Podcasts about prancing

The blow torch has never been applied more ferociously to how leaders lead than what we see today.  Once upon a time, there were resumes pilling up to consider who we would hire.  We had the whip hand, and the applicants felt the lash.  Now the roles have been reversed and the applicants are interviewing us, rather than the other way around.  I have done my weekly podcast Japan's Top Business Interviews now for over five years, talking to CEOs here about one topic – leading in Japan.  It was never intended for this when I started five years ago, but many of the leaders tell me it is having a positive impact on getting people they want to hire to join the company, in preference to another firm.  The reason is that my style of interviewing allows the leader to be authentic and talk in their natural voice.  There is no corporate propaganda being issued or false flags being flown. This is what employees want from their companies and, in particular, from their supervisors.  It is easy to proclaim your superior values when times are good.  When times get tough, that is when you discover if what you have been told by your boss is real or fake.  I had this experience, and it was very disappointing.  I heard all about the importance of our customer, but when the economy went off the rails, the customer was instantly propelled overboard and everything was about the sole interests of the firm.  Short-termism took over, and many bridges were burnt to the ground.  Promises were retracted and customer collateral damage was waved away as “unfortunate”.  Any faith I had in the senior leadership and their commitment to the stated values of the firm evaporated. As the boss, we have to be very careful about the congruency between what we say and what we do.  If we talk about wellness, but we expect people to drive themselves to ill health, then we are revealed for who we were really are.  Our interests are the real priority. Over the years, when looking through people's resumes, I would ask about some blank spaces. They would tell me they had to quit the company because the horrendous overtime had made them ill. As an Aussie, I always thought to myself “how ridiculous”, but that was the norm in Japan back in those dark days. If we talk about work/non-work balance, but we push people to work long hours, we are hypocrites and, even worse, obviously stupid hypocrites to boot. If we talk about work ethic, but we are cruising along as the boss, while whipping the troops along, it is clear to everyone that we are applying an indulgent, different set of rules to ourselves.  We can be clever and come up with all sorts of justifications and corporate double speak, but nobody is fooled by our deceit.  Treat others how you want to be treated is the most basic level required for boss-subordinate interactions.  This is commonly called the “golden rule”. The actual true target level should be to treat subordinates how they want to be treated and is called the “platinum rule”.  Let's go for the platinum rule, shall we? This sounds easy enough, but there is no necessary uniform idea on this and every person can have quite different expectations.  As the boss, we need to keep enquiring about what our people want.  We may have had that conversation once before, but a lot can happen in the space of a few years, and these desires are not stagnant.  Changes can include getting married, having children, taking care of aged parents, buying a home, paying for the kid's education, etc.  The list of changes are long and we need to appreciate that our subordinates' needs change. Taking the view that it doesn't matter because we pay them is an antiquated idea stuck back in the day when resumes were numerous and boss choices were many.  Money is important, of course, but as life speeds up time becomes in short supply.  Flexibility can create the time our people need and we can help them achieve things they need.  If we are dogmatic about the rules and procedures, that may make us feel powerful, but it will be counterproductive inside the culture.  Our research has clearly shown that the key to getting teams engaged is that they feel the boss cares about them.  The way they know that is actually the case is through the way the boss communicates and the boss's capacity to be flexible and supportive of the needs of the staff. As the boss, you can't fake this stuff.  You are either supportive or you are not.  The basic posture has to be an inside out job, where the natural instinct is there to support our staff in every way we can. Prancing around as if you are supportive and using sweet words and pleasant smiles isn't going to cut it if just fluff.  When the decisions get attached to real money, this is when we all see if what the leader says and does is the same thing or not.  People are not stupid.  They can tell what is smoke and mirrors and what they can trust and rely upon, so let's not insult anyone's intelligence.  

“Send us a Hey Now!”After the highs served up by COTA last week, we had been a little downbeat on our feelings for what Mexico might bring.It's been a track in recent years that has not thrown up much excitement and went as far as forcing us to call last years episode the Siesta Fiesta!Well it's fait to say that Mexico put right those historical wrongs and served us up a really entertaining race.Lots of drama and action which the guys dive into before setting their sights on the last of the triple header in Brazil next week.Episode running order as always is...1) News & SocialAll the best bits from both the sports news out there as well as what caught our eye on the various social channels2) Brian's Video Vault Nothing this week - back next week when hopefully Brian's back is mended!3) Mexican GP ReviewPractice, qualy, and race reviewKing of the pits vs the pitsPitlane Paul4) Brazilian GP PreviewA look ahead to next weeks race in InterlagosWe would love you to join our Discord server so use this invite link to join us https://discord.gg/XCyemDdzGBIf you would like to sign up for the 100 Seconds of DRS then drop us an email stating your time zone to dirtysideofthetrack@gmail.comAlso please like, follow, and share our content on Threads, X, Facebook, & Instagram, links to which can be found on our website.One last call to arms is that if you do listen along and like  us then first of all thanks, but secondly could we ask that you leave a review and a 5 star rating - please & thanks!If you would like to help the Dirty Side promote the show then we are now on Buy me a coffee where 100% of anything we get will get pumped into advertising the show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dirtysideofthetrackDirty Side of the Track is hosted on Buzzsprout https://www.buzzsprout.com/Support the show

COTA delivered an exciting and controversial race with the Prancing horses get a sneaky 1-2 and Lando drifts further away from his dream of winning the championship. In this episode we discuss: Lando does it again! Was the penalty justified? “Exploit every loophole” – Max Probably Blue Ball zone Rookie Dominance! The washed up Australian The Ferrari Extremism Haas hits homerun 20 wide into turn 1 Running this podcast takes up a lot of passion, hard work, and real money. If you like listening to our podcast and have the money to spare, please consider donating at F1 Fanfiction is a F1 Podcast (buymeacoffee.com) Join F1 Fanfiction at our Socials: Instagram: @f1fanfiction Tiktok: @f1fanfiction Twitter: @f1fanfiction Music Intro: Howling (Sting) - Gunnar Olsen Outro: Your Intro by Audionautix

Welcome to Live From Progzilla Towers Edition 522. In this special Prance edition we heard music by Ludwig Van Beethoven Vs The Chemical Brothers, Koan, Ben Liebrand, Globular, Goantum Fantay, Dire Straits Vs The Police, I Monster, Steven Wilson, Haruomi Hosono, Ott., The Dubbeltjes, The Beatles, Pink Floyd Vs The Bee Gees, System F, Throbbing Gristle, BT, Shpongle, Simon Posford & Friends, Younger Brother, The Human League, Underworld & The Beatles Vs Kraftwerk.

