want them to bring back by onical. That’s the only lego thing I ever really got those were cool little robot dudes (0:35:48) Spencer: Hmm, interesting. I was somewhat into Bionicle. I had quite a few, but not as much as the regular sets. (0:35:58) Kevin: All right, um, two other pieces of news album and put them on here, (0:36:04) Kevin: but I do want to mention them. (0:36:06) Kevin: I hope I, I listened to the last episode, but I hope I’m not repeating anything. (0:36:10) Kevin: Um, there have been patches dropped both for Meneko’s night market and paleo pines. (0:36:16) Kevin: Uh, last two, well, the last game I covered and the one we’re covering today, (0:36:20) Kevin: um, the Meneko’s night market. (0:36:23) Kevin: I don’t know all the details, but I’m very thankful that they’ve got these patches (0:36:28) Kevin: out quickly and, uh, and they’re already available for switch and steam versions. (0:36:34) Kevin: Um, I hope Al will find the links and maybe put them in the show notes, (0:36:39) Kevin: but, uh, go check them out. (0:36:41) Kevin: I will possibly fire up Meneko’s night market again, see how much it’s improved. (0:36:45) Kevin: Um, because I very much liked that game, just hoping for few fixes and well, (0:36:50) Kevin: they roll some out, uh, paleo pines. (0:36:53) Kevin: I read the patch notes and it’s fascinating. (0:36:57) Kevin: Uh, at least one of the items is fascinating. (0:36:59) Kevin: In general, they just kind of, you know, polished up a few edges and, and did nice things. (0:37:05) Kevin: No major updates. (0:37:06) Kevin: Um, but, uh, with that said, let’s, let’s just get on into it. (0:37:13) Kevin: Uh, let’s talk about paleo pines. (0:37:14) Spencer: Yes, paleopines. (0:37:15) Kevin: Okay. (0:37:18) Kevin: So this is available on steam switch. (0:37:22) Kevin: I don’t know what else it’s available on. (0:37:23) Spencer: I think it’s available on everything. (0:37:24) Kevin: Uh, is it? (0:37:27) Kevin: Okay. (0:37:27) Kevin: Um. (0:37:28) Kevin: So, for people who don’t know, the elevator pitch is pretty simple. (0:37:33) Kevin: It’s farming, but you have dinosaurs. (0:37:35) Kevin: Um, it’s what’s on the box, and it’s what you get. (0:37:38) Kevin: Um. (0:37:39) Spencer: It’s… exactly what you get. (0:37:39) Kevin: Yup. (0:37:44) Kevin: Alright, so let’s, before we get into the nitty gritty, what are your overall thoughts? (0:37:51) Spencer: My overall thoughts and opinions, it’s good to start off with this because I’m someone that kind of complains about things even if I like them. So I enjoyed this game. I did have a thoroughly good time myself playing this game. There are plenty of things I would change about it but ultimately this is probably a game I will come back to I might even play it after we stop talking to be quite honest. (0:38:14) Kevin: Okay, I probably will see [laugh] (0:38:17) Spencer: yeah the last episode I was on (0:38:21) Spencer: I talked about parkasaurus I don’t think I’ve touched that game since we stopped talking about it yeah but this game this game was definitely enjoyable it’s got a lot of charm you know using the dinosaurs for farming is different I guess I mean I’m not as big of a farming game player has you know you guys are so maybe this is just exactly the same you just skinned as dinosaurs but it was fun (0:38:25) Kevin: Hahaha, well there you go. (0:38:39) Kevin: » Yes, right, yeah, yep. (0:38:51) Spencer: it has a collection element to it very much kind of like Pokemon or something like that you know so it scratches a lot of different itches for a lot of different people and I feel like you can get yourself lost without necessarily doing the main kind of quest so to speak yeah there are missions that you do too in this game and you know I spent plenty of time just fumbling around doing my own thing. (0:38:57) Kevin: - Yeah. (0:39:21) Spencer: You know, ultimately that’s kind of what I like in games like this, so yeah, I had a great time playing it, great, great might be a little exaggerating, so yeah, what did you think? (0:39:30) Kevin: Mm-hmm, okay All right, um So overall it’s a definite thumbs up and recommend for me This is hard for me because I love dinosaurs very much I Was a dinosaur kid growing up. I watched Jurassic Park when I was little dinosaurs were my Pokemon before Pokemon and (0:39:57) Kevin: And so, obviously I’m heavily biased toward a game that… (0:40:00) Kevin: …explores that, but as someone who is relatively well-versed in farming games, I still think it’s enjoyable. (0:40:11) Kevin: All the points you made, I agree with. (0:40:15) Kevin: So, let’s get into the… (0:40:19) Kevin: But, overall though, I would recommend this to people to try out. (0:40:23) Kevin: If you enjoy farming games, I think there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy this. (0:40:27) Kevin: And if you enjoy dinosaurs, you will probably also- (0:40:30) Kevin: enjoy this. (0:40:31) Spencer: you might even enjoy it even more than if you were just a farming game person quite honestly. (0:40:32) Kevin: I actually agree, yes, because I do think the dinosaurs are done really well. (0:40:40) Kevin: Um, but okay, let’s start into this specific. (0:40:43) Kevin: So, I have three sections here. (0:40:48) Kevin: The bad, the good, and the ugly. (0:40:50) Spencer: OK. (0:40:51) Kevin: So let’s start with the bad. What complaints do you have? (0:40:51) Spencer: Complaints. (0:40:56) Spencer: So the biggest thing– my complaints are small things that add up, right? (0:41:04) Spencer: Accessing things. (0:41:05) Spencer: For instance, if you’re on a mounted dinosaur, (0:41:09) Spencer: for whatever reason– unless I’m just horrible at this game– (0:41:12) Spencer: you cannot access or interact with things other than the dinosaur’s interaction. (0:41:18) Spencer: So let’s say you start off with the parasaur. (0:41:20) Spencer: That’s just your dinosaur that you start off with. (0:41:21) Kevin: Right? (0:41:23) Kevin: Right (0:41:23) Spencer: And each dinosaur has a skill. (0:41:27) Spencer: They can clear debris, which is what the parasaur can do. (0:41:30) Spencer: And it can sprint. Two actions. (0:41:32) Spencer: But if you’re not doing that, you can’t interact with anything else. (0:41:38) Spencer: If you want to talk to someone, you have to get off your dinosaur. (0:41:41) Spencer: If you want to access your storage, you have to get off your dinosaur. (0:41:44) Spencer: Which just blows me away. I was like, (0:41:46) Spencer: “Come on, the person’s right there. Just let me talk to them. (0:41:48) Spencer: to them. Why do I have to get off my dinosaur? (0:41:49) Kevin: Yep, yep, absolutely, um Yeah, I I want to put just a little side note, um since we’re getting into it, uh Spencer and I are dinosaurs or nerds so we will be using dinosaur names Apologies if you if you listener might not be familiar. I invite you to look them up because dinosaurs are cool (0:41:50) Spencer: So, that would be one thing I would, you know, developers, if you’re listening, patch that, please. (0:42:17) Spencer: Indeed, and then you’ll see the name and then you’ll be like, “How do I pronounce that?” (0:42:21) Spencer: And quite honestly, we probably won’t pronounce all of them right, but it’s fun and trying. (0:42:25) Kevin: yep yes okay but um but yes that’s that’s a good point um that is annoying how you can’t talk to someone uh or gather certain points gather certain materials off foraging points and whatnot while on a dinosaur uh at the very yeah no judge say that I can kind of understand the the foraging part maybe you’re high up on a t-rex but come on (0:42:44) Spencer: That’s correct, because some… Oh, sorry, go ahead. (0:42:55) Kevin: can talk to someone while mounted on a t-rex I can say hey (0:42:59) Spencer: Yeah, I don’t really understand the decision, to be quite honest. (0:43:05) Kevin: Yeah, well, there’s a few things I don’t 100% understand, like, so there’s a handful of little things. I don’t know if they all add up to me something major, but like, one of my biggest gripes is inventory stuff. You can get big numbers of items, right? Like, you can get hundreds and hundreds of pieces of wood. (0:43:28) Kevin: Well, when you want to move between your bag and your storage or whatever, you don’t have the option of saying, “Okay, take out…” (0:43:35) Kevin: …20 or 30. You can only do the entire amount or half of it. And that’s frustrating. (0:43:38) Spencer: Yes, I was gonna ask this, I wasn’t sure if I was just like, not getting- (0:43:44) Spencer: Was there a tutorial I missed? Or if this is like, you know, just, but yeah, it’s only stacks, right? (0:43:47) Kevin: nope, or at least, I missed it too then. (0:43:51) Kevin: Yeah, you can, and what’s odd is, it exists because when you sell things at the trader or whatever, (0:43:52) Spencer: Like, I was like- (0:43:57) Kevin: you can select exactly how many you want to sell. (0:44:01) Kevin: But that’s the only time. (0:44:02) Spencer: Yeah, no, but then it’s and it gets even more deep than that because it’s Inventory management from your storage to inventory is only stacks, right? So like you have 300 wood in your storage and then you click on it and it’ll put all 300 in there but in stacks of a hundred and then now you have to go back in return 200 stacks, so you only have one stack and (0:44:23) Kevin: Yup, yup, exactly. (0:44:29) Spencer: Then when you go to sell that wood, here’s what get (0:44:32) Spencer: me. You go to sell that wood, and then you can select individually. You can select like I only sell two wood, right? And they do have a button for min and max. So like I want to sell the whole stack of wood, but they don’t have a button to increment it in tens. Also, which I feel like is something like, yeah, that really, that whole thing needs a lot of work. (0:44:56) Kevin: Yeah, it is wild and again, there’s even the trading like said it’s still missing that stacks of 10 which would be nice But the fact that that’s the only place where you can do Individual counts of whatnot. It’s baffling to me Let’s see what what other little complaints can you think of? (0:45:20) Spencer: So, I don’t know if this would be a little complaint. (0:45:25) Spencer: I don’t know where this falls on your good, bad, and ugly. (0:45:25) Kevin: Hehe. (0:45:29) Spencer: I will say there were a lot of things I was finding out about the game. (0:45:34) Spencer: I didn’t get, I’ll be honest, I didn’t get like probably end game, is there an end game? (0:45:39) Spencer: I don’t really know. (0:45:41) Kevin: I think there is. I mean, there’s the main quest. You have to find where the rest of the parasaurs are. (0:45:42) Spencer: There is, right? (0:45:44) Spencer: Yeah. (0:45:45) Spencer: Yeah. (0:45:46) Spencer: Yeah, you know, like I said earlier, I kind of… (0:45:50) Spencer: just ended up doing my own thing, which is, you know, it is what it is. (0:45:52) Kevin: Yeah. (0:45:53) Kevin: Uh huh. (0:45:55) Spencer: That’s kind of how it’s designed in the game. (0:45:57) Spencer: But so there’s a lot of things that I feel like I was finding out kind of on my own without… (0:46:06) Spencer: that would have been better maybe explained, you know, like I’ll be honest. (0:46:12) Spencer: I didn’t realize that holding what was the RZ was sprint for some of those dinosaurs. (0:46:18) Spencer: I was puttin’ around that whole area, and it was taking me forever. (0:46:18) Kevin: Yep Yeah, ha ha ha ha oh no Oh No Um, oh, that’s raw. I agree with you Um, this is a complaint I have about many games because I think it’s a critical thing to be clear and explain yourself well and whatnot Um, I am struggling to think of I had a specific example, but I can’t think of it right now (0:46:23) Spencer: It would take like a half day just to get across the place. (0:46:47) Kevin: The sprinting thing there is a (0:46:48) Kevin: prompt on the bottom of the screen, but if you don’t pay it, they don’t call it out or anything. (0:46:52) Kevin: So it’s easy to miss, because there’s other prompts that are there, (0:46:56) Kevin: and the sprinting prompt is added when you’re on the right dinosaur, (0:47:00) Kevin: but it’s not there when you’re not on it, so it’s easily missable. (0:47:04) Kevin: possible. (0:47:06) Spencer: Oh, and so here’s the thing with the sprinting thing, too. (0:47:12) Spencer: If you click on, I believe it’s just R, (0:47:15) Spencer: your character will auto run in that direction. (0:47:16) Kevin: Wait, what? (0:47:17) Kevin: I didn’t know that! (0:47:19) Kevin: She- what?! (0:47:19) Spencer: Yes, there’s an auto run button. (0:47:21) Kevin: Oh my goodness. (0:47:22) Spencer: So I was clicking auto run, and I was thinking it was the sprint half the time. (0:47:22) Kevin: Oh, there you go. (0:47:24) Kevin: Oh, case in point. (0:47:32) Spencer: And I was like, this doesn’t look any faster. (0:47:35) Spencer: I guess I don’t need to hold the button. (0:47:36) Spencer: I feel like there’s a lot of things that get fed to you at either inopportune moments or just as far as information goes. (0:47:50) Spencer: You’re just kind of like, “Huh, I could have used that information like three days ago.” (0:47:54) Kevin: Yup, there was oh the So there is I remember my example. Um, there is a help option in the pause menu and it does have some tutorials in there It doesn’t really let you know that they’re there Which is a shame because a number of them are very helpful. They explain how to use your tools The one I wanted to mentioned was the soil we’ll get into it into it in a bit but essentially how to properly fertilize and till the soil and stuff like that. (0:48:29) Kevin: That information, I didn’t realize how it worked until I happened to find it in the tutorial items in the help menu. (0:48:37) Kevin: It would have been nice if that had been called out earlier. (0:48:40) Spencer: It’s funny that you mention the soil because it wasn’t until only the other day that I was, again, I was just thumbing through the profiles of the vegetables and I was like, (0:48:51) Spencer: “Huh, they really want you to crop rotate in this game, don’t they?” (0:48:53) Kevin: Yep, yep. (0:48:55) Spencer: That would have been useful to know before I planted tons of vegetables in random areas. (0:49:01) Kevin: Yep, um, absolutely. (0:49:04) Kevin: Um, so yeah, that is a complaint, like I said, I have about many games, just lack of clarity or not explaining things well. (0:49:12) Kevin: Uh, one hopefully that can get updated because that’s not impossible to fix. (0:49:17) Kevin: Just add some more prompts at certain points, so. (0:49:19) Spencer: No. (0:49:19) Spencer: Yeah, and I will give them credit, right? (0:49:20) Kevin: Fingers crossed we get those patches. (0:49:25) Spencer: Like some games you sit through tutorials and they are like, you know, some omnipotent someone or other talking at you going, “Hit A to use the ox.” (0:49:31) Kevin: Yep, yep Yep Yeah, it does it is not very handhold be not at all you Yeah, that’s One of the pros in my book that it doesn’t really put any pressure on you in almost any way (0:49:35) Spencer: You know, and then you’re like, “Okay, like I get it.” (0:49:37) Spencer: And then you have to sit there for like an hour. (0:49:39) Spencer: Right? (0:49:40) Spencer: This game really does kind of let you play the game almost right away. (0:49:58) Kevin: And I’ll get into that later when we talk about quests I think in the more (0:50:01) Kevin: detail but one final item I wanted to add in the bad list well I guess this kind of goes in the ugly I’m not the biggest fan of the art style of the game so okay well let me be more specific I like the dinosaurs the dinosaurs look great they’re they’re very cutesy and the way they’re presented in this game where people are just hanging out they’re your pals and working with them (0:50:16) Spencer: Really? (0:50:31) Kevin: and they live on your farm they’re not intimidating or scary I think that was managed really well I think that works well and I think it’s fantastic my part problem is the people right the people also have this very cutesy art style and it’s this might just be a very personal thing but it is really (0:50:48) Spencer: Okay, okay. (0:51:01) Kevin: looks like a Disney Junior show basically that’s the way I describe it in fact I watch Bluey right so I’ve seen other ads for Disney Junior shows there is one actually called Dino Ranch and it looks a lot like this yeah (0:51:07) Spencer: Yeah, I mean (0:51:18) Spencer: Yeah, the people are, I mean, it’s an art style, that’s for sure. (0:51:24) Spencer: It’s a design choice that they made. (0:51:27) Kevin: Yeah, and everything is very saccharine, like very… (0:51:31) Kevin: Happy… (0:51:33) Kevin: No one gets angry or there’s big problems or anything like that. (0:51:38) Kevin: There’s a character who says “zippity” and it just feels very kid show… (0:51:42) Kevin: Umm… (0:51:47) Spencer: Yeah, well, eh. So there’s a couple characters. One that stood out to me as Pippin. (0:51:54) Spencer: He does kind of get a little grumpy. (0:51:54) Kevin: Yeah They they’re actually in be non-binary Which I just like a thumbs up. That’s all right. No, but I just thumbs up to the Devs for throwing that in there right and I’ll have Pippin Pippin’s a little bit of a gremlin Go ahead Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that that. (0:51:57) Spencer: Oh, sorry. (0:52:10) Spencer: Ah, yeah, but they get a little like, onry about things if you ask them to make like a, they make these, yeah, they make these like treats that, that’s basically how you tame the dinosaurs and they have like very specific, “Oh, it’s my family recipe, like don’t, we don’t screw with it” and then you ask them to make other treats and then they kind of get all upset about it instead of like, “Ah, fine, take your, take your

Al and Kev talk about Mineko's Night Market Also, we talk about Stardew Valley 1.6, the recently teased Lord of the Rings cottagecore game, and a number of recent release date announcements. Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:42: What Have We Been Up To 00:15:56: News 00:45:50: Mineko’s Night Market 01:32:52: Outro Links Mineko’s Night Market Release Dates Mineko Plush Coral Island PS5 Critter Crops Delay Sun Down Survivors Update Orange Season Update Travellers Rest Update To Pixelia Kickstarter Stardew Valley 1.6 Sneak Peek Stardew Valley Joja Parrot Tales of the Shire Teaser Tales of the Shire Site Mineko’s Night Market Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Al And I am playing the neko’s night market as we speak Fantastic we are gonna have so much to talk about this game. I think it’s gonna be (0:00:36) Kevin: I’m Kevin. (0:00:37) Kevin: Um, excuse me, I believe that is Wormburger’s Night Market? (0:00:47) Kevin: Uh, you think the game that’s been in development for eight years and has been my most anticipated game of like two years running? [laughs] (0:01:00) Al: Funny because like yeah, so like this podcast I’ve been going for like nearly five years now, right? (0:01:04) Al: And this game had already been announced four years before the podcast started So quite a while Did neko just poop on the ground It just just sat on the ground and stood up and then it was a garden block (0:01:12) Kevin: 2015 baby that’s that’s wild like I don’t I didn’t (0:01:25) Kevin: Yeah, if that’s possible, yeah. (0:01:26) Al: I think Niko just pooped on the ground. (0:01:30) Al: To give me somewhere to plant, all right. Well let’s see what happens with that. (0:01:34) Al: We’re gonna talk about the Niko’s Night Market, because somehow we managed to play this game in the five days since it came out. (0:01:43) Al: Yeah, we’re gonna talk about it. Before that, we’ve got a bunch of news to talk about. (0:01:43) Kevin: Yeah, but I played a lot so I have things to talk about (0:01:57) Al: there’s stuff we need to talk about, there’s stuff we definitely need to talk about. (0:01:58) Kevin: Is there I don’t I don’t I don’t know Not really I like going in blind [laugh] (0:02:00) Al: Have you not looked through the news? (0:02:02) Al: Oh Kevin, right, that’s fine, let’s go in blind. (0:02:05) Al: Most of it is pretty small, pretty quick, still good, but we’ve got two really chunky bits of news at the end that we need to talk about. (0:02:11) Kevin: Wait, we haven’t talked about that one yet? (0:02:13) Al: We have not talked about that yet. (0:02:14) Kevin: I- (0:02:14) Kevin: Oh my gosh, okay, we do have things to talk about, all right. (0:02:17) Al: Yep, we have big stuff to talk about. (0:02:20) Kevin: I know- I like how you know exactly what I’m looking at. (0:02:22) Al: Well, of course, of course I know. (0:02:26) Al: So we’ve recorded the last episode, I think like the day before that news came out. (0:02:30) Al: Um, was it me and Cody? I think it was. Uh, we, we’d recorded really early that week and then they came out with our news and that was really frustrating. So anyway. (0:02:31) Kevin: was it okay yes yes I didn’t know it was it good good (0:02:39) Al: Um, uh, first of all, though, Kevin, what have you been up to? (0:02:46) Kevin: Um, okay, so in the Good good old me decided to do a whole bunch of things before Monneko dropped so you know the Pokemon DLC has been out for a minute, there’s been a lot of talk and So I finally gave in and I started playing Pokemon, but I wanted to play a good one. So I’m playing sword and shield I started a nuzlocke (0:03:22) Kevin: And it’s it’s a fun one to nuzlock through Because there’s so many a wide variety of encounters and and It’s surprisingly challenging at times. There’s there’s some heavy hitters in the game One going back to that Jen Like all all joking aside I I This is a subjective opinion, but I think it looks better (0:03:31) Al: Mmm, yes. (0:03:52) Kevin: And then scarlet violet like maybe not technically there’s probably It’s… (0:03:54) Al: I mean, I don’t think I disagree with that. I mean, I’m definitely one of the Scarlet and Violet enjoyers and defenders, but I don’t think that as a game it looks better than Sword and Shield. Definitely not. But I think personally that’s generally a problem with open world games. I don’t think that any of them look amazing. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have some moments where you’re like, “Wow.” But those are very few (0:04:09) Kevin: Yeah yeah. (0:04:19) Kevin: Yeah. (0:04:20) Kevin: Yes. (0:04:24) Kevin: You’re- you’re ner- yep, you’re right. (0:04:24) Al: and most of the time it’s just the same rocks and grass again. I think that is just a problem with them. So yes, I agree. (0:04:29) Kevin: Yeah. (0:04:31) Kevin: That’s fair. Yeah, no, that’s- that’s- I think that’s accurate. (0:04:35) Kevin: Um, so yeah, it is an uphill battle, I think, in that sense for Scarlet Violet, but… (0:04:41) Kevin: Even stuff like just the color palettes, I think they really, really pop in, uh, Sword and Shield. (0:04:43) Al: Oh yeah, especially Balonia. Amazing, amazing town. Just gorgeous, love it. (0:04:46) Kevin: Um… (0:04:50) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, the neon mushroom town, it’s awesome, yep, yep. (0:04:58) Kevin: And also one other comment, just like, again, looking back. (0:05:02) Kevin: The gym battles are just so good in Sword and Shield, (0:05:09) Kevin: like just this whole spectacle of a stadium battle and the chanting, (0:05:11) Al: Oh, yes. Yeah, definitely. The music. (0:05:15) Kevin: which, you know, actually fits in on like Scarlet Violet. (0:05:20) Kevin: It’s so bombastic and thrilling, and again, (0:05:25) Kevin: just comparing to Scarlet Violet, like, because of the freedom, (0:05:30) Kevin: I don’t know, they just, it wasn’t as memorable maybe, but again, (0:05:35) Kevin: that’s something subjective, but point B, ultimately, (0:05:38) Kevin: Sword and Shield is still really good, really fun, (0:05:41) Kevin: and I’m enjoying going through one of those luck. (0:05:44) Kevin: Well, I was before Monetco dropped, um, aside from that, (0:05:49) Kevin: I have had a big fighting game, Inch, um, so I dusted off a game called Skullgirls! (0:05:56) Kevin: Um, are you familiar with this at all, Al? (0:05:58) Kevin: Okay, so Skullgirls was originally released in 2013-2014, (0:06:07) Kevin: and they are still developing new stuff for it. Um, not a sequel, like the same game. (0:06:14) Kevin: It’s wild, um, it was, uh, it’s no- (0:06:19) Kevin: notable in the fighting game community for a couple of reasons. (0:06:23) Kevin: One, I mean, it’s a good game, for fighting game reasons, um, (0:06:26) Kevin: but aside from that, um, it’s all hand-drawn art, so it looks really good. (0:06:32) Kevin: Um, it has like a very stylistic art deco thing going on with a lot of its environments and settings. (0:06:39) Kevin: Um, and as the name implies, Skullgirls, um, at least originally, the original eight, (0:06:46) Kevin: I believe we’re all female fighters, um, which was you know, obviously not the norm in gaming in general, right? (0:06:54) Kevin: Um, it’s an all female cast, um, and they’ve done rounds of DLCs since then. (0:07:00) Kevin: Um, I think it’s going to be up to 18 by the end of this year. (0:07:04) Kevin: Um, I think there’s two males, but the rest are all females. (0:07:10) Kevin: Um, well, I mean, there’s a robot female and an alien monster thing. (0:07:16) Kevin: Um, but so, you know, um, take that how you will. (0:07:20) Kevin: Uh, it’s, it’s dynamic. (0:07:22) Kevin: It’s fun. (0:07:22) Kevin: It’s like not even fighting game or not. (0:07:26) Kevin: It’s, it’s just very good writing comical and then vibrant. (0:07:31) Kevin: Um, so yeah, skull girls to anyone who enjoys fighting games. (0:07:34) Kevin: That’s a hearty recommendation. (0:07:36) Kevin: It’s basically out on anything and everything. (0:07:38) Kevin: Um, uh, but, uh, aside from, yeah, so those were the two things I did. (0:07:42) Kevin: And then, uh, Meneco Wednesday came and it’s been all Meneco since then. (0:07:47) Kevin: What about you? (0:07:50) Al: Yeah, well, I mean, I think basically Maneko is the only game I’ve been playing this week. (0:07:56) Al: Maneko, Maneko, Maneko. (0:07:59) Al: I did play some more Pokémon, so I think I got my… (0:08:03) Al: I can’t remember where I was when we last talked, or when I last said it on the podcast, (0:08:08) Al: but I have done… (0:08:10) Al: I’ve completed the DLC on both games. (0:08:14) Al: I decided just to do… (0:08:16) Al: So my scarlet was like basically I hadn’t done anything in it. (0:08:20) Al: So I did the DLC without having done any of the badges. (0:08:23) Al: And then I was like, I’m just going to do all the badges. (0:08:26) Al: So I just did everything on that one. (0:08:27) Al: So I’ve now completed that. (0:08:27) Kevin: Right at least it’s fast to do it unlike other Pokemon games you can just knock them out (0:08:29) Al: And then, yeah, certainly once you’ve got everything. (0:08:36) Al: And then what else did I do? (0:08:39) Al: I did the DLC on my scarlet, my violet as well. (0:08:43) Al: And I completed the decks on that. (0:08:46) Al: And there’s a couple of side quests as well in the DLC. (0:08:49) Al: I did those as well. (0:08:50) Al: And yeah, just a bunch of Pokemon stuff in there. (0:08:56) Kevin: Have you- have you not gotten a bit tired of Scarlet Violet after doing it like three four times? (0:09:03) Al: times, yeah. I mean the story, yeah, sure, right? Like, the story bit is not fun. I still enjoy playing those games. Like, I still enjoy the core loop of those games. I still enjoy collecting Pokémon, blah, blah, blah. I think I have decided that I’m not going to do the new Professor Oak challenge that I suggested. I think that’s probably going a bit far. And if I want to do a Professor Oak challenge. (0:09:30) Kevin: until the second DLC drops. (0:09:33) Al: Well, I was going to wait until that because if you’re going to do it, then do it all the way, right? (0:09:39) Al: But then I was like, actually, if I want to do it, there’s so many games I haven’t done a Professor Oak challenge of, (0:09:43) Al: just do another one. (0:09:45) Al: I’m thinking about maybe doing Legends Arceus 1, for example, which could be fun, (0:09:53) Al: because I don’t have a Legends Arceus save file just now. (0:09:56) Al: I was thinking when you were talking about Nuzlockes, maybe it would be interesting as a Nuzlock, (0:10:03) Al: because obviously you’re not using Pokemon, right? (0:10:05) Al: So they’re not going to die, but you can die in that game. (0:10:07) Al: You can get knocked out in that game. (0:10:09) Kevin: Oh. (0:10:09) Al: So doing like a no death Arceus run, that could be interesting. (0:10:10) Kevin: No. (0:10:16) Al: Yeah, that’s probably about games. (0:10:19) Al: I mean, Pokemon Go, obviously, but that’s probably about it with games. (0:10:23) Al: I have, however, been watching a couple of things. (0:10:25) Al: I’ve been watching X-Men 92 and the run-up to the new X-Men 97 coming out next year. (0:10:30) Al: And I. (0:10:30) Kevin: Alright, how’s that been? (0:10:33) Al: It’s it’s good fun. I’m surprised at how like quickly and succinctly they’re getting through X-Men story lines like Like in the first season they do like like five or six big X-Men stories Like just that’s it. Those ones are done now and you’re like, oh my word, right? Wow, that was fast Yeah Well, it’s (0:10:50) Kevin: Yeah, this was prime 90s Saturday morning cartoon stuff, so like, there’s no time for plots or build up. (0:10:58) Kevin: Go do your enemy of the week. (0:11:01) Al: That’s the thing and then there’s no (0:11:01) Kevin: You got toys to sell, man! (0:11:03) Al: There’s no filler episodes that are all action all the time So it will be interesting to see where they go because there’s still four seasons to go Just I’ve just finished the first season. So I’ve got four more to go and I’m like I feel like they’re running out of stories by now Although I do believe there is a crossover with the 90s spider-man as well that I’ll need to watch at some point Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I know but that’s my I need to watch that as well right because it’s a crossover (0:11:03) Kevin: The- (0:11:20) Kevin: There is, but that is under the spine. (0:11:31) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, um, yeah, I If I assure you it does not matter Well, good luck with that because I’m sure it didn’t matter to the writers or whatever I will I will say like I (0:11:33) Al: I haven’t figured out where it lies in the timeline. (0:11:37) Al: I know it doesn’t matter. I know. I know it doesn’t matter, Kevin, but it matters to me. (0:11:56) Kevin: Was still pretty young when that X-Men first aired so I watched some of it (0:12:00) Al: Yes, in 1992, yes. (0:12:01) Kevin: but Yes, you know the year I was born I might be older than me So I didn’t watch it I Missed the boat a little on that one. I didn’t I watched it but just not like everything right but it’s still very much like many people was very iconic informative in my What I think of the X-Men right like that’s the theme the colors all the looks (0:12:05) Al: I was also quite young. (0:12:31) Kevin: It’s still my favorite beast of all time Yeah, but good stuff good stuff (0:12:40) Al: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. (0:12:41) Al: And then I also watched for the first time Scott Pilgrim versus the World, (0:12:46) Al: the film that is, the live action films. (0:12:46) Kevin: Okay, I have not watched this tell me tell me Wait we’re talking the live-action right? Yes. Yes. Okay, cuz the animated one’s not out yet Yes, okay. Yes, that’s right. Okay Okay, I hear a lot of love for this movie thing (0:12:48) Al: I thought it was really good. (0:12:50) Al: I think it does a good job. (0:12:52) Al: Like, obviously live action. (0:12:53) Al: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. (0:12:55) Al: The animated one, it’s not, it’s not a, yeah, and it’s a series, I believe. (0:12:58) Al: It’s not a film. (0:13:00) Al: But so like. (0:13:02) Al: I think, I think, yeah, so I think a lot of people like it and a lot of people (0:13:10) Al: thought it was fine. (0:13:11) Al: I will say that live action is difficult to do, like, a good kind of comic bookie style film, like most, most live action comic book stuff doesn’t try and be comic bookie, right? (0:13:25) Al: But Scott Pilgrim definitely does. (0:13:29) Al: And I think they did it really well. (0:13:31) Al: I think it works like that. (0:13:32) Al: Like you, it definitely feels like a comic book film. (0:13:35) Al: It’s like, you know how Into the Spider-Verse feels like a comic book film. (0:13:40) Kevin: Yes. (0:13:40) Al: It’s not live action, but it feels comic bookie, whereas all the other ones really just feel like superhero stuff, right? (0:13:40) Kevin: Yes. (0:13:43) Kevin: Yes, yes, I know. (0:13:46) Al: It’s, it, it feels like that. (0:13:48) Al: It feels, it feels like they wanted it to feel like a comic book. (0:13:52) Al: And I think it works really well. (0:13:54) Al: I think there are a few things in the story that feel a bit odd, but that just might be me being a bit weird around it. (0:14:01) Al: I’m not sure whether it’s, because I’ve not, I’ve not read the original comic run of this, right? (0:14:07) Al: So I don’t know whether it tells it some of the bits in it. (0:14:10) Al: In a better way, or whether I’m just kind of being a bit weird with it. I don’t know. (0:14:11) Kevin: Mm-hmm Yeah, okay. All right, that’s cool Yeah, I might watch it just speak for the animated series because the animated series looks very impressive (0:14:15) Al: But I enjoyed it. It was good. (0:14:25) Al: Yes Well, that was the other thing that was the other reason why I was watching it I was like, I know I want to watch this at some point You know what why not now, you know before the animated series comes out would be a good idea (0:14:35) Kevin: Yep, yep, all right, that’s good. (0:14:43) Al: I mean bits and pieces here and there. I’m about to start the newest series of Star Trek Strange. (0:14:56) Al: There’s a lot to watch. What can I say? Have you been watching Ahsoka? Of course, as well. (0:15:01) Al: I’ve been watching Ahsoka, which I’ve been enjoying. And Loki starts this week. (0:15:07) Kevin: Oh, I i’ve got to catch up on stuff before I watch loki like I mean like the required reading. I don’t watch ant man No, I don’t think so either ant man Yes Yes, i’ve watched the original ones. I watch one division watch loki season one. So just ant man Um, but I am going to do it because yeah, I do I do too which really means yeah I just need to watch ant man, um, which uh, but i’m excited for because it looks good. Um (0:15:12) Al: I don’t think there’s a lot of required reading. (0:15:16) Al: Yeah, I’d say Ant-Man, Lokey and Ant-Man, and presumably you’ve watched WandaVision. (0:15:22) Al: Yeah. (0:15:25) Al: I suspect that’s all of it. (0:15:38) Kevin: Owen wilson’s really good in it. And so is uh, (0:15:40) Kevin: Tom loki whatever his name is it’ll it’ll stand yes tom tom loki son. Um (0:15:43) Al: Tom Hiddleston and we’ve got Kehuquan coming in as well and his character looks very fun. (0:15:54) Kevin: Yep. (0:15:54) Kevin: Alright. (0:15:55) Al: Yeah. Awesome. Well, should we talk about some news? (0:15:56) Kevin: I guess so. (0:16:00) Kevin: Hey, you wanna talk about Moneko first though? (0:16:01) Al: No, no, I do not. Let’s talk about some news. (0:16:03) Kevin: Yeah, and what’s our first news item? (0:16:07) Al: Uh, oh yeah. Oh, I hadn’t looked yet. (0:16:13) Al: I wrote all this up like four days ago. So Maneko, there’s some Maneko’s night market news. (0:16:21) Kevin: Yeah. (0:16:23) Al: So the Xbox and PlayStation versions, we’ve got dates for them now. They’re coming out on the 26th of October and the physical Switch and PS5 versions are coming the 27th of October. (0:16:36) Kevin: Uh, is it? I didn’t realize it’s already on, is it on PS5 I assume? (0:16:40) Kevin: Or wait, no, no, sorry. I’m, no, you just said that. (0:16:40) Al: No, no, so that’s the PS. Please, it’s Xbox and- (0:16:43) Al: PlayStation versions, yeah. But I think, I think, I think the PlayStation version is for PS4 and PS5, (0:16:44) Kevin: My mistake. Yes. (0:16:50) Al: but the physical version is just PS5. Well, on Switch, obviously. (0:16:54) Al: So there is a PS4 version of the game, but not physical, if that’s clear. (0:16:59) Kevin: um yeah sure it’s look by the end of october it’s going to be everywhere that’s the main but you can get it on switch or pc (0:17:08) Al: You can. You can. (0:17:10) Al: And we have it covered because you got Switch. (0:17:12) Al: I got it on PC and played it on Steam. (0:17:14) Kevin: Yup, and if that’s not enough physical for you you can get a physical manneco Well, I think you can because I’m clicking on the link and it’s not working. I don’t know why Okay, anyways, um Okay, they’re doing Okay The manneco people are doing a plush (0:17:15) Al: Oh boy. (0:17:20) Al: You can. (0:17:23) Al: Yeah, there’s a new link. (0:17:27) Al: I’ve got a new link here as far as… (0:17:29) Al: Don’t worry, it still exists. (0:17:31) Al: There you go. There’s your new link. (0:17:39) Kevin: Run of manneco. It’s a good-looking plug. It is by the it is by the (0:17:39) Al: Is that good looking plush? It’s really detailed. (0:17:43) Al: Yeah. (0:17:44) Kevin: Company called make ship which I am familiar with this is basically what they do. They do limited runs of plushies you know even They did one for Baron breakfast and I missed it I’m so sad But that’s the that’s a kicker right that it is limited. I think turn it boy had like two plushies through that but anyways So yeah make ship rise of the time recording 20 days when it comes out That’ll probably even more like two weeks left on the campaign (0:17:47) Al: Yeah, they’re doing the ooblets ones as well, I think, and stuff. (0:18:14) Kevin: So check it out if you want. It’s $30 maybe a little pricey But if you love an echo like I love an echo It’s probably worth it because you will probably never ever see any mother physical manneco birch like this again Not yet, but I will so pay day when it gets But yes and minico’s art works really well with plush I think like the the the style (0:18:40) Al: Yeah, I’m just, I’m really impressed with how detailed it is, right? Like you’ve got the eye detail, the hair detail, and the clothing detail, the ear, the backpack, it’s just, it’s all so great. (0:18:44) Kevin: Yeah, got the little mark under the eye, yeah Yeah make ship I have had make ship products before and they are quality products and yes the detail is as good as You’d hope or want or the the creators want whatever and it’s a good quality plush a decent size to not one of those tiny little things (0:19:12) Kevin: Okay, so yeah, that’s Minneko (0:19:20) Kevin: So October 20th, roughly? (0:19:22) Al: Yeah, it does actually say that on the page, you don’t have to count it. (0:19:23) Kevin: Yeah, 19th. (0:19:26) Al: If you scroll down a little bit, it shows you the date. It’s got a timeline. (0:19:29) Kevin: um okay well there you go there the look the links on the show notes click on there yeah that’s the only thing right they take forever with these limited run things but understandably so yeah oh yeah you’re oh gosh no no no that’s too close 2024 is a year away no I know I went into lone the home depot the other day and there was all the christmas decor (0:19:30) Al: “Production starts 20th of October. Shipman estimated January 13th.” (0:19:38) Al: That’s not too bad. That’s not too bad. November, December, that’s three months. (0:19:48) Al: Christmas is less than 100 days. (0:19:59) Kevin: before october that’s the norm what what else is you know what else is october (0:20:06) Al: We’ve got, we’ve got Coral Island have announced their PS5 version is coming on the 9th of October. (0:20:14) Al: I will say, you know I love a conspiracy around dates. This is a suspicious date. (0:20:20) Al: This is suspiciously close because the next update for Coral Island is the 1.0 update. (0:20:27) Al: Just saying. Now we don’t know when that’s coming, but all I’m saying is they haven’t said the PS5 (0:20:37) Kevin: once you switch there’s no going back or wait oh they mean for version well either way that still sounds very uh and they have the wean (0:20:52) Kevin: There’s the art right there. It has the merfolk in it. It’s all that looks like a 1.0 or Like a game case cover Is it I don’t know I’m (0:20:59) Al: I mean, I think that’s the same artist they’ve been using for ages, but yeah, yeah, pretty sure I’ve had pretty sure I had that wallpaper on my phone for six months. (0:21:09) Al: Yeah, so we’ll see. We’ll see whether I’m right or wrong. It might be too soon after the most recent update, but they also could have been working on both of them at the same time. We’ll find out in like a week, because that’s like a week away. (0:21:27) Al: Next we have Crater crops have been delayed to the end of the day. (0:21:29) Al: We have so many more to delay. Keep coming with your delays please. (0:21:35) Al: There’s too many games. We still have like 30 games listed that’s coming out this year. Go and delay them please. (0:21:46) Al: Would you mean no? Man alive, Kevin. (0:21:49) Al: That’s all right. It’s all right. You’ve got two weeks till you need to do the Paleo Pines episode. (0:21:49) Kevin: I want, I just want Maneko, nothing else, and I’ll leave you alone, games. (0:21:57) Al: Sundown Survivors, they’ve got their 1.4 update, which they have named “The Final Boss”. (0:22:05) Al: And I think that the update includes “The Final Boss” of the storyline. Just a thought there. (0:22:10) Kevin: What that’s wild (0:22:16) Al: It’s like, what do they call it? Bullet hell? It’s a roguelike type game. (0:22:24) Al: I’m not playing this game. I don’t know. There’s some stuff. There’s some farming, (0:22:25) Kevin: But you have Pokemon. (0:22:31) Al: right? I felt like I needed to include it, but this is… (0:22:34) Al: It’s like three quid as well. It’s very cheap. (0:22:48) Al: Okay, I don’t know what that means. (0:22:52) Al: Or was that shoot him up? Right, got you. Orange season also have an update out. The festival’s season, that is out now, (0:23:01) Al: and it adds a tomato war, the summer festival and the chicken race. (0:23:06) Kevin: These are all good, good words. I like, especially “tomato war.” (0:23:08) Al: Yeah, so it looks like it’s a festival where you’re like trying to hit each other with tomatoes. (0:23:11) Kevin: What does that mean? Oh, oh, you thought- oh. (0:23:18) Al: During the event, you and three other competitors will throw tomatoes at each other, earning points for hits and losing points for getting hit. The one with the highest score when the time is over wins. Don’t worry, all the tomatoes used weren’t apt for consumption anyway. Like it matters, it’s a game. (0:23:34) Al: Oh, there’s a swimming… Oh, wait, swimming? That is the Summer Festival. They just called it different things. They called it Summer Festival at the top and then they called it swimming festival. (0:23:34) Kevin: - Yeah. (0:23:48) Al: Let’s use swim and then there’s the chicken race, which I feel like that’s probably self-explanatory as well. (0:23:50) Kevin: just it looks good though (0:23:54) Al: Also, is that a dino chicken? Look at the colors on that chicken. (0:24:02) Kevin: I don’t… I think it’s the green-ish chicken. I don’t know. (0:24:07) Kevin: Um, there’s a whole bunch of other… (0:24:09) Al: Yes, they have the key one, I think, being that they’ve added control support, so this is good. (0:24:14) Al: Yes, yes, I do. As someone with a Steam Deck, I very much like controller support on Steam Games. (0:24:21) Al: Next, we have another update. Travelers Rest have their drinks and staff update. So… (0:24:31) Kevin: Those sound important to a game where you’re running a tabber. (0:24:35) Al: Yes. Yeah, so customers can order drinks. (0:24:39) Al: You can serve them drinks, and then there’s also… you can employ employees. (0:24:46) Al: They also added seasons to the game. Like, I feel like what was in this game before now, right? (0:24:52) Kevin: You can hire a bouncer. (0:24:53) Kevin: I’m wondering! (0:24:54) Al: They’ve added the guest room system as well. Like, there’s a lot in this update. (0:24:56) Kevin: New beverage aging system was that… (0:25:00) Kevin: There- ooh. (0:25:02) Kevin: That you’d expect in a tavern. (0:25:07) Kevin: A similar game. (0:25:07) Al: To be fair, to be fair, isn’t it? (0:25:09) Al: access. So it’s 0.6.1 update. Right, next we have two Pixellia which we’ve mentioned before but they are now in Kickstarter. Now what I want to do is I want Kevin to go and watch the entirety of this video before we talk about this. (0:25:14) Kevin: It’s a fun idea, just a little more time in the oven and it looks like- (0:25:29) Al: So I will probably cut this out listeners but I want Kevin to go and listen and then tell us what his thoughts. (0:25:29) Kevin: Alright. Alright, here we go. (0:25:32) Kevin: Are you sh- (0:25:34) Kevin: Alright, you don’t want- I can do it live as I’m watching. (0:25:38) Kevin: Alright. (0:25:39) Al: I mean you can do it live if you want but you don’t need to. (0:25:40) Kevin: Alright, based on my true story, is that what it just said? (0:25:45) Kevin: Yup, on my true story. (0:25:48) Kevin: I can live my life how I see fit, okay. (0:25:50) Kevin: Pixelian is a whole awful word. (0:25:53) Kevin: Is this just Pixel Sims? (0:25:53) Al: I know, right? (0:25:58) Al: I mean, I don’t know, I don’t think it’s Sims. (0:26:01) Al: It feels more like Pixel’s Second Life. (0:26:05) Kevin: or that short yeah oh yeah I’ll look at there’s a fashion runway yeah there’s a lot going on here well you can really do anything you can be a band basketball farmer okay you can you can decorate your space yeah okay this is just Sick in life pixel version. (0:26:10) Al: Because like, you are playing, because you’ve got one character that you’re playing. And it’s like, there’s so much going on. (0:26:20) Al: This is the thing, it just keeps going. (0:26:34) Kevin: Um (0:26:35) Kevin: Let’s embrace the thrill what you can rob banks And a hack I saw a binary oh my gosh grand theft auto actual street traffic violations Of course build bonds, what could that mean? (0:26:40) Al: Uh-huh, you can rob banks (0:26:49) Al: Yeah, you know, and then. (0:26:55) Kevin: You can’t go to jail. Yeah, i’m sure there’s I hope that jail system’s innovative Or immersive (0:27:02) Al: Yeah, I don’t know. I wonder if you can break out of it or not. (0:27:05) Al: What isn’t there? What isn’t there in this game? Like when I first saw this, I just thought it would be like another like life sim, standard life sim, but there’s an insane amount in this. (0:27:06) Kevin: Oh, you can you absolutely can oh, well, there’s a nightclub. Can you do crimes at the (0:27:20) Kevin: I mean, it is a life sim, but it’s a lot of life. (0:27:22) Al: Yeah, you can be a boxer. (0:27:24) Kevin: They really, this really is everything. (0:27:28) Kevin: Yup. (0:27:29) Kevin: Fishing, oh, there’s our cottage core. (0:27:31) Al: There’s our farming. (0:27:31) Kevin: Yeah, but who’s gonna, who wants to do that when you can rob banks? (0:27:36) Kevin: What is that? (0:27:37) Kevin: Is that the UN? (0:27:38) Kevin: Look, they have the bank robber right on the cover art. (0:27:40) Al: I think so. (0:27:42) Al: This is absolutely wild. (0:27:44) Kevin: That’s, they know that’s the good one. (0:27:48) Kevin: All right, there you go. (0:27:50) Kevin: They can’t do anything. (0:27:51) Kevin: It is. (0:27:54) Kevin: Wow, and boy, they’re so- (0:28:00) Al: Yeah, it’s not a huge goal. But yeah, still, I mean, you’ve seen ones with small goals not get hit. (0:28:06) Al: So, yeah, it’s going all right. Well, yeah, this is 2Pixellia. 2Pixellia is a pixel art life simulator game set in the charming country of Pixellia. Your journey begins with a life-changing decision to start a new life from scratch, bleh. And as you step off the bus, your choices will determine what that life will become. I wonder how much of that is like actual choice. I wonder if there’s things that you can’t actually do. (0:28:11) Kevin: They really do have politics. (0:28:30) Al: Like, do they build in, like, privilege and stuff like that? (0:28:36) Al: Is it easier for certain people to do certain things? (0:28:36) Kevin: Oh Oh, that would I would applaud them so hard if they did oh my gosh Idol I would would it be fun playing the game. I don’t know but reading it and seeing it happen and the Twitter Tweets that would come out of that. Oh my gosh, that would be the best (0:28:47) Al: I don’t know if that would be fun or not, that’s my only question. (0:28:54) Al: Yeah, it would be great as an art piece, certainly, right? (0:29:06) Kevin: Oh my gosh Okay Yeah, yeah just like the South Park difficulty slider Oh My gosh, okay. Look, you know what? They don’t even have to put gameplay in it But you like just lean into it like you can do anything (0:29:07) Al: But yeah, would that make it a fun game? (0:29:09) Al: I don’t know. (0:29:15) Al: I’m probably going to cut this bit, but like, you know, hard. (0:29:17) Al: More does your black, right? (0:29:18) Al: Yeah. (0:29:35) Kevin: Right in there. They’re added. That’s what they’re saying (0:29:36) Kevin: in their campaign. They’re advertising right. You can do anything and you can have like you could be a boxer You can be a bank robber. You can be a farmer. You can have privilege as a person of color You can do anything Oh my god, I mean there’s politics so the anarchy might Anarchism whatever you want to call it might be in the cards (0:30:06) Kevin: Dismantle the establishment Um, wow, that’s really uh, we’re very big and ambitious. That’s the word ambitious. Um And it looks the trailer looks like a game and with that small of a goal i’m assuming they’re Basically done It’s more game than not (0:30:23) Al: Yeah, so it does say that they’re expecting the final version to be out in May next year, (0:30:31) Al: I believe with the alpha coming out in December. So, I mean, that sounds to me like they, yeah, (0:30:38) Al: they have the features, right? They have the game and the alpha and beta will actually be an alpha and a beta, which is like actually testing the stuff that you’ve done rather than just going, “Hey, here’s a game without the stuff!” Right? You know, it’s like… (0:30:48) Kevin: Yep, does it work cough travelers rest cough No, I know (0:30:53) Al: “Here’s a game that has some stuff!” (0:30:56) Al: Which is… Well, I mean, that’s early on. They’re not calling it an alpha or beta. (0:31:00) Al: I just… I find it really annoying. Anyway, we don’t need to get into this again. (0:31:03) Al: What have I written in it? Yeah. It’s going to be interesting. Interesting to see. (0:31:07) Kevin: Yes, it’s big while yeah, that’s that’s yeah, you can really do anything sailing still an awful name So the there are clouds in the sky the ocean is wet Go ahead go ahead (0:31:10) Al: So, we’re going to talk about Stardew Valley. Let me start off. Let me start this off. (0:31:20) Al: Let me start this off! (0:31:24) Al: Kevin! (0:31:24) Al: So, Concern Date, like just after we recorded the last episode, posted this image on Twitter of, (0:31:33) Al: so have you ever done any Ginger Island stuff in Stardew? That was in the most recent update. (0:31:39) Al: I haven’t either, but I know that on Ginger Island, there’s a bunch of like parrots that you can use to unlock a bunch of stuff. And then, so this is an image of a parrot that is like (0:31:53) Al: JoJo branding, JoJo? JoJo? Is it JoJo? JoJo, sorry, JoJo, the JoJo branding on it. And so I’m like, (0:31:56) Kevin: Jojo, not Jojo. (0:32:01) Al: oh, interesting. Is this like another like JoJo based thing? How does this work? It’s going to be interesting to see what this is, presumably it’s on Ginger Island, or it’s in a new place that we don’t know about, something like that. And then, Concern Date just like posts a list of the features coming up in the next update. (0:32:23) Al: And you’re like, “Oh, okay.” Which includes one of the bullet points is Georgia alternatives to some of the endgame quests. (0:32:32) Al: So what I’m guessing is if you go the Georgia route for the community center, when you go to Ginger Island, all the parrots are Georgia parrots. (0:32:39) Kevin: Yup. (0:32:40) Kevin: Yup. (0:32:44) Kevin: Aw, sick. (0:32:46) Kevin: You’re gonna… (0:32:47) Kevin: Deforest that island and put on a Joja Mart there. (0:32:51) Al: I mean, I actually, I mean, I really enjoy doing the Georgia way of doing things, purely because it’s like, I like being able to just like, be a filthy capitalist, right? And just buy everything, right? Like, I’m just going to make so much money and just buy everything I need, right? Like, that’s fun to do. I obviously, I’ve only done it once, but it was fun to do it when I did it. Like, obviously, I enjoy doing the other way. (0:33:17) Kevin: - Yeah. (0:33:21) Al: But, you know, there’s a lot of my words, right? (0:33:26) Al: Okay, so let me just, let me just, well, let’s just go through this list and see if we have anything to say about them. How does that go? Because this is a lot of stuff coming in the new update. And I feel like, yeah, can we talk about this? Can we talk about this? Because, like, when Concern Date initially announced the 1.6 update, let me actually find the tweet. Because I’m sure and I can find it because he doesn’t tweet very much. (0:33:28) Kevin: Okay. (0:33:33) Kevin: Shock or… (0:33:35) Kevin: Cornsturn Day has a big update. laughs (0:33:49) Kevin: It’s also really short, like two sentences. (0:33:53) Kevin: Update coming, no release date. (0:33:54) Al: Okay, so what he said in his first tweet about 1.6 which was “April of this year” okay? (0:34:06) Al: Five months ago he said “There is going to be a StarJ 1.6 update. (0:34:10) Al: It’s mostly changes for modders, which will make it easier and more powerful to mod, but there is also new game content, albeit much less than 1.5.” (0:34:22) Kevin: This- Look, it is much less for a concerned ape by his scape metrics. (0:34:22) Al: Now look at this list. (0:34:24) Al: We have one new major festival, and two mini festivals. (0:34:36) Kevin: Wow, mini, okay! (0:34:37) Al: Right, so that’s just three festivals, right? (0:34:42) Al: Let’s not list it. (0:34:43) Al: You just added three new festivals in this update. (0:34:45) Al: He has added new late game content which expands on each of the skill areas. (0:34:50) Kevin: There’s a lot of skills in this game, so that’s the… (0:34:51) Al: There’s a lot of skills in this game. (0:34:54) Al: New items and crafting recipes. Sure, fine. We don’t know much about that. One of them looks to be a drink. One of them looks to be another warp totem. One is either golf clubs or a bag of worms. (0:35:04) Al: I don’t know. I can’t tell. Oh, could be. Oh, interesting. Is that… I wonder if that would… (0:35:06) Kevin: Quiver arrow arrow quiver Weapon new weapon I could see that (0:35:14) Al: Well, you can… There is no bow and arrow, isn’t there? There’s just… There’s the… (0:35:18) Al: The… What’s it called? The little… The little… The little kind of… What’s Bart Simpson’s thing? (0:35:19) Kevin: And this last I checked, slingshot. (0:35:23) Al: you know the like slingshot. (0:35:24) Al: Interesting arrow. I wonder how much of this is come from like stuff he’s adding into haunted chocolate here and going actually I want to add that into Stardew Valley. (0:35:33) Kevin: Other way around he’s it just adding haunted chocolates here in the Stardew I made the joke on the slack. It’s to start a 2.0 actually (0:35:34) Al: I mean I actually wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up adding if haunted chocolate here was a DLC yes and then we’ve got like I mean honestly I would not be surprised if haunted chocolate here ends up being DLC for Stardew Valley like we’ll all buy it and we’ll all love it. (0:35:54) Al: A hundred plus new lines of dialogue. (0:35:55) Kevin: Yep. (0:35:55) Kevin: That’s a lot of dialogue. (0:35:58) Al: Georgia alternatives to some of the end game quests. (0:36:01) Al: That’s what we’ve already talked about. (0:36:03) Al: Winter outfits for the villain. (0:36:05) Al: Winter outfits for the villagers. (0:36:07) Al: That’s all of the villagers are getting winter outfits. (0:36:09) Al: Now, one could say they should have already been there. (0:36:12) Al: That’s fair enough. (0:36:13) Al: But like that’s not a small thing to add, right? (0:36:17) Kevin: Sure, yes, right. (0:36:17) Al: Unique clothes for every single villager in the game. (0:36:21) Al: New type of reward for completing billboard accrues. (0:36:24) Al: Adding in support for 8 player multiplayer on PC. (0:36:29) Kevin: Oh nothing nothing big there. It’s just a player multiplayer They only on PC to be clear What is left to fall it’s a new farm that specializes in chocolate actually (0:36:30) Al: Just doubling the number of people that can play the game at once. (0:36:36) Al: A new farm! Another new farm! (0:36:42) Al: I don’t… (0:36:51) Al: I just, like, you could say this was small. (0:36:54) Al: If you want, I think you’re talking nonsense, right? (0:36:57) Kevin: I genuinely believe Concerned Ape thinks this is small. (0:36:58) Al: Like… (0:36:58) Al: Oh, I’m sure he does! (0:37:04) Al: I think he’s talking nonsense though. (0:37:06) Al: Like, this is not a small update. (0:37:08) Al: Yeah. (0:37:08) Kevin: And of course, he has the new secrets and more at the end, meaning there’s who knows what else. (0:37:14) Al: Yep. (0:37:16) Al: Do you know, I think he keeps doing this because it just keeps getting people back into the game because now I want to play stardom. (0:37:17) Kevin: It’s a blank check. (0:37:24) Al: So yeah, there’s a lot of stardom stuff coming. He says there’s no date for 1.6 yet and I believe him. (0:37:29) Kevin: Maybe. I mean, there’s winter outfits for you to celebrate. (0:37:39) Al: Well that’s exactly what’s going to happen right? Well for PC anyway, it’ll take a while for consoles but yeah, that’s going to be like “oh yeah, game’s out now”. (0:37:42) Kevin: Yeah, it’ll just look knowing him. It’s just he’s gonna have a tweet. So it’s out. That’s it Yeah (0:37:50) Al: But yeah, that’s going to be like, “Oh yeah, game’s out now.” (0:37:53) Al: You’re like, “Sorry, what?” (0:37:54) Al: There’ll be somebody who will load up Steam the moment it gets updated, (0:38:01) Al: and Concerned Date won’t have tweeted about it yet. (0:38:03) Al: Someone will be like, “Oh, he’s updated the game,” and then Concerned Date will announce it by retweeting that person’s tweet. It’s like, “Oh man, you don’t have to keep giving us this stuff for free right like I know I know we made a lot of money with stargy (0:38:04) Kevin: Oh, oh, oh, absolutely. (0:38:25) Al: right I know i’m sure he is but I mean you know dude’s working dude’s got to get paid like i’m just i’m sure he is (0:38:25) Kevin: I think he still is. (0:38:36) Kevin: I’m I’m not concerned about that. I’m sure he’s making good money Like you said like you said this every time he does this the new one point whatever number That’s that’s that’s sales. That’s absolutely sales Just you watch to just just you way you will eat (0:38:51) Al: I think I already own the game on everything. I don’t think I can buy it again. (0:38:55) Al: I just can’t decide what to play the game on again. Like, do I just continue on Switch? (0:39:03) Al: Do I play it on Steam Deck? Because the update’s probably going to come to Steam first. (0:39:09) Kevin: I don’t know. Well, I mean, yeah, it’s kind of just the first I don’t know. (0:39:09) Al: How good’s the controller I support on Steam? (0:39:19) Al: It was fine. (0:39:23) Kevin: I would like to see when (0:39:27) Al: Crazy. I’m presuming the new farm is to do with that, right? Like instead of four corners, it’s in eight corners. (0:39:33) Al: It does have full controller support on Steam. He did also say in his Steam update, (0:39:44) Al: which is different from the Tweet, he says, “I have no release date for it yet, but it will release it as soon as it’s ready. The content is pretty close to being finished, but then there will (0:39:59) Kevin: Yeah, because he’s on everything now, that tail end of development is a bit, it’s a, it’s a- (0:40:09) Al: Maybe I need to start soon so that I can actually get done with the 1.5 stuff. (0:40:13) Kevin: There you go, yeah, there you go. (0:40:16) Kevin: Look, okay, you’re debating where, here’s what you do. (0:40:18) Kevin: You have one on Switch, one on Steam Deck, (0:40:21) Kevin: one of them is the Jojo Route, one is not. (0:40:23) Kevin: There you go, problem solved. (0:40:28) Kevin: You know, look at that parrot, (0:40:31) Kevin: it’s on a stand with the J on it. (0:40:34) Kevin: You won’t get that if you don’t do Jojo Route. (0:40:41) Kevin: It’s a self-concerned game, not me! (0:40:45) Al: Also, we’ll see whether 1.7 happens or not. (0:40:48) Kevin: Oh, it… it… like… I… (0:40:49) Al: He’s only mentioned 1.7 once and that was in answer to a question as to whether there would be a 1.7 and he said, “Who knows?” (0:40:59) Kevin: I made- again I made the joke on Slack but this is almost as serious as it is a joke. (0:41:05) Kevin: It will outlive a lot of things. (0:41:08) Kevin: These Stardew updates. (0:41:09) Al: I feel like he said 1.5 was the last one, so he kind of already has failed at stopping. (0:41:11) Kevin: This man cannot stop. He’s just one of those people. (0:41:20) Al: Anyway, right, the other big news that we’ve got to talk about. (0:41:24) Al: Oh, so, Tales of the Shire. (0:41:24) Kevin: Something else that won’t stop, Lord of the Rings! (0:41:31) Al: Now, for some reason, and I think we all know the reason, the answer to that, the reason is money, right? (0:41:36) Kevin: money. (0:41:39) Al: But for some money-related reason, Lord of the Rings is making a cottagecore game based in the Shire. (0:41:49) Al: And that’s how you get the best of your own. (0:41:49) Al: I’m not. (0:41:50) Al: We know at this point. What I will say, what I will say is interesting. Weta Workshop are, (0:41:57) Al: it says to, it’s, what’s the other company? Sorry, I’m just trying to look at this again, (0:42:03) Al: because it, so Private Division, I don’t know who they are, but I know that Weta Workshop made physical props for the films. (0:42:17) Kevin: If you that trailer looks like it was filled not the set like I mean it’s a very short trailer just shows the book basically but like it you can see from that one shot like there’s a lot of love for Lord of the Rings here I am very confident that this will be a very good and Lord of the Rings. (0:42:20) Al: Yeah. (0:42:39) Kevin: Well actually actually I’m thinking about this now it’s all in the shire right like there’s a lot of important. (0:42:45) Al: Yes. (0:42:46) Al: Yes. (0:42:47) Kevin: The Lord of the Rings stuff not in the shire and how much of that is going to leak into here can you romance or on. (0:42:51) Al: Well, I’m presuming some people are coming to visit, right? (0:42:56) Al: No. (0:42:58) Kevin: I. (0:43:01) Al: So, games, the private division have worked on or with Hades. (0:43:12) Al: They worked with Supergiant Games on Hades. (0:43:13) Kevin: Oh. Oh boy. (0:43:16) Al: Ollie Ollie World. (0:43:17) Al: Skateboarding game. It’s very good. (0:43:22) Kevin: Okay, oh That’s a that’s a good one Good heavens these this is the good resume (0:43:24) Al: The Outer Worlds. (0:43:25) Al: Kerbal Space Program Enhanced Edition. (0:43:31) Al: And they’re making Tales of the Shire with Weta Workshop. (0:43:38) Al: Well, the interesting thing is, the point is, Weta Workshop have done Lord of the Rings stuff. (0:43:44) Al: Like they are, they did physically. (0:43:45) Al: This is supposed weird, they made physical, they’re not a game developer. (0:43:50) Al: They are so, so, so there we go. (0:43:51) Kevin: No, but they’re Lord of the Rings people. (0:43:54) Kevin: That’s what private division is for. (0:43:56) Kevin: They’re Lord of the… Yeah. (0:43:58) Kevin: Yeah, to be clear… (0:43:58) Al: Well, so it looks like Private Division are a publisher, not a developer. (0:44:01) Kevin: Oh, well, well, look. (0:44:03) Al: That’s fine. (0:44:04) Al: So they’re not, they are, that is correct. (0:44:05) Kevin: Weta Workshop is from New Zealand, I believe, if I’m not mistaken. (0:44:09) Kevin: Okay, well, New Zealand, I… (0:44:12) Kevin: I say somewhat jokingly, somewhat seriously. (0:44:15) Kevin: There is an appreciable amount of their GDP That is from Lord of the Rings! (0:44:21) Kevin: I am confident this will get the love and attention it deserves. (0:44:21) Al: I’m just, I am just fascinating. (0:44:26) Kevin: And it’s a lot of the rings, man. (0:44:35) Kevin: Well… (0:44:36) Al: Look, this is going to be dangerous, right? Because I love Lord of the Rings and I love Kochiko Games. I’m really worried about this. (0:44:37) Kevin: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. (0:44:44) Kevin: I think the expression of “I just want to be a hobbit” in the last video is… (0:44:51) Kevin: A little shire is a very common sentiment among people in general. (0:45:04) Al: 2024 to PC and console. I don’t think they’ve said (0:45:12) Kevin: I like how we’re excited, we have no idea what it’s gonna be like, like, no! (0:45:14) Al: It doesn’t matter, we know, we know what, like I, I trust that this will be good. (0:45:17) Kevin: Oh, I do too? No, I fully agree, I just, I just think it’s funny, like, that’s how confident we are in this project. (0:45:25) Al: Yeah. Yeah. (0:45:28) Kevin: That we don’t need any details, we’re gonna get it, and it’s gonna be good, and… (0:45:28) Al: I mean, that trailer looked good. (0:45:33) Kevin: You alright? There you go. (0:45:36) Al: So, yeah. (0:45:37) Al: Hopefully, we’ll find out soon. (0:45:42) Al: I sincerely hope so. (0:45:43) Kevin: can you have second breakfast argue right right okay okay yes yes all right (0:45:48) Al: Oh, shall we talk about Meneko’s Nightmark? (0:45:59) Al: I realised I hadn’t actually written down what things were going to talk about, so I’m just like frantically thinking up things. (0:46:06) Kevin: Well, as always, let’s start with the context of where we’re coming from. (0:46:13) Kevin: As you said earlier, you’re playing on Steam Deck, I’m playing on Switch, I’m interested to hear the comparison there. (0:46:21) Kevin: What are your overall thoughts, opinions? (0:46:25) Al: Yes, I like this game. I have some comments on things I would improve. (0:46:37) Kevin: There are definitely issues… small, like… (0:46:39) Al: Well, small in so much as like, it depends how you define a small. So one of the things I have noticed is that every loading screen is very long. (0:46:53) Kevin: Okay, I okay. Are we just gonna get into this like the bad because like All right. All right. Okay. I was yes loading This is probably the number one big issue loading times are Atrocious like I thought I was wondering if it was just a switch port, but okay, so it’s not okay Okay, I want to My very first thought about this game when I played it (0:46:55) Al: Let’s just go for it. Let’s get the bad out of the way so we can talk about the good, right? Let’s let’s go for it. (0:47:02) Al: Yeah. Yeah. (0:47:09) Al: It is not. It is the same on Steam Deck. (0:47:23) Kevin: So when you started you get the loading screen and it’s like mineko running in the corner but there’s no music or anything and I Genuinely thought my game had frozen as I soon as I’d started cuz the necker stopped moving [laughing] (0:47:28) Al: Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there’s something weird in terms of like, there, (0:47:44) Al: cause yeah, there’s some freezes and stuff as well, which sometimes can be a bit stressful. (0:47:46) Kevin: Yep. (0:47:47) Al: We are like, Oh no, have I lost my day? No, I haven’t. I have not lost any data. Um, (0:47:48) Kevin: Ee-eesh. (0:47:49) Kevin: Yeah. (0:47:55) Al: That’s not true, there was one, what happened? (0:47:58) Al: I can’t remember, there was one case where I had to restart and I lost the day, (0:48:01) Al: and I can’t remember what that was. Did I write it in Slack? (0:48:04) Al: Oh yes, no, I remember, I remember, I remember, there’s a button on the controller remapping where you can click it and it deletes all of your mapping so you can’t do anything with the game. (0:48:04) Kevin: I don’t… I mean, yeah… (0:48:08) Kevin: See, okay, my… oh, okay, so… (0:48:11) Kevin: Yeah. (0:48:15) Kevin: Yes. (0:48:19) Al: So if you click that button, which annoyingly the button is labeled default, so I can– (0:48:21) Kevin: Oh my god, are you see… (0:48:28) Al: I kind of thought that would set it to the default, right? (0:48:30) Al: Because I’d changed a few things and I was like, “All right, well, let me reset it to the default.” (0:48:34) Al: But the default is nothing. (0:48:34) Kevin: Ohhh… (0:48:36) Al: But the problem is then, I have no controls. Nothing worked. (0:48:36) Kevin: Ohhh yeah! (0:48:40) Al: So thankfully, it didn’t autosave, right? (0:48:42) Kevin: Yes, witches! (0:

