Podcasts about pizazz

On this episode, Linda chats with Colorado Master gardener from Larimer County, Khursheed Mama, about sprucing up your garden or your landscape. Tune in to listen about the type of characteristics you may want in your garden and so much more.Learn more: https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/yard-garden/

Bob calls to ask an important existential question, Connor previews a Monday show, and reads a quote from Aaron Rodgers that triggers Producer Josh

Przyznam, że uśmiałam się podczas czytania i liczę, że dzieciaki też będą zadowolone. Język tryska humorem, mimo że dzieciaki muszą sobie radzić z nieco poważniejszymi już problemami. https://aktywneczytanie.pl/nie-jest-latwo-byc-super-pizazz-i-super-dzett-recenzja-ksiazki-dla-dzieci-6-7-8-9-10-lat/

This week on Domestic Pints ONLY, John and Tom return to another Highway 7 Ontario brewery: PERTH BREWERY. This time around, we're chatting a few special seasonal releases. First up is the psychedelic PINEAPPLE PIZAZZ sour. Following that, we salute the flag, visit a sugar shack, and sample some O CANADA MAPLE ALE. To wrap things up, we go deep sea diving for the WHALESBONE OYSTER STOUT. A pretty eclectic mix of drinks! Along the way we also discuss: foraging; Pizza Pizza; hot sauce; our high school reunion; 70s game shows; an internship position; sugar shacks; and horror movies. Next episode, we will return back to an old favourite out of Edmonton: TOWN SQUARE BREWING CO. Timestamps: 4:23 Beer #1 (PINEAPPLE PIZAZZ) 26:12 Beer #2 (O CANADA) 40:33 Beer #3 (WHALESBONE) 54:08 Wrap up, final scores, and conclusion Credits: https://perthbrewery.ca/ O Canada Intro and closing song: "Drink Beer (Till the Day That I Die)" by Dazie Mae (www.daziemae.com) Artwork: IG @natalierivetartist (www.natalierivet.com)

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In this episode of Dice Over Everything, Brandon isn't here, but Alan goes over 3 different games - Infinity, Frostgrave, and Warhammer 40k, and rates them on Quality of Life, Killer Edge, and Pizazz, and why they succeeded on those things, and thus, have done quite well in attracting an audience - and how they might use those as learning to talk about their game, Blood of Stars.

Andy starts with Jon Rahm's victory at The Masters, and whether or not his story resonates with the casual golf fan (0:00-18:22). Andy wonders what the Washington Wizards could possibly be thinking going into another off-season missing the playoffs (18:23-31:25). Andy reacts to some funny audio from Charles Barkley's appearance on The Dan Patrick Show (31:26-44:12). For more sports coverage, download the ESPN630 AM app, visit https://www.sportscapitoldc.com, or tune in live from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Monday-Friday.To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @ESPN630DC and @andypollin1See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pizazz is one of those unusual words, that sounds kind of cool, but is a bit vague.  In presenting terms, we are really looking at being more interesting and engaging and doing that in a sparky, non-anticipatory way.  A workman like, by the numbers, presentation is fundamentally boring.  A recent presenter did a painting by numbers job with his effort.  The talk had completed the exercise in the allotted time and he had spoken about a number of key points.  The delivery was wooden though, the voice tone was flat, the whole thing was a lifeless shambles really.  When you are in a high profile role, like being the CEO, then you simply have to perform.  Never forget we judge your whole organisation on you.  So engaging your audience is a requirement.  This is easy to say, but not so easy to do.  Energy is a key component of this process.  Somehow we all know that enthusiasm is contagious, but miraculously manage to forget this, when we start speaking in front of groups.    If the leader is low energy, we somehow doubt they can do the job properly.  With the prevalence of YouTube videos and business social media, presenters are starting to really branch out.  This was brought back to me not so long ago, when I saw a video on LinkedIn of someone I know and the delivery was fundamentally funereal.  The voice was a monotone, the energy was totally insignificant and the exercise was absolutely dreary, not motivational.  Sadly, the message was just destroyed, totally killed by the poor delivery.  Now if you are going to put yourself out there, especially in the crowded alleyways of the YouTube video world and broadcast through social media, then you have to step it up.  If you want your message to cut through the white noise of a squillion other presenters, then you need to have an attitude that says, “I want to stand out and be heard”.  If you want to move into video, then you really need to compete.  This is not just you presenting while being recorded.  Yes, you can do that, but if you are going to blast yourself around the world via video on social media, then add pizazz to the mix and make it interesting.  Be that little bit unexpected, have something that differentiates you from the pack.  You don't have to be handsome, beautiful, deep bass DJ voiced or tall.  You just have to be interesting, engaging and relevant.  Use voice modulation, tell stories, speak with, not at your audience and bring your full energy to the task.  Okay, let's all go back to the drawing board.  Let's stop doing what we have always done and think about how we could add some pizazz to our presentations and start experimenting, to find what works best for each of us.

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Megan Garber who wrote the new essay collection On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics from The Atlantic. Megan is a writer at The Atlantic, and the magazine has compiled a number of her essays into the new book. It's a great read, an exploration into the ways that American political actors have parlayed the techniques of entertainment to their own ends. Today, we talked about amusing ourselves to death, what happens to a country when politics becomes entertainment, and Dwight Schrute. Megan can be found at The Atlantic and the book, as well as several other new compilations of essays from the magazine, is available wherever books are sold. This interview has been condensed and edited. Megan Garber, thank you so much for joining us.Thanks for having me.You have a new book, it's a collection of a lot of your essays at The Atlantic, it's called On Misdirection. What prompted you to figure out this beat and tease out that you were covering misdirection over the past couple years?A lot of the things that have really interested me about politics and political discourse, let's say, over the past few years are the ways that we are trained to see each other and then also to not see each other. It seems like so many things, so many of the big political stories, particularly at the beginning of the presidency of Donald Trump, and then up till now, so much has come down to are we seeing what we should be seeing, or are we in fact looking away from what we should be seeing?Ideas about vision is actually one of the main drivers of all of these essays, which are very different other than that. I'm a political junkie, I love to follow politics and all of that, but I kept feeling for myself just as a news consumer, "Is this really the most important thing right now?" All these shiny distractions, daily outrages that come and go, and I know I myself, as a news consumer, often feel very addled, almost, and just in a constant state of distraction.So these essays really do try to figure out what happens to that form of distraction on a mass scale. If I'm not the only one feeling this, but if a lot of people are feeling this, what are the consequences of that?I loved how also you kept it in some of the more conventional forms of media as well, too. I know that a lot of our conversation about distraction has been related to social media and algorithms and kind of blamed on Silicon Valley ghosts that are destroying our brains.But a lot of what you talk about is just super day to day. It's the way people talk about other people, whether it's on television or radio or things like that. Do you want to expand on how it's not just necessarily what we're doing online?The first essay, actually, is a look-back at the scholar Neil Postman, who's one of my favorite thinkers, critics, et cetera. He wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death in 1985 that was looking at the impact of television, essentially, on American culture. And as you might guess from the title, making an argument that the entertainment has slipped the bonds of mere fun and mere escapism and distraction and has actually come into our lives and come to infiltrate lives in a lot of ways.Looking at him in retrospect is the first essay in the collection. We chose that specifically because I think one of the other arguments underlining a lot that's in the book is that entertainment, as much as I love it, and I am an inveterate lover of entertainment of all kinds, but it can, I think, also become fairly pernicious when it becomes our standard of judging things in the political realm.One example that's in another essay in there is the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump. The talking points, it seemed to me, among Trump's allies had nothing to do with the facts at hand. This was a legal proceeding, conducted by lawyers, by Meta lawyers, in fact, in Congress. Yet the arguments were nothing to do with the facts, but "this is boring." That was essentially what it came down to. "Ugh, snooze, ugh, no one's watching this." All that kind of stuff.When again, this was an impeachment trial of a president, there were facts at play, and yet the talking points completely elided that. What struck me as well, though, was it was not just partisan talking points. One news organization had an entire op-ed about the impeachment trial, sort of complaining that it lacked pizazz. Pizazz was literally the word that was used.I think there's this way that if we're not careful, the sort of logic of entertainment itself, this idea that everything has to be fun, that boring is its own kind of factual argument, that's what can happen. That was what Neil Postman was talking about.That, I think, is what's happening right now, too, where just entertainment becomes the only thing that matters at the end of the day. That can become, I think, pretty quickly dangerous and bad for us as a culture.That was a really remarkable argument in the book. Again, I'm a huge fan of pop culture. I like being entertained, but it just felt weird how so much of the language and the desire of pop culture was being adapted and weaved into politics. You mentioned obviously Trump, and rallies, and the impeachment, but you had an example in there about Pete Buttigieg after the Iowa Caucus that I thought was really potent where it's just, the question isn't like, "Did we win?" It's like, "Aren't we having so much fun?"Exactly right, and the Iowa Caucus is as famous and infamous for not having an immediate result. Very quickly, things went awry in a quite extreme manner there. Exactly what you said, Pete Buttigieg put out a talk saying, "We have shocked the nation," claiming victory even though no such victory had been claimed. Just like you said, this idea that shock is even part of the conversation, that shock is a value on its own, I think just speaks to the way that fun and high emotional stakes of everything are infiltrating, I think, our rhetoric and logic as a culture.I think also just we talk a lot about overheated rhetoric. Just everything is heated, and everything is ratcheting up at all times, and I think one of the extensions of the ratcheting is that we as news consumers and as citizens just become accustomed to evermore levels of drama, of outrage, of everything. We're sort of losing the ability, I think, to have a moderate anything in our conversations. Everything is just bigger, dramatic jazz hands.So, we may as well get to some of the heart of this. There's obviously a guy who comes up a couple times in your book who is very good at this, bit of a controversial figure, but you just keep on coming back to him, I think, for reasons that are clear.What draws you to Dwight Schrute?I will say, during the early days of the pandemic, I've always been a fan of the show The Office, and I went back to it as a comfort watch, a soothing watch in these really awful days. I was newly familiar with The Office.For anyone who might not be familiar, The Office is a U.S. sitcom, but it focuses on a very small office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. There is a boss, Michael Scott, who is kind of an oaf in a lot of ways. And then one of the other characters in the show is, yes, Dwight Schrute, who I've always been fascinated by, because he's this amazing contradiction, this walking category error.He is a beet farmer, but he has these authoritarian tendencies. I'm trying to think of how to describe Dwight. He's just a lot of things at once. I think one of the things that's so interesting about him is that he is this person who very much thinks that he knows better than everyone else what the rules are, that he can decide the rules for himself and then, importantly, inflict them on other people.So, Dwight thinks he is basically the ultimate agent of law enforcement, literally and otherwise, in the office. In fact, again and again is a physical danger to his colleagues. Just that tension in Dwight felt very resonant to me, as you say, for other political figures and power players as well. I wanted to look at Dwight as almost a character and a trope who conveys so much about the people in political power, often, who make up their own rules and then enforce them and inflict them on everyone else.This idea of, "We're doing it because I said so," and that's the only explanation you're going to get, and these lies that just, everyone just lies without any real sense of backlash or anything. And a lot of that, to me, seemed to be conveyed in Dwight.There's an appeal to him. You can understand, in a democracy where appeal is a key component of accessing power, that despite the obvious flaws in his leadership capabilities for a large duration, you can see how a guy like that just might appeal to a large group of people. I guess we can now broaden it out a bit, how do you think that applies to American society as a whole?A lot of the supporters of the fellow we've been talking about, poll after poll suggests that they feel a sense of encroachment. They feel like they used to be de facto at the top of American society and feel like now they are being pushed down a bit. I think there's a lot of indignation there and a lot of wanting to feel a little bit reassured that, "No, you still do have power. You still do. You can still say for everyone else, as you have throughout history."I think there's something about Dwight definitely that sort of conveys that idea. Donald Trump, very famously and infamously, promised, "I alone can fix it," with 'it' being fill in the blank. There's something in that message, there's something very reassuring to people who feel very caught in a tumult and who feel very unsettled and everything. So much is in flux right now and I think to just have that sort of authoritarian presence who can just say, "Trust me, I've got this. I can make the world make sense again," I think there's something very appealing just about that message.Then, of course, there's a question of how true that is, how politically problematic that is, et cetera. But in terms of rhetoric, I think that's very powerful. There's the adjunct to that message, which is if Donald Trump can say what's what, if he can look at an orange and say it's an apple, and just by force of will have the orange in some sense become an apple, I think there's also a silent message to people that they might have that same agency. They can still be the ones who decide. There's a very powerful message in that.You had a line toward the end of that essay, I think, that was just resolving Dwight's arc. You wrote this I think in October 2020, which was a fascinating time for a lot of people. You basically wrote that "his arc as an agent of chaos is simply not sustainable." Toward the end of it, he domesticates a little bit just because that's what folks want. I guess, how do you see that potentially applying beyond strictly the American television program The Office?One of the things that's so interesting to me about The Office itself is that you could see, or at least when I was rewatching it, what really struck me as a writer — not a writer of sitcoms, but a writer in general — I could see the type of arc that they were trying to give different characters. Just like you said, Dwight, after a while, a character like that can't simply stay an agent of chaos. There has to be some kind of evolution and some kind of arc to the character, or else it just gets too repetitive.Something about the arcs, I think, is very revealing because I think to the Neil Postman point, in the very broad sense, Americans are being conditioned to understand the world in roughly the same way as a sitcom understands the world, which is a character like Dwight needs, the arc needs, the evolution needs a bit of catharsis at the end.A lot of us are now coming to see the world itself in those terms, where we expect our political stories, we expect our real stories of everyday life to also have some tidy conclusions, to also mimic the flow of a TV show and a sitcom.That's one thing I would say, there is this logic of sitcom built into things, and I think that's what can make so many of the problems we have, which are so big and intractable — climate change would be one I would point to — that really resists a Schrutean narrative arc.It makes it sometimes hard for us to talk about. I would also say that The Office's writers recognized how deeply viewers — and I would also then say citizens and people and news consumers — how desperately we crave a catharsis at the end, in whatever form that might look like. Catharsis is a very important idea, both in sitcom writing and in the broader world.I like that idea. I do want to talk to you a little bit about the arc of your book, which was really, really great. It's a collection of essays, and I imagine that the order in which you present them, there was a lot of thought that went into that. You kick it off very much talking about irony and satire and how they're having a good moment, you talk a little bit about the Science March. I'll let you take it from there a little bit.But in the end, you also finish on the idea that "if you brand yourself an entertainer and not a journalist, you can spread falsehoods in the name of fun." You start off in a place where people are having fun for, one might think, deliberate and somewhat positive-facing means. And then in the end, that can get co-opted in a manner. Do you want to maybe talk about some of that?Sure, and thank you, that's such a good observation, totally.The book begins in this essay about Neil Postman looking at the March for Science, which it was put on in the same general time that the Women's March was happening, that people were trying to find ways to protest against the new presidency. This was a march that was very self-consciously designed to support science, facts, et cetera. I did not attend myself, but I was looking through Instagram afterward and looking at all the photos, and that's the way of the modern march, is to have your march, which happens in person, translate to Instagram, translate to memes.One of the things that you're supposed to do, really, as a good attender of these marches is to come up with a costume that will go viral, perhaps. I mean, there were some really good jokes, they were great, they were great costumes, great signs, all that stuff. But I just kept thinking, what now? Speaking of catharsis, is this enough catharsis for people? Is this going to feel like, okay, well we did this, so what else can we do? That's enough. We've had our catharsis, we've made our point?I don't mean to suggest that everyone involved just stopped at the march, but I do think that sometimes when this becomes our mode of political expression, there is a little bit of a, "Okay, but how are we going to actually defend science in real life? How are we going to defend women's rights in real life?" I worry sometimes that just the fun itself and the act of togetherness and all of that can be its own catharsis, and then not actually translate to additional action in the real world.That's a real, good point. I do want to stay here, because I know that we're on a roll, but it is interesting because the Science March, it seemed a very fun vibe. Everybody picked their favorite XKCD, it was a good time.Then if you were to compare that, as you just did, to the Women's March, which was not distinctly as much of a good time, one of those movements had a little bit more staying power, one might say.That's totally right. I want to also be clear that I think the fun elements of things can be great. Throughout American history, fun has been an important means of political expression. People sometimes forget the book Common Sense, the Thomas Paine track that at some level really did help to foment the revolution, not only was it passionately argued and this very compelling piece of rhetoric, it was also just really funny. It was a work of entertainment. People would read it aloud to each other around the fire, and it had that level of making politics fun.That is a really important element of politics, to make people feel engaged. But then I think for me the question is: To what extent does the fun encourage us? To what extent does it activate us? To what extent does it bring us together in community, or to what extent does it sort of alienate us from the reality of politics and condition us to see, again, everything as entertainment? In which case the fun isn't the means, but the fun is the end, essentially.Do you want to talk a little bit about how you close the book? I know you talk a little bit about Tucker, but you also talk a little bit about basically how everybody's having fun now.It's not just a technique used by those out of power to somewhat mock and undermine those in power, it's also used to enforce it a little bit, too.Speaking of Tucker Carlson, he famously in a legal case, his lawyer argued on his behalf that he is not a journalist, he is an entertainer and therefore can say anything he wants to say, and that argument won, that argument held sway.I think again and again, rhetoric that I would see as propaganda that really is designed to make certain Americans think that other Americans are less American and in some sense less human, that's a big part of the rhetoric going on in that show. It comes across, it is presented as entertainment. It's presented as, "Ah, we're just asking questions." Like, "Oh, it's not that big of a deal."There's a real minimization of rhetoric that I find to be very dangerous and frankly scary. We see that idea again and again. One of the subsidiary ideas that I tried to consider in these essays is, "What does propaganda actually look like?" Because at least for me, when I hear that word, I think of Soviet billboards and I think of the mid-century and very sort of overt, direct, "You should believe this."And now propaganda has taken on this much more insidious form where it's the same types of messages, it's the same attempt to win hearts and minds over to a cause, whatever the cause may be. But the propaganda itself is not overt; instead it is very buried in just messages that look like fun, that look like just entertainment. That is a really scary development because it means the propaganda can have even more power than it might otherwise to affect the way people see the world.Again, I really enjoy your work. I'm so happy that it's been compiled into this, On Misdirection.I have recently, and then for a little bit of a while, I have had increasingly complicated feelings toward The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I was a teenager during the Bush administration, and that was very much, I think, something that was formative for me.But I think it's impossible to look at what came after and what that flowed into, even Tucker directly, somewhat, through that somewhat fateful Crossfire interview. I think it's impossible to look back at the past 15 years and not see the fingerprints of that on a lot of different political movements that are not necessarily what it was originally going for.Yeah, that's such a good point. I would say, too, I mean, I think The Daily Show in my mind is a little bit of a piece of a broader collapse, almost. The Daily Show is very much a response to the rise of just reality TV in general. I would argue that the whole point of that genre is to collapse the real and the fake into one thing and be entirely unclear about where the reality ends and the fiction begins.The Daily Show is very much an extension of that. Around the same time, you've had just so many other cultural works in that space where the whole point is just to poke fun at the idea that you can even distinguish between fact and fiction. That, to be clear, that is not propaganda on its own, but I would also say that this idea that fact and fiction on some level can't be extricated from each other, that is a very foundational argument of any propaganda.I think we're starting in the '90s with reality TV, to some extent with social media as well. Where are the people on social media, are they people at all or are they characters in a show? It can be very hard to tell. We've been on this path since at least the '90s, possibly before, where just everything blurs together, and the fact looks like fiction, the serious stuff looks like entertainment, the entertainment looks like serious stuff, and everything is just in this blurry, chaotic mess.Again, you mentioned the Science March, but I went to the Rally to Restore Sanity when I was 20. The fun vibes of that, "We're all in this together." But, like, that was also the thing in D.C. from January 5th to 7th, 2021. I love in your book just how you went through all the different ways that this is manifesting.Thank you so much. Speaking of the order, we were going for that arc, so I appreciate that that was really clear, because it really does feel like one of those sort of paths that you can see in retrospect. And at the time, it's hard to know what's exactly happening, but now even just 10 years later, five years later, things become much more clear.  And then, too, at the end of the book, the final essay is about how endings themselves, the sense of things will come to a satisfying conclusion, that that alone, that logic — which is so much a product, I think, of movies and TV shows and all of that — how that logic alone can be really pernicious for people, because most things will not have an ending.Most things are fluid, news stories are fluid. Yes, there are some beginnings and some endings, but usually they're going to defy that in some way. I think as Americans, we are so conditioned to expect the catharsis, expect either the happy ending or the dramatic one. I think the arc of the past few decades really shows how connected everything is and how hard it is to distinguish the beginning of one thing and the end of the other.I've got to say, I almost wonder if it's systemic in the States. The thing that I envy the most about parliamentary systems is that inevitably, the country's leader, "the protagonist," will leave in shame. They will lose eventually. And you will have a conclusion to the end of the Winston Churchill arc of the United Kingdom. We don't have that. Barack Obama's still around, Donald Trump's still around. I wonder how much that's systemic.No, that's such a good point. I will admit this is a little bit extreme of me, but I actually do think it's true; you look in pop culture right now and what do we have but sequel, after sequel, after sequel? The highest grossing movies of 2022 were all sequels. We have this idea of the end of endings, essentially. And it's not just in politics, it's sort of everywhere.On the one hand, we crave the endings and expect the endings, but on the other hand, we live in a culture where nothing necessarily ends. The sitcom, however many years later, will get its almost inevitable reboot. Thanos will clap his hands, and that will all be undone. I won't say anything else for anyone who hasn't seen, but there is this sense, I think, that even the ending is not necessarily an ending. There can be resurrections and all of that stuff. Like you said, the presidency never ends, it just sort of takes its final form.Do you think that maybe that's going to get people a little bit more comfortable living in that ambiguity of things never necessarily ending?It might. It very much might, but then I also think that that desire for the ending is just so baked into our culture that I think it will be more of a tension becoming more comfortable with the flux.Well, you have teed this up perfectly because I would like to end this podcast. Megan, thank you so much for coming on.Thank you.This was such a great conversation. Why don't you tell folks where they can find the book, a little bit about it and where folks can find you?The book is called On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics. It's really just a look at ways of seeing in politics, and the ways that we have of not seeing in politics; how we look at each other, and then fail to look at each other; how our vision is often misdirected by the magicians in power in politics. You can buy the book, as far as I know, wherever books are sold. I know I have a big preference for IndieBound. I love that site, but everywhere books are sold.Great. I know some of your colleagues are coming out with other ones of these aggregations of essays.If I could share those, please, that would be great, too. We have Lenika Cruz, my colleague, writing on BTS. She is, I would say, one of the foremost experts on BTS and fandom and it's a lovely book, really. It actually made me very emotional reading it; it's wonderful.Past and future guest of this particular newsletter, Lenika Cruz.Oh, you're going to have so much fun. That's great. Then the other one is my friend and colleague, Sophie Gilbert, writing on womanhood and her experiences with womanhood, a feminist examination of pop culture and so much else, and that, too, is beautifully written. It's wonderful. So both of those books are excellent, excellent.Excellent. All right. Well, hey Megan, thanks so much for coming on. I really appreciate it.Oh, thank you. This is so nice to talk.Well, we'll see if we can reboot it next year.Yeah, inevitably, yes.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news.  Get full access to Numlock News at www.numlock.com/subscribe

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The Nanny Endorsements have officially gone international! This week Kat Lord from London, UK spoke with me and had some fantastic suggestions. She also has her own websites More To Books and More To Organising. Author recommendations: Roald Dahl, The Perfect Shelter by Clare Helen Welsh (Kat's even written about this author here), and Pizazz by Sophy Henn (Kat also wrote about this author here). Class recommendation: Write Dance Listen to The Nanny Endorsements each week wherever you get your podcasts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thenannyendorsements/support

OH BABY A COMEBACK! HUGE thank you to Mike Ross for the new intro!! Leafs rally after a rough start to upset the Lightning and take the series lead WITH THTE CHANCE TO TAKE IT ALL NEXT GAME! Holl, Nylander, and YOUR CAPTAIN all silence the nay-sayers and Ny-slanderers. Matthews and Marner connect for the GWG and Jack stands strong to hold the boys in the game. Roscoe, Steph, Bienher, and Darty have your post-game with the most-game! Thanks for all of your questions and for tuning in LIVE with us on YouTube to join the conversation. Follow us on Twitter and IG and join our discord to stay up on all the action & leave us a review wherever you listen ! GAME 6 BABYYYYY

Faith. Power. Confidence. Sparkle. Certainty. Pizazz.It's from THIS place you can conquer fear and find love. In this throwback event from Cannes, France we go deep into the art of self-love. Infusing pleasure, faith, and individuality into every single thing you create. Take David (from the iconic biblical story: David & Goliath). All he needed was unwavering faith, God, and a small slingshot to take down a giant. Same goes for you, Queen! EPISODE RESOURCESJoin the Q Club hereEnroll in The Life Purpose ProjectJoe Dispenza BooksADDITIONAL RESOURCES⭐ I'd love to hear your big takeaways! Screenshot this episode and tag me on Instagram at @ginadevee.⭐Be sure to follow the Divine Living Podcast, leave a review, and tune in every week for new episodes.⭐ Purchase my book, The Audacity to be Queen, and receive the FREE companion e-course at https://www.divineliving.com/audacity⭐ Desire Queenhood + community at your fingertips? Download the Q Club app for access to my exclusive social network for women globally: https://www.divineliving.com/tryqclub 

Special Episode - This week the fellas are joined by special guest Poet/Producer/Radio Personality/Author Denise Nolan (@yogirlnecey) of Soul 106.3. She discusses her career, advice about not giving up, her 30 year friendship with the fellas and much much more. Thank you for listening. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lovelle-willis/support

In which the Pod Squad discuss their thoughts about Crowfall and The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy and quiz authors Vashti Hardy and Richard Pickard about their brilliant books. Plus there's a special guest appearance from the author and illustrator of the Pizazz series, Sophy Henn!

We do a lot of drawing with Kevin.  In this episode we're looking at taking those drawing skills and adding them to instructional videos. There are a lot of methods for adding graphical elements to videos and we'll talk about a few techniques and concepts that can be very useful for instructional videos. Kevin will be sharing some advanced video methods like converting your videos to animated gifs and rotoscoping.  Gifs may not be viewed as possible instructional media, but we'll help you see them in a different way.  We'll also be discussing why an instructional designer needs to understand video production terms like rotoscoping and others.Advanced video concepts will level up your instructional videos by adding that element of pizazz that so many internal stakeholders and clients request. Summer is the perfect time to level up your production skills. We'll introduce these concepts and show you some examples. Then we'll give you a challenge to learn one of these skills and create an example during the month of August while IDIODC is on a break.  The next time Kevin joins us in the new season we'll be anxious to see what you've created.Kevin is an award-winning eLearning designer & developer, consultant, and owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC., a boutique custom design and development studio specializing in online learning experiences.After retiring from the US Army, Kevin pursued a career in corporate IT and Training & Development. With his combined military and industry experience, Kevin started the Studioz in 2012 working with clients in various industries solving problems in a wide-range of creative projects.Based in the North Mississippi Delta, Kevin, the Chief NuggetHead harnesses a bench a creative practitioners in instructional design, elearning development, illustration and graphic design, animation, and serious comics. Kevin is a well-known industry speaker and trainer on elearning development, design workflows, and is also a certified facilitator in LEGO®Serious Play® methodologies.Academic stuff: BS in Information Technology Management from Christian Brothers University (2003) and MS in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Memphis (2018).Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag: Kevin: @LearnNuggetsBrent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow

Genevieve dives deep into feeling sexy, confidence with some PIZAZZ would be known as sexiness, confidence set on fire would be sexiness. Sexiness is a characteristic of Self Love that we should all come to know, and heres how. Summer is a time where we start to really compare and criticize ourselves and this episode comes at a perfect time to start to alter the way we view ourselves in a positive way!

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

Pizazz by Sophy Henn, read by Sophy Henn, published by Simon & SchusterBeing a superhero is the best thing ever, right? WRONG!HELLO! My name is Pizazz and I’m a superhero…You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also REEEEEEEAAALLLLY annoying. Don’t believe me? Well, I have to wear the same outfit ALL THE TIME?! I'm always dashing off to save the world right in the middle of fun stuff. Plus I have to be the good guy even when I might not want to be. And sometimes I just want to be, well, normal.You see, it’s not easy being SUPER …

From the creator of Bad Nana, this is a superhero story unlike any other - about a child hero who just wants to be normal (but that's going to be very, very difficult in her super family).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pizazz is one of those unusual words, that sounds kind of cool, but is a bit vague.  In presenting terms, we are really looking at being more interesting and engaging and doing that in a sparky, non-anticipatory way.  Droning on when presenting is a pretty strong norm for many people.  They talk at us, not with us.  They are lifeless and low energy.  This may be fine for having a cup of tea with your friends, but if you want to present, then you have to switch it up.   A workman like, by the numbers, presentation is fundamentally boring.  A recent presenter did a painting by numbers job with his effort.  The talk had completed the exercise in the allotted time and he had spoken about a number of key points.  The delivery was wooden though, the voice tone was flat, the whole thing was a lifeless shambles really.  The snapper though is that the speaker represents his organization to the world at large and he did a poor job when up on the podium.    When you are in a high profile role, like being the CEO, then you simply have to perform.  Never forget we judge your whole organisation on you.  If you are mediocre, we assume everyone is the same.  We don't say, well that guy or gal was the exception.   The rest of the crew are all dynamite.  Nope, we say they are all duds down there.   So engaging your audience is a requirement.  This is easy to say, but not so easy to do.  Energy is a key component of this process.  Somehow, we all know that enthusiasm is contagious, but miraculously manage to forget this, when we start speaking in front of groups.  The “low energy” insult became a trademark of President Trump when disparaging his political opponents, like Jeb Bush.    It is cutting, because it implies you don't have what it takes to be a leader.  Whether you agree with Trump or not, the point is valid.  If the leader is low energy, we somehow doubt they can do the job properly.  We don't get to meet that many CEOs or politicians in person, so we draw our conclusions from seeing them on television, in videos or at public presentations.  Remember we are all on show when presenting.   The podium is one area of difficulty, but with the prevalence of YouTube videos and business social media, presenters are starting to really branch out.  This was brought back to me not so long ago, when I saw a video on LinkedIn of someone I know and the delivery was fundamentally funereal.  The whole atmosphere was dark, bleak, lifeless.  This guy is a smart guy and if we read the transcript, we would think what he had to say was valuable.  The voice however was a monotone funereal, the energy was totally insignificant and the whole exercise was absolutely dreary, not at all motivational.    Sadly, the message while actually pretty good, was just destroyed, totally killed by his poor delivery.  Now if you are going to put yourself out there, especially in the crowded rough and tumble byways of the YouTube video world and broadcast social media, then you have to step it up.  There are so many windows to the world now and everyone can see us.  Once upon a time, you could be fairly hapless and only a few poor souls would know.  Not anymore.  This is where the pizazz idea comes in.   If you want your message to cut through the white noise of a squillion other presenters, then you need to have an attitude that says, “I want to stand out and be heard”.  Casey Neistat did that with video blogging.  There were plenty of other well established video bloggers out there, but he brought a movie style approach to his vlogging.  He would set the camera up, so that it recorded him entering the room, for example.  A simple but very effective film idea.  All the other vloggers were one dimensional – they were pointing the camera at themselves, as they held it at arm's length.  He made a small change that set him apart.  He brought some movie making style pizazz to the exercise and the rest of us are happy he did that.  Now it is much more interesting for us the viewer.   Gary Vaynerchuk did that with his Daily Vee vlog.  He combined reality television style presentation, with motivation and information.  Nobody had done that before.  He created some pizazz and is getting close to three million subscribers for his show.  He gets a lot of work speaking, sells his books and gets business for his digital agency off the back of his notoriety.  All he did was make a small innovation in a crowded space, so he could stand out and he has been incredibly successful doing that.   This then has to be the mantra.  Set yourself apart when presenting.  If you want to move into video, then you really need to compete.  This is not just you presenting while being recorded.  Yes, you can do that, but if you are going to blast yourself around the world via video on social media, then add pizazz to the mix and make it interesting.  Be that little bit unexpected, have something that differentiates you from the pack.    You don't have to be handsome, beautiful, deep bass DJ voiced or tall.  You just have to be interesting, engaging and relevant.  Use voice modulation, tell stories, speak with, not at your audience and bring your full energy to the task.    Okay, let's all go back to the drawing board.  Let's stop doing what we have always done and think about how we could add some pizazz to our presentations and start experimenting, to find what works best for each of us.

This week, Jeff and Seth discuss MST3K S1E1 - The Crawling Eye, and work on adding some PIZAZZ to the podcast.  Dr. Odd informs them "Toilet jokes and chicken suits have no place in science".

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After saying the word “Pizazz,” the OP gets suspended for what they thought was the word “Piss-ass.” Their mom comes into the principal’s office, flips out, and swears up and down at the school administration. They get super embarrassed and undo the suspension. An old man gets offended when someone uses a stick as a cane. A guy offends a stranger after he calls his own brother “Bro.”

Two hours of bangers. Wear headphones.  Enjoying the show? Please support BFF.FM with a donation. Playlist 0′00″ Blue Lines by Massive Attack on Blue Lines (Virgin) 5′55″ Back To Life (Zepherin Saint Mix) by Soul II Soul on Single (Funki Dred) 🆕 19′29″ Watermelon Man (Under The Sun) by Poppy Ajudha on Blue Note Re:Imagined (Blue Note) 🆕 24′24″ Love Wars by Womack & Womack on Love Wars (Elektra) 29′37″ Haven't You Heard by Patrice Rushen on Pizazz (Strut) 36′59″ Inner Game by Nubya Garcia on SOURCE (Concord Jazz) 🆕 45′01″ Everybody Here Wants You by Jeff Buckley on Sketches for my Sweetheart The Drunk (Columbia) 49′03″ Shadrach by Beastie Boys on Paul's Boutique (Capitol) 53′11″ Loose Booty by Sly and the Family Stone on Small Talk (Epic) 61′52″ Waiting For Your Love by Toto on Toto IV (Columbia) 65′50″ This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) by Talking Heads on Speaking In Tongues (Sire Records) 72′22″ It's Hot Tonight by Alice Cooper on Lace And Whiskey (Warner) 72′25″ No Other by Gene Clark on No Other (4AD) 86′27″ Open Sesame (12 by Kool & The Gang on Open Sesame (De-Lite Records) 87′54″ Ascension Day by Talk Talk on Laughing Stock (Polydor) 97′04″ Arpeggi by Kelly Lee Owens on Inner Song (Small-town Supersound) 101′42″ Weird Fishes by Lianne La Havas on Lianne La Havas (Nonesuch) 🆕 108′54″ Computer Love by Kraftwerk on Computer World (Elektra Records) 108′55″ Castles In The Sand by Seals and Croft on Greatest Hits (Elektra) 119′58″ Dark Star by Crosby, Stills & Nash on CSN (Atlantic) The next @Jon_Digital is on Thursday, September 24th at 5:30 am. Check out the full archives on the website.

This week Bex speaks to Sophie Henn, author of Pizazz!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Richard Spasoff Show Ep 70 is a unique blend of paranormal, spirituality and comedy. Tonights guest Lara what a fun interview!! THANK YOU LARALara Wells, was voted most popular Female Spiritualist in the UK in 2008. As a Psychic, Spiritual Medium & Healer, she provides “insights” into her clients and students lives that brings clarity, direction, and motivation for them to “reach for the stars!”Lara Wells is a National and International Award Winning Medium, Professional Motivational Speaker and Spiritual Life coach. She has been a professional medium and psychic for 17 years. A busy mother of 5 children, she didn't find it easy to work in a professional environment, deal with issues, advise clients, speak to 'dead' people and juggle the many demands of running a publication (The Psychic Voice) as well as writing for national and international publications. She set about using what she knew and changed her life for the better. Today, she travel widely but makes sure she takes the time to do so. Lara is healthier than she has ever been and is the main bread winner without stressing herself.She is a published author of the book, Spiritual Slimming: Slim Your Life, Slim Your Body. In this book, Lara explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body.Contact Lara if you want a Psychic or Medium who is REAL and has SPARKLE and PIZAZZ!! larawells@me.comLara.wells (mailto:larawells@me.comLara.wells) (Skype)Lara2coach(Twitter)Join Psychic Medium and Comedian Richard Spasoff as he welcomes guests to discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal and journeys in spirituality. Everything from ghosts and profound truth, to celebrity interviews and more can all be found in every episode of the Richard Spasoff Show.The Richard Spasoff Show is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the FREE HC Universal Network app for Android and iDevices or visit our LISTEN LIVE page and join the conversation.angelicmedium.org

The Richard Spasoff Show Ep 70 is a unique blend of paranormal, spirituality and comedy. Tonights guest Lara what a fun interview!! THANK YOU LARALara Wells, was voted most popular Female Spiritualist in the UK in 2008. As a Psychic, Spiritual Medium & Healer, she provides “insights” into her clients and students lives that brings clarity, direction, and motivation for them to “reach for the stars!”Lara Wells is a National and International Award Winning Medium, Professional Motivational Speaker and Spiritual Life coach. She has been a professional medium and psychic for 17 years. A busy mother of 5 children, she didn't find it easy to work in a professional environment, deal with issues, advise clients, speak to 'dead' people and juggle the many demands of running a publication (The Psychic Voice) as well as writing for national and international publications. She set about using what she knew and changed her life for the better. Today, she travel widely but makes sure she takes the time to do so. Lara is healthier than she has ever been and is the main bread winner without stressing herself.She is a published author of the book, Spiritual Slimming: Slim Your Life, Slim Your Body. In this book, Lara explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body.Contact Lara if you want a Psychic or Medium who is REAL and has SPARKLE and PIZAZZ!! larawells@me.comLara.wells(Skype)Lara2coach(Twitter)Join Psychic Medium and Comedian Richard Spasoff as he welcomes guests to discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal and journeys in spirituality. Everything from ghosts and profound truth, to celebrity interviews and more can all be found in every episode of the Richard Spasoff Show.The Richard Spasoff Show is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the FREE HC Universal Network app for Android and iDevices or visit our LISTEN LIVE page and join the conversation.angelicmedium.org

The Richard Spasoff Show Ep 70 is a unique blend of paranormal, spirituality and comedy. Tonights guest Lara what a fun interview!! THANK YOU LARA Lara Wells, was voted most popular Female Spiritualist in the UK in 2008. As a Psychic, Spiritual Medium & Healer, she provides “insights” into her clients and students lives that brings clarity, direction, and motivation for them to “reach for the stars!” Lara Wells is a National and International Award Winning Medium, Professional Motivational Speaker and Spiritual Life coach. She has been a professional medium and psychic for 17 years. A busy mother of 5 children, she didn't find it easy to work in a professional environment, deal with issues, advise clients, speak to 'dead' people and juggle the many demands of running a publication (The Psychic Voice) as well as writing for national and international publications. She set about using what she knew and changed her life for the better. Today, she travel widely but makes sure she takes the time to do so. Lara is healthier than she has ever been and is the main bread winner without stressing herself. She is a published author of the book, Spiritual Slimming: Slim Your Life, Slim Your Body. In this book, Lara explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body. Contact Lara if you want a Psychic or Medium who is REAL and has SPARKLE and PIZAZZ!! larawells@me.com (mailto:larawells@me.com) Lara.wells(Skype) Lara2coach(Twitter) Join Psychic Medium and Comedian Richard Spasoff as he welcomes guests to discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal and journeys in spirituality. Everything from ghosts and profound truth, to celebrity interviews and more can all be found in every episode of the Richard Spasoff Show. The Richard Spasoff Show is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the FREE HC Universal Network app for Android and iDevices or visit our LISTEN LIVE page and join the conversation. angelicmedium.org

The Richard Spasoff Show Ep 70 is a unique blend of paranormal, spirituality and comedy. Tonights guest Lara what a fun interview!! THANK YOU LARALara Wells, was voted most popular Female Spiritualist in the UK in 2008. As a Psychic, Spiritual Medium & Healer, she provides “insights” into her clients and students lives that brings clarity, direction, and motivation for them to “reach for the stars!”Lara Wells is a National and International Award Winning Medium, Professional Motivational Speaker and Spiritual Life coach. She has been a professional medium and psychic for 17 years. A busy mother of 5 children, she didn't find it easy to work in a professional environment, deal with issues, advise clients, speak to 'dead' people and juggle the many demands of running a publication (The Psychic Voice) as well as writing for national and international publications. She set about using what she knew and changed her life for the better. Today, she travel widely but makes sure she takes the time to do so. Lara is healthier than she has ever been and is the main bread winner without stressing herself.She is a published author of the book, Spiritual Slimming: Slim Your Life, Slim Your Body. In this book, Lara explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body.Contact Lara if you want a Psychic or Medium who is REAL and has SPARKLE and PIZAZZ!! larawells@me.comLara.wells(Skype)Lara2coach(Twitter)Join Psychic Medium and Comedian Richard Spasoff as he welcomes guests to discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal and journeys in spirituality. Everything from ghosts and profound truth, to celebrity interviews and more can all be found in every episode of the Richard Spasoff Show.The Richard Spasoff Show is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the FREE HC Universal Network app for Android and iDevices or visit our LISTEN LIVE page and join the conversation.angelicmedium.org

S3E21 - We've got an extra special episode of FPIK for you this week. Guest co-host Abigail Williams joins us as we begin with a heartfelt discussion of the state of our union, then to lighten the mood, we ask TJ some conundrums, and we end with a hometown Versus Battle between Atlanta musicians Usher and TLC. (Airdate: 06/06/2020).

Literary Gardener Rhonda Nowak visits with Ashland Greenhouses about creating front porch planters with pizazz.

Today's guest is musician and yoga instructor Brenda Weiler! Topics of conversation include her journey into yoga, how she conducts classes in the time of Covid-19, playing in her high school's show choir Pizazz, why you shouldn't date drummers, and so much more! For more episodes, or to find out how you can support this podcast, visit www.jjmeetsworld.com!

Support for Titans' Tannehill has been quiet this year because of the majority's love for Mariota. Never again. The best player should've gotten the nod from the start. Also call it delusion but I'm either being trolled by the Titans or honestly they steal (or borrow) my ideas a lot. Specifically this year when I'm literally putting it in their face. Listen and I'll explain.

This is part 2 of a five-part series offering 101 Public Speaking Tips. In this episode, we cover a number of tips that will help you add content and impact to a presentation. The first few tips cover how to be a better storyteller when you speak. We also cover a number of ways to get your audience to participate in your presentation. We end with some of Doug’s favorite Impact Ideas for presentations.SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/101-public-speaking-tips/

Our guest this week is the one and only (scrambled) Greg Ormont from Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. We talk to Greg about what it means to give 100%, how to balance work and life in a way that’s meaningful, realizing that at some point we have to take care of ourselves, how being a theater kid gave him a solid foundation, and a whole bunch more!Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is a band whose very existence is rooted in the unyielding quest for joy and positive energy. Blending infectious funk grooves, psychedelic jams, and experimental electronics, the Baltimore four-piece’s new album, ‘Pizazz,’ is a buoyant, blissful reminder of just how much fun music can be. Eschewing the traditional funk band lineup that typically includes keyboards, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong constructs effervescent soundscapes with just two guitars, bass, and drums, crafting their music with a sophisticated ear for both open space and dense layering.Catch pigeons out on the road this Fall and for merch, tour news, bio info, and more go to:http://pigeonsplayingpingpong.com/***THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY THE AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE CBD VERMONT, SHOP TOUR BUS & DEFYNE PREMIUM CANNABIS!!!!SHOP TOUR BUS:Visit shoptourbus.com or @shoptourbus on IG and pick up some wonderfully creative and beautiful Grateful Dead inspired shirts/hoodies. Use the code nosimpleroad for free shipping!!!!!!DEFYNE PREMIUM CANNABIS:Defyne Premium Cannabis here in Oregon with two locations to serving the most incredible premium cannibis around: HILLSBORO: 1775 SE Tualatin Valley Hwy. Hillsboro, OR. 97123 and FOREST GROVE: 3821 Pacific Ave. Forest Grove, OR. 97116Head over to defyne.life to learn about their products and get ahold of some sweet Defyne Premium Cannabis Swag!CBD VERMONT:We are sponsored by CBD Vermont, which partners with organic farms in Vermont to produce organically-grown hemp used in full spectrum extracts, available for sale at CBDVermont.com. Use the code 'nosimpleroad' to get 15% off of all of their products. They guarantee their farms a price per plant and provide cultivation support throughout the growing season. There are a lot of CBD products out there, so how do you know what you’re getting? Well, CBD Vermont tests all of its extracts to ensure you’re getting the right amount of CBD and other cannabinoids, and no unwanted toxins. Plus, each batch is traced to the Vermont farm where it was grown, and the hemp cultivar that was extracted. They’ve recently launched an online store, where you can buy Vermont-made CBD products—including oils, capsules, edibles, and topicals - that have been fully vetted by the staff at CBD Vermont. Go to CBDVermont.com and use the code 'nosimpleroad' at checkout to get 15% off.SHOW CREDITS:ENGINEERNORMAN MARSTON (norman7norman7@gmail.com) co-owner/operator of Wall of Sound Recording Chicago, ILWall of Sound Recording of FBand @wallofsound_recording on IGPRODUCERJUSTIN ELROD (justin.g.elrod@gmail.com)MUSICIntro Music - 'No Simple Road' written and performed by 'THE HIGGS' Check them out at: thehiggsmusic.comOutro Music by: THE CHILLDREN OF INDIGOCheck out their website chilldrenofindigo.comcheck out this amazing video created exclusively for NSR!REDDIT AND OTHER COMMUNITY... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

C View Quantum Network proudly presents our new host Lara Wells with her show: Confessions Of A Desperate Psychic. This show airs the FIRST Monday of EVERY month. On this Episode Lara will talk about Collapsing Realities. A recent heavy meteor shower along with the vibration of the earth has given us a shake ( Schumann Resonance x 7) sending emotions into a turmoil. No matter what you see or feel right now, try and understand that it’s mostly surface stuff and it will settle down soon. As a National and International Award Winning Medium, Professional Motivational Speaker and Spiritual Life Coach, Lara provides “insights” into callers lives that brings clarity, direction, and motivation for them to “reach for the stars!” Call FREE (805) 830-8344 and wait in line or use #TAKEMYCALL ($11) and jump the long list of callers - www.PayPal.me/Pureco/11 - please PM or email Claudia Pureco with phone number you"ll call the show cview1111@gmail.com Lara Wells has been a professional medium and psychic for 17 years. A busy mother of 5 children, she didn't find it easy to work in a professional environment, deal with issues, advise clients, speak to 'dead' people and juggle the many demands of running a publication (The Psychic Voice) as well as writing for national and international publications. She set about using what she knew and changed her life for the better. Today, she travel widely but makes sure she takes the time to do so. Lara is healthier than she has ever been and is the main bread winner without stressing herself. She is a published author of the book, Spiritual Slimming: Slim Your Life, Slim Your Body. In this book, Lara explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body. Contact Lara if you want a Psychic or Medium who is REAL and has SPARKLE and PIZAZZ!! Contact Lara directly: www.lara-wells.com    larawells@me.com

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C View Quantum Network proudly presents our new host Lara Wells with her show: Confessions Of A Desperate Psychic. This show airs the FIRST Monday of EVERY month. As a National and International Award Winning Medium, Professional Motivational Speaker and Spiritual Life Coach, Lara provides “insights” into callers lives that brings clarity, direction, and motivation for them to “reach for the stars!” Call in (805) 830-8344 April 1 - #SpiritualWeightLoss - This episode explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body. By clearing the demons within, and slimming our life to gain control, we can slim the packaging on the outside. #TAKEMYCALL available - jump the long list of callers and get your question FIRST - $11 www.PayPal.me/Pureco/11 - please email Claudia Pureco with phone number you"ll call the show cview1111@gmail.com Lara Wells has been a professional medium and psychic for 17 years. A busy mother of 5 children, she didn't find it easy to work in a professional environment, deal with issues, advise clients, speak to 'dead' people and juggle the many demands of running a publication (The Psychic Voice) as well as writing for national and international publications. She set about using what she knew and changed her life for the better. Today, she travel widely but makes sure she takes the time to do so. Lara is healthier than she has ever been and is the main bread winner without stressing herself. She is a published author of the book, Spiritual Slimming: Slim Your Life, Slim Your Body. In this book, Lara explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body. Contact Lara if you want a Psychic or Medium who is REAL and has SPARKLE and PIZAZZ!! larawells@me.com Lara.wells(Skype) Lara2coach(Twitter)

Fashion Kweens Robert and Javi explore the glamorous world of Paris Haute Couture in "Funny Face" from 1957. Directed by Stanley Donen, with Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson and Fred Astaire, special visual consultant Richard Avedon, and gorgeous costumes by Hubert de Givenchy. Learn how Kay Thompson steals the show, why Audrey Hepburn insisted on Givenchy designing her Paris wardrobe and other alleged behind the scenes fun facts in this madcap review of this stylish Hollywood classic by legendary director Stanley Donen.

C View proudly presents our new host Lara Wells with her show: Confessions Of A Desperate Psychic. Lara Wells, was voted most popular Female Spiritualist in the UK in 2008. As a Psychic, Spiritual Medium & Healer, she provides “insights” into her clients and students lives that brings clarity, direction, and motivation for them to “reach for the stars!” Lara Wells is a National and International Award Winning Medium, Professional Motivational Speaker and Spiritual Life coach. She has been a professional medium and psychic for 17 years. A busy mother of 5 children, she didn't find it easy to work in a professional environment, deal with issues, advise clients, speak to 'dead' people and juggle the many demands of running a publication (The Psychic Voice) as well as writing for national and international publications. She set about using what she knew and changed her life for the better. Today, she travel widely but makes sure she takes the time to do so. Lara is healthier than she has ever been and is the main bread winner without stressing herself. She is a published author of the book, Spiritual Slimming: Slim Your Life, Slim Your Body. In this book, Lara explores the link between the baggage we carry in life and the effects it has on our body. Contact Lara if you want a Psychic or Medium who is REAL and has SPARKLE and PIZAZZ!!  larawells@me.com Lara.wells(Skype) Lara2coach(Twitter)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN YA CREEPS. This week we wanted to address some information about our Podcast for new (or current listeners) and because you’re dealing with a Gemini and a Libra, you’re going to get it delivered two different ways. Don’t feel like joining in on the rant? That’s OK skip ahead to about 11:34 to get started on the actual content and why you listen! This week, on the spookiest week of the year we watch the classic “Nightmare on Elm Street” with our man F.K. Join us as we discuss Freddy’s terrible form when running, the lack of shoes worn in questionable alleys, and Jen laying down some hXc film trivia. 1,2 Molly and Jen are coming for you, 3,4 gotta do something more, 5, 6 because you like these chicks, 7, 8 give them an Itunes rate, 9, 10 so pick up your virtual pen... Stats/info: 1984 Directed by Wes Craven starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, John Sazon, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, and Marge Thompson Podcast Promo: That’s Weird (Intro music from https://www.free-stock-music.com)

Episode 44 – 9/4/18 – Autumn means schedules! Knitting & running in 30 min or less. Summer is over, kids are back to school and life is finally scheduled again!  This means I should be able to start recording on a regular basis again, huzzah! FOs Dahlia - pattern by Brenda York for Berroco Yarns is finally done!  Whole shawl is from stash.  Blue body is Juniper Moon Farms Neve in Lagoon colorway from my LYS that closed.  Red is Cascade Ultra Pima Fine in the Cranberry colorway held double, yellow & green is Berroco Modern Cotton in the Del & Breakers colorways.  Purple is some ancient Plymouth Yarns Covington. 50-st sock – both are complete thought it’s been too hot to wear 44-st sock for Thing 1 – worked on this while on our cruise to Bermuda last week finished both!   Wips New 52-st sock for me in Plymouth Diversity in the Deep Sea colorway Sock for Thing 2 – he previously asked for the Deep Sea colorwat but after seeing me knit his brother’s socs in the Pizazz colorway, he changed his mind and wants red socks too Stash 1 skein of Goshen from Valley Yarns in the Plum colorway from The Black Purl in Bermuda – more about Bermuda later.  2 skeins on Ito Yarn’s Kinu 100% silk this is going to be used for the Ixchel sweater from the latest issue of Pom Pom, the one with the phases of the moon in the sweater 1 skein of Plymouth Yarn’s Diversity that my mom picked out for her Christmas socks Both these last two are from A Great Yarn which is a lovely Yarn and Book shop in Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts   Spinning A braid of cotton from Hipstrings, the Midseason Clifhanger colorway.  Learned how to re-align the wheel of my Lendrum - super easy Out and About Fiber Revival at the Spencer Little Farm in Newbury, MA Firefly themed bag from Stitched by Jessalu Silk brick from Bewitching Fiber Co Tussah silk from PineTree Last week we took a cruise from Boston to Bermuda and it was so lovely.   Go swm at the Blue Hole if you ever get the chance. Upcoming: Oct 20th – Rhinebeck.  Taking the Webs bus on Saturday Nov 3rd & 4th – Fiber Festival of New England at the Big E – not 100% sure I’m going, but thinking about it.   Running 1 short run since the last time I recorded; nothing to write home about.  Hoping to get a few shorter runs in next week.  Slow and steady Fitness Talk   What can a personal trainer do for you?

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Pigeons Playing Ping Pong are all about raw, emotional fun. I really dig their sound and you will to. Like most jam bands today, they blend all kinds of genres but they are rooted in a very sassy funk groove. We recently sat down with front man Greg Ormont to talk about their upcoming release Pizazz and a whole lot more. The conversation started just after I watched their Lockn’ set, and I asked Greg to recall how awesome that set was…… You can listen to this episode below, or by connecting and subscribing to one of the podcast platforms here or search your favorite podcast platform for “The Sound Podcast”; Itunes: http://bit.ly/sndpodi TuneIn: http://bit.ly/sndti Stitcher: http://bit.ly/sndsti GooglePlay: http://bit.ly/sndplay Get The Sound Podcast App: http://bit.ly/TSPAPPS See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pizazz Baby, We Need More Pizazz When Presenting   Pizazz is one of those unusual words, that sounds kind of cool, but is a bit vague. In presenting terms, we are really looking at being more interesting and engaging and doing that in a sparky, non-anticipatory way. Droning on when presenting is a pretty strong norm for many people. They talk at us, not with us. They are lifeless and low energy. This may be fine for having a cup of tea with your friends, but if you want to present, then you have to switch it up.   A workman like, by the numbers, presentation is fundamentally boring. A recent presenter did a painting by numbers job with his effort. The talk had completed the exercise in the allotted time and he had spoken about a number of key points. The delivery was wooden though, the voice tone was flat, the whole thing was a lifeless shambles really. The snapper though is that the speaker represents his organization to the world at large and he did a poor job when up on the podium.   When you are in a high profile role, like being the CEO, then you simply have to perform. Never forget we judge your whole organisation on you. If you are mediocre, we assume everyone is the same. We don't say, well that guy or gal was the exception.   The rest of the crew are all dynamite. Nope, we say they are all duds down there.   So engaging your audience is a requirement. This is easy to say, but not so easy to do. Energy is a key component of this process. Somehow we all know that enthusiasm is contagious, but miraculously manage to forget this, when we start speaking in front of groups. The low energy insult became a trademark of President Trump when disparaging his political opponent Jeb Bush.   It is cutting, because it implies you don't have what it takes to be a leader. Whether you agree with Trump or not, the point is valid. If the leader is low energy, we somehow doubt they can do the job properly. We don't get to meet that many CEOs or politicians in person, so we draw our conclusions from seeing them on television, in videos or at public presentations. Remember we are all on show when presenting.   The podium is one area of difficulty, but with the prevalence of YouTube videos and business social media, presenters are starting to really branch out. This was brought back to me not so long ago, when I saw a video on LinkedIn of someone I know and the delivery was fundamentally funereal. The whole atmosphere was dark, bleak, lifeless. This guy is a smart guy and if we read the transcript we would think what he had to say was valuable. The voice however was a monotone, the energy was totally insignificant and the exercise was absolutely dreary, not motivational.   Sadly, the message while actually pretty good, was just destroyed, totally killed by the poor delivery. Now if you are going to put yourself out there, especially in the crowded alleyways of the YouTube video world and broadcast through social media, then you have to step it up. There are so many windows to the world now and everyone can see us. Once upon a time, you could be fairly hopeless and only a few poor souls would know. Not anymore. This is where the pizazz idea comes in.   If you want your message to cut through the white noise of a squillion other presenters, then you need to have an attitude that says, “I want to stand out and be heard”. Casey Neistat did that with video blogging. There were plenty of other well established video bloggers out there, but he brought a movie style approach to his vlogging. He would set the camera up, so that it recorded him entering the room, for example. A simple but very effective idea. All the other vloggers were one dimensional – they were pointing the camera at themselves, as they held it at arms length. He made a small change that set him apart. He brought some movie making style pizazz to the exercise and the rest of us are happy he did that. Now it is much more interesting for us the viewer.   Gary Vaynerchuk did that with his Daily Vee vlog. He combined reality television style presentation, with motivation and information. Nobody had done that before. He created some pizazz and is getting close to a million subscribers for his show. He gets a lot of work speaking, sells his books and gets business for his digital agency off the back of his notoriety. All he did was make a small innovation in a crowded space, so he could stand out and he has been incredibly successful doing that.   This then has to be the mantra. Set yourself apart when presenting. If you want to move into video, then you really need to compete. This is not just you presenting while being recorded. Yes, you can do that, but if you are going to blast yourself around the world via video on social media, then add pizazz to the mix and make it interesting. Be that little bit unexpected, have something that differentiates you from the pack.   You don't have to be handsome, beautiful, deep bass DJ voiced or tall. You just have to be interesting, engaging and relevant. Use voice modulation, tell stories, speak with, not at your audience and bring your full energy to the task.   Okay, let's all go back to the drawing board. Let's stop doing what we have always done and think about how we could add some pizazz to our presentations and start experimenting, to find what works best for each of us.   Engaged employees are self-motivated. The self-motivated are inspired. Inspired staff grow your business but are you inspiring them? We teach leaders and organisations how to inspire their people. Want to know how we do that? Contact me at greg.story@dalecarnegie.com   If you enjoy these articles, then head over to www.japan.dalecarnegie.com and check out our "Free Stuff" offerings - whitepapers, guidebooks, training videos, podcasts, blogs. Take a look at our Japanese and English seminars, workshops, course information and schedules.   About The Author Dr. Greg Story: President, Dale Carnegie Training Japan In the course of his career Dr. Greg Story has moved from the academic world, to consulting, investments, trade representation, international diplomacy, retail banking and people development. Growing up in Brisbane, Australia he never imagined he would have a Ph.D. in Japanese decision-making and become a 30 year veteran of Japan.   A committed lifelong learner, through his published articles in the American, British and European Chamber journals, his videos and podcasts “THE Leadership Japan Series”, "THE Sales Japan series", THE Presentations Japan Series", he is a thought leader in the four critical areas for business people: leadership, communication, sales and presentations. Dr. Story is a popular keynote speaker, executive coach and trainer.   Since 1971, he has been a disciple of traditional Shitoryu Karate and is currently a 6th Dan. Bunbu Ryodo (文武両道-both pen & sword) is his mantra and he applies martial art philosophies and strategies to business.        

We visit the mind of Film-Maker  Francois LaRosa and Gaming Mind & Virtual Reality Mind of Leesa Grills, Joined by my Co-Host UN Ambassador Robert W Lowder, ~ we just talk "shop" about everything.  Francois Laros Francois Larosa formed Starfield Productions in 2008 in Austin Texas. His first Commercial was picked up by Skillpoint Alliance. Started shooting/writing for local Austin Business Commercials developing Podcast Projects for their Websites. In March 2011, his collaboration Film "Brotherhood" was shown during SXSW 2011.Then,developed the Sci-Fi TV Pilot Series-6 Episodes called,"El Otro Lado"-(The Other Side)via the TV Cable Network for CBS /Telemuendo, Writing,Directing,Producing(Facebook/El Otro Lado). Started in December 2012 to May 2013(First Season completed-2nd Season starts this 2016-(3 Episodes Completed). Afterwards, proceeded writing his featured film," The Reincarnation Of Jesse Belle" filmed in 5 cities in Texas. In 2015, was sold all rights, and has been on HBO in Portugal/Brazil-(May 2015 & 2016 Australia). Distributed to International Markets via Stream & VOD. The next film, a TV Pilot Novella, for Spanish TV,(The Success For The Four)-El Exito Para Las Cuatro", completed and shown January 2014 via- CBS/Telemuendo and Azteca Cable TV. The New Documentary Film,"I ,Me, American", is in re-development for 2017. Attended the University Of Houston/Victoria College Theater. Studied Acting doing the Classics(Gilbert & Sullivan Productions). Has acted in Several Studio Films such as the first,"Machete"film as Robert DeNiro's Emergency Room Doctor-(featured extra).The English Director from London, Simon Rumley's"Red, White & Blue"-Shown on Cable TV/The IFC Channel. Featured Role in the Film.. Casted in Micheal Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart" where Francois screamed in French at Angelina Jolie. He has had the opportunity to discuss Filmmaking Techniques & Writing with very well-know Directors in the Industry such as,Terrence Malik(Tree Of Life, A Thin Red Line), Richard Linklater-(School Of Rock, Bernie),as well as others. See IMDB.com. Current Documentary "Swim For The Reef" was Accredited and Accepted to The Prestigious Cannes Film Festival 2016 in France. Leesa Grills Entertainment Consultant ; Gaming, Music and Film industry ; IMDB Leesa Grills Leesa Grills[/caption] Also Joining us as Co-Host is the Honorable RW Bobby Lowder UN Ambasador  ] RW Lowder All materials presented on the GMAB radio program are royalty free as agreed to by the owners thereof, and the programming is presented for educational and informational purposes as no artist, writer of publisher are paid for their appearance ”Give Me A Break” Radio Hour Podcast is supported by donations from listeners like you! … Please Click the PayPal Donate button  to help keep great programming free for all to enjoy. Give Me A Break Radio; Bobby Pizazz; Wake Up America are subsidiaries of Open Door Production ( This PayPal link may indicate open door production )       Donate to GIVE ME A BREAK Radio  Share the Love!     Open Door Productions’   Cyber Studio For Songwriters  … to help you and all others who love songwriting.

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As an award winning jazz vocalist and founding member of The Manhattan Transfer, Erin Dickins has enjoyed career singers dream about. After five years singing ensemble music with The Manhattan Transfer, she emerged as one of the top studio singers in New York. Dickins toured and recorded with many notable artists including Leonard Cohen, Bette Midler, James Taylor, The Talking Heads, James Brown, Jaco Pastorius and Ashford & Simpson, to name but a few.   Erin Dickins Dickins recently completed work on a new album, Vignettes, slated for release in 2017. This first self-produced project is a compilation of one-on-one collaborations with an array of world-class musicians; many who have been close friends for many years. Eclectic and personal, Vignettes is a true representation of Dickins creativity. It captures her love of many musical genres and shows the true range of her vocal artistry. Among her collaborators are David Friedman (vibes), Elliott Randall (Steely Dan guitar), John Lissauer (Leonard Cohen Producer), Rob Mounsey (piano), A.J. Croce (Jim’s son - piano) and many others. As passionate about cooking as she is about music, in November 2014 Erin Dickins released a new cookbook with an accompanying CD, Sizzle & Swing - Jazzin’ Up Food by ComteQ Publishing with Dot Time Records. In concert with the book/CD release, Dickins launched a new line of herbal seasonings that shares the moniker, Sizzle & Swing. Ms. Dickins was awarded the prestigious Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and was also the recipient of the “Best Jazz Vocalist” honor awarded by CoffeeTalk Jazz Radio in Los Angeles. She is currently booking for 2017-18 internationally. * Erin Dickins: Vignettes review – 10 stunning duets Dave Gelly Sunday 9 April 2017 03.00 EDT Ten tracks, 10 duets, each with a different partner – not showbiz names, just startlingly good musicians. And Erin Dickins, New York session superwoman and founder member of the Manhattan Transfer, knows the difference. Some, such as drummer, vocalist, harmonica player Paul Jost are multi-instrumentalists; others,such as bassist Bruce Hamada and vibist David Friedman, are straightforward virtuosi. With a mixture of technical brilliance and stylistic instinct, Dickins builds a fascinating series of vignettes, ranging from quick-cutting, multilayered effects to simple voice and piano. The material is as varied as the treatment, including pieces by Nat King Cole, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross and Frankie Laine, among others. And not a cliche or slack moment anywhere.   All materials presented on the GMAB radio program are royalty free as agreed to by the owners thereof, and the programming is presented for educational and informational purposes as no artist, writer of publisher are paid for their appearance ”Give Me A Break” Radio Hour Podcast is supported by donations from listeners like you! … Please Click the PayPal Donate button  to help keep great programming free for all to enjoy. Give Me A Break Radio; Bobby Pizazz; Wake Up America are subsidiaries of Open Door Production ( This PayPal link will indicate open door production )       Donate to GIVE ME A BREAK Radio        Open Door Productions’   Cyber Studio For Songwriters  … to help you and all others who love songwriting.   "Thank You David Katz, Superior Vocal Health and God, Saved my throat!" Bobby Pizazz   Shop Superior Vocal Health[/caption] Thank You Lee Oskar for providing me with quality harmonicas, I greatly appreciate it. We just now relaunched the show this month. Bobby Pizazz Thank You so much Roguie Ray LaMontagne for making a custom set of Rainbow Colored Harmonicas. Bobby Pizazz SHARE THE LOVE  

JB & JR get a taste of what it takes to break into the hair and beauty industry from hair salon owner Miss Pizazz herself.

Do we have something behaving/resembling a living energy which flows through us as a force, like in the Star Wars movies? What is Ch'i (Qi), Prana, Mojo or Pizazz? Explore this ancient topic in a modern context with your co-hosts, Satch Purcell & Carlos Casados in this episode of The Authenticity Show. #chi #vitality #usetheforce […]

Do we have something behaving/resembling a living energy which flows through us as a force, like in the Star Wars movies? What is Ch'i (Qi), Prana, Mojo or Pizazz? Explore this ancient topic in a modern context with your co-hosts, Satch Purcell & Carlos Casados in this episode of The Authenticity Show. #chi #vitality #usetheforce […]

One of the sweetest drag queens to ever come out of RuPaul’s Drag Race is Latrice Royale, who like Dr. Dre is straight out of Compton, or gay out of Compton.Amazingly, she’s survived it all: having two brothers caught up in gangs and then she served time in prison for possession of a small amount of marijuana and a single pill of klonopin.Today, Latrice Royale joins us to talk about her new album “Here’s to Life,” a collection of jazz classics that pays tribute to strong black women in show business like Broadway’s Ruth Brown and jazz icon Shirley Horn.Latrice’s boyfriend Christopher Hamblin serves as the pianist and arranger for the album with fellow Drag Race contestant Mimi Imfurst as the album’s producer!Listen as we talk with Latrice about her amazing drag family of Jasmine Masters, Lady Red Couture and Kennedy Davenport. What do these gals kiki about when the cameras aren’t rolling?Chicago, check out her on April 2 at the Divas of Drag Showcase at the House of Blues.PLUS:➤ The origins of “Jesus is a biscuit.”➤ What Latrice Royale has to say about RuPaul’s latest interview that has everyone on the internet talking.

This week's Bite-Sized episode The Girls read fan recommendation, JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS, and went NUTS for Jem, her three sisters, and their musical lives. Listen in for who loves which sister, why The Girls want to live in that world, and just what they thought of Pizazz!

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jenn and matthew discuss which "sister sister" theme song is best, and how much pizazz they might have. also, matthew's computer is seriously on the fritz and won't stop playing 70s hits. weird!!!!

DJ Mix: Pizazz! Part 4 The last of the DJ mix Pizazz! series for as far as we can remember, maybe we'll find more in our dusty crates, stay tuned! The post DJ Mix: Pizazz! 4 appeared first on Soundfabrics » Podcast Feed.

DJ Mix: Pizazz! 3, straight from the vault! We're still missing Pizazz! 2 in this series, but we'll find it one day. In the meantime #3 will not disappoint your deep and soulful needs! Another DJ mix bij the maestro himself, back in the year of 2000. The post DJ Mix: Pizazz! 3 appeared first on Soundfabrics » Podcast Feed.

DJ Mix: Pizazz! Part 1, first mix in 1999. Another great DJ mix from the vault! Back in 1999 when Pizazz! was just beginning it's deep house nights in Amsterdam, drawing a good crowd of ±500 people to get into the groove. Deep and soulful house from NY, San Francisco and Chicago, as good as […] The post DJ Mix Pizazz! 1 appeared first on Soundfabrics » Podcast Feed.

The ScoopCast talks about album 52, special insider videos, and a behind-the-scenes interview with Zach Callison, voice of Matthew Parker on "Adventures in Odyssey." Also, get a sneak peek at what's in store for weekend shows.

Dr. Frada-Reed, a wonderfully humanistic and well informed medical doctor from France has brought to Western Medicine her love of the natural and blended it with her respect and professional wisdom of modern medicine. She will give you the whys and hows of DETOXIFYING YOUR BODY. This leads the path toward weight loss, body tone, and superior health and aging. Join us for the 1 of 4 series calling ahead at 310-543-1824 and leaving your message or call in live. You are in for a healthy building treat.

JT Donaldson played at Pizazz! on February 3rd in 2001. JT’s first appearance in Amsterdam, just 24 years of age and rocking the place!! SORRY NO PLAYLIST The post JT Donaldson @ Pizazz! appeared first on Soundfabrics » Podcast Feed.