In episode nineteen, Tilly and Ash accidentally volunteer to help out the Butterbur Bree Historical Society with recording their most famous inn, the Prancing Pony. Armed with a measuring tape and a frosty pint, they go about discussing the biggest trope in all fantasy: the Tavern!Links Hall, T. (2018) Tropes and taverns, oh my!, BOOK RIOT Survey and recording at Historic Environment Scotland Hedge, R. and Robson-Glyde, S. (2015) A Guide to the Archaeological Field Recording of Historic Buildings A Guide to the Archaeological Field Recording of Historic Buildings 2.Contact Email: andmytrowel@gmail.com Instagram: @‌and.my.trowelTranscripts For rough transcripts of this episode, go to: https://www.archpodnet.com/trowel/19ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724Affiliates Motion: https://www.archpodnet.com/motion

2 for 1 special, honey! Join Halo as he recaps E6 & E7 of #DragRaceUK UK vs. The World Series 2! First the queens will be dancing in pairs to different dance styles while in "half and half" drag. Secondly the queens must write and deliver a comedy roast for the wedding of Michelle Visage and Graham Norton. Let's have some fun cross' the pond and enjoy the episode! #SADHH --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shealreadydonehadhers/support

Kraliçeler çiftler halinde üç farklı dans türünde yeteneklerini sergilemek için pistteki yerlerini alıyorlar.

¿Querías una doble? ¡Pues aquí la tienes! Con la intención de ponernos al día, revisionamos el desafío de baile y el Roast junto a un miembro iconic y amado de la dictadura: @elgonferrada! Top6-top5 en UKvsTW2 y los resultados se sienten bastante correctos. ¿Qué te pareció la categoría ejecutivo por delante, fiesta por atrás? ¿Habremos estado de acuerdo en la pasarela de novias? ¡Deja tu team en los comentarios y apuesta por quién gana el lipsync smackdown mañana viernes!

The ONLY drag race pod is BACK with our coverage of RuPaul's Drag Race - UK VS THE WORLD 2! Drag Her is talking Episode 6 in a bonus series we're calling RUPAUL'S DRAG RANT! WOW! Go watch it on WOW Presents+ to stay updated! KIKI with us at Drag Her's IG! PREPARE TO GAG, WHORES!!!!! PROPS TO YA, DWOTUR!BUY OUR MERCH! 50% of everything we make goes to The Okra Project!If you rate Drag Her 5-stars on Apple Podcasts & leave us ANY UNPOPULAR RPDR OPINION, we'll discuss it on the pod!!!!! DO IT!!AND PLUS AND!!! Go to our IG to watch our super special IG LIVES covering Drag Race UK! Black Lives Matter. DONATE NOW!Listen to Drag Her on Stitcher, download the app, or get more info at stitcherapp.com/dragher!Get more Mano on We Love Trash & Podcast Killed The Video Star!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I couldn't be more excited to introduce Stacy Juba to you today. She has written books about ice hockey, teen psychics, U.S. flag etiquette for kids, and determined women sleuths. Stacy is an author, editor, and teacher with 30 years of experience.  Here are some highlights from our chat: How she learned over many years to refill her creative well with meditation, yoga, reading, and jigsaw puzzles with a partner. Finding inspiration from all the different corners of daily life from flag etiquette to theme park princesses. The importance of ergonomics. How Oracle cards are different from tarot. Short answer: Oracle has more flexibility and freedom of interpretation. Using EFT tapping, vision boards, action steps, and concrete goals to move past obstacles. “Find those things that rejuvenate you and remember not to take it personally.” “[Writing] gives me a voice. When I write, I feel like I'm fully myself.” Words to past self: make sure each scene is as fleshed out as it can be with a balance of dialogue, setting, and story elements. Links mentioned: Book Editing Blueprint Course (to cut down on rounds of paid editing and send your best work)  Energize Your Writing Toolkit (more ways to use body language and cut down on crutch words) Time Management for Writers  Stacy's recent book: Prancing Around with Sleeping Beauty  Stacy's Shortcut for Writers website and Facebook Group Stacy's author website with all her series Thank you for listening today and make sure you're all caught up on author interviews with last week's guest, Wendy C. Goldstein. Next up we have author illustrator Jo Renfro!

The elite global Drag Racers continue in their bid to impress Mama Ru -this week, in a high-level, high-stakes dance-off competition: Strictly Come Prancing.  Motsi Mabuse swaps the Strictly Come Dancing judges' desk for the Drag Race judging panel as she joins RuPaul, Michelle Visage and Alan Carr, and Strictly legends Janette Manrara and Aljaž Škorjanec are on hand to choreograph a ballroom extravaganza as the queens pair up and dance cheek to cheek.  The questions remain: Who has two left feet? Who can cha-cha-cha their way into the lip-sync finale? Who will quickstep away from the competition? Who will win the coveted title of Queen of the Mothertucking World?  In this game, nothing is certain. No one is safe. In a cunning twist, it's the top two queens who engage in a lip-sync battle, with the winner earning the right to eliminate one of the bottom queens.  Keep prancing and may the best drag queen win! COME JOIN IN! Spilling the G&T podcast is a LIVE and real-time podcast that Spills the G&T on the latest episode! With hosts: performer Paulo and everyone's favourite Psychiatrist, Dr Tom.  Follow AND engage Spilling the G&T Podcast on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spillingthegandtpodcast/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpillingGandT Email enquiries: thepaulomedia@gmail.com 