jD, Pete, and Tim are back and they're listening to the 2002 release, In Violet Light.Track 1:[0:00] As I sit at my computer to write this introduction, I've really had to rack. [0:05] My brain for anything specific about In Violet Light. It has nothing to do with the brilliance of the record, but I had pretty much left the missionary zeal phase of my hip fandom and was now, sadly, just a casual. Even something as cool as The Hip Club, which was included with the CD release on the June 11th, 2002 CD didn't suck me in, and it's a damn shame too. When I see you out there with cards still in your wallet, I'm jealous and forlorn. [0:40] Something that was so essential in my life was now being left behind because I was focused on the lo-fi experience of bands like Pavement, Silver Jews, Guided by Voices, andSebadell. I did, however, make it out for the In Violet Light summer tour at the then Molson Amphitheater and was blown away by the new songs I heard live. Lake Fever, Silver Jet, The Dark Knuck, they all rocked live. But there was one song that captured my attention and bled through all the noise I was experiencing at the time. It's a song that I still hold close to my heart today, and it's remained a beacon, like a lighthouse leading a lost vessel homeward in more recent years. It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken is a masterpiece in the hip-souvra. Everything just works, and it straight fucking cooks as an ominous-sounding live jam. [1:40] I was working at Starbucks downtown when a barista, now my wife, asked me what I thought of the new album and particularly that song. I don't have the words for it, I told her. She agreed. This was supercharged hip at its best. Now it's time for Pete and Tim to experience A Heron Outside in Violet Light. They both were floored with music at work, so IVL has to be a slam dunk, right? Have to wait and see on this episode of Getting Hip to the Hip. Track 4:[2:37] All right, so welcome back to Getting Hip to the Hip, I'm your host JD and every week we talk about a Tragically Hip record with two budding fans of the Tragically Hip butformerly completely ignorant of the existence of the band and I don't mean I mean ignorant in the dictionary definition you guys are both classy gentlemen but you just it had never it hadnever made it to your ears before. So, we've got Tim and we've got Pete, and we're doing In Violet Light this week. Tim, Pete, how you doing? Hey, guys. How's it going? It's going. It's good. We are back for another week. I'm just, you know, I'm just so pleased that somebody's listening to this. I'm just sure of it, right? Yeah. Well, we're selling tickets for the finale event. We can announce that Tragically cover band 50 Mission are going to be playing, we're gonna have local comedian Pete Van Dyke there, there's gonna be some silent auction items, one ofwhich was donated to us by the Tragically Hip themselves, which is fucking spectacular we also have some items coming to us from David Bustito, so I'm real excited about that becausehe was their official tour photographer for a long time I'd be Curious to see what he what he might what he might donate excellent. [4:07] So yeah, that's pretty I was thinking this week if we make it to the end of this podcast like get through all the records Without a like a seriously like hardcore diehard to actually hitfam you're killing Tim or I And I think we've it's been a success But yeah, it won't happen. Hopefully it won't happen after today's recording. There may be like an Oswald Jack Ruby incident at the finale. [4:38] But you guys don't have guns in Canada, so that's good. I had already plotted... It's really hard though. Oh God. I had already plotted, you know, a disguise for the event, so it's not really me that's there. No, I'm not Pete. If you see somebody with a goatee and a mustache and another mustache on top of that mustache, that's probably Tim Lydon Maybe two mullets The glasses with the nose and themustache Yeah, so let's start off like we always do and get a sense of how you guys took in this record Where you did your listening? Did it heighten or expand that experience? All that good shit. [5:26] I went into it right away. I mean, after our last pod recording, I kind of jumped right into it. In Violet Light because I was excited and wanted to keep the momentum going and the work going and I listened to it all over the place. I was, well, the first listen was cleaning out the garage and I was driving and I was at physical therapy for a portion on the train headed to Seattle. It was, I was kind of all over the place listening to this and I gotta say it was a more fragmented listen than past albums in that I had a hard time. I know about you, Pete, you might be the opposite of a feeling, but I had a hard time going from first song to last song and just listening to it straight through. It was because of a myriadof reasons, but sometimes because of the music. Yeah, sometimes because of the music. Huh. You know, I mean, I hear what you're saying, Tim. For me, I too jumped right into this one immediately after we finished, like, maybe even that night, finished the recording or the very next day. As is with everything with this band, I started to listen and was just wildly unimpressed. [6:48] And then just, it like, as the time went on, I just was like, so wrong and like, I, I mean, literally, I'm glad I've, I've been saving my notes now in my like notes section of my computerbecause I didn't save the notes from the first one, because they just now have gotten longer and longer and longer. And like, by the time we get to the final record, it's going to be a Dostoyevsky novel, dude. [7:18] It's just super, yeah, it's ridiculous, man. I enjoyed the shit out of this record. I would say my listening places, mistake, I started at the computer, which is maybe why I was unimpressed, but I'm just going to say this, there's nothing better than driving in my car,listening to this record. I did a lot of driving this last week, a lot of driving, and this record just, especially on the sound system I have in my car, I think that I'm a... Premium premium audio system in my car. Yeah. [8:00] You know laugh while you want to Just I love it And I think it's my laugh is like 96% joy because you know for all of us Out there and in the interwebs land listening to this It's somedude named Pete He's got, you know blonde hair and blue eyes and he's from California and he lives in fucking Spain driving around in some cool car Which I don't know what it is. So don't tell me No, you don't some cool car with some cool sound system this dude from LA gets a drive around fucking Spain And I'm you know at time of recording While we'repromoting our event coming up. It's you know, just fucking snowed 11 inches in Portland in 24 hours and it was the most snow in 24 hours since 1943. And here's Pete just driving around, do, do, do, do, do. It's not snowing. It's snowed. It snowed this weekend, too, and where I was at. Oh, wow. Envy and joy. Envy and joy. OK, I'll take it. Yeah. I'll take it. Yeah. So. J.D., what do you think? Yeah, J.D. This was a record. This was the last record that I saw a tour for until the last record. [9:15] So I was starting to like wind down my extreme, like this is my number one band fandom. And if you'll note the year, you guys will recognize that's when, you know, like I found pavement and I just was getting caught up. Like, you know, the 2000s for me were getting caught up in everything that I'd missed in the 90s for singularly listening to the Tragically Hip. And of course, a bunch of other stuff. So I resented that a little bit, but when Greg and I were doing the podcast and I came back to this record, it was like, what were you thinking? What blows my mind is that this is 2002. [10:04] This means they've released six records in less than 10 years and they keep getting better, like they keep getting stronger or different at the very least. And I, I just don't understand how they were able to do that. You know, I just don't. Aye, aye. I second that emotion, Smokey, certainly. I have a feeling, I don't know what your all music rating you saw was. I didn't look that up. But I feel that at this point, the past few albums and this one have been highly influenced by who's helping on the production side. You know, this one we had Hugh Pagum. [10:53] Yeah. who did police albums and XTC and split ends and, you know, albums with beautiful sound. He invented gated drumming. The sound of drums in the 80s. Think of In the Air Tonight, the drum sound. [11:13] He invented that sound. And that sound is so prevalent in like, Like, you know, especially like, well, like highly glossed 80s, you know, artists, right? They were, they were all playing with that stuff. And there's... Sorry, go ahead. No, no, no. I was just gonna, it's crazy you mentioned the drums just because, and I didn't hear the gated sound in this, but in a lot of my notes, I mentioned the drums, the sound of the drums in thisparticular record are they really, really, really stand out, really stand up. Yeah. For a drummer that's not flashy, you know what I mean? Right. Not flashy at all. He's so, and this is going to sound like I'm damning with faint praise, but I'm not, when I say he's so competent, I just mean workman like, you know, Johnny Fayeis just workman. Like it's, it's just, he knows what the song needs and he goes in there and gets it done and that's what you get, you know, but he, he really, In my opinion, he rises above on this. He's a bit of the cream that comes to the top on this record, man, for a lot of reasons, but we'll get into it in the songs. I might agree with that, but just to circle back, I think that the production side of this one. It's more. It feels less. [12:32] Band driven and more like who produced this album. That's how it felt to me and Sometimes that that feels awesome with sometimes that is awesome. And sometimes it's like whoa. Yeah, okay That's the that's the album that you tag him if I'm saying his name, right pageant pipe edge I'm happy on the hue pageant produced and in thatYou know, I felt this on this one. It's just to continue my food analogies It's like showing up at a restaurant and there's like there's you still got everybody in the kitchen But somebody else, you know kind of wrote themenu like it's like where'd that where'd our where'd our house cheeseburger go? You know, it's just missing and we have some something else. So this one felt a little different to me and I mentioned this the Pete a few days ago But even on the sound side, from my car to my headphones, everything, this album is fucking bright. It's as if somebody came into my equalizer and pumped up most the levels, especially mid to highs, because it's fucking bright. [13:39] So much that I was turning down my shit to make it more tolerable. It was over-the-top produced in on the sound finish side. It was different than the others different than yeah Well one last anecdote about Hugh Padgham That's sort of funny is Johnny Faye was of course a big Stewart Copeland fan. [14:07] So He ended up skipping his grade 13 exam one of his exams to go and buy a police record the day it came out. And I forget which record it is. [14:25] Oh man, you, God damn. Yeah, I'm not 100% certain what record it is. That's amazing. Yeah, so he was absolutely stoked to be working with this producer. And this was their first sort of, Like he says their first sort of get, you know, in terms of producers. So I wonder if they were performing and they just, they were performing for him. And they also were sort of like in reverence, just lifted their hands off the wheel and just said, you know, take us home. I don't know. That's crazy. You know, I swear this is going to be the last quick anecdote, but just cause you brought up the police. Do you guys both know that the record Synchronicity, which is easily my favorite police record, I had 32 different covers. [15:18] No, no, look, that's a fact. No, no, but some are more valuable than the others. So they did last time. So they actually produced all of them. No, they just the covers themselves. Yeah, different. Yeah, that's amazing. That is amazing. Yeah, they just they were like different pictures that they had taken. And they just made multiple different covers and put it out. And so some people have like, a blue and yellow stripes. Some people have the red, the yellow and the blue. Some people have more red. It's just really unique. I love that. Yeah. Random people. Just because we're talking about the blue. Cool factoid. Yeah, this album, just if I could keep going a little bit, it felt... [16:01] One of the words that came to mind was, and it's not, but it was like sophomoric or homecoming. Like, it felt like the band had gone on, you know, this... how many years are wetalking now? It's 2002, right? How many years are they in the game? 84. Yeah, so 618. That's a lot of years. And I feel like if you're a band and you're at it for that long, to me, you're going to have this kind of album that's going to come out. You're going to find a producer that's amazing or someone you've looked up to forever, and you're going to just go hit the go button with them. And that's kind of what this album turned out to be, to me, in my opinion. It feels like professional accomplished. [16:54] I'm really trying not to go to the word generic or standard TH, but some of it does feel that way. And then there's these little glimpses in there of Gord still doing his thing. The last album, if I could circle back to that like, There's no Tiger the Lion on this album for me. That's kind of my statement. Like the music at work, when I hit Tiger the Lion, it was like, oh shit, what is this song? And I was really searching for that on In Violet Light, and it was hard to come up with that. It was hard to get there. Oh, wow. I've got two Tiger the Lions on this record, and they're fucking back to back. Ha, ha, ha. Ooh, man, I'm interested to hear what these are, too. Let's go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, well let's go song by song then. Are you ready? Fuck yeah. I'm ready, man. What's the first song? Are you ready? [17:52] See, I was waiting for that though, I was waiting for that all week. That's in your notes, isn't it? It is in my notes. Say, ask JD, tell JD, no. [18:01] Dude, I'll take this one, Tim, just because I want to kick it off, man. I mean, what a fucking song to open up a record with. It's just, it's the band taking the fucking golf ball, putting the tee between their pointer and their middle fingers, sticking the fucking ground, and then looking back at you handing you theclub and going, so, are you ready? It's just fucking, the chorus is amazing. Johnny Faye's drums on this, I'll say this just off the top, but this is like many songs I heard his snare is so bright. Mm-hmm. His snare is so bright. It's a fucking bright out this It's yeah, it's just it's you could it's standout for sure The the cool way it starts with the guitars I think Paul Langlois, am Ipronouncing his name right finally? You nailed it. So Paul Langlois guitar He's playing like a like a dissonant note in there because when Rob Baker comes in with his little guitar licks he's not playing anything dissonant he's playing likea like a happy sort of major lick and it works great with what what Paul's playing but it's just it's just fucking Cool. [19:27] I have a halftone guitar lick, the solo. I love this. I just, I love this song. It just got me ready for the next shit to come. This is a plane taking off. And you know, we get Silverjet down the line, but it is a Silverjet just fucking going a thousand miles an hour up into the air right now. I fucking love it. What about, let's say you, Tim. You know, I thought it was a super starter also. [20:04] It reminded me, just the whole, are you ready? Reminded me right away of the English beat, are you ready to dance? Or are you ready to ska? There's like this old, that got covered a few times too. It's just Similar lyric that it just brought me back to which is always fun. I thought gourd sounded Like cleaner and brighter, of course, I'm gonna stop using that word in a minute Higher in tone like he sounds a little cleaner like almost He's really mastering histool Yeah Like also as if perhaps he you know Quit smoking for two weeks up until recording or something like there was just he was he was cleaner or less growly. At the same time, the song compositionally was like, pretty basic, let's get going and see, kind of see what's next. You know, it's not an embracer, it's a, let's put it in first gear and get this car moving down the road, you know. I have a question for you. What do you guys think of the first four lyrics, the first four lines of lyrics? Here the old whistle blowing, they're pulling the plug, Doug, we got to get going, they got our whole Doug. [21:24] I think this record's riddled with Gord Downie Canadianisms, all just chock full of it. It's a reference of something, shit I don't know, being an American who doesn't even live there.No, no, this isn't a Canadian one. This is just interesting. Lyrics to me that I just wondering like when I heard it I felt it was like self-referential like it was like you know like oh like they're we're done guys they were could be it they were startedfalling out of favor a little bit at this point just the diehards really started to cling on you know for the next two or three records. After this it's still like a giant cohort like a giant cohort. Yeah, like I mean they were still doing stadiums and things like that, but But it was so those lyrics really stuck out at me, you know, like and then it's like are you ready? You know, it's like fuck it all like are you ready? You know what the balls of the balls of gourd down in a fucking call at the fan base like that. That's fucking I I Mean, I don't know. Yeah, just like it's like hey, I guess I guess we're not the fucking We're not the the sweetest maple syrup in town anymore fellas. So let's they got ourfucking holes Doug. Let's just play our shit Yeah, let's do it Yeah, I think I had some image of like getting out of your factory job The end of the day Friday, maybe got paid It's like we got to get the fuck outof here because these guys are gonna kill us eventually but not tonight I don't know it felt very working-class to tie back to what you said Pete. You know this this album is riddled with Gordisms and and sorry and There was so much to look at and rabbit hole, and it was it was like fuck these guys Maybe you know part of it isthey were Pulling out lots of stops for Mr. Hugh on the production side. Yeah, fun there. So we move next to track two use it up. [28:01] So I thought we went from like, okay, this is a fast-paced, let's get moving song, to kind of a slowdown quickly. I mean, I found this happening. I know, JD, you comment sometimes on my, you know, look at albums as if they're books or chapters or what have you, but this one, you know, it was a little bit slow and darker andthere's a message or a lesson, there's like a teaching happening, the chorus of this super sing-along chorus with a way going, you know. I was like, okay, is this a radio hit or, I don't know. [28:48] This is the one with the Bruce Springsteen reference, is that right? Yeah. You know, I had quickly wondered if this one felt a little too like scripted to reach USA audience. I don't know. I was a little bit confused, a little bit like started off strong and then went into the slow dark kind of let's pull on the heartstrings quickly here. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, well, we'll go to Pete. What do you think, Pete? It's again, like the plane has taken off with Are You Ready? And now it's just it's ascending into the fucking cosmos, dude, this song. Fucking just it cooked. I got chills. And And the hairs on my arms stood up, thinking and dreaming about hearing this song live.". [29:52] Like literally, the way the drums are, Paul Lanois' guitar in this song is the drums, the way he holds the rhythm to it. Rob Baker must have, I don't know what, I mean, here's the thing, I think I said this maybe the last podcast, but his talent as a guitar player has become exponentially better as each recordgoes on. Not just like all the cool effects that are in this, it just is fucking awesome. I mean, just hearing the licks, Gord commands this song like a fucking admiral commands an aircraft carrier. I mean... [30:39] When he goes, I love the chorus, music that can take you away, and it just, there's like an echo effect or there's some sort of effect that just lets his voice ring out, but there's a partwhere he goes back into the second verse, I think, or maybe the third verse, and he goes an octave higher and he goes, instead of, use it up, use it up, and he gets really high. And it just, it's like watching the kettle on the fucking stove about ready to fucking explode. That's what I think of this song too. I think of it as like, just a builder. And like, I don't think of it as a slow song at all. [31:23] You know, like, like, like, there's some, some, some real hot water bubbling away here, getting ready to boil over. You know, you guys are almost making me want to listen to this album, but not in order. Not in order. I feel like I should go back to it and put it on random and see what happens. See what happens, yeah. Because I just, I wish I had the same sentiment. I went from, like, the car is moving to, oh, who are we trying to grab here? I mean, these lyrics are heavy, fairly simple, compared to some other hip songs, you know, lots of repeated chorus but like I just wasn't exactly yeah just didn't just didn't grasp me so thethe the way the guitar starts once the drums kick in it's got that kind of like bluesy bar rock sound to it just like I just imagine the fucking crowd just just just thumping at that live showwhen this song is played live. I mean. [32:31] And Gordon singing out, somebody pushing the fucking sustain button on who's ever working the board and just away! And it just, everybody losing their fucking mind and Rod Baker doo doo, doo Just, sorry man, I fucking I sound like a douchebag fanboy on this podcast You know I'm cool with it Theother day I was like I'm gonna come in maybe not sounding the most positive about this And I was like, I bet Pete's going to hold it up for us. But that's kind of a tough part. Part of this assignment is really difficult in that we're listening to albums and albums and albums by a band, hours and hours. And we should add up the hours by now. [33:20] And we've watched some videos, and we've never attended a show. I mean, I've never seen The Rolling Stones. I've listened to every one of their albums. There's tons of examples like that. But I haven't sat down and gone through song by song by The Stones, nor do I want to. So nobody invite me to go do that. But anyways, it's like we've not seen the hit play. And I know that many of their songs are probably just amazing live. Yeah. They're built for live, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just a facet of my hip career that I'm missing. But this next one, the darkest one, which I'm mostly going to let Pete talk about because it has to do with it, you know, a little bit with his favorite TV show. But this one, this is my JD karaoke request, this one. Oh wow. I want to hear JD belt this one out. That's what I heard when I heard this song. I was like, oh, this is good. Oh, this would be cool to hear JD sing karaoke. [34:31] Have you ever done karaoke to this song, JD? I never found it at a karaoke place. Usually they have the bigger hits, but they don't have the deeper cuts. Well, maybe you could just send me your own video recorded version. I'll do it. I mean, just to share with me. [34:52] Yeah, this song contains one of my favorite sets of lyrics ever, like ever, by anybody. You know, the wild are strong, and the strong are the darkest ones, and you're the darkest one. Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah. Like, that build to describing somebody in that manner, oh, it just makes me grin. just makes me grin. Oh, God, dude, the song. First of all, I love that it was the the track of the trailer. That's how I recognized it initially. You know, you know, I mean, we have to talk that kind of guy. It really cooks the opening. But I mean, just Gord Sinclair's bass is like holding this song up and help pushing it up and get it off the ground. I agree that the chorus, we're the strong or the darkest ones and you're the darkest one. I mean, it's just how he repeats it, how Gord repeats it, you're the darkest one and I can't sing like him. The melody just goes up and down. It's just fucking amazing. [36:15] There's the line, it's funny because like initially all I thought it was like that horrible show they used to have on. God, I can't even remember the name of it, where the guy would like, God, what was the name of that show? It was the Chris, not Chris Matthews, he was on NBC. Remember the guy would, the police would be checking those people, the people that were trying to hook up with young kids or something. And he said, why don't you come in and have a seat, right? Remember that? Oh, yeah. He's like, he busts people like, Yeah, he busts people. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, God, I can't remember the name of the show. Yeah, whatever it's called either. If you if you remember it, send us an email. JD at gettinghiptothehip.com What that horrible show is. I think Pete at gettinghiptothehip.com. That's for Pete. Yeah, I know. All right. Anyway, he would always say, like, why don't you come in and have a seat? But like, that's like a really demonic, horrible version. This was like,so like, Gord was like inviting everybody, come in, come in. It's warm and it's safe in here. Like, it was just like, like, we're already, we've walked through the door with these first two songs on this record. Now he's saying, like, hey, come in, makeyourself at home, have a seat on the couch. You know, it's so personal. I don't know, I got a really personal vibe from this record. [37:44] Lyrically, the way that the band played together so beautifully. [37:49] I feel like, yeah, you already mentioned the chorus, JD. You can really feel the band come together on this there. Everybody's now at the same level. Like, it's not the... No offense to Gord Downie, because he's, you know, he's just what it is he's amazing but like I feel like it's not just the gore downy show I like feel like if you took any member of thisband out of the band it would be equally as devastating. Equally as devastating. 100%. The last thing I will say is I don't know how I'd ever confirm this, but I feel like Rob Baker has maybe switched out the pickups on his Fender Strat duringthis one. He's maybe using some of those Fender Tex-Mex ones instead of the delay sensors. And I was just... because that solo at the end sounds really twangy, it's hard to use Tim's term, bright. [38:42] And it pissed me off so much that the song faded out. But the more I thought about it, the more I was like, dude, you can't end this song with a raging solo, such an amazing song, you just have to let it fade out. You can't compete with the rest of this song. So Rob Baker or the producer, they were in the right to just let the song fade out because You can't one-up yourselves in the same song. It's just so good. I didn't have an issue with the fade-out on this one. I think, in part, it's just the total tone of the song and the lyric. You're the darkest one. I mean, you're right. How would you end that? I didn't question it. It didn't cross my mind. But we got to talk about how fun the video is. I didn't see it. We don't. Oh, I got to see it. [39:35] Yeah, that part, you know, we had just to add to that we have not talked about their videos much and at some point it'd be You know side note here it'd be fun to uh Maybe I don'tknow what riff on this later Watch their videos and have an episode where we each talk about our favorite video they produced or something Yeah, because this video This one jd knows. Yeah, it's a hoot like I watched it like six videos Come on, you've seen the video with bubbles and everybody. Oh, this is the one. Oh To me. [40:24] Like Actor that like you forget that like, oh, that's core Johnny from the tragedy. He just looks like he belongs, right? Right, the video is so good, it feels really true. He could be Trevor Roy's cousin or something. I have a teenager at home that watched that whole series enough times so it was on in our basement regularly. I never saw that episode until through research found that, but the video is so fun. I seriously watched it six times, it's just so good. and made me love the song more, and it made me come back. You know, of course, in order of going through, in Violet Light, it just made me come back to this song as like, this song's a stopper, you know? It could just be its own single, you know? It's just, it's just one of those songs. Yeah, I mean, just give it to me on a seven inch and I'll just play that on my turntable. It's just a good, good song. God rest Jim Lange. [41:31] Yeah, poor lady So that takes us to The next track on the record, which is it's a good life if you don't weaken Yeah, no, I'll go so this from what I found this was the most played forthe album on Spotify by far The song has been played a ton for this album was like four million listens or something which I. [41:55] Think is huge There was one question Yeah, this song for the single. Okay, so that to me, that was kind of a surprise. Like why this one? Why do people glom on because it's awesome. But I might add a question of it around. I didn't do a deep dive. But Gord said it was this phrase, Molly Lorimer use life on the road when discussing life on the road. And I couldn't find much on this Molly Lorimer. I I don't know if you guys did. That was gonna be a question to you. Yeah, I don't know. It's just attributed to her. Yeah. It's a good life if you don't weaken. Yeah. It's a graphic novel by singularly named artist simply known as Seth. I don't know, that's all I've got. Yeah, but that line came from Molly. So, yeah. The piece itself was brought to the attention of the band by one of the staffers, Molly Lorimer. Okay. As Gord wanna explain, was fond of using the expression when discussinglife on the road. [43:01] Yeah, I mean, I love that part about it and that reference as far as literary references go on many of the songs, you know, was a little bit more mysterious, especially even differentsince it's based a bit on a graphic novel, which I don't think Gord has done yet. It seemed kind of like a love song or a, I don't know, a separation song or figuring out life, coming back together. You know, it was, it was, it was, there were lots of question marks on this one for me. It was kind of like, why is it so popular? What am I? I don't think I'm missing something here. I think I get it. I think it's just, I don't know, another, another heartstrings puller. That's kind of where I was left. What about you, Mr. Pete? [43:52] I did not like this song when I first started listening to it. The first run or two of it, the first thing I wrote was, this song is the cover of this record. So you listen to the guitar and you look at the cover, you're just like, oh, this is like the title track of the record. And then it just, I don't want to say it's my favorite song on the record, but it's pretty close man. I mean it's so good. The way this song builds, the keyboards come in and it just layers so nicely. I feel like when the chorus comes in and the harmonies hit, It's just, oh God, it's just beautiful, man. It's so good. The bridge is like butter. Sometimes bands, because they feel the need to put a bridge into songs, because in Newsflash, not every song needs a bridge. And sometimes bands just put it in and they sound like shit. And this is just not one of those cases. It's like such a beautiful extension of the song. I don't know why I wrote in here. [45:22] Rob Baker's Fender accompaniment is wretched. And I don't think I meant that as an insult, because I loved it. I thought it was really good. But the build before the chorus of the song is just because it starts out so soft. so yeah that finger-picking guitar and then it just builds to this climactic. [45:46] Saga Wonderful. I don't know man. I can't say that enough fucking good things about the song. I loved it. Well, you answered my question I think that's that's great. I'm gonna go back and listen to it I was you know, I wasn't it wasn't so Wasn't so feeling that I I I am invasive how it grew on you. I think that's Make that's wonderful. I would say it's a lot of people's favorite song. Yeah record. As far as the singles go. [46:16] Because this record's full of deeper cuts, too, that that fans are really big on. One in particular I'll get to when we get there. But these are the these last two songs. The Darkest One and It's A Good Life If You Don't Weekend are my two favorite songs on this record. I love those songs. Pete, with Silver Jet, did you long for a bridge in that one or some sort of change up or how'd you feel about the long ending fade out of this one i love i mean i liked it i the song and theway i to be honest with you the the song first when i first first heard the song a couple times i didn't like the um that lick in there it just sounded i didn't like it it was pissing me off did itsound like a little it sounded almost like a little bit hairband to me. Like there was some kind of, I don't know. It totally did. Yeah. Reminds me of like Van Halen or something, you know? Yeah. It made me wonder if this was a a music-first song. [47:25] I just think that you can only get away from your roots so much, you know? At the end of the day, we all return to, you know, just as we're born, begging and screaming and crying for your mama, you die the same way. And so we all have that in us throughout our lives and like, they have that history. It's like it or hate it. That's part of their history as a band. But I chose to embrace it and I really liked it. I thought one of the coolest things was this song and one other one I think we'll get to. There's a lot of like harmonic plays with the guitar. That. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'm pretty sure it's it's it's Rob Baker, but it could be Paul and Juan just playing those those those repeated harmonics on the guitar with that heavy distortion andit's just fucking cool. And I don't know that this is one but it feels like a like a a Gord Downie Canadianism song. [48:34] It may be about something in history. I just seem too random to be talking about a silver jet. This is one record I didn't look at any of the lyrics. I just listened I listened intently. On your first listen or what do you mean? On any listen, which I think it served me well because I paid much more attention to the music and the band and like Gord doesn't need toimpress me with his lyrics, I don't need to fucking read his lyrics to to be impressed by them so, I think the fact that I didn't look at any lyrics for this record made me appreciate it a littlebit more, and I'm glad I did that. [49:16] Process-wise, definitely the first six listens or something, I'm not looking up really looking up lyrics much at all. It's just at the end is where I love to do the deep dive where I've really taken in the album and what makes me, I don't know, just completes my wonderment of where this album is goingor where these songs are going. And this one, you know, I love the roars overhead You know, it's it really I talked about this before but that one felt super REM Michael Stipe to me I just totally couldn't completely hearMichael Stipe in that one and it's And it's also, you know, this is 2002 and that reference to me is more like 88 You know late 80s, maybe early 90s. Sorry. Um, so Yeah, dude, I didn't think Tim you're you're spot-on with that Michael Stipe reference Oh big time big time, and you know, I I don't say that in a negative way. I just circle back to Wishing I could be a fly on the wall and the tour bus to hear what these guys are listening to or sharing, you know because it's it's There's definitely some some threadsthroughout all of it the the ending was the ending and I thought this one was um, I I don't know just long They're starting to now have like one song where there's an ending of like aminute or more of just music just instrumental. [50:42] You know, which which I I dig sometimes I wish there's like for this song in. [50:48] Particular there was Maybe there was room for a Stronger bridge or some sort of change up in it. I think I think this this song. I don't know I. [50:58] Maybe this is one of the songs I need to hear live but this one like it was really close to being one of my favorites on the album there just was something wow something in therethat was just a little bit missing like I first few times I listened to this one I was like oh what is it about this song there's there just wasn't enough salt on it or something there wassomething in there so I want to go back and hear it again and maybe find some live version to see what's different about it. Yeah, it's definitely a banger live. [51:36] I think some great lyrics. I think one of the coolest vocal deliveries on the record. Like he's barely opening his mouth. He's like grinning these lyrics out almost. [51:51] A rock star using the word archipelago. Oh yeah, that's a great point. Like throwing words like that in there from a phrasing perspective is just a nightmare. And yet He does it and he does it with ease It's so crazy My father-in-law mentioned we're telling on because my wife's gonna Ibiza Ibiza Ibiza He beat that um next week and And or twoweeks and I was like asking where it was and like thinking about it Is it over here? Where's that? He's like and he said He said archipelago on, but he said it in Spanish, but I knew what he was saying, because it's a very similar word. And it made me think of this song, and I was like, oh yeah, Silver Jet, like, just to hear, I mean, how often do you hear the word archipelago? Never. On a given week? Yeah. On a month? No. And I heard it, like, the same day I was listening to this song, he said archipelago, and I was like, that's fucking weird. There's a glitch in the matrix somewhere, man. Yeah, totally. There's lots of great one-liners in this song. It's, it's, it's, it's chocked full. It's, it's a really, I don't know. Again, this was one I kept coming back to and kind of couldn't get enough of, you know, that I'm thinking it through. Your father-in-law's going to Ibiza? Is he going to a rave there? What's he, what's going to, does everyone know he's going there? [53:20] No, he's just going, she's going to a, just with her friend to visit. Oh, she's going this way. But I was going to say a minute ago, all the cheeseburger references by you, Tim, we're going to start calling you Randy. You start having to do this podcast to get your shirt off. [53:39] I don't know, Mr. Leahy. We haven't had a cuddle in a long time. I gotta say, I gotta say one thing, dude. I don't know, God, if she listens to this podcast, she's never gonna ever want to talk to me again, but my sweet, great and wonderful colleague, Barb, who lives on, um, I can never say hername. Canada is such a huge, huge country. It's more on the West Coast. But every time I just see her name, she sends me an email. I don't see Barb or Barbara. I just see burp. It's actually, I just see it spelled B-E-R-B. I just hear Randy saying, burp. [54:29] Like, it's just, and I know she would find it funny because she loves that show. She's a huge, ridiculously huge head fan. I think that's the booze talking, Pete. I think he might need to lay off of the booze. That's my best advice. Probably. So, uh, looking gla- throwing off glass. [58:21] Like, right when this one, maybe it had to do with me microdosing throughout the week, but wow, it was like, turn down the levels. There are some serious drums and cymbals and big, big loud king of pain, kind of. There's some serious production happening with this one. You know, it's overall, my comments on this one are super basic. It's a beautiful song In general, you know, I got the the dad vibes from it the teenage kids It's kind of like The daughter song. I don't know JD. I was like, oh this seems like to me this might be You know JD's song for his his girls, you know, it's just a beautiful beautiful song There's just wasn't a whole lot more toit than that for me. It's just like whoo. Okay Okay, that's a mouthful. I love this track. It was a great, like, in-between. [59:26] It was a great palate cleanser. I know that's like a negative connotation to say, in-between this song and the next, but it just was so needed and it was so well placed in the order of it.I love the way it's just, it was a super spacey track. Vocals were just echoed all over the place and yeah I don't have a ton to say about it other than I really really enjoyed it. I thought again this is the other one where Rob Baker's harmonics really really shined on it like they just drive the song and I'm like it's just Just awesome. [1:00:06] Loved it. Just loved it. Really, really good chill out song to kind of go, take a break, lower the blood pressure a little bit. You've been rocking out. We're only on song six. Yeah, it was kind of serene. It was its own movie, this one, I think. You know, it's definitely stands on its own. Yeah, the next song All tore up. Yeah, I'll tore up. Okay. So here's another really Gonna this is the last time I'm gonna talk about about holy shit the drums and the cymbals the high hats on this one It's just like whoa Turnit down guys. Like this is a this is my final call out on the production side of this one. It's just, Kaplow in my ear holes. So there you have that. But the there's Tim is Tim is Huey Lewis in that firstscene of Back Feature one. Sorry, guys. Just too loud. Next, please. Sorry, Tim, I didn't mean to cut you off. Love it loud. I just you know, I have. [1:01:23] Yeah, anyways, that there The bridge in this one, you might make it, right? You know, that really smacked me. This is just an amazing change in this one. I felt like this one stepped out a little bit more than previous songs and kind of was leaning a little bit more in a direction that I had been looking for, just musically, just tragic, hip-esque,you know? This one kind of brought me back to, I don't know, just what I want in a hip album. [1:02:00] I liked the finding, the reference towards Dottie Cormier, famous Canadian bluegrass singer. So kind of went down a rabbit hole and checked out her stuff and gave her a bunch of listens. Yeah, I mean, she's mentioned in there and she's one of the more famous bluegrass people of Canada, which is awesome. I'm not a huge bluegrass fan, but I definitely appreciate it when Icome across it, and it's great. But I thought it was a song about going for it, living life, just appreciating things, looking for moments of biggest impacts or things that matter. You know, I typed in, you just need to be you and keep moving. It's inspirational. This is a good, to me this is. This is a good hip song on this album. If somebody's going to say, what should I listen to? This would definitely be one of the songs. Oh, yeah, I liked it. Aside from the bright, fucking bloody. All right. Happening. [1:03:13] Well, to back that up, I will say one of the things I've written in my notes here is Johnny face snare is boosted. It is. And I love I do. Yeah, I love it, like for me, it fits with the album, like, I could see how you could look at it as a, as maybe a, like, I would do this differently, but like, I just feel like they did that onpurpose, and it fits with the record and I think it's done well. It's noticeable. That's the problem, though. But you know what, like, maybe, like, here's the thing, maybe it should be noticeable for a lot of reasons because the drums in a lot of these songs really, reallydrive the momentum of the tunes. The opening lick that I think is, I want to say it's Rob Baker playing, that opening lick with the double stop, just how he just, I'm like, wait, how do you play that again? Because it just, it doesn't stop, it doesn't stop and start where you think it's going to stop and start. It's really, and the drums come in at a different tempo, and it's just cool as fuck. Question JD, I have this written out, what are the school buses in Canada? Do you guys have like yellow school buses like we have in the States? [1:04:36] Because I mean, I don't know, are they big school buses like the big long ones? Yeah, Bluebird, which is like one of the big school bus manufacturers, used to have a plant in the town, like 20 minutes from where I grew up. And I worked there every summer building school buses. Yeah. Okay. Well, maybe you would have seen any bass player in the whole of Canada that was worth their salt getting on that school bus because literally Gordon Sinclair takes anybodylistening to this record who plays bass to fucking school on a bus. I mean, it's a master, it's a master's degree, it's not a master class, it's a fucking master's degree. I mean, the way he fucking goes up high with the bass in this, I'm just like, I listen, this is one of the very few songs where I like stopped and and clicked back and was like listening to itand going, what the fuck is he doing, dude? Like, I don't know anybody that can play that shit. I've met a few bass players in my day, but just so smooth and so cool, I mean, I loved it. [1:05:51] The only other thing I will say about this song is that the lyrics and the vocal phrasing by Gord, and I say this and I feel like people hate me for saying this, but if they hate methen they're not true Canadians, because it's very much a lot of Alanis phrasing the way Gord sings the lyrics on this. I listened to Jagged Little Pill last night, as a matter of fact, on vinyl. It's a fucking record that still stands up so great. But yeah, anyway, very much got some Atlantis vibes with the phrasing on it. It was a great song. So wild that you hear Atlantis all the time. Oh, I love that. It's Atlantis and Michael Stipe. I think those are the most referenced singers. [1:06:45] Yeah Yeah, that's far out let's keep moving so with leave JD did you ever hear this one live? Do you recall? I don't recall. No, I just this is this was definitely one right away I was like, oh, this is probably great life you know, I just I go there so often just because I've been to so many shows and I know theSerotonin boosts that you have when you leave a concert or hear a song you love, you know it's just this this one was me reaching for that um it felt uh oh just introspective anddeliberative and it it i the only thing about it is kind of towards the end i felt like it could go another minute you know i felt like we could have and have had another verse in there if it's ifthere's a live version of it being longer or if they mix it up because this song just compositionally felt like there was opportunity to play around and change it a little bit so it's I thought itwas a pretty cool song. How about you Pete? I thought it was really cool. I mean the way it started was very like spacey and mm-hmm like almost like Wait, what? [1:08:10] Did my Spotify malfunction or whatever? Like it couldn't have happened before with CDs, but really, the way it's like a shuffle, it kind of feels like a shuffle, you know, the waythe beat is. And the phrasing again, this is another one where Gord's phrasing is super, super diverse. [1:08:36] The chords are really... I got some heavy Stone Temple Pilots vibes. Oh, totally. Completely. Yeah. Really? Like, those guys from... I think I was almost going like Alice in Chains or something. There was something in there from the 90s. 100%. 100%. There's a part where Paul Langlois' guitar comes in, and the song, it starts to form, And there's a line that says, a routine flight for this bird tonight, more worms for earth in the afterlife. [1:09:15] Like, what the fuck, dude? Look at that. After that line, the song just like explodes open. [1:09:26] I love the chorus. It's just, yeah, I'm not displeased with this song at all. There's nothing. I'm trying not to wrap up the whole album, but you know, if you guys haven't figured out already, I really liked this album. There's not much negative shit I can say about it. So if you're looking for negative shit, just turn off the podcast and wait. Or just call me, you know, I have throat pain. Because this next one, if we can get into it. Yeah. Yeah. A beautiful thing. You know, it's kind of this cute start sing-along-y feeling. Definitely XTC. Definitely R.E.M. You know, like it's the bridge, the guitar solo kind of bridge that happens in there. When I heard that, I was like, oh, what happened? This song, it was the first time I heard it, I couldn't finish it. This was one of the few songs that this has happened to me. And I was like, God damn it. Here's the song that I need to talk about that it took me a handful of times to get through because it just, it wasn't a beautiful thing for me. It was, uh, I just, I just, I know I was totally questioning it. It was like, are they, were they trying to make a wedding song or like, what is, what is this song? I was like, what the fuck? This didn't need to be on the album. It just kind of... [1:10:52] Sorry, sorry hip fans. Yeah, I mean I hope you guys don't kick me off the pod, but this one I was like FF fast-forward with next week. We'll be joined by just We found Tom from Seattle who's gonna join us next week we sent him a supply of happy pills and Definitely told him he's not allowed to have any indica beforehe gets on the pod Tim, I felt you with this, man. I mean, here's the thing, though. At first I felt you with this and I was like, I started listening to some more and I was fucking love this. First thing I like, I thought this was the father daughter song when I heard it first. [1:11:42] But the three, four, this is a dance song. You can, there's definitely people, There's the guy, you know, with his arms behind. Somebody or the girl on his shoulders or whatever it is, swaying back and forth with this song at the concert. 100,000 percent. The chorus is super strong. The way they go, Beautiful thing. Toot toot toot. Exactly. This is the second song I've noted that I think Rob Baker switched out as his pick-up song. God, I, I, I, I, I, I, I hesitate to scour the internet for, for those, um, you know, when the musicians do those pedal reviews or they're like, it's like the Amoeba what's in your bag thing. Often like interview guitar players and be like, what's on your pedal board? Or like, what's the kind of guitar you're using? And like, I know if I find one of Rob Baker, my life's over. Cause I'm going to be like, Hmm, spending more money on shit. [1:12:49] I thought this song was a beautiful song, just fucking awesome to be cheesy and tie it up that way. It's basically one of three of the fewest listens on the album. I know Spotify isn't everything, but I take it as, you know, a guiding point. The last three songs are the three least listened to on this album. So and I felt like the album did take a little bit of a turn for me with that. All right. Well, let's move on to Dire Wolf then. Um, dude, drums, opening lick, a guitar solo, fucking clean as hell. It, it, it, it, this is going to sound weird, I got to phrase this properly. Because the opening, these last two songs are really unique because they change so much. The first part of the song made me feel like I'm going to phrase it properly. [1:14:00] Like I was in a wheat field during a cold, a cool summer day. The opening was so cool. I think Pauline Waas is opening up with the guitar. And this seems certainly like a Gord Downie Canadianism song, lyrically is it? Yeah, big time. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And what I want to know, Gord talking about what he loves themost, his country. And I wrote this down because I was thinking about it driving home yesterday. And it almost brought me to tears listening to this song. So I was like, dude, what a gift. [1:14:43] Sorry to get all serious for a second, like what a fucking gift this guy was to his country. Absolutely. I never got it before. Like my friend Barb, who I talked about earlier, I was making a joke about. Barb? Barb, yeah. And then you, JD, and then other people in my life who've mentioned The Hip to me have been super passionate. I'm just like, it's almost kind of like, God, okay. Hey, I just didn't get it. And this is a song where it just really hits home. And the more research I do about the band, the more I get into them, the more I look at interviews with Gord, I'm just like, like, I don't think Americans have anything as an equivalentbecause I know there was that hockey, the guy on like SportsCenter Canadian Hockey

