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In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Loren Greiff about how to deal with being told you're overqualified and how to flip the conversation. Loren Greiff is the founder of PortfolioRocket, a career consultancy dedicated to helping executives over 40 break free from outdated job search systems and land roles that match their worth. After being PIP'd (to be placed on a Performance Improvement Plan) at 54 for being “too enthusiastic” at one of the world's top executive search firms, she saw firsthand how the traditional system marginalizes experienced talent. Instead of shrinking, she launched a mission to flip the script—and a business that's now helped over 430 leaders land faster and earn more by doing it differently, not traditionally. Her work unapologetically challenges age bias, toxic hiring practices, and the myth of "playing it safe." At PortfolioRocket, she helps VP-level and above executives reignite their value, stand out in crowded markets, and reclaim control of their careers. In addition to having an active LinkedIn community of followers, and a seat on Fast Company's Executive Board, Loren is the host of the Top 100 Ranking podcast, Career Blast in a Half, where listeners get simple, powerful and actionable career fuel to keep their success track, no matter where they are in their. Loren has been featured in online publications such as Forbes and Business Insider as well as named Top Job Search Strategy Voice and listed as a Top Career Coach by JobScan, three years running. Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network!
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Action Bronson, originally episode 347 from 2020-09-30.Original writeup below:There's no doubt about it, Action has done a ton in the past decade and by the looks of it all, had a goddamn blast while doing it. But he's always kept a very decent squad around him and stayed on track and focused, as you can tell by his insane output and varied resumé. Here's a chance to catch up with dude as he talks over the internet to Pip about it all - working out, old skool gaming, pandemic UFC, how he got into rap music and the cassette culture that came along with it, New York, an alternate universe chef career, features with rappers and being in the studio with some of the greatest, eating well, knocking humbleness on the head, acting in a Scorcese film, being behind a show from concept to credits and MAD amounts more in between. Get to know Action Bronson!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureONLINEINSTAGRAMYOUTUBECALM main linkCALM donate linkDAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMPPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITTERPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today's Topics:1. Sound Signature Review 6.202 – Zastava ZVUK on a 16.3-in Yugoslavian AK-pattern system. Another U.S. tribute to the venerable Soviet PBS silencer! You saw the Wolverine performance last time. How does an even more modern PBS homage perform? Does this particular implementation of PIP bring the performance? Technical discussion for last week's report. (00:09:12)2. Sound Signature Review 6.203 – Combat Application Technologies CAT CACM 556 on the standard 10.3-in untuned MK18. This is a system-optimized silencer, but PEW Science recommended a standard host platform be used for public evaluation. How does this latest SURGE BYPASS model perform in a 6-inch envelope? The total performance may (or may not) surprise you. The 556 wars rage on; this is an introductory discussion for today's whitepaper. (00:52:36)Sponsored by - Silencer Shop, Top Gun Range Houston, Legion Athletics, Capitol Armory, and the PEW Science Laboratory!Legion Athletics: use code pewscience for BOGO off your entire first order and 20% cash back always!Magpul: Use code PSTEN to receive $10 off your order of $100 or more at Magpul
1. Se la quiere quitar, pero no puede, dice el Superintendente de la Policía, Joseph González, sobre la escolta de Wanda Vázquez 2. Fiscalía presentó nueva evidencia, defensa objeta y jueza Carreño pospone vista de sentencia de Wanda Vázquez para el 4 de diciembre 3. Se reincorporan a la junta de control fiscal los tres botados por Trump que le ganaron en el Tribunal Federal para el distrito de PR 4. Secretario de Salud ahora dice que no hay peligro de que WIC se quede sin fondos 5. Dalmau y el PIP se alejan de nueva alianza para enfrentar enmiendas al Código Electoral 6. Contra el reloj la AAA para uso de fondos federales 7. Cinco muertos baleados y desnudos, dos en Santurce y 3 en masacre en Carolina 8. Martes de energía con Ramón Luis Nieves 9. Donald Trump dice que no sabe quién es Bad Bunny 10. Liberada por Israel puertorriqueña que fue parte de la flotilla humanitaria que trató de llegar a Gaza. Alegan fue maltratada y torturada. 11. Mas vientos negativos a nivel federal para la comunidad LGBTQ+. Tribunal Supremo federal parece se inclina para invalidad ley de Colorado que prohíbe las terapias de conversión. 12. Converso con Mary Jo Laborde, Presidenta del Banco de Alimentos sobre el mes de la acción contra el hambreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by podcaster, author, musician and all round lovely human ADAM BUXTON!A home run of an episode right here as Pip checks in with original podcast homie Adam on all things! And it really is all things, but most pertinent at this moment in time is Adam's new album of full song material 'Buckle Up' - something he's been hinting at for ages on his own podcast (and we all hoped for, on the strength of the jingles), and now has its own home on Decca Records no less. A lot of lovely behind the scenes action on that, but Pip and Adam also check in on such items as the act of sharing with guests on a podcast, Werner Herzog's Zoom odyssey, clashes of guest bookings and the hierarchy of talent, the Clipse parallel, losing loved ones and authoring books, to honest or not to honest, taking people up on help offers, sitting with things and not avoiding them, major label biz, the genesis of songs (not the songs of Genesis), being the right side of annoying and playing your own music for folks. So much goodness and gems and all sorts on here, you're in the company of the pro's with this one - sit back and relax and enjoy. We love you. BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureADAM ONLINEBUCKLE UPOFFICIAL BUCKLE UP LABELPAGEROGER SCRUTON ("Boom goes the brainbox")SILVER JEWS ('American Water' - lovely album)GUIDED BY VOICES ('Alien Lanes' - classic)CALM main linkCALM donate linkSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1. Fiscalía federal pide 12 meses de cárcel para Wanda Vázquez 2. Convención del PNP proyectó unidad, pero… ¿eliminó las dudas sobre la viabilidad de Jenniffer? 3. Alianza de todos en la oposición, menos el PIP, en contra de las enmiendas de TRS al Código Electoral 4. Insisten en aprobarán reforma contributiva en noviembre. Pero será efectiva el próximo año y no dicen si tiene el ok de la junta de control fiscal. 5. Proyecto de eficiencia gubernamental que lidera Verónica Ferraiouli no tiene fondos 6. Representante PNP le da la razón a los pilotos de la bahía en su pleito contra New Fortress. Contradice a la gobernadora. Y controvesia nos cuesta $710,000 idarios 7. Junta recomienda que el cargo para pagar las pensiones de la AEE sea permanente en la factura. 8. Bad Bunny se roba el show en Saturday Night Live y la congresista republicana Marjorie Taylor Green reacciona pidiendo legislen el English Only 9. Segunda semana de cierre del gobierno federal. Anticipan pueden terminarse los fondos de WIC 10. Y organizaciones sin fines de lucro se preparan para más recortes en fondos federales 11. DEPORTES ZONA-5 con Federico LópezSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello there! Just a reminder that we will return...most likely in the new year with season 4!!! Thank you to all our listeners and supporters, it's a genuine pleasure to think about what you might enjoy hearing and getting your feedback!We have a couple of live episodes in our back pocket to keep you tied over until the new year so look out for those.Bis bald and take good care! Jonny and Pip++++++
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Spike Lee, originally episode 225 from 2018-08-24.Original writeup below:While Spike is getting his promotion grind on for his new film BlacKkKlansman (which you should make efforts to see as it's just been released in the UK), he fit in some Pip time which is perfect as you know Pip is quite the cinephile! So this is a grand opportunity to get in some genuine directorial knowledge from a true long term veteran in the game. You will also witness a first in the Distraction Pieces Podcast as Spike lays down a “no comment” - more on that in the podcast! Ground covered includes how he's always been around and this isn't a return, how BlacKkKlansman wasn't planned and how Jordan Peele put the bug in his ear, the 70's look of the film while being contemporary, the natural humour in the film and how it derives from such a wild premise, the importance of music, how the director of photography needs to be in sync with the director, giving actors their debuts, rolling with the changes in cinema and establishing himself as the Spike Lee of all Spike Lee Joints! A huge episode. You will enjoy. It's fair to say this is a Spike Lee Joint.PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureIMDBINSTAGRAMHIGHEST 2 LOWESTDO THE RIGHT THINGCALM main linkCALM donate linkDAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMPPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITTERPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today's Topic:1. Sound Signature Review 6.202 – Zastava ZVUK on a 16.3-in Yugoslavian AK-pattern system. Another U.S. tribute to the venerable Soviet PBS silencer! You saw the Wolverine performance last time. How does an even more modern PBS homage perform? Does this particular implementation of PIP bring the performance? Introduction to today's whitepaper.a. Intro and aesthetics (00:05:30)b. Technology and performance first look (00:11:41)c. Initial thoughts about the competition and how the AK suppression space will unfold (00:21:30)d. What to expect in this report (00:31:58)Sponsored by - Silencer Shop, Top Gun Range Houston, Legion Athletics, Capitol Armory, and the PEW Science Laboratory!Legion Athletics: use code pewscience for BOGO off your entire first order and 20% cash back always!Magpul: Use code PSTEN to receive $10 off your order of $100 or more at Magpul