U Read it Well and The Cringe is Real are teaming up for a podcast smackdown for the crown! Back again to recap RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World Season 2 is Jean and Sam and this week there is no dancing around the fact that Choriza's days are numbered!  Follow: @jeanlizza @samcremean @ureaditwellpodcast @thecringeisrealpod

This week's guest, Adam Pranica of the podcast "The Greatest Generation," really doesn't know a whole lot about Lord of the Rings save for the one time he's seen the trilogy... so Jessica gets the idea to test Adam on his knowledge of the movies and lore based on his one viewing.  The result? This episode of Podcast of the Rings. Enjoy! ADAM PRANICA Twitter The Greatest Generation Podcast The Greatest Trek Podcast Take this dumb quiz. We DARE you! https://quizoto.com/movies-and-tv/the-ultimate-lord-of-the-rings-superfan-quiz/ ---LOOK MOM, we have a Patreon! Get EARLY ACCESS to episodes, EXCLUSIVE ACCESS to the video version of our show, and more! Head over to our PATREON now! ---A new episode every Tuesday. Email us at PodcastoftheRings@gmail.com Join the conversation and jump into our DISCORD! Follow our Podcast on TWITTER @PodoftheRings Funny content & Shorts on YOUTUBE  BEN GODDARDTwitterTwitch TikTok JESSICA LYNN VERDI TwitterTwitch TikTok Produced by Jessica Lynn Verdi Theme Song written by Vinny Verdi JLV Podcasts | 2024  

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Follow @aunt_acid Aunt Acid is a dancer turned DJ living near the late, legendary, Club Zanzibar. Aunt Acid's Acid's Camp mix weaves a love letter to queer campout festivals: Creating new friendships. Fleeting romances. Hugs and cheek kisses. Bright smiles. Infectious fits of giggles. Skinny dipping. Twisting squelches. Gratuitous diva anthem blends. Camp. Camping. Campy. Sleepless nights. Sleeping through an entire night's programming. Jolting awake to Running up that Hill. Stealing a garden truck to drive an injured friend up that hill. Prancing. Holding a tarp over the decks during a flash rain. Beer on ice. Shake-n-go wigs. Glitter. Colored fires. Skimpy outfits. Tits out. Ass out. Making out. Jockstraps. Boots. Dancing in the mud. Chocolate ❤️💛💜 Yurt NASA visuals. Shared tents. Cold weather snuggling. Fog over the pool. Shared outdoor showers. Morning Jane Fonda exercise routines. Gluttonous indulging. Sharing furs with Burners. Radiant colors and new shapes. Hand geometry. Spilled drinks. Born again Easter Morning.

In the first story, the city is plagued by a prancing mule and the sounds of a little bell. Perhaps it has something to do with the Incan treasure buried somewhere nearby. In the second story, a religious woman has a dangerous side. Praise the lord and pass the ammo! But when she tries to cover up a naked man on the street, her whole world changes. Source: Ecuadorian Ghost Stories by Mario Conde Narrator: Dustin Steichmann Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod Sound Effects: Spooky Ambiance by OllieOllie ambience spooky forest.mp3 by marchon11 on Freesound.org Video by Headliner "The old lady with a white scarf going home from the church on a sunny sunday, at noon" by Cristian Ştefănescu is licensed under CC BY 2.0. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sandman-stories/message

This week on The Waffle Zone:1. We Waffle.2. We Talk Music & Podcasts.3. He said what?4. We have a lead guitar player this week!5. Matt gets blasted by the listeners.6. 667. Holy paths to hell...8. SON OF A HARRIS!9. Dancing & Prancing?Join the FACEBOOK Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/849540069613204Follow us on Twitter @UncleSteveRockEmail the show- IronMaidenPodcast@gmail.comSupport the show

Check out our new premium podcast here  (https://anchor.fm/kylie-gable4) for the full-length version of this audio. This week, I have an interview with the newest member of the Candy Apple Press family, Sweetie_Bee. She's so sweetly sadistic, she'll both terrify and delight you. Check out Sweetie on NiteFlirt Our audio tonight is from Sissy Brenda who did an amazing job with a story called Prancing in the Woods that features many of us at Candy Apple Press as characters. Please support Candy Apple Press at ⁠Clips4Sale⁠ ( https://clips4sale.com/143281/candy-apple-press/cid3af2f5692e2092a35d41ae0416) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kylie-gable/support

The Prancing Ponies Women's Car Show is one of the largest gatherings of women car owners and it happens in the middle of car week in Downtown Carmel. We set up our equipment in a corner of Devendorf Park and got some really great interviews. First off we talk to the guys from SEA.LVL who brought the party on stage with their instrumental R&B sounds. We also talked to the founder of the whole event, Chanterria McGilbra, who first got the idea to gather other women who owned Ferraris when a group of high school girls could not believe the one that she was driving was actually owned by her. Finally, we interview Miss Ferrari, whose 2013 Ferrari California won the best exotic award. 

The crew is back again  with a look back at fours races in one episode! In a quadruple decker episode comprising of the Spain, Canadian, Austrian, and the Great Britain Grands Prix, Breno and Sara take turns reviewing the grid and how each team has faired throughout the season.  They go through the highs of the McLaren resurgence in Silverstone and the lows of an epic FIA meltdown in Austria. Will Sara give Sainz a break and set her targets on a new victim? Will Breno apologize to Andreas Stella for McLaren's surprising turn around?  Has Breno converted Sara to his side on the cost cap debate? Will anyone beat Red Bull this season? Find out on a massive episode of TBFP!!!Follow us on on our socials:https://twitter.com/BlueFlagPodF1https://theblueflagpodcast.buzzsprout.com/

Ferraris Online was founded in 1972 by Michael Sheehan. With over 50 years of experience as a broker of exotic cars, specializing in Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and collections of other exotics. Offering experience as an expert witness regarding exotic car values, market trends, appraisals, and all aspects of repair and vehicle restoration. Ferraris Online is still run by Michael, who is now accompanied by his daughter, Colleen, and her husband RJ.  Colleen is here with us to share their story starting with how they began Ferraris Online by fixing crashed exotics for State Farm, USAA, and Auto Club insurance and quickly growing to be North America's largest Ferrari Restoration shop.  Joining us from the Exotic Car Marketplace, along with other Break/Fix episodes like “What Should I Buy? Italian Cars” is co-host William Ross.  The following episode has been brought to you by The Exotic Car Marketplace. With over 20 years in the collector car market, they can source the specific vehicle you desire. As well as the Rock'n'Revs Concours d'Elegance, Cleveland, OH. 