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Don't laugh to hard at me. I really did think it was Friday. Work has me eyes open but shut. Lol. Staying busy with work, isn't always the best on your body and your mind. Maybe even your heart. You should try to work necessary.. don't get me wrong. Overtime in a row if that's what you NEED to then okay. But we do cut it close. A guy I work with fell out he had worked 10 straight days. You gotta stay healthy. Yall. I love you my kings n my queens. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/felicia-davis42/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/felicia-davis42/support

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This is happening and it's happening now! Savvy realtors are cleaning up helping property owners short term rent their properties with the help of some amazing technology. Okay Okay, Airbnb is huge and has massive market penetration but did you know there are dozens of other players in this space? Also, there's a way to cut out the middle man and earn 'substantial' rental management fees if you know what you're doing. My guest today is Jessica Larsen and she's going to show you how you can get involved wherever you are. The following is the email Jessica sent me after our call: Hi Ray,   Thanks for a good chat! It's always nice to talk to someone with as much passion for the industry as I have, it makes for a better discussion :)   Here are a couple of helpful links:   Link to book a chat w/Jessica - http://www.calendly.com/capecodsquad (www.calendly.com/capecodsquad)   Link to Jetstream's website for Real Estate Agents (there's a quick and helpful video I made at the bottom of the page): https://jetstreamtech.io/short-term-rental-marketing-realtors/ (https://jetstreamtech.io/short-term-rental-marketing-realtors/)   Link to Jetstream's own OTA, http://leavetown.com/ (Leavetown.com)   In the interview, I mentioned my newest partner on Cape Cod, real estate agent and property manager Sarah Rock of Rock Properties had launched her first listing this weekend. Here it is on Leavetown: https://leavetown.com/accommodation/44957787 (https://leavetown.com/accommodation/44957787).   This same listing can be found on https://www.vrbo.com/2945322 (VRBO) and https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/691465252115776326?source_impression_id=p3_1660336538_bzMqmIl2vSwqkDWw (Airbnb) - all perfectly synced; more platforms to come soon.   This is a great example of how the listing distribution tech works. She's up to 7 bookings since her launch this weekend and she's already off and running signing her second listing today!   Direct booking sites are for partners with 3 or more properties. Here is a link to my branded direct booking site: http://www.fivestarcapecod.com/ (www.FiveStarCapeCod.com)   I have also attached the Distribution Schematic we were looking at in the interview as well as my Presentation Deck for Real Estate Agents & Brokers.   If there is anything else you think would be helpful, let me know and I'll do my best to produce it to you.   Many thanks and all the gratitude for your time and the opportunity to be on your show today. I appreciate you!   Warmly,   JESSICA LARSEN

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Die neueste Folge "3. Halbzeit - Euer ProLeague Talk" ist da. Wir freuen uns euch begrüßen zu dürfen zum Abschluss einer spannenden Saison 26. Auch diesmal wieder als drei Episoden Format. Allerdings neu diesmal an drei verschiedenen Tagen! Also unbedingt reinhören! Die Absteiger der Vorsaison steigen direkt wieder auf | Spannend wurde der Kampf um die Aufstiegsplätze dennoch. (Podcast Folge erscheint am Dienstag 14.06.2022 um 20:00 Uhr) Zum Abschluss des Podcasts heißen Malte und aLFr3d euch Willkommen in League THREE! Während Beerwars am Ende doch etwas deutlich als Meister den direkten Aufstieg schaffte, gab es um die anderen beiden Aufstiegsplätze einen fast schon knüppelharten Kampf. Eigentlich waren die Vorzeichen klar gesetzt: Mit Invincible (48 Pkt), Seahawks (44 Pkt), FC Seiseki ehem. EWAVE (43 Pkt) und Saufhampton (42 Pkt) schien es ein spannendes Aufstiegsfinale zu werden. Es gab sogar von einem Team vorab eine PK zum Saisonverlauf. Doch was dann an diesem 22. Mai 2022 passierte ist mit Drama, Freudentränen sowie Trauer kaum zu beschreiben... Okay Okay vielleicht hat der Autor dieses Artikels, also ich :P, nur ein klein wenig übertrieben. Aber dennoch bleibt gespannt und lauscht den Stimmen von Malte und aLFr3d wie der Kampf um den Aufstieg endete. Zudem gab es ja noch andere spannende Duelle in der League THREE über die man sprechen wird. Und wir verraten euch, welches Experiment man, auch wenn die Idee dahinter gut gemeint war, nicht unbedingt machen sollte. Doch hört selbst, was die einzelnen Teams zum Saisonverlauf zu sagen hatten und freut euch auch hier auf die Auflösung unseres Tippspiels. Hier geht es zum Tippspiel für die Saison 27: https://forms.gle/aNeNKkvD1yoiaBm88 Die Saison 26, zusammengefasst von Malte, aLFr3d und EUCH den ProLeague Teams - Euer 3. Halbzeit - ProLeague Talk! Also viel Spaß beim anhören :) Achtung, Achtung, eine wichtige Mitteilung an die Community, Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörer: Wir möchten auch in Zukunft nach Veränderung streben. Dafür bitten wir euch weiterhin in den Kommentaren uns Bescheid zu geben, welche Themenvorschläge, Verbesserungen oder auch Ideen ihr habt, was wir besser machen oder umsetzen können. Für Ideen und Vorschläge wendet euch einfach an Malte aka Formkiller auf der ProLeague Seite oder im ProLeague Discord an Formkiller(Malte)#2505 Ihr sucht nach Mitspielern für den Pro Club Bereich oder wollt eine einzigartige neue Erfahrung sammeln und Teil unserer wunderbaren Community werden? Weitere Informationen findet ihr auf den folgenden Seiten: ProLeague: https://proclubs.de/ Discord: https://discord.gg/vdKuGDEzQy Die Verlinkungen für euren 3. Halbzeit Podcast finden ihr wie immer hier: Auf dem ProLeague.de YouTube Kanal - Super mit der Kapitelfunktion!: https://bit.ly/3surTCv Auch bei Apple Podcasts sind wir vertreten! (Unbedingt abonnieren und bewerten, das hilft uns ungemein!): https://apple.co/3lYi0dz Und natürlich darf unser Podcast auch nicht auf Spotify fehlen (Folgt uns auch hier!): https://spoti.fi/3ctxUcM Sowie als RSS-Feed für sämtliche Podcastcatcher: https://bit.ly/39fBSnB Alle weiteren Links findet ihr auf unser Distributionsplattform: https://bit.ly/2Pu57vQ

We watched the Netflix original series “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” in April 2022 . This is a darkly humorous parody of mystery psychological thrillers which co-stars the incomparable Kristen Bell and a VERY full glass of red wine. In case you can't tell, we greatly enjoyed this series! Leave a comment! Or, send us suggestions (that are appropriate for a 13-year old) at wereact677@gmail.com. Join our Facebook group! We React Podcast Tweet us @wereactpodcast We now have an Instagram! @wereactpodcast Join our discord and get access to our bonus Hamilton episode! https://discord.gg/3Rh3vuQ