1. Hoy aumenta 8% la tarifa deelectricidad en Puerto Rico 2. 26 violaciones en San Juan yCondado en lo que va de año, hombres desnudos en la playa y la criminalidadrampante. Lo conversamos con Amaury Rivera3. Gobernadora insiste en mantener lanominación de David Figueroa4. PIP presenta proyecto paraeliminar escoltas a exgobernadores5. iHuman, un nuevo drama deRamos-Perea Anuncian la esperada pieza teatral que presenta cómo lainteligencia artificial está cambiando el mundo con esta puesta en escena de laCompañía Nacional de Teatro. Desde el 10 de octubre, teatro Victoria Espinosa6. El Consenso Manufacturado enPuerto Rico: Propaganda, poder y censura encubierta7. El gobierno federal cierraparcialmente sus puertas al quedarse sin un nuevo presupuesto general para susgastos8. Terremoto en Filipinas de 7 puntosescala Richter; decenas de muertos mientras los rescatistas buscan entre losescombros9. Sentencia a pena de muerte para elexpresidente del Congo Joseph Kabila.10. La Asamblea Nacional de Venezuelaaprueba el tratado de asociación estratégica con Rusia Actualidad RT Este es un programa independiente y sindicalizado. Esto significa que este programa se produce de manera independiente, pero se transmite de manera sindicalizada, o sea, por las emisoras y cadenas de radio que son más fuertes en sus respectivas regiones. También se transmite por sus plataformas digitales, aplicaciones para dispositivos móviles y redes sociales. Estas emisoras de radio son:1. Cadena WIAC - WYAC 930 AM Cabo Rojo- Mayagüez2. Cadena WIAC – WISA 1390 AM Isabela3. Cadena WIAC – WIAC 740 AM Área norte y zona metropolitana4. WLRP 1460 AM Radio Raíces La voz del Pepino en San Sebastián5. X61 – 610 AM en Patillas6. X61 – 94.3 FM Patillas y todo el sureste7. WPAB 550 AM - Ponce8. ECO 93.1 FM – En todo Puerto Rico9. WOQI 1020 AM – Radio Casa Pueblo desde Adjuntas 10. Mundo Latino PR.com, la emisora web de música tropical y comentario Una vez sale del aire, el programa queda grabado y está disponible en las plataformas de podcasts tales como Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts y otras plataformas https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto También nos pueden seguir en:REDES SOCIALES: Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Tumblr, TikTok BLOG: En Blanco y Negro con Sandra http://enblancoynegromedia.blogspot.com SUSCRIPCIÓN: Substack, plataforma de suscripción de prensa independientehttps://substack.com/@sandrarodriguezcotto OTROS MEDIOS DIGITALES: ¡Ey! Boricua, Revista Seguros. Revista Crónicas y otrosEstas son algunas de las noticias que tenemos hoy En Blanco y Negro con Sandra.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the bold and awesome director JUSTIN TIPPING!Maybe here and there you've heard rumblings not unlike the ones Pip cites up top on the intro, but in a time when creativity can even be treated and regarded as a rebellious and awesomely unique act, you can also take said rumblings with a pinch of salt and just engage in some powerful cinematic moments. This could be the suggested move with Him, Justin's new movie made with Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions, which sounds like a very beautiful piece of thrilling sport-centred action.Expect to hear Justin touch on such menu items as being cautious of dropping the ball (pun intended) with Monkeypaw, the consideration of budgets, how different the reception is to his other projects and the undertones within some of those (many lines in which to read between...), the importance of visual style, lookbooks, intesive training for everyone's sake (including SFX), and working with comic actors. So much in not a huge amount of time. A wonderful chat - forget the noise out there, just jump in for heck's sake. PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureHIM IMDBHIM TRAILERONLINEKICKS TRAILERCALM main linkCALM donate linkSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this RCP Medicine podcast and BSR Talking Rheumatology podcast collaboration Dr Pip Watson and Dr Rik Patel discuss an interesting case of a patient presenting with headache to the acute take. Topics include tips on history and examination, an update on treatment including the use of tocilizumab and the role of fast-track pathways. Pip is a Rheumatology Consultant in Manchester, BSR Digital Learning Editor, and Talking Rheumatology host, Rick is a Rheumatology and Acute Medicine consultant in Manchester, working at one of the specialist centres for vasculitis.If you liked this check out related Talking Rheumatology spotlight episodes Episode 6 giant cell arteritisEpisode 14 polymyalgia rheumaticaBonus case non GCA headache ResourcesNICE GCA guideline https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/giant-cell-arteritis/BSR GCA guideline https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article-abstract/59/3/e1/5714024?redirectedFrom=fulltextGCAPS paper https://ard.bmj.com/content/83/Suppl_1/1100.2RCP Links Education Events Membership Improving care Policy and campaigns RCP Social Media Instagram LinkedIn Facebook X Bluesky Music: Episode 50 onward - Bensound.com Episodes 1 - 49 'Impressive Deals' - Nicolai Heidlas
In this episode of Canicross Conversations, Louise and Michelle are joined by Claire, better known as @theyorkshirewhippets on Instagram. Claire shares her upside-down journey into the world of canicross when a friend convinced her to enter a race with her whippet, Pip. From her early days of social running, to training for her first half marathon, Claire brings energy, honesty and giggles. Listeners will hear about Claire's transition from casual runner to competitive canicrosser, how she manages training with two very different dogs, and the importance of cross-training and recovery. She opens up about the challenges of running in hot weather, how yoga and horse riding have helped her canicross performance, and how she balances full-time work with a very active lifestyle. The episode is packed with practical tips on kit, nutrition, and building confidence in younger dogs, especially for those working with breeds not traditionally seen as endurance runners. Claire also shares her reasons for fundraising for Stray Aid, and how this sport has become a meaningful part of her life. Tune in for a heart-warming and humorous chat that celebrates the bond between dogs and humans, the joys (and face-plants) of trail running, and the importance of listening to your body and your dog. Topics and timings 1.10 – Why dogs shouldn't run in the heat 4.30 – Claire's canicross journey begins 10.00 – Claire's first Trail Dogs experience 15.40 – Training and building fitness 22.00 – Whippets as endurance athletes 28.30 – Running kit upgrades 33.00 – Balancing life, work, and training 36.10 – Nutrition and fuelling for longer distances 41.50 – Funny stories and muddy mishaps 46.00 – Preparing Ivy for her first race 52.00 – Fundraising for Stray Aid Resources mentioned Trail Dog events Non-stop free motion harness & trail belt Peak2Peak energy bars Episode 2 with Ann Carter (heatstroke and dogs) https://www.strayaid.org.uk/
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Stephen Graham, originally episode 87 from 2016-03-09.Original writeup below:Not one, not two, but THREE welcomes upon you as standard to episode 87 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, with Kirby's own cinema superstar Mr Stephen Graham! Full on good time chatter goodness from Pip and Stephen as they get along like old pals (with one very important thing in common - no spoilers here yo, you'll find out), and we glean much from Stephen's diverse acting career. From his beginnings as a self proclaimed scally out on the streets to his acting school progressions right up to his well earned and crazy great roles in some gigantic cinema smashes like Snatch, Pirates Of The Caribbean, This Is England and starring in the massive Boardwalk Empire as none other than Al Capone. AND starring alongside our very own Pip too in the forthcoming 'Taboo'! A lovely chat, with a lovely guy. Distract yerself fully with this one folks.PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureADOLESCENCEIMDBBOILING POINTTHE VIRTUESCALM main linkCALM donate linkDAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMPPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITTERPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, Tim is back with Pip hosting as we look at the college football season so far, Tim tries a British accent, and Pip wonders how things have gone so badly thus far in fantasy, plus do we have a title matchup preview on the schedule?