Prancing drag queen promoted to navy ambassador in order to bring more "diverse" recruits to the navy.

On episode 506, Amanda, Laura, Heidi, Jen, Toni-Anne and Natalie share their resorts, food, run experiences and how they supported each other for the Princess Half Marathon weekend. Featuring: Reach Momma and Auntie Judy for trip planning – TravelinTiaras@gmail.com Contribute to the show at www.patreon.com/geekinonwdw Show tshirts available at our Teepublic store Email me at curt.stone@GeekinOnWDW.com

That is right! We are going into WWI with nothing but horses and 19th century concepts of warfare. Let's see how Douglas and the Doughboys stack up against the Maxim gun!

Mika and Saiko discuss RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7! --- Episode Synopsis "The queens transform themselves into "Fake Housewives" then create half-man, half-woman looks for a dance challenge on the main stage." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/best-friends-ruview/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/best-friends-ruview/support

Cosgrove is headed to the homeland for a few days, so the boys wanted to make sure he left on a high note with a cracking show. Mission accomplished. No, seriously! It's really good. Here...listen.

Fitzy and Wizz indulge in three absolute beauties from one of the Adelaide Hill's most popular breweries. There's big developments surrounding Riley's multi of the week and Wizz tells a cracking story of how he became the Harrogate Sheep Wrangler.

Sean and Nick cover the latest in the NFL as training camps are underway, including Kyler Murray's no video games clause (4:30), the alternate helmet craze -- including rankings! (34:15) -- and preview the season ahead for the NFC North (13:15). The two then shift gears to Formula One by looking back to yet another wasted opportunity for Ferrari (57:15) before reflecting on Sebastian Vettel's career on the heels of his retirement announcement (1:01:30) and wrapping things up with a preview of the weekend ahead in Hungary, complete with predictions (1:04:00). YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzOIQA-iHyU&ab_channel=TheSeanandShookPodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4XJBl3hLwO3koRTG06tqqQ?si=mJCQ6_IKRuCSSzirNyzctA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sean-and-shook-podcast/id1413595319

After the British Grand Prix restored our faith in F1 we were waiting for the race at the RedBull Ring in Austria to bring us back down with a bump. We're good at getting things [...] The post Episode 323 – Ring On The Prancing Horses appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