Episode 23 of Mixtaping Identity with Erica Allen-Lubman - lead everything-ist of Boy Jr. In this episode Shane and Erica discuss spoinky music, the Okay Okay test, and a deep-dive into the early vocal stylings of the Jonas Brothers.Playlist Support Boy JR: linktr.ee/ericalubmanSupport this show: linktr.ee/MixtapingIdentity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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What has your body been trying to tell you? Wisdom from Bree Gordon inspires LL and Brad to discuss trauma informed care, what your body holds onto, and how to deal with disappointment. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe. In this episode you will learn about:Recognizing and dealing with discouragement The expectation hangoverBecoming trauma informed How movement releases trauma What's staying with you? Filling your cup first, so you can show up for othersEpisode References/Links:Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress CycleExpectation Hangover: Free Yourself from Your Past, Change Your Present and Get What You Really Want  OPC Flashcards:OPC Flashcards are on AmazonOPC Flashcards are on our site  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.  ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Social MediaInstagramFacebookTik TokLinkedIn Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:01  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Hello, welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap, where my co host in life, Brad and I are going into dig to the beautiful convo I have ... (Brad: beautiful) I have with Bree Gordon in our last episode. It was really pretty. She's amazing. If you haven't yet listened to that interview, feel free to pause this now. Go back and listen to that one and then come back and join us. (Brad: Do it.) Alright, um, I'm so grateful for like random connections, Bree is someone I, we are in a group together and I don't participate in the group very much. (Brad laughs) And that's not because a group isn't amazing, it's just, there's only so much time in the day and I give myself full permission to not engage. And but I did reach out and say, "Hey, I would love to share my podcast." And she's like, "Oh, I have a podcast." And I never would have met her and she is just kicking butt. Just being herself, being it till she sees it. And she had like a pandemic baby and all these things. Anyways, I (Brad: Yeah) like, what the reason I'm sharing this is y'all, you never know who you're going to meet when you just say ... raise your hand, "Hi, I could use some help here." And she and I had the most amazing conversation probably when the best conversations I've ever had on a podcast ever, on her podcast... (Brad: Her pod. Sure.) Yeah, The Mindful Mentor. (Brad: Yeah) Please listen to it. It is not, you also have to listen to mine. I mean, it's amazing that you can listen to other people's. But I'm just so grateful that I get to know this person and who she is. So, I can't wait to dag, dig in.Brad Crowell 2:15  Well, I was, I was shocked when she said she was in her early 30s. Because the amount of well like wisdom that she was speaking didn't, I felt like she was, you know, far, far (Brad laughs) older (Lesley: This is not ...) and has a lot more life experience in that.Lesley Logan 2:34  This is not her first time here. (Lesley laughs)Brad Crowell 2:36  Well, I, also, we found out at the end that she was a radio host and I was like, "Oh, I get it now." (Lesley: Yeah, yeah) Cuz like she's just so polished on on the mic. And it was like and, and also she knows what she's talking about. So combine those together. I was like, (Lesley: I know) "Tell me more."Lesley Logan 2:51  I know she I don't think she said like one time, "I need to take a journalist class." Where they like (Brad and Lesley: um, um, like, like um) Okay, anyways, (Brad laughs) here's the deal, y'all, Brad and I are super stoked, because in three days, we are doing our first and very necessary, very planned out, very much like this is the time, Full Body in 15. And when I say "we" I mean, actually, we, Brad is totally going to do this class because I created... Look, here's the deal even listen to the ads and you're gonna hear more. I need you at this event. If you have ever thought about doing Pilates, if you've ever thought you're not good enough for Pilates, if you've ever thought. "I just don't understand it," if you are like trying to get it, if you are just even curious on how to spell it. I want you at this program. It starts on the 20th. We are going to kick off, there are replays. Zero excuses, I don't want to hear them. I'm going to teach you a 15 minute workout. That's your full body, you're going to strengthen and get stretch between aka mobility, aka injury prevention. (Brad: Yeah, and feeling better.) And feeling better. I'm also going to teach you how to teach yourself the exercises. I know, I know I'm giving it away. Because the reality is, is I want you to have this particular cross training in your life. It is going to make everything you already do better. (Brad: Yeah) Which means "doing life better," which is what we're all about. It is a week long program because we're gonna meet up together three times live. And yes, there are replays and by the end of the week, you will have a 15 minute workout that you can confidently do (Brad: Yeah) on your own wherever you are. Before and after your favorite workout or on the days when all you have is 15 minutes. So I'm excited ...Brad Crowell 4:31  For me this is really cool because I'm like, I'm the guy who asks a hundred questions before actually doing a move. Right? (Lesley: Yeah) Like with in yoga, befo... the reason that I was willing to get like dive headfirst into yoga is because I didn't dive headfirst into yoga. (Brad laughs) I took a class with a 75 year old like "Yogi lady" who was not doing any of the fancy stuff and all I did the whole time was ask her a hundred questions about, "How do you do triangle? And what are muscles should I be using and all that kind of stuff." If you are that kind of a person like me, then this Full Body in 15 is going to be perfect for you. Because we're going to break down the exercises, so that you can understand why you're doing what when, where all the things, how they connect together, what muscles you're supposed to be doing, so that you're not actually just straight up hurting yourself. Like right now, I'm actually taking an intro to barbell class here in Vegas, you know, at a local studio. And it's important because especially with weights, like, you could really hurt yourself. And so it's 100% necessary to take a class like that. But I feel like we skip that stage when we're jumping into (Lesley: Yeah) other modalities. And you know, you can totally hurt yourself doing anything. So this is a great place to get started.Lesley Logan 5:46  Well, and also we tend to think that intro or beginner means easy. (Brad: Oh, yeah, not so much.) It's, here's the thing, if you're doing it, right, Pilates is always going to be a little challenging, and also going to meet you where you are. And so yes, this is a class for a newbie. But it doesn't mean it's easy. It's actually going to literally change the form of your running. It's going to make your weight training better. (Brad: Yeah) For all of you who are doing deadlifts and not reaching through your heels because what and you have to like buy special shoes or do a certain thing. I don't even have to think about it. I don't even. I take intro every other week. (Lesley laughs) I like to, I like to moonlight in my intro classes and I, but I promise you like the reason I can, on, without having deadlifted in... Since before the pandemic, I deadlift of more than my body weight because Pilates helps me work from my core out first. And so I want you at this. So go to onlinepilatesclasses.com/fullbodyin15. That is Full Body i n 1 5. Okay, what is our audience question, my love?Brad Crowell 6:57  Okay, we got a great question from a very, very, very sweet woman. And she asked, "What do you do when you're discouraged?"Lesley Logan 7:09  Yeah, and I just... how brave to ask that question because you wouldn't ask that question unless you were feeling that way. (Brad: Right) And I just think like the vulnerability that requires that question is to be honored. And I wish we all lived our lives that way. And so first of all, I'm just so grateful for this question. And second of all, first of all, I don't know, second of all, first, like, can you just pat yourself on the back for I understand that you are in that spot? (Brad: Yeah) So few people actually are aware of how they're feeling. (Brad: Yeah) Like at all and, and also like, they try to excuse the thing away, and so instead of feeling discouraged, you're like, "Well, I'm just tired. Well, I'm just overworked."Brad Crowell 7:50  Well, I think they're feeling it, but they're not like, they're not like taking a step back and being like, "Oh, I'm angry now. Why am I angry?" (Lesley: Yeah) They're just like, "angry." (Lesley: Yeah) The technical term.Lesley Logan 8:01  Yeah. And I I feel like, I feel like what how you handle discouragement? Is that a word? Okay, great. (Brad: Hit the word.) (Brad and Lesley laughs) I think that, A it takes time, and like, screwing up how you feel when you're discouraged, like, I'm sure when you're younger, and you're discouraged, you like throw things at a wall, you know, you get upset. And as you get older, you understand that you can't just like scream in the in the ethers. But if you can do it, I think you'll feel better. (Lesley laughs) I think it's like, important to let the feelings out. And then the other thing is like, I think you have to take a step back, like a 30,000 foot view. (Brad: hmm) Why are you doing what you're doing? Because if you can go back to the "why" then the discouragement is more of an obstacle than it is like a 50 pound weight, like pushing you down a hill. (Brad: Right) You know what I mean? Like, I think if you, if you can go back to why.Brad Crowell 9:01  That's, that's really interesting to think about it as like, the discouragement could be something that you can navigate around instead of something you have to carry with you.Lesley Logan 9:10  Yeah. Wow, thanks for saying that. I don't, I didn't even know that's what I was saying. Um, I'm having an outer body experience everyone. No, but I think like, if you can go back to your why you can actually see the discouragement and you'll actually either navigate around it, instead of carrying it or you'll actually be able to see like, are you even discouraged about the right thing? Like what you're discouraged about does have anything to do with your purpose on this planet? With why you do, what you do? (Brad: sure) Or is it just the fixation on something you can control or you thought you could and you can't and so you're like, "I'm discouraged."Brad Crowell 9:46  Right. The problem may be like one level above what has, you know, caused the immediate discouragement? (Lesley: Yeah) And so it's almost like you're getting discouraged over the symptom rather than the root.Lesley Logan 10:00  Brilliant. Wow, we are just making magic together.Brad Crowell 10:03  On fire.Lesley Logan 10:04   So, so I, I think, what do I do when I'm discouraged? I really do have to take a step back. So 30,000 foot view, look at it. Is the thing I'm discouraged about having anything to do with my why? If so, what can I do? When we're discouraged, we're focused on what's not working.Brad Crowell 10:28  Sure.Lesley Logan 10:30  And the the reality is, is there's always gonna be things that are not working. So what is possible in that moment, and then the next thing is make a decision, just make a decision. Make a decision, make a decision to not do it, to take a step, to put pause on, you can also make a decision to think about it in three weeks. (Brad: hmm) Right? You can also like, put it go, "You know what, this problem I'm having? I'm just trying to think about it until on this date at this time." (Brad: Yeah) And if you can make a decision, that's action, it brings clarity. It's the antidote to fear. Boom! Second, it really is going to free up some emotions and I think we get attached to an outcome. And that's why we're discouraged because we're not getting the outcome we wanted. And if and so just like taking that step back really does make sure that you're actually working on the outcome you want in the first place.Brad Crowell 11:23  Yeah, I mean, also to can allow you to evaluate your expectations.Lesley Logan 11:28  Yes. Which oh my gosh, girl, like as a recovering perfectionist and overachiever. Like I struggle with expectation hangover, big time. (Lesley laughs)Brad Crowell 11:40  Expectation hangover.Lesley Logan 11:42  I didn't make that up. That is actually we should have her on the pod. Oh, my God, we should have her on the pod. (Brad: Let's do that.) Her name is it'll come to me, Christine Hassler. Boom! (Brad: I'm impressed.) She's got a book. It's called Expectation Hangover.Brad Crowell 11:55  I'm very impressed. (Lesley: Thank you so much.) Well, we'll look like like, you know, I hope that that was helpful. I feel like we like from from a from an actual practical perspective. What do you do when you're discouraged? Journal, speak with ... with someone about it, that could be a therapist or your bestie. You know, but you know, the important thing is to, to get it out and talk about it, so that you're not dwelling on it and dwelling on it and dwelling on it. (Lesley: Yeah) If you are discouraged, and you're having trouble going to sleep, I love to have a notepad on the side of my bed. And I just write it down, because it gives my mind permission not to keep circling it over and over and over again, because I won't have to like, "Forget it." I know in this case, (Lesley: Yeah) you know, it's not quite that something you're, you know forgetting. But it just helps you set it aside for the moment.Lesley Logan 12:45  I have one more thing. Ask yourself. Like, "Okay, what if I just stopped doing the thing?" (Brad: Oh, yeah.) "What if I just stopped doing the thing? That's not working, that I'm discouraged about?"Brad Crowell 13:02  Be aware if you ask that of somebody in your life, because they may get angry. (Lesley laughs) ... discouraged. (Brad laughs)Lesley Logan 13:08  Now, if you do get angry. That means that you want to fight for it. (Brad: Yeah) And if you feel relief, that's a sign. (Lesley laughs)Brad Crowell 13:19  Then you can, then maybe, maybe this is something you need to let go.Lesley Logan 13:22  Let go. And it's okay to let go of our things. Did you know that crossing out a goal is the same as checking it off? It's same. (Brad: Right) It's the same, deleting a goal is the same as checking it off. And so I just encourage you, it's okay to, I don't know if it was raised like we don't quit, but you can... quitting is not a weakness. If you like are taking that 30,000 foot view and your body is telling you like, "I don't want to fight for this anymore." (Brad: Yeah) It's not it's it's like actually allowing you to create space for something else. So how is that quitting? Anyways, that's a great question. (Brad: Wow) I freaking loved it. Wow, what a beautiful. (Brad: Yeah) Thanks, Brad for having that conversation (Brad: Yeah) with me. (Brad: That was a journey.) I feel like we have to take a deep breath. (Brad: Yeah) (Lesley laughs)Brad Crowell 14:07  I mean, we can do that. Breathe inLesley Logan 14:12  Through the nose. Out through the nose. I feel better.Brad Crowell 14:18  Okay. All right. Let's talk about Bree Gordon. Okay, using music to connect, which I got really excited about. Bree Gordon is a board certified Music Therapist, mother, podcaster, public speaker and innovator of new wellness programs. And she is a beautiful believer that music is the universal love language has created a career in helping others process and heal from trauma.Lesley Logan 14:44  Okay, so I knew you would get so stoked when you heard that. I was like, "Oh, my God, Brad's gonna freak the fuck out." (Brad laughs) But also do you know I just came to my mind? (Brad: Tell me.) I think it's easy to like go nod and go, "Yeah, music is a universal love language." But there is this Daily episode, we're not going to link it, you're not to find it yourself. It's a Sunday read. This journalist was trying to search for his father. He finally found him. His father was like, technically a pirate. Anyways, (Brad: Oh, yeah) he, he was playing some jazz music, I want to say it was jazz music. And like, was like, you know, his dad was like, like humming along, knew the beat, knew all the things, it might have been some sort of classical music. But anyways, it was music that like people recognize from the old times. And then he put in a CD (spoiler alert, he found his father.) He put in a CD and the da... his dad was like listening to it and like moving to it. And he was like, "Who is this? I've never heard this before." And he's like, "This is mine." And it was the same type of music that his dad loved. And they never knew each other. And they love the same music. Universal love language. Okay. (Brad: Pretty crazy) So I'm so grateful for her. And one thing I love that she said, is something that I've been really focusing my training education around is being trauma informed. She said, "You're not waiting for them to tell you they have trauma, you're acting as if they do." And so this is if anybody, if you did listen to the episode, we talked about this, and and the link is, in the show notes from the episode on Monday. It's not about asking what's wrong with you? It's about asking what happened to you? (Brad: Yeah) And when you are trauma informed as a person. In this... you can be trauma informed in any business, it doesn't matter what your business is, you're basically coming in to an environment with the assumption that people have had a traumatic experience and not wait for them (Brad: Yeah) to tell you.Brad Crowell 16:32  I mean, especially if you like, for example, something very relatable, if you even work in fitness, and you have taken a client through a workout and they cry afterwards. Right? Like something connected for them. And it could be I mean, it could be something they're experiencing now, or something that they experienced a long time ago. But like working it out, physically working it out, actually, like touched a nerve or touched a memory that triggered something there. Right? So anyway, being trauma informed would mean that, you know, you're going into teaching that person understanding that it's possible that they could have a reaction to it.Lesley Logan 17:12  Yeah. You're not you just, you don't even have to ask because a lot of people are unaware of especially childhood traumas, things like that they buried them so long. So you're basically just assuming that there is trauma there and giving people full permission in that way. And for my Pilates instructors who are listening to this, "Hello, I love you." You know, this is something like we put people on their backs, we put them in some interesting positions. And the weight movement specifically is how trauma is released in the body. And so if you can take some time to understand what being trauma informed is, and like ask yourself different things. And it's really interesting, I was talking with our, with my therapist about this, like, I don't like mirrors in my studio. I actually was never in a studio that had a lot of mirrors when I did Pilates. When I was training it didn't have mirrors, the only studio I had that had mirrors was Equinox. And those mirrors were so funny because you, you would look funny when you looked at them. And I was like, "I hate mirrors." But I specifically didn't have them. And that allowed a lot of women who had body image issues to feel comfortable and safe in my space. I didn't know I was doing it. So the point is, is like it's uh, I really love that you talked about being trauma informed. And it doesn't matter what, who you are listening to this and what you do, you can take some trauma informed classes. And if you're like, I don't even know what that means. Read the book, "What Happened to You?" You will instantly be educated in a way that will allow you like, even over Christmas as I was reading that book. I heard someone in our family say, "What's wrong with you?" to one of our dogs. And I was like, "It's what happened to him." (Brad and Lesley laughs) So anyways, okay, what did you love that she said?Brad Crowell 18:47  Yeah. Um, so, um... the, sorry, I was just thinking about everything that you were just saying there. (Lesley: Oh, it's okay.) Yeah. (Lesley: We can keep talking about it.) Well, I, I like the idea for me, it kind of connects with the idea of being prepared. (Lesley: mm-hmm) Right? Because we are, we are in a position of authority, you know, when we're, you know, if you're working with a client, so going back to that example, you know. And it's, it's actually, like really important to be prepared, if someone you know, is because I think you said something you kind of glossed over it, but you said, "Movement is how trauma is released from the body." (Lesley: Yeah) And I think that it's really important to understand that especially people who work in fitness. If movement is how trauma is released from the body. I mean, just think about that for just a second.Lesley Logan 19:40  Well, not even just who work in fitness, if you are in fitness, like if you take a fitness class. So if you are a listener who just likes to work out or is thinking about working out or if you're a listener who teaches people how to move. Both parties need to be informed because you might not know you might not be aware of the trauma that has happened to you. (Brad: Sure) You might be in a class and you might cry. I remember thinking something is wrong with me when I cried during elephant. And I don't even know what it was that it was bringing up...Brad Crowell 20:09  For Tracy out there elephant is it move and Pilates. (Lesley laughs)Lesley Logan 20:13  So, I was doing this exercise and I cried. And I had something of, a voice came out of me that said to my teacher, "Today is actually not the day to teach me this exercise." (Brad: Hmm) And I and I, when I said it, I didn't even know whose voice that was. But not every person who has had trauma will have that voice come up for them. And so basically, like, movement is how trauma leaves. So there's a book by Two Sisters, I want to say it's called Burnout. I want to say it Brené Brown interviewed them. It's a great interview. Anyways, they say, like, ladies, especially since that's what most of you are. And to my men, then tell your girlfriends about this, the ladies in your life. If, like, if you had, if you've been ca... called on the street, and you bury that inside you...Brad Crowell 21:07  Emily and Amelia Nagoski. (Lesley: Yes) The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle.Lesley Logan 21:12  Yes. So they even say, obviously in that moment, you can't scream and yell at the dude who just drove pass with this cat call of something that then when you ignored it, they say something else, which is also more invigorating and traumatizing. It's traumatizing. The idea is though, that you cannot hold that within you because that's going to build, it's going to stay in your body. (Brad: hmm) And it's going to cause illness injury. We'll get into that later on this episode. But like, basically, they say, "If you can't in the moment, let the trauma out, let the let the feelings out of your body." Then as soon as you can, you need to let it out, punching a pillow, screaming, you know, things like that. You have to let it out. And so there are things that you didn't... Now that you've heard this, maybe you'll do that for in the future, but there's stuff in the past, and it's going to come out and it usually comes out through movement. So anyways, (Brad: Wow. Okay) Okay.Brad Crowell 22:03  Well, that is that is like super deep. Okay, one thing that I loved that she said, which is actually it's kind of perfect. I had I had chosen that your body will tell you, "What's going on?" (Lesley: Yeah) So I mean, it's we kind of covered it, you know, but But it's in addition to the emotional side of things where it's pulling out, you know, the trauma you may have experienced you, your body... So trauma is the event. The, like trauma actually is the event. Right? But then that is stored in your body. (Lesley: Yeah, if you don't let it out.) If you don't let it out. It's stored in your body. Right? And a perfect example of this is when Bree was talking about her experience from leading three summers of a trauma likes, like week, like a like, like a boot camp kind of a thing. (Lesley: Yeah) And she said the third time through she she literally came out of it. She needed a cane to walk. (Lesley: Yeah) And she realized that she wasn't she was absorbing, you know, their like, you know, she was taking on their stress, their trauma, (Lesley: mm-hmm) you know, into her and wasn't releasing it. And it was like affecting her. She had herniated discs. (Lesley: Yeah) How crazy is that?Lesley Logan 22:11  It's, I mean, like, it's, it's crazy. It's also not surprising. So your body will tell you what's going on. I'm grateful that you brought this up. So y'all I'm gonna, I'm finished in a breathwork training because I can't wait to add this to my retreats and also the coaching that we do. But, for example, if you've got stuff going with your lower back, that's a common place to store anger. If you've got stuff going on with your stomach and intestines, that's a place where you store fear. Heart and chest is heartbreak and sorrow, neck and shoulders is resentment or holding on to burdens. Voice and throat problems is oppression. And so those are just simple, right? But if you actually want to study this, there's like, there are people who are body workers who can tell you like your hip thing is like your mother's money problems like there's, it gets deep and I know that can sound like a double "whoo." It is a one whoo thing like there's a reason why the book - The Body Keeps the Score is exactly point, on point. And we need to start listening to our bodies and not our brains all the time. Because like you have a brain but you have that logical part. And then you have this like, there's an old brain is a subconscious brain. And so I think it's really important, (Brad: hmm) like if we actually start listening to our bodies, and instead of you mentioned earlier symptoms, instead of going to a doctor with symptoms (Brad: hmm) and getting medication to get rid of the symptoms, really trying to understand what is the problem here. (Brad: Yeah) What is the problem here? (Brad: Gotta get to the root.) Yeah. And so for Bree, she wasn't actually taking care of herself. In those moments she was taking on everything, she's taking, "I'll take on your panels," and for our caregivers listening, our mamas and like the people who have like aging parents, if you are taking care of them and not you, your body's going to tell you. (Brad: fascia workers) Mm hmm. (Brad: Yeah) But you know what I will say, a lot of body workers that I know, depend on if they were trained well, like my fascia and my rafters, a Reiki, they learn social workers learn this, to take care of themselves, to have (Brad: Yeah) boundaries. (Brad: boundaries) And a lot of people outside of those specialties, there's no training whatsoever on boundaries and taking care of yourself. (Brad: Yeah) Okay.Brad Crowell 25:49  Well, let's talk about those BE IT action items. What bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items, can we take away from your convo with Bree Gordon? Well, I, she, she actually had a couple, but at the end, she said, "I'm only going to share one." But we, we're going through, there was a couple of recurring themes. But this one that she shared, which I'll talk about, is figure out what life looks like on the other side of trauma. And basically, it is it does take a moment of identifying that you're experiencing pain. You're experiencing this, you know, whatever it might show up as grief, you know. And you kind of do have to have this, this awareness that you're in it, but you don't have to stay in it. You will stay in it if you if you just keep dwelling on it. And she's saying, "To move on, you need to imagine what life will be like, when it's not, when you're not in it anymore in the same way." Right? And so, you know, she, she, she compared it to a mountain, and we're treating it like a mountain. And we're and we just imagine that we're never going to get to the other side of that mountain. But what does life look like on the other side, and when you can, when you could take a minute and envision that. And maybe you literally write it down like this could be where a dream board comes into play. (Lesley: mm-hmm) You know, where you actually have it on your mirror or on the wall, or on a thing in your wallet or it's on your dash in your car like something somewhere where you're going to see it on a consistent basis. That you know, like life isn't like this forever. And yes, it's painful. And it's never gonna like go away forever, but it will change and it won't be the same as it is today.Lesley Logan 27:51  Oh my gosh, you just made me think of Amy Cuddy because she had a traumatic experience. Amy Cuddy is the inspiration for the title of this podcast, by the way. (Brad: Oh, right.) And my assistant did DM her. I don't even know who told her that I approved that. (Brad laughs) Because like nothing could bring me more fear than (Lesley laughs) than if I'm asking her to be on this podcast. And if she might say "no," and we'll learn how to say no. And we'll just take and they go, "That's a great way to say no, we'll take that for ourselves." But anyways, she had a traumatic brain injury. And she had a mentor in college and a grad grad school say to her like this is you're gonna ask a question every single day in every single class so that you can feel like you belong here. And that's how and she didn't even realize that she was actually being the life, what life looked like on the other side of that trauma (Brad: Yeah) and how someone came up to her when she was at a working at a school and someone came up and said, "I don't belong here." And she's like, "Oh, you're gonna ask a question everyday." (Lesley laughs) So um, that's I think that's amazing and that's you know, we should even what even if you don't think that you're someone who's suffering from trauma in this moment, figure out what life looks like another set of whatever discouragement or problem you've got going on and (Brad: Yeah) will be really helpful.Brad Crowell 29:10  Yeah, well, what about you?Lesley Logan 29:12  My biggest takeaway - show up for others but do it with accountability for yourself. Hello, fill your cup first. She she was there as a giver and I think so many of us are, we're just give, we like are such givers. But you if you do not ...Brad Crowell 29:28  When we say she was there, are you talking about leading the trauma camp?Lesley Logan 29:31  Yeah, she's leading a trauma camp. She was doing these other things. And like she was just doing all these things to like, take care of so many people, (Brad: Yeah) to take care of their problems. But she was ignoring herself. (Brad: Yeah) And you all the plane literally says, "air mask on first, parents." Right? And that's for all of us, "air mask on first." I can't put Brad's air mask on for him if I have put my own on. So I know that it's hard. I know that the people that you are taking care of you are just like, you just want to be there for them. But if you are not being accountable to yourself first, you are not actually giving them everything that you could. Just not...Brad Crowell 30:11  Yeah, I mean, we talk about this all the time with with OPC, with onlinepilatesclasses.com, where, you know, the reason that you can do life better, is because you've prioritized yourself. You you aren't putting yourself on the back burner, right? Because when you especially with working out we are we know all the science behind why, you know, working out and you know, Pilates is amazing for your brain and your body. You know, and it's obviously logical too, like when you feel better about life, you're going to go do life better. (Lesley: Yeah) You know, so but what happens so often is, we don't prioritize ourselves. We don't make sure that you know, we have protected time to you know, get a workout in or read a book or whatever that might be that is, is you know, what, you're what you need. And and then, you know, at the end of the day, we're resentful, we're frustrated, we're tired, we're angry, we're, you know, and it just builds, it builds over time. And you know, after a while it becomes (Lesley: Yeah) it's like a path to burnout, straight up.Lesley Logan 31:17  Yeah, it is and so, or discouragement because, (Brad: or discouragement) you're putting so much in and not getting what you want out. And that's because you are not taking care of yourself. So I (Brad: Yeah) just I love this conversation. (Brad: Yeah) What a beautiful interview. (Lesley laughs) (Brad: Yeah. This is a great one) Patting myself on the back. But ... (Lesley laughs)Brad Crowell 31:38  You mean, you and me, I was also referencing the one when you have with Bree. That was also a great one. So, yeah. (Lesley laughs)Lesley Logan 31:45  Um, you and I, but also yes, but Bree. No, especially with Bree, I just meant myself. I was just being (Brad laughs) that humble person I am. (Brad: My wife.) (Lesley laughs) (Brad: Amazing) Someday will have a show. It's called My Wife and it's basically ...Brad Crowell 32:01  It's gonna be me shaking my head. Yeah. (Brad laughs)Lesley Logan 32:03  About how humble I am. Y'all, thank you so much for being here. I'm so grateful for you. We are so grateful for you. You really matter to us more than we could ever actually tell you. But we could tell you if you screenshot this episode and share it with your takeaways. I will actually tell you in your DMs how grateful I am for you specifically. But please, you know, we can't change the world without sharing these messages with people. If you are nodding your head along with this and you're loving it, then please send it to the person that you know needs to hear it. If you want to text it to them, or if you want to share it on the Gram. That'd be great. And let us know how you're using these in your life. And we'll catch you in the next episode.Brad Crowell 32:43  Thanks so much.Lesley Logan 32:46  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day!'Be It Till You See It' is a production of 'As The Crows Fly Media'.Brad Crowell 33:19  It's written produced, filmed and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell. Our Associate Producer is Amanda Frattarelli.Lesley Logan 33:30  Kevin Perez at Disenyo handles all of our audio editing.Brad Crowell 33:34  Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. And our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 33:43  Special thanks to our designer Jaira Mandal for creating all of our visuals (which you can't see because this is a podcast) and our digital producer, Jay Pedroso for editing all video each week so you can.Brad Crowell 33:55  And to Angelina Herico for transcribing each of our episodes, so you can find them on our website. 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0 (1s): Well, good morning. Welcome everyone. Welcome to Harvest. My name is Cheryl Lynn, and we're just so excited that you guys are here to worship this morning and hello to everyone watching around campus and at home. I hope you're all doing well. If you're able to, why don't you stand with me as we begin, we'll take a moment. Pray and just invite the Lord's presence to be in our midst here this morning. 1 (33s): Let's go before him. 0 (35s): Thank you, Lord. We do just welcome your presence. Holy spirit. We want to meet with you this morning. I just want to come into your presence with boldness and courage, the springing to your hearts, to speed vulnerable before you to be real knowing we don't have to have it all put together or all figured out. We don't have to be perfectly polished to come into your presence. That's exactly why you died on the cross that you covered it all for us, Jesus, that we could come messy and Rogan and hurting and real before you. And so we just bring you our hearts this morning and worship you bring you our tears. 0 (1m 17s): We bring you our discouragement. We bring our doubts and our questions. Thank you, Lord that you meet us there 1 (1m 25s): As we just, 0 (1m 26s): Or auto Harts and praise. And thanks as we remember who you are and what you've done for us. 1 (1m 39s): where Jesus and died for me. I see independent on the cheek. 0 (13m 7s): Great. Is your faithfulness to us. Thank you, Laura. That we can truly depend on you. That's you're the one thing that never falters that never fails. Everything else in this world fills us breaks. Deserts, us abandons us, runs the dry, but you never do unless you're the weld. It never 1 (13m 36s): Thank you. 0 (13m 36s): And so we just happened to that. Well, this morning, the well, and your faithfulness, your goodness, your kindness and your mercy, we need it. God 1 (13m 47s): Thank you. 0 (13m 50s): And we actually want to teach you a new song this morning, all about God's faith. He talks about him. He's the God who could make mountains. If you know that story in the Bible, even when they're singing and the person, 1 (14m 4s): The reason and the doors come open as they worship 0 (14m 10s): And they marched around the walls of Jericho. And when they worshiped walls came tumbling down, I just feel like the Lord wants to remind us Church that there's power only worship. As we invite his presence. As we focus on him, there's the power. Let me praise. Sometimes we have to speak to our own fear and preach to our own souls reminders. 1 (14m 36s): God's goodness. And that's a lot. What the song is about this morning. 0 (14m 39s): I hope you'll join. And as you can, of course goes like this 1 (14m 54s): To shake and walls. I wouldn't speak to my fear. I will preach to you a favor. 1 (15m 7s): God you are the God who makes the mountains move. 1 (19m 4s): The God who heals, rescues, redeems. The sets are feet upon the rock. Remind us of your faithfulness and your goodness today. And mine is that there's never anything out of your sight. 0 (19m 23s): That's going on in our lives. You're you're not aware of you're a detail oriented. God you know everything about it. 1 (19m 34s): You made each of us uniquely site, the spray that you would need everyone who's here today or watching online and she would speak to their hearts. So that still small voice to bring encouragement, to bring hope, cast, vision, to give us purpose. We need you, or would you continue to just be in our midst today 0 (20m 8s): And our hearts to receive all that you have for us? It's your kingdom come 1 (20m 15s): Jesus' name. Amen. So good celebrates. I love it. 0 (20m 25s): Yeah. Never be afraid to praise and celebrate him. That's awesome. Well, let's take a moment to 1 (20m 29s): The new worshiping by saying hello to somebody just spreading some love 0 (20m 33s): Of some waves, fist bumps, elbow bumps, whatever you feel comfortable with. We'll gather back for some announcements. 1 (20m 42s): Good morning. My name is Ron. And what want to do first is 2 (20m 48s): Just welcome everyone here. So whether you're in the sanctuary or the law for the patio area, or maybe you tuning in online, we're super happy to have you here today. And by the way, if you happen to be new to Harvest Church, we do have a gift for you and you just head up to the info center and meet up with the people up there. And they'll be happy to hand off that gift to you. And while you're there, if you wouldn't mind, there's no strings attached, but if you want to fill out a communication card that just helps us to have you on the list where we can communicate to you, all the updates and things that are going on here at Harvest Church, that would be super helpful. And, and just as a friend for your information's ever since covert happened, we don't pass the bags anymore for communication cards or offering or anything like that. 2 (21m 36s): But we do have collection boxes here in the sanctuary and the loft in the patio area. So we want to make it easy for everybody. Hey, just want to say a couple of things just starting out today. Yesterday was a very special day for a couple reasons. One is yesterday morning, we were hearing the sanctuary. We had a Memorial service for a young man named Michael . So he died at 38, he had cancer. And so myself and another, another fellow kind of walked him through that journey. And, you know, he loved the Lord. And so it was kind of a family reunion yesterday. It's about a hundred people here. A lot of people came in from out of town and it, you know, it's a time of, of grieving for sure, but it's also time of celebration, you know, when a believer graduates and goes to heaven. 2 (22m 24s): And so we had the Memorial service here and then the reception in the patio area. So that was really uplifting actually. And then afterwards at four o'clock we had on the beach, we had a bonfire and baptism and I heard I didn't get to go, but I heard there was between 200 and 250 people there. Thankfully there were enough hot dogs to go around. So that was the big answer to prayer. Especially since I talked to a young man just a little bit ago, who will rename unnamed? His name is not Nathan, just in case. You're wondering, I said, how many hotdogs did you eat yesterday? He said, yes. 1 (23m 2s): Eight. 2 (23m 5s): I said, you can't fit eight hot dogs in there. You said, well, I didn't eat the buns. I told Nathan that does not count. Okay. But thankfully there were enough hotdogs to go around, but more importantly, we baptized 15 believers, 15 people yesterday. 1 (23m 22s): Yeah. Yeah. So 2 (23m 27s): Super wonderful time at the beach. So those of you that were part of that, it was, it was thanks for being there. One of the things we do a few times a year, we call growth track. And so that is where people that are newer to Harvest Church or maybe been here for awhile. You just want to learn more about who we are, meaning what, what makes us unique from the other churches, great churches in our community. So you're gonna learn a little bit about that, but more importantly, we're going to help you to, to discover your spiritual gifts and to give you opportunity and encourage you to get involved. Not only here at Harvest Church, but you know, our gifts are not only for Church ministry, but as for community ministry, we want to help you on that journey. 2 (24m 8s): And so the growth track we're offering, it's going to begin next Sunday. So Sunday, October 11th, it'd be 11 o'clock during the 11th clock service. And it's going to be in the office space, which is just up the road here, but we need to just sign up. Now here's the catch. It is four consecutive Sundays. So this is not sort of like a onetime thing. You can have opportunity to gather with other believers, four consecutive Sundays during the 11 o'clock service, you're going to get to know the other people in the group really well. And that's just a side benefit and a, but you need to sign up so you can sign up a couple of different ways. In fact, we want to make it really easy for you. We actually have 'em the Harvest Church app. So in fact, I got to jump ahead. 2 (24m 50s): So to AIG Harvest app, and then we added a new feature to our app. Recently we call it the connect link. So if you go to the connect link on our Harvest Church app, you can sign up that way four, the growth track, or you can just walk up the Hill to the info center it's right next to the coffee. So if you like coffee, boom, you're there. All right. So go ahead and sign up for the growth track, if you would like to participate in that. And as I mention, and we have this new connect way of communicating and, you know, in a, in a group of believers, it's really helpful to communicate things, right? In fact, I'm going to just read this to you because it's new to me as well. We have a new place on the AIG Harvest app for you to communicate anything and everything with our staff at Harvest simply click CA simply click on the connect link and fill out the form to let us know prayer requests, sign up for classes, events, volunteer for help, to help out or et cetera. 2 (25m 44s): So we'd love to hear from you. And that's true. We, we, we want to encourage you. If you have something to say, sign up for, be involved in, you know, we love to make that easy for everybody to do. And then as a last thing I want to mention this morning, our children's program has kind of been rebooting now that we're kind of getting a little bit further away from COVID. And so we've got the children's ministry going four, the 11 o'clock service, but we're going to start it up again for the nine o'clock walk as well. So the, the CA, the kids classes will resume for the nine o'clock service on November 1st. So just want to let you know about that. If you have kids and you prefer to go to the early, early service, that's going to be available to you and it's not too late to volunteer. 2 (26m 26s): So if you'd like to help out ministering to the young people of our church in my mind, that is one of the most important ministries that we can have pouring our lives into the young people. And so if you want to be a part of that, it's not too late. Go ahead and sign up at the info table. Or again, that connect link would be a good way to help 3 (26m 44s): Us out as well. All right. That's all I have to say. I'm going to invite Jeremy up. He's going to share the word to us this morning and thank you. Thank you. One last thing. Sorry. I have one more thing. Stay here. The, the youth are standing in today because Jeremy's their youth leader and Oh, there they are. Okay. Alright. I'm done. 3 (27m 38s): Check, check. Oh, there it is. There's the check. I apologize. My name is Jeremy. I'm the youth and family pastor. Hello youth. Yeah, so we baptized 13 youth yesterday. It was, it was amazing. And the weather was perfect. You know, it was a, it was really low tide. So it was, it was fun to, to actually have to get as deep as we had to go to actually dunk a person, half, half of the people there. It was just we're in the water and it was, it was a really special time. So we'll have some pictures and videos to show for those who didn't make it. Yeah, it was, it was, it was powerful if you're just joining us this week. 3 (28m 22s): This is my second part of the book of Ruth, the God of the Insignificant and Ordinary Part. And so we're gonna kind of jump into the middle of Ruth Ruth three and four is what we'll, we'll kind of try to finish off today. We ended it, we, we, we started with some big things last week, kind of whittled away from starting from looking at Ruth as it emphasized the whole as the whole of nation, the nation. And then we kind of looked at a family and then went down to a couple individuals. So we're going to start this week with those individuals and kind of work our way back out. But before I jump in, let me just start with the word of prayer. 3 (29m 9s): We were S we were so grateful Lord for what you are doing and the plan that you are unfolding. And we're, we're thankful that you are the almighty sovereign God Lord. And yet you, you know, and you care for the estate of, of your people. Lord, I pray that just today, we would learn to trust and to obey you the Lord to you, to, to even a further degree, Lord teach us from your word Lord, just using the simple narrative, this, the simple love story, comfort our hearts Lord in Jesus name, we pray. 3 (29m 51s): Amen. So there's a lot, the book of Ruth isn't ma it's one of my favorite books. It is humanity and four chapters. And so with only having two weeks to teach it, there's a lot that I've have to kind of kept under the table. I haven't, I've, haven't been able to bring up to the surface to bring up to the light. So just know that as we're, there's a lot of things I ha I have to, for sake of time floss over, you know, growing up in our garage, there was a band saw and a number of other woodworking tools. And, and funny enough, it wasn't my dad's band. It was my mom's band saw my mom was the woodworker of the family. 3 (30m 33s): And we grew up on the mission field when I was, I was born in the mission field. And then my parents worked for a missions organization back here and the States. And because of that, my dad did the bookkeeping and accounting, but we were always trying to fundraise and try to keep support for our family. And it was one of the ways that my mom kind of provided help, provide help, kind of subside our income is she would do these little woodworking. So our friend had a woodworking arts and craft shop, and she would widdle and she made little Noah's arcs with little characters and paint them. It was, it was really cool. So I grew up with her, you know, whittling away at would and doing stuff with wood. And, and sometimes every once in a while, she'd whittle all the way, a little bit too much and have to Chuck it. 3 (31m 17s): And I was driving in this morning. I'm like, Oh man, I hope I haven't whittled away too much to the book of Ruth. That was, that was my fear. But with that said, let's just, let's just dive in. I want to recap for those of you who weren't here last week, just, just to try to bring you up to quick speed, but you know, we, the book of Ruth starts out in a very dark place. It's it? It takes place in the book of, during the period of the judges and in the period of judges, it was like everyone did what was right in their own eyes because there was no King. And so we were introduced to there's a famine land of Israel, and it narrows down to this family of Elimelech and Elimelech had a wife, Naomi, and in two sons, one was named Mehan and the other was Chilean and their names mean CIC and pining away. 3 (32m 5s): So it kind of shows you what was happening in that day in time and, and impossibly to save his family. He, what he does is he ends up taking them to a land of Moab. He traveled six 70 miles over the mountains and, and, and to a place that where they weren't supposed to go, but yet he's trying to save his family. So he takes him to land a Moabite Moab, and the F Elimelech ends up dying in a far away place, away from family and way from friends and their, his, his sons are left with his, his widowed and, and they, over the course of time, his sons take Moabite wives. And in the course of time, both of those sons died. 3 (32m 45s): So now we're left in MOA with three widows Naomie, the mom, here's the thing that they're there, that there's bread back at home. And so she, she goes from Moab to start to leave, to return to her, her town of Bethlehem. And on the way Orpah decides to stay with her own people. One of her daughter laws remains, but Ruth clings to Naomi, and she makes this statement like mine, your God will be my God. Your people mind people. And, and we, we, we find them back in Bethlehem and, and we find them not staying idle. Ruth does not stay idle. So she leaves walks out her front door and simply looks North, South East and West and decides, well, I need to do something. 3 (33m 28s): I need to go glean. I need to provide some out. And so she finds herself in this field and the Bible says it just so happened that she ends up in Boaz field. And from there, we see that over the course of time that there's this budding relationship between Ruth and Boaz. And she was simply obedient to say, I need to do something. And she found herself in this field of Boaz. So one of the important things that we need to to understand, and as we're reading through the book of Ruth is that, that this was written to very different culture. And, and, and we have to understand a bit of the context with which the Bible was written. Our, our Western postmodern understanding doesn't often help us understand this very Jewish culture sometimes. 3 (34m 14s): And sometimes I think we forget that Jesus was this middle Eastern Jewish rabbi. And so, so many of the things that Jesus said and did while he was doing his ministry go right over our head. But it was like, if you were a Jewish, or if you understand the culture and the context, you're like, Whoa, this is, that's what he's saying. Kind of blows your mind. As you begin to understand the culture. And what that does is it opens up these different patterns of the Bible that begins to emerge from these narratives. That's why this narrative is the story of Ruth is in the Bible. Our understanding our Western understanding says that there's prophecy and fulfillment. The thing that's called out, and then it's fulfilled. 3 (34m 57s): But the Jewish understanding is that there's these pro there's a prophecy given. And then there's these partial fulfillment along the way, pointing the way to an ultimate complete fulfilling of that, of that prophecy. So we get these partial, we get these patterns or types that emerge from the word of God. And the part of that pattern, part of those types will emerge from Naomi, Ruth and Boaz and who they represent. So chapter three, Let's jump in. How about that chapter three, verse one, it says, then Naomi mother-in-law said to her, my daughter, shall I not seek security for you? 3 (35m 42s): That it may be well with you, Naomi, the mother-in-law. And she wants to seek security and rest, which she was, she knows God has designed to be found in marriage. And it's within that culture, that Naomi is actually sacrificed in her own, right? The law of the love, right? It was, it was Naomi's right. But, but so that her daughter law will succeed. Naomi, stepping back and saying, I want you to succeed. I want you to be provided for, I want, I care about you. And so she's going to start to work and as a good mother-in-law or a good mother, and she's going to set up her daughter for success, she wants to set them up. 3 (36m 26s): All right. My wife loves to set other gals up. She loves to create these marriage, create these love stories. And so Naomi is going to do that for her daughter in law, Ruth, she wants to seek security and rest. And it leads to a question. I love asking the Bible questions and often, and the, on the margins, all the right questions. Well, why this, or why that? And some things I know will not be answered and tell it, tell her an attorney, but some of the things I'm like, well, I'll say this question for labor are stored in a little file cabinet, wait for later. And one of those questions that I've asked for a long time is why is Boaz single Naomi's, it's going to set up Ruth. So that there's this, the love story gets completed with Boaz, but why was Ruth? 3 (37m 11s): Why was Boaz single? You know, in that culture to be a single older man is, is, was like a . And yet we find that he had a great reputation among his, his employees running the community. He was a man of great wealth. The Bible speaks. Why was he single? And there's a few different thoughts. You know, what was he married? And his wife had passed away is one of the prominent ones that come out that's, that's understandable. And it's yet after reading and studying and, and really looking at the full picture of scripture. This is my personal opinion. My personal opinion was that was that Boaz was untouchable. 3 (37m 58s): He was untouchable. He was in touch long, the way that his mother-in-law had, maybe his, sorry, his mother had put up maybe a scar on him. You see boys, his father was one of the men that marched around Jericho, and that blew the trumpets. And the walls came tumbling down except where Ray had the harlot was and her family and Boaz, his father had taken Rayhab the harlot as his wife, Matthew records that in the genealogy. So it's my personal, if you knew that, that, although Boaz was a great and amazing man that he was still, there was still some stigma in the community and said, well, I don't want my daughter to marry this man. 3 (38m 43s): Who's only half Jewish. And so somehow there was this divine protection that now that God would orchestrate another foreign woman to come into his life, It says in verse two, now, Boaz whose young woman or we're with you, is he not our relative in the army? He says, in fact, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor, the threshing floor was the saddle on the Hill where the grain and the shaft for separate owners would take their grain and they would, they would, they would kind of crush it and you'd throw it up in the air and allow the wind to kind of blow off the shelf. The shelf was the light stuff, the whole, and the, and the grain would fall in place. 3 (39m 24s): And so it was a great celebration. It was a great time of like, yes, look at my pile of grain, look at what God has provided. Look what he's done. And so what you do either, it'd be just a big celebration. There'd be feast, there'd be excitement. And you wanted to protect that. So the, so the men would gather around and they'd lay on these piles to protect it. So that some fee for bandit wouldn't come and steal from their, from their CA their take at night. And so, and so Naomi's like, I know what's going on. I know where he'll be. And so she gives these specific instructions to Ruth. She says, therefore, wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor. 3 (40m 5s): Do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. Then it shall be when he lies down that you shall notice the place where he lies and you shall go in and uncover his feet and lie down. And he will tell you what you should do, Remove taking her best garment and putting our best God wasn't as much as getting fancy as it was removing her clothes of her widowhood. She's now saying Ruth, you are on the market, go dress like it. 5 (40m 36s): And the fees 3 (40m 37s): And the parties that would have gone on, and the eating and drinking was not in a way of access. So you remember the men are there to protect their grain. So if they, if, if you want to read into this, that, Oh, the, that Boaz got drunk. That's, that's just simply not in the text. Bose is there he's feces. He's exciting. There's joy to be found, but then he's going to lay down to protect his grade. And had he been at completely inebriated, then he wouldn't be able to protect if somebody came in. So Boaz and I love the scene is being excessive in his moderation. When he came to drink, be excessive in your moderation, because when he's laying down, he wants to protect what's there. And now, as Naomi is like, Ruth, this is what I want to do. 3 (41m 17s): These are the steps to take, say, tell him, or when you, when he wakes up, he will tell you what to do. And this is putting the ball in Ruth and Boaz this court. And it's a vulnerable position to be put in, especially as a woman, it's a foreign woman in those days. And yet Ruth said all that you say to me, I will do. Now we've got to hold up there, especially cause of the youth you guys are in here. And you're maybe thinking about someday, you want to meet a guy or a gal, and I'm going to say that don't be spiritual or biblical and say, Oh, I'm going to be like Ruth and go find a guy after party. Who's had a little celebration go find and uncover his feet and see what happens. 3 (41m 60s): Like don't do that. Okay, don't do that. That is, that is not what is saying. Is there a little bit of scandal on this as possibly, there's a little bit of scandalous, but there's nothing sinful going on here. This is once again, the culture and the context, and these are two people who that night keep their Virtu and keep their character. It's important in their, in their seeking out of love and seeking out of this marriage. There's still character and virtue to be kept. So Ruth does all that. So her mother-in-law's asked and it says that after Boaz in verse seven had eaten and drunk that his heart was cheerful. 3 (42m 42s): He is he's excited. The Lord has provided the Lord has returned to his people and given them green. And he laid down at the end of the heap of grain and she came softly and he, and she uncovered his feet and he laid down. Now I'm thankful that Hollywood has not tried to remake this into some kind of movie because they would for sure bring some things that aren't biblical and bring some scandal into it. They would botch it for sure. You think of, of, of Boaz. He had been working all day sweating. You know, his feet are dirty, stinky, sweating. She, and she's now laying by them. There's nothing attractive about that. And yet there's something significant that she goes in, uncover his feet and had she gone and tapped him on the shoulder. 3 (43m 28s): He might've jumped up ready for battle, ready to take somebody out. And he's trying to come out his grain, but instead she just simply softly uncover his feet. And there's the significance. And that this has more to do with the hem of his garment than any kind of uncovering we might think. So somewhere back in my genealogy, you might find I'm from Scotland. My last name is from Scott and there's a little village up in Scotland that bears my name Sutherland and the Scots don't wear skirts. They were kilts. Okay. Men back then didn't wear dresses. They wore tunics. Okay. And on the bottom, on the hem of that, tunic was part of it. 3 (44m 8s): There was embroidered into it a lot. And it said it had to do with your genealogy, your, your inheritance, the hem of your garment was something that was showed your authority or your protection, your lineage. It's the reason David, when he was being chased by Saul, he went and hidden the cave with all of his men and saw needing a little reprieve from the sun and needed a little rest, goes into that cave. Not knowing that David is hidden behind and David's men are like there saw, you can take him out. He's been chasing you. You're that you're supposed to be the next King. You've been anointed King. You can take him out. 3 (44m 48s): Now this has God has done this. And David's like, no, no, no. I could never do that to the Lord. And I did. But he, then he went and what did he, what did he cut off at the hem of salts? The hem of his garment. And David still felt guilty about cutting the head of his garment because the hem of God, wasn't just simply a piece of cloth. It's it's stood for the authority that Saul had been given Jesus on his way to heal gyrus. His daughter 12 year old daughter is surrounded by a crowd and a woman with a flow of blood for 12 years reaches out. And what does she touch the hem of his garden garment. 3 (45m 33s): It was this authority in her and she was healed instantly. And Jesus knew that there's power that had left. Why? Because it's this Ruth asking Boaz to take me under your, under your covering under your protection under your provision, verse eight. Now it happened at midnight that the man startled and turned himself and there was a woman lying at his feet. And she S and he said to her, who are you? Remember? There's the dark. There's no streetlights. There's, there's, there's the little light from the is. And maybe there's a moon out. And he says, who are you? And she says, I am Ruth. Your maid servant, take your maid servant under your wing for you are a close relative. The, the Hebrew word is go El. 3 (46m 15s): Or we also are translated into the kinsman Redeemer. And the girl had three aspects to them. He had to be a relative. He had to be related. He had to be able to redeem, and he had to be willing as well to redeem. And she kind of goes off, off her mother-in-law script. You know, Ruth says, well, he'll tell you what to do, but she says, I am Ruth, your maid servant, take your mates over. And under her wing, she is proposing marriage. Ruth had proposing, take me under your covering she requests. 3 (46m 55s): And she's doing this, redeem the land and fulfill the law of the lever marriage. And he says, bless her to you. My Lord of the Lord, my daughter for you have shown more kindness at the end than at the beginning in that you did not go after young men, whether poor or rich, it seems like she had options. And now my daughter do not fear for all that. You, you requests for all the people of my town know that you are a virtuous woman. Remember that night, they both kept their virtue. They're both kept their, their character. He says, now it's true. I am a close relative. However, there's a relative closer than I now hold up. 3 (47m 35s): Where did that come from? Right? The guy that's where there's drama suspense. There's a closer relative in the story. Boys was introduced way back in chapter two. And it was just kind of briefly mentioned. And now, now the author is choosing to reveal. It there's even close relative. What's this about? That's not supposed to happen. And so now Boaz begins to tell her what to do. Just like Naomi said, he says, stay the night in the morning. It shall be that if you will perform the duty of a close relative, do you good? Let him do it. But if he does not want to perform the duty for you, then I will perform the duty for you as the Lord lives, lie down until morning. 3 (48m 16s): So they both are laying there. I doubt either of them slept. Ruth is thinking there's a wedding tomorrow, but I don't know to who, but as this thinking, okay, how am I going to make this happen? There's someone closer, but I got, how can I, how can I do this? First 15 says, and also he said, bring the Shaw that is on you and hold it in which he held it. He measured six of barley and laid it on her. Then she went into this city and when she came in to her, her mother in law said, is it, that is that you my daughter? 3 (48m 57s): And she told her all that the man had done for. And he, and she said, these six of barley, he gave me, he gave me for, he said to me, do not go empty handed to your mother-in-law. He's sending a code. And there's two things that he's seen with this six measures of two important things. One is Naomi remember had, had, had allowed Ruth to go for, go for Boaz. She didn't claim her right to Boaz. Naomi was laying her sight aside her right to Redeemer by seeking security for both Ruth's wellbeing. But now both Boaz is showing that his concern and care that he will provide for Naomi as well. He's providing for her as well. 3 (49m 41s): He seen you could have come at me and demanded that I do the law of love, right with you. But instead he chose the same roof. And now I'm going to take care of you nail me. Don't worry. I'm going to take care of you, but she's also sending another message or he's sending another message through this verse. 18 says is still my daughter and tell you no how the matter will turn out for the man will not rest until you is concluded. The matter of this day, think about that. Here's six ethos of barley free mother, and I'll give her those to you. And the man will not rest. You think of something has to do is six and then rest God's creation, right? 3 (50m 27s): God created in six days. And then he chose to rest the seventh. That was his message. That was a secret code to Naomi, like Naomi, I got this, here's your six ethos, but now just know that you can rest and rest. And I, there was probably a lot of concern and warring going on back in that house. Like what's going to happen. Who's the wedding going to be too, but they were told to rest. And that just enters into my mind, all the, what ifs have you ever read those books? I grew up with these books that you read, you know, part of a chapter. And then it would say, well, if the character chooses to go into the jungle, or if the character chooses to go to the forest, choose which way they go. 3 (51m 7s): And you say, okay, you know, forest is page 10 and, and the jungles page 20. And it leads you into the story of all these little different what ifs. And so you kind of, you can lead your character through these books, into these, these innumerable different little ways, and finally the bookends. And then you say, well, I want to see what happened if he went the other way. And so you go back and you reread it and it's all these what ifs and the what ifs start to haunt the story, or make me think that the story, all the, what ifs, what if Elimelech had never left? What if he had kept his sons there? 3 (51m 47s): What if that, what if his sons hadn't chose to, to marry these Moabite woman? What if Ruth hadn't decided to return with her? Mother-in-law what if Ruth had stayed in the house and said, you know, I'm too tired for this long journey. I don't really feel like going out. I just hope somebody will bring us some food. What if she never went out to the field? What if she'd gone to a different field? What if Boaz was not a kind and generous and man of character? 3 (52m 28s): What if he was a cruel and didn't want to fulfill the law that God had said for the law of gleaning and allow his corners of his grain to be Glen gleaned. There's so many what ifs. And you think about God, who knows in his, all the sovereignty seems to know all these what ifs, but yet he's working. He's unfolding his perfect plans through our choices, through these freewill decisions that we're given we're given. And yet they don't get outside of his ultimate plan. Cause now we're going to see, as it continues on now, Boaz verse, chapter four, verse one. Now he goes up to the gate and all night he'd been doing the what ifs. What if I go to the gate? And nobody comes by what if I go to the gate? 3 (53m 10s): And he doesn't want to sit down and be, what are all these what F so now Boaz went to the gate and he sat down and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken, came by and Boaz said, come aside, my friend, sit down here. And so he came and he sat beside and sat down. And this enters into the scene. Now another person unnamed relative, right? This man will go down in the history. Books is unnamed, which is a protection during the time that this was first written, they would have known who this man was, but the author chose to keep him out of the pages, book, the book. 3 (53m 51s): And it says, and he took 10 men are the elders of the city. And he said, sit down here. And they sat down and it seems like Boaz has this way of commanding respect. Now Boaz is setting up the scene. He has all these people around and you can imagine to see his heart beating out of his chest. Okay? Okay. How's this going to go? What's going to happen. He said to the close relative, Naomi has come back from the country of Moab is sold the piece of land, which belonged to our brother a liberal check. And it wasn't as much of a selling as it was a loaning or releasing. It was like a lease on the land. The land belonged to the family, but you could lease out if you were poor, if you needed extra cash, you could lease out parts of your land. 3 (54m 35s): And that's what Elimelech had to do. He had to lease out his family land because he couldn't keep the crops. There was just something that happened. And so in, in those scripts of, of, as the land got transferred, there's also this, the right to be able to buy the land back. And so now Boaz in his strategy is saying, okay, this close relative here. I want to remind you that this piece has been sold, but it needs to be redeemed verse Fortnite. And I thought to inform you, save and buy it back. And the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not redeem it, then tell me that I may know for there's none. There's no one like you to redeem it. 3 (55m 16s): And then I am after you. And so the man says all redeem it. That's not the plan. I will redeem it and Boaz. Okay. So he's been strategy. He's been thinking about all this night, all night, and he says this. He says, on the day that you buy the fuel from the land of Naomi, you must also buy it from Ruth. The Moabitess, the wife of the dead to perpetuate, or the name of the dead through his inheritance. It was a reminder that you're not just redeeming the land. It's not just about the physical land, but there's also the redeeming of the lineage and the inheritance, which was part of their culture. And the close relative says, I cannot redeem it for myself. 3 (55m 57s): Lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself. I cannot redeem it. So yes, he was a kinsmen and he was able, but he was not willing. It says, now this was the custom in former times and Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging. And you'd give a sandal off your foot. The close relative in verse eight said to Boaz, buy it for yourself. So he took off his sandal. It was the giving away have the right of the land. And, and this has the implication of, of Deuteronomy 1124 and Joshua one three that wherever the sole of your foot treads, that's where your land will be, that you have to actually walk into it and walk onto it. 3 (56m 41s): And that reminds us of, of this is a part of a pattern of our Christian life. There's so many abundant promises in the scripture and in the word of God, there's an abundance wealth out there, but we have to, as Christians, we have to step on it and we have to step into those things into those promises of God. We have to take those as ourself for ourself. We need to step in our sole of our foot. Our feet of faith need to like walk onto these promises of God. So the CA the sandal symbolize that. Now you can see in verse nine, that Boaz is probably holding up that sandal. And he says to elder the people, you are witnesses this day, I have bought all that was Elimelech's and all that was Chileans. 3 (57m 27s): And Mahons from the hand of Naomi, he is, he is redeeming the land from Leviticus 25. And he says, Gomorrah over the Ruth, the Moabitess the widow of may hon. I have acquired as my wife to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brother. And, and from the position at the gate, you are witnesses of this at this day. So now he was taking the Deuteronomy 25 of redeeming his bride to the left right marriage. And it says all the people who are out the gate and the elders said, we are witnesses. The Lord, make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel. 3 (58m 11s): And may you prosper and epitaph as well as, and be famous in Bethlehem. So they're going to give, they're going to give Boaz now two blessings, and they're kind of interesting blesses. You have to kind of read and the survey, you have to know what was going on in this first class. And they're going back to Rachel and Leah of the house of Israel. And they're reminding that God promised that a Messiah would come through his people. And so there's, there is simply saying like the Messiah will CA, this will be part of the lineage of the Messiah. Micah five, two talks about Bethlehem being that Citi. And it talks about how he will be famous and you will be famous. 3 (58m 59s): He'll be famous in that space. Then they give a second blessing, which is interesting. Especially if you know the culture, the context of it, it says, may your house be the house of Perez who Tamar bore to Judah because of the offspring, which the Lord will give you from this young woman. So without going very deep into Genesis 38, this is an interesting blessing. You see, Judah had three sons and he sought a wife and he found a wife for his first son that son ended up passing away. And so he wanted his second son and marry that woman. Then the second, second son rejected that, and God rejected him. And so he also passed away. 3 (59m 40s): And then the third son, Judah was like, well, I don't want that same thing to happen to him. So he held him back and that left Tamar in a very vulnerable position as a widow unprotected in that culture. And Tamar does something that's super skinless. She puts on the clothes of a prostitute, gets pregnant and bears a son to her. Father-in-law, it's sad that this is even in the Bible, but it shows the human condition. And the fact that this is Jesus, his lineage even is even blows my mind even more. And so the son that Judah BOR Perez, who is a relative of Boaz is illegitimate and God, and in Deuteronomy 23 had laid out in the law that 10 generations will be disinherited from entering into the temple to worship. 3 (1h 0m 38s): And so they're saying, may your house be like Perez who Tamar boarded Judah. That sounds like the weirdest kind of blessing to give to this man Boaz. Who's about ready to get married. And I'll circle back on that at the end. So Boaz took Ruth and he became his, and she became his wife. And when they went in and he went into and the Lord gave her conception and she bore a son, the barren woman brings forth a sun. And the woman said to Naomi blessed, be the Lord who has not left you this day without a close relative. And may his name be famous and Israel, and it was famous. Do you notice that same fields that were Boaz Ruth, those same fields? There were some shepherds watching their sheep at night and the sky was opened up and the angels came down in their glory, singing about a Messiah that was born in Bethlehem. 3 (1h 1m 29s): Those are those fields it'll be fit. His name will be famous for 15, and maybe he be a restore of life and a nourisher of you and your old age for your daughter law, who loves you is better to you than seven sons. And they only took the child later on her was them and became a nurse to him. She became a caretaker. She, this, this little child, his little baby obeyed became her like adopted son and away. 3 (1h 2m 9s): And I have one of those women in my life. I, so I was born in Hong Kong and I was born in Hong Kong. My parents were missionaries in South China and in McCalla, South China and Macau was not known for the best hospitals. And so my parents were like, we want to, you know, we want, we want to have our baby in Hong Kong. And so my parents traveled to Hong Kong, which has across the Harbor. And they stayed with this missionary lady and her name was Hazel Kline top. I call her Tutu for grandma and Tutu was one of the ones who every birthday, she, you know, for my, for my second birthday, she sent me $2 bill. You know, for my 14th birthday, she'd sent me $14. She prayed for me your whole life. 3 (1h 2m 49s): I'm so grateful her she's the sweetest lady, but my parents were coming back and they bring you back from the hospital. And she just felt like the Lord had spoken to her while, while, while I was in the hospital, like, don't let him go and sleep back in the guestroom where my parents had been staying. So she had just had a little two room apartment there and in Hong Kong. And so my parents came back home. They bring me in there. They're like, Oh, you moved the beds around. And she's like, no, no, no. I want you to take the master bedroom. And she's sleeping with the baby. And I'm like, Oh no, the guest room was fine. It was comfortable. And she's like, she just insists. And the Lord made it clear. You are not duty that the first night I'm back from the hospital to, to sleep in the room. 3 (1h 3m 31s): And she gets like, here's this noise. And what had happened is these rats had come in through the window, big rats, big, big rats, urban overseas, you see these big rats had come into the window and she's like, they would have, who knows what would happen? There's like this, this protection and to do was that, that amazing woman of faith. And now Naomi is holding this baby and she's realizing, she thought she went out four and came back flat and empty. And now she's seen all the blessings come back through this little baby. And she, and, and the name obeyed. And now it gives the genealogy. We're going to finish for the book of genie, the genealogy. And this is important because it says, now this is the genealogy of Paris. 3 (1h 4m 13s): Remember that illegitimate son Perez we've got Hezron has, rhombi got Ram. Randy got Neisha. And he got Solomon, Solomon begot, Boaz, Boaz. We got Obad. OB got Jesse and Jesse, we got David lists, 10 generations. There's 10 generations that illegitimate sons generations were to be disinherited. Now it's closing the loop. And it's saying, this is my son. And David was going to be that, that, that one. So in closing, this is that Ruth leaves, no detail overlooked, No promise, unkept, no prophecy that will not go unfulfilled. 3 (1h 5m 0s): Jesus said not one jot or tittle will by no means pass away. Jesus will complete it all. And what started out as a big nation, focusing in the nation that everyone was doing and what was right in their own eyes and, and how that led to tragedy and death. And now closing, we focus on a few individuals who are chosen to trust and obey and honor the Lord, despite the conditions that surround them, that we see this joy and birth that come in and not just for them personally, but for the family. And then also ultimately for the nation into the world. 3 (1h 5m 40s): And so looking at these characters, Ruth Bo Boaz and Naomi, where did they put their trust? And my question is where do you put your trust? Will you trust in yourself? And, and the good things that you do, your bank account, your 401k, your career. Do we trust in someone that someone will carry us through the, the hard times that some thing, some activity, but I wanted to say that Ruth was putting her whole trust into the God of Israel forsaken her own tribe and Mo and the mobile site has God. 3 (1h 6m 20s): I mean, what if, what if Ruth had just decided on that journey back? Well, I'm forsaking my God. I'm going to go to this God of Israel, and maybe, maybe I should just be at play a little safe. And I'll just take one of my little idols with me. I'll just take a little God with me that way. If anything really bad starts to happen, I can just pull out my little God and pray to this. God, what if she had kept something back? But I don't see that in Ruth. She abandoned everything completely. Totally. It was all putting her trust in it, into God. She was completely forsaken everything back home. And do you obey God and honor him with your day to day decisions? What if Boaz had not obeyed and honored God with his crops and obeying God with the law of, of gleaning? 3 (1h 7m 5s): What if Boaz had said, well, there's been a famine. I need to keep all this. I need to keep it for myself. And he instructs his Gleaners to glean everything. Don't let anything, we left here and get the corners. Don't let don't let anything fall. Like, what if you'd been that guy who said, I need everything that I'm simply not gonna let anybody have anything. And he's been just so held onto it, but he doesn't. We see him being obedient to God and to be generous to others. See the Lord knows every detail because he is the God of the ordinary and Insignificant, and in that God chose over the scope of humanity to narrow into a Bethlehem farmer and a foreign widowed woman. 3 (1h 7m 54s): And he brings us the book of Ruth. I'm going to pray Psalm 20 for a closing prayer. Believe it's applicable very ahead and close your eyes with me. Psalm 20 may the Lord answer you. And the day of trouble may the name of God, of Jacob defend you may he send you help from the sanctuary and he strengthened you out of Zion. May he remember all your offerings and accept your bird sacrifice? May he grant you according to your heart's desire and fulfill all your purpose? 3 (1h 8m 37s): We will rejoice in your salvation and the name of our God. We will set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions? Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed. He will answer him from his Holy heaven, with the saving strength and his right hand, some trust in chariots and some trust in horses. But we will remember the name of the Lord, our God, they have bowed down and fallen, but we have risen in. We stand upright, save Lord, may the King and stress. When we call having the fire, that is our prayer. You're good. God Lord. For any of those that might be here, who are carrying those extra bear burdens who are holding onto something who are holding on the trust to something that they shouldn't be doing Lord and not putting it in you Lord, pray. 3 (1h 9m 26s): They'd lay those burdens down. Lord, find the complete hope and trust in you. Jesus name. 1 (1h 9m 32s): Hey man. Why don't we all stand together? As we worship in response to what we've heard. You hear moving worship, worship, worship, worship. 1 (1h 10m 14s): God and then I don't feel it. 1 (1h 13m 8s): You working, you never stop. You never stop. Never stop. We never stop. I don't see he even man, I don't feel it. Never stop. Never stop. Never stop and stop. 1 (1h 13m 29s): 0 (1h 19m 43s): You were so good. You said faith full. Thank you. God for all that you've done for us. And he's continued to do to work in our, Thank you for the word that you brought today. I pray that it would take root in our hearts and fruit. Would you fill our cup for the week ahead? And we would overflow Jesus and to everyone, we come in contact with, make us more like you God The students to be together worshiping with here on campus and at home, just bless every family represent 1 (1h 20m 17s): That's your kingdom. Come in our lives in Jesus name. Amen and amen. Awesome. Such a great morning. 0 (1h 20m 26s): And any of you would like prayer. We would love to pray with you. Come on forward. We have some volunteers and staff that would be glad to pray with you. Have any needs. Have a wonderful week. Take a moment to say hi to somebody on your way out, and we'll see you next Sunday. Have a great day.