This week on Screw It Just DO It I sit down with Pip Murray, the founder of Pip & Nut, the UK's fastest-growing natural nut butter brand. Pip's story starts with a marathon training run that sparked an idea for a better product, free from palm oil. That idea turned into Pip & Nut, now stocked in over 8,000 stores and recently crowned the number one nut butter brand in the UK.We cover how Pip went from working at the Science Museum to living rent-free in a shed after winning the Escape the City competition, raising £120,000 through crowdfunding, and navigating the early challenges of scaling a food and drink brand. We also talk about resilience, culture, and why purpose and sustainability matter more than ever when building a business today.This is a raw and honest look at the realities of entrepreneurship: the pressure of being a solo founder, the importance of consumer feedback, and how to hold onto a challenger mindset even after hitting scale. If you're looking for lessons on leadership, funding, branding, and staying resilient in competitive markets, this episode is for you.Key TakeawaysHow Pip used crowdfunding and guerrilla marketing to launch Pip & NutThe value of challenger brand thinking in crowded FMCG marketsWhy sustainability, B Corp certification, and purpose strengthen brand loyaltyThe leadership challenges of moving from startup to scale-upHow resilience in business mirrors the mindset needed to run marathons
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode revisits the question of truth, lies and deception in Ambridge, asking whether the village is still a moral quagmire.“A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind JanssenGeorge Grundy was recently branded “a lying, cheating chancer” by listeners, even compared to Boris Johnson. But research shows we all lie several times a day. Five years ago, the 2018 Academic Archers conference asked whether Ambridge was a moral quagmire. The answer was yes, with residents frequently “economical with the truth”.This paper updates that investigation. Drawing on Sisela Bok's philosophical study of lying and the history of ethical debates on truth, it distinguishes between socially beneficial lies that oil the wheels of community life and self-serving lies that erode trust.Ambridge provides ample examples: Henry lying to Helen about meeting Rob, Ardil's deception about Grey Gables' finances, Pip hiding Stella from Ruth, Helen passing off Pat's boeuf bourguignon as her own, or concealing her anorexia from Lee. Where is the line between lying, evasiveness, and omission? When does withholding truth protect others, and when does it damage relationships?The paper also considers how broader public life in 2023 reflects and refracts the moral climate in Ambridge.About the speakersDr Ruth Heilbronn is an academic whose research explores ethics, teacher education and philosophy in practice.Dr Rosalind Janssen is an independent scholar with interests in ethics and in how cultural narratives reflect moral decision-making.If you enjoy our work and would like to support Academic Archers, you can Buy Us a Coffee – buymeacoffee.com/academicarchers.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the wonderful multi talent CHRISTOPHER CHUNG!An ultra inspiring chat featuring the insanely talented Christopher, in a catchup with Pip which goes all across the timeline from the wayback early days to what's coming ahead. He's had a full on action packed journey from his origins in Australia to where he currently finds himself, and there are tons of points where forks in the road presented themselves and could have led to an entirely different life. Thankfull he stayed on track and we all now have some amazing work as a result! From early day singing, making his was to the UK via acting, working alongside national treasure Gary Oldman (and Kathy Burke at one point), meeting his wife in a stage production, playing against 'nerd' stereotypes and so much more, this is one for the appreciators but if you have never seen or heard Christopher before, this will 100% kickstart your new appreciation.SPOILER-ISH SLOW HORSES chat around 37 minutes in if you've just started - a couple of references to seasons 2 and 4, just so you know. Nothing too heavy - merely letting you know.PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureINSTAGRAMIMDBSLOW HORSES SEASON 5 TRAILERCALM main linkCALM donate linkSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In episode 305 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Melanie Williams. Mel is the Founder of 'Mel Williams Coaching'. She also works as an Mental Health First Aid Instructor for MHFA England, and as an Associate Tutor for Suicide First Aid. In this episode we discuss her varied career, from working at Nationwide Building Society, setting up her first business 'Reinspire by Mel' during the Covid-19 pandemic, taking up voluntary redundancy from Nationwide and setting up Mel Williams Coaching and becoming self-employed. From there, she has developed her own eight-step process for coaching people and attached herself to a new mental health charity based in Swindon called The Kelly Foundation as a ‘Coach Support Worker'. Through that role, she helped clients with everything from addiction issues to PIP assessments and even helping a woman overcome agoraphobia. Because of that work, the charity offered to help her train to become a Mental Health First Aid Instructor, which she has done for a year and a half at time of recording. She took that training one step further and became trained as a Suicide First Aid tutor in March 2025, which she can now deliver in the UK and internationally. For Mel's mental health journey, we centre the discussion around her experience of motherhood, specifically the birth of two of her children. The first, Ryan was tragically stillborn and almost cost Mel her life. We discuss this experience and the trauma of it, the important role Mel's husband played in it throughout, the decision process behind them trying again for a child and the birth of her daughter in 2013 despite the high-risk history would repeat itself. We then talk about her mental recovery from Ryan's birth and death and Mel's experience of bereavement counselling to process it. She was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or a Post-Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI) which we prefer to describe it as, which came from the trauma of her fear of dying. We finish by discussing the way Mel and her husband processed Ryan's death, as they dealt with it very differently and how they moved forward together as a couple. As always, #itsokaytovent You can follow Mel on social media below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mel-williams-coaching-and-training-81258612b/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melwilliamscoaching/ Support Us: Patreon: www.patreon.com/venthelpuk PayPal: paypal.me/freddiec1994?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Merchandise: www.redbubble.com/people/VentUK/shop Music: @patawawa - Strange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70wfeJSEvk TRIGGER WARNING: this podcast contains a deep discussion about grief and loss, which some listeners may find extremely upsetting or distressing, so please listen with caution.
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Mae Martin, originally episode 314 from 2020-02-26.Original writeup below:A tremendous meetup of Pip and Mae, and dare I say a long overdue one at that… You'll get to hear all about Mae in the greater scale and sense, from back in the day to… now… in the day…? Yeah that sounds fine to me… But yeah, everything from then to now, including what they are doing THIS VERY MOMENT, and by that of course I mean starring in the simultaneously hilariously funny and brutally honest Feel Good, which looks set to blow up worldwide. So expect to hear it all from how to view the series (best served binged), the weirdness of editing trailers, getting the correct audience, Canada (Oh Canada), the process of getting a set together, Mae the character and Mae the person, sex scenes and writing a proudly LGBT show, humanising addition, the casting process, digging deep into personal history and the transition from Canada to London but SO MUCH MORE of course. Folks, your new best friend, Mae Martin!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureHANDSOME PODCASTIMDBWAYWARDFEEL GOODCALM main linkCALM donate linkDAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMPPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITTERPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, we're revisiting an episode where Marianna sat down with John Faragon to talk about post-exposure prophylaxis in pocket or PIP. Listen in to learn all about what it is, who it's for, and how it can help prevent HIV for more people.-- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=AQX7941)--Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. --Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses--Download our HIV mobile apps:Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=John+Faragon&hl=en_US&gl=USApple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/virologyed-consultants-llc/id1216837691
Pip goes to a Rockefeller mansion, You Stink (Joe sees Spinal Tap 2), Twisted Sister is reuniting, Charlie Kirk
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the Hardcore Listing homie and everyday life homie CHRIS GLASSEN!You might have heard the pre-show shouts from Pip over the past few weeks, regarding a tie-in with CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). CALM are trying to raise funds to maintain their literally life-saving service, a service which aims to help people end misery, not their lives. You'll likely have heard Pip and Chris refer to their dearly departed friend Jay, a friend whose legacy lives on and - as you'll always hear - is celebrated in the spirit of the relationship Pip and Chris (and Stu) have. Fun, mischievous, but built on a foundation of love and admiration.With the 'Staylists' which you might have heard before some episodes lately, the aim is to present various awesome things that are basically worth staying around for. You're listening to a podcast hosted by someone who has dedicated his life to arts and culture, and so it makes sense that these elements are immensely important to the daily processing of life and what it brings. The heavy times, the lighter moments, all of it. So here, Pip and Chris deliver a powerful setlist of cool things that Jay would have loved over the past 20+ years he hasn't been here.This isn't something you get on every podcast, this is a unique blend of two people combing through fun and funny times, grief, emotion, and all the while involving us all in the convo while also giving us some solid recommendations. If it isn't clear in the above, it is a very fun episode! Just good to know what the background is before you jump in. If you're not in a zone right now for references to grief and death, we've got back catalogue for days - and if you're affected personally by these issues, hit up CALM, and Samaritans are also right there if you need them. Love to you all XXXCALM main linkCALM donate linkSAMARITANSPIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
To help us explore the inspiration behind this heartfelt new novel, and what readers can take away from Pip’s journey, John Maytham speaks to Cecelia Ahern, acclaimed Irish novelist. Presenter John Maytham is an actor and author-turned-talk radio veteran and seasoned journalist. His show serves a round-up of local and international news coupled with the latest in business, sport, traffic and weather. The host’s eclectic interests mean the program often surprises the audience with intriguing book reviews and inspiring interviews profiling artists. A daily highlight is Rapid Fire, just after 5:30pm. CapeTalk fans call in, to stump the presenter with their general knowledge questions. Another firm favourite is the humorous Thursday crossing with award-winning journalist Rebecca Davis, called “Plan B”. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 and 18:00 (SA Time) to Afternoon Drive with John Maytham broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/BSFy4Cn or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/n8nWt4x Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Can you coach self-awareness? I manage someone who seems to believe their skill set is on par with their teammates, regardless of their constant PR feedback regarding the same issues over and over, the extra attention they are regularly given to help them overcome coding challenges, and the PIP they are currently on to address these issues (and others). What are some approaches I could take to help steer them to better understand their areas for growth when explicit measures don't seem to get through? I work at a small 10-person startup. The company has absolutely nothing to do with AI, but one of the founders has gone full evangelist. He genuinely believes AGI is arriving this year and that there isn't a single job, task, or process where an LLM isn't the obvious tool. Day in, day out, he's posting links to random AI products with captions like “looks interesting
Join Momma Pig and her curious piglet, Pip, on a heartwarming farmyard adventure in search of food! Along the way, they meet a cow, a chicken, a donkey, and a horse—each with a special skill that helps them on their journey. What starts as a simple quest for something to eat turns into a delightful lesson about friendship, teamwork, and the magic of working together. This story is filled with lively animal characters, silly moments, and a gentle reminder that everyone has something important to contribute. Whether you're listening at bedtime, on a car ride, or during quiet playtime, this episode will spark imagination and smiles for the whole family. Come along to the orchard and discover how Momma Pig, Pip, and their barnyard friends find food - and find out why adventures are always better when shared. The lesson: If you want to go far, take others with you. See the transcript here
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Karl Pilkington, originally episode 306 from 2020-01-08.Original writeup below:While some see Karl as the grumpy one of the original podcast trio consisting of him, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, as you will hear in this podcast right here - it wasn't necessarily grumpiness. Nor was it disinterest. Karl was looking through the world through a different prism, and certainly a prism of which we should all have a go at experiencing. It's really nice hearing him get around ideas at leisure and with Pip (and us) as a sounding board, and definitely a really cool way of sharing the worldview of one of the more fascinating characters in the cast of podcasts, series and media in general. The two get into it all, from the origins of podcasting (kind of beginning with the Gervais one of course), to his thoughts on the promo run, to confidence, last minute tinkering, being a fan of real life and the fine line between that and comedy, ponderings on having children, the XFM days, being rubbed the wrong way by Ricky, his genuine curiosity, working on Derek, people being over familiar and a charming spider story to round it off. Brilliant. Enjoy! PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureIMDBYOUTUBEWIKIBITSCALM main linkCALM donate linkDAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMPPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITTERPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pip sees the Who and Joe spends a weekend at Chrissie Mayrs Content Hotel
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode examines the many ways animals shape life in Ambridge and what their stories reveal about both farming practice and human relationships.“It's a ferret ferris wheel!”: Depictions of Human–Animal Interactions and Animal Welfare in The Archers - Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin DurstonAnimals are central to Ambridge life, whether as livestock, wildlife or family pets. This paper explores how The Archers uses animals to convey messages about farming practice, ethics, personality and community.Examples range from Mia's veganism and the disruption of the Ambridge Hunt, to Lilian's unruly Ruby, Peggy's demanding Hilda Ogden, Pip's herbal lays, Freddie's abattoir stint and the Rewilding project. The paper also considers how real-world issues such as the 2021 pig slaughter crisis and equine obesity are reflected in the programme, alongside the grief of losing beloved animals like Stella's dog Weaver or Bartleby the horse.Through these depictions, the paper invites listeners to recognise the role of nonhuman animal actors in shaping the village's stories and our understanding of Ambridge residents.About the speakersDr Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin Durston - The Tams of The Am - both work in animal welfare science with a focus on the intersection of human and animal wellbeing and are equally devoted to life in Ambridge.If you enjoy our work and would like to support Academic Archers, you can Buy Us a Coffee – buymeacoffee.com/academicarchers.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the legendary comic MARK STEEL!It's entirely likely you'll have been listening to and watching the work of Mark for decades now - he's been hard at work for a minute, and the fanbase is strong indeed. As you'll hear, Pip's been on board for years, starting with the Mark Steel Lectures. Here we have a really lovely catchup with these two as Mark leads the way through his past and present, and as with so much in life, it's a potent mix of all angles. Presently we find Mark having recently battled throat cancer, which as you can imagine features as a big topic here - something which no doubt Mark is still processing and recovering from. On that note, it could be advised that Mark doesn't hold back on some details (neither should he), so just mentioning that for those who might appreciate the alert. But it's also pretty incredible that not only do we get to hear about what happened in the past tense, we get to hear it through Mark himself, as even talking as a way of communicating was a difficult thing to weave around. All that said - he is a comic, so there's a huge amount of fun and laughter and the whole episode is a real joy (and TONS of random facts. Catch him on the road, the schedule is packed...PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureONLINEIMDBMARK STEEL LECTURESCALM main linkCALM donate linkSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Brenna and Joe dig into the death of Andie Bell with a look at Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019) and S01 of the BBC3/Netflix series.There's plenty to like in this well-constructed mystery, particularly Pip, her burgeoning romance with Ravi, and the many, MANY twists and red herrings.Plus: Brenna's rant about a bizarre editorial decision, making murder victims likeable in the series, and yes, C/W: the dog does die.Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Instagram and BlueSky @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod:> Brenna: @brennacgray> Joe: @bstolemyremote (Instagram) or @joelipsett (BlueSky)Have a mail bag question? Email us at hkhspod@gmail.com Theme music: Letra “Like A Bird” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
There's light at the end of the tunnel for Adam and Pip has reservations
1. Por cuatro el orgullo boricua: Benito en SanJuan con su residencia, René Pérez “residente”llenó a capacidad la plaza del Zócalo en México y Carmelo Anthony enMassachussetts agradeció a Puerto Rico su exaltación al Salón de la Fama.. yRicky Martin se llevó el premio Latin Icon de VMA2. No quieren hablarlo, pero esto tiene impacto: Enun país lleno de viejos en extrema pobreza, el Tribunal Supremo redefineobligación alimentaria de abuelos a sus nietos en Puerto Rico3. El jamón del sándwich: Puerto Rico en la guerrade Trump contra Venezuela. ¿Es una guerra o una operación antidrogas? EstadosUnidos despliega cazas y buques en el Caribe y usa a Puerto Rico como base.Caracas habla de “amenaza”.4. PPD: No estamos ni con Trump ni con Maduro; elPNP y el PIP no pueden decir lo mismo5. PEN INTERNACIONAL: Escritores que viven enPuerto rico condenan la represión de Israel en la Franja de Gaza6. Este es un programa independiente y sindicalizado. Esto significa que este programa se produce de manera independiente, pero se transmite de manera sindicalizada, o sea, por las emisoras y cadenas de radio que son más fuertes en sus respectivas regiones. También se transmite por sus plataformas digitales, aplicaciones para dispositivos móviles y redes sociales. Estas emisoras de radio son:1. Cadena WIAC - WYAC 930 AM Cabo Rojo- Mayagüez2. Cadena WIAC – WISA 1390 AM Isabela3. Cadena WIAC – WIAC 740 AM Área norte y zona metropolitana4. WLRP 1460 AM Radio Raíces La voz del Pepino en San Sebastián5. X61 – 610 AM en Patillas6. X61 – 94.3 FM Patillas y todo el sureste7. WPAB 550 AM - Ponce8. ECO 93.1 FM – En todo Puerto Rico9. WOQI 1020 AM – Radio Casa Pueblo desde Adjuntas 10. Mundo Latino PR.com, la emisora web de música tropical y comentario Una vez sale del aire, el programa queda grabado y está disponible en las plataformas de podcasts tales como Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts y otras plataformas https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto También nos pueden seguir en:REDES SOCIALES: Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Tumblr, TikTok BLOG: En Blanco y Negro con Sandra http://enblancoynegromedia.blogspot.com SUSCRIPCIÓN: Substack, plataforma de suscripción de prensa independientehttps://substack.com/@sandrarodriguezcotto OTROS MEDIOS DIGITALES: ¡Ey! Boricua, Revista Seguros. Revista Crónicas y otrosEstas son algunas de las noticias que tenemos hoy En Blanco y Negro con Sandra.
As Stella rolls up her sleeves for another day at Brookfield, David mentions a job he's seen advertised that might be a good fit for her. Stella admits she saw it but dismissed it as too much of an executive role. She's more farm than strategy. David argues she has all the experience and ideas they need – she should apply. She has nothing to lose. Stella agrees to give it some thought. Later grateful Pip thanks her dad for talking Stella round – she's filling in the application right now. Pip loves how her parents have accepted Stella into the family and are open to her ideas.Against her better judgement Chelsea's returned to the golf club with keen Zainab. She's worried that Lynda's sent the email about Lawrence – what if they see him? Zainab reassures her; there's nothing they can do about it anyway. Martyn arrives and sense something's wrong, so they explain about the blackmail threat. He offers to meet them later to discuss it further. Chelsea unwittingly divulges to Martyn that Justin's buying more land. Over lunch Martyn admits to finding Lawrence's behaviour bizarre. Right on cue Lawrence appears. He protests that Chelsea and Zainab are turning Ambridge against him, and Martyn's accusation of harassment just proves how he's also been taken in by them. After unacceptable insult towards Zainab, Martyn demands Lawrence apologises, but Lawrence compounds the situation and Zainab throws her drink over him in response. She instantly regrets it but Chelsea and Martyn think she was brave. Zainab just feels she's made it all worse.
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Lolly Adefope, originally episode 254 from 2019-02-20.Original writeup below:...what better way to begin than by Pip dreaming of Lolly the previous night? All shall be revealed and certainly not spoiled here that's for sure… Some real wisdom and experience here from Lolly, as she relates all kind of aspects and perspectives from her career, including her recent Twitter controversy (or ‘Tweetstorm' if we're going to adopt the parlance of the time), her epic journey to the US and how that all took place, the joy of craft services (would that one day we may all experience such a joy), how she actually couldn't live in the US, how her career trajectory changed after Edinburgh, Fringe experiences, and her Taskmaster run, among other things! You know what it is… Download, enjoy, and bask in Lolly's inspiring and positive glow. A goody this week, people…PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureINSTAGRAMIMDBTHE FRANCHISESHRILLGHOSTSCALM main linkCALM donate linkDAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMPPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITTERPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Apocalypse Players — a Call of Cthulhu actual play podcast
In which Pip shows us how he really feels about his cousin, Dave demonstrates that empty vessels make the loudest sound, Ignaz has ample opportunity to practise his psychiatry, and Arabella gets perilously close to doing some actual investigation, while Keeper Dom gets the rulebook out... A horror mystery in three parts (for Call of Cthulhu 7e) by Jared Twing, Lynne Hardy and Paul Fricker. Episodes released weekly. Cast: Arabella Lockwood played by Joseph Chance Ignaz Bierbaum played by Danann McAleer Dave Kovalevskii played by Dan Wheeler …and Philip ‘Pip' Carrington played by Tom Clark* The Keeper of Arcane Lore is Dominic Allen This episode edited by Dan Wheeler *Tom Clark is host of Mystery Quest — where you can also see Dan and Danann playing Delta Green from Friday 9 August! CW: This podcast contains mature themes, strong language and cosmic horror. Human discretion is advised. APOCTOBERFEST! is back, and bigger than ever! Mark your calendars with the necessary occult symbols, the dates in question are: Thursday 2nd October–Sunday 5th October 2025, and the place: Bristol, UK. We will be bringing you two improvised live shows at the atmospheric Loco Klub, the return of our popular one-day convention at the Wiper & True taproom, PLUS 'Providence — The Shadow Over Lovecraft', by Dominic Allen and Simon Maeder! This year, buy a Weekend Pass for £50 and receive a ceremonial Apoctoberfest 2025 wristband which gives access to all events, at an almost 15% discount vs purchasing tickets individually. Tickets and more information: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/checkout/apoctoberfest-2025 The Apocalypse Players is an actual play (or live play) TTRPG podcast focused on horror tabletop roleplaying games. Think Dimension 20 or Critical Role, but fewer dragons, more eldritch horrors, and more British actors taking their roleplaying very seriously (most of the time). We primarily play the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, but have also been known to dabble with other systems, most of which can be found on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/apocalypseplayers We now have a free Discord server where you can come worship at the altar of the Apocalypse, play Call of Cthulhu online, and meet like-minded cultists who will only be too eager to welcome you into the fold. New sacrifices oops we mean players are always welcome. Join here: discord.com/invite/kRQ62t6SjH For more information and to get in touch, visit www.apocalypseplayers.com The Apocalypse Players are: Dominic Allen @domjallen Joseph Chance @JosephChance2 Danann McAleer @DanannMcAleer Dan Wheeler @DanWheelerUK Music and SFX in this episode: From Epidemic Sound: Down to the Chicken Shop - Nicky Dowling Merry on the Moor - Bonnie Grace Hypnoria - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen La Marseillaise - Traditional Merry on the Moor - Bonnie Grace Treasure Hunt - Helmut Schenker El Chaman - Alcones Negros The Board Is Set - Dream Cave Remorse of a Murderer - Anna Dager Eine Kleine Nachtmusic - W. A. Mozart Tales From The Vienna Woods - Johann Strauss II Without Words - Lalo Brickman The Pieces Are Moving - Dream Cave Ciao Ciao - Trabant 33 Tvivel - Hanna Ekstrom (1) A Gal I Know - Martin Landstrom Se Fue, Se Fue (Instrumental Version) - Alcones Negros Distressed - Hanna Ekstrom Lost in Desire - John Barzetti Glacier - Anna Dager Gradual Collapse - Jon Bjork Strangled by Piano Strings Part 2 - Ludvig Moulin Lovely Dinner - Franz Gordon Dark Space - Ave Air Past Deeds - Dream Cave The Calling Card - Martin Landstrom Ethelda's Last Breath - Sage Oursler Oro - Hanna Ekstrom The Search - Hanna Ekstrom Deepwater Creatures - Experia The Answer Lies - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Toxic Water - Jon Bjork Final Days of Captivity - Christian Andersen Path to the Abyss - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen From Artlist: Southside Aces - Whole Tony In the public domain: Victor Military Band - Hornpipe Swiss Yodeling Song – Ernst Ruckstahl-Hasler By Kevin MacLeod: Music: Cool Vibes by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3553-cool-vibes License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://incompetech.com
This week, Pete is rested after his holiday and may even be more tanned than Roger, for once! We answer a mixed bag of questions ranging from financial planning if you're on benefits to tax-free cash recycling and lots besides! Shownotes: https://meaningfulmoney.tv/QA24 01:38 Question 1 Hi there! I'm one of the very many people who look set to lose disability benefits (PIP and ESA) at the end of next year. I was disabled following an industrial injury 15 years ago and have a lifetime award of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit assessed as 70% disabled which currently brings £155/week. It's definitely not enough to live on let alone pay the additional costs of being disabled. (there's no chance of recovery enough to work as I can't access healthcare but that's a long story) I am 50 and conventional life plans involve maintaining saving/investing through midlife on the expectation of reduced income on retirement. But I'm now facing acute poverty for 15 years until I hit the relative luxury of state pension. (Assuming I can find the cash to buy the missing NI years!) I have some assets that are pretty badly managed on account of my being unwell, and in particular a second flat which has £7000pa post-grenfell service charges and so can neither be mortgaged, sold nor rented out until those repairs finally complete-if they ever do! I think I can afford to cover costs from cash savings/investments for maybe 5 years. But after that... Can you speak to the general point of financial planning for people with unconventional life trajectories, particularly disability, and especially what sort of financial information/support resources are available? I'm unsure if you've any specific suggestions for my situation to get me through a decade of sub-living income/cashable assets against potentially sustained high costs? Obvs I love what I can manage to get from the pod and was particularly interested when you've spoken of financial coaching. Cheers! Sam 10:06 Question 2 Hi Pete & Roger Loving the Q&A sessions. Even when topics aren't relevant to me it's still insightful to hear from other people and always educational to listen to your response. I suspect the answer to my question is simple but have yet to see an answer to it anywhere online! I have a cash ISA with T212 from 24/25 tax year and will have a new £20,000 to invest come April (cash ISA's are my preferred vehicle - long story!). Can I just add the new 20 to the existing ISA or do I need to take out a new one? And also, do I benefit from compound interest if I leave it all alone? Regards Maxi 13:06 Question 3 Hello I am loving the podcast and finding out about situations I would not have considered before listening. I don't know if you can help on this one, it's a bit of a tax question on CGT. We are a couple both with dual citizenship (Aus/British) and are planning a sabbatical break from working in 2026 for a minimum of 3 months, but this may turn into years. We have a house purchased in 2003 with no mortgage and want to know our CGT obligations if we were to be non residents when we sell our house? Also is this CGT obligation a tapering obligation like IHT when moving abroad? Kind regards, Sam 19:42 Question 4 Hello gents, Enjoying the podcast as always. Especially the Q&E episodes as I like to test myself to see if I would answer the questions the same as yourselves! My question, I am 20 years old and have recently got my Level 4 diploma with the CISI, and now looking to take the next steps in becoming a planner myself. The obvious route is to stick with the CISI, competing their Level 6 Advanced Financial Planning then the Level 7 Case Study to become CFP. However, just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's right! I seen that the CII's set up is completely different, lots a smaller exams, with the outcome being Chartered (not CFP). Am I overthinking this or are there pros and cons for each exam board. Also what is the different between CFP and Chartered? Many thanks, Lewis 27:28 Question 5 Hi Pete and Roger, Firstly, thanks for a great podcast - I've been listening for many years and often catch up with the latest episode whilst on the rowing machine at my local gym! I have a question regarding the pension recycling rules. In Feb 2024, I initiated a DB pension, taking £108,000 lump sum and a yearly amount of £15800. This was to pay off my partners property that we are both about to move into mortgage free. My total contribution was £200k and the remainder of the balance was from my savings. I currently earn £80k salary and have additional rental income from two properties I own of approx 10k net per annum. I am in the process of selling one of my properties and want to use the proceeds (after CG) to maximise my pension contributions in tax year 25/26. So in total it would be about £66K contributions (as I have carry over allowance from the past three years). Over the past 3 years my pension contributions on average have been approx. 35k per year. I'm likely to retire within the next 18 months hence wanting to maximise my contributions during this time. However, my question is, would this higher pension contribution likely trigger the pension recycling rules because of the pension lump sum I took in 2024, even though that amount was used solely to pay off a property at the time? Many thanks and keep up the great work. Phil 37:05 Question 6 Hi Pete and Roger Thank you both for all you do. What do you think about keeping an emergency fund in a money market fund, rather than cash? Many thanks, Rob
Emma Tracey speaks to one of the only visibly disabled MPs Marie Tidball, who has been fighting for parliament to be more accessible. She's been looking at door handles, voting systems and getting the Speaker's attention by ‘bobbing'. She sets out how she intends to make sure disability groups have a meaningful role in the government's review of the assessment process for Personal independence payments (Pip). The Timms review, as its known, is led by Disabilities Minister Sir Stephen Timms and is set to report back in autumn 2026 and was ordered amid the government climb down over changes to disability benefits.Emma makes up her own version of a classic board game with disability pitfalls along the way, Paul Carter throws the dice and encounters her inaccessible traps!Plus Bethany Dawson from Politico gives us a rundown of the disability-related happenings coming up in the world of politics as MPs return after their summer break.SOUND RECORDING AND DESIGN: Dave O'Neill PRODUCERS: Phoebe Keane, Alex Colins and Emma Tracey EDITOR: Damon Rose
In tonight's bedtime story, Little Pip is embarrassed by the duck-like quacks she makes instead of proper penguin sounds. She tries everything to sound normal, but when a storm hits during the colony's First Dive ceremony and a young chick gets swept away, Pip's unique voice becomes exactly what everyone needs for the rescue. ✔️ Perfect for ages 4+ ✔️ Themes: Self-Awareness • Self-Acceptance • Celebrating Differences • Finding Your Voice • Courage Under Pressure • Empathy for Others Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by Hip Hop legend GRANDMASTER FLASH!Y'say... Y'say... Y'say / y'say / y'say (etc) and if you're not carrying that scratch sentence on in your head you have some SERIOUS homework to do. We flashback to the 20-teens to the era of the Beatdown radio show, Pip's XFM show which centred around (but not exclusively) rap and Hip Hop music. Pip had some stone cold legends guesting on there, as you will have heard on some previous flashback episodes, but THIS flashback is the Grandmaster Flashback of all of em. Flash has retained the pure enthusiasm and excitement you would hope for in a DJ and crate digging legend, and enthusiasm which radiates easily and - speaking as a DJ myself (this is producer Buddy typing) - makes me want to just grab an armful of records and hop on the turntables. It's just that pure fun mixed with discovery but entirely fueled by funk and straight up musical greatness. Although as you'll hear, Flash does speak like a true old skool DJ skipping through the 'wack parts' and heading straight to the break. You have to imagine how insanely brilliant that feeling must have been back then, when people just didn't know what these breaks and now classics were, and he even goes into the old trick of hot-watering the labels off and replacing em with dud labels to throw other DJs off the scent. It's hard to retain that mystery these days but back then it was just so different. Anyway - a beautiful snapshot of a truly crucial time in Hip Hop, a part of the genesis of what we know it as now. Whether you like it or acknowledge it or not, this is where it started. Lesson's started, yer late!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureHOW TO DO A BREAK MIX (1983)YOUTUBEHEAVY BREAK SESSIONONLINECALM main linkCALM donate linkSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
En el vídeo de hoy el Profesor Ángel Rosa analiza las reacciones marcha pro independencia de Puerto Rico. En el fin de semana del Día del Trabajo varios grupos independentistas convocaron manifestaciones en Puerto Rico, Nueva York, Chicago, Nueva Jersey, Florida y Ohio para reclamar la separación de los Estados Unidos. Curiosamente, mientras el PNP ha guardado silencio, el PPD le salió al paso al evento, utilizándolo para cuestionar el carácter del líder del PIP, Juan Dalmau. ¿Por qué calla el PNP? ¿Qué mueve a los populares a atacar la imagen de Dalmau? ¿Será este el fin del ángel político Dalmau? ¡No te lo pierdas! Con su acostumbrada agudeza analítica el Profesor te hace las conexiones que debes conocer para entender esta controversia.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by long term groupmate and music making legend DAN LE SAC!Together of course, they form Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip though - a duo name of which you will be abundantly familiar. To celebrate the release of their 'Live In Places' live recordings compendium and physical release, Dan and Pip met up in physical form to talk about all things past, present and future in equal balance. It's not a stream of "Do you remember that time..." either, it goes way beyond that but expect some expert tangent taking though! So much life has happened since they got together to make their first releases, and since locking in on their individual paths, there have been huge departures from as well as continuations into what came before. It's lovely that all is amicable and supportive and while, as said in the episode title to quote Uncle LL Cool J, it is not a comeback (they been here for years), it is a reunion of sorts and a truly delightful one at that. Enjoy these two in conversation and go cop that live album too, what are you doing?! Get it!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureLIVE IN PLACESDAN LE SAC BANDCAMPDAN'S TRON SOUNDTRACK WORKSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hoy nos fuimos all in con dos temas que están prendidos
1. Wanda Vázquez podría ser interrogada el 27 de agosto por la jueza federal al momento de declararse culpable 2. Converso con Minerva Luna y Jarivette Morales en la sección perspectiva de salud, con el auspicio de CredeMtia 360 3. En duda la efectividad del gobierno de los comités 4. Gobernadora insiste en que está participando del proceso de seleccionar nuevos miembros de la junta de control fiscal 5. PIP presenta propuesta de volver el gobierno a tomar control del sistema eléctrico 6. Todo apunta a un altercado de violencia de género entre Carlos Mercader y la senadora Joanne Rodríguez Veve 7. La IUPI inicia clases con más estudiantes que el año pasado 8. Pero, ofensiva de Trump contra políticas de equidad, igualdad e inclusión amenaza a los que tienen préstamos estudiantiles 9. Claras señales de problemas de bullying en las escuelas 10. Jueves de películas y streaming con Gabriela Acevedo GándaraSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pip continues to attempt to lead this ragtag confederacy in the absence of Hecktor. I wouldn't necessarily say that he's doing a bad job. As that would imply that he's at least doing the job at all. Perhaps now that he's once again in charge of a group of men, it's bringing back old memories and that's making him make mistakes.If you're still wanting to pledge for the Jarren's Outpost Board Game you can right here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by hilarious comic and now author RHYS JAMES!An immediately bubbly and scattered catchup with Pip and Rhys, as they transmit in podcast-time from Rhys's equivalent of what Adam Buxton refers to as his 'nutty room'. On top of all things book related, centring around his very new 'You'll Like It When You Get There', he and Pip check in on many and much including house layouts and room purposes (where IS the best spot for a shower?), being a hygeine guy, "come and say hello", comedy specials and the wide world within, the joy of a canceled plan, the tightrope of too much or too little in the audiobook space, speed of standup performance relative to himself, and as said, a good amount of book chat. It's of course fascinating to hear about the process and how everything forms and shapes, so even if you're unfamiliar with Rhys you'll likely get a huge amount from the "tech talk" and behind the scenes biz. Enjoy!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureONLINEYOUTUBEYOU'LL LIKE IT WHEN YOU GET THERESPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMPIP TWITTERPIP PATREONPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Kaitlyn Dever, originally episode 475 from 2022-09-21.Original writeup below:If you are unaware of Kaitlyn in your adventures through the wide world of broadcast media, prepare to make fast friends with a true great, and an absolute gem of a person at that. Kaitlyn's been putting down serious moves since childhood, including a Shakespeare stint at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for those pondering), and her filmography is stellar - ranging from Justified, to Dopesick, to Unbelievable, and more recently Ticket To Paradise (starring alongside Julia Roberts and George Clooney, where the cinema screen actually cracks midway through from so much gorgeous). This is a lovely chat, properly engaging and it's such a treat to hear Kaitlyn's story. OH and as Pip hints at in the intro, prepare for a Kaitlyn fact that will blow yer mind. She casually peppers it in there but thankfully Pip mashes on the brakes and reverses and double takes seamlessly. Enjoy! You shall!PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting natureIMDBTHE LAST OF USINSTAGRAMTWITTERTICKET TO PARADISEJUSTIFIEDDAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMPPIP TWITCH • (music stuff)PIP INSTAGRAMSPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTOREPIP TWITTERPIP IMDBPOD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we talk about tech bubbles, building moats, and infrastructure investment.We also discuss capital expenditure, data centers, and employee compensation.Recommended Book: The Art of Gathering by Priya ParkerTranscriptMany technology booms have early periods in which innovators have a first-mover advantage, and a lot of what happens in their industry is informed by the decisions those innovators make.After that—depending on the technology, but this is common enough to be considered a trend—after that there tends to be a period of build-out and consolidation amongst the people and business entities that survived that initial, innovation-focused throw-down.In the context of personal computers, this moment saw computer-makers like Microsoft and Apple scramble to pivot from figuring out what an operating system should look like and whether or not to use mice to navigate user interfaces, to a period in which they were rushing to scale-up the manufacture of now-essential, but previously comparably rare components: suitable screens for their monitors, chips that could power their increasingly graphical machines, and the magnetic materials necessary to produce floppy disks and spindle-based hard drives.There's an initial period in which new ideas and approaches provide these entities with a moat that protects them against competition, in other words, but then the game they're playing changes, the rules are more fully understood and to some degree locked into place and agreed upon, and instead of competing for the biggest, most brazen new ideas, they lock onto one set of ideas that seemed to be the best of what's available at that moment and build on those, iterating them at a regular cadence, but focusing especially on scaling them.So at this second stage, they're investing in the ability to out-produce their competition in some way, so they can eventually bypass that competition and (they hope) safely increase their prices and make a profit, as opposed to just larger and larger revenues with equal or greater expenses, continuing to be reliant on investor injections of capital, rather than generating their own surplus returns.By many analysts' and insiders' estimates, we've just entered that second stage in the generative AI industry. That's the sort of AI that generates text and images and code and such, and it's increasingly becoming a sort of commodity, rather than a new, hot things that few companies can offer the market.What I'd like to talk about today are the increasingly massive financial figures associated with this industry's shift to that second stage of development, and why some of those insiders and analysts are voicing fresh concerns that this could all lead to a bubble, and possibly an historically large one.—There are many ways we could measure the growth of the AI industry over the years.The US market size, for instance, which is a measure of the value of AI-oriented companies based on how much shares of their company cost or would cost on the open market, has ballooned from just over $100 billion in 2022 to an estimated $174 billion in 2025. That figure is expected to grow at a not quite 20% compound annual growth rate through 2034, which, if accurate, would put this market, in the US alone, at more than $850 billion.Another metric we might use is that of capital expenditure, or capex, in this corner of the tech industry, which refers to the amount of money AI companies are using to buy, upgrade, or maintain their long-term assets, like new computer chips or the data centers they fill with those chips.The seven most valuable US tech companies—Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, NVIDIA, and Broadcom (that last spot formerly held by Tesla, which was dropped from this designation in late-2024)—just those seven companies have spent $102.5 billion on capex this last financial quarter (and most of that was from just four of them, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon, the remainder only spending something like $6.7 billion).That's a staggering amount of money, and due to a recent drop in consumer demand—the money individual US citizens spend on things like food and clothes and smartphones and cars and all the other things people buy—AI-related capex, spending by these massive US tech companies, has added more to GDP growth than consumer spending for the past two quarters.All the things all the people in the US bought over the past two quarters did not cost as much, in aggregate, as what these companies spent during the same period, on new and existing assets. That's pretty wild.And it's the consequence, partly, of the shift in these companies' focus from providing goods and services that relied heavily on people—salary and stock compensation, basically, which is not a capex expense, because its spent on employees, not stuff—to spending heavily on all that infrastructure that they believe will be required to help them compete with those other companies that are also frantically investing in the same.Whomever can built the biggest, baddest, most reliable and powerful data centers, and can get the AI-optimized chips to fill them, will have an advantage over their opponents in the new, developing tech world paradigm, it's thought, so they're pumping gobs of resources into exactly those sorts of assets, hoping to get ahead, build an insurmountable advantage, and put their competition out of business—or failing that, to establish themselves as the AI Coca-Cola, versus their opposition's AI Mr. Pip.Similar dynamics are playing out elsewhere, especially in China, where the market could reach a value approximating today's US AI market in 3-5 years, and several times that, up to $1.4 trillion, by 2030—though like all of these figures, it depends on how we choose to measure these sorts of things, including what counts as an AI company, and in China, several of their major AI players are heavily involved in automation, robotics, which itself is expected to be a $5 trillion industry in that country by 2050.Europe's market is comparably smaller, as is its overall tech industry, but the AI market is now just shy of 15% of its total tech sector, up from 12% in 2022, and AI startups are attracting about a quarter of all VC funding in the bloc right now—so they're starting from a less spendy start, but like pretty much everywhere the necessary knowledge and manufacturing base exists at the moment, the European AI market is growing a lot faster than anyone would have expected even just five years ago.And there are real-deal innovations coming out of this tech; these investments are flooding into AI companies because these technologies, this version of them, the generative AI stuff, has completely rewired the programming world, AI bots and agents helping coders achieve a lot more, faster, and non-coders make things they wouldn't have been able to build lacking these tools, imperfect as many of those tools are, under the hood.We're also seeing an explosion of other sorts of generated content, and the injection of these tools that make such content into Hollywood studios and consulting firms and government agencies, and everything in between, is causing equal parts panic and excitement, depending on whether you're one of the people who feels like they might be laid off soon, replaced by software, or if you're someone who profits from all those layoffs, and the payments from the companies that hope to save money by conducting them, replacing their comparably expensive employees with cheaper AI tools.Things have gotten so wild that Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started offering compensation packages ranging from $200 million to more than a billion dollars to top AI talent. Meta's AI spending is already massive, and could hit $72 billion this year, but the company has said it could hit $100 billion in 2026, while Microsoft's leadership suggested their 2025 spending of $30 billion could balloon to $120 billion in 2026.OpenAI recently offered their employees large bonuses, in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars range, to counter those sorts of overtures from the likes of Meta, but there's a lot of money flying around from all direction right now, much of it aimed at more AI infrastructure, or the relatively few people on the planet who understand this tech well enough to make a competitive difference in this industry.That's…a lot of money. There's just so much spending happening, so many resources sloshing around in this one space right now, and all this investment is predicated on the idea that AI will change everything, we're stepping into a new paradigm, and those who control the AI, will basically own the next game. So they're all trying to set things up so they win the next game, or at least have the best hand possible when it arrives.There have been increasingly loud arguments, made by long-time generative AI critics, but also, more recently, ardent AI boosters, that we might be running up against a wall of what these things can do for us; this version of the AI concept, at least.And these arguments got louder with OpenAI's release of their long-teased GPT-5 model, which some expected to be true AGI, human-grade, flexible, omni-capable intelligence, while others thought it might be a mono-focused superintelligence of some kind: the perfect coder, the perfect image generator, something like that.What users got was not that. It seems to be better at some things, still not great at others.This was an incredibly expensive model to produce—the training costs alone are estimated to be something like a half-billion dollars, and that's just a portion of the total costs of creating this sort of model—and what OpenAI served up, instead of something groundbreaking, was a slightly better, though in some ways seemingly the same or worse version of what everyone's been playing with for years, now.There's room for disagreement on this, as while there are some more objective tests for measuring models' capabilities, a lot of it is circumstantial, and depends, among other things, on what you're trying to do, how the systems are prompted, and so on.There's also something to be said for cost-reductions and other sorts of benefits of new models, beyond raw power and capability.But this thud of a launch for what was supposed to be a sea-changing system has led to the ringing of some alarm bells, industry watchers wondering if we might be careening toward a bubble, at a moment in which, again, this segment of the tech industry is contributing more to the US's GDP than all of consumer spending, combined.A bubble, to be clear, wouldn't mean the collapse of the US economy, or even these companies, necessarily. It would mean a lot of AI entities going under, a lot of invested money lost, and a lot of people who suddenly don't have jobs.Almost always there are a few players in these bubbly spaces that make it to the other side, though—eBay, for instance, survived the dotcom bubble intact, as did Amazon, PayPal, and Adobe, among many others.But the grand shakeout, the sifting for those that could survive a mammoth downturn, and the destruction of the rest, that's a tough moment for those directly connected to the bubble-popping industry, and those adjacent to it: the folks who feed the employees who are now laid off, the suppliers of the light switches that go in all the data centers, etc.There are ripple effects to this sort of bubble pop moment, then, and though such sifting might be long-term beneficial, because it maybe weeds out some of the dead-weight and makes things more efficient in that space five or ten years in the future, that won't help the folks who lose a lot of money when the industry shrinks, including those who have their money at banks that made bad bets, or insurance companies that did the same, with their customers resources.Everything's great for everyone when these sorts of high-risk, high-reward bets are paying out, but when the golden goose of huge anticipated future profits disappears, that shakeout leaves a lot of entities and people with emptier pockets.None of which suggests this is going to happen; there's a chance that we continue to see better and better models using the current, generative AI technology, or that some of these companies successfully pivot to another AI approach that bears better, next-step fruit, and things just keep getting more and more powerful and less and less expensive for everyone; that could theoretically lead to some pretty cool, broadly beneficial things.This sort of risk is lurking in the background of everything that's happening, though, and while upbeat marketing messages and predictions about how cool it will all be when the next-step tools arrive can keep things going for a while, even lacking major milestones that can be pointed at to justify those claims, at some point we'll probably need to see something really, truly different and novel, or the bottom could fall out, leaving those who were more careful tip-toeing into this collection of technologies looking less like they're being left behind, and more like they took smart precautions and made safe, reliable investments.Show Noteshttps://www.precedenceresearch.com/us-artificial-intelligence-markethttps://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/artificial-intelligence/united-stateshttps://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/ai-startups-attracted-25-of-europes-vc-funding/https://archive.is/20250809000924/https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/756561/openai-employees-bonus-sam-altman-ai-talent-warshttps://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/silicon-valley-ai-infrastructure-capex-cffe0431https://archive.is/20250809000924/https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/756561/openai-employees-bonus-sam-altman-ai-talent-warshttps://archive.is/20250808224658/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/tesla-disbands-dojo-supercomputer-team-in-blow-to-ai-efforthttps://fortune.com/2025/08/04/billionaire-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-ai-staffers-poaching-meta-mark-zuckerberg-100k-six-figure-salaries-openai-sam-altman/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e02vx55wpohttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/business/dealbook/meta-microsoft-ai-spending-shares.htmlhttps://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-meta-billion-dollars-ai-poaching-failed/ This is a public episode. 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