At the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family tombstones, I had just enough learning to be able to spell them out. My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read “wife of the Above” as a complimentary reference to my father's exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations had been referred to as “Below,” I have no doubt I should have formed the worst opinions of that member of the family. Neither were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to “walk in the same all the days of my life,” laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright's or up by the mill.When I was old enough, I was to be apprenticed to Joe, and until I could assume that dignity I was not to be what Mrs. Joe called “Pompeyed,” or (as I render it) pampered. Therefore, I was not only odd-boy about the forge, but if any neighbor happened to want an extra boy to frighten birds, or pick up stones, or do any such job, I was favored with the employment. In order, however, that our superior position might not be compromised thereby, a money box was kept on the kitchen mantel shelf, into which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped. I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it. She rented a small cottage, and Mr. Wopsle had the room upstairs, where we students used to overhear him reading aloud in a most dignified and terrific manner, and occasionally bumping on the ceiling. There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle “examined” the scholars once a quarter. What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge throwing his bloodstained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look. It was not with me then, as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions, and compared them with Collins and Wopsle, rather to the disadvantage of both gentlemen.Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, besides keeping this educational institution, kept in the same room⁠—a little general shop. She had no idea what stock she had, or what the price of anything in it was; but there was a little greasy memorandum-book kept in a drawer, which served as a Catalogue of Prices, and by this oracle Biddy arranged all the shop transactions. Biddy was Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's granddaughter; I confess myself quite unequal to the working out of the problem, what relation she was to Mr. Wopsle. She was an orphan like myself; like me, too, had been brought up by hand. She was most noticeable, I thought, in respect of her extremities; for, her hair always wanted brushing, her hands always wanted washing, and her shoes always wanted mending and pulling up at heel. This description must be received with a weekday limitation. On Sundays, she went to church elaborated.Much of my unassisted self, and more by the help of Biddy than of Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, I struggled through the alphabet as if it had been a bramble-bush; getting considerably worried and scratched by every letter. After that I fell among those thieves, the nine figures, who seemed every evening to do something new to disguise themselves and baffle recognition. But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe. I think it must have been a full year after our hunt upon the marshes, for it was a long time after, and it was winter and a hard frost. With an alphabet on the hearth at my feet for reference, I contrived in an hour or two to print and smear this epistle:mI deEr JO i opE U r krWitE wEll i opE i shAl soN B haBelL 4 2 teeDge U JO aN theN wE shOrl b sO glOdd aN wEn i M preNgtD 2 u JO woT larX an blEvE ME inF xn PiP.There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone. But I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition.“I say, Pip, old chap!” cried Joe, opening his blue eyes wide, “what a scholar you are! An't you?”“I should like to be,” said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly.“Why, here's a J,” said Joe, “and a O equal to anythink! Here's a J and a O, Pip, and a J-O, Joe.”I had never heard Joe read aloud to any greater extent than this monosyllable, and I had observed at church last Sunday, when I accidentally held our prayer book upside down, that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right. Wishing to embrace the present occasion of finding out whether in teaching Joe, I should have to begin quite at the beginning, I said, “Ah! But read the rest, Jo.”“The rest, eh, Pip?” said Joe, looking at it with a slow, searching eye, “One, two, three. Why, here's three Js, and three Os, and three J-O, Joes in it, Pip!”I leaned over Joe, and, with the aid of my forefinger read him the whole letter.“Astonishing!” said Joe, when I had finished. “You are a scholar.”“How do you spell Gargery, Joe?” I asked him, with a modest patronage.“I don't spell it at all,” said Joe.“But supposing you did?”“It can't be supposed,” said Joe. “Though I'm uncommon fond of reading, too.”“Are you, Joe?”“On-common. Give me,” said Joe, “a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!” he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, “when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, ‘Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!”I derived from this, that Joe's education, like Steam, was yet in its infancy. Pursuing the subject, I inquired⁠—“Didn't you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?”“No, Pip.”“Why didn't you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?”“Well, Pip,” said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was thoughtful, of slowly raking the fire between the lower bars; “I'll tell you. My father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful. It were a'most the only hammering he did, indeed, 'xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigor only to be equalled by the wigor with which he didn't hammer at his anwil.⁠—You're a listening and understanding, Pip?”“Yes, Joe.”“ 'Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father several times; and then my mother she'd go out to work, and she'd say, ‘Joe,' she'd say, ‘now, please God, you shall have some schooling, child,' and she'd put me to school. But my father were that good in his hart that he couldn't abear to be without us. So, he'd come with a most tremenjous crowd and make such a row at the doors of the houses where we was, that they used to be obligated to have no more to do with us and to give us up to him. And then he took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, Pip,” said Joe, pausing in his meditative raking of the fire, and looking at me, “were a drawback on my learning.”“Certainly, poor Joe!”“Though mind you, Pip,” said Joe, with a judicial touch or two of the poker on the top bar, “rendering unto all their doo, and maintaining equal justice betwixt man and man, my father were that good in his hart, don't you see?”I didn't see; but I didn't say so.“Well!” Joe pursued, “somebody must keep the pot a biling, Pip, or the pot won't bile, don't you know?”I saw that, and said so.“ 'Consequence, my father didn't make objections to my going to work; so I went to work at my present calling, which were his too, if he would have followed it, and I worked tolerable hard, I assure you, Pip. In time I were able to keep him, and I kep him till he went off in a purple leptic fit. And it were my intentions to have had put upon his tombstone that, Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his heart.”Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.“I made it,” said Joe, “my own self. I made it in a moment. It was like striking out a horseshoe complete, in a single blow. I never was so much surprised in all my life⁠—couldn't credit my own ed⁠—to tell you the truth, hardly believed it were my own ed. As I was saying, Pip, it were my intentions to have had it cut over him; but poetry costs money, cut it how you will, small or large, and it were not done. Not to mention bearers, all the money that could be spared were wanted for my mother. She were in poor elth, and quite broke. She weren't long of following, poor soul, and her share of peace come round at last.”Joe's blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.“It were but lonesome then,” said Joe, “living here alone, and I got acquainted with your sister. Now, Pip,”⁠—Joe looked firmly at me as if he knew I was not going to agree with him;⁠—“your sister is a fine figure of a woman.”I could not help looking at the fire, in an obvious state of doubt.“Whatever family opinions, or whatever the world's opinions, on that subject may be, Pip, your sister is,” Joe tapped the top bar with the poker after every word following, “a-fine-figure⁠—of⁠—a⁠—woman!”I could think of nothing better to say than “I am glad you think so, Joe.”“So am I,” returned Joe, catching me up. “I am glad I think so, Pip. A little redness or a little matter of bone, here or there, what does it signify to me?”I sagaciously observed, if it didn't signify to him, to whom did it signify?“Certainly!” assented Joe. “That's it. You're right, old chap! When I got acquainted with your sister, it were the talk how she was bringing you up by hand. Very kind of her too, all the folks said, and I said, along with all the folks. As to you,” Joe pursued with a countenance expressive of seeing something very nasty indeed, “if you could have been aware how small and flabby and mean you was, dear me, you'd have formed the most contemptible opinion of yourself!”Not exactly relishing this, I said, “Never mind me, Joe.”“But I did mind you, Pip,” he returned with tender simplicity. “When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, ‘And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child,' I said to your sister, ‘there's room for him at the forge!' ”I broke out crying and begging pardon, and hugged Joe round the neck: who dropped the poker to hug me, and to say, “Ever the best of friends; an't us, Pip? Don't cry, old chap!”When this little interruption was over, Joe resumed:⁠—“Well, you see, Pip, and here we are! That's about where it lights; here we are! Now, when you take me in hand in my learning, Pip (and I tell you beforehand I am awful dull, most awful dull), Mrs. Joe mustn't see too much of what we're up to. It must be done, as I may say, on the sly. And why on the sly? I'll tell you why, Pip.”He had taken up the poker again; without which, I doubt if he could have proceeded in his demonstration.“Your sister is given to government.”“Given to government, Joe?” I was startled, for I had some shadowy idea (and I am afraid I must add, hope) that Joe had divorced her in a favor of the Lords of the Admiralty, or Treasury.“Given to government,” said Joe. “Which I meantersay the government of you and myself.”“Oh!”“And she an't over partial to having scholars on the premises,” Joe continued, “and in partickler would not be over partial to my being a scholar, for fear as I might rise. Like a sort of rebel, don't you see?”I was going to retort with an inquiry, and had got as far as “Why⁠—” when Joe stopped me.“Stay a bit. I know what you're a going to say, Pip; stay a bit! I don't deny that your sister comes the Mogul over us, now and again. I don't deny that she do throw us back-falls, and that she do drop down upon us heavy. At such times as when your sister is on the rampage, Pip,” Joe sank his voice to a whisper and glanced at the door, “candor compels fur to admit that she is a buster.”Joe pronounced this word, as if it began with at least twelve capital Bs.“Why don't I rise? That were your observation when I broke it off, Pip?”“Yes, Joe.”“Well,” said Joe, passing the poker into his left hand, that he might feel his whisker; and I had no hope of him whenever he took to that placid occupation; “your sister's a mastermind. A mastermind.”“What's that?” I asked, in some hope of bringing him to a stand. But Joe was readier with his definition than I had expected, and completely stopped me by arguing circularly, and answering with a fixed look, “Her.”“And I ain't a mastermind,” Joe resumed, when he had unfixed his look, and got back to his whisker. “And last of all, Pip⁠—and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap⁠—I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself. I wish it was only me that got put out, Pip; I wish there warn't no Tickler for you, old chap; I wish I could take it all on myself; but this is the up-and-down-and-straight on it, Pip, and I hope you'll overlook shortcomings.”Young as I was, I believe that I dated a new admiration of Joe from that night. We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.“However,” said Joe, rising to replenish the fire; “here's the Dutch clock a working himself up to being equal to strike eight of 'em, and she's not come home yet! I hope Uncle Pumblechook's mare mayn't have set a forefoot on a piece o' ice, and gone down.”Mrs. Joe made occasional trips with Uncle Pumblechook on market days, to assist him in buying such household stuffs and goods as required a woman's judgment; Uncle Pumblechook being a bachelor and reposing no confidences in his domestic servant. This was market day, and Mrs. Joe was out on one of these expeditions.Joe made the fire and swept the hearth, and then we went to the door to listen for the chaise-cart. It was a dry cold night, and the wind blew keenly, and the frost was white and hard. A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.“Here comes the mare,” said Joe, “ringing like a peal of bells!”The sound of her iron shoes upon the hard road was quite musical, as she came along at a much brisker trot than usual. We got a chair out, ready for Mrs. Joe's alighting, and stirred up the fire that they might see a bright window, and took a final survey of the kitchen that nothing might be out of its place. When we had completed these preparations, they drove up, wrapped to the eyes. Mrs. Joe was soon landed, and Uncle Pumblechook was soon down too, covering the mare with a cloth, and we were soon all in the kitchen, carrying so much cold air in with us that it seemed to drive all the heat out of the fire.“Now,” said Mrs. Joe, unwrapping herself with haste and excitement, and throwing her bonnet back on her shoulders where it hung by the strings, “if this boy ain't grateful this night, he never will be!”I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume that expression.“It's only to be hoped,” said my sister, “that he won't be Pompeyed. But I have my fears.”“She ain't in that line, Mum,” said Mr. Pumblechook. “She knows better.”She? I looked at Joe, making the motion with my lips and eyebrows, “She?” Joe looked at me, making the motion with his lips and eyebrows, “She?” My sister catching him in the act, he drew the back of his hand across his nose with his usual conciliatory air on such occasions, and looked at her.“Well?” said my sister, in her snappish way. “What are you staring at? Is the house afire?”“⁠—Which some individual,” Joe politely hinted, “mentioned⁠—she.”“And she is a she, I suppose?” said my sister. “Unless you call Miss Havisham a he. And I doubt if even you'll go so far as that.”“Miss Havisham, up town?” said Joe.“Is there any Miss Havisham down town?” returned my sister.“She wants this boy to go and play there. And of course he's going. And he had better play there,” said my sister, shaking her head at me as an encouragement to be extremely light and sportive, “or I'll work him.”I had heard of Miss Havisham up town⁠—everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town⁠—as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion.“Well to be sure!” said Joe, astounded. “I wonder how she come to know Pip!”“Noodle!” cried my sister. “Who said she knew him?”“⁠—Which some individual,” Joe again politely hinted, “mentioned that she wanted him to go and play there.”“And couldn't she ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there? Isn't it just barely possible that Uncle Pumblechook may be a tenant of hers, and that he may sometimes⁠—we won't say quarterly or half-yearly, for that would be requiring too much of you⁠—but sometimes⁠—go there to pay his rent? And couldn't she then ask Uncle Pumblechook if he knew of a boy to go and play there? And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us⁠—though you may not think it, Joseph,” in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, “then mention this boy, standing Prancing here”⁠—which I solemnly declare I was not doing⁠—“that I have forever been a willing slave to?”“Good again!” cried Uncle Pumblechook. “Well put! Prettily pointed! Good indeed! Now Joseph, you know the case.”“No, Joseph,” said my sister, still in a reproachful manner, while Joe apologetically drew the back of his hand across and across his nose, “you do not yet⁠—though you may not think it⁠—know the case. You may consider that you do, but you do not, Joseph. For you do not know that Uncle Pumblechook, being sensible that for anything we can tell, this boy's fortune may be made by his going to Miss Havisham's, has offered to take him into town tonight in his own chaise-cart, and to keep him tonight, and to take him with his own hands to Miss Havisham's tomorrow morning. And Lor-a-mussy me!” cried my sister, casting off her bonnet in sudden desperation, “here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!”With that, she pounced upon me, like an eagle on a lamb, and my face was squeezed into wooden bowls in sinks, and my head was put under taps of water-butts, and I was soaped, and kneaded, and towelled, and thumped, and harrowed, and rasped, until I really was quite beside myself. (I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.)When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit. I was then delivered over to Mr. Pumblechook, who formally received me as if he were the Sheriff, and who let off upon me the speech that I knew he had been dying to make all along: “Boy, be forever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand!”“Goodbye, Joe!”“God bless you, Pip, old chap!”I had never parted from him before, and what with my feelings and what with soapsuds, I could at first see no stars from the chaise-cart. But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play at. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greatexpectations.substack.com

Welcome to the Bouncing Basketballs and Bad Backs (or Bagels) Episode of course we are talking about the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. As we attempt to get out this weeks episode with one of us abroad we deep dive into the usual antics of the race weekend. The Prancing 3 legged Donkey, Hamilton using his spine as the suspension and we see a new team Canada emerging in the Paddock as they race to see who can cost the most money for the Team.

Lara and I are promised a world of magic and enchantment and get a dour family drama starring Sam Elliot. It's Prancer!

The 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was dramatic - but it didn't offer the kind of drama we normally associate with the Baku City Circuit. High speed battles, overtakes and so on.  The highlight of the race was Ferrari's double DNF (their first since 2020) followed by most retirements by Ferrari-powered teams. After starting the season strongly, the Scuderia now trail Red Bull Racing by 80 points in the Constructors' Championship.  The Inside Line F1 Podcast is brought to you by Eight Sleep, the most-trusted name in high-performance sleep. Would you like to sleep on a bed-mattress designed by Formula 1 engineers to enhance your sleep quality? Here's an exclusive offer for our listeners. Save $150 at checkout on the Eight Sleep Pod Pro Cover. Go get yours today: https://www.eightsleep.com/insideline In this episode of the Inside Line F1 Podcast, Soumil and Kunal review the 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix; a race that wasn't as Baku-esque as we would've hoped. Red Bull was in such control over the race that Max Verstappen and his race engineer were discussing how slow they could drive to the finish line. @F1StatsGuru aka Sundaram does his thing too - mind-boggling stats that defined the 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. "The Monegasque has taken pole in each of the last four races but has failed to win any of them. The last driver to do so was Juan Pablo Montoya for Williams in 2002" But how did Sergio Perez lose the lead after snatching it at the start from Charles Leclerc? It was a race of tyre strategy - Ferrari opting to pit under VSC (courtesy: Caros Sainz) while Red Bull opting to stay out. Also, Mclaren's team orders, Mercedes' porpoising, AlphaTauri's recovery, Sebastian Vettel's rallying ways to his season's best finish & more. (Season 2022, Episode 34) Follow our hosts: Sundaram Ramaswami, Soumil Arora and Kunal Shah Image courtesy: Mercedes

Jake & Chris return to review the first four races of the F1 2022 season, in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Imola. They discuss the biggest shocks, who's impressed on the grid the most so far and who's got some work to do to catch up.

Alaska and Willam hop in their time machine and head back to Season 7 for new episodes of Classique. It's time to prance with somebody as the Top 6 queens are paired up to do ‘half and half' drag while dancing to mash up music genres. This episode is a lot of character shoes, provided looks, and self-produced story. Listen to Race Chaser Ad-Free on MOM Plus Follow us on IG at @racechaserpod and click the link in bio for a list of organizations you can donate to in support of Black Lives Matter FOLLOW ALASKA https://twitter.com/Alaska5000 https://www.instagram.com/theonlyalaska5000 https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaThunder https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9vnKqhNky1BcWqXbDs0NAQ FOLLOW WILLAM https://twitter.com/willam https://www.instagram.com/willam https://www.facebook.com/willam https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrO9hj5VqGJufBlVJy-8D1g RACE CHASER IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Martin Weiss and Mark Gunnels return for a huge week as The Heat, Bucks, Suns and Warriors all get out to a series lead. Are the Maverick's in trouble with the Suns? Dallas is in trouble unless the Mavericks adjust to Luka's ball dominance. Eastern Conference is down to Bucks and Heat as the Sixers are no threat without Embiid. The Heat haven't been threatened all playoffs and proximity to strip clubs is not helping Harden this time around. Bigger Bucks give the Celtics issues and Giannis gets a near-triple double without even blinking. Ja's big miss and is Media Draymond getting in the way of b-ball Draymond? After losing his bet with Martin, Mark reaches into the dreaded “Cap of Consequences” to perform a Jackson Mahomes Tik Tok dance.

4-28 Segment 3 - Billy Squier intro music spurs long debate about prancing vs. dancing - Playing for the love of the game - Hotel nightmares

We had a rained out trip to the Italian tifosi land, that saw the Red Bulls take the Bull by the horn instead of home favorite's Ferrari. Sainz getting hit capped another miserable race for him, and mistake by Charles made for a bad weekend for the Prancing horse. On the other side Max & Redbull capped a 1-2 weekend, followed by a wonderful performance from Norris, and even more exceptional performance by Russell to bring in an underperforming Merc car in 4th. Lewis unfortunately really struggled in this weekend, where he languished in the middle field all weekend, to only come in outside the top 10. Please support the podcast in all mediums : Twitter page for the podcast: https://t.co/mYF5OR5SaX --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A lot happened in the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix - a Ferrari 1-2, double DNF for the Red Bulls and Lewis Hamilton's 7th consecutive podium finish. And of course, heroics from Valtteri Bottas & Kevin Magnussen. Tune in to the race review episode on the Inside Line F1 Podcast with Soumil and Kunal. Subscribe to our newsletter! It's free, informative, insightful and visually appealing. You can read more and sign up. Topics discussed - Is there a pecking order falling in place after Bahrain? Were cars able to follow each other closely? What were the issues that Max Verstappen was fighting through the race? What was the eventual race strategy & which double World Champion predicted 3 stops pre-race? Why did the Alfa Romeo drivers have poor starts? Will 5 days be enough for Red Bull to sort out their fuel system-related issues and finally, could this issue plague other teams through the course of the season? (Season 2022, Episode 14) Follow our hosts on Twitter: Soumil Arora and Kunal Shah Image courtesy: Ferrari

RJ, Denz and Rory start the show going from a Ferrari Podium all the way down to P20. We discuss Ferrari's finish, Red Bull reliability issues, Haas' return to the points. RJ and Rory discuss McLaren's early season fall from grace and their favorite driver Daniel Ricciardo. We end the show with a call to arms for view to you, the listeners.

James challenges Aaron to a game of Linda, Linda, Lynda, and we revisit Mark Doty's poem "Homo Will Not Inherit," and we delve into the poetry-world homophobia that Doty's poem critiques.Buy books by authors we've mentioned at Loyalty Bookstore!Linda GreggLinda Gregg was born on Sept. 9, 1942 (Virgo); she died on March 20, 2019.  Her books includeAll of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (2008); In the Middle Distance (2006); Things and Flesh (1999), finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Chosen by the Lion (1995); Sacraments of Desire (1992); Alma (1985); and Too Bright to See (1981).Read "The Lamb" here.Linda Gregerson was born August 5, 1950 (Leo). She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2014, The Selvage (2012), Waterborne (2002), and The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996). As well as a writer, Gregerson is a Renaissance scholar, a classically trained actor, and a devotee of the sciences.You can read the poem James references here.Lynda Hull was born on Dec. 5, 1954 (Sagittarius). Her collections include Ghost Money (1986),  Star Ledger (1991), and The Only World: Poems, published posthumously in 1995 and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. In 2006, Graywolf Press published her Collected Poems, edited by David Wojahn.You can read the poem in the game here.Read "Homo Will Not Inherit" from Mark Doty's book Atlantis (1995) here.In a review of Mark Doty's Source, Logan writes:"[Mark Doty is] a poet with a gift for description, a taste for winsome subjects, an addiction to images of light (less now than in earlier books), and a narcissism all his own.[...]If you hug every tree on the lot, if you love everything you see (Doty could make a garbage can a thing of beauty), isn't it hard to tell one thing from another? You're just the sum of your gincrack, greeting-card sentimentality.[...]Doty's so busy preening, he falls victim to hilarious verbal blunders.[...]If you hired [Doty] to design your house, it would end up looking like Versailles on a quarter acre, with gushing baroque fountains (concrete, not marble) and interiors by Liberace. Such cheap profusion, such indulgent excess, is no better than cloying conceit. You get a hint of Doty's deeper wounds, of compromised fragility and sad vulnerability, then he lights up his lines like Vegas and tries to sell you tickets to the floor show."--the text of the review was published in the New Criterion in December 2002, and then reprinted in a chapter titled "Verse Chronicle: The Real Language of Men" in Logan's book The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin (Columbia University Press, 2005). 

In a quest to lighten the mood a bit, fashion historian and national esthetician Ragnhild Brochmann visits the pod this week to talk about historical peacockery, why teens have more fun, revisiting your younger self, the codes of accessories, how the 1940s had the best garment, why finding your style isn't the way to go and much more!Ragnhild writes a weekly column for the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet, she is also on Instagram!You can watch Ragnhild and Nick on "God Morgen Norge" here (Norwegian breakfast TV).If you would like to support the podcast, feel free to buy the host a coffee!Nick Johannessen is the host of Garmology, the editor of the WellDressedDad blog and WellDressedDad on Instagram. You can email Nick as Garmology (at) WellDressedDad.com.Original photos of Ragnhild is by Birgit Solhaug

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This Monday episode begins with feelings of vindication and delight over some high-profile confusion on the Home of Golf during the final round telecast at TPC Initech. Then Andy and Brendan get into the resolution of the event of the week, the women's golf at the Olympics. They discuss Nelly's gold, Inami's charge, and Ko's comportment as maybe the model professional golfer. They also have some final big-picture thoughts on golf in the Olympics. Then it's on to the WGC Memphis, with a big shoutout to Honest Abraham Prancer for his first win. They discuss their unexpected enthusiasm and anticipation for this WGC, and the absolute circus that ensued in the final group implosion between Thicc Boi and Harris English. They discuss the absurd boundary fence ruling and why the Tour is setting up “bumpers” to keep balls in play. There's also reaction to the pace of play, shouting fore backlash, and refusals to talk to the press. At the Women's Amateur, they ponder if the winner might be a Frugalite while praising the Westchester setup. The winners at the Home of Golf, in Reno, and in Utah, also get their due.

幸福在何處？ . 其實很簡單， 當我們珍惜面前事物， 感覺人生滿足時， 幸福就會剎那而至。 . 或許，每人的背景不一樣， 但擁有多一點、少一點， 都並非決定我們幸福與否的因素。 . 這首歌， 描寫了一個家境平庸的小女孩， 她到嘉年華會的一次經歷。 . 當看見嘉年華會的工作人員， 為她擺設的精彩表演， 那一剎那， 她心中閃亮起， 得到一份前所未有的滿足， 她就幸福得， 如同童話故事的小公主。 . 幸福是這麼簡單。 只要細細品嚐每一天， 你會發現...... 奇蹟Miracle 每一天也出現在你身邊。 Where is happiness? . It's actually simple to find. True happiness comes the very moment you feel content with and grateful for what you have. . It has nothing to do with how much wealth you have, or what material possessions you own. Instead of coming from without, happiness comes from within. . Reflective of this idea, this song tells of a little girl who comes from an impoverished family. . She doesn't have much in life, but she finds happiness at a carnival just enjoying the presence of her mother. What starts as an ordinary visit however morphs into a miraculous experience as the carnival prepares for her an exclusive performance, turning her into a fairy-tale princess. . The secret to happiness is as simple as this. Enjoy what appears to be the little things in life and guess what? You will see miracles all around you. —————————————————————————— Let's subscribe to【Back to the Music】and press the bell button so that you get noticed once our new songs are released. Enjoy music together!

In this episode of the Prancing Skunk Podcast Mike and Colleen go through some of the more exotic car collections they have encountered. From full on James bond villain lairs in mountains that house car collections to one of the largest collections in the world, the Sultan of Brunei's car collection.

The top six pair off in a trio of dancing duos, mashing up two genres and two genders for one just FINE episode. So fine we spent about twenty minutes discussing Oscar predictions. But it's an interesting look back at baby Trixie, Untucked at its un-produced best, Alyssa Milano in diamond studded maternity wear, Ginger in her element in the lip sync and a rabbit hole fantasy of wartime era husbands in house dresses. Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @alrightmary Johnny: @johnnyalso (Instagram) Colin: @colindrucker (Twitter) Web: www.tasteofreality.com/alright-mary/ www.alrightmary.com

David and Tim crack open some Prancing Pony Pale Ale with friends Josh Morrow of Momo Toons and Dr John Bruni of Sage International Australia. In this seminal episode of Blind Drunk, the fellas establish some structure to the show and enjoy their first beer of the series. Topics include, are sequels better than the original? What problems CGI pose for dead actors? Dubai Debauchery, and David's strange mind are also discussed.Here's the beer we drunk! Prancing Pony Pale Ale!Please also check out Josh Morrow's work with Momo's Toons and John's work with his podcast STRATEGIKON.If you have any drink suggestions, or have a great idea for a spirited conversation, contact us and send us an audio clip at timwhiffen@auscastnetwork.com Support the show: https://auscast-network.myshopify.com/collections/blind-insightsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FLA-SAY-DAH! Rodrigo Cruz, Cairo Braga e Trixie Ma... quer dizer, Thello Caetano, recebem o super fã Júnior Rodriguez para ensaiar alguns passinhos e falar sobre Prancing Queens na reta final da sétima temporada de RuPaul's Drag Race. NOW PRANCE, I SAID! O post #10 Prancing Queens apareceu primeiro em The Library Is Open.