Contact Doug Brown: dougbrown1234@gmail.com, 603-595-0303TranscriptDiane Dayton  0:02  This is changing the rules, a podcast about designing the life you want to live, hosted by KC Dempster and Ray Loewe, the luckiest guy in the world.KC Dempster  0:13  Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Changing the Rules. I'm KC Dempster. And I'm here with Ray Loewe in Wildfire Podcasting Studios. And just a brief comment, we are running this podcast because we want to introduce our listeners to interesting people who are doing interesting things. And that usually means that they are the luckiest people in the world, because they have taken control of their life. They've planned it out, and they are living their lives to the fullest. Good morning, Ray.Ray Loewe  0:46  Yeah, that was really good. This time, you know, you're getting better and betterKC Dempster  0:50  I should type that out. So I can memorize it.Ray Loewe  0:52  Well, don't. Don't do that, because it won't work. But But, you know, you're absolutely correct. You know, we have a lot of people who work on this idea of becoming one of the luckiest people in the world. And this is a journey. It's not a one time kind of thing. And you have to keep working at it. And one of the things that we found with these podcasts, and they just energize me so much, because we get to talk to some of the most interesting, intriguing people. And they're really great examples for people who are trying to either get out of limbo to continue their lives or trying to figure out how to be the luckiest people in the world. And that means personally designing their own lives and living them to the fullest.KC Dempster  1:36  That's correct. That's what you always say.Ray Loewe  1:38  Yeah, that's great. So we have a really great guest today. And we're gonna take a quick break so everybody knows who they're listening to. And then we're going to come back with Doug Brown, and I'm excited about introducing him.Diane Dayton  1:51  You're listening to changing the rules with KC Dempster. And Ray Loewe, the luckiest guy in the world. We will be right back with more exciting information.KC Dempster  2:00  Welcome back, everybody. And I'm anxious to have our our talk with Doug Brown, because I've not spoken with him before. So Ray, take it away.Ray Loewe  2:09  Yeah. Well, first of all, I met Doug on a beach. Oh, no, that's not quite right. I met him in a room full of people where he was doing his thing. And I'm going to explain what that is in a minute. But afterwards, we were down in Boca Raton, and we went out on the beach, we had this magnificent dinner and drinks. It was a wonderful experience. So if you're going to meet exciting and interesting people do it on the beach. So Doug Brown, good morning. Say Morning.Doug Brown  2:37  Good morning.Ray Loewe  2:38  Good morning,. And how's the beach in New Hampshire this morning?Doug Brown  2:42  It is a little bit cold and rainy. But other than that, it's beautiful.Ray Loewe  2:47  Yeah. Well, I think you have the right idea. I think you you you move to a state that we don't hear a lot about, you know, when it's there. And it just kind of does its thing. And I've been there, it's beautiful. And you kind of got your own little law hideaway that you live in every day. Good job, Doug.Doug Brown  3:07  That is true. It's hour in 10 minutes to the mountains and 30. less than eight minutes to the beach. Yeah,KC Dempster  3:15  I have to say, a friend of mine. And I take a vacation every year from New Jersey to North Carolina and back. And one of the things that helps us helps us pass the time is we keep track of license plates. And I have to say that it's it's our opinion that the people from New Hampshire don't leave the state very often.Ray Loewe  3:35  So I have to make this comment before we get serious about this conversation, Doug, because I was on your LinkedIn site. And you have a post on there. And you know what, what a way to set somebody up the post was if you could interview anyone you wished anywhere alive or dead? Who would you interview? And this was just after I booked an interview with Doug Brown.Doug Brown  4:00  I guess your head dog.Ray Loewe  4:04  You know, good things happen from New Hampshire race.Okay, so Doug runs a company called Business Success Factors. And he specializes in business sales, business expansion and training. And I've heard of him because he's one of the most highly acclaimed sales and revenue growth experts in the country. Okay. And I know you coach a lot of high powered sales people in high powered executives. Add. Is there anything else you want to add about what you do?Doug Brown  4:38  Oh, you make me sound a lot more important than I I feel at times. Ah, no, I you know, I also have a training company that I'm starting at that I have started up it's called High Velocity Training, which is where I'm helping coaches, consultants, entrepreneurs, salespeople, frankly, how to sell more and how to sell more easily.Ray Loewe  4:59  Well, you don't Nothing in the world happens until a sale is made. Okay? I learned that a long time ago. And it's true. And you know, people rebel against that idea sometime, but but nothing happens in the world until the sales is made. And so when you do this coaching, you know, I'm sure you can give us this long approach of what you do normally with people, but what I'm really interested in is what's going to happen to what you do now going forward that we have a different paradigm than we used to have. So you're out there dealing with these high powered salespeople and business executives, and you're coaching them. And I guess you Well, I know, you used to go on, I used to meet them face to face, because that's how I met you. So what happens now, Doug?Doug Brown  5:49  Well, a lot of what happens before happens now, but it happens in a virtual medium. So, you know, so we met face to face, because we were both invited to that particular event, right. But that client prior to me closing them, I closed them virtually. So I hadn't met them before. Oh, wow. Okay. So this stuff has always worked. In other words, it has I mean, when I, well, geez, I'm gonna date myself back up a little bit. But when there was a man named Chet Holmes, who wrote a book called The Ultimate Sales Machine, and I ended up becoming, working my way through his ranks and becoming his independent president of training and sales. And we used to just close virtually, I mean, we were closing millions of dollars a week, virtually. I'll never mean. Yeah. So we used to do virtual presentations. You know, this is back before we had video conferencing. So everything was done over the phone, and we were doing it all over the world.Ray Loewe  6:57  Oh, no, I got you know, I'm sure you were able to do this without, you know, seeing the other people without getting that sense of touch. And, and, and looking at body language and things like that.Doug Brown  7:13  Yes. Because it's all about building rapport in a virtual setting. You know, like we're doing now, I mean, we're joking around having fun, and you know, we know each other well, KC and I, we met each other, but I feel like we already have some rapport going. Um, so the the whole thing is that a sales conversation is nothing more than communications. And the sale begins before you talk to someone. So the marketing, the prospecting, the positioning, everything that goes along is all designed to do one thing, which is to communicate with another human being, to resolve a problem, or challenge or frustration they're having that we can fulfill. And once we can do that, then it's really more of what I call a conversational conversion question, you know, question and answer session. It's just having a conversation, and basically bringing it to a mutual Win win. outcome.Ray Loewe  8:14  Okay, you're way ahead of me over here. All right, you know, and I, I mean, I'm, I've been a salesman all my life, you know, if I really go and look at at what I do, and yet, I miss very much today, being able to go out and shake hands with people getting able being able to look into their eyes and watch their body language and see whether they're reading me or not, how the heck do you do this, when you have only a phone, you're going down to a one dimensional kind of a thing? You really are, what what I do and what I teach people to do is to sell sell a lot, is to send a lot of follow up pieces prior to so somebody can get to know them. Right? So it's about establishing the relationship members the positioning prior to the conversation. Okay.All right. So we have this dilemma these days, I think, you know, the one dilemma is that nobody answers the phone anymore. All right. I don't you know, I'm sure your experience, and you have a way around this, but, but I know when somebody calls me, you know, I let everything go right to voicemail unless I recognize the number. And then if they leave a message, then maybe I'll call them back. Right? So how do I as a salesperson, or any kind of person out there deal with this, this automatic wall but people can put up around them so that they don't have to deal with you.Doug Brown  9:53  So it's a it's not just about a one one dimension communication piece anymore.  So if you leave a voicemail, you better leave a very good voice. Right? I did, too. He can't, it's not enough to differentiate anymore, right? It's but you got to be different. Right? So, um, and I like to use a lot of humor. And you know, but I don't teach people to use a lot of humor, because not a lot of people can pull it off without, you know, lots of practice.KC Dempster  10:22  So you leave messages and a Donald Duck voice or something like that?Doug Brown  10:26  No, but we might, we might leave it in like a radio broadcast type and say, you know, this is John from calling, you know, Doug calling from, you know, Cloud Computing, you know, the business spotlight, and you know, and I might do things like that, uh huh. And then just leave them a message or it's about entertaining them. Yeah, I see. Yeah. Right. So, you know, hey, you're harder to get than my, you know, my wife's boyfriend, George Clooney, you know?Ray Loewe  10:53  Okay, that's, that's putting yourself out on the line. Right. Okay, so So what do you do you have a you have a sales campaign. And basically, what you're teaching people to do is the campaign starts with social media contact, enter an email contact, what is that? Is that generally what we're dealing with?Doug Brown  11:13  Yeah, he all of the above, because you don't know what they're going to respond to. And so, you know, I teach people to use text, I teach him to use postcards, handwritten letters, email, LinkedIn, Facebook, you know, whatever, whenever they can get an impression upon. Because a gentleman, his name was Jay Conrad Levinson. And he wrote a series of books called the Guerilla Marketing Series. And I was talking to Jay one day, and he told me this factoid. Now, I don't even know if it's true, but I actually do believe it is. He told me it takes nine, nine impressions upon the brain for somebody to actually get to recognize somebody's name or brand. And, and I said, Well, that's not bad. He goes, Yeah, but it takes three views per impression to actually get the impression. So you have to contact somebody 27 times, according to him.Um, and, you know, he's, he's the guy who did the Marlboro Man commercials and things like that years ago. But he, he left that impression upon me. So when I was with Chet, Chet used to say it's between five and 12, five and 12 contacts, you know, on a cold lead. And so I would test these things out, because I'm just a curious guy who likes to optimize everything. So sometimes it was five to 12. But sometimes it was 17, depending on the industry, depending on the title we're going after. But getting a hold of people isn't as hard as most people think it is, as long as they're creative. Right? We in so I teach people how to do that creatively, whether that's using what's you know, called lumpy mail, you know, in the old days, right, you'd send something that had a kind of a lumpy package. And, you know, they'd open it up, and it'd be something that would be relevant to what we were going to want to talk to them about. I mean, there's different ways of doing it. But it can't be just the one thing that we all relied upon, you know, years ago, including myself. And you know, the 70s 80s was just hitting the phone, right? And this, this is constantly changing.Ray Loewe  13:25  And I would guess, now that when people are stuck at home, and it's easy to take a nap during the middle of the day, right? Yeah, I mean, you have to be even more creative. So give me a couple of ideas of things that you do that are really creative, that we can steal from you.Doug Brown  13:44  So the first, the first. First thing out is always something that's very short, needs to be short. So right, you may have heard something like this, I didn't make this up. But if you're gonna leave a phone call, there's different ways of doing it, you can do it, you know, hey, this is me from ABC Company, you know, and so one of the things that I teach people to do is mix it up. So it would be something like this. Hi, Ray. This is Doug from business success factors. My phone number is 603-595-0303. And the reason I called you today was to...and I leave it like that.KC Dempster  14:22  Oh, he goes little sneak.Ray Loewe  14:25  Okay, so So now now I I'm curious. Right? Right. All right, give us a couple of other examples of some creative things here. We're gonna go through your whole repertoire, we're gonna do the Doug brown course to success. You know, in our 16 minute thing, I know we can't do that.So, for example, on LinkedIn, or even email, right, you want to you want to have a very short, pithy and nice something, but you Here's the key, it's got to be relevant to them. The problem, the challenge with most people, is they're not selling, sending relevant information. So Ray, for example, if I was doing something on the financial services business, I might come up with a factoid that I found. And I might say, Hi, Ray, this, you know, I'm Doug, via LinkedIn, you know, I'm connecting with you. And I noticed you're in the financial services business. And I support people in the financial services business doing XYZ. I don't know, if you're experiencing either one of these three frustrations, like most of the people that I talked to, and I'll list the three frustrations, you know, is it worth a five minute phone call for us to discuss to see, you know, if there's anything that we can do, just something simple like that, people are complicating the heck out of it? And then on the next thing that I would send, I would send a picture. So I send riddles. You know, hum. How many? How many times does nine appear from zero to 100? in sequence? You know, how many times so if you went 9 19 29, you know, or three, I pick a number. And then I hit him after that with a short blurb about, Hey, I'm here to prove everything that I said I would. So for example, right? In this case, if I sent that and said, How many times does nine appear? You know, in sequence in, you know, from zero to 100, then I'd say the answer might surprise you. It's about the same amount of people who say no to a financial services offer.Doug Brown  16:42  Right? Creating, you know, if you're curious about the answer, it's down below my signature. And so what I want you to do is go down below my signature, because then I'm going to put a PS re, is it worth five minutes for us to talk? Okay? Okay, so this is this is what you do for people, you you sit down with a good executive, Salesforce or something like that, and you train them to look for these things.Ray Loewe  17:08  Now, do you actually write this material for them too? Or is that something that somebody else does?Doug Brown  17:12  Depends on how much they want to pay me but yes. Okay.KC Dempster  17:18  Well, you know, one of the things though, is that when you're using written communication, you have to be careful because sometimes your tone doesn't come through and it might sound abrupt or terse, or Curt or even insulting.Ray Loewe  17:33  Yeah, you know, you when we were talking earlier, you gave me this story about this contractor. Mm hmm. Okay, tell that because that was so, so much true about dot txt and things can convey a misleading tone if we're not careful.Doug Brown  17:49  Absolutely. So I had a contractor that I, you know, I've been trying to, it's hard to get contractors to come to do anything. Right. And then they're, you know, the challenge in that world is, they're not communicative. And, you know, so I've been trying to get this door, put on the back of my house, a sliding door that leads out to the deck for months, and I've had people say, I'm going to show up, they don't show up, they give me the price. I go, it's fine. You know, they don't you know, and so then they'll, they'll do it last minute, etc, etc, etc. So anyways, I found this guy, his name's Joe. He's awesome. Right? He did a nice guy came by we did it, boom, he put the door in, etc, etc, etc. And I had about five or six other things in the house I wanted done Joe's like, Hey, I'll come back. So weeks go by and I'm texting him. I'm saying, Hey, Joe, when are you going to be able to show up? He's not answering me. So I send him a you know, a couple of voicemails didn't answer me. I'm like, Oh my gosh, did he you know, catch COVID-19 to me what happened? Right? So then I sent him a text and I said, Hey, Joe, the doors in because I wanted another door on the side. I know you're busy guy. Would you like to have me have Lowe's where I bought the door from? Have them install it to kind of save some time? Or do you you know, do you want to set a time that you can come by and do this and the rest of the stuff? And he typed back, It's up to you?I mean, I was I was like, wow, this is you know, I'm gonna pay this guy. I don't know, you know, four or $5,000 to do the work right around. And I'm like, man, are they making that kind of money that they can do this, but then when I talk to people like that, they're always complaining like, I don't have enough cash. I don't have this. I don't have that. Right. Yeah. So yeah. So Gary atone.Ray Loewe  19:47  Okay, so this has been an interesting conversation. And unfortunately, we're near the end of our conversation already. It just flies. But you know, what I got out of this is that you've been doing this On non direct kind of sales work for years and years and years, it's not something new. But what is new is that you have to be much more creative. And between you and me, I think you were always creative with this, right? And you have to worry about the tones that you set and things like that. And that's why people hire Doug Brown to coach them in sales. Right.Doug Brown  20:22  Yes, that and other reasons, but, you know, generally they're looking to increase their sales revenues, or to improve their efficiencies, and, you know, process, whether it be, you know, super large companies, or, you know, midsize or whatever, smaller companies.Ray Loewe  20:38  But yeah, I mean, the game has changed, right, as you and I talked about before, and I don't think the game is coming back and force, the way it used to be.Doug Brown  20:47  I think people are getting used to working virtually now, and communicating virtually now. I do believe that in person meetings will come back to a certain degree, but you know, I mean, a lot of people now are not even going into an office, they're working from home, including big companies, you know, I just called GoDaddy the other day, everybody's working from home, you know, I called other large companies, General Electric, people are working from home. So I'm not sure that they're going to want to spend that kind of floorspace, you know, per square foot, per square meter, you know, on rent anymore. And so it's gonna be it's gonna be an interesting world going forward. But I mean, the reality is that it's not that hard to communicate with people, when you determined, and you have multi modality to get to them, because they will respond to one thing and rate. Can I say one last thing?Ray Loewe  21:37  You certainly canDoug Brown  21:39  I get asked this question all the time. How much follow up is, is too much? And the answer to that question is, until they tell, you know, until they say it's too much, it's not too much, because what a lot of people feel is, oh, well, I'm going to be now you don't want to hit them every, you know, five times a day, with with with a piece of follow up. But the reality is that when you're connecting with somebody, it's one of those views that Jay was telling me. So the more views you have, the more it will pull somebody toward you. Some people, sometimes people think it will push people away if they're communicating too much. And the reality is, most of the time, it does the exact opposite, because your competitors are not doing it, if at all, very often. So, again, you don't want to differentiate, you want to be different.Ray Loewe  22:32  Wow. Well, thank you so much for imparting your wisdom. And, you know, I can see, you know, Doug is one of the luckiest people in the world. I you know, he he has taken control of his life. He's got his own business, he does what he wants to do, he does it largely his way. And he has these creative spins that he you know, puts on everything. So, Doug, thank you so much for being with us. And we will put your website and phone number on our podcast notes so that people can find you. Okay, thank you. And it's been a pleasure, and I hope we're gonna have an opportunity to talk again, and I'm revamping my whole way of communication right now. So let's take a quick break Taylor, and then we're gonna come back and sum up.Diane Dayton  23:19  You're listening to Changing the Rules with KC Dempster. And Ray Loewe, the luckiest guy in the world. We will be right back with more exciting information.KC Dempster  23:28  Welcome back, everybody. And the exciting information is this is the end of the podcast. And we will be back next week with a very interesting young woman and keep coming back because we've got really great people that we talk to.Ray Loewe  23:43  Yeah. And again, another thanks to Doug brown for being with us today. Yeah, it was most interesting to me. And I think if you're in the business world at all, you'll learn a heck of a lot. See you next week, everybody.Diane Dayton  23:55  Thank you for listening to Changing the Rules, a podcast designed to help you live your life the way you want, and give you what you need to make it happen. Join us in two weeks for our next exciting topic on changing the rules with KC Dempster and Ray Loewe, the luckiest guy in the world.  

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To tell you that we are experts in Rural Medical Education is a bit of an understatement! We have been training and retaining rural doctors in our state for more than 40 years! So, let's take it back to where it all began, the U.P., and learn how it all happened from the man that was there!  This Rural Mission is a podcast brought to you by Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. The podcast is produced with funds from the The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation and The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Family Medicine Department. Welcome to season two. I'm your host, Julia Terhune, and I hope you enjoy this episode. I don't think there's been a week that has gone by since I started working for the college of human medicine that I haven't talked about how we have been recruiting, training and retaining rural doctors for over 40 years. For those that I work with, I'm pretty sure they were able to dub those words with almost my exact inflection. I talk about it all the time and not just because it's my job, but because I'm really proud of the outcomes of our program. I'm really proud of the work that everyone for decades has put into the success of our medical students and the success of the rural medical systems that take our medical students. Now in 2019, I get to change my script just a little bit because this year we are celebrating 45 years of rural medical education. In these 45 years, we have been able to show the outstanding and significant outcomes related to developing the rural medical workforce, and we have expanded our rural medical education certificate programs to include two additional rural campuses where students can receive that certificate. Those campuses are now Traverse City and Midland. With that expansion in 2012, we have been able to cover the map of Michigan with rural medical education opportunities. Those opportunities provide students with an understanding of the unique needs found in many of our rural regions across the state. For those medical students who want to get rural medical training, they can pick from two different programs, the rural physician program based out of Marquette or the rural community health program that's based in either Midland or Traverse City. Both programs are under one big umbrella called the Leadership in Rural Medicine program. But this umbrella wouldn't exist at all if it wasn't for the men and women who worked so hard to establish rural medical education opportunities in the upper peninsula starting back in 1974. To honor this legacy, we wanted to showcase the man who was there when it started and let him tell you the story about how it all began. Dr. Daniel Mazzuchi was an internal medicine doctor who came to the upper peninsula of Michigan in the late 1960s. He was an integral part of establishing the program first in Escanaba and then in Marquette in later years. His influence on the college was so tremendous that much of what he's established during his medical education career is still in place today. Dr. Mazzuchi sat down with Dr. Andrea Wendling, the current director of our program, and told us the story of how it all began. To talk about medicine in Marquette, you have to kind of... Medical education in Marquette, you have to kind of break it up because nothing happens in a vacuum. The political factors that went into allowing the UP experiment, which is what it was called, to be started, the people or cast of characters involved in it, and then how it eventually evolved as medicine evolved in the UP. We owe a great deal of credit to the development of our Marquette campus and our rural medical education heritage to the late Donald Weston who served as Dean of the college of human medicine from 1970 to 1989. He's the reason why we're here. I mean, that's a simple declarative sentence. He was a fly fisherman and he and his buddies were up fly fishing somewhere in the mountains. They were dreaming. They were iconoclasts. People really have no idea how iconoclastic they were. They thought that they could develop more of an apprenticeship model of medical education. They thought about it for places like they were fishing in, Montana and Idaho and all. Eventually that became the whammy program. They were also very politically aware and connected and hung out with politicians from the state government. They were drinking and talking and talking about this stuff. One of the guys said, "The hell you thinking about Montana for? I mean, we have a problem in the UP. Why don't we do something in UP?" People up here in 1973 had an idea and that was to have this apprenticeship model on an experimental basis built around a practice. He got a lot of communities interested in it. Eventually Escanaba was the site they chose, not Marquette. They hired a guy named Paul Warner and another guy named John Hickner and they developed a family practice down there and he put students in there for all four years. Unheard of. This was an experiment. 10 students every other year. After about three or four years, the LCME called Weston and said, "If you don't stop this, we're going to discredit the school." Why did they say that? There was no way... Unless the students decided to take national boards on their own, the LCME could judge the progress of people. The curriculum was let's call it innovative to sprain the meaning of the word. In terms of available data, the students were doing fine, but the available data wasn't sufficient in the minds of the people who were in charge of the LCME at that time. The long and short of it is a compromise was reached to relocate the first two years back to campus and to make this a clinical campus, but with a different mission. That's lasted to this day. Yeah. What was that mission at the beginning? The beginning was to try to resolve the problem of rural areas in getting people to come here to practice or even more importantly, to encourage people who lived here, who would ordinarily want to stay here, to get into medical school, to open the doors a little wider for them. We, by the way, had a separate admissions committee. The thing was it was a day when the decision was placed in the hands of a small group of people who had their own ideas about who should be going to medical school and who shouldn't. Although I would say they were very, very well intended people, I was a part of them. It was a very serious matter for them. But they took to what would be viewed today as an extreme, their desire to be sure that people came back here as much as possible. The bias, if you will, was very heavily towards people from the upper peninsula as was the intention of the founder of this program. That's what he wanted, but also towards women, also towards older people in general. I would say those things have by and large continued as far as I can see in a much different way and under it. But I think this campus has almost always had at least 50 and more percent women students and has always had a handful... Always had people in their late twenties, early thirties coming in, which I think is outstanding. I think it's the way it should be, but no, it was just that they kind of went a little overboard. Can you talk about how you figured their curriculum out and how you could coordinate that with the main college? I did not figure out the curriculum. Okay? Okay. I worked with department chairs. Department chairs were responsible for the curriculum here from day one just like they were everywhere else. It wasn't a detached program. It was an integrated program. It had people in the department who believed strongly. It was not in a vacuum. It was all integrated and carried out under their distant supervision. Every department had their persons here. They were likely to be local and they made regular trips up here. The students took always the same exams that happened on campus. All that other stuff [inaudible 00:10:25] But anyway, yeah, that part I would describe it as real but imperfect. It wasn't perfect because it wasn't next door. It was far away. I went down there as associate dean in '84, five, six, and I was responsible for all the campuses. I came back here in '87. I think it was when I came back and took stock of things and I thought to myself, you know what, this place looks like every other campus there is. That's not good. It might've been while still I was... I don't remember exactly, but somewhere in there in the '80s started thinking out loud, we need to do something to make this a special program again. Yes, we were no longer called the UP experiment. They were called the UP campus. Yeah, we had had some graduates and they were practicing all over, but a lot of them are in the UP. I thought, hmm, why not a two month long family practice experience in the little towns of the UP with the people who graduated from this program as their kind of overseers and so forth? Ultimately they gave permission for us to do a two month long... In addition to the one month, a two month long family practice experience in these little tiny towns. That extended time in rural family medicine lives on for our rural physician program students in Marquette. I know students are thankful that Dr. Mazzuchi started that model, and I know this because I was able to talk to one of the graduates of the program. Dr. Nicole Zimmer is now a family medicine resident at the MidMichigan Family Medicine Residency in Midland, Michigan. Her longitudinal family medicine experience set her on that path that Dr. Mazzuchi had envisioned. What was a highlight of your time up at the Marquette campus? If you could pick a day that you could relive right now, what would it be? I really enjoyed... We do 12 weeks of family medicine up there. Four weeks was in Marquette and eight weeks we spend kind of in a rural area. Mine happened to be Ironwood. I loved everything about being up there. It was in the spring, so it was absolutely beautiful. I mean, you could go on the trails. Everything was opening up. I worked with this physician, Dr. Hubbard. He was absolutely an amazing teacher and wonderful and hilarious. I mean, sometimes you get nervous about eight weeks one-on-one with a physician, but it flew by. He was a great teacher. He was amazing. While working with him, I had my very first delivery. It's still just like rocks me to this day. I remember going through the motions with him. We're kind of talking about, okay, during this stage of labor, this is what you need to do, and this is where your hands need to be, and this is what you're checking for. It was really funny because they didn't find out what they were having, a boy or a girl. I was so excited to deliver this baby because I wanted to tell them this couple if they were having a boy or a girl. When the baby was born, you're supposed to suction and dry off the baby a little bit and then pass it up to mom. Well, I was so excited I kind of forgot about that. I held the baby up like Simba and I was like, "It's a boy." Everyone starts crying and they're all excited. Dr. Hubbard just gently nudge me. He was like, "All right, Nicole, bring him back down." Then of course, we do the suction and the stimulating and the baby was perfectly fine and crying and everyone was happy, but he always joked with me after that in all of our deliveries. He goes, "Don't do the Simba move this time." It's just kind of stuck, but it was my first delivery. My love of OB as a primary care provider just blossomed on to that and I hope to do that in my future practice. It's one of the reasons I chose this campus too based on the rural medicine and the OB experience you get here. I knew at that moment it had to be part of my life. I had to be delivering babies. It was just such a thrill. The first team we sent to Haute, two girls, two women. I remember on the front pages of the newspaper, there are pictures there. I remember the little teeny hairs on my head standing up. I go, "Wow. This is exactly what I'm looking for." I mean, they treated them... They had never seen students before. None of these people had ever seen students before. They treated them in a truly heroic fashion, and they had the greatest hands on experience since we went to medical school. You don't want to know about our hands on it. I grew up in the city hospital. I mean, honestly God. But anyway, it was an overnight success and what better people to have as teachers than people who are your own graduate. I think part of the benefit of a program that's been so well-established is the connections that are made. When we had to set up rotations there, it was office staff who had worked with that physician for the past 20 years. They'd been taking students that whole time. The atmosphere of education and learning and opportunities was already set up. We didn't have to forge the way for that. The previous students and administration, they have been done. We're working with physicians in the community who loved what they were doing, love the UP. They were great teachers. Having that 40 years experience allowed them to realize, "Oh, hey, I know that you guys have this during this rotation. Let me help you out, or I know in the past students have really struggled with this part of the exam. I think you should read these materials." They were really helpful with resources or kind of identifying weaknesses before you even got there because they had seen students before you who are weak in that area or realizing there was a very human aspect of it too as far as realizing, okay, I know that you have an exam this week. I know that there are surgeries planned for late, but you had seen dozens of appendectomies, why don't you study and we can catch up after this case when the next one comes in? There was definitely opportunities to foster both the educational experience in the classroom still with bookwork and hands on experience. They were really great about realizing kind of what we needed as students before we really knew ourselves what we needed most of the time. Last year we did a study where we looked at the impact of the undergraduate medical education program and the workforce in the UP and really its impact in rural areas throughout Michigan. We took all of the graduates from the UP campus over a 30 year period, from 1978 up until 2008, and looked at where they were practicing in 2011. What we found was that 27% of all of the graduates of that program were actively practicing in a UP County in 2011. It's amazing. Yeah. The impact that that has on the workforce for the UP sustained over time is amazing. We used to wonder out loud with each other, you know, how much longer we'd be working here. Yeah, yeah. Now it's 40 years and it's made such a difference over time. The other thing we found in that study is that the mission of the program based on outcomes has actually strengthened over time. We looked at the first decade of graduates, the second decade, the third decade. In the more recent graduates, it's actually a higher percentage of them are from the UP and a higher percentage of them stay in the UP than even early on. That's wonderful. It is. Because we worried a little bit would we we saturate what the U P could need even over time, but it doesn't appear to be. It just strengthens over time, which Bill Short at the time we published the article, his theory was that having the graduates of the program become faculty has actually strengthened the program over time both from a mission fit and from a stability fit for the community. It makes perfect sense to me. It's easy to look at it once it's already happened. Right. It was one of our goals for sure. Yeah. One of our hopes. I do think that this campus, and perhaps a couple of others, provide students with more clinical hands on experience than most campuses in most medical schools across the country. We used to assess that or try to assess it by asking them after they finished their first year of residency, how they compare to people in their class, and they are always... Many of them had way more physical experience delivering babies hands on in the OR, that kind of thing. They really had a lot of real doctor type experience. We just did another survey of the last 10 years and that message came through very clearly that they felt like compared to their peers, they had more one-on-one experiences. They had more OR time, more face-to-face patient time, early triage, and then procedures, delivering babies and first assisting in surgery, which many of their peers didn't get. Our rural medical education programs are a place for rural students to have a home or to return to home. We are also a place for students who want hands on experience in surgery or emergency medicine or even general practice. They can come and learn in a small one-on-one environment. Finally, we're a place for students who want to learn more about health disparity and the needs of those who are most vulnerable and find a way to fix and solve those problems. Some of our students want all three of these things and we provide that too. We leave you today with a short testimony of what this legacy has provided one student, who at the time of this interview was only a medical school hopeful and is now part of our incoming class of 2023. John Berglund is from Bergland, Michigan. This is what John says about the rural physician program in Marquette and what it means to him to have this opportunity. Well, to be able to start my training in medicine in the region that I hope to end up one day would be huge for me. I can imagine it being a little tough training in a large city for four years or onwards and then making that huge jump to the rural area like the UP, I think it'll be pretty tough. But it's great to be able to learn and train with the people and the patients that I hope to one day care for before I even progressed. Plus, I would not have to leave my favorite place in the world, the UP. I don't think it could get much better than that. If I can give anything back to my hometown, I hope it's that that I can come and serve the people in my hometown and pretty much my whole county. I guess training there would be would be huge because I would get... I know the people from Bergland and to be able to train in that area and to train there and to get people to know even more and to build that trust and connection before I even start to be a doctor there I think is huge. Thank you as always to Dr. Andrea Wendling. Her devotion to rural medicine has paved the way for so many students to make an impact in their communities and has been a mentor and example to so many students. It's an honor and a privilege that I get to work with her. Thanks also to Dr. Mazzuchi, Dr. Nicole Zimmer, and the future Dr. John Berglund. I speak for all of us at the Leadership in Rural Medicine Programs when I say we are happy that our relationship has continued for all of these years. I would like to also thank the community assistant deans who help make our rural certificate programs run in Marquette, Midland, and Traverse City. Those individuals are Dr. Stuart Johnson in Marquette, Dr. Paula Close in Midland, and Dr. Daniel Webster in Traverse City. Thank you for all of the hard work that you do and all that you pour into the staff and students at your campuses. I hope you've enjoyed this podcast, but more importantly, I hope it has encouraged you to make rural your mission.

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Today's episode is all about the most culturally important events of the last decade that shaped our lives, inspired us, and who am I kidding, this is a deep dive into the most scandalous, time wasting, and skeevy stuff of the decade. On the last day of 2019 and the freaking DECADE -- I discuss my favorite headlines of each year and some of them weren't even that popular, but they changed my life OKAY? Okay, maybe they didn't change my life, but they kept me entertained, made me laugh, cry, or consumed me with having to know more. Okay, you ready? Let's go.Thanks for listening! Follow me on Instagram at @skschmidt or like my Facebook page "Sarah Talks Schmidt."

This weeks guest is Peter Sumpton. Peter is a Marketing Study Lab - Tutor and Pod caster. Peters two favorite Marketing quotes are: ‘People like us, do things like this’ Seth Godin. ‘The most human company always wins’ Mark Schafer. Peter has worked within the Marketing profession ever since leaving University via various organizations from SMEs to large multinational PLCs in a number of different market sectors including; media and manufacturing. Throughout his careers Peter has held many positions within Marketing, starting as an assistant and working through the ranks to Head of Marketing. In going through this ‘ground up’ journey he understands that although every business is different, through robust and justifiable Marketing Strategies, tailored to a particular industry with a certain target market in mind is where the Marketing magic happens! Having been in the same position himself and want to develop his skill thought a more structured way of learning marketing, Peter knows exactly what it takes to learn, study and master marketing theory and putting it into practice, becoming a Chartered Marketer in the process. The passion and commitment to the profession he loves – Marketing, can be infectious.Links: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/marketingstudylab Podcast: https://marketingstudylab.co.uk/free-resources/podcast/ Website: www.marketingstudylab.co.uk Make Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/petersumpton www.twitter.com/cousinp81 www.instagram.com/marketingstudylabWelcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon if you will, your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on Kindle, Amazon and our website Sam Knickerbocker. com.Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. And as always bringing on the movers the shakers, the people who are making the transition from living somebody else's legacy, fulfilling building somebody else's legacy to taking ownership. of who they are and who they're meant to be their talents, their identity and bringing it to the world, which is you. So thank you for listening. If you love this podcast, if you've been getting tons and tons of value out of it, go please, and write a review on whatever app you're listening to this on, whether it's iTunes, Google, play, Spotify, Stitcher, wherever it is, go write a review, rank, and review so that more people can hear this valuable content. Today, we're going to be talking to Mr. Peter Sumption something correct pump somebody else. That's correct. Believe me, I've had all sorts, but that's fine. I believe you know that perfect. So Peter something. The cool thing about Peter something is, I love his angle that he's taking on this. So he is a master of marketing. But he calls himself the Lego master of marketing. It's important to as part of marketing, attach yourself something well known, so that people will remember you. So I love this idea of the Lego master of marketing, taking the messy building blocks which we all if you've ever tried tomorrow yourself brand yourself, you know that there is a mess, right? Especially if you have no idea what you're doing. If you've ever played with Legos, you also understand it's a mess, and you can build whatever you want. But with no vision, you usually don't get very much. So all the messy building blocks as to what makes up a successful marketing plan takes them to codify them, make them easily understood so that it looks presentable. And you've got a cool little for me, I don't know why I always think of Star Wars when I think of Legos. But a nice little Millennium Falcon driving around, right? Because that's just what I think. Maybe that's indicative of the time in my life when I played with my legs. Yeah. But go ahead, Peter, let us know kind of your story. Share that transition. What made you leave another really exciting thing to listen to Peter's story very closely. We have not had very many guests here that are in his exact position and the timing of this could not be better. So listen to that. And if he doesn't, if you don't pick it up, I'll draw attention to it after a story but I'm shooting We're excited for this to take it away, Peter.Great, what an intro. Thank you so, so much. And thank you for having me on absolute pleasure. So I suppose the first thing to say is that the whole Lego thing. I remember when I was younger, and that's I suppose whether the story starts and similarly to you, I was into Star Wars and more the space Lego. And that was kind of the first thing that I ever had in terms of Lego the spaceship that I build and break down and build and break down and fast forward into right now. That's why I like to cast myself as the Lego master of marketing. It's a bit catchy, but it also goes back a long way to where I started and kind of a love of Lego. And then from that building a love of marketing. So let's leave the Lego for one side, the moment I grew up in a small town, middle of nowhere and kind of had two choices went to school. Fine family No problem. It's not a wonderful rag to riches story, nothing like that. Pretty standard to be fair. But in the town where I grew up, you had two choices. You either lived, worked there and basically spent your whole life in that town, or you moved away. So, it was my decision that I would go to university. And I had to choose something that I thought would be interesting for the next three years of my life to do to study, flicking through university books, and thinking, Okay, I'm not as bright as I probably think I am. So doctor, dentist, lawyer, that's way out to the field, no chance. This marketing thing. This is quite interesting. I wonder what that's all about. Andlike anybody, the first thing you think of when you think of marketing, or generally most people will think of advertising or communication, because that's, that's the bit we see. That's the bit that everybody sees. And everyone's got an opinion about it. Simple as that. But I liked that about marketing. And I liked the fact that within marketing, it went deeper than that. And a color or a brand or a logo, or even an advert or a con type of communication could change somebody's mindset and effectively affects what they're thinking about a particular company, or a product or a service. So I thought let's have a go at this. So went to university I spent three years going to a lot of boring lectures, spend three years going to some interesting lectures and spent three years playing a lot of football and doing a lot of drinking and stuff that a lot of people do and they go to university and leaving University for fantastic you know, degree happy days. pat on the back. Well done P. Now to get a job, or just some a CV out, I've been to university, I've got a degree someone's bound to pick me up straightaway snapped me up. And I remember Actually, I had this discussion today with somebody that I'm tutoring. And I said to them, I remember sending my first application for a job after university and being nervous about it because I was thinking, I'm going to get this job and I'm going to have to do it. And they're going to ask me questions. And I've never been in this position before. This is a bit strange. I never heard from them and then sent another and never heard from another and never heard from and I suppose all this is up to where I am now. I almost took the first job that I could get just because I wanted to get a job. And a lot of people will be listening and thinking, will you look just to get a job in the first instance, you know, I kill to go to university and get a job and yeah, you're buying right? Some people really struggle to get that job, but it does have a lasting impression on you and it does massively affect The way your life goes and the way it's guided and how you grow and develop as a person and within your, your profession, it just does. So I had a few marketing jobs thought I knew it all thought I knew what good marketing was, sorry, communications based focus straight on the straightaway. And this was pre-internet, by the way. So, anyone that's, that's probably under the age of say 1816. Listening is probably thinking, what did you do pre-internet? Well, this is a good question. Really, what did we do? I can't remember. But fast forward a little bit after those few jobs. And I came to this realization that marketing isn't just about communications, although that is what people see, and believe it to be, first and foremost. And I've got a little analogy for you here and hopefully, this will make sense. Going pre-internet by the way, so let's go School for a second. If you're writing a letter to somebody if you have to write a letter, what do you start that letter with? You start it with somebody's name and their address. You know who you're writing that letter to. And then you go on and you build the letter, you construct the letter main points and then sign it and send it up. What you don't do is write it and then think, who am I going to send this to? And, and that's the bit of marketing that a lot of people even in marketing, don't quite understand. The fact that it's all about I mean, maxing simple, it's, it's all about who you're targeting your market in general. And then the communication on top is very much that cherry on top of the cake. If you don't build the cake First, there's no point in having the cherry of communications. So anyway, this realization came to me and I'd had a few jobs in marketing. And it wasn't my bag. It wasn't something I was passionate about in terms of the industries I was in. And now it comes to the point where I'm at right now. So hopefully your listeners will. Some of them will understand where I'm at either been there or are there are thinking of this. So my current role, I enjoyed it love the people I work with, really passionate about marketing and my profession. But I just didn't have that link to the industry. I just didn't feel that I was fully connected to the industry. So long story short, aboutI'd say about a year to two years ago, I decided I need to do something for myself. I need to build some and that's purely me because I'm sick and tired of working in marketing departments are fighting internally with other divisions to highlight the importance of marketing. I need to branch out and do this for myself build something so I can highlight this to all the people of how you do marketing correctly. Whether that's right A letter or creating a Facebook post, it doesn't start with that post it starts for the buck. So that was about two years ago. So what I started to do, I was already tutoring people through another company I worked with on the side. I went to them and I said, you know, can you help me out here? What can we do how I want to grow and build a business? Can you help me know? Okay, so we can you can partner with us. And we will put people through our books for you and you can choose them for professional qualifications. Now my brilliant that's a great start. Fast forward two years. And now I'm at a position where I'm okay I handed in my notice and I did that. Not quite sure when this is going out. But I did it said the start of October, and by the end of this month that is the end of October, I'll be going it alone. So it's like slap bang in the middle of this transition and the caveat being are the ones that What I want to get across to people that are listening is, there's more than one way to skin a cat, there's more than one way to make money, there's more than one way to leave this job. You can do it instantly. Or you can do it slowly, and I'm quite risk-averse. So what I've done is I've taken my time, I've got to know my audience. And I've got to understand what I want to do, and what my passion is and where that is. And that's led me to today. So I'm at the point of leaving my job and going full time in terms of tutoring people for professional qualifications, mentoring them through apprenticeships, for marketing, but also going into companies and showing them how you should do marketing, how you need to start with your audience. You don't start with the columns. And that's where I am today.Yeah, I love it. So there are a few things that I want to bring out of this story. And then let me take one real quick note here before I forget it.Why we always use this example but we do.Okay, sojust some terminology here. So I understand in Europe and then we'd use started a little bit using it here but not always. But CV is the equivalent of a resume. So sorry, your CV out what the heck is this? Right? Is that a Honda CV know, a CV is a resume, essentially. Okay. And so that's something that had to be built. If you go back to it and this is kind of the example that I want to bring up. How many people maybe this is you maybe it's somebody else, you know, this Listen, you who are listening to this podcast, but the plumber who doesn't fix his toilets, the plumber has broken plumbing in his house and is too busy to fix it right? That is one area that I've seen happen over and over and over and over and over, specifically in the marketing field where people can I can brand You I can help you market I can do all this, but they are not doing it for themselves. They're not even close to doing it from themselves. They haven't branded themselves. They haven't created brand standards, they haven't understood marketing. And so they're trying to sell you something that they are not doing for themselves. And even if they have a wicked awesome portfolio of people they've helped, they're not doing it for themselves. So it's important for you to understand when you're looking for a professional in any area of your life, I believe you should be looking for somebody who is actively doing what they're trying to help you do. They're actively doing it for themselves. They're living what they preach. They're walking the line that they're showing you to walk, and they're on the path.And what's cool about that isthat is Peter Peter is already branding himself. He's creating a brand and this as he said, he first got this idea started working on this one to two years ago. It's not like just over overnight, he decided to create a brand. He's built a brand while he was at his I guess you could call day job or last A form of employment. And that is important to understand that he's built this. Now, where do you start when you build a brand, and this is part of what my messages when I'm talking to peopleis thatunderstanding they have to identify your identity to build off of because if you're going to go build something, especially if you're gonna go build a business, and you're building something that is not in alignment with your values and who you are at your core, it will fail. I don't know how big it's going to get before it fails. But you can only build so big of a building on a weak foundation. Maybe you get away with a first-level story, you're barely surviving, you've got to sell a job with rather than only having one boss, you've got all your customers, bosses, maybe you get a job, but it's your job, right. But to build a legacy to build something long-lasting instruction, you have to start with your identity. And I love that that's the first place you started. logo. Matt, Master of marketing, sorry, the Lego Master Master of marketing that comes from his core something that he connects with from his childhood. It's part of his identity. And so he's bringing his identity his weirdness, right so there's a phrase in marketing What is your weird you need to be able to share what you're weird is with other people. So you remember so that people think about you and your weird could be any number of things my weird if, if you go to my Facebook page, and I'm not a crossdresser, I'm homosexual, right? But I like to do weird things. And if you go on my Facebook page, you're going to see me in some hot pink high heels and a blue suit. Right? And you might think that's weird. It is weird, man. When you go to my page, I want you to remember when I speak on stage, I show everybody this picture when I speak on stage because I want them to think that guy was weird. Was that weird? connects them with me. It says okay, yes, he's a serious businessman and he doesn't take himself too seriously, and that is essentially the sweet spot of my value system. candor, very direct, very honest. but on the same token, very grateful, happy, and somebody who lives in integrity to themselves so doesn't take themselves too seriously. So that's an important aspect of marketing that I love that you did.And there are just a couple things that you picked up on that going back to the plumber. So so and this is why I do what I do. And if a pipe bursts and you're not a plumber, you're going to call a plumber, but you're not going to call anyone you're going to call on that, you know, like and trust, and you're going to call one that knows what they're doing. Hopefully, and it amazes me, the number of people I speak to that is in the marketing department, and they don't know the strategic elements. They don't know what marketing orientated businesses are. They don't know What various acronyms and we've all got acronyms and all that rubbish, but they don't know the fundamental basics. And that put into position, usually. And it's crazy, but it's true. Usually, they're put in the marketing department, because they know Twitter. Oh, you've got a Facebook account, you can do that. How can you? You know, that's like saying to a plumber or saying to your friend, my toilets were broken, you use the toilet? Can you come around and fix it? You just wouldn't craziness? Yeah. And it's like that second thing. The second thing is, you mentioned branding being massively important. So two things on that. My branding is going to do a massive transition for various reasons. And that's when I came up with it like a master of marketing. So if anyone looks me up, it's going through massive changes, massive transitions, and at some point in the very near future, it will be buying on point. Well, that's what I've been doing for the past two years is working out what the audience wants and where I should go. The second thing, if anybody's listening, and they want to build and develop their brand, just remember one thing. And that's all brand is, is a promise that it's as simple as that it is a promise. As soon as that promise is broken, you don't have a brand. So next time you see a brand, take Hershey's, for example. They promise that they will deliver delicious chocolate whether you like it or not, that's kind of what their brand stands for is chocolate delicious chocolate. the best chocolate you'll ever eat. If you eat a chocolate bar, Hershey's chocolate bar and it's disgusting. They have broken that promise. And now you won't forgive them and they'll lose your trade. So just remember it is a promise.Yeah, absolutely. And that's my brand also is going through i would say a more clarification I used to brand myself as Samuel Knickerbocker and feel your legacy and I'm separating the two because as and this is going to happen with everybody. I think you're gonna initially brand one way and Your brand is a constant transformation. So you understand that you're not like locked into one thing and you're out of integrity if you're not sticking to that one thing, but my brand I had to separate because the fuel your legacy side of my brand is taking on kind of a life of its own. And the Samuel Knickerbocker brand is taking on a life of its own, and I wanted to separate those so that might be so my clients can be more specific about what that promise is. Yeah. And I love talking about the promise aspect of it. And understanding what that is specifically with marketing I'm going to touch on another thing that I've seen happen in the industry so if you're looking for somebody to start marketing for you, and you're kind of interviewing different people, the market to start determining where do I send my money? A lot of people they're like, I can write copy, I can write an ad for you. I can split test on Facebook or, or whatever landing pages and you're like, Okay, cool. And can you do this where you can your content creation for meand then we'll do it. The problem is it's exactly what I think is the best.This is probably the best analogy I've ever heard of marketing, the letter analogy, right? They are writing copy, you're paying them to write copy. It's okay, generic copy. And when I say copy that's advertising words. So the words that are in the advertising for people who don't understand the industry, but they're writing stuff, but it's generic because they don't know who they're writing it to. So they're writing this letter and then determining, well, let's just blast it out and see who likes the letter. And then based on if we change three words in the letter, maybe we'll get a better response from this group. They have no idea who they're marketing to. That is an issue. And if you're paying for that level of service, stop paying for it, and go find somebody who's going to help you. At least initiate the conversation of Who are we marketing to? Okay, there's a lot of people out there who will take your money and I'm not saying they're bad at their job. There probably are Really good copywriters, like people who are writing this, but they are only as good as they know who they're writing to. And that's crucial. In fact, when I started working with my brand, and this is one of the reasons why my brand is going through a revision, because all about the mindset of where you're starting, whether it's financial, or or in life, whether it's who you're marrying, whatever it is, what intention Are you starting, so with my branding, and with your your promise, is your promise something that people would tattoo on their body? Right? When you start asking yourself that question if enough people bought into this, would they be willing to tattoo my logo on their body because the meaning of the promise is so it's so grand, and they can get behind the meaning of that promise? And if not, then your brand really, you need to be clarifying your brand a little bit more, and that's why I've changed my logo because I want my logo to be tattooed. I want my logo to, for somebody be like, yeah, I'll wear that on my arm. I'll wear that on my shirt. I'll wear that on my hat because it looks cool. And people are going to ask what does that mean? And then I can tell them, it's an invitation to tell them about this legacy. And that's an important aspect of the logo design of things when it comes to it. But in finance, I was just on a podcast the other day, and the guys like, well, if I have X amount of dollars, where would you tell me to start investing?Beforethat, before I ever talked about investing before ever talk about the copy before I ever talked about what's in the letter. I have to know your values, what's important to you? And that's where it starts, and it's going to start that were everywhere. When you're getting married. You just go look for the cutest person out there. Or do you look for Hey, who's compatible? What am I looking for? And this isn't about making a checklist aboutqualities you want in somebody necessarily. Maybe steve jobs did thatSteve Jobs, actually he had pros and cons. Whether you want to get married, and he's his current wife, while he's the only wife, I think, actually saw that, and she found it funny.But the thing is, like everything that you do in life really should start with, is it in alignment with your identity? If it is great, if it's not, then it's easily dismissable. If you know what your identity is, and your value system, it takes so much confusion out like like, should I do it? Should I not do it, if it passes the identity test, and the value test, there's a good chance that it would be worth doing. And, and to give you some honest consideration, if it doesn't pass either of those, then just pass on it. It could be a great opportunity for somebody else, but it's not you.If people are unsure what they're passionate about, or what got as it took me two years to make this leap. And I'm massively passionate about marketing. That's it's fundamental. It's almost in my blue. I feel like you know, I do this stuff for free, you know, I do in my spare time, whatever it is, if it's about marketing, that's where I come alive. But what I want people or your listeners to think about is that they need to find what they're passionate about. And the best way to do that if, particularly for skeptical about working for themselves or going it alone or not having that regular paycheck is would you be willing to talk about it and do it for free? Try doing it in the evenings and weekends. And the one thing that I always say when people say I just haven't got the time, and I know we're all time-sensitive now. But if you're passionate about something, you will find the time but not only that, I always do it when I'm tutoring and I say you need to study you need to do your research and you always get the old just can't find the time and then I'll say okay, what happened on that soap, you know what happened on that? That comedy program that all that was brilliant. Do you see what I mean? Like, that's an hour that does the first hour a week. Do you watch the news? That's five hours a week. I've just given you six hours. You stop.Yeah. And maybe I mean, this is the reality. Maybe you are the most passionate thing about that soap opera, or whatever it is that comedy show if that's what you're most passionate about, and you could talk for hours about it and start a podcast, start something and talk for hours about it. Like there's nothing It doesn't matter what you're passionate about. A good branding expert, a good marketing expert, and a good business expert can help you turn that into an economy where you're able to add value to others and make money doing it. So it doesn't matter what you're passionate about. Question is, are you passionate enough to do it and does it fulfill you there's a lot of things that I'm passionate about that I would love doing that I'm probably doing for free, but it does not fulfill me the same way as doing what I do on daily basis helping my clients right this morning. I will Wake up and pull up an Instagram.And there were like 12 messages on Instagram.Like somebody, a client that I had helped right before I went to bed. She put on 12 little clips, the 15-second clips on her story about all the things that I was able to help her with. That's incredible. Like, that's like, if you ever want to wake up to something, there's like your clients are telling everybody like a freakin lighthouse. This guy's awesome. That gives you some juice in the morning like, okay, yeah, how do I save these so I can always watch that. So I can always see how much people believe in me and what the change they make in people's lives. And that gets me excited. I sat in bed with my wife, my two boys who are two and a half and nine months old. And we watch this for like two minutes long, two or three minutes long. Do we just watch this about what are we doing? What impact are we having in society? What's that promise and is that promise being kept.And that part that you just described that wasn't monetary that had no monetary value as such as I know she's a client. But that part that gave you the kick that gave you the let's do this. That wasn't monetary. That was because you're passionate about that, and you loved helping somebody solve a particular problem.Yeah, no, I love it. So so one of the things that happen when in this transition, and you're right in the thick of it, which is so exciting for me, but I want you to tell me the story of your biggest naysayer and how you are actively trying to get them out of your head. So you can just drive forward and say, Look, this is where I'm going. I'm not going to pay attention to all the people who are trying to still get me to keep my job you know, it's not too late. I still have it. I turned in my notice, but they would get they would give me my job back if I went in and ask for my job back. How are you silencing those naysayers and who are the biggest ones in your life right now?So the people that I thought would be the biggest naysayers turned out to be big advocates to be fair, so when I decided to make I was fully aware fully conscious that I wanted to do this about a year into this two-year transition if you like. For about a year, I was gearing up to tell my family that I was wanted to do this. And I thought because they're very safe, very secure very. I suppose if you look generation generationally, that even a word. If you look back then that generation was very much, you get a job, you stick at it, then the generation before them was even worse. They probably went through a war, you know, and it's I'm just fortunate to have a job, you know, so so you should be grateful just to have a job. So I was I was not petrified, but I thought it would be a case of that's too risky. Don't do that, etc, etc. Well, I told my dad, he was only ever had one job in his life for around 45 years. Yep, same company. He said times have changed. And if that's what you want to do, that's what you want to do. And I thought I couldn't believe it. They were just, that was the biggest impetus or that I needed to be like, yeah, I need to go for this. Well, the naysayers surprisingly, I haven't had that many, which is strange. But the one thing that I would say is that everyone has their own opinion. And then whatever you decide to do, it will be the right decision, because you'll never know any different. So whatever you do, whatever your decision is, never look back and think I should have stayed that I shouldn't have done this. Because it will lead you to a now it will lead you to this moment to bigger and better things. And the way I always look at it is if I don't leave that company, I could be driving to work The day after I hand the day after I leave, and be hit by another car. And that reality does no longer exist anymore because I've changed that in my life. Now. Now that's a bit of a bizarre way to look at it. But I will never know if that would happen or not. So there's no point in looking at that bolt alternative universe. It's your universe, and you are where you are now. So just think of the full would never Lubbock.I love your brain and the universe. And a while back, I was having a conversation with some colleagues,andsomething that people struggle with. I've seen over my coaching and guiding people through just a financial conversation, but it's everywhere. People struggle with the idea that they are the creator of their universe. And they really, they want to pass that responsibility off onto God off on to others. They're their neighbors. They're the person who cut them off on the road like they want to pass off the idea of creation to anybody else because the idea of that they are the creator of their universe is too incredibly painful. Because they have to realize if I'm the creator, and I'm where I am right now, then it's on me. And that is a terrifying thought. But it's also when you make the transition when you make it past the hump, that is the most blissfully wonderful, happy, joyful thought that you could ever tell me of is that it's my job to create. I'm the creator of my universe, and I determine what my universe looks like and how I view it. I can't control anybody else's actions, but I can control what I'm telling myself in my mind, and that's my universe in between these two years, and what I do, that's my universe and nobody else gets to control that but, but me and for you who are listening, nobody else gets to control your universe, and it's on you, whatever, whatever is happening in life, it's on you. And even if you can't change the physical circumstances of where your life is right now initially, you can change your perception of those physical circumstances which will completely alter your reality. And you can live in a completely new universe there where there's joy, happiness, love, conviction, passion,everything,everything you've ever dreamed of it is attainable by a simple mindset shift. I know you don't like to hear that. Most most people, don't want to hear that. If they're not in the right mindset, but it's the truth. And somebody's got to tell you.Yeah, I completely agree. And I, the other thing that kind of spurred me on to where I am now, and this was very various conversations with numerous people. And we are so fixated on the now and that's fine. You know you know that that moment now. And as humans, we get lazily uncomfortable because that's what we are. We're human beings. We don't like change even many of us die. And it's so hard to change but you, you have to do that for you. No one will do it for you. No one's going to hand you a golden ticket. It's up to you to make that change to make that leap. And the thing that and it's, it's kind of in the back of my mind, but not Not really. It's on the back. It's almost like the safety zone, but I push away. And that's if all goes wrong. I can get another job. Because I've got those skills in the bank. I'm grown in developing a business. I've worked for multiple businesses within marketing. I know my stuff, or I hope I noticed. Okay, I'm coming across like a big so I can always go and work for somebody else. There are jobs out there. I'm not saying I'd walk into anywhere Far from it. But I've probably had say five or six or seven jobs in my career so far. So there might be an eight or nine that could be I'm hoping there isn't, and I make a great success in this business and we all live happily ever after. But there's always that little safety zone that says, if worse comes to worst, there are always jobs out there. It might not even be the job you like. But if that keeps you going while you're still doing this thing that you're so passionate about, then so be it because that passion should override anything. Anything else?Yeah, absolutely. So what would you say the over the last two or three years that you while you've been kind of easing yourself into this idea, and now you're in the middle of a transition? What is one habit mindset or behavior that you've used to start creating your legacy? Afew, I suppose. So the first main habit is I started going to the gym about five, six years ago say and the only way that I was ever going to continue going to the gym. Is that is it? If I made it so that it was like eating and drinking, I had to do it, you know, it wasn't a, if I get time I'll go to the gym, it was a case of, well, I need to eat food, I need to drink water, I need to go to the gym. And it was just part of it there was you know, it was a non-negotiable if you like, and then it just becomes ingrained into your system. And similarly to this. I started doing it on evenings and weekends. And it's putting that time aside and dedicating that time. And that's made me massively conscious of how to make more efficiencies in the time that I've got. And the fact that I've only got say, two to three hours in an evening, maybe say six hours a day at a weekend, if you don't include being with family members and some downtime because we all need that. And it's been massively focused and organized because you are in charge. It's up to you to make those decisions and be very, very organized. So, if anything, it's made me massively, massively disciplined, particularly because as you can see, I'm at home. And this would be sort of my office, the TV there, I don't think that's ever been switched on. So there are so many distractions around you. But if you get in that place where you are massively structured and you know what you're doing, that's when you start to create efficiencies and you get, you can get so much more done. If you concentrate on the things that can keep you moving. That's one thing that I've massively changed. Absolutely,yeah, I love that, you know, just creating the discipline and setting up what are your non-negotiables Have you ever written that down? Like, what is it that you will do every day, no matter what, and just like you said, eating, drinking, water, sleeping, those are things that no matter what they're happening, because your body needs that to survive, and I think if you create that mindset around whatever it is, you need to get done for your passion and that time, that's your you time and then That's, that's a phenomenal habit. So how did you I mean, you're again, you're in this transition this is the best, one of the best ones, because you're in the transition. But in the transition, how, like, Did you plan on? How did you plan on financially supporting yourself through this transition? Do you have a spouse working? Like what is it that you have to go on? That's assisting you in this transition?Absolutely. I love that quick question. And I think it's probably the biggest thing will be people listening probably about the financial aspect. But because I've, I don't know any of my family members thinking about it, that don't have or haven't had a regular paycheck, including myself. I've not had that for how many years is it now for 19 years? You know, I've had that regular paycheck so going from that to not having that is a massive, massive step change. So what happened about a year and a half ago when I decided to take this seriously I started creating, saving. So I was doing work on the side in the evenings and weekends. When I got my regular paycheck put as much as I could aside, stop spending on stupid things. And I don't want to come across as we could have everything. We drank water, and we ate lettuce for a year and a half, nothing like that at all. You know, we've been on some great holidays and things like that. But it certainly makes you look at what you're spending on. Do you need 18 shirts? Then maybe not. If you're in this transition? You know, do you need to spend money on certain things? Probably not. And if you want this to happen, and like us, as I said before, I'm massively risk-averse. So the only way I could make this happen is if I knew I had a lot of savings. So if all went wrong, I could support my family. I've given it 12 to 18 months, so I know if it goes badly wrong. I've got 12 to eight 18 months, if I wanted to, I could just go to a beach for 12 to 18 months on the job. But we don't want that. So just to add to it, it's so I have got a family to support. So it's a case of considering them. So it's just about being prepared. Working out. The best advice in terms of monetary advice for anyone that's looking to transition is write down what you potentially could get in what you know you're going to get in. And then you'll be able to work out how much you need to save to maintain the lifestyle that you've got now. Then you can drop that lifestyle a little bit if you need to. But you must understand how much you will need to support yourself if you had zero income coming in. And ideally, that wouldn't happen but you know, you've got that in the background. So that's where I am again massively risk-averse. So you don't have to throw everything up in the air one day at work and go, I quit, I'm off, you just you don't you couldn't do. And if you're happy to do that and take that risk, do it, you know, if it's in your nature, if it's not sensible about it, get some kind of savings together that you can rely on, don't touch it, don't look at it, just keep putting it in every month. And don't think that everyone's focused on the now think of the future. Think it thinks of 12 months down the line plan for 12 months. Like we were saying, This is taking me one to two years to get to this stage. So I've been planning for one to two years, not just from the brand, not just from the marketing, not just from what I want to do for the rest of my life, but also from the savings and the monetary side so that we are safe and secure for X amount of months.Yeah, I love that because it's it is true. And I would say I'm taking one step further. Even if you're not planning on making a transition, you really should know what is your bottom line. needs to come in every month like you're spending and you need to know Hey, what's my bottom bottom bottom line? food, shelter, insurance, transportation. And then what is everything else that like, if push comes to shove, we can get rid of and understand what is necessities? What's discretionary and then what's like, the extra money that you could be put away somewhere. And understanding how money works, understanding the rules of money and where that money needs to be and how it needs to be in a year from now, how you're going to pull that out. All of those are crucial, crucial aspects that you need to get nailed down, regardless of what your plan is. But especially if you're transitioning, I work with a lot of entrepreneurs who there I'm going to do this business idea and they're super stoked about it. And they have two or three, maybe four good months while they're moonlighting, and so then they quit their job, but they haven't planned really for the future. And they're still in the scaling-up phase. And they're in Me, it crushes them. And it almost scares them to go back out and try it again. And that's I think this skill they just talked about is understanding where you are, where your finances are and what you need. Especially if you have a family, you've got to be thinking of your family. It's not like you're a single guy who goes sleeping this car if things don't work out. Yeah. And I know people who, who are that way they sleep with their office because they lost their house, right? I get that. And I'm all like, if that's you, you go for it, right. But it sounds like Peter and I are pretty close to the same. Like, I don't like a lot of risks. I've got a family. I've got my wife and two kids. I don't want them to feel the stress of me growing a business. And so how do we manage that and it? Did you I'm curious, did you just figure it all out yourself? Or have you did you counsel with other professionals kind of like you're the toilet example? Or did you call somebody who's an expert in that or did you say it Oh, let's see what we can do by ourselves and stuff it under the bed?So I think A very long way around. So what I did for one of those years where I was thinking about it, whereas I documented everything that we are incoming and outgoing, so that this time this year, I know approximately, if I have the same year as I did last year, and that was just doing it on the side, if you like, how much we've got coming in, so how much I will need savings to last us for 12 to 18 months for the next year. So yes, I went to see an accountant and I said, I'm not crazy. And they said, No, you do not give us your money. Know that. They said no, we just have to figure out your finances, etc, etc. Do it in the right way. So I did go to somebody and advise anyone to seek financial advice. Absolutely. 100%. But the best thing you can do is, is just start by writing it down. Exactly like you said, non-negotiables what do we need to survive? What can we get enough if, if at all, not saying get rid of it. Because the one thing that that I don't particularly like in this day and age is, we always hear them say, for this and we say for that, well, I want to go on holiday. So I'm going to put that out on my life. So I can go on this holiday. And there are that many opportunities around that it shouldn't be the same. It should be okay, I need X amount to go on a holiday. Does that mean you need to increase your income by $100 a month? So you can afford a family vacation next year? If that's the case, okay. How can you make $100 on the side, maybe start like that, and then it's not so much of a burden. And then you build it up? Maybe it's $200 that works for you. So it's 300 400,000 and then you've got that balance of Okay, I'm getting close to how much I bring in each month anyway. So maybe it's worth that risk and then you do all the financial stuff, etc, etc.Yeah, I love that mindset that he just talked about. The mindset shift is the difference between fear and scarcity can even make it and, and abundance. Let's start making it let's just add some extra income and let's fulfill our dreams pay for our dreams, paper trips or whatever we want through added income rather than trying to cut back and live within our pennies. How about we just go make some more dollars? Right? Yeah, I love that. I'm curious one of the things that I love about what Peter does is certain industries are completelywhat's the word?Their worldwide industries right and anybody in any country can help you with this if they're good at it, right? And so he's in one of those industries where it doesn't matter where you live, you could call him maybe with a little language barrier. I don't know how many languages he knows I only know English so I am limited to like yes, I say barsen is embarrassing. I have friends who speak six and seven languages and I barely speak English and I'm not good at it. Anyways, so we are we have a certain level of that Google translation certain things can help or we have friends like I have friends who speak other languages to help me but these principles they were all over the world no matter what country you're in. And so how would we go about getting ahold of you? Where do we connect social media websites? Like what is the best way to get involved in your mission, your vision if we want to support you, we want to maybe give you some businesses Okay, let's get you rolling. As you help us get rolling, where do we connect? How can we appreciate that thank youfor my main social media platforms LinkedIn so just look up my name's Pete something simple as that. You can go to a marketing study lab coat UK, which is my website, but like said that's going into transition. So bear with me on how on or you can email me so Peter at marketing study lab co.uk. Okay, and even if it's just for a brief chat of the marketing, even if you want a bit of advice I'll speak all day about marketing. Yeah.I think I think anybody passionate about what they do, they really will, to a degree, they'll give it away for free. Because yes, we love helping they want to see people succeed. There is a point at which just the value of time, we have to start charging for our time as professionals simply because we have a family to feed, right. And that's a that's just a natural thing. We can't get away from certain aspects. But if it's for a short conversation or a gradual conversation over time, and we're coming, I know for myself, if somebody comes, well, what do I do? That's a sucky question. And I don't know how to answer that just like Well, here's a few things. So go figure it out. But if you come to, hey, this is what I've done. This is where I'm at, what little tweak would you make What's one or two things you would change, then that makes it easy for Peter or myself in my profession to say, Okay, well, here are some things that I would work on. Right now. We can give directed feedback because we are we have a starting point. Somebody's coming in and just like well, what where do I start? It's really difficult to help you. So that's some feedback if you're going to reach out to him, come to him with something don't come to him. Like, oh, but let's just chat about this for an hour with no end in mind. That's it. That's essentially let's write a letter with no person that is addressed to the robots that are going to operate. Well there. So this is entering the legacy on the rapid-fire section. I love this section because we get to here really quickly, what are your goals were headed at and what is holding you back? So the first question, I may ask you for more clarification, I would just say clarify it. It's just easier if we say that the first question for sure, but one word to one-sentence answers.Okay, okay.The first question I want to sentence so not a word, round. Okay. So what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy today?What he's holding me back. He's holding me back. time constraints, I think It's the time time to do everything. So I've had, you know, a year, two years to focus on this, and now it's happening. It's almost like there are so many things that I want to do and get involved in. It's getting that time. Okay,so so I'm gonna clarify this and just change the change time constraints, cuz I've been hearing this one frequently as well. What if it's not time constraints, but it's systems?Yeah, okay. Yeah. I mean, I feel it feel a bit of a fraud because I said halfway through the interview that I'm very structured, and so I am, but there's just so much to doing and get involved. But having said that, that that that is on me simply because it just means that I'm not focused on the main thing that I need to be focused on. Soyeah, it's getting clarity on where I need to focus now. It's not just a side hustle. Sure. And that's something just so you guys who are listening when you're working part-time you're moonlighting as a side hustle. It's very fairly easy to focus on that because you only can do a certain amount. Once you're getting the position and you have a lot more time. Now the question becomes, you have been putting off tons of things, and now is the time to systematize it. So it's not, I wouldn't say is a fraud. This is a natural progression of a business. Now, there's so much more to do because if we're ramping it up. Now is the time to create those systems so that when I say systems, that the issue is not necessarily time the issue is systems to make your time more valuable. So just to kind of give you direction on that. I'm not trying to make Peter look back. I just I've heard this a few times be right outside time. Like what's the other way of saying the time that's a solution-oriented thing. Like what? What is it about time that's stressful? Is there not time in the day? Well, yeah, I only have 24 hours. Well, then, if that's how you're thinking and you're not thinking about a business, you're thinking about a job, right? I have 6 billion people times 24 hours. That's how many hours I have. The question is My employing all those hours or not. And when you start thinking about things that way, then it helps you create a system. That's, that allows you to start building your business. from a perspective of I ultimately want to step away from this sucker and three to five years from now and not have to work. I probably still work as I love it. But I don't want to have to work in three to five years from now if I'm building my business to where I have to be there every day. That is not a business that is a glorified job with too many bosses. So so so next question, what is the hardest thing that you've ever accomplished?Has the thing I've ever be a half marathon, nothing to do with business? Hey, okay, two marathons and now money's gone. So I don't think I'm going to get a full half marathon but that is the hardest thing because I put my heart and soul into it and I got a half-decent time. I think I was seven minutes under what I wanted to achieve. So I was Yeah, it was enough. That's probably the hardest thing. I thought to dothat's cool. So what is the greatest success at this point in your life?The greatest success is?Well, my familyYeah, without a doubt what we've built for ourselves. Yeah, definitely. I love that.What is one secret you believe contributes the most to your success?believing in yourself. Simple as that, I think as you said before is that psychological element? And if you don't believe in yourself, how are other people going to believe in it? And that's not to say you have to be cocky and bolshie and look at me on a great. It just means that you believe that you can add value to somebody's life, and you can solve people's problems. I love that.So what are two or three books that you'd recommend to feel your legacy audience help them get their start?Yeah, so the first one is marketing rebellion by Mark Schaefer. Absolutely. Love it. It's him, it's his latest book. And the main statement that I took away from that is the most human company always wins. And that's very true. The second one, again, really, really fresh book, but it's this is marketing by Seth Godin. And in it, just one quote from it, he says, people like us do things like that. And what he means by that is that you need to find your tribe, you need to find the people that know you understand you, and I like you. Because people like us do things like this.Yeah, I love that. And that's it. That again, that's going down to your promise that's going down to your brand. Like when you're thinking of Who am I dressing this letter to? You're thinking of people like us do things like this. And even if you just use that in your, in your messaging, hey, people, people who want to want to focus on their legacy, and this is their goal for me and I'm personalizing this right if your goal is to feel your legacy and you want to build something you want to be remembered. X amount of years from now, people who want that they do X, Y, and Z and if that's all your campaign is then the people who are like I do want that then now they're going to naturally say okay well how do I accomplish x y&z what is it what is the process of doing these things? Because if that's what people do right if you want to be a millionaire you got to think like a millionaire. Okay. Question is how to millionaires think and where can I get access to more millionaires to find out how they think. And so it says it's the same thing. I love that quote. So now we're going to go into my favorite part of this episode. It's a surprise guy he's been itching he's a man What is it? What is this we're going to find out how in alignment? Peter something is. Are you guys excited about this? I'm excited about it because it's, you just never know. Kind ofmy feeling right now is exactly how I feel about leaving my job and going it alone. I'm excited but petrified at the same time.The funny thing is we're going to pretend that you're dead. Okay? Okay.So we're gonna pretend you're dead, and you have the special opportunity to come back and view your great-great, great, great-grandchildren sitting around a table talking about your life. This is six generations from now. Just think about six generations from now. There's back six generations ago that was pre World War One, like six generations, okay. So, six generations from now, your great, great-grandchildren. They're sitting around a table talking about your legacy, talking about what your life meant and what they gained from it. What do you want them to be saying about your legacy? Peter?Wow, that is a big question. I wish I knew I was coming. Just that he followed his passion, and he stood up for it, he believed in, if I can get it across, then I'm fine with that. And if that motivates anyone, the sixth generation of my family that motivates them to follow their passion Well do it securely, because I'm risk-averse. But no, seriously, follow that passion, even if it's a side hustle, even if it's just a weekend, do what you love of what you do.And just so you guys are clear. I believe that that is absolutely in alignment with the whole message of this podcast because it comes down to what are you doing and being who you say you're being. He's in the middle. He's in the transition, he stepped out on his own because he believes he can do it. And he's following his passion, regardless of what the consequences are. He did his worst-case analysis that hey, can I accept that? I can. We're going for it. So I love that. Thanks a bunch. Thanks for joining us. I know it's a little bit later where you're at than where I am. But I appreciate your insight. I hope everybody goes and takes the opportunity to reach out to you share this on social media and do the things that are going to help everybody gain greater knowledge in Marketing. It's not just about business. It's about life. It's about a legacy. It's about how you're going to be remembered. And what are you doing today to build that? Thank you so much for joining us, Peter.No, thank you. Absolute pleasure. I enjoyed it. Awesome. We'll catch youguys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us. If what you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do, give me a shout out I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. 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We all know how awkward it can feel going into a party or celebration where people don’t necessarily know you are sober and you aren’t shouting it from the rooftops. You can feel a little out of place when your family and friends are drinking and you feel like the spotlight is on you and your glass of ice water. This can make you feel super anxious- I know, I’ve been there. But here’s the thing- regardless of what anyone else is doing, you are your responsibility, and I am my responsibility and if we go into these situations with our eyes open and strategies in place, we will make it out safe and sound… and sober. If you do nothing, then you are making a choice to not protect your sobriety- think about that for a minute. This is your opportunity, right now, to make a decision to stay sober and to have a simple plan that will make that a lot easier before you ever walk in the door of a challenging situation. Remember what we talked about in the ‘Is Relapse a Choice’ episode- if you don’t make a choice and take steps to protect your sobriety, then you are making a choice to protect your option to drink. And drinking is your decision to make- make a decision right now that you aren’t drinking, no matter what- no matter how awkward or uncomfortable you may feel, no matter how high your anxiety gets, no matter how much someone is bugging you- NONE of those are reasons to drink. Just make the decision right now. Are you with me? Let’s do this together, it’s simple, no one else has to know you’ve planned ahead, and we can sail through this without any drama. Okay? Okay! Now let’s dive into this episode about staying sober during the holidays!! Most of us struggle with family stuff, especially during the holidays-  trying to manage finances, which house do we go to first, who’s cooking, cleaning, and traveling. It’s a lot to think about and worry about. As addicted people there is a general difficulty coping with emotions. It is at the core of why we drink and/or use drugs and that ability to cope is the thing we work the hardest to develop to maintain our sobriety. People get tripped up here- they think they are going to stop drinking and that’s the battle. But no. The battle is learning how to cope with feelings and discomfort- that’s what recovery is. Feelings are overwhelming. They say whatever age we begin drinking and/or using drugs regularly is the age we stop maturing. The thought behind this is, we stop developing coping skills. Instead, our main coping mechanism becomes drinking and drugs. When you’re angry, you turn to your substance. When anxious, you turn to your substance. If you get your feelings hurt, are sad, lonely, or fearful of the future you turn to our substance. Difficult conversation you don’t want to have? Substance. Important event you are super nervous about? Substance. Unfortunately, substance masks the feelings but it does not solve the problem. And this is the issue with relapse. It’s not so much that you want to drink or be drunk, what you want is to stop feeling whatever feeling you are having, because you don’t know how to cope with it. You use the drink to numb that feeling so it isn’t so confusing and overwhelming. But guess what? Numbing the feeling doesn’t get you farther along in the process, it’s just avoidance. And the problems and discomfort are just sitting there waiting for you with open arms when your hangover wears off. The key, is to identify whatever you are feeling, and work on that! Ask yourself what you are really feeling in that moment- are you anxious, are you mad, are your feelings hurt, are you in financial fear or job fear or relationship fear- are you bored? Put a label on what is actually happening, then you can figure out how to work through that feeling instead of just drinking to numb it. As we approach the holiday season and all of the stressors that come with it, it is important to be aware of these underlying struggl...

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If you are given a chance to beat the algorithm of YouTube, would you do it? YouTube Producer Nate Woodbury will be explaining why you need to partner with YouTube's algorithm and not beat it. Stay tuned. How do you beat the YouTube algorithm? Got my good friend Bronwen here and she's asking me questions about the algorithm. And it's like, "You know what? Let's put this on YouTube because  I've got some answers." -I want to know what things penalize you like with algorithm. Like, if I put a link in the description, I won't have a ton of links in the description because I almost want it to be like a catalog. I'm like what does that do with algorithm. -Okay, so YouTube likes people to spend time on YouTube. So, if you link to something else, YouTube will notice that you click a link and it takes your to Facebook. You actually get penalized quite a lot if you send somebody to Facebook for YouTube. Same thing from Facebook. If you put a YouTube link on Facebook and people leave and go to YouTube, your post will be buried. -Okay. -Yeah. So, YouTube will not show your video to other viewers and Facebook will bury your post. So, really when you're... When you're on... When people on Facebook, they're expecting to have a Facebook experience. When people are on YouTube, they're expecting to have a YouTube experience. So promoting the other platforms from each other doesn't really make sense. They're different. Same with Instagram, same with Twitter. If people are on Twitter, they're not expecting to watch a 30 minute Netflix episode, right? If people are on Instagram, they're expecting to scroll through and see lots of photos. Maybe some short videos. They're not expecting to watch a 10 minute YouTube episode. -Right. -So, if there's a platform that you like, create content that people expect to consume on that platform. So, if you really like... Do you like Instagram? Let's pretend you did. -Okay. Well Let's pretend I love  YouTube. -But just... We'll talk about YouTube. If you really wanted to you enjoyed Instagram, you wanted to create Instagram content, it  doesn't make sense to create content that encourage people to come over here. Just create content that people like here and will enjoy because then they'll we'll follow you on that platform. So, the  same thing on YouTube is you want to create videos that do well on YouTube. That people like to watch. Now, when we're talking about links in your description, there's a lot of different things you're probably talking about affiliate links. -Yeah. -Okay. You can get one website approval. You can get more. But typically,  affiliate links, you can't get approved unless it's your own domain name. -Right. -So, you have to prove ownership of the domain. And you need to have a thousand subscribers on your YouTube channel. -Okay. -To be able to get website approved. -Awesome. -Okay? -Okay. -That's perfect. -So, it  gives you something to shoot for. You into a thousand subscribers. And you have to have a certain number of minutes of watch time. They do that so that you can't just pay for robot subscribers time in and... They just don't need to spam the system. If you really did that, you got 1,000 subscribers but then you  would see how many vs. how many subscribers are watching it, you just kill your stats. So, don't get... Now, you're still penalized a little bit even with an approved website. What YouTube says is you've got a score. You've got some type of score on your each video on your channel. - Okay. -And if people click a link in your video and go elsewhere, you're given a penalty. But if you have a website that's approved, they say that penalty is significantly reduced. -Okay. -And if people are going to your own website and they're entering your sales funnel or they're making a purchase, it's worth that penalty. And... I mean, we accept that penalty all the time. Our videos are doing well so it's not like it killed our channel or anything like that. Like it would be if we're constantly sending people to Facebook. I mean if people are spending time on YouTube and all of the  sudden they're gone, now they're on Facebook and YouTube and Google contract that. So, it's like we're going to kill this video. We're going to kill this channel because it's hurting our... -So, what's the way around that? Let's see I don't want any penalty because I like to think that way. -Think about it differently. So, YouTube has a partner program and what that means is advertisers  pay money to YouTube to show their ads. -Okay. -And then YouTube takes that money and they pay 55% of that to the creator of the videos. -Okay. -That's pretty cool. -Yeah. -So, it's cool in the sense that we can make ad money, ad revenue. -Right. -It takes a while to get there. You need to  make get millions of views to make thousands of dollars. But what's better... What's even more  valuable in my mind about the partner program as if you create content and do things that will make YouTube money. -Mm-hmm. -YouTube will promote your videos. -Okay... -So... -What if we  like want somebody to opt-in though? -Okay, so we'll get there.  -Okay. -We'll get there. Okay? Because that'swhat I do. That's what I want. All my  channels are backed by businesses. So, I don't necessarily do affiliate marketing but I have things that I want to sell. And we we put out videos that we want people to leave and go to the website  and opt-in to our list into our click funnels' sales funnel. Okay? But what we do, the content of our video, we create videos that... Here's a very specific  strategy. Remember Kris Krohn, we looked back in his history and we found a video that YouTube had promoted. It was titled, How to make money in your 20's?" In that video it had hundreds of thousand of views, okay?  -So, I... This was a year ago about right now, exactly a year ago,  I said, "Kris, we're going to remake this video. It's going to have the same title instead of it being 5 or so minutes long, we're going to make it a little bit longer." We actually ended up making it 20 minutes long on accident. We did plan on being that long. And at the time, he was real hesitant to put his car in the in the shot. He has the BMW i8 with the wing doors. And I told him, I said, "Kris...." -20 year old well like that. -"You're going to go pull out and then drive back in so I can film you with the car coming in. The wing door will go up, you'll get out and then I'll follow you with  the glide cam into your house. And we'll walk around and we'll film in a few different places while you tell the same story. Share the same concepts." Well, just make it more interesting. It ended up that his maid was actually vacuuming when we went in. And people love it because he's like, "Oh, hey! Cleaning lady." And you know, he walked around. People thought it was staged but was real. And he went. He sat he sat down on his pool table for part of it. He wondered his kitchen got a glass of water. And people just talked about, "Wow, he's inviting me into his home." So, that video ended up being 20 minutes long. The moral of the story is we found a video that YouTube had already promoted and so we thought, "Okay, let's take advantage of this. Let's partner with YouTube.  If YouTube likes this video, they're going to promote it, they're going to put ads with it and it's going to make YouTube money." Okay? We brought an $18,000 of ad revenue to us that first month. But more than that, even better than that, our channel went from 80,000 subscribers to 160,000 subscribers in 5 weeks. That is huge. That totally changed the the trajectory of this channel. And and it's... I mean we're up to 400,0000 subscribers now. Just because we've continued to do that same strategy. Even though we're talking about it being penalized for them leaving YouTube to go to your website, these videos, we have those links on there but we're putting the focus of our content of really  helping YouTube make money. We made a video that we knew it was going to show  ads the next thing we knew is going to be promoted... That was our hope and it worked.  And it really grew our channel which brought tons of leads to us. So, that makes sense? So, you definitely put the links on there. Get it approved and when somebody leaves and goes to your website,  it's worth the penalty. But yet in our case, it hasn't been a penalty enough that stopped YouTube for making money because we're making money or videos that are YouTube friendly, that are advertiser friendly. Make sense? -Yeah. You don't think so hard. He was telling the same story just said it in a different setting, right? -So, going back to the the question we addressed at  the beginning like how do you beat the YouTube algorithm. If you do find a way, if you do find a loophole to beat the algorithm, it's eventually going to be fixed. It's going to be, you know, there's going to be a new algorithm written. The YouTube algorithm is actually thousands of algorithms. So, we're going to keep making it better and better and better which is a good thing. And here's why: When you go to YouTube, you know, the screen comes up and it's got all these recommendations for you. The algorithms are working to show you recommendations that it will think you will want to watch. So, instead of (I'll just go for me) showing me boxing episodes which I don't like boxing or showing me you know, auto mechanics or showing me flower arranging, it doesn't... Show me those things because I've never watched those. Maybe I would like flower arranging. I don't know. So, it shows me things similar to what I've watched in the past and things that I've subscribed to. And the algorithm just  gets better and better. And what's funny is I know a lot of YouTubers from different YouTube communities here in Utah. And they they talk about when the algorithm changes how much it hurts them. Because they're trying to find a way to beat the algorithm and so they're going along getting great results and then all sudden there's a change in their views drop, guess what? All of my channels, I produce 11 channels right now. And when those algorithm changes  happen, nothing happens to me. -Because they're not trying to beat it. You're just  working with it. -Right. -Paying your taxes, just do it. -Well... And it's it's not just... Because I can avoid penalties, It's because it really works for my best interest. Because if we make videos  that try and make YouTube money, YouTube will promote those videos without us having to pay for that promotion. So, it works really, really well. And then because I create videos that are searchable that people want to find, I'm not just trying to piggyback on somebody else's some ninja tactic. But I'm actually creating content that people want to watch that doesn't get affected. -So, it really is just about like simplifying it? -I think it's... Because it's simple. The keyword research, just follow the rules, get the link approved. -So, I would say in summary, love the algorithm. Don't fear any algorithm changes because you don't need to if you're just really creating content that answers people questions. You're putting real value out there and you're not trying to trick the system. You know, if you do find a loophole that works, plan  on it only working for a short time. And then being really sad about it. Do want to hear a funny story? -Yeah. -So, I used to do... This was... This is going back almost like... It's going back 8 years ago. I had a web design service and I advertised on Craigslist. And Craigslist only wants you to advertise in your local area. -Okay. -But I found a way that if I bought... If I rented a phone number from another area, another area code; And I bought  a proxy IP address which could mask where my computer was located in another another area; And I used an article spinner to take my post and rewrite it  in a different way so it didn't look like a duplicate. Then I could post 200 different areas a day. And I... So I found this loophole. I found a way to hack the Craigslist algorithm, right? --of posting. And it worked for a while. But eventually... I had a fault... I had a person hired full-time that was doing that and posting about 200 ads per day. And I was getting about 20 or 25 website sales a month from it. -Cool. -But  guess what happened when the the Craigslist algorithm changed and recognized that my proxy IP addresses were.. -Banned? -I got  banned. It got ghosted. My ads would show up for me but not for anyone else. And so, my leads just disappeared. And I went from... I went from like 25 website sales in the previous each month, I think  down to like 3 or 5 website sells the next month and it really hurt. And I thought... I thought to myself I've got 2 options. I can find a better way to beat the algorithm again. And I am confident that I could have or I can just figure out something else. And I figured out something else on LinkedIn. It's kind of funny because I found a way to hack LinkedIn. I beat their system, kind of. Kind of. I stayed within their parameters but then that changed. So... -So, you have good experience in screwing up and... -Yeah. I know... I know I have experience with hacking the algorithms or trying to beat it. And just know that it comes to an end. Because that's the moral of the story. So, for several years now, many years, I guess like 5 or 6 years now, I've... With YouTube, I focused on partnering with the algorithm. And it's been so nice. The stress has gone, the fear is gone, the worry of it crashing on you and trying to figure it out that you know... "What? The algorithms changed. Now, we got to figure it out..." -That's such a better mindset instead of like the algorithm is my enemy. -I Kind of forgotten about it. -Yeah. -Alright. In this video, I mentioned keyword research. And I have a gift for you. I put together a keyword research guide that in fact it's a Google Doc that I've put step by step everything that you can do to do keyword research and I do want to say that it's easy. It's really simple. It used to be really complicated but I found a way of really simplifying it. So, that it's really simple and it really just transforms. So, you can film a video today, post it on YouTube now and get ranked on YouTube. So, I want to give that to you. Just on the screen here, you'll see that you can text Hero1 to the number 415- 528-7403. And you'll get access to that keyword research guide. And of course, subscribe. Now, you've watched the video this far... So, we'll see you tomorrow.

We talk about Avengers: Endgame, the largest film of the past year and the new gross revenue king(After a cash-grab of a theatrical re-release because they were too vain not to be the top grossing film). That's... about it. Can't think of any crappy jokes to put here. So... just listen to the thing. Okay? Okay.

In this episode of the Better Golf Academy, I talk about how most players have "Score" goals which leave them in the comfort zone and keeps them from playing their best golf. I suggest a new idea of keeping score which will change the entire paradigm! As you know, there are no guarantees in golf. But there’s a way we can continue to search and pursue ways to strategize better, think better and play better...and honestly, this idea might not work for everyone....but the key take away here is to find a way to be in the moment, find a way to focus all your mind, body and soul in what’s in front of you...here and now. It’s the only place they can be. The only place our body can be in space is now. The only place our body can be in time is now. Let our mind and body sync together to produce your best effort, every shot, every time. Hey, don’t let the score ruin your life. Okay? Okay. Have a great week everyone. Let’s get Better together. 

We're gooooooooooooin, through chaaaaangeeeees! Yes that's right, but not really like the podcast is the same but Aoife is an advocate for change in this installment. Okay? Okay. Apart from that, nothing changes as Bláithín is staying dirty as ever with the help of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. But alas! Breaking up is hard to do, so things get a little deep in this episode before moving right back to the moldy mildewy reality check that is bathrooms, and Karen shows us all of her Shabby Tiger.

When there's someone strange, in your neighborhood? Who you gonna call? WeGaugeCage!...I ain't afraid of Nic Cage!*You guys...singing Taking Back Sunday is hard. Okay? Okay?!? It took us five takes. We're just two guys!So...if you can make it through the first three minutes of this one, then you'll find out that...it happened again. Your boys (and mine) met up together in person in Arizona, fresh off of watching Nic Cage's drunken 1995 romp "Leaving Las Vegas," and they decided to record a podcast about it. H-h-holy buckets, folks. To be honest, who even knows what the rest of this episode entails? We're PRETTY sure we talked about the movie. But it started with a little harmless bottle of tequila, a few dad jokes, and it ended with Brian passing out early and Brock making drunk dials to Amanda Flannery-Hoppa and throwing up multiple times the next day. You do the math!I would say, "Enjoy!" but...truthfully, it's in your hands now. Find us on our Social Media, if you're so inclined:Twitter: @WeGaugeCagePodInstagram: @WeGaugeCageAnd, as always, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever else you can find a ratings system if you can or haven't already.*That's a lie.

Making art should be easy. Turn up the music, select your arty weapons of choice, crack your knuckles and then, well, make art. But let’s be honest: Art is messy. (Heck, life is messy!) So even though it’s so important to you to be an artist and create art regularly … you aren’t. I get it. You can't be an artist because you have no time. You can't be an artist because you're broke. You can't be an artist because you don't have talent. You can’t be an artist because you don’t know where to start … or how to finish. But the truth is that you CAN be an artist. Right here, right now. Hey, I'm Caylee Grey. Creator of Get Messy, official fairy freaking artmother and your pro excuse-squashing ninja. In the Get Messy podcast I’ll be chatting to a selection of amazing, real-life humans just like you are who are dealing with the very same barriers … but overcoming them to create their art. Together, we’ll explore what it REALLY means to be an artist. Practically. Warts and all. So that you can be an artist, today, now, even if you work a day job, have a million and one commitments and own a cat that likes sitting on your art. No more excuses. Okay? Okay.

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS seriously if you haven't seen Endgame yet don't even think about listening to this. We're serious. Go outside, take a walk around the neighborhood, go give your pet some cuddles—literally anything else. This is nearly 2 whole hours of spoiler-filled discussion. There are no holds barred here. Okay? Okay. Still with us? Here we go:On this spoiler analysis and discussion of the highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame, Cait and Gabry discuss: what they disliked about the movie (namely... certain character choices), what they loved about the movie (can we just have an entire movie of Battle of New York shenanigans?), and how much this franchise truly means to them. There are tears shed, folks. No joke. Welcome to the Endgame.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/avengegirls/posts)

You don’t need a damn clue, to go be you baby boo Guess what? I don't prepare or know ANYTHING in advance of doing my content. Even right til the second I go live I have NO idea what I'm going to talk about! - blogs are completely off cuff - livestreams - and even entire programs! It's time to stop thinking you need to prepare and research for your damn SOUL work. Your preparation is how you live your freakin' LIFE. It's who you are. And now it's just your job to bring that shit to the world. Okay? Okay! Also, y'know. Fun and shit happened.   This audio is direct from my The Katrina Ruth Show live-streams where I discuss a range of subjects to do with empire building, business and success mindset, relationships and so much more with guests, with my tribe and with YOU! Expect the straight up truth of how I became a Self-Made Multi-Millionaire, a no BS attitude and lots of shenanigans!   Thanks for listening. Feel free to share or comment and let me know what you think!   ► +  Subscribe and Review on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/success-smackdown-live-kat/   About me …   I’m first and foremost a writer based on Australia's sunny Gold Coast. When I’m not furiously typing, I’m running my multi-million dollar online coaching business as an entertainer, speaker and success mentor to 'the crazy ones'.   With almost 50 best selling eBooks and several hundred product and program launches, I’ve become known as the ‘Content Queen’ who just doesn’t stop. I do believe that you CAN have it all, on your terms, so long as you’re willing to get honest with yourself about what you’re really here to do in the world, and then do the work - ‘press play’.   Remember - Life is now!   Find more about me over here -   Facebook - https://facebook.com/lifeisnow.pressplay Free FB group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/dailyasskickery/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thekatrinaruthshow YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/thekatrinaruthshow Ebooks - https://www.booksforkickasswomen.com

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Zach and Ade stop by for a brief New Year's intermission in this special episode of the Living Corporate podcast. Living Corporate's CBE Week Series continues next week, but for now, enjoy this check-in! They discuss the importance of effective goal setting and share their New Year's resolutions.Find out more about CBEWeek here! https://www.cbeweek.com/TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? That's right, it's Zach.Ade: And it's Ade.Zach: Aye. And listen, we're not back back, and we ain't even really back, but we're here in the middle of our CBE Week Speaker Series.Ade: Yes.Zach: Yes, that's right, just to say Happy New Year.Ade: Happy New Year.Zach: Happy New Year. So look, it's 2019. Now, I don't know how many of y'all do resolutions or how often y'all do resolutions, but we had some resolutions we wanted to, you know, just talk about as we think about 2019, as we prepare for 2019 mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, all of that different stuff. So yeah, here we go. So Ade, look, before we get into these resolutions, do you do resolutions often? Like, is this a thing for you? Or is this, like, a new thing or what? Ade: So it's weird. I don't really do New Year's resolutions. I do birthday resolutions. I think that starting with the new year is not necessarily as significant for me personally as starting with my birthday, because my birth--I mean, not to sound self-centered, but it's about me and on my timeline, and so for me it's more honest, actually, to say that in my 23rd year, or in my 24th year, or in my 25th year, I would like to make these changes, and this is who I aspire to be, and becoming a better person starts on November 1st because that's when my life started. Now, January 1st is great though because it sort of allows you to have accountability partners, and you're better able to say, "Me and my group of friends will be doing XYZ in order to get to ABC goal." Does that make sense?Zach: Yeah, it does, definitely. No, I get that. You didn't ask me, but--no. [laughs]Ade: [laughing] Haha, haha. Well, you--I asked to clarify.Zach: Also I didn't really give you any space to say anything. [inaudible].Ade: You really didn't, you really didn't.Zach: No, I didn't. I just hopped right in there.Ade: You did, so back up off me, bruh. [laughs]Zach: [laughing] No, no, that's a good point. I mean, it's funny that you say that, 'cause I think--I'm not a big resolutions person. This is probably, like, the--I don't know, maybe fourth or fifth time in my life that I've done New Year's resolutions, but when I think about making resolutions to myself, typically they're around my birthday or more recently, in the past half-decade, they've been around my wedding anniversary with my wife. So we'll make them together, right?Ade: Dope, yeah.Zach: At the same time, I think whenever you can identify some type of pace or cadence to create some goals and points of progress of yourself, all good, right? It doesn't have to be--it can be whatever date you want it to be, but I think as long as you're doing--you're mindful of that in some way, I think it's good for you. Okay, so let's get into it. Do you want to go first or do you want me to go first?Ade: You go first. I think I liked what you were talking about earlier, and I want you to share with the people, you know? Look at me, a gracious host. [laughs]Zach: Look at you. [laughs] Okay, so my resolutions--so the first one is to read more, right? So I feel like I read a good bit. Like, I read--I read okay. Like, I definitely read a lot of articles. I read a lot of, you know, just pieces as they come up, especially as the world has been going on today. I read a lot of political pieces. I read The Atlantic often. I don't really read The New Yorker as much, but I read. I'd like to read more. I'd like to read about a book every other month. You see what I'm saying? I didn't give myself a crazy--like, "a book a month." Like, I'm not gonna do that.Ade: Look at you.Zach: Right? So I'd like to read six books by the end of 2019. The second thing is of course just continuing to get healthier. I want to be around. The world is crazy as it is, you know? Plenty of things could take you out any day, so you don't want one of those things to be yourself if you can help it. Ade: Right. Don't be your own enemy of progress.Zach: Right, do not be your own enemy of progress, yes. And then the third thing, which kind of connects to the second thing, drinking a lot more water, right? Ade: Hallelu.Zach: Right? So, like, you know, there are people out there--Ade: I just--I just want to take a second here. I really hate to interrupt you, but if you're listening, go ahead and find a glass of water and sip with us. All right, carry on, Zach.Zach: Yes, a sip. Sip, yes. No, seriously, it's delicious. You can have it cold. You can have it room temperature. You can have it hot, but-- Ade: Wait, hold on. Do you--do you just run around drinking hot water? [laughs]Zach: Ayo. So listen, actually--I do not, right? But I have a good friend of mine who--no, he loves hot water. Like, he loves it. Man, listen. Ade: Okay, I would like to speak to your--like, bring him on this show. I have so many questions.Zach: No, no. I'ma bring him on this show. I'm not gonna--I'm not gonna drop his name, 'cause this is very impromptu, but--Ade: This is--this is a safe space. I just have some questions for you, young man, because... huh? Okay, sorry. Carry on. I got us so off-track just then.Zach: No, no, no. So no, he does. He drinks hot water, and it was funny--so he's one of the people--I don't know if you have people like this in your life. You look up to them, like, to the point where, you know, if they do something that you're not really familiar with, and if other people did that thing you would clown them, but if they do it you're like, "Well, dang, why are you doing that? Let me--"Ade: "Maybe it's valid. Maybe I should give it a whirl."Zach: "Maybe it's valid. Maybe I should give it a whirl." "Maybe I should give it a whirl." Okay. [laughing]Ade: Okay, so first of all, you're not about to come for me, sir.Zach: "Give it a whirl"?Ade: "Give it a whirl." I said what I said.Zach: No, it's funny. [laughing] No, so he--so he was like--I came into his home and he was like, "Zach, so I've been drinking--I've been doing this thing. I've been drinking hot water," and I said, "Really? What?" And he said, "Yeah, would you like some?" And I said, "Sure," and let me tell you something, it was just hot water. It wasn't--I was like--Ade: I really was expecting to be like, "And it changed my life. It revolutionized how I look at water intake." No?Zach: No, it did not. In fact, I was like, "Man, I really would like some cold water right now." Anyway, where was I? Yeah, so drinking more water. So, you know, this kind of a case of two Americas. So there's a--for my non-melanated folks, you know, there's a phrase called "drinking water and minding your business." So drinking water and minding your business, it just saves a lot--it saves you a lot of stress and drama, right? So you look at Paul Rudd. Again, speaking to my--speaking to the majority, right? If you look at Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd is the greatest example of drinking water and minding your business, right? He looks great. He hasn't aged a day. He looks the same as he did in 1993. Right? He does. He looks phenomenal, right? Drinking water and minding your business--you know, I plan on drinking a lot of water, but I--because of the nature of our podcast, I don't know if I plan on minding, quote unquote, my business. I mean--you know what I mean? Like, my business is--yeah, like, my business--Ade: Your business is sort of everybody's business.Zach: Lowkey, right? Like, I'm not messy. Like, I'm not out here, like, Messy Mya. RIP Messy Mya. Look, now I'm talking to the black folks. I'm more so trying to--but I am trying to, like, be more hydrated, right? And, you know, there's the--our bodies are a majority water, so it's--everyone knows at this point it's 2019. Wow, it's 2019. So I don't have to--I shouldn't have to debate with y'all to drink more water, but please, drink more water. And also, speaking of--'cause, you know, we also do Favorite Things. We talk about music and stuff. A sleeper, shout-out Joe Budden Podcast, is the Mick Jenkins' "Drink More Water" project he put out, it was--Ade: You have lost me. You have lost me. I don't know what you're talking about. I also don't listen to Joe Budden's podcast, so maybe that's where the disconnect is right now, my friend. Zach: So "sleeper" is a term, like, you know, this is some music maybe y'all have missed or y'all don't really know about.Ade: Oh, 'cause the first thing I thought was a sleeper cell, and I was like, "All right, well, I--I have to bow out of this conversation, because I don't know anything about sleeper cells."Zach: No, no, no. No sleeper cells. Nothing like that around here. Please. Feds, please don't--don't get us. Ade: Right? We've got to go.Zach: Yeah, right? Now, look, we're gonna have to delete all of this, because Aaron's gonna transcribe this, and then it's gonna be all on Google and stuff. There's gonna be "sleeper cells"--Ade: Oh, see--nah, mm-mm. Aaron, just go ahead and--Zach: Delete all of this.Ade: Yeah. Zach: Yeah. [laughs] Anyway, so yeah, you know, I'm excited about that. I feel as if those are some smart goals. I feel like they're very attainable, they're realistic, and they're helpful for me for what I'm trying to do, right? They're very straightforward. So that's me. Those are my New Year's resolutions.Ade: Okay, okay. Now, I want to push back a little bit. Part of what is important when you're setting goals is to set intentional goals, right? There's this concept of SMART goals, and so that is--so you set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goals, and that way you have much more--you're more likely to achieve those goals. So by specific, I mean [inaudible] drink water--by smart I mean you want to drink water, so do you want to drink a gallon of water a day? Do you want to set time goals, like, "By 9:00 a.m., I've had 16 ounces of water." So I think goals and resolutions are all talk until you are able to really discern for yourself what those goals are, how you're going to make them happen, and what that timeline's gonna look like. So I'm gonna repeat what SMART is. You have Specific, you have Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound or Time-sensitive goals. So to give you an example, this year, in 2019, I want to get my solutions architect cert, my AWS solutions architect cert. I want to do that by July '19. So that is a specific goal. It's measurable because it's a certification, it's achievable 'cause, I mean, I can study for it. It's relevant to my larger kind of goal for my life, and it's time-bound. I have set a hard deadline of July 2019 to get that certification, do you see what I'm saying?Zach: No, I definitely understand what you're saying, and you're right. So opposed to me saying, "I want to drink more water," I should be saying, "I want to drink about a gallon of water a day." Instead of me saying, "I want to get healthier," I should say something like, "I'd like to work out at least two to three times a week and cut out sugary and processed foods." And, you know, I kind of did it with the book one when I said I'd like to read a book every other month. So no, I get it. You're absolutely right, and to your point, when we--when we're not specific and really truly smart--let's go ahead and just give out the acronyms to smart real fast. So it's--Ade: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Now, there are also some people who say it's SMARTER, where you have all of those that I just mentioned, and then you have Evaluated and Reviewed, which I think are also important parts of the goal setting process, but we don't have to go quite that far right now.Zach: [laughing] No, no, no. This is great. So, you know, it's important, because I think we--the less specific we are with the goals that we say we have, the more of an out we give ourselves to short-change ourselves in the future, right? So--and then also, if they're not specific to you, then you can end up kind of moving the goal posts on yourself and not really ever achieving [inaudible]. So if you say, "Man, I really want to lose some weight," right? I'm gonna pick on losing weight because losing weight is--like, almost everybody feels like they either need to or would like to lose some weight.Ade: Or the alternative for those of us skinny-minis who want to gain some weight, but gain healthy weight.Zach: There you go. Some people want to gain some healthy weight. Thank you. Let's be inclusive of all of our body types and health spaces. Ade: Aye.Zach: Aye. [laughs] So when you say, "Hey, I'd like to have this health goal," if you're not really specific in, like, the numbers you're trying to achieve or the--just what you're outcome is, then you can end up saying, "Well," you know, "I didn't really have to work out today. I just want to work out more," and you end up--you end up cheating yourself. Or you say, "Well, I didn't say I wanted to eat perfectly healthy. I just wanted to eat more vegetables," and it's like, "Okay..." And you just end up cheating yourself. So I think the more specific you can be and, like, more granular you can be with what your goals are, the harder it will be for you to ignore the fact that you're either off-track on them or not really driving towards them. So I super agree with that.Ade: Right. On that note, I'll share some of my goals. And I know I got on you for SMART, and some of mine aren't necessarily SMART goals, but we move. Anyway, so I would like to read and discuss five meaningful articles a week. Zach: Okay, okay.Ade: So that's whether they're in The Atlantic or whether I'm scrolling through Medium and some of the software engineering spaces that I follow. I'd like to be able to read and discuss five articles, and part of that is in finding some of the computer science fundamentals. Base CS has some really great--I don't know if I want to even call those articles, but some really great write-ups on computer science fundamentals, which are important for me to learn. So I'd like to do that five times a week. I would like to get my solutions [inaudible] earlier, my AWS solutions architect certification, by July 2019. This is--this next one I haven't quite figured out how I'm gonna do yet, but I want to reinvent my wardrobe. Now, I say that because I was having a conversation with my partner, and often times when we're out or we really have to go out, I'll just, like, throw on sweatpants and a t-shirt or whatever, and then when we get out I'll complain about looking like a hobo. Okay, that wasn't necessarily how I wanted to say that, but I'll complain about not looking my best self.Zach: Right.Ade: And part of that is just I didn't--I don't necessarily have all of the pieces that I want, and I want to show up, like, how I feel. I want to show up looking and representing myself in my best light, and so part of that--I'm still always going to be a joggers and tennis shoes kind of girl, but I don't have to be a four sizes too large sweatpants and t-shirt that I bought when I was in 7th grade sort of girl, you know? So that's important to me as well. I want to go to the gym once a week and work out of home three times a week. I'm going to create three projects for my portfolio, and I'm going to attend AfroTech in November this year. Those are my goals.Zach: That sounds--that sounds incredible. Those are great goals.Ade: AfroTech is also lit, and if anybody's trying to sponsor me to go to AfroTech, hit your girl up.Zach: Man, listen. Y'all want to sponsor Ade, y'all want to sponsor Living Corporate and we'll send Ade? Man, let's--come on. Get in our inbox.Ade: Let's go. Let us know.Zach: DMs are open for everybody. They are. True.Ade: Okay, uh, let's clarify. Not that open. [laughing]Zach: They are though. They're open on all the social medias. No, but that's--you know, to your first point, it's so interesting how, like--so as kind of, like, a fashion point, like, if you notice, like, there's--there's enough clothes out here to curate a bunch of different looks. Like, if you want to be, like, hobo chic, right, you could get, like, some really form-fitting--Ade: I'm trying to--I'm trying to really walk away from the hobo chic look, because I thought that was what I was doing. Upon further reflection, it's just--it's further towards the hobo end of the spectrum than the chic, so we're just gonna let that dream go.Zach: Got you, got you. 'Cause I was gonna say, like--and I don't know, like, what your preference is, but, like--you know, 'cause you could wear, like, some fitted--not fitted, but, like, nicely-fitting sweatpants, right? You could wear some nicely-fitting sweatpants.Ade: You're right, you're right. Look, if there are any listeners who are designers, who have an eye for fashion, hit your girl up, because I am confused. Okay? Okay.Zach: [laughs] And then [inaudible], that's also great. And then the five [inaudible] with these articles--you're gonna share the articles with me.Ade: Ooh, bet. I like that, yes. We can do that.Zach: Yeah, share the articles with me, 'cause I love--I love reading a good article. I think it's easier to read than reading a whole book. It's, like, typically one subject. It's not clearly as long, but I love articles, so yeah, please. I'd love to check out what you got going on. Then AfroTech of course, that's super dope.Ade: Yeah, yeah. I'm really ready.Zach: Okay. Now, look, I think--I know those are our resolutions. Before we get out of here though, what was the best thing you ate over the holiday break? Ade: Ooh. Oh, Lord. Jesus. I just want to let everybody know about the greatness of my girlfriend's shrimp and grits. So on New Year's Day, she made shrimp and grits, I made rum cheesecake-stuffed French toast, and we lived our best lives. Do you have actually--before we move forward, do you do the pork chop, collard greens, and black-eyed peas ritual?Zach: So I don't--it's not, like, a super traditional thing. Like, we don't do it every year, but I definitely have had it, like, multiple times in my life for New Year's. And, you know, outside of New Year's, but yeah. Ade: Yeah. So I did that as well.Zach: Oh, yeah. That's good.Ade: So for those of you who don't know, some African-American families, some black families, have a tradition wherein in the New Year they eat a pork chop or a pork product of some sort, black-eyed peas, collard greens, and some will throw in cornbread. And I made all of it. I don't eat pork obviously, but she enjoyed it. She seemed to like her plate, so that was great. And what else did we eat this break? We didn't spend a whole ton of time cooking a whole lot, but cooking is my favorite thing. I made a really dope burger for us both. It was--I don't know. I can't wait to cook for you honestly. I want you to come here so that I can feed you, and I'm honestly probably not gonna help your goals of losing weight, but the important part is that the food tastes good.Zach: No, I'm excited. I'll just have to--I'll just do a bunch of pre-workouts, you know what I mean? And post-workouts. It's all good.Ade: See? Yeah, there you go. There you go. And you might have to do two-a-days honestly, but--Zach: Wow, okay. Appreciate the honesty. So what else? So we talked about food. We talked about--we talked about our resolutions. Hm. Ade, what are you most excited about in 2019?Ade: I am most excited about leveling up. I think every new year is an opportunity to excel, and again, this is part of why I kind of count my new year at my birthday as opposed to at the calendar date, but it's a new year to kind of show the little person that you once were how dope everything could be, how dope you could be, how dope life could be, how dope you could make life be for those around you, and part of that is in wanting to wake up every day and crush it. And I don't mean to sound like we're in a huddle and I'm giving you a pep talk, but I think it's exciting when you're able to look your fears in the face, or look a whole new year in the face, and be like, "Yeah, I'm comin' for you." I was gonna say, "I'm coming for that" something else, but I don't think we're quite that explicit on this show.Zach: No, we're not that explicit. That's funny though.Ade: Okay. [laughs] Ultimately, I am excited about being granted another opportunity to get it right and get it right and excel at it, you know? So what are you excited about?Zach: Well, you know, it's funny. I really feel like I'm excited about the same thing. Like, 2019, it's an exciting time because there's so much positive momentum that I'm hearing from last year. Relationships made, some in-roads created with various things and people and projects, and of course Living Corporate. I'm really excited to continue that forward. We have a whole--[Lord say the same?]--we have another 12 months of this thing going on, you know, unless the earth ends, and so I'm excited about us just continuing forward. There's so much to do, especially when you talk about inclusion and diversity work. I feel like the whole field has just been blowing up the past few years, and it seems like every year, like, there's something new that comes along, some new, quote unquote, new piece of learning that everyone's gravitating towards, and I just think that, like, we're ripe in the season to be doing the work that we're doing. So I'm really, really excited about that. I'm excited about the content that's gonna be coming out of the Living Corporate platform. We have a writing team that we're very aggressively building up right now. We have some amazing guests that--you know, that you all will be hearing for Season 2. We just have a lot of stuff--we just have a lot of stuff cooking, and so I'm excited for us to grow, and then I'm really excited for our audience to see it and be a part of it and hopefully grow with us. I'm really excited about that.Ade: Yeah, that's amazing.Zach: Okay. Well, I guess that does it. I'm done. Do you have anything else, Ade?Ade: Yeah. So I just want to wish everybody a happy, safe New Year. I hope that, even if your year hasn't started on the highest note--if 2018 was not good to you, I pray that 2019 will, and I pray that, you know, this New Year is full of opportunities for you, and I hope that we are able to help foster a space that excites you and motivates you. That's it from me. Zach: Man, you always got the dope words. See, that's a great sign-off. [both laugh]Zach: That's a great sign-off. Yes, okay. Well, listen, y'all. You will be hearing more of us on the Living Corporate podcast later this month. This was just a New Year's hello kind of intermission type thing in the middle of our CBE Week Speaker Series. I hope that you all are listening to the series. I'm looking at the download numbers. Y'all are, but I need y'all to pick it up. That's right, I'm talking to you. Listen to the--listen to the show. Listen to the series. It's very good, and then make sure that you stay tuned, because we're gonna have more information about CBE Week as it comes up. So with that being said, my name is Zach.Ade: And I'm Ade. Both: Peace.

Episode 17! This week I talk to MWW regular, Austin Dykstra, about The Chaperone starring Paul "HHH" Levesque. We got bank heists! We got strange takes on a former secretary of state! We got one Ray, not two, just one! It's fun! Okay? Okay.

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We kickoff this week's episode of Delay Radio like every other...awkwardly. Jethrow kicks us off with searching Reddit for questions, including someone seeking advice for new college students. Get a blood test, remember you're young, and in the words of Jethrow, "don't". We mean, there are probably some famous people that figured it out, right? Because dad doesn't understand that the world is different so you still need tuition for next semester. Here are some other options: get famous on Instagram - there's a few ideas. Well, one. Okay? Okay. After we talked about this, we turned this into a conversation about PB&J.Also, D had this rubber toy that was a banana filled with sand - that he was whipping around the entire episode. But we quickly got down to business. Police in New York were able to catch 3 robbery suspects from a burger joint, following a trail of macaroni salad. Also, in Kuwait, local fish market owners took googly eyes , the ones that you find at hobby or craft stores, and put them on the fish to make them appear fresh. How do people not realize this? As it turns out, people really didn't fall for it, and they were shot down.After talking about real news headlines,Hackerman tried to trick the rest of the team by mixing real news headlines with the others and trying to make us guess which one is fake.

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All right. I'm gonna break some Facebook rules because it just feels like a kind of a floaty music day here in Bali. (singing) Facebook's now gonna not wanna post this video. (singing) Super aligns. (singing) I'm in super flow. Look at my T-shirt. It says moon child. (singing) All right. We can turn the music off I suppose. (singing) All right, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I could so just sit here and ... This might be the whole live stream today. It's that sort of vibe. It's that sort of vibe. I feel so lost without the music. Let's just have a little bit more. (singing) Okay. We're gonna talk about some things. It's gonna be really good. It's gonna be deep. It's gonna be Bali flow. I just ... All right, let's wait for this bit. (singing) Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay, let's leave it on low. I don't think there's anything that I can say to you today. I think have nothing. There's nothing that I can possibly say to you. I think we should just sit here and soak up whatever is coming through. I feel like it sounds so odd to hear myself talking. It seems like a new experience for me. I feel really unusual talking. I feel like I never talked before. Something's happening. Something is happening Bali style. I tied my hair up today with a little bead bracelet that my son made. No, my tats are not complete. They will never be complete. My mother is convinced that I'm going to be ... Overflow? Maybe my super flow is flowing out onto you. My mother is convinced that I shall be covered 80% in tattoos. I've assured her that's not so. Maybe 69%, maybe 79% because I was born in 1979. It seems appropriate. Doesn't it seem odd to hear me talking without any music on? I feel like I've never done this before. Lisa, well. Lisa says, "I didn't think I had anything to say, but then I started to talk about spanking." Of course you do. Would you like to see what I'm looking at? I'm sitting on my bed. There's my pool and my beach. My beach, mine! That'd be a nice background live stream, wouldn't it? But it's a nice view for me to look at while I live stream. Hey, Chris Greenfield. Hey, to everybody else who I didn't say hello to. Chris got a special mention because I saw Amber mention him, so I was like okay, let's talk to Chris. I'm not sure what I'm gonna say to you today. I have no idea. I trust it will be useful, whatever it is. Shall we set a little intention, do you think? Do you think we should set a little intention? Let me tune into what the intention is going to be for you. I'm receiving. I'm downloading something for you. Okay, it's very simple. I access my highest soul guidance. I access my highest soul guidance. I feel that you could put your hand somewhere on yourself, be as appropriate or inappropriate as you like. Put your hand wherever you desire to put it on yourself. I certainly put my hands in many places on myself, which might be why I'm in such a flirty mood right now. I feel that you could put your hand somewhere on yourself and you could state an intention ... I'm trying very hard not to laugh at my own hilariousness right now, but it's also true. And your intention could be I allow myself many pleasures of body, mind, spirit, and soul. Yes, I do. Thank you to me. Gratitude to Katrina Ruth. And to the people who are in my thoughts during that process. You know who you are. Okay, I don't know what's happening. I'm gonna blame the song. The intention for our group time together, which was feeling like it might be very mystical and spiritual and is now potentially going down a slightly naughty path, but it's all a glorious mix together ... The intention is I allow myself to access to my highest soul guidance. No, I've not been drinking! I'm fucking Batman, Helen! Okay, I'm not fucking Batman. That'd be cool. Who plays Batman? Who's the actor who plays Batman? Let's check out whether this is a possibility. Who plays Batman? I'm not making any promises until I see who it is. Well, a lot of different people apparently. Oh, Christian Bale. Okay, hang on. Which of this lineup would be appropriate if I was fucking Batman? It says Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, Val Kilmer, hard no. Hard no! Adam West, never heard of him but I feel like he's probably very old by now. Michael Keaton? I don't think so. George Clooney seems like the number one contender here. Hang on, who's this over here? Hello. Never heard of this dude. Ooh, Jason Sudeikis! How do you say that name? Jason Sudeikis? I like him because he's very cheeky. Chris Bale is from your hometown. Christian Bale is from your hometown. Well, then send him a freaking message via the hometown ... You know, the walkie-talkie system, with the cups. What's it called? The tin can walkie-talkie system. Well, George Clooney's too obvious and I did see George Clooney ... I'm gonna call him George, because I feel like I would call him George if I met him. I saw him already at Soho House in L.A. earlier this year, or maybe it was last year, and he looked lovely, but he just reminded me of like he was my grandfather or something. He looked like an old man, in a nice way. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to let you all down. I'm going with Jason Sudeikis. Someone send him a message, advise him. Hang on. Do you know how many fucking people have played Batman? I'm still scrolling right here. William Baldwin! Okay, okay. William Baldwin, Jason Sudeikis, whose name I'm not sure how to say. Jason Sudeikis is not visually, normally my type. Okay. Sorry, Jason, if you end up watching this and someone tags you in, but he's very sexy from an energy point of view. Very, which makes him extraordinarily physically attractive and he's got a cheeky glint in his eye always, which I appreciate a lot. I'm still freaking scrolling! Who are all these people? There's a woman here! It says a woman played Batman. Wyatt, I can't sleep with anybody called Wyatt. It's a hard no. Do you notice that when you go through Bumble or whatever ... I used to do this, I don't really use those any apps anymore. Who can be fucked with that? Do you notice that when you go through Bumble or whatever, that many times you will automatically, somebody gets swiped left on automatically just because of their name? I don't care what they have to say about themselves or what their look is. There's many names that are a hard no for me automatically. What did we come here to talk about? Because I feel like it was getting really fucking powerful and spiritual and Bali super flow and then it's just become kind of inappropriate. But I will repeat, just to be clear, cheekiness is one of my highest values, in myself and in others. If you're a cheeky sort of a person, and you know who you are if you are, if you're the kind of person, Bumble fumble, they wish they could get a fumble. I was deleting all of them. Ruthlessly. I even deleted all my matches. I went in there yesterday and deleted them just to make some kind of energetic point. I had no reason to do that, seems a little bit rude. Okay, one guy I left in there because he follows all my Insta stories and then I felt like he would see that I unmatched him on Bumble and that he'd feel personally offended by it. Hopefully he's not watching this now. But I like his vibe and his energy anyway, just from a perspective of never probably gonna meet him. But happy to see him on my Insta stories. Calling in the everything you deserve. Well, I think we're talking about that perfectly. We've established many things, which is that George Clooney, when you see him in real life makes you wanna bring him a cup of tea because you feel like it's your grandfather, and Jason Sudeikis on the other hand is fuckable because he looks cheeky. Deleting all the matches. I went through my matches on Bumble, and I was like - our cheekiest sweetie and flirty, that's true - and I was like what kind of mindset - I'm gonna just do my stretches - what kind of mindset was I fucking in when I said that I might meet these people? I never met any of them anyway, the Bumbles. Have I ever even met a single person off Bumble? I've met two or three off Tinder. I dated one for a while from Tinder. You know, you guys know about that. Shoulders, we called him, amongst our communities. We still could call him that. There's no reason why he loses the name just because I don't see him anymore. But if I saw him I'd call him Shoulders, and maybe I'd tell him that everybody talks about him, even though he doesn't know that. Hang on. Do you not meet anyone from Bumble? I did. I did one time go on a date here in Bali with a guy from Bumble. We sat in the sand and drank beer, which I don't do, but I was embracing the romance of the moment, because I met him down by Finn's, which is a beach club down yonder. Not the same yonder from yesterday. Well, same beach yonder. Different yonder, sort of. Then he scooted up on his scooter, obviously. What else would you scoot up on? Maybe some roller skates. That'd be cool. And he was like, "Jump on the back of my scooter." And I just did. I felt like wild and free and reckless, and we just took off through the jungle on the frickin' scooter, which actually got bogged down on some mud, so it lost the romance somewhere along the way. But then made it through to a private beach with a private bar that I'd never heard of. Because of the whole experience and the sand was black, it required me to drink beer, and I drank that beer that people drink in Bali. What's it called? I don't remember. But it was fun. So that was my whole extent of Bumble. But yet I've spent many times, much time on Bumble. When I went through my matches, not that much time, I just pay for the extra version where you can see straight away if he matches you, and then you can just basically pick like a buffet. But I think my mindset must have been in a funky place, because I haven't been on that app for months, and I jumped on yesterday to have a look at who I had matched, and I was like, "What the fuck was I thinking? These were so many not fuck yeses. Bintang. I'm not sure if we did drink Bintang. Maybe it was something else. But maybe it was Bintang. If I had a Bintang right now I'd drink one, just to make my point. But anyway, Helen asked am I drinking and the answer was no I'm Batman, and then somehow we got onto George Clooney and then Jason Sudeikis and now here we are. But if you jumped on late, you missed some powerful frickin' meditation and Bali superflow at the start. And a little bit of singing. A little bit of music. Here's a sample for you. (singing) Okay Facebook, I'm gonna post the damn video anyway. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. Please don't get me in trouble. I bring lots of people to Facebook because they love to watch me. Okay. So. The point was - I'm not sure why I need my sunglasses to emphasise the point, but it feels appropriate. The point wasn't drinking, was Batman, am Batman, would potentially sleep with Batman depending on which Batman we're talking about, and I was gonna talk to you about calling it all in. Right? Right. Okay. The intention for you was I allow myself to access my highest soul guidance. You could type it in as a comment below if you like. I allow myself to access my highest soul guidance. Hi Anna. I feel that I'm gonna type it in for you, because I'm super helpful as a person in general. Maybe I'm in a extra high vibe as fuck state because I didn't eat anything yet today. You know when you haven't eaten but you've done an amazing super flow workout ... Maybe I'm in a extra high vibe as fuck state because I didn't eat anything yet today. Shush. You know when- Stop. You haven't eaten but- Shut up. You've done an amazing super flow workout ... What's happening, I can't turn her off. Okay. All right. There was no pause button. There's no pause button on this bitch. There's no pause button here. I don't know why I'm wearing sunglasses on the live stream now. I am at my most ridiculous and inappropriate and random when I've not been drinking anything, just to be clear. Chris, you frickin' fast action taker. Chris is like, "Bitch please, I already allowed it." All right. I'm gonna type it in anyway. I allow myself to access my highest soul guidance. Yes bish. And I'm channelling Ashley O'Donnell. Okay, I accidentally wrote solo guidance. I meant to write soul. But I'm happy with solo guidance. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. How do you access your highest soul guidance? You just fucking allow it, don't you? There's nothing else you need to do Angelo. Hello. Nothing else to to it. I'm returning your kiss emoji. I feel like I should, at this point in my business and life, it's actually like embarrassing that I don't have my own set of emojis. Kat-mojis. Let's write a message to Jessa Lewis. Jessa Lewis. Hey. Okay. Jessa Lewis. Why won't it let me tag her? There we go. Why don't I have Kat-mojis yet? Rectify this forthwith. Thank you. All right. You guys have been witness to that comment. It tried to change my word thank you into thank you BU. It literally did. It just tried to tag somebody called BU. I don't even have a friend called BU. Why am I not friends with somebody called BU? But I appreciate the message from Facebook. Okay. Ruby, hello. Ruby gets shade lifting hello, because she's extra fabulous, like extra. Extra extra. I'm gonna think about what I'm gonna say next. I'm not gonna think about it at all. I'm gonna wait for it to appear to me in a vision, in a dream, in a download, like Batman. How do you allow yourself to access your highest soul guidance? I feel the glasses are helping me today. So extra. Extra as fuck. Playing tight. Level. Level extra. How many words can we join together and have it still make sense? It doesn't need to make any sense at all. I mean, it's very easy. We really don't need to have a conversation about how to access your highest could guidance. Chris already did it in an instant. In an instant, you guys. I don't know if he was doing it previously or if he just did it straight away. How do you put it in the bank? You fucking decide. You decide that the money is available to you and then you pluck it out of the air like plucking a feather from a chicken. All right? That's how it works. People are gonna get annoyed at me, potentially, for saying something like that. People can go on people on somewhere else. They don't need to people over here. But people who resonate with this, send me the love hearts to tell me that you resonate. Tell me about it. Do you resonate? Yes or no. Do you believe? You maybe haven't done it yet. Maybe like, "Meh. I just didn't feel like deciding this. I didn't feel like deciding any fucking thing yet." But if you believe ... Okay, I find that I have to look like this in order to see properly. What's happening here? I jump on my Facebook and I rudely see a photo of my own sister with my mother that I'm not in. I find this outrageous. How come they're hanging out together without me? Okay, it's because I'm not there, rudely. My sister moved to the Gold Coast, and then I just left, and I haven't even seen her once, and it's been like six weeks. It was very rude of my travel plans, actually. And now I see my mother and my sister just moseying around the Gold Coast at the ... Well, I won't say where they are. I nearly just said where they are. I'm sure everybody's just gonna rush down there to meet them. There they are. Aren't they beautiful? Send a love heart shower for my sister and my mother. They look like two gangsters. Just because I'm wearing sunglasses doesn't mean they should be wearing sunglasses all over Facebook. That's my role. Send them all love. They're energetically receiving it right now. Thank you. Finally feels good to be this high vibrationally. Chris's crown is pulsating crazy energies. I feel that Chris should come on as a guest presenter nearly on this live stream, because he's clearly got some sort of vibe going on that we all need to know about and understand. Okay. I just jumped into my own search history, and what I found is that last night, late at night, I've apparently searched for the term - hang on one second - oh no, it's gone. Oh, here it is. "I'm a strong independent womb." I think I was trying to find a blog post of mine that I wrote a year or so called "I'm a strong independent woman and I still need a man." Okay, I'm really in this stretching emphasis phase today. It's because I haven't had my daily massage yet. My body's crying, it's crying in sadness and grief. And acceptance and self love. And I apparently couldn't find the blog because I accidentally searched for "I'm a strong independent womb." I don't know if I fully resonate with that. I don't know if I fully resonate with being a strong independent womb. But I'll go with strong independent woman who still needs a man. Not feminist, by the way. Sorry, not sorry. Just so you know. Somebody thought I was feminist not so long ago. I was outraged at the implication. Angela is a strong independent woman. And I'm not even gonna get into it. I'm not even gonna answer your questions on that, so don't ask me about them. What I was saying is, what I was saying is, do you believe that money can be plucked from the air and that it's a decision and a choice, and if you believe, say I believe so that I know who you are and so that you know who you are. I'm a believer, you could say. Oh my god. Okay, I won't put my music on. But if you feel like doing it later, then type in Imagine Dragons, I'm A Believer. It's a fabulous song. Fabulous. Totally believes his Angela. We're gonna have a small intermission of 12.989 seconds while I turn on the air conditioning, because I'm overheating this bitch up right now. With my energy and my high vibe. I'm like a queen, you guys. I have like 18 cushions here. Look at all my cushions. You know you're a queen when you have extra cushions. Brandon believes in himself. He's asking do we still believe in Brandon. That's an interesting question. Is Brandon Marshall ever real? What was that movie, Who Forgot Sarah Marshall, or Who Kissed Sarah Marshall, or Who Loves Sarah Marshall. But I always think of Brandon. Who Forgot Brandon Marshall. Who Believes in Brandon Marshall. Can we make a team movie? Can we make a community movie? I'm gonna be the star. I'll be one of the stars. Brandon, you can definitely get a strong star act in there. Who else? I think we should make it. Fuck all of you going to Maui without inviting me, by the way. Just so we're clear on that. Dating Sarah Marshall. We could do Dating Brandon Marshall. We could have a guest appearance by like 50 contenders, and I'm gonna be in charge of judging who he gets to date. Hang on. Who he gets to date. Who gets to date him. Sorry. Yeah, but nobody invited me. Okay, fine, I was energetically invited, I understand. I invite myself wherever I wanna go anyway. When I think of Brandon I think of sweet potatoes and eggplants. Why eggplants? Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Is it called Forgetting Sarah Marshall or is it called Dating Sarah Marshall? We're definitely going to do a reality show, and it's gonna be in Maui, maybe Bora Bora in Regan's little hut that she's living in right now that she's been rudely sending me small videos all morning just so I know where I'm not at. It's extraordinarily ... She's still messaging me right now. She's just sending me freaking photos and messages that are amazing, just to show me where she's at and where I'm not at. It looks incredible, you guys. Incredible. I'm looking at them right now. All right. I could show ... Oh my god. Look at this stuff. Why are we not all there? We're gonna go there. We're gonna go to ... Oh my god. We're gonna go to Regan's little hut, and we're gonna do a reality show called Dating Brandon Marshall. Does he use eggplants? Because eggplants are a sexual emoji. Everybody knows that. I've not noticed it. Maybe I'm just not tuning in on that frequency and you are, Angela. The whole point is, it's really a very boring topic to talk about how to make money what the hell emojis are those? Eggplants are penis emojis. I thought I would go with the sort of subtle, you know, description of what an eggplant emoji is. But an eggplant is for a penis. If you wanna show that you've got a penis, then you put an eggplant up. Or if you desire a penis, you can put many eggplants up. Ashley, of course you got tagged in. It's being random as fuck you're gonna need to watch the replay. I don't even know what happened, but somebody asked if I'm high on, if I'm drinking alcohol, and I somehow have ended up confessing which Batman actors I would sleep with. I didn't confess it, I had to fucking research it on Google first in order to make a decision. Hang on. Melissa. Penises on your iPad. What are you talking about? Who's ... No, no penis screenshots. Do not send me a penis screenshot. No. Depending on whose it is. You can send your suggestions through first, and I'll say yes or no. One time, somebody in my inner circle ... They're not little penis emojis. No. Everybody stop talking. Okay, I didn't say penis. All right. My mind is obviously there. I'm sorry. I did roughly tell you what was happening before I came on this live stream. I did roughly tell you when we did our intention setting and I told you to put your hands on your body, and then we went into a slightly distracted conversation about which part of the body and where my hands had been earlier. Bradley Cooper. Oh my god, was that you Anna? Bradley Cooper. I mean, I'm not pro monogamy anyway, but if I was monogamous, and I was in a closed relationship, obviously the one person that there would be an exception for is Bradley Cooper. Where's my Kat-moji? Send it to me. I vaguely remember that we did something like this. I definitely forget way more stuff than what I ever remember. Why are there flying people? Bradley is a hard yes. Always, 100 percent of the time, hard. Yes. Hard. Yes. Hard. Okay. Bali's doing stuff to me. It's on here. Is it got red hair? Because I don't care for Katrina with red hair. That wasn't even Katrina. That was Kat. Hang on, I think Katrina Ruth did have red hair for a brief period of time. Watch what happens when I put a hat out. Why are there floating people on my screen? Why? Because it makes me feel like there's some voodoo, shamanic, spiritual shit going on on my live stream. I'm the flying person. Why am I flying by? How are you guys doing that, you weirdos? How are you doing that? You're freaking me out. Are you serious? What? How? How? How are you doing that? What's happening? Why am I flying by? I don't wanna be possessed. I don't want there to be 7,000 Katrinas flying on by. I feel like I've become possessed and now I'm flying all over the world. Stop it. Just stop it, all of you. Stop. Stop. How? Oh my god. I thought it was flying penises and it was flying Katrinas. But how are you making the Kat-moji fly, you guys? It's witchcraft. I told you I'm not a fucking witch. Okay, send me a photo. You're totally freaking me out right now. Okay, do you know what I realised just happened? Do you understand the power of what just happened right here in this bedroom in Bali? Do you understand that I just instantly fucking manifested a Kat-moji? Do you understand that was never there before, and it's never happened before, and I'm fucking manifesting like a mother fucker right here. Pete C, somebody can't make them, Pete, that's exactly like the people who say they see the money and they can't receive it. It's a decision and a choice. You've gotta pluck it from the air. Oh my god. I'm in gratitude and shock and awe and I'm humbled. And I'm a little bit hysterical. I still didn't drink anything except for my Batman juice. I just instantly manifested a Kat-moji. There seems to be many of them. There's one who's being kind of a bitch about it because she's got her back to it and she's kind of like, "Here I am, bitches." Actually, bishes. And then there's another one that's you know badass pose. You know my Lara Croft outfit from my photo shoot. Okay. It's under control. Fear not. Fear not. Okay. The Batman juice, we can make some more right here if you guys insist. It's apple cider vinegar with apple flavoured branch chain amino acids. It's everything. What was I just gonna do. Oh yeah. So. My Lara Croft pose where you see ... Hang on. How much can you see down here? You just don't need to wear clothes ever in Bali, really. It's actually rude and selfish to wear clothes in Bali. But I was doing the photo shoot day in Hollywood. I was just not not not not not not not not in the flow zone, because I don't like to fucking pose for photos. I get grumpy about it, and then I start to feel fat, and then I yell at anybody who calls me attractive, because I tell them they're lying. I have a total temper tantrum like a child. Anyway, I was like "Fuck all y'all," and I was sitting on the floor in the photo studio in my outfit, looking like a gangster, even though I didn't feel like one at all, at all, and I was sitting in this sort of position that you guys are sending weird flying ones of across the screen now, little possessed ones, you know, with a hand on my leg and just kinda like ... Actually I was feeling grumpy and sad and down. That photo ended up being the key fucking photo in that outfit. I've used it many times in blog posts. You guys seem to be sending it flying across the screen. Where is it. Okay, nobody needs to see my eyes that up close, but if you desire to here they are. I feel that I could have used extra concealer, and I think I've been forgetting to do my eye makeup manifestation to stop my eye makeup coming off. I need some Kat Von D eyeliner, apparently. Anyway, Pete said that he can see the flying Katrinas, but he can't access them. I feel like that is an important and fabulous analogy. Why is the air conditioner not working. I swear to got I just got up and turned it on, didn't I? I feel like that's an important analogy about people who see money but don't access it, and it reminds me additionally of people who see ghosts. I don't know whether you wanna access ghosts or not. There's the view again. Just so that you get to enjoy it for a moment. I'm enjoying it the whole time. Not really, I'm just enjoying myself. That wasn't rude at all. Yes. This morning I woke up and I was half asleep. I didn't tell you about the money thing. But the money conversation is just so like, who even can be fucked to talk about how to make money? Do you really wanna talk about how to make money, or would you rather just frickin' jump onto a frequency and a vibrational energy space and place where the money's just there and you can just swim in it and take as much as you like? Wouldn't that be more interesting? And then we can just kick fucking around? I mean, I feel like I'd be quite bored of you as a person already if you want a frickin' strategy around how to make money. I'm gonna say strategy like that. So Michelle Bossy's close. This doesn't surprise me at all. But this morning I woke up to a conversation from my children who were in the bed with me like two little mutts, and I was half asleep, and I heard one say to the other, the larger one said to the less large one, that she saw a ghost in the bathroom. She's trying to scare him. And he said to her, "Don't be silly, Alyssa. There's no such thing as ghosts or monsters or bears." Is what I heard him say. I was just dying. His little face. He's like, "Don't be silly. There's no such things as ghosts or monsters or bears. Everybody know that." And then Alyssa's like, "No, there's bears in America." And he's like, "Oh, really? What about ghosts?" She's like ... What did she say? I don't remember, but it was funny. I liked the no such thing as bears and ghosts and wolves. Wolves, okay I got distracted by Stacy's comment about wolves. Monsters and bears. But the reality is if you see a bear, then you would believe in him. If you saw a ghost you would believe in him. If you saw Katrina Ruth flying across your screen like a little possessed Batman, then you'd be freaked the fuck out. Send some more Katrinas for everybody who just jumped on. If you jumped on, you've missed the most random live stream in the history of our live streams, I'm just gonna warn you. I don't know if you wanna even re-watch. Hang on. Everyone's private messaging me right now all at once. Why are all these people messaging me? Ooh. Ah, you're all sending me frickin' screenshots. I thought when people were also messaging all day so far ... What's happening? Okay. Don't worry. Something very interesting just happened in my private messages. Very interesting indeed. By the way, do you wanna join Rich Hot Empire? Because I feel that I'm gonna forget to talk about it. Mim, can you put the comment in? Rich Hot Empire. Six weeks one on one with me. I don't know if I've made a particularly good demonstration of what might happen in that time, six weeks one on one with me so far on this live stream. I'm gonna tell you straight up from the gate up that when you work with me one on one, I will give you all the philosophies that you desire and require about life and about business and about money making. I'll give them all to you because I understand the fear mentality. Is Mim on the live stream or did she leave in horror at what was going on? Are you gonna put the comment in? Are you there? Let's message her on What's App just in case. Can you add comment. Hang on. Wait. Maybe she already did it. Of course. She's all over it there it is. Okay, don't read it now. Remember, read it later. When you work with me one one, let me just tell you how it is. I'm gonna tell you how it is. Lisa could also tell you because she's here and she did Rich Hot Empire. Many people have done Rich Hot Empire. I will give you all the strategies. I'm bored already talking about it is the truth of the matter. But I will. I created all the strategies for you to tell you exactly what to do and exactly how to do it. Oh my god, the flying Katrinas are freaking me out. Mim, can you find out how are those flying Katrinas happening? It's very bizarre. Somebody screenshot all the flying Katrinas so that I can have proof, because I don't think anyone's gonna believe it. And then how can we make them into actual emojis though that can be used all the time? I wanna be able to put ... I'm like Veruca Salt now on the Willy Wonka movie. I want, I want, I want. I wanna be able to put Katrina emojis on my own posts on Facebook to emphasise things, and I want the Spanish flamenco dancing girl made into a Katrina emoji, because that's my favourite emoji. I use the Spanish flamenco dancing emoji to indicate anything that's making me happy or high vibe or uplifted. So if you see that emoji, it could mean I just had an orgasm, it could mean I had a fabulous glass of wine, it could mean that something you said makes me feel happy in my heart like a little girl, it could mean that Brandon agreed to do a reality dating show, Who's Dating Brandon Marshall in Regan's hut in Bora Bora. Someone tag her in and advise her that that's what's happening and we're all coming. It could mean that, I don't know, what's something else that makes me happy. Just tell me. But that's what I want. I want my own Kat-moji that I can use on my actual posts that I put up on Facebook. Okay? Okay. Mim's on it everybody. She energetically agreed to it. I felt it in my soul. Hmm. Oh, Rich Hot Empire. Right, right right right right. If you're gonna work with me one on one, it's gonna be roughly like this, I'm sorry to tell you. I'm actually pretty fucking happy to tell you. It's gonna be random as fuck. I'm gonna give you all the boring strategies. They're not even boring because they're my strategies. Fuck systems unless they're my own systems that I created myself and then had to reverse engineer for you. Blah blah blah blah blah. Everything I do in my business, exactly how to do it. Blah. blah. blah. blah. blah. We send you the full overview on the message when you message me. Send me a message and we'll send you the whole overview. You'll know all about it. It's actually fucking amazing. But really, the truth is, of course it's amazing. You should see the frickin' results that come through from those programmes. That programme. It's only one programme. Those programmes maybe meaning multiple times when I've done it. Hang on, what's Regan saying here? She says "I had to go to Bora Bora because I basically had nowhere to go to until LA." It's obviously perfectly logical. And then, because I'm giving you the whole fucking how, and there is now how but yet I still give you a how. How? Because I'm magic, and because business and life is full of contradictions. Deal with it or get out of the game altogether, Batman, and whoever else you are. And then it means that we can actually do the real fucking work together, you and I, which is definitely gonna get into whatever shenanigans and random hilariousness that is required and desired, and it's pretty much always required and desired. But more relevantly, I suppose to the money plucking side of things, really what I'm about, really why my clients get such fucking fast results, holy shit it still blows my mind every time I get a boxer message or an update or this much money, or whatever it was, right? The reason is - do you know what the reason is? Does anybody know what the reason is? Hands up, emojis up, flying emojis, love hearts, all the things, and comment as well. Do you understand? Do you understand the reason that I get the results that I get? Do you understand? Do you understand that I need some more Batman juice? Can somebody answer this? Because if you can answer this, you know the meaning of everything. Everything. I'm gonna have to take you to the bathroom with me. It's the only thing for it. Why do they give these stupid tiny little glass bottles, do you think? You're only fitting like 330 millilitres of liquid in there, which is a stupid amount. Let's go to the bathroom. Inner game is always true Michelle. Always, always. Michelle was the first person to sign up. Check out this bling bling mosaic bathtub. I haven't even had a bath. Do you think I should finish the rest of the live stream ... Okay. Good. This is my ... that's Sarafina's bikini top. Sorry, Sarafina. This is my Bali gown. Okay. Hang on. Wait. Sick bath. I was like, the bath's not sick, what do you mean? This is what I wear when I lounge about with my Chianti, or whatever I happen to be drinking. Now Michelle said the inner game. Michelle was the first person to sign up for Rich Hot Empire for the April 30 round. She's right. It is all the inner game. But it's more than that. It's more than that completely. Do you know what the real reason is that I get the results that I get? Who else said that? Helen said, "I can't wait." She's gonna make it happen. Nobody else has answered, you guys. Give me the answers while I make my drink, and then we'll get in the bath altogether since you guys insisted. Nylisa, you know the answer to this for sure. It's also part of the reason why you lost weight when you did Rich Hot Empire, even though I never told you anything to do with anything about losing weight. Many people lose weight when they do Rich Hot Empire with me. Many, many. Reggie, did you lose weight when you worked with me one on one? Sorry, just gonna shout you out right there [inaudible 00:41:28]. Now, when we make the Batman juice, we put some apple cider vinegar in it. Oh why mate, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Straight away Lisa May. Alignment is part of it. There's a missing link. A missing link, you guys. Brandon, you're definitely all over this missing link. This is big part of it. It's a big part of it. It's a big part of it. You've still gotta fucking decide to make the money. You can't go around just in alignment and soul flow and a beautiful Balinese bathrobe and expecting the money to come to you if you don't just fucking ask for it. You may as well pick up the fricking phone to room service and order some money. But you just do it without the phone and without the room service bit. That's how I joke. Okay, you guys are all ... It's hilarious to me. I'm channelling Linda Doctor when I say hilarious like that, because when she says the word hilarious she says hilarious, and she drags it out. Rather like the way I do with the word fabulous. Okay. Let's make sure we did this up properly, otherwise it's gonna explode all over you. Done. I think I have more fun by myself than with anyone. I'm sorry to all the people who I love. Do I wanna be in this bath? That wall does not look good on me. The only way that I could be in the bath, you guys, is if I get the pillows and lay in the bath like so. But now I feel like I'm in a coffin. I mean, it's a beautiful, mosaic-y coffin. What aminos? Hang on. All right. Wait. We're going back to the bedroom. It's where all the fun happens anyway. Sometimes. This one. Blue raz. Not apple flavoured at all. I lied. It's from BSN, which is made by Optimum Nutrition. Basically, Optimum Nutrition just owns the marketplace. You guys, the missing link is fun. Obviously it's fun. I make business fun again. Do I? Do I make business fun again? Okay. Why was I not wearing this bathrobe the whole entire time? How rude. I am so sorry. I just noticed how amazing I fucking look. Clearly they designed this bathrobe and these walls specifically for me. Okay. Oh my god. I look incredible. I'm just gonna sit here and enjoy myself. No, I did that before. We talked about that. Okay. Fuck. I think I shook it too hard. I make business fun again. I've said that. Somebody on my team, write it down, write it down, write it down. Tell me you're there if you're on my team. What's happening right now? I'll see it. Write down subject title, send it to Ash, I make business fun again. Do you wanna know a secret? It's not a secret at all but apparently I have to tell everybody 14,000 million times before they fucking pay attention. Lucky I love you, right? When you're having hilarious, #lindadoctorchanneled, hilarious amounts of fun in your business and your life ... I'm so hot in this bathrobe, you guys. It's silk and lovely and I wanna keep it on for you, but it's frickin'' hot. Thank you Lisa. Camp mates. Tag Ashley in. Ash Gregory. Tag him in. He's not cavorting around the fucking Gold Cost with my mom and my sister like the rest of my family. Somebody's frickin' doing some work here. Clearly it's me. Imagine if this was work. Imagine you got paid to sit around in your bathtub and be Batman and talk about which Batman you would have sex with in Bali, laughing your ass off at your own hilariousness, talking with badass people online. Imagine if you could get paid for that, you guys. Just imagine. People wouldn't even believe it. They would think you were lying and then they would refuse to participate in such shenanigans. Imagine. Imagine you joined Rich Hot Empire and learned how to make business so fucking fun, where basically you do nothing. There's the flying Katrinas. Devil Katrinas. Imagine. Right? Howard says "I feel like I was destined for this job." Of course you were. You know it in your heart and your soul. This is so good. I'm gonna do a photo shoot lounging around like so with extra highlighter on. Extra. And I'm gonna have my legs like this. I'm gonna put oil on them. Or I'll not, let somebody else do it for me. And then I'm gonna take photos. Except probably not, because I fucking hate taking photos, and my whole team's grumpy at me because I never take enough photos. Kat-mojis flying. But I need the emoji to be in the screen where I can frickin' use it when I'm making a post, not just devil Kat-mojis flying across my live stream like little possessed angel demons. Totally queen. I am in queen mode right now. Thank you Lisa. Even without a phone. I'll take it. Frank Kern told me that if you want more people to watch you on a live stream you should have props, and then he said - and he was being a smart ass, because he already knows about my throne and my sceptre - he was teaching the whole group. He was like advising the whole group about how to get better engagement on their live streams. He said - the group of his private clients if you were wondering which group. There was eight of us. He said, for example, a throne and a sceptre. Then everybody looked at me and I was like, "That's right, bitches, I'm the A plus student. Already did it." There's many things I don't do that he tells me to do, because I'm not that good at following directions. But I'll do the throne thing, with or without the throne. So here I am. I am my own throne, and I got the booty to prove it. I built my booty up. It's like sitting on gloriousness. This morning I worked that bitch out hard. I was like frick. I did a six part circuit in the gym. If you wanna know about extra good booty stuff, I can't be bothered talking about it right now. But I did a fabulous exercise, which was like a squat and a lunge. Ooh, Linda's messaging me right now. Does she know we're talking about her? Hmm. I did a lunge, step down into a squat. I'll show you, fine. Since you insisted. Because this is a good exercise for when you're lazy. Hang on. Wait. Okay. It's very boring, but it works. It's very fantastic. Lung and then you go ... Okay. And then you go into a squat. Okay, wait. It's gonna be better like this. Lunge. And then into a squat. And you go down deep, you guys, deep. None of these bullshit squats that go down to there. What the fuck is that? You're not gonna work your ass like that. You're gonna get a little bit of leg work. You're gonna screw up your knees. That's what's gonna happen. You're gonna have a frickin' patella tracking issue out the wazoo. So you wanna go squat down deep enough that you can feel that ass working. Then you go to a lung. I don't know what's happening on this live stream, but I'm okay with it. I did many of them. I did some chin ups as well, because I'm fucking strong, you guys. Chinned my way up. Up and down. Up and down. Up and down. I did some shoulder presses, lateral raises, and reverse bicep curls, because when I do reverse bicep curls, makes me feel like a badass, because people are like, "What the fuck is that even?" And i was getting into the grunty territory as well. It was not necessarily pretty. Apparently I'm already out of breath from doing two fucking squats. Then I finished at the end with jumping squats. My legs are hurting me already. Okay. Why do I not do workout live streams? We could do this every day. Send me some devil Kat emojis if you want me to do workout live streams. Now we're going back to the bathrobe. We could do it any time. I'm sure I won't do it at all, because I hate to be told what to do, just so you know, so just warning you. I could do a whole workout live stream series. Did somebody send me angry faces now? What are you angry about? Are you angry that I stopped squatting? My legs are so sore, you guys. My ass is getting juicier by the day. By the day. All right. I'm gonna try and tell you about the receiving of the money thing. I'm trying. It's not really coming out. It's got nothing to with anything. In theory I was gonna finish this live stream at least 30 minutes ago because I was gonna go and eat. I've got some ... Where's my Batman juice? Fuck food. I love food. I didn't mean it. Sorry food. Okay, that's funny Reggie. All right, I do ... I'm gonna be really serious. Get your notebooks at the ready. I'm really frickin' hot though. Do it like this. No, it looks like I'm trying to be sensual. I am sensual, I don't have to try. Write that down for yourself. You don't have to write it down about me. I am sensual. I don't even have to try. No, you could write it down as an affirmation. I am body sensuality, sexuality, feminine energy. Or if you don't desire to embody feminine energy, maybe because you're masculine, but we each have each, just deal with it. But you could say I receive feminine essence. Why not. Or energy. Say whatever you frickin'' want. You don't need me to make your own affirmations up. Basically, the whole story is exactly what I said. I do teach structured shit. Again I'm getting bored talking about it, but it is actually fucking amazing, and I will send you all the details on Rich Hot Empire. If you desire to be part of that, you should message me on my personal Katrina Ruth page, the one with the flying emojis I think it is, I'm not sure. And then really what I do - the real fucking work that I do in my own heart and soul every day as well as for the hearts and souls of my clients is very, very simple. The real work ... Okay, I remembered. I had to drop into my soul to remember. The real work is dropping into your fucking soul. Maybe when you were a youngster, you liked to have fun. It's possible. I suppose I can't prove it, and I suppose you can't prove it either, unless we fucking show us who you are again at some point potentially. I help business be fun again. I help people make business fun again. I make business fun again. But fun is just one way. Fun, fucking flow, fucking source, frickin' energy connected to your super powers, being who you're originally meant to be. Who were you originally meant to be? Put it in the comments if you know who you were meant to be. Roughly, this would have been where you were five or six years old before you got all the shit piled atop of you that was telling you how you're meant to be and who you're meant to be. Who you were meant to be then before you bought into a story that you've gotta save the world, that you've gotta be a frickin' hero, that you've gotta prove yourself, that you need such and such bullshit to validate yourself before you can put yourself out there, whatever else. Who were you meant to be? Me? Storyteller and performer. I'm a five year old storyteller and performer at my soul, and that little girl is who I let out. That's why I make money. Period, the end. Boom. Lisa says entertainer. Well then entertain us, but apparently you already did, because you were talking about spanking on your live stream earlier. Everybody go check that out after this. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know all those fuckers can get fucking fucked with their ideas of how to make money online. It's such bullshit. Bestselling author. But then go even ... You wouldn't have said bestselling author. Maybe you would have at five. But what is the core of that underneath it? Because I would definitely say bestselling author as well, highly acclaimed speaker or whatever else. Rainbow unicorn, that was Helen, not me. Then I go one deeper than that. Like yes, I could say author, speaker, performer, or performer, performing in, like I'm kinda looking into what is the source of the source of the source that then could be translated into bestselling author for example. Messenger. Storyteller. Unleasher. If you were born to be a bestselling author, then what would you be if it was before books? Sorry. There's my foot. But look at my purple metallic toenails. Pretty good. Storyteller. Exactly. Because you could do that even before books were invented. It's gotta be something that we could have done born any point in time, you guys. Any point at time. Any point in time. At most of the points in time, I'm just gonna let you know, you did not need Facebook or advertising in order to get attention. You can use that shit if you want, but like whatever. The way that you're gonna make the money, the way that you're gonna have people follow you ... Chris was born to be purple. I like it a lot. The way that you're gonna make the money, the way you're gonna have people follow you, the way they're gonna buy all the things from you, the way they're gonna think you're random as fuck and hilarious. I feel like somebody just crept into the villa. I heard a rummaging noise. The way that that's gonna happen is your energy, just your energy. Just your energy. Just your energy. Nothing else. The essence of you. Can you please screenshot this? (silence) Okay, I trust 20 people got that screenshot. Send it to me. And now this one. (silence) There's one more. Two more. All right. Good. I'm annoyed about this though. I don't like that colour. Should be something that fits in with the rest of it. It's the energy, baby. You know, I think that there's many boring people out there who would come along to a live stream like this and they would be like, "This chick is off her head." Or they'd be grumpy at me, grumpy that they invested their 56 minutes and 43 seconds and I still didn't tell any strategies, which is the only way we can say the word, just to give some juice to the word, because the word's boring on its own self, isn't it? They would be grumpy and annoyed and resentful that I didn't say, "But this is how you make the money." But I think I just did a beautiful live demonstration of it. Did I not? Did I yes? I believe I did. I think you get my point. What if you just showed people who you are and who you were always meant to be? That'd be a revolutionary fucking concept, wouldn't it? What if you just told people nothing at all? What if you didn't tell them anything? What if you just opened your mouth, your heart, your soul, and let the goodness and the madness ... Okay, I feel like you should get this one as well. Okay, I don't care about that. And the goodness and the madness flowed out. And then what if, what if, what if you achieved some shit in your life already at this point, no doubt, right? And you actually frickin' owned that shit for once. And then you just frickin' reverse engineered it. It would be less boring than just ... More boring, I mean, than just carrying on and being random as fuck like this. But actually, people want, and it's nice to give people, like, "Hey, here's how I did what I frickin' did. Here's how I fucking launch. I give you, this is how I launched for my Rich Hot Empire. This is how I make a programme. This is how we sell the programme. This is how I build my following. This is how to build a low right through to high, a multi seven figure in by doing what you love. Blah blah blah. I do actually have systems and strategy. I never made them up though. Nope. Just created them along the way with a lot of frickin' trial and error and not nearly enough fun for a good part of it, which is probably what took me so long. Then I can now reverse engineer it for you. Write it down. Kind of and be fucked writing it down most of the time, so just do a Facebook live stream, have more fun talking about it. And/or audio it to my team and make them transcribe it. That's how I do much of my content, just so you know, because I cannot be fucked writing down shit except for I only write like 10,000 words a day of other random shit. But that's just what bubbles up. Anyway. And then you're like, "Cool, here's my thing, I'll give you my thing," because people are in somewhat of a fear based mindset when they come to work with you and they're like, "We want the thing, we wanna know the thing, so you give them the thing." And then you just basically dance and float freely through a meadow, or a pool, or whatever's around, or you put a bathrobe on, and you just be yourself, and you be a living, breathing example of the fact that actually, actually, actually, actually, you're enough just being you. So there. There's nothing else you gotta ad to be of interest to the people. You want people to follow, you want people to buy, you want people to do what you tell them to do, you want Batman to send you a message. Best solution to all of that. You wanna find soulmate people in your life? Clients, friends, lovers, massage therapists, whatever else that you desire on a soulmate person level. Gonna tell you the best strategy for that. Be yourself. That' show you get the people that wanna be in your life, whether they're people who are paying you, or you're paying them, or it's just energy exchange, or whatever the fuck it is. It's all just energy exchange anyway, right? We're already enough as we are. The problem is, if you don't fucking show them who you are, they're very unlikely to know. Just a little reminder for you, right? They're very unlikely to know. I had to give myself a lot of permission a lot of times all along the way to gradually get to a point where I can just sit here and fuck around for an hour and be silly and random and funny and just be myself. It was just like the vibe that came out of me today, which would have happened with or without you guys, so you're welcome that I turned a camera on, otherwise yes I would be sitting here in my villa by myself doing this entire performance, just for myself. Or I'd probably be doing some version of it over audios to my friends or something like that, right? I had to repeatedly give myself permission to let myself be all that I am, but also be enough just only solely being who I am and realise that being all that I am and just who I am is enough, and also that I must let all of that out, not just some filtered part of it, and that actually just being me, just being me, just being me, nothing else added, not worrying about am I giving value, not worrying about am I covering good content, not worrying about am I fucking teaching something. Just being me is the damn value, right? It's done. I showed up, I was myself, you got some fucking value from it, and now we can all go to lunch. That's the whole entire story. What time is it? Do I even have time to eat? 1:24. Probably gonna take me like 10 to 15 minutes to get my ass up to Sea Circus up there, order the food, it's gonna take them 10 minutes minimum to make it, and then I have a phone call 10 minutes after that. I can eat while I talk on the phone though. Or maybe I'm high on life and I don't need to eat. What do you think? Maybe I'm being fed from my soul right now. I should go get a tan by the pool instead of eating. You think? Maybe they can bring me some food there, and then I can do my calls by the pool. The problem is I want this particular choc fudge smoothie that they've got just up the road there. What time am I supposed to pick up my children? I feel like we're going down a tangent of I should be finishing the livestream already. Okay. Now you can read the pinned comment. Message me about Rich Hot Empire. We're gonna do all the things. I'm gonna teach you all the things. We're gonna have all the fun. 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Welcome to episode 336 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris. As promised at the end of last week's episode, I'm keying off a whole series of three Facebook Ads-related podcasts. We're going to start today with one of the fundamental questions, which is, "Should you even be using Facebook Ads as part of your launch?" I want to bring this up because, A, I know a lot of you are launching, a lot of my clients are launching. We've been doing a lot of one-on-one calls with people who are going through launches and who want Facebook Ads advice. We know that this is a massive time of launching. We're a little bit into the new year now, it's time to stretch your legs. Get those things that you've been working on creating rolling out. That's awesome. I'm so excited because I love seeing what you guys are creating and offering. The question then comes up, "Should you even bother with Facebook Ads?" Most often this question comes up because of budget. That's where I want to start with. A lot of people ask me, "Well, I only have X amount of dollars to spend." Maybe it's $100, maybe it's $500, maybe it's $1000, is that really enough to run Facebook Ads? Here's the reality is, yes. $100, $500, and $1000 are all enough to run Facebook Ads. You do not have to have a $10,000 budget to run a successful ad campaign. Here's the caveat, though. Your successful ad campaign is going to look different than somebody who has a $10,000 budget. Also, your targeting is going to need to look different. You cannot the target the same size group when you have a $100 as when you have $10,000. You just can't. You have to be more specific. You have to be really, really tight with your targeting. You're not going to get 5,000 people on your list for $100. Make sure that you're paying attention to your expectations. Make sure you're paying attention to your targeting. Don't let budget stop you from creating an ad campaign. You can absolutely run a successful campaign with a small lower budget. That's really, for me, in my opinion, that's really one of the biggest benefits of Facebook Ads, is that you can run a successful campaign at any budget. It really does, it allows you to do things on another level that we haven't always had the opportunity to in the past. When we think about advertising days gone by, when the extensive advertising was billboards and commercials and things like that. Yeah, no, $100 budget is not going to get you real far. However, in the land of social media, $100 budget will get you a whole lot further than it would in traditional media. Yes, even if you have a small budget, you can absolutely run a Facebook Ad campaign. Here's the thing, though. You need to pay attention to that targeting and to the goal. Be really, really clear about how you're spending that budget. For me, when we have clients who have really, really small budgets, let's say $100. One of the things we'll do is instead of running an ad campaign to a cold audience created through interests and things like that, we will run an ad to a lookalike audience with half of our budget. Then we'll run a retargeting ad with the other half of the budget. Now, $50 will not get you a ton of opt-ins. However, will you then talk about a retargeting ad to your email list, to the people who have been on the page before. You start to get narrower and narrower with those warm leads, you're able to do a little bit more. We'll actually run retargeting ads to people who have been on the list and spent time on the website. Saying, "Hey, here's the opportunity that we're giving you," whatever the offer is, and actually go right for the sale from there with that other half of the budget. That has been really, really powerful for maximizing the profitability of a small budget. However, if you're just looking for straight up list growth, you want to get people on a challenge or a webinar or whatever, and you're confident that you can sell them there without a retargeting ad, and you want to throw all of your money at the beginning. Again, your target's got to be solid. You have to know exactly who you want to get in front of. You're not running ads to men and women all over the world between the ages of 18 and 65, and hoping that it shakes out. No. You're going to be out of your budget in a matter of minutes. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. You're going to blow your budget really quickly and to a really, really unqualified audience. Run the ad to people who are going to care. Build a custom audience, build a lookalike audience. Things like that are going to get a lot, a lot farther. Okay? All right. Number two thing to consider is really your expertise. If you're somebody who has no idea what they're doing in Facebook Ads, it just freaks you out. You're not comfortable, you want no part of it. First of all, why are you not at Hit the Mic Backstage because that will help a lot. Number two, then no, don't worry about running ads during your launch. Focus in on your content marketing, your affiliate marketing, your networking, your speaking, whatever other pieces your doing. Your organic social media, whatever other pieces you are using to fill your program, your client list, whatever it is that you're selling, you're launching, use those. Don't worry about Facebook Ads because in all likelihood, you're probably going to spend quite a bit of money and get very little results. You just simply don't know what you're doing. That's okay. That doesn't make you bad, it doesn't make you dumb, it doesn't make you ... You can have a successful launch without running Facebook Ads. It is possible. It's just going to look different. You got to make up that space other places. If it's something you're totally uncomfortable with, especially if this is the first time you're launching this program, or the first time you're launching at all. Then, no, don't worry about Facebook Ads. They are not required for program sales success. They are not required for launch success. You can absolutely find the results you want without them. You just have to hustle in other ways. Okay? The other side of that is if you're completely uncomfortable with the idea of creating ads, you've no idea what you're doing, and you have a decent size budget, instead of throwing the money at the ads yourself, hire someone to help you. Hire a consultant, a social media strategist, a Facebook Ads expert. Somebody who knows what they're doing to maximize your budget, if your budget allows that. That's a great way to get the results without having to know all the stuff. Without having to be comfortable on Facebook Ads. If that's something you're interested in doing, connect with me, I have a whole list of recommendations for you, people who do a killer job with this stuff. All right? All right. Again, if this is something you're completely uncomfortable with right now, and you want to do it, join us backstage. That's what that space is for, okay? The thing I want to wrap up with is really that if you are saying you can't do Facebook Ads because of one of the two reasons I mentioned, your budget's too small, or you have no idea what you're doing. No. Not excuses. You can absolutely have success with a small budget. There are ways around not knowing what you're doing. Learning, outsourcing, there you go. On the flip side, Facebook Ads are not required to be successful. They are not required to see any real results. They do not have to be part of your strategy. Now, do I encourage them? Do I use them? Have I been successful with them? Yes to all of those questions. I think Facebook Ads are fantastic. It's one of the best paid advertising opportunities for solopreneurs, and micro business owners like you and me. Absolutely, but they're not required. You don't have to do anything. Okay? Don't get stuck on this idea that you won't see results if you don't do this, because it's simply not true. Okay? Okay. If you want to learn more about Facebook Ads, the best, best, best first step is to go to thestaceyharris.com/episode336, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. There is a image there that you'll see that says, "Facebook Guide and Checklist." Click on that, put in your email address, and I will deliver that to you. You will also have the opportunity to take advantage of a $1, 7-day trial and to Hit the Mic Backstage. I would encourage you to take that opportunity, if for no other reason then you can use that seven days to ask me questions in the community. Watch the brand new Facebook Ads training videos we have inside of the Facebook Guide, which sits inside of Hit the Mic Backstage. You don't have to stay on after the seven days. You don't like it. It's not a fit. You've gotten what you need from it, fantastic. Send us an email, we'll cancel it. You won't renew. You love it, you want to stay, you want to be a part of this community, that makes me super happy. You will automatically renew at the regular membership price. Okay? It really is that simple and that really is the next best step for finding a way to make Facebook Ads work for you. Okay? Okay. I feel like I've said okay a lot this episode, so I'm going to go. I will see you backstage. Resources Join us inside Hit the Mic Backstage Connect with Me Connect with me on Facebook Tweet with me and include #HittheMic Be sure to leave your review on iTunes or Stitcher for a shoutout on a future show

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After a short break, Kyle and Brittany take a slight departure from the norm with "The Fault in Our Stars". See why this teenage romance adaption stands out from the rest and why this pairing struck an emotional chord with the hosts. Okay? Okay.  Please feel free to leave comments or make suggestions for future episodes on our Twitter or Instagram, or email us at info@superior.fm

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Gloria Harrison is the guest. She is a writer and a longtime contributor to The Nervous Breakdown, and in May of 2013 she was featured on This American Life, Episode 494. ***Note: This is a Premium episode. It is available for Premium subscribers only. Please sign up for Premium. It costs $2. That's it. Two bucks a month. (Or else you can pay $4.99 for six months of access, or $8.99 for a year.) You do that, you can listen to Gloria's episode—plus you'll have access to the podcast's complete archives. Every single show.  You can listen online here, or else you can listen while on the go via the free, official Other People app, available now for your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Android device.  Okay? Okay. Thanks for listening, everybody. -BL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices