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Latest podcast episodes about righti

Go(o)d Mornings with CurlyNikki
Don't stand on the stage before you sit at His Feet | (+ LIVE Prayers at 4:44am ET)

Go(o)d Mornings with CurlyNikki

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 10:55


Wake Up to Love, and pray the Holy Rosary, pray the LOVE with us LIVE every weekday morning at 4:44 am ET

Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast
10. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right with Omar Uddin

Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 63:02


Welcome to Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast, where we explore the man and the music one song at a time.Henry welcomes Chicagoan and Pod Dylan legend, Omar Uddin to talk about "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" from Dylan's 1963 album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.Follow along here:Don't Think Twice, It's All RightWritten by: Bob DylanIt ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babeIt don't matter, anyhowAn' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babeIf you don't know by nowWhen your rooster crows at the break of dawnLook out your window and I'll be goneYou're the reason I'm trav'lin' onDon't think twice, it's all rightIt ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babeThat light I never knowedAn' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babeI'm on the dark side of the roadStill I wish there was somethin' you would do or sayTo try and make me change my mind and stayWe never did too much talkin' anywaySo don't think twice, it's all rightIt ain't no use in callin' out my name, galLike you never did beforeIt ain't no use in callin' out my name, galI can't hear you anymoreI'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the roadI once loved a woman, a child I'm toldI give her my heart but she wanted my soulBut don't think twice, it's all rightI'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babeWhere I'm bound, I can't tellBut goodbye's too good a word, galSo I'll just say fare thee wellI ain't sayin' you treated me unkindYou could have done better but I don't mindYou just kinda wasted my precious timeBut don't think twice, it's all right  Follow @songsofbob, @henrybernstein.bsky.socialIf you would like to support hosting my podcasts, please check out my Patreon where for $5 I will give you a shout out on the podcast of your choice. For $10, in addition to the shout-out I'll send you a surprise piece of vintage Bob Dylan merch! Thank you to my Patrons, Rob Kelly, Roberta Rakove, Matt Simonson and Christopher Vanni.Email us at songsofbobdylan@gmail.comSubscribe: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify

Podsongs
Discovering Ayurveda Stress Relief, Pregnancy Tips, and Ancient Wisdom with Dr Claudia Welch

Podsongs

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 64:57


Dr Claudia Welch delves into the holistic health benefits of Ayurveda, focusing on stress relief, pregnancy nourishment, and balancing modern life with ancient wisdom. She shares personal experiences and expert insights on the interplay between physical, mental, and spiritual health. We explore topics ranging from the importance of a balanced lifestyle to managing thyroid issues and enhancing lactation naturally. The conversation also touches on possession, metaphysics, and how foundational beliefs impact overall well-being. Tune in for a comprehensive guide to incorporating Ayurvedic principles into everyday life. 01:22 Discussing Art and Metaphysics 02:41 Exploring Cosmic Religion and Metaphysics 07:28 Ayurveda and Metaphysical Connections 15:25 Stress, Courage, and Life Balance 18:04 Possession, Belief Systems, and Courage 28:46 Desire, Ignorance, and Enlightenment 07:26 Understanding Lifestyle Diseases 32:21 Women's Health and Thyroid Issues 35:46 Endocrine Disruptors and Environmental Impact 36:18 Solutions for Thyroid Problems 39:08 Hormonal Changes After 35 41:38 Postpartum Depression and Oxytocin 49:05 Pregnancy Cravings and Their Significance 52:07 Increasing Milk Production 55:18 Final Thoughts and Reflections 57:41 Closing Remarks and Song www.podsongs.com https://ffm.to/ayurvedalifestyleblues I've been trying to live an Ayurvedic lifeWith the wisdom of the ancient mindsBut I wonder if they'd have been so wiseIf they had to live in these timesCan't sit cross-legged in the restaurantCan't lie down on the aeroplaneCan't do what your urges wantAnd it all adds up to painI've been having an oil massage every dayOil in my hair and enemasFootprints on the stairsMy girlfriend's in despairAnd the only food I cook is KitchariNow she's thinking about leaving meToo many turmeric stainsShe thinks that I'm insaneI've got the Ayurveda bluesThe Ayurveda bluesChlorine in the waterPlastic everywhereEMF from everything No one seems to careParticles in the airPesticides in foodModified and fertilised To a malevolent magnitudeAnd I'm on my guardBut health these days is so hardAnd you I'd know to like to sleep from 8-4But then my friends all feel ignoredI gotta keep the balance right But I belong in bed at nightTo meditate in the Brahama MuhurtaIs it to take a step closer to GodAnd every day that I fail to prayI take another step further awayThe secret is the seasonsBut nobody wants the reasonsAs the last sane man aliveIt's a very lonely driveI know I gotta be a guiding lightLiving the life I know is rightI can't change the world just meSo I'll be the change I want to seeI've got the Ayurveda bluesThe Ayurveda bluesChlorine in the waterPlastic everywhereEMF from everything No one seems to careParticles in the airPesticides in foodModified and fertilised To a malevolent magnitudeAnd I'm on my guardBut health these days is so hard The sages foresawAll these problems beforeAnd predicted the rise of the citiesWhile they studied usWe know so little of themOnly how poorly we compare to these menBut their Sutras surviveAnd they make perfect senseAll we needIs obedienceHanded downFrom enlightened mindsAnd been proved rightA million timesI don't need no AIAin't gonna relyOn no computersI've faith in SutrasI don't need no AICharaka's my guyYou keep computersI've faith in Sutras // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs

GROW Podcast
I live and breathe this Philadelphia Freedom

GROW Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 22:48


Send us a textGROW  Greatness Reached over Oppression through Wisdom I used to be a rolling stone, you knowIf a cause was rightI'd leave, to find the answer on the roadI used to be a heart beatin' for someoneBut the times have changedThe less I say, the more my work gets done'Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedomFrom the day that I was born, I've waved the flagPhiladelphia freedom took me knee-high to a man, yeahGave me peace of mind my daddy never hadOh, Philadelphia freedomShine on me, I love yaShine a light through the eyes of the ones left behindShine a light, shine the lightShine the light, won't you shine the light?Philadelphia freedom, I love yaYes, I doIf you choose to you can live your life aloneSome people choose the city (some people choose the city)Some others choose the good old family home(Some others choose the good old family home)I like living easy without family ties ('cause it's easy)..       -Philadelphia Freedom by Elton JohnThank you to Angelica Haynes for your Generous donation to GROW✨

Juljina's Podcast
Babylon (feat. Kendrick Lamar) :: Speed Up :: — SZA, Kendrick Lamar

Juljina's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 4:40


Lyrics Crucify, cru-crucify meCrucify, cru-cruI can't recall the last time I took advice from anyoneShaped like a figure eight who trusts pretty girls anyway?And I can't recall the last time I took advice from anyoneI'm sure I'll be the death of meAnd I can't recall the last time I took love from anyoneI called daddy, who's got one anyway?Not meAre you hating youself?Do you really hate me?Are you hating yourself?Was it worth it?Would you do it again?Aren't you tired of always making amends?I know you hate me nowI bet you hate me nowBring on the thorny crownCrucify meCross my heart then I hope to dieWith a peace of mind (a peace of mind)Piece together my brain soon asThis beat rewind (beat rewind)Nitrogen and propaneI spike your drink at times (turn up, turn up)I make it hard to swallow this gameYou throw up every lineI notice people got Napoleon complexBut that's my confessionYou said that we're equal but I know you'reBeyond gassing that I'm beyond desperate (yeah that)6AM on a Friday morning, my darkest hoursThem heartless hoursMy apartment is lost in a coffinI'm dead to the world like I popped me a couple downersDown & Out on my luckSalt water all on my tux and I call, she don't pick upThen I fall when summer is endingI mean there's no pretendingI'm stuck in my ways and you're offendedThat's life, that's you, this me, that's viceYou're wrong, I'm right, that's rightI belong somewhere on iceI'm colder a new blood type? Even colderCold shoulder, Born Sinner, you know? Cole showed us!I have nothing to lose, my dark side been well in-tunedA Gemini go show them facesAnd this here just one of my moods, BabylonWas it worth it?Would you do it again?Aren't you tired of always making amends?I know you hate me nowI bet you hate me nowBring on the thorny crownCrucify meCrucify, cru-crucify meCrucify, cru-cruCrucify, cru-crucify meCrucify, cru-cru --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/juljina/message

Juljina's Podcast
2AM :: Speed Up :: — SZA

Juljina's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 3:42


Lyrics 2 a.m. again and I'm thinkin' 'bout2 a.m. again and I'm thinking, should I come through?Can I come kick, can I come kick with you?2 a.m. again and I'm thinkin' 'bout2 a.m. and I'm stuck up thinkin' about theLast time you were behind me, all in the mirrorI could see everything you would be doin'I could see everything, lookin' at me like you love meI know you don't love meI never care long as I come first, you come on timeI reverse, you rewind, do it againStuck in time, do it againAll you ever say is, "Come and see me for once"Come and see me for once"You don't ever come to me, yeahYou don't ever come, why you never come? Will you ever come?"Come and see me for once, come and see me for once"Why you never come to me, no?Why you never come to me?Why you never come to me, no?This my time, it's your turnI know you're rightI know it burns to be in loveI know it burns to be anotherOne of your girls on the side like thatI know your kind, how you lie like thatI know you're mine when you bite it like thatI know you're mine when you put it like thatGuess you was right when you put it like thatI know now, I get the point, I hear you loud and clearAll this time, I've been playing your sideI could've done better shit with my life to waste no time on youGot to move on 'cause you got me fucked upI am confused, from this point on, trust nobody, yeahOut of my body, blowing my fuse outDevil, please cut me loose, yeahPlease, cut me loose, oh"Come and see me for onceCome and see me for once"You don't ever come to me, yeahYou don't ever come, why you never come? Will you ever come?"Come and see me for once, come and see me for once"Why you never come to me, no?Why you never come to me?Why you never come to me, no?Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, waitFor you, you, you, you, you, youNever, never too late, late, late, late, late, late, lateFall through, through, through, throughIt's 2 a.m., it's 2 a.m. and I'm on you, you, youThinkin' 'bout you, never knew another nigga that I want bad as I want you, babyIt's 2 a.m. and I confess I want you (bad as I want you, bad as I want you)It's 2 a.m, it's 2 a.m. againI might be thirsty for you, how can you blame me?Oh, I might be thirsty for you, how can you blame me?Oh, I might bless your girls for you, how do you want me?I conjure up that coochie for you, voodoo, HoudiniAnd I might be that hoochie for you, do you need me? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/juljina/message

Body Liberation for All
Unapologetic Visibility | Episode 45

Body Liberation for All

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2023 29:30


Recording artist and songwriter 2AM Ricky is best known for utilizing his platform to bridge the intersection of LGBTQ advocacy and entertainment. He uplifts marginally perceived communities while building trans awareness, one song and conversation at a time. In 2021, Ricky became the first black transgender male artist to land #1 on any music chart, with his single "Whatchu On (ft. CeCe Peniston)" peaking on the LGBTQ Urban Charts. His extensive portfolio includes several placements with credits including CeCe Peniston, Tyler Perry Studios, Zeus Network and more. Ricky has helped industry professionals, corporate leaders, and creatives worldwide to develop language and best practices for transgender healthcare and education, intersectionality, inclusive strategies, and mental health. He recently released a new album titled "Listen If You're Lonely", a musical exploration of mental health, relationships, and life from a black masculine perspective.This episode 2AM shares some of his story with us and we discuss:

Glad You Said No
STOMACHACHE

Glad You Said No

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2023 4:22


EPISODE 1 Stomachache is the first single and last track off of my upcoming EP, THE END OF A FEELING. Each song is a “feeling” in the feelings wheel and this begins with “DISGUSTED” which sounds harsh but, that's showbiz baby. I hope you enjoy STOMACHACHE. Forgive the very brief clicking in the beginning of the recording. xxLyrics below to feel it even more.[Verse 1]I'll be having a good dayUntil I think I see your faceHas anyone seen valet?I just wanna get to your placeBeen holding my dumb phoneDouble-checking where it went wrongIt's impolite to not respondA cold hard hit for my very first one[Chorus]I need somebody I could love, tooI need somebody I could love tonightJust anybody to forget youSomebody, somebody, somebody who could put me right[Verse 2]Almost out of this darknessYou're confusing, I'm honestEven though you are a pretty thingThis feels so young and it's kinda killing meAnd now you're not really busyI pray to God that you miss meDo you regret all of the hearts you break?Believing in you madе my stomach ache[Chorus]I need somebody I could love, tooI need somеbody I could love tonightJust anybody to forget youSomebody, somebody, somebody who could put me rightI don't wanna be alone, tooI don't wanna be alone tonightIt's just a body to forget youSomebody, somebody, somebody who could put me right[Bridge]I knew it in the back of my mindYou walk around collecting your pilesI know you're hurt and it might be a whileI don't feel bad, not with how it's beenDo you feel bad with how you've been?Do you feel bad or anything? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit listentotrace.substack.com

Cameras and Coffee Podcast
Episode 010: Should I Do A Bridal Show

Cameras and Coffee Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 22:48


Have you been debating on whether or not to sign up for a trade show? Sometimes we as photographers can be so desperate to get our business out there we want to do everything we can. This can also be very overwhelming and we don't know where to start. Lucky for you I'm sharing my recent experience. Welcome to Episode 010 Should you do a Bridal Show. Grab your cup of coffee and let's talk business strategy.This episode is sponsored by Flodesk: Use code KARAHANESCREDIT to get 50% off your first year.So you're wondering if you should do a Bridal Show? Well I'm here to tell you that there is no right or wrong answer for that. All I can tell you is you wont know until you try one. When looking you'll want to choose events available to the areas you want to reach. In today's episode we're talking about my experience. Even though this isn't the first time I'm done a trade show, it was my first time doing it as a wedding photographer so today I'm going to share my experience and debrief my experience with you.Why I picked the show I didWhat made me nervousWhat I did rightI created a freebieI set up an email listWhat I would do differently knowing what I know now

Full Stack Business Owner
Business - Biggest Lessons of 2022 (Part 1)

Full Stack Business Owner

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2022 48:55


It's Grant.Yep! I have hijacked the episode posts from Charley!Why?I would love to say it's because my skill at writing these posts has super-seeded hisBut… the real reason is that he is with his family.Anyway,It's that time of year again…The time when:- our team members have checked out- clients won't reply to our emails for weeks- and we are sitting here looking back over the year that wasFor me, it is the time when I am always cautiously excited aboutThe time when I get to see and evaluate the yearAnd I don't mean looking out of my window with a cup of coffee, reminiscing on all the good times.I mean, diving deep into the exact mistakes I have made and trying to learn from them.It's one of the ways I have been able to refine and hone my skills over the years.And a skill that was unlocked, thanks to an SAS Sniper(who is actually one of my co-founders of software as a service business)I can still remember the day,At the end of 2016/17, I decided to present a timeline and review of our year in business to my co-founder.I had listed out everything we did well in the year... and I was a little more than impressed with my outline.It would have been easy to tell the excitement in my voice.After I finished dancing around, presenting itMy co-founder took one glance at me, then back at the presentation.Then at me and back at the presentationAnd in an effort not to offend me, he just nodded.Rightfully so, it was a great year.He then opened his mouth to speak and asked, “So, what did we learn from the year?And, what would we do differently if we could do it again?”“We would focus more on sales and marketing.” I responded excitedly!Without hesitation, he responded with what I should've expected:“Great, where does it say that on your list?And, where does it say what we tried to do?”I stared at my presentation.He was rightI literally wrote a “pump piece” that was designed to make me feel better about a hard year and hoped that he would just agree to it.“Ummm… Let me add….” I stuttered.He interrupted quickly“How about we approach this a better way? The way I did in the SAS.”Feel let off the hook, I was all ears.Dangling a framework in front of my face draws the same attraction as a moth to a flame.He continued:“It's also a retrospective framework that I used at the largest resources company in the world, and it really helped us extract more meaningful insights.”Here's what he shared:The concept is called: GBB- Good: what is working- Better: what needs to improve- Best: what was the biggest win“Alright, what did we do ‘GOOD' over the year?” he asked.I pointed at my presentation.“That was a bit easy.Alright, what could we have done ‘BETTER'?”This is where my mind clicked!“So, you want lessons learned?” I asked.“Exactly.By doing this a lot of times, I have come to learn that if we list every item we did well at the start of the process, it actually helps us identify the items we could've done better.Usually, people ignore the ‘not so good things' when building the list to make themselves sound and feel better.”Exactly as I did.“Then, we continue to bounce between them, adding as many points as necessary.The objective is to look at every ‘less than ideal outcome' as something we could do better next time.Once we have built the list, we then spend almost all of our time evaluating the items we could do ‘better'.As if we do not improve on the most important ‘better' items, we won't be able to continue growing”.Damn!This framework is perfect!“And the ‘BEST' is just a list of items we crushed?” I asked.“Yep, that's where we can pump ourselves up.”He was right!Re-building the list into the GBB framework actually extracted more items than I anticipatedSo much so that I actually still use it to this day.Even expanding it to review my weeks personally, evaluate team projects, etc.Everyone I have shared it with has found it to unlock real value.This is exactly what Charley and I shared this week.We dive into where we could have done ‘BETTER' in the year, our ‘lessons learnt'.Episode Highlights:00:00 Welcome to Business and Investing01:09 Learning from challenges and people with experience07:55 Sometimes in business, less is more15:02 Making drastic changes in your business18:17 Better business model wins24:04 The truth about reinventing your business model28:42 Grant's interesting take on improvement34:30 Rituals, habits, and routines37:00 Changing strategies and tactics for different seasons41:43 Realising you need to change strategies   Resources:○ Business and Investing website: https://www.businessandinvesting.com/ Subscribe: ○ Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@businessandinvesting○ Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/business-investing/id1607453342 Connect with Business and Investing:○ Join the Business and Investing Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/440140397804480 ○ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessandinvestingcom ○ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/businessandinvestingcom ○ Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessandinvestingcom ○ Send your enquiries or drop by to say hello: grant@businessandinvesting.com DISCLAIMER:All information we share is NOT financial or investment advice and is purely intended for entertainment and educational purposes only. Always seek professional advice before acting on any financial decision. Support the show: https://linktr.ee/businessandinvestingcomSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Club Fitting Chronicles
Purchasing Golf Clubs

Club Fitting Chronicles

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2022 32:51


Welcome to our 2nd episode of CLUB FITTING CHRONICLES!Today we will be talking about how most golfers purchase their golfclubs, we will talk about what are the PROS what are the Cons or pitfallsyou need to understand that are out thereOur goal remember is for you to play your best golf. I know as a clubfitter for over 25 years that having clubs that fit your swing needsmakes playing the game more fun and will lower your score.Here are a few things that I jotted down before we started this podcastthat are indicators that your clubs are helping to hold you back."My game can only be described by one word inconsistency"I am hitting some clubs in the bag well, others not so wellI think I have more ability than the results I am seeingI hit my other _________ clubs betterI can be playing well for 2 - 5 holes or so well and then all of asudden, I can't hit anythingI always play better at this ________ point of the round  I have no idea why one shot just went left and the next went rightI can shoot 10 under par on the range, but I can't on the courseMy driver is often going Right or it is often going Left.I hit my 3 wood as far or better than my driverI can top a ball or take a large divot or I can hit a decent shot Inever know which one is coming nextSupport the showWATCH US ON YOUTUBE!! SEND US AN EMAIL WITH YOUR QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS!!! clubfittingchronicles@gmail.com

Roundhouse Roulette | A Walker, Texas Ranger Podcast
"I Got D Skillz (A.K.A. I Got The Skills)" | That Rap From "Division Street"

Roundhouse Roulette | A Walker, Texas Ranger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2021 1:38


To tide you over until our next regularly scheduled podcast, please accept our bad recreation of the epic rap from the WTR episode "Division Street." We apologize in advance! ALSO AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUDLYRICS:I'm a backboard breakerI'm a 360 SpinnerI'm a slam dunk daddyIn a word, I'm a winnerYou know I got skillsgot the game that thrillsGonna make a million dollarsRun up a lot of billsI know how to jumpI know how to skipWhen I show up to playYou best-a give me no lipCouldn't hear this lineCuz Walker n' Boomer be talkin'Savin' kids livesThough pizza hawkin'You know I got the skillsYou know I got the skillsGot the skillsI'm an no-look passerI'm a top of the list manCheck out my statsI'm the king of assists manI can run I can reboundI can play all kind DThere's no I in teamThe team is in meI'm cutting to my leftI'm goin to my rightI got the biscuit in the bucketI go 50 a nightAnytime I want itI can get a triple doubleIf you try to guard meYou're gonna have a world of troubleYou know I got the skillsYou know I got the skillsGot the skillsI'm bringing down the hammerWhen I start to “D” you upIf I see an open laneNo ones going for the cupGot the sweet false hoperGot the baseline JumperWhen I crash the boardsI'm a flat out thumperI'm chatting up the zebraSo I can get a callWhen it's winning time - I saybrother give me the ballYou wanna see some movesYou know I got emWhen I'm puttin' up a JIt's hitting nothing but the bottomYou know I got the skillsYou know I got the skillsGot the skillsCREDITS:Adam Dalton - Vocals, Bass & KeyboardsBrendan "Bob" Leahy - Background Vocals & SkillzNathan Yarborough - Guitar & BeatsSee complete episode stats (# of fights, explosions, vehicle chases, roundhouse kicks & more) at roundhouseroulette.com.Share your opinions with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter or by emailing us at roundhouseroulette@gmail.com.If you'd like to support the show, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. To further support our shenanigans, check out our fresh Merch or our ever evolving Patreon mayhem. Most importantly, thanks for hanging with us!

Level Up Your Life
Is Lack of Follow Through a Toxic Trait?

Level Up Your Life

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2021 26:22


We've all done it.....I'm going to go the gymI'm going to start eating rightI'm going to clean the houseI'm going to make those callsBUT ...... then we just don't do itTHIS is holding you back more than you know!Check out facebook.com/groups/levelupwitherika to connect with Erika in her free group! 

Choose Your Attitude
022 : Marcie Keithley opens up the Shoebox of purpose

Choose Your Attitude

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2021 56:56


We all have secrets; truths that are too painful to face. Marcie J. Keithley, Author of "The Shoebox Effect: Transforming Pain into Fortitude and Purpose," knows this all too well as she, herself, attempted to put all of her past worries into a proverbial, and literal, shoebox awaiting the time when she would have the strength to examine and process them. The reality, though, is that the only way to most forward in life with freedom is to face the past head on. Her book chronicles her journey of opening her "shoebox" and learning how to navigate loss, grief, divorce, death, adoption and all of life's adversities and transform them into fortitude and purpose. An accomplished professional, speaker, writer and emotional resilience coach, Marcie would be an amazing guest to have on your podcast as she is full of hope even in the face of challenge. She has made it her life mission to be open and honest with her personal story so that she can help others let go of the pain that they carry and move forward with purpose.Marcie Keithlyhttps://marciejkeithley.com/ @TheShoeBoxEffectPoem Referenced in Podcast:ChoicesBy Marcie J. KeithleyIf you were given a second chanceTo step back into timeAnd change a wrong and make it rightI wonder what you'd find.For God has chosen a special pathFor all of us you see.Would you correct the mistakes you made?Or would you let them lbe?As I look back on my own lifeThe choices that I madeWere ones that help me grow up strongNone were made in vain.Regardless whether wrong or rightEach one helped me to seeThat only when we fail to chooseOur lives can never be.You have a choice to start each dayWith happiness and joy.Or you could choose to stay in bedDepressed, removed and void.You have a choice to share your lifeWith friends and family.Or hide away within yourselfAnd miss your destiny.You have a choice to take a chanceOr let it walk on by.But you will never  taste successUnless you reach and try.For failures teach us many thingsAnd are not meant to be.A way to give up on a dreamAnd hand away the key.So when you choose, choose carefullyAnd look within your heart..For only when we fail to chooseOur lives can never start.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourAttitudePodcast)

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Whole 'Nuther Thing
Episode 634: Whole 'Nuther Thing June 13, 2021

Whole 'Nuther Thing

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 117:02


“Yeah, said it's all rightI won't forgetAll the times I've waited patiently for youAnd you'll do just what you choose to doAnd I will be alone again tonight my dearYeah, I heard a funny thing somebody said to meYou know that I could be in love with almost everyoneI think that people are the greatest funAnd I will be alone again tonight my dear”No one should be alone unless it's their choice, so please join me as I create your Sunday Soundtrack on the Sunday Edition of Whole ‘Nuther Thing. On deck are tunes from Urge Overkill, David Bowie, Procol Harum, The Rolling Stones, T. Rex, Byrds, Marmalade, Paul McCartney, Warren Zevon, Pat Metheny, The Who, Little Feat, Richard Harris, Beatles, Nilsson, Spirit, Iron Butterfly, Rod Stewart, John Lennon, Neil Diamond, Wallflowers, Eric Burdon & Animals, Mott The Hoople, Bee Gees, Jefferson Starship, Laura Nyro and Love…

Stories From Women Who Walk
60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday: Don't Back Down!

Stories From Women Who Walk

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2021 2:15


Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday with questions carefully chosen to help you collect stories in the oral tradition or spark your own writing. Either way, you'll say, "Thanks for the memories."Hello to you in Hancock, New Hampshire!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday.Walking along Honeymoon Bay Road with my cell phone playing the music of the 60s, 70s and 80s up came a song I’d not heard in years: I Won’t Back Down by Tom Petty (of the Heartbreakers). [Click here for the official music video.]The song took me back to 1989: the year I got married against my better intuition, when others said I just had cold feet, I’d been free too long and besides, everything was in place.I did know the right thing to do; but I went through with the wedding anyway. Chalk it up to a strong teaching. What did I learn? Today, "I know what's right / I got just one life / In a world that keeps on pushin' me around / I'll stand my ground / I won't back down."Here’s your prompt: When have you backed down because someone or something was pushing you around? Now that you know how to stand your ground, write that story! Lyrics off Full Moon Fever (April 24, 1989)."Well, I won't back downNo, I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back downNo, I'll stand my groundWon't be turned aroundAnd I'll keep this world from draggin' me downGonna stand my groundAnd I won't back down(I won't back down)Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out(I won't back down)Hey, I will stand my groundAnd I won't back downWell I know what's rightI got just one lifeIn a world that keeps on pushin' me aroundBut I'll stand my groundAnd I won't back down(I won't back down)Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out(I won't back down)Hey, I will stand my groundAnd I won't back downHey baby, there ain't no easy way out(I won't back down)Hey, I won't back down(I won't back down)Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out(I won't back down)Hey, I will stand my groundAnd I won't back downNo, I won't back down"Practical Tip: The magic of stories is also in the sharing. If you wish share your story with someone or something.   All that matters is you have a story.This is the place to thrive together. Come for the stories - stay for the magic.  Speaking of magic, I hope you’ll subscribe, share a nice shout out on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time! You’re invited to stop by the website and subscribe to stay current with Diane, her journeys, her guests, as well as creativity, imagination, walking, stories, camaraderie, and so much more: Quarter Moon Story ArtsProduction Team: Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 - Present: for credit & attribution Quarter Moon Story Arts 

Bare In Mind
(Mis)handling Anger

Bare In Mind

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2021 12:16


What is your relationship with anger?  Sometimes the signs of a poor relationship with anger are hidden.Episode 27:I discuss the meaning of anger and a framework based on the Alcoholics Anonymous JADE acronym.  I use it a little differently to highlight the subtle ways we may have a poor relationship with anger and we're not fully utilising the potential of the emotion.J = Justify Your ActionsA = Agrue Your PositionD = Defend YourselfE = Explaining Why You're RightI add an "S" at the end and it stands for Silence.I'm T. Vyas (she/her), you can call me "T" because most people do.  I'm, as you've guessed, a person of colour who looks forward to chatting with you about some things identity, some things colour and ALL things Love!  Tune in Tuesdays for a new episode!  In the meantime, you can find me on Instagram @bareinmind.podcast or at the blog: bareinmindpodcast.com.

Practical Wisdom: Your Stories
How to Avoid Arguments and Build Trust at Home and Work

Practical Wisdom: Your Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 3:38


My clients have discovered a paradox with applying these ideas. It seems like weakness to admit mistakes to our employees and kids, but others actually perceive it as strong leadership skills and emotional intelligence that builds trust. Here are 3 quick tips to help you avoid conflict at work and at home.  1)    Avoid the argument: Most disagreements are triggered by the angry look on our face, the harsh tone of our voice, bad timing and saying “you should” which makes people feel defensive.  2)    Show respect for the other person’s opinion. Never say “you’re wrong” Different doesn’t mean wrong. There are usually several right ways to do things.3)    If you’re wrong, admit it quickly. Model how to build trust.  Try these and 10 phrases to preserve your sanity and your relationships.Try these and 10 phrases to preserve your sanity and your relationships.You’re rightI’m wrongI haven’t tried it that way beforeThat’s a different way that works tooYou came at this from a different angleYou know yourself bestCan you show me how you did itYou had a good intentionCan you help me understand your perspectiveI understood it differently, can we look at it togetherMore resources: https://linktr.ee/nikkikloeppelWhat leadership best practice can you share from work or home?

Nick Krem Live
The number one thing I wish I learned earlier in life...

Nick Krem Live

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2021 3:47


Growing up I always had the be rightI would focus on winning arguments instead of figuring out what was actually rightThis competitive spirit worked well for me in a lot of ways but it stunted my personal growthI felt like I had all the answers and stopped looking for answersWhat I wish I learned earlier in life is the value of personal growth

Why Are Your Bars So Lite ?
Deja Vu - indasama s'embrouille avec polska et live

Why Are Your Bars So Lite ?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 8:10


Something doesn't fell rightI can't sleepI keep tossing and turningAnd I'm dying in my dreamsI know it's thereI feel it like a splinter in my mindIt's almost like a nightmareBut I'm not waking up this time

NIGHT WORLD a Podcast
S1 ep 22- Somebody Please! Save That BOY...

NIGHT WORLD a Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 7:02


Follow us on Twitter- @NightWorldPodEmail us-nightworldpod@hvbrecordings.com S1 ep 22- Somebody Please! Save That BOY...To all my people everywhere I drove from LAGave way to the road rageAnd lost me my paceStaying by the oceanHoping I would own itThe beach side compoundsAnd these side with out sounds Would never be awesome I broke down the laws ofFinger wagging And all the baggage I would imagine All the goldDesigner dreams, audiblesYall would screamThen live life lowBeen lyin brokeBend my broHad to be the holdA lot of me would goDown in on dreams I known what I've seenHold down on weAnd go down on peaceWhile stack caloriesLet the fat battle meI don't want this shitEnough with the chipsIdolize the risk Pass me a beerDad don't have no shitSpend me my fearFamily not hereAnd I'm standing on airGot a bad ego Where all my peoples When I dont want equalsOutlasted the freedomAnd cash out on zeroTough shitRough shitStructuresRupturesRapture CaptureThe wrath ofThe back ofThe beltI could yellLike hellThen put down the nailIt all seem to failDon't cause me no L'sI won't cause you to bailAll my people wellMaybe notWhat we gotDaily lossIn a spotNot the bop What I rockNot the stopPut your eyes elsewhere With my welfare Up in the air Do you really care 9 years oldAnd out of control Dealt a hell of a blowJust get outta of smoke No where to landAnd who'll understandThey blame it on boy and free up a manPain is for fearless Aimed to be peerless The laws of the world I could've cared lessLived in a swirl, open roof for the air freshMorning Morning Morning lightWhat am I to be Don't you lie to meAs far as I could seeChoice is two lanes deep Lose what I've seenCry about dreamsThe life how it happened to meOff in hotel Lies in a wholesale It wouldn't bode wellLife in my own hellSeconds they marchI turned to the lord Then broke down the boardsImmersed in these choresTo get on and offCan't escape lossThey battles they fought To hold down a lotWhat was it forYou obviously woreThe face of a foolBut it was I who did looseLocked in a roomEyes to the moonYou make what you play at He stay where you lay atI cover a face thatAvoid all the play backI hope I don't go to sleep Knowing what's in store for meThe back of my eye lidsPlay something violent Que up the violins Sad orchestrationsSounds of soul breaking Its winter time somewhere And its sure as hell is cold in hereOur lowsAin't all our lossSurvival of?Why you all hang onTake hours offAnd power onI go for broke and hold my ownIn dismay I lay and never lower guardWhat been going onCan't no one knowI overloadTo overlookYou wanna lay when no one lookEscape those days I never wouldCorrupt a roseAnd hold up your noseYou want that foodA lil' fresh fruitBe that lewdAll the ludesCouldn't alter a mood Can't talk youBut you don't wanna leave What it gonna be?I can't hold up peaceAnd forgive a soul That get so lowWhat you inching onThe bullshit Can't get lostYou took itWhat I don't know isI can't throw itAll this emotionAll of this hold andDon't it look like That I don't look rightFamily functions And I'm the monster2014 so many scenes Whole family Uncle was sitting right there So many into my hairYa'll don't know my despair How we go in repair Top of morning and already scaredPlay positions Do something different You are what you intended All yaWant aComponent of power, and give no brainTo the low stainOf hurt shameThe worst painIs that birth thangThat shared nameThat allow you toBe wild and looseGo with itAnd grow with itYou won't get itOutta the headHell in the bedAnd heaven ain't thereEveryone was sitting there.I mean the whole family.Grandma down to the youngest grand child.We may never see her again, our matriarch.And we never did.Not in this context, to see the roots, the tree, its branches, leaves and fruit nesting on the plot which housed this growth is something to behold. A break in our rote lives, family functions function as lubrication in our mechanical strides. There you sat dawning that curved smile of yours, the possessor and protector of turbulent machinations. A bad apple, a great actor, did you come here to soil our.... Morning Morning Morning lightI would never hold the nightTell me what you think is rightI won't let you change design And I won't allow demise Take your toll ill keep my mind SEASON 1 LOOKING THROUGH THE TUNNEL.NIGHT WORLD IS RECORDED AT NIGHT SOUND STUDIOS IN CARRBORO NORTH CAROLINA. ITS A PARTY & UNBORN SOUL are the instrumentals used in today's episode (#22) they are from SFRBEATS.COMNIGHT WORLD a PODCAST is written  & performed by Arvid, 8TATE HYE, & Zaf. Glenn Schwartz is our recording engineer. Please leave reviews, subscribe and share this podcast.

Listening to Music by Sean

Abeyance is a song about returning what's past.Do the dead speak to us? Can they hear our whispered incantations. In the song Abeyance, I invite the hollowed stillness that thins what separates our time from all time so that what's past can be present, what's forgotten remembered, and what's lost can still be loved. If you like to download just the music in this episode go to seanriley.com/music. What beautiful secret would you like to her from someone who's past? Abeyance (Music and Lyrics by Sean Riley)With candle, spellAnd hands held tightWe call you to this roomWith incense, bellAnd spirits brightWe hail you from your tombHow am I sure it's youTell me something that's trueI miss youNo more to tellFarewells made rightI still smell perfume

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Noise Of The Broke Boys
Daniel Zhu - Stance Elements - Entrepreneur, Social Media Expert, Dance Media, and Bboy Olympics - Noise of the Broke Boys Episode 016

Noise Of The Broke Boys

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020 68:31


Daniel Zhu, the creator of the popular social media channel, Stance Elements, discusses his insight on how his channels blew up on social media, social media marketing, the bboy scene, breakdancing in the Olympics, and the dance scenes similarity to the Esports scene.A broke degenerate hooligan documents conversations about being a Bboy, Breakin', Hip Hop, Dance, Art, Music, Creativity, Innovation, and the slow subtle crumble of society in audio form. Follow @Instagram: noiseofthebrokeboysTwitter: BrokeBoysNoise Listen to the Audio on all Podcast platforms. All The Links Here: https://linktr.ee/NoiseOfTheBrokeBoys----more----[Music]this episode of noise of the probe boysis brought to you by free time are theremoments in your lifehas there ever been a time no those arenot questions I forgot to finish theyare legit inquisitions i have for all mylisteners free time is something that isoften overlooked in our lives but thesum of all our short moments in lifehappened to add up to many wasted hoursper day in that time consider how manybread making cookbooks you could haveread or how many shake weights you couldhave well shook next time you have aspare second consider using it in a more/ less constructive way by turning onthe noise of the broke boys podcast anddropping us alike thanks for yourcontinued support and now on to the show[Music]in this episode the creator of Stan'selements an online movement artsplatform sits down to discuss thehistory of its creation we discussvarious topics related to digital mediamarketing videography hip hop andentrepreneurship I had a great timepicking his brain about his side ofbreaking in social media that I don'tknow much about please enjoy the episodewith mr. Daniels ooh hellowelcome everybody to the slow subtlecollapse of society in podcast form thisis north of the broke boys I am yourhost Kurt the hurt and today I have aspecial guest his name is Daniel zu heis mr. Stan's the creator of Stan's theCEO of Stan I don't know what is yourtitle grand wizard of Grand Wizard justcall me a creators the Creator witchso Stan's is I consider it like in urbanarts like media platform but what whatdo you what do you call it we call it amovement arts platform movement artsplatform interesting ok yep so thatbasically is saying likeI guess you guys do dance you guys filmtricking you guys do yeah anything yourbody you've in some way can move andthen in artistic format of weather soit's not just dance it's just it'sreally men arts yeah I guess is the bestname for it he kind of made it that waybecause we wanted to just you know notback ourselves in a corner with onetopic yeah yeah okay and so the firsttime I think I saw stance was it was onyour YouTube channel in I don't know ifthat's where you guys started but Ithink that's when I first saw and youguys were posting a lot of footage fromb-boy battles and stuff and now you'vekind of grown to this social mediaplatform and then yeah and then filmingall these other different events and nowit's like I see like literally everylarge dance event you guys are there andit's like I don't watch footage toooften but when I do I immediately go toyoutube type in stance and then look atthat look at what you guys have so Iwould say that you know seems to me likeyou probably have the biggest or atleast the most successful media platformin this space which I'm curious like howthat makes you feel like what thejourney to get there it just seems socrazy it's uh it's a lot of momentumyeah it's a Activ that's I can say it'syou know you start something small andnow it's just you have a lot of momentumand then you know it feels weird likeyou go a couple of days without postanything keeper like so hmm what's goingon yeah yeah and so you just kind ofride that and keep going and goingyeah yeah yeah you know and theneventually get to where you are where Ithink now you're is it your face butlike I don't I think between all yourplatforms you've got like over a millionkind of subscribers or a couple billionsyeah a couple million wow that's greatso I mean that's that's crazy to thinkthat that came from breaking and nowit's to where you are now is just greatbecause you know when I started breakingthis was like events were barely a thingyou won an event and they were likehere's a some gas money and stuff andlike it was the ghettoest shit ever andso to see it now to where you guysthere's a legitimate media company outthere that is traveling the worldfilming all these huge events theirsponsors involved with the events andstuff it's just crazy to see that in mylifetime I was able to see that I meanit's really a short time in a way I meanI've been breaking less than 20 yearsprobably think about 18 19 years so tosee it happen within that span it's likecrazy it feels like we were in the StoneAge compared to to now and so like Idon't know it's just when I when I lookat Stan's it's like it makes me proud asa b-boy to see that we've gone so far toyou know be like a legitimate um I don'tknow what you'd call us but more thanjust some people rolling around on thefloor legitimate movement it's alegitimate movement yeah I mean at leastit's being recognized as that now yeahwe I think all of us always considered alegitimate form but you know yourparents are like rolling on the floorand shit yeah yeah that's our biggest Ithink I think every time we createsomething major or stance or somethingthat we always think about people likeour parents people that don't understandthe dance and we're like okay how can wereach these kind of people yes there'smore of these those kind of people thanthey are dancers oh yeah yeah and sowe're like okay we the more non dancepeople or non people associated with thescene that get addicted to this mmmyou know the more momentum we get yeahyeah and and I do think that that isgonna play a huge part in the the latersuccess of this culture as more peopleget involved with it see it fall in lovewith it and continue to follow it andhopefully participate in it not thatthey have to but I think you'll see youknow right now the participation rate isfrom mostly dancers but I think we'regoing to start seeing participation fromthe like viewers now youno like legitimate fans and stuff like Ikind of compared to like skateboardingor something you know we're you knowyou'll watch it on TV as on like the XGames and you're like dude this stuff iscrazyskateboarding Mme Mme yeah exactly noanything like there's a big boxing fightthis weekend mm-hmm I mean everyone theonline is talking about but who the hellreally boxes uh-huh yeah you know butthey're all fans yeah yeah I mean it'slike yeah a lot of the fans the they'lltake a boxing class or whatever butthey're not like some freaking hardcorein the disguising everybody but it'slike they're talking about anyways yeahit's like it's a casual fan casual notin the sense of that they don't knowwhat's going on in the sport but casualin the sense that they're not in thering punching each other oh I thinkwe're gonna see a lot more of that inBreaking and I do think that you guysare kind of a hinge point of making thathappenmm-hm and I know that there's a fewother creators out there that are alsodoing a similar thing to you guys but Isee you guys that's probably the biggestand also the catalyst to I guess makingwhat they're doing happen as well it'slike I really see you guys as the onesthat paved the way to make it happen Idon't know if you feel that way but Imean I'm a little ice I came from I camefrom the other channel to strife that'sright and that literally did pave theway that's right yes Drive yeah I guessthey yeah but you were involved withthat right and I guess yes like onceonce strife kind of whenever wentwherever it went you kind of took it tothe next level and continued to to pushit to where it is now so I don't knowit's just it's just cool to see that nowmm-hmmchanging topics uh I'm curious how youactually got involved in the hip-hopscene the dancing cuz I know you're fromSouth Dakota which yes like all I canthink of from there is like oil fieldsand like snow is that rightlike I don't see hip-hop is somethingbeing up farms farms yeah there's yeahpretty much there wasn't really muchhip-hop at all yeahbut I got I got into the scene becauseof college okay yeah and you went tocollege out there or no I went tocollege in a university Wisconsin okaythere's probably not a lot of b-boysthere either actually I have a friendwho's going to school in Wisconsin nowhe's in med school and he says there'snot a lot of people so imagine there'sprobably more than South Dakota there'sa lot more than South DakotaI mean Wisco Wisconsin you got thebenefit of you got the Milwaukee sceneyeah that's right you got the Chicagoscene okay they're all within an hour todrive away so you know when I started Igood friends with like motion disordersyeah yeah okay you know Rick heads Rickheadsyou know Chicago tribe Chicago Tribuneyeah yeah yeah so but no college was youknow you see you hear about these likebreaking clubs that they have in collegeand that's how I started you knowthat's tight ya know I have a lot offriends that did the same thing I meanone I went to UC Davis I was alreadybreaking before them but like once I gotthere one of my friends he started heused to do the Warriors games with meactually he started a club and I waskind of just a bum and I was like I'mgonna really be a part of I mean Iwanted to be a part of yeah but I waslike kind of like how about you do thework like come and break but he built ithe built the club up and he did a lot ofstuff with it and like introduced somany people to the dance and I look backand I'm like oh man I wish I could havebeen more involved with that now it'snot been so I guess selfishcuz the back then I was just like oh Idon't care about this I just want tobreak yeah but seeing seeing now thatthere's a lot of guys that started thenand kept goingI mean think is really cool and and andthat I'm seeing that happen more oftennow is like when people are going touniversities they're like beingintroduced to a lot of new things andhip hop is one of them in fact now hiphop is kind of being taught in someuniversities as like a subject yeah likea curriculum yeah there's a yeahI know a couple people that do that Imean even here in LA you gotI think UCLA and UC Riverside canswiftly he teaches okay I didn't knowthat yeah Wowyeah though I know my friend Serge frombeets and pieces he teaches out in themin the Bay Area couple schools I thinkum and then there's another guy who's Ithink in Chicago area who does it yeah Imean it's starting to get a lot bigger Ithink why not does it - yep all ski Paulski okay yeah so yeah it's yeah it justblows my mind to think about like thatlike those guys were there like ones youknow 20 years ago rolling on the groundyeah they're like oh yeah that's coolbut you know it's just rolling on theground but now it's like some stuffgetting taught in university so it's Idon't know it's just cool it's cool tosee that that can change we'redefinitely in a time where yeah I guesship hip hop culture is being more comingmore to the forefront of I don't knowcommunity pop culture I guess is thebest way to say itmm-hmm right before it was such anunderground movement and now it's nowit's a university course if that wasoffered nowadays and I was still inschool I would totally take it yeah Iprobably would do just cuz it's fun tohear the different viewpoints on thisculture because you know like I grew upin in Sacramento you know I know youknow somewhat history of everything butI know it from the point of view inSacramento so go into a universitylearning it from maybe someone who'sfrom New York or whatever in you know inKent Swift's case hearing where he'scoming from it's like hearing all theseperspectives it gives you a betterunderstanding of like what what thisculture really is yeah and I thinkdefinitely people who only know hip-hopmusiccoming into a class like that would gainso much stuff because most of my friendsthat only know hip-hop through musicthey don't know anything about like howhow breaking really helped create thatmusic in a way and I guess they don'tmaybe understand how direct that thatwas you know in terms of like the onlyreason a break really exists is becausea DJ was like oh I want to see thatdancer go off yeah let me replay thispart of the song and then oh let me rapto it okay oh now that's hip-hop musicoh dope that's like that directconnection I don't think a lot of peopleunderstand that and so I'm happy to seethat now there's that's becoming morethe forefront of the hip hop Coleman sohopefully hopefully casual musiclisteners start you know understandingthat too so but anyway so some so fromSouth Dakota to Wisconsin and then nowto LA were you in any place beforebetween there yeah okay so I was so inbetween college and here in LA I've beenin a bunch of places actually uh been inWashington DC okay then in West Africanice piece of court been in Alaska okayI've been to from Alaska up into Koreamm-hmm South Korea that was not NorthKorea no you know you can't not allowedin North Koreabut been to South Korea that was purelyon the fact that I just wanted toexperience the dance culture there okayI got a job just like his win oh youknow that's man that's that's crazy tolike to just go oh man I'm gonna pick upeverything I'm gonna move to Korea andlike you know just for the dance that'stight yeah yeah yeah and then and thennow here and then to Minnesota and thennow here in LA so I've been bebop inquite a bit and so where did Stan's fitin with that or I guess Drive TV andthen Stan's where did that fit in likewhen did that start for you like wherewere you2008 strife startedand that was all because of my collegefriends okay my friends from college atthe university Wisconsin we're like heythey recognize the need right they werelike wheat there's not an officialchannel that provides high qualityfootage yeah we'll do it yeah you knowand they moved here to LA - okay andthey they're the ones to film backgroundso what I was a career at that time andthey're like Dan you're in Korea Koreaseems really big can you get a cameraand film for us oh and I'm like sorrylet me let's do this Wow so you kind oflike fell into the film world right solike they just said here's like you knowgo get a camera and you have did beforethen have you ever thought that youwould be doing any kind of filming Ohwhat No uh sort of I am prior to beingin Korea I was in Africa and Alaska andum I you know I had a camera and I keptI did like blogs mm-hmm I had a head ofthis thing called a live journal wayback then okay um and by you saying uhyeah basically just showing people mylife yeah in other countries and it wasfun so I was thinking you know what it'sjust be like that in video form okayyeah I but I didn't go to video schoolor anything I my first Kim was a flipphone those like flip cameras in Koreaand that's where all the Korean strifefootage was car you serious I kid younotthat's funny oh man I remember going toa jam back when uhlike cell phones just started havingcameras and they were like you can't butya know dude that's crazy they'refilming I mean yeah that's that's reallylike the beginnings of YouTube I thinkall the footage on there was like2008-2009 around that time yeah it waslike flip yeah yeah that's yeah but itwas like those big Korean events thatyou never see yeah yeah yeah he had thegamblers you had the gene shows you hadthe ti peas you know like old schoolrivers old school like everyone wantedto watch that stuff yeahthat yeah that was me and so you werethe you were the pioneer of putting aKorean footage out I guess I mean Iguess there's a couple other guys thatwere doing it but that's I guess in theYouTube era that was you Lee you huh sointeresting so then from strife it whendid Stan's come about so ideally wewanted strife to go to where Stan's wasokay but all the rest of my friends justkind of lost interest in filming okaythey yeah they they either moved or theyjust didn't find interest in breaking oryou know they had other interests yeahyou know and so I was the only one andso that's when I created Stan's mainlybecause you know if you know just forbusiness purposes you wanted to be anactual owner I wasn't an actual owner ofstrife I guess just helping out at thattime yes okay so you're just you're anemployee of strife and then you you knowI guess you had the vision to create itto to where you took to where stancesnow and so you said okay well I need todo this if you guys aren't gonna help medo itexactly then build stance up owner andnow you have like a couple guys with youright it sucks starting from scratchagain with like zero views and yeah zeropeople it'll come but it came and uh youknow you still keep your real lifeconnections you still keep you you knowyou're friends with this event organizerwith your friends with all these otherb-boys and then definitely like when westarted Stan's a lot of people that werefilmed with me that I recruited tostrife came along okay you know sothat's why we had mad tech out in thebay he came along to Anderson out in LAhe had my friends out in the UK okay andthen I had another friends in Korea sowe covered a great portion of the worldscene yeah without you know mephysically have to travel there yeah butyou still travel a lot I switch outquite a bit yeah yeah but you got yougot a good team that's we have a goodteam like you know a good standingyeah good understanding yetthis this whole vision alive and runningand so like I guess how do you see itexpanding do you see it expanding moreto like getting more employees going tomore countries um I've been alwayscautious on expanding mainly becauseit's hard to keep quality control mm-hmmyou know you have you need to have thesame vision and then at the same timeyou need to have like a certain type ofteamwork involved that's you know ifthis whole stance fill thing wasn't funin the first place I wouldn't be doingit yeah yeah you know the less so it hasstill has to be fun for us yeah for sureyeah right and so yeah we do we doexpand we were trying to I think I thinkat the at this moment we're pretty goodfilming events around the world I thinkwhat we are working on next are justquality stories that you might not hearhmm within not only dance but otherdancer interests yeah yeah yeah and thenas well as other areaChandra's that we have a big interest insuch as tricking tricking yeah yeah Ithink the tricking is the next big thenext big thing yeah okay yeah um it'slike with all these new countries comingin I imagine it gets hard to reallyjuggle that and so yeah it seems likeexpanding your company to cover all thisstuff is like probably on the forefrontof like making stance successful and Iguess yeah training your team to youknow keep that same quality and then Iguess like figuring out what works withthese new things like tricking and stuffbecause I imagine the way you film andcover a b-boy event is probably not howyou cover a tricking event maybe there'ssome crossover but like there's youdefinitely gotta like get involved withthe scene to really understand likewhat's okay what's not and and then likejust go full in and then and thenunderstand that I guess maybe it's notsuch a big test but I'm just imaginingme if I was a videographer which I'm notI'm terrible at this kind of thing butlike I would I would I guess I wouldknow breaking because I'm a b-boy and Ican like know okay I don't want to jumpin the middle of the circle and likegetting this dudes away but liketricking I think I would just freakin goto the back of the room cuz I ain'ttrying to get kicked you know what Imean so it's like but I'm sure thatthat's not the best way to get footageso it's like figuring out where you gota stand-in like you know what's notgonna mess them up when they're doingtheir thing I feel like that's probablycore to like what you guys need to dofor that there's a lot of crossover it'spretty goodmainly because though uh you know whenwe decided stands to be a movement artspage it's because we looked at ourselvesand were like well we like dance whatelse do you like to do I like to go to agymnastics gym and mess around and jumparound okaylet's add that in what else do you liketo do this person likes to skateboardokay let's add I did what I'll see youknow when we think and so everyone haslike a different interest really drawupon different influences and likewiselike people trickers and gymnasts theylike to watch dance tooyeah yeah so you're like okay okay thisthere's so much crossover between allthese different things I mean like forone thing I think like music productionand stuff I think it actually crossesover with dance a lot more than peoplethink it does like I've started gettinginto music production a lot no I knowTech has too and it's just like I thinkas dancers we understand music a lot andso producing music becomes a lot easierthan I think someone who came in coldand I would think that I would think thecrossover between a producer coming intodance would probably be the same I meanbecause they obviously understand musicto a very high degree they might notknow how to move their body quite thesame way but that's just a matter oftraining a little bit to figure it outjust same same thingwith a b-boy trying a dancer trying tolearn music production it's like you gotto learn some of the music theory andeverything but like once you understandthe tools it's kind of just like getyourself into like a creative flow stateand just let it gocorrect that's like how that's how I'vealways been I mean IIIi was a painter along time ago and um and that's like howI would always paint is all just kind oflike get into the mode of painting mymom my mom is an artist so she kind oftaught me how to do this and then once Icame into dancing it was like the samekind of thing once I learned like a fewfundamental moves it was just like youget into this creative flow state andit's just like the same thing really butyou're just using different tools in away so yeah um I don't know I I imaginethere's that that's the same thing withlike filmmaking too like that you kindof you guys get some kind of creativeyou get into some creative groove andthen it just turns into like hours andhours and hours of you like making thisa really cool project or somethingthat's totally editing that's basicallywhat I've been doing for the entire weekediting pretty much yeah yeah I I'veedited a few videos in my life and theysuck a lot but it's yeah it feels thesame way that's the way to get betteryou suck a bunch and then you keep onsucking and yeah yeah just keep doing ityeah yeahthere's some good quotes on that but Ican't remember but yeah basically yeahit's the best way to stop sucking I lookat my old videos I'm like what was Ithinking yeah but that was a good ideaso I'll take that little bit I look atthe pot the old podcasts I've I recordedI'm like what the hell was I thinkingbut my god it's getting me to where Iwant to be then you're thinking likepeople really watched what I did dudeactually I haven't even posted a singleone because I keep looking back andgoing oh manlike I'm starting to figure out how todo podcasting a lot better and I've beenfiguring out like how to film better tooand so like now I'm looking at it likeoh I don't want to release these oldones cuz like I straight-up just didn'tgive it I like would walk in I mean likeI had good equipment but yeah I wouldcome in Ididn't have like a studio I mean I stilldon't really have a studio they justhave a freaking blank wall with somestuff on it but like I straight up wouldjust bring my equipment to like afriend's house they wouldn't haveanywhere to put it so we would likerecord on the floor and so it was ghettoas hell but I'm just like oh you knowwhat that brought us and it's not likethe conversation wasn't good I think itwas good it's just like if you don't seeany video you're like okay this was coolmaybe it was done in a real studio butyou see the footage in like all thesesitting on the freaking carpet so butyeah I don't know yeah humble roots Iguess is the best way to call it mm-hmmand I guess you guys have your own yourown humble roots as well so where do yousee yourself going next I mean like youobviously have a vision of where stanceis going but like what other hobbies areyou into and like how does that involvewith like the rest of your life and likewhere do you see that taking you I meanI see you have a league of Legends likeKeith I you know I I love eSports yup Ilove eSports obviously League of Legendsis huge yeah overwatch is huge you knowit's a it's a big scene yeah um andthere's actually crossover betweeneSports and like a movement arts - yeahbig I mean it's I mean competitive sceneI would think that there's like a lot ofcrossover in terms of like manydifferent they how people are reactingto each other some merchants hold on soeSports um I don't know a lot abouteSports but it's like it's reallyintrigued me to see where it is becauseit's kind of like I kind of look at itit's like breaking in a way because likeagain when I started playing video gameslike Super Smash Brothers when I waslike in middle school or whatever I waslike oh cool we're just gonna go over tomy friends house and just play orwhatever and now it's like there'slegitimate competitions for legitimatemoneyit's like broadcaston the internet and has started aroundthe same time it started around the sametime so it's like the scenes are kind ofgrowing I think it's really it comesdown to this digital age I think is it'sit's allowing everything to get aroundto more people but it's just so cool tosee all these new communities of youknow competitive sports competitivewhatever out there and and you knowsomething that I never would havethought would happen or I like I justdon't know anything about seeing it ifyou look at our stance produce livestreams with the commentators and mm-hmmthe way they talk to people and stufflike that it comes from eSports oh yeahI kid you not it's um I look at Leagueof Legends I look at Street Fighterlivestreams I'm like I want that settlewell I want that's it I like how they'reengaging with the audience I you knowthen that and that's where totally ourinfluences come interested you know theylook like they have a somewhat similarbudget to us that's interesting you knowthe ugly bar I I'm influenced by eSportsa lot and then you know I'm alsointerested in you know other things likeyou look at other influences of eSportshow many dance emojis there are ineSports no no like for tonighteveryone's in everyone's doing this fortonight moves rightI actually I have a theory that like thekids now that are learning to break youknow that are young like elementaryschool age are gonna start doingFortnight moves in as actual breakingmoves I think that's they already youknow yeah they probably already do theyalready do that I filmed the battle toit I filmed the battle two years ago andthis guy just flipped up in the air andjust laying on his side and then did hislittle floss move or something yeah it'slike okay it was it was fun it was funto see yeah but they already do and youknow it's uh if it gets them hooked tothe scene then yeah yeah it's yeah Ithink it's a good thing to see thatstuff I mean there's a lot of likebreaking purists and stuff that go likeoh it's not it's decreasing the rawnessof it but I think that those are justlike old people thatsalty or whatever I think seeing well myperspective is that the if you thinkthat that's gonna degrade its rawness Ithink you weren't raw in the first placeI think that you're you're you're justyou're trying to crap on someone else'sparade this this person sees somethingand now they're invested into the sceneI think that's a good thingand period really like I can't see areason why that would be a bad thingthat some what some new people are beingintroduced into the dance every everygeneration basically every decade thator so there's there's always like dancerelated media out there or names relatedtrends that that may seem cheesy at thebeginning yeah but it gets young kidsinterested yeah you know I've seen theirstories of like really high competitivedancers that started with you got servedoh yeah and like that movie if youreally saw at me and that was supercheesy it was a cheese dude but theystarted and now they are at the top oftheir scene right now and they arefucking wrong yeah yeah beat Street isthe cheesiest movie ever you know that'sa hot take but battle me Beach Street isso cheesy it's a dope movie sure butit's cheesy as hell breaking is breakingand breaking to electric Boogaloo arealso two of the worst movies everI mean cheesy in terms of were worsethan cheesy movies even Flashdance dudethat was probably the first timebreaking was on like a big screen thatmovie's cheesy as hell it was a catalystand got people to catalyst yup yes so Imean yeah I don't know I think it's um Ithink it's it's great to see that and Iguess with the with the oncomingOlympics in 2024 which is in Paris Ibelieve yeah now you're gonna see it onanother stage to a whole new audience Ithink we're gonna also see a huge influxof new b-boys as well there already isbecause Olympics yeah and from the theJunior Olympics right from the Juneit's like I try traveling around the USAjust the USA itselfa lot of my friends as dance studioshave had influx of students that justwant to learn yeah you know so manylittle kids are enrolling in their dancestudios and it's great yeah I think it'sgreat too and and that's just the USAyou know Japan is another monster Russiais another monster China especially Imean you're just getting kids enrollingeverywhere yeah and these little kidscan fly and yeah you can fly I didn'teven break when he you know he's like Ididn't start breaking the laws maybelike 14 you got these 10 year olds thatare like flying and stuff so I'm likedang dudewhat is breaking gonna be like when theyare my age I'm 32 I mean maybe maybetheir bodies just gonna be broken butlike if they're 10 years old and can dolike twice as much as I can do dang dudeI don't know I don't know what to saybut they're gonna be crazy yes yes so Ithink that's exciting to see thatso I guess once the Olympics rollsaround in 2024 we're gonna see some veryhigh-level stuff there and I get youknow what I'm curious about actuallywith the Olympics and I don't know ifyou would be the person to know thissince because you are like a it on theadvisory board or whatever right and soI'm curious like how they how they planto actually do this is it like gonna bebattles as like were used to in thebreaking communities they're gonna bemore like a showcase kind of thing likelike a show or something I know they'redoing what like a 1 one-on-one kind ofsituation and then I guess I'm curiousabout like how it's being judged and Idon't know maybe maybe yeah so thecatalyst of the Olympics is WDS F worlddance sport Federation mm-hmmthey're the main dance sport you knoworganizational group around the worldand they like oversee all the dancingthere so like salsa and correct yeahyeahand luckily they've organ they did theYouth Olympics two years ago yeah lastyear they did two other events the WD SFchampionship in China and then you hadthe world urban games on Budapest sookay it's and you there's already videosonline of those events okay we wecovered a couple of them and it's it'sjust it's really just and they have ajudging system they have you know justlike any normal dance event that youhave like the judges that we're used toyou have the competitors that we wereused to hmm things like that yeah theDJs and the music that we're used to soit really isn't any different it isn'tany different than other breaking eventsthat we have seen okay I guess the onlything that only difference is thatthere's so for me I feel there's a lotof rounds it's okaylike oh my gosh it was like the ready mogroup stage and then you have a tough 16to 8 and your people those dancers weretired those dancers are tired so werethey doing like five round battles everytime or something or it was like it waslike two three round battles every timestarting from group stages I actuallymissed that because when I first startedbreaking that's how it was it was likeyou would go a crap ton of rounds andyour rounds wouldn't be like as long asthey are now and so yeah I mean I thinkbattles were just longer I don't knowand then now it's like you see one roundbattles which to me feels kind of weirdI don't know it kind of works I guesswith what we're doing now but it's itstill feels weird to me but I don't knowthat I think that's cool that they'redoing more rounds but it definitely putsyou to the test I can imagine you gottabe an athlete you have that stamina yeahyou gotta be a gold medal athlete to getthat gold medal yeah yeah but I meanyeah I guess that comes with theterritoryyeah but no the organisationally yourall the stuff that you see is onlinealready Youth Olympics in 2022 gonna bein Dakar Senegal that would be anotherwarm-up for the Olympics in 24 but Ithinkyeah having Paris be the forefront ofthis is gonna be greatyeah cuz that's the first time I don'twill be a part of it right yep and it'llbe most likely you'll be they haven'tdecided yet already but it's most likelygonna be one-on-ones okay just keep itsimpleactually I know I know we want to seecrew battles but yeah the first time Ifeel it's too much we got is just startwith one on ones firstyeah yeah yeah what what do you likemore as a sidenotecrew battles are won on well Holly Ilove crew battles do you know I'vealways loved crew battles and anotherhot take is like I freakin love watchingroutines and know there's something likepurist b-boys that are like routine suckand stuff but like I don't know I'vealways loved routines I'm the crew Iused to be a part of his flexible Flavoh you guys had great routines yeah dudewe like we're kind of on the I don'tknow innovators I guess of the routinegame and so like I don't know I'vealways loved doing routines and stuffand just watching new stuff coming solike you know I was inflexible Flavuntil 2020 no it's 20 2007 I think iswhen I stopped 2008 maybe 2009 I don'tknow I don't know one of those dates butlike before then it was like we werealways making these routines and like wewould see another crew like starting todo the same thing once we stopped oronce I got out of the crew then youstarted seeing more crews like jinjo andstuff coming out at that point I thinkrivers and gamblers were already likehuge on the routine game and so it's Idon't know a top 9 huge in the routinegame so I don't know I missed that cuzyou don't see it so much anymore I thinkeverybody used to cut mad cuz all thosecrews are winning every I love crewbattles because like like Saints likesame example your crew you had when yourcrew memberswell associate chram it was dizzy rightoh yeah he was he was not really flexplay but he was like he would enter alot of battles he understood the theFlex Flay battleyeah ala D which is like you're notgoing you're you you it's like there's acertain way to winyeah yeah right and whether it isthrough teamwork or whether it's it'snot the hardest move it's just how youdo it yeah and that's what and that'swhat made like crew battles so more muchmore intriguing you have someone do acrazy move and the other team willrespond with something totally differentyeah hmm what the routines what I alwaysliked about routines was that it wasanother element to control the battleyeah like with one-on-onesyour arsenal is kind of your limitationto controlling the battle like you seethis guy attack you in a certain way youcan do a lot of things to to respondright but like with a routine you canalmost like bulldoze them a little bitbecause they throw something at you evenif they threw a routine at you then youturn around and eat and you can goalright here's this crazy trick boomhere's another crazy trick here's thisreally cool choreography set and nowboom flip over BAM there's a dude andhe's just gonna like do what a normalb-boy would do in like go off andrespond to everything that you threw athim it's it's just kind of like extraicing on the cake Joe to say that youknow we we're controlling this battlenow you know and so that's why some ofthe greatest battles in in history Ithink have always been like crew battleswhere you see something like you'll seeone crew really controlling it then allof a sudden boom it's like the tidetotally shifts and I feel like a lot ofb-boys maybe felt that routines werelike hacks in a way it gets to refer tolike eSports like they're using hacksnow because it's like it's so effectiveto like to draw another crew into yourinto your own into your strategy to winif they can't respond with routines welland usually crews can't it's like oh noI'm gonna lose now you know you got tothrow some really crazy thing you got tohave pocket take every freaking roundafter that - like really respond oh soit's like I don't know I definitelythink they they felt like it was hacksbut but you can tell bad routines youcan yeah there's definitelyyou can beat bad routines with a goodsoul around yeah sure but it's hard tobe a really good routine with a solo andI think that just goes to show you thatlike that's how powerful a good routinereally is and so I think to embrace itand say okay I'm gonna use this as partof my strategy is is is something that Ithink the whole community was ontosomething when it was really sparkingoff and then when there was this bigsurge in people like not liking and Ithink it kind of killed it a little bitso but I'm seeing it happen more so I'mexcited to see maybe like some crewbattles in the future with maybe even inthe Olympics yeah I like watching crewbattles this year you can this you'regonna have five and five freestylesession okay cool pseudo crew battleyeah I went my personal favorite eventto film is battle year okay I lovewatching battle year do you like it cuzof the shows uh the shows are cool Ilike seeing my favorite shows actuallyare seeing countries that don't get achance to be on stage oh yeah like soyou get to see the Senegal's you get tosee like Madagascar you can oh yeah yeahlike country said alright normally onthe stage see it those are beautiful funand then I like to see you knowsometimes I like to see the battleswhere you have a country that you didn'tthink of make it you know last year lastyear Venezuela came all like Venezuelaya know when two years ago was likeThailand uh-huh you know like that thoseare funny yeah whenever I see stuff likethat I'm like dude they got breakingover there and I mean like that's kindof an ignorant thing to say butespecially because my brother Vincesanity he's he teaches he has all hisYouTube videos yeah and he he alwaysshows me like where his videos are beingwatched in a lot of them are like inthese crazy third-world countries I'venever heard of you know and so but thenseeing them come to like the stage ofbattle of the year and you're like ohthese guys are like really good - yeahcrazy soI don't know what I guess what in battleI don't really haven't really seen a lotof battle of the year recently but dothey still do those shows the showyup cases okay cuz I always thought thatthat was such an interesting way to likeweed out crews - you're like top fourthey probably do like top eight they dotop six now 600 that word the first twocrews no I'm gonna buy Ohgonna buy and then you have fourwildcard interesting so then the wildcarves battle and then they link up withthe first first place in second placecrews tie okay that's that's crazy yeahthat's because yeah I used to be justtop four yeah and you know they came allthat wayyeah and what do you want to see morebattle yeah no there was a there's astory I think of like cuz the US wasbanned for a long time for comingbecause I think one of the crews I'm notgonna say who was but they came andapparently like destroyed like a hotelroom because they didn't make it to thebattles and thought that they shouldhave and so then they were like you knowu.s. is banned and then I think it tooklike good five years or something to letthe u.s. back in so not that not thatthey should have done that or anythinglike that's definitely a bad way to actbut you know now you know having moreability to make it at us top categoriesI think it's like nice because becausereally like breaking has expanded somuch you're gonna have so many peopleending I mean on all these bigcompetitions I'm always seeing like fourhundred people entering or something andit's like geez man that's crazy I'm usedto like 10 people and 20 people enteringor whatever you know it's just more moreinterest more more people interested inyou know yeah and you haven't gonecheyna yet yeah you've got full days 13hours of prelims Wowthat's I mean that's insane yeah I meanyeah I guess yeah I guess that's anothertopic by itself I went to ibe and theyhad a whole day of likeprelims I remember and it took a longfreakin time it wasn't 13 hours but feellike it was like five or six hours orsomething like that just like kind of inthe same it's like a jam in itself youknow yeah kind of like you gotta winthis Jam out of like fifty people andyou know they have like a bunch ofdifferent groups of that you gotta winthat and then you're going against allthese other people that won their groupof fifty the next day or whatever that'sthat's insane so but but it's anexciting time I think for breaking forsure going back to the Olympics I hadanother question about it because likeso you're saying that Olympics is youknow for the most parts as far as youcan see it's very similar to the eventsthat we are used to but I'm also I'mcurious about like the rules that theyhave in terms of like who canparticipate because I know there's likeyou know in others in other Olympicsports there's a lot of stuff likedoping in the event in drugs and stuffand like I don't know not to put the thebreaking scene under the bus but there'sa lot of people that use drugs and soI'm like I feel like the OlympicCommittee would probably be like youknow what I I don't know I'm not reallyfamiliar with drug testing I don't knowmuch about it but I would assume there'ssome kind of requirement I mean luckilythe Olympic start this year 2020 andsimilar sports such as skateboardingwill be there for the first time is itreally yup skateboarding Oh surfing soeverything - yep so just keep your eyesopen that's if you see what happens yeahI mean you can't say that people thatskateboard don't do drugs yeah I meanit's prominent in I imagine every cloudyin sport but yes sir us snowboardinglike oh sure you know so just keep youreyes open see what happens and yeahbasically like skateboarding is greatbecause you you you you take a look atwhat its gonna happen at the Olympicsyeah and you're like okay similarlythat'swhat will happen to breaking in 2024mm-hmm in terms of you know media andyeah coverage and things like that yeahI I guess I'm I'm a little bit scaredbecause like I know that the breakingscene kind of needs to be on its bestbehavior a little bit when that comesaround or else you know the Olympicscould just be like ah these guys are toohard to work with so you know I know itand the way the reason I'm bringing thisup is cuz like I know like the stuffthat happened with like you deaf and howSteve Graham decided to just kind ofcome cancel the whole thing really andthat was really kind of a decision Imean it was a personal decision for himbut a lot of it came from he was gettingso much backlash from the community andstuffiness like I don't want to dealwith this anymoreyeah and unfortunately he you know hadto just terminate the the whole set ofevents and and I guess really hisbusiness so I I don't want that tohappen when the Olympics comes downbecause I think that that'll be just ahuge punch to the face of the wholecommunity because there's so many Iwould say like 95% of the communitywants to see this once I see thecommunity grow wants to see more peopleinvolved want to see fans want to seejust I guess it in the Olympics it'slike an accomplishment to the scene tosee that happen but then the small 5% ofpeople that are like I'm too raw forthis could easily ruin it for everybodyand so I and that's why I'm I was askingthe question about drug test cuz it'syou know I want everybody to to have theright information going into it ifthey're thinking about competing in itjust be aware that maybe that is gonnabe something that's involved with it'sokay if you're a drug addict get cleandude not just for the Olympics but foryour own health but so but yeah I thinkbeing the scene being on his bestbehavior I think will be the best way toreally like prove that we are worth itbecause I think showing showing theOlympics not that we need to like proveanything but I do think that firstimpressions matter a lot and this isgonna be one of the first impressions Imean I guess we saw it with the JuniorOlympics but I imagine you know thesekids you know they have their parents tolike stop acting up yeah but we're gonnahave a lot of adults that I feel I feelwe're pretty good on a big stage I meanyeah I think so too you take a look atbig stage events like BC ones there yeaheveryone's on their best behavioryeah you know every I've just heard alot more chatter about the Olympics cuzthere's just a lot of like people goingoh it's run by you know whatever salsadance whatever and like I don't knowwhat you're talking about but you knowit seems to me like it's gonna be likeany other event just you know now it'sgot the backing of a big organizationand it's on a bigger it's on thisdifferent stage I guess yeah but it'sit's business as usualI would imagine same kind of music samekind of judges same kind of thingeverything you would expect justdifferent audience Madrid you know or amixture of the new audience and theexisting audience so I don't know it'sexciting and a little scary I think Idon't know I mean I'm I might just be 2or being worried for no reason but butlike I said just take a look at snowskateboarding this year yeah andthere'll be something similar yeah ok Iguess skateboarding has been on a largestage for such a long time I mean withthe X Games and stuff so I think a lotof people I mean in a way skateboardingis probably 20 to 30 years ahead of thein the pop culture aspect as breakingbecause it's been on that stage sincemaybe like the 90s or like maybe mid 80sor something and at that point breakingwas barely even knew a thing at thatpoint so but anyways yeah I don't knowmaybe I'm just rammedbut it it's something that that worriesme a little bit about it and I guessalso judging because um eivol eivol wayshad a thing about judging because itthis is like a art form and in a waythere's a lot of opinion that isinvolved with a judge's decision of whowins and I've always been curious howthat would play out on a larger stage orlike you know when an organization suchas the Olympics is backing an event ifthey're coming in and going like ok wellhow do you guys judge this and they gooh you know we point to the guy wethought we want and then they go oh wellwhy and then you go give me like somequantitative curriculum or give me someyet quantitative reason for why they wonit's really hard to do that I think Imean you can we can say okay it's on apoint system we're giving you thisamount of points for this type of moveor this you know this particularcategory but I think when it startsbreaking down like what you're judgingon it kind of falls apart to whereyou're just going like I like what thatdude did over what that dude is so it itbothers me a little bit cuz I think ifyou know the Olympics starts like reallydigging into what that is like what howthey would react to that I don't know ifmaybe there's other sports Olympicsports that are judged in a similar wayI mean if you're skating figure skatingI was thinking like because you're apurely numbers opinion-based sometimesyeah I know but with with figure skatinga lot of times as they say okay here'sour routine that we're doing and then wehave these big moves at this point thispoint this point so they know what towatch for and then ultimately they'regrading them on how they land that thosemoves and so they have a point system onthat and then they'll give them anotherscore on like their creative creativityand like all the dancing and stuff thatwas involved with that I think thatcomes into that score so there's like asmall part of it that's on that kind ofsubjective scale and I guess that worksI guess it's also kind of with floorroutines forfor Olympia Olympia gymnasts it's kindof the same thing but I was trying tosee how that relates to braking and itwas hard for me to figure that outbecause it's not like you're going up tothese judges and saying hey I'm gonnahit every flare flare windmill 90 andthey're like okay I'll watch for thatyou do it dude and then you're gonna geta creative score for like whatever otherthing you're gonna do but I mean a lotof it is how you're responding tosomebody right and in a way I think it'smore like combat sports because you dosomething to me and I'm gonna react toit in a way right and then I dosomething to you and you're gonna reactto it away so to me it seems like somekind of merge between those two thingsand I just don't I don't know judginghas always been kind of like on my mindabout how you know because I thinkthat's probably one of the other hingepoints in making taking breaking fromwhere it is now to the like you know NBAlevel sport or something MMA level sportI think the way we've always judged jamsand events now has always worked and wehaven't really questioned it too muchbut I think when it moves into you knowbigger space where there's like actualcasual audience they're gonna go likehow do I know how do I judge this myselfyou know what I mean in like with youknow like UFC fighting casual fans dounderstand that you know because theythere's there's a lot of just criteriathat is spelled out on how to make thatyou know how to how to I guess get yourwin right and breaking I don't thinkthere is that like because I justimagine if I showed a battle to my momwho knows barely anything about breakingI mean she knows something but I don'tthink she could judge a battle but if Isaid who wins and it was like close Idon't know if she could probably figurethat out you know because there's notreally a quantitative way to do that andalso I think there's an argument to bemade that it there doesn't need to be aon a tative way because this is again anart form and I do think that when ajudge says I like that's what this guydid and his around more than that Ithink that's actually a legitimate wayof judging because again it's likejudging a painting two paintings thatare completely different from each otheryou might be like I like thebrushstrokes in that and that shit lookslike crap to me you know that's why Ilike that one more and then someone elsecould be like oh I like you know thecolors in this and not that one that's alegitimate point of view too so I don'tknow the the merger between those Ithink is is something that's always beenin my mind of them like we're breakingis gonna be in I don't know if thereever will be a solution to that and I Idon't imagine you you have a solution toit either partly judging so complex it'svery common I'm just happy I'm justdoing video yeah yeah yeah there'severyone has a different judging formatand a judging system definitely yeah soso yeah I just figured that maybe theOlympics was gonna be more of like akind of strict on like what they'redoing well I mean they use the systemthat originated from renegade and stormand okay so I mean like I said look atthe Youth Olympics okay that judgingsystem will be familiar with thatthey're still in play it there's a lotit's a lot of numbers it's a sliderbased system oh I'll have to look intothat YUMyou said that was from renegade andstorm renegade storm there's a coupleother people that involved with I wouldsay neke from rugged 's okay would behelping out but if you look in the YouthOlympics if you look at the WDS Fchampionship from last year in Chinathey all use it so it's still I mean Iwould assume buy-in within four years orso when 2024 they would have a more firmyeah and there's a big handbook to it toa big hand but everyone has to bebriefed I wouldn't hit a handbook I kindof want to read it it is online actuallyokay yeah yeahokay cool um yeah I'll have to look intothat yeah cuz that that's that'ssomething that I've been like reallytalking to so many people about and it'sit's kind of something that you know weall are kind of like stuck on and Iimagine everybody's stuck on it but likeat least seeing you know where we're atnow maybe building on that cuz I knowdizzi has his systemyeowch I think is a good start my issuewith his system was always that like andfor people who don't know it's there'slike five categories and you have onejudge for each of those categories Ithink that's like a pretty good startit's my problem was always that you kindof have this one you know monarch ofthat particular thing that particularcategory but ultimately I think everyall five of those judges probably havesomething good to say about thatcategory so i i imagine maybe that's howStormin and renegade system maybefactors more into like every judges maybe judging on each of those categoriesright okay yeah cuz I think that thatwould probably be a little bit fairerway of doing it or at least like more ofa mud majora majority rule type of wayof doing itthis this I had this one idea a longtime ago and it was to just have like 20judges and hear me out cuz I know itsounds crazy how do you afford 20 judgesI don't know you can't afford it I don'tknow I don't know yeah but cuz breakingkind of started as like you know acombat between two dancers in a circlewith a crowd and usually you were tryingto like burn the other guy in front ofthis crowd to you know get a responsefrom the crowd so in a way the crowd isalready the judge from the verybeginning of whatbreaking was so it kind of makes sense alot in now that we're in this more youknow well-defined Creek competitiveworldthat maybe it makes sense to just have acrowd of judges right twenty peoplestanding around the circle or whateverand they are judging as if they were acrowd member but instead of it justbeing like your mom and you know yourgrandma or whatever to around in thecircle it's like storm and you knowrenegade or whoever all these other youknow well-versed dancers and peoplewho've been in the scene for a long timeknowledgeable people in that crowd so Idon't know that was just a weird ideahouse throwing out and then kind of likeyou're just saying okay well themajority of these people said this guywon okay maybe that's the way to do itthen you know at least it at least likegets rid of the argument a little bitwhere they go oh yeah this was onlythree panel judge and those two judgesdon't like me or something you know Idon't know but that's always bothered mewhen people say that like I think you'rejust complaining but well anyways Ithink we've been going for about an hourI want to probably close the show out soin closing like do you have any otherhobbies outside of hip hop in you knowhow does that like kind of go into yourlife and you know I mean like like likeI said already I love eSports you lovethese sports yeah I a lot of my hobbiesI draw is I you can I draw you knowinsight into what I do so I take alittle bit of what I see in eSports andthrow into stance coverages I travel alot travel a lot I make a lot of travelvideos you know apart from working youknow with dances stuff like that I dofreelance travel videos mm-hmmI work with hotels I work with travelcompanies tourism bureaus yeah and wecreate you know commercials like thatyeah and so a lot of times for example Ijust got back from Mexico okay and I wasthere to cover an event for a week andthen I stayed in nextweek just to travel around and filmtravel videos okay that's that's awesomeso you know things like that I I drawinterest in yeah yeah I heard you'realso filming umaces wedding yes I doI do the occasional wedding when I firstmoved to LA I I filmed a lot of weddingsand so yes I I do weddings and Iactually learned how to do weddings froma b-boy from the bay by the name Natronoh yeah nature own yeah nature does alot of wood he had a business with acouple other guys from his cousin giardiis that were his brother Jordie I don'tthink it's his cousin but when I startedfilming weddings for the first time outI went to I I messaged me Tron's likehey show me one of your wedding videosand I'm gonna copy this exactly becauseI have no idea what wedding videos arereally this is weddings videos are goodand and you know what in terms filmingweddings have helped me film breakingevents tooyeah because it made me understand likewhen to anticipate moments oh yeahcertain important moments whetherthey're doing something or they'retalking something oh yeah or somethingis about to happen that you can you cananticipate it yeah it's like you got yougotta read the whole room and know likewhat's about to happencorrect you gotta be in the spot whereyou're like I guess you're invisible inthe sense that you're not ruining themoment but you're also in the best spotto capture it yes yeah imagine there's athere's an art form to Perth exactlysaid it just right yeah so it has helpedme so just filming so many types ofvariety of things help me in filming youknow stanceyeah well tight dude yeah well great Ithink that was that was dope I I thinkthat was a learned a lot from from youand like what you're all aboutthank you that's been great do you haveany last minute shoutouts while I closethis show out Thank You Kurt for havingme onyes yeah thank you for coming dude Ireally appreciate ityeah trying to get this podcast out verysoon so I'll let you know when I do thatyes and then you know it'd be great tohave you on again I'm trying to maybefigure out a way to get like multiplepeople in a podcast yeah we have so manyof I mean more than more than happy tocover on a variety of topics yeah youknow um I know I know later in April I'mgoing to an event in Toronto and I'mgiving I'm giving a little mini workshopthere on social media ya know like howto get views how to what are what'swhat's exactly the algorithm way or howyou you know quote unquote things likethat you know like the motored chef he'sa good friend of mine he's like Dan Iwant you to give you a talk and havepeople have an insight on how to createa brain and how to do this let's do it Ineed to go to that cuz I don't know crapabout social media like I actually justfrickin don't use social media yeah likenow that I'm starting this podcast I'mlike oh I guess I gotta learn how to dothat my brother's pretty good at itJoe I can learn some stuff from him butI could definitely use the help on thatcoz I'll be hitting you up well thankyou uh for for joining me today andthank you guys for listening sorry thisjust sucks[Music][Music]you[Music] 

NIGHT WORLD a Podcast
S1 ep 6- COYOTAJE

NIGHT WORLD a Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2020 5:02


In observation of American Independence we are offering up an episode which explores the elements that truly make our Nation an independent society; the immigrant story and the story of otherness. Enjoy today's episode we will see you on Friday as usual. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @NIGHTWORLDPODEmail us- nightworldpod@hvbrecordings.comSEASON 1 LOOKING THROUGH THE TUNNEL WILL RUN FROM JUNE UNTIL THE END OF OCTOBER.NIGHT WORLD IS RECORDED AT NIGHT SOUND STUDIOS IN CARRBORO NORTH CAROLINA. THE MUSIC -RITUAL- FEATURED IN EPISODE 6 IS FROM SFRBEATS.COMNIGHT WORLD a PODCAST is written  & performed by Arvid, 8TATE HYE, & Zaf. Glenn Schwartz is our recording engineer. Please leave reviews, subscribe and share this podcast.COYOTAJE-I wanna get it for life I wanna get it chew knowI wanna get it for meI wanna get it for goldI wanna get it for timeI wanna get it well findA love we left on the lineI wanna live in a storm I wanna know where to goI wanna channel the mindI wanna hold on to this homeI wanna let go of the ills Dont get lost in the billsI wanna live in forever I wanna hope that you're betterI wanna pray for the preyI want our problems at bayI wanna go through the courseRemoving remorseThat's how we soreI wanna live for it allI want a dream we can callI want change in this lifeI wanna live for the rightI wanna take all your painI wanna give peace to your nameAll of these lives they live onWe live it we get in we goneI can't promise tomorrow And I can not stop all this sorrowAll of it all of it beWe're just a part of the seaYour image has given me peaceI have your wisdom with meTEAR DROPS they're pear shapedWe can't rise if we never waitI never knowWhere the tomorrow goes But I hope you know That I'll never forgetPose for the lifeStay awake for the setEarly early early Gotta make it for' dawnEarly early early Go go get you goneI couldn't have love youYou wouldn't seem to have mindI put no one above youI hope you kept that in mindBack and forth across bordersOrdersOf people Hands on the wheel steady hoping you get a sequelThe struggle between perceived evil And need toBut no one else will feed youAnd you gotta eat too Three FourMoreBellies Who are you telling The need to keep on keeping Is more than enough reasonTo stomach spoiled greensThe home is cleanThe dishes are doneAnother runYou got a moment hun?Another stupid question From another man who don't put in effortI get youThey didn'tDay to day livin'Don't account for pleasureThe measureOf SUCCESS Play out in the number of kids you get to DRESSAnd FEEDYou do your runs, move in cyclesThe men just BLEEDTreat it as fun, they have no right toThey just NEEDShotgun under the SEATYour father at EASEHe get to BREATHYou need to FLEEThis your customBut he ain't with you through customsAnd I know that you love himYour the little girl he use to snuggle withNow he needs you to Smuggle shitMedicine Cigars And bottles Hair in The wind You need to get farPut the car in throttleA rush every time When you cross any lineBut you're a mother So you do What you need to One summer Take the kids with youSo much for wishful ThinkingEars ringingHeart SinkingThinking Slow thinking Just thinking Just doAin't nobody else gonna give you foodSo you doChildren are on deckMEAL tickets check Gah BlessYou through this messAnything lessNo time for stressSo you move Keep coolDo youThen customs That cunningSmileGot you through the aislesBeforeKeep sure and steady A few questions you readyOk Anything to claimNoAlright soThey didn't believe youYou pull to the side give them a chance toMeet youThey go through the car See your little starsSee the bottlesYou play dumb to get em off youThey congregate Then confiscateThen define youSay how fineYou areThen fine you So you playAnd you payThen get back in the carYou're good to goYou start slowThat moment has passed You see lights Come to life In the glassOk you know what to doFloor the gasAin't no speed limitsWhen you need to keep your mode of livinTensionTensionTensionYou left emIn the Dust Dirt in the windAnother story for us 

Noise Of The Broke Boys
Ace - A Master of Movement - Noise of the Broke Boys - Episode 003

Noise Of The Broke Boys

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2020 79:00


BBoy Ace, a west coast pioneer in Hip Hop, sits down to discuss his origins, work ethic, and thoughts on the culture of hip hop and breakin'. Follow @Instagram: noiseofthebrokeboysTwitter: BrokeBoysNoiseListen to the Audio on all Podcast platforms. All The Links Here: https://linktr.ee/NoiseOfTheBrokeBoysA broke degenerate hooligan documents conversations about being a Bboy, Breakin', Hip Hop, Dance, Art, Music, Creativity, Innovation, and the slow subtle crumble of society in audio form.----more----[Music]this episode of noise of the broke boysis brought to you by outside have youdeveloped a fear of the Sun because youstay inside all day commenting onYouTube videos or maybe you've developedan addiction to posting about howawesome your life is on social mediabetween your day job as an overpricedthrift store clothes model and sidehustle selling your new rap mixtape talkto your doctor to see if outside isright for you five out of five peoplethat have tried going outside have seenpositive results ranging from but notlimited to talking to actual peoplefeeling Sun on their skin moving theirbodies and not caring about the latestcelebrity gossip happiness is justaround the corner and through a doortalk to your doctor about going outsidesome participants going outsidesufferance of your injuries and evendeath from but not limited to hit by buscoronavirus being eaten by wolvesthe Californio them from tencel arekilling and kidnapped by terrace and nowonto the show[Music]in today's episode I talked to the WestCoast pioneer innovator and franklylegendary b-boy and hip-hop figure myfriend and influence b-boy ace pleaseenjoy the episode hello everybodywelcome to the show today I have the manthe myth the legend the teacher thepioneer the father the fiance futurehusband and b-boy he's been dancingsince the beginning of time so very longtime 91 yeah how long since 1991 1991well man you know what's interesting isthat I was talking to someone recentlywas that breaking kind of started aroundlike mid 70s right is that about whatyou think yeah that's that's at leastwhat I've heard so you've been breakingfor probably more than half of thelifetime of hip-hop that's like reallycrazy to even think of that it's such ayoung dance such a young culture that ina hundred years when it's still aroundpeople are gonna look back and go likewhat was happening in the beginningbecause it was like there's so muchfluctuation in and that this era righthere is like really what helped kind ofdefine it to be whatever it ends upbecoming well the thing that'sinteresting to me now is because there'sbeen absent flows to where it starts topstarts stops but from 91 on it's beenconsistent mhm it's been going there'sthere's been no stop yeah so it's gainedas MoMA as much momentum as there's everbeen and it's been a consistent thing sosince this time that that I began youknow and there were some started youknow who it was going a littlebefore I started but it's you know manyhave stopped but the whole thing is keptgoing so that that's a beautiful part ofpop that yeah yeah yeahfor me you know I got started I had nointerest in dance I didn't startoriginally as a b-boy interesting Ioriginally started as a house dancerWest Coast Oh a West Coast house yeahwhich is different from the house thathouse now yeah yeah that that is knownit's like a mixture of New Jack with alot more yeah upper body movement I seeso you know there was there was New Jackand like that was fun mm-hmmbut for me I didn't really have aninterest in doing that my brother was areally good at New Jack he was littleyeah and he tried to show me and Icouldn't do it like a lot like you knowlike I struggled even with somethingthat was less complicated okay but Ididn't have an interest in it so I waslike I'm cool on it yeah no big dealI want no part of it then the person whoended up being my teacher I and crazilyyou know it's crazy to say but to thisday one of the greatest dancers I'veever seenAaron L Coloma Oh from Palm Springs okayhe was a house dancer yeah he used topop when he was little and he went intoNew Jack and then he went into house andsuper talented and he saw my brother whowas really good at New Jack and hewanted to teach little kids to be to begreat house dancers yeah yeah yeah sohis intent was to teach my brother andso that's how I met him and I broughthim to my house to teach my brother yeahand while he was waiting for my brotherhe was just moving and that was thecraziest thing I ever saw yeah life likeit was literally like poetry in motionhmm I was tripping how old are you atthat time oka hot 16 some along thoselines I believe I was a sophomore inhigh school okay second half and I sawhim move and I just couldn't believethat somebody can move like that yeahlike I had never really seen anythinglike that and seeing it in person is acompletely different experience hmmso I was bugged out and I just kind ofknew that that's what I wanted to dothat's cool yeah it was it was harassedhim I literally harassed him for acouple weeks thank you to teach meWow and he wouldn't because he told mehe said do you understand like you can'tdo new jackand that's like basic arithmetic yeahhouse is far more complicated so it'skind of like doing pre-algebra yeah yeahhe's like you want to jump steps youwant to go straight to precalculus yeahalgebra whatever it is without evenknowing basic arrhythmia don't even knowhow a plus sign yeah you can't even justmake your lower body coordinate muchless upper body and lower bodysynchronized beautiful movements okaybut I was undeterred okay it was I sawit and from there like I just knew I hadto have it okay and so I just kept afterit yep I kept bugging him and finallyone day all right all rightI'm gonna teach you one step you'regonna learn that step and then you cometo me with that step and I'm gonna teachyou another step and I was like dealokay deal that's a good deal yeahbut I had to work for that one step yeahyeah and but he but he realized I wasnot going to stop mm-hm andfrom there it was a rap I I was 24/7with itwake up move act is practicing try andtrying to coordinate this uncoordinatedbody of mine yeahdirt at school during nutrition duringlunch after school at practice at hishouse before bed it was crazy I was amaniacyeah I was a maniac but I wanted to be Iwanted to move like he moved and I knewI was far off I was I was not you know Iwas realistic about where I was at himwhere he was at but I wanted to getthereyes quick as possible so I was 24/7 withit soothing yeah to the point where heliterally had to pull me aside at somepoint and tell me that you know yourmother your mother misses you yeah yeahyeah yeah love that love yourdetermination but you gotta sleepsometimes the guys are getting a littlea little annoyed that you'd never stopyeah and I was hurt I was hurt yeah likeI literally avoided didn't see him for awhile taking different routes to classreally yeah yeah yeah and literally wasthat like after a week we cross pathsand he kind of cut me off and was like aman like where you been like and he'slike don't take it that way you knowlike we're not saying stop you know theguys you know just just take a couplebreathe you know like breathe for ya youknow but yeah it's so that began my longjourney at the beginning I was gettingpretty good at house you know after agood little whileand then we went up to an event calledFilipino weekend up in Delano just pastBakersfieldyeah and that's you know the the groupwe were with was boys and style bis andso we were going up there and you knowwe were going to meet with the rest ofthe group and we're under the assumptionthat a group the soul brothers which isfamous house moved from LA we're gonnabe there and you know wanted to battlethem yeah yeah and they end up never endup showing up our cuz one of the crewmembers cousins from San Jose a groupcalled dangerous image came down andlike they were gonna be with us yeah andthey were a choreography group okaythat also braked because San Jose wasbig into braking amount of time and weall got bored and somehow it ended upbeing a battle between dangerous imageoh and you guys and B is okay except forthey braked him we didn't so you knowthey were they were really good yeah andthat the main guy from their group was awalks guy mm-hmmthis guy Alan hmm and he did walks evenhe was really good he notmerry-go-rounds and all that but he hadreally good walks yeah yeah hence theinspiration yeah when we started thevery next day we stopped Houston and webe started breaking is that quick it wasan instant like - it was like watchingmagic you know like really that thepower precision grace of you knowhigh-level break-in yeah it was like wowlike okay that that that is you know itwas inspiringso yeah we you knowwe started break-in Aaron L was breakingbut he was popping uh and you know andhe used to do that back in the days andsince he was such a good dancer and socoordinated he picked up like oh he wasan amazing popper like amazing but yeahthat that became our road and since ourmain inspiration from the opposition wasa walks guy mmm bis became a walks yeahwe we did spins we did you know all thespins but we care deeply about walksyeah that's that's kind of crazy becauselike definitely you guys like it it'slike walks and for people who don't knowwalks it's like the float how do youexplain yeah well that that you're onyour hands you're walking on your handslegs are off the ground and you're kindof going in let's ignore loading yeahit's like a pocket of air is underneathyour body and you're just walking aroundon your hands and there's so manyvariations of it but yeah yeah and youguys innovated those moves which iscrazy that like I guess before you evenbreak you saw someone else like kind ofwell I mean there were guys in the pastyou know like we didn't really know himtoo much except for when we startedbreak-in since there were no examples ofbreaking like we saw it in personmm-hmm and then when we wanted to startlearning we're you know just a fewbreak-in yeah you know beat Street likethose were our only examples of breakinbecause there was no YouTube there wasno footage it was what you saw in personother than those couple movies that wereon some VHS tapes you know and of coursethere were guys you know in B Street andbreak-in that that did you know somehigh-level walks you know there's buckfor of course oh you know here is hisTurtles he's super fast you know amazingbut not not a lot of and then of coursein break-inthere's handyman you know amazing youknow his amazing walks but that thoseare only a couple variations that wereshown on tape not the rest we were justgoing and figuring it out yeah and youknow hearing from some of the oh geezfor master movements you know giving usideas on things that they had done orseen or heard about you know so theywere kind of just giving us some inputtry this oh there's a walk like this allthere's you know but they couldn't do itthey were already done but that leasewere given us the ideas and kind of aframework of what you know just somethings to try and work on uh-huh andfrom there we were just working at ityou know like determined to get good atthat no yeah you know and then of courseit ended up leading you know afterseveral years to higher level walks I meand my brother were teaching the guysfrom 101 up in Pasadena and you knowthose were guys like brick Rand dabstones which at the time his name wasthere because you know they used to tagso okay and did you ever do it I wasnever in attacking oak I just straightinto Jane into dancing yeah I wentstraight from like sports into danceyeah you know but yeah you know so thoseguys you know we we taught those guysand then had the scene was just you knowgetting a little yeah so what inspired Iguess your creativity within that danceI mean I guess obviously going fromhousing to to breaking and I mean Iimagine a lot of a lot of that hadinfluenced your style I mean becausehousingor at least the housing from back thenwas very kind of kind of jumpy and rightwell yes I believe LOI well very flowybut you know and there was differentstyles in in house you know it was notsame movements there were guys that hada very rigid hard-hitting style therewas others they had flowing there therewas a lot of popping elements oh yeah init so so even in in the West Coast housethere there was a lot of different looksyeah you know that that kind ofdifferentiated each you know dancers ownparticular persona yeah you know and theway they moved so you know when westarted moving into break-in we were itwas mainly power based mm-hm we did somestyle but from what we had seen becauseour experience was very little and therewas no footage there was not a lot ofdifferentiation in style so I kind of wekind of did it just to say we had stylejust to kind of check that box but it itwasn't at least for myself I was nothighly inspired to do style because Ifelt like it was in a box from what Iwhat I had seen the experience it wasn'tuntil the tapes of storm and them thatkind of made their way over here thatlike the realization that oh you can doso much with it it's it really is justlike house yeah like it really is youknow style is really as far as your mindyour creativity your persona yeah yeahlike yeah levels personality silly sillythingsyeah that end up looking dope you knowlike there was just that thatrealization that oh like there's nolimits there's no like yeah like it'sdance just at different levels and yeaha different way but it's still dancejust just like house so from their styleit you know I was all about that youknow like it it became a very fun and anever-ending puzzle that to this day Iwork on yeah yeah it is a puzzle I meanwhat drove me to breaking actually issomething similar is that it there wasno limit you can come come into it andjust kind of have fun with it dowhatever you want make it work you knowreally like if you had a dumb idea tosee to try to make something work justroll around on the ground see make tryto make it work you know some of themost amazing steps that happen are byaccident definitely you know just fromthe attempt of something new you youprovide yourself with an opportunity todo something that you know maybe itworks and that's amazingor it doesn't work out but it turns outto be a better step yeah because it wassomething that your body justautomatically had that on a DNA levelyeah that you were not aware of you knowwith your own consciousness but on amore subatomic level yeah your bodyalready had it yeah in tow and was justready for you just for you to give itthe opportunity yeah I'm completelyconvinced that every move in braking wasfrom someone just falling down and goingoh let me try to control that and do thesame thing though but you know and justmake it look cool you know well wellyeah I mean it it you know it's aconstant thing to where you're trying tolike expand or go into neutral unchartedterritory yeah you know when we firststarted like you know for me the thingthat keeps me coming back is I know I'llnever have this bad boy figure it outyou know but it's so fun just becauseI'm I'm always searching for things likesomeNo you know like like as if I was abrand-new b-boy who it was firststepping onto the floor for the firsttime and I have that same thoughtprocess and what I love is the guys youknow Rob and Cujo and all the other guysyou know that that run in our circlehave a similar mind frame yeah of playmm-hmm you know like what we do is veryserious but we play like children youknow like it's it's something thatbrings joy that's something that we youknow approached like the first timewe're not afraid to give each otherinput or to to move in a weird positionyou know just because yeah there'ssomething exhilarating about about thatjust playing around and just planningyou know something pull one actuallytold me is that the reason he likes theword b-boy rather than somethingdifferent like be men or the adult orwhatever is that really you have yourown adult responsibilities but when youcome to break you are letting your innerchild to come out to play and that's whythe word b-boy or b-girl is moreappropriate than something like a B manor B woman just because you're lettingyour child come out and have fun and I Ithink anybody who is I don't want to saydoing it properly because not to demeananyone else but at least for myself tome that's doing it right yeah it isallowing yourself to be freeand I think when you you knowparticularly associate with childrenthere's a freedom that they have that asadults we lose many at least many loseon various levels they they lose theirfreedom they lose their they have thesepreconceived notions that oh well I'm anadult now yeah and so I need to respondthis way or I need to give thisI need to do you know and that's not thecase that you know you could absolutelybe a responsible person a caringindividual that handles all the variousresponsibilities of your day-to-day butstill be that child to still carry yourinner child in various parts of yourlife I mean I still I still watch animeand cartoons oh yeahto this day yeah yeah you know it's it'sa you know it's funny I had this thingwith my yeah I'd said the other day wewere watching something it had to dowith you know fairy tales type stuff inand for a second she seemeddisinterested I said okay you know let'sturn this off I'll watch this later andshe's like oh no don't be like thatshe's like it's just you know I'm not achild I didn't want I said well why doyou you know like why why do you have tolose your imagination just because we'rea certain age why why do you have togive up your imagination why do you haveto give these things up like we handleall the things we need to handle youknow like they're not hurting you thatthere is there is nothing wrong withhaving an imagination and creativity andholding on to that that childlike partyyourself and and I think it helps usconnect and you know even with our ownchildren you know why like I think ourchildren are more connected to us andlove us all the more because weunderstand them just you know on somelevel just a little bit different thanmaybe a Parenthood isn't holding on to apart there yeah their inner child yeahthis is like a subject that's prettydear to me because you know my mothershe's an artist and she's you know shewas working with a lot of people thatwere you know under they had a lot ofproblems drug abuse all sorts of stufflike that so she was running thisprogram where she would teach them artkind of as a therapy and they werefinding that when these people reallyhadn'tdone anything creative in their life fora long time and once they started doingthat creative these creative things itstarted like sparking up a change intheir life for the better so that theywere more willing to get their lifetogether and so it was like somethingthat they were just lacking as a humanin their life and so it made me reallythink that or believe that creativity isjust like this fundamental thing thatthat humans need and I mean and I thinkit's deeply connected with like play youknow this is our way we play well I meanlike of course people and is one thingyou know being able to play laughtermm-hmmyou know of course the scientificstudies you know yeah yeah how laughterand being able to tap into things thatbring us joy mm-hmm you know life ishard before you know particularly foradults a lot of responsibilities to beable to take a moment for yourself to beable to put all of that on pause and tobe able to let go of everything in tapinto something that is that fulfills youthat brings you fulfillment brings you ajoy you know and different people findit in different ways you know andcertainly you know dance does that forusbut yeah it's a it's an important thingto be able to find things that bring youmeaning that bring you joy that thatallow you to play and create you know inone form or fashion mm you know whenpeople talk about me and dance and youknow like I guess I still look fairlyyoung you know I'm 45 now but you knowmost that speak with me think I'm muchyounger and it's just because I thinkit's because I allow myself I make somefor myself you know there there's adifferent side different purpose whetherit be taking care of myself you knowdance has done a lot for me you know theway I take care of myself the way I eatsleep the way I you know take time forexercise stretching and and that's allfor my dance yeah you know so for medance has been you know a true blessingjust because I would have to find themotivations you know to somehow pull anddo those things on my own but you know Iwould have to generate it somewhere elsebecause for me my motivation for doingall of those things has to do with myperformance as a dancer and you knowit's funny I was talking about storm asyou know motivation one of the things Iliked is I'd seen him on many occasionsbut never spoke with them because he wasalways surrounded by so many people somany other dancers they had admirationfor him yeah because of course it'sdeserved but I never wanted to meet himin that way because even though I haveall the admiration in the world for howhe influenced me I don't think any oneis better than me I don't think I'mbetter than anyone else but I don'tthink anyone else is better than memm-hmmyou know we're humans yeah you know thatinspire each other but I didn't want himto see me that wayto where everyone's like tugging at hiscoattails yeah so so even though I hadopportunities I never spoke with him andthen one of the times at one of the freesaw sessions I had seen him with theguys from soul control with which arelike my little brothers Charles and Cujoand they were sitting and just talkingwith them and I was like amazing yeahbecause those are my guys and I couldjust sit down and talk uh-huh you knowand I got they introduced me to him andI had the opportunity tobe able to let him know that I reallyappreciated what he had done for mehelping me I inspired me and helped meto understand yeah that that it reallywas like dance you know and made stylefun about a week later he was up northfor an event up that way and Charles wasgoing up there to hang out with them andand kind of take care of him show himaround drives him and had invited me tocome I went up there and so from there Igot to be around him more and just talkyou know and with and humanized walkedwell yeah yeah not not just about dancejust about whatever oh yeah and you knowlike I think one of the things heappreciates is when people just treathim like a normal personyeah yeah like you know he understandsthat that he's had impact but he heknows he's a normal guy too you know andwants to have stimulating conversationwith people who who treat him just likeany other person and we had that youknow and to this day we do I was talkingwith him the other day and we'rechopping up over some other stuff youknow but we were able to build on thatand then when we finally danced togetherlike we we hadn't you know we just hungout and talked hmm philosophies onwhether it be life b-boying to dance theway we saw it and we saw things verymuch the same and then it wasn't untilthe very end of the weekend that we wereover at mega man's house and it was Ithink his lady's birthday and we were inall in the living room big wood flooryou know okay and we started off lockingand we were having fun that way and thenI said oh now I feel like breakingand we we started breaking he went outthe guys were going out he went out andthen there was a time I was gonna go Iwas gonna go out and I went out and Ithink he like he just wasn't he didn'tthink that I could I guess dance on thelevel I was dancing huhso I got up and he was about to go outand he kind of had like a uh like andthen he pushed somebody else out andthey went out instead and then it's likeand then he ran something through hismind and then of course right after thatperson finished she went out anddestroyed it yeah but me and him musthave went like 20-something around ohwowyeah like we were just having funYelp plane and and I didn't know it atthe time you know cuz I was just havingfun exchanging and it ended up becominga thing where a lot of the guys werewatching and meet me and storm wereexchanging to you know just playingand I remember Gerald rest in peace youknow one of our other Gerald caster lowhe had come in and said yo Charles wantsto go like like you know we're waitingon you guys and I was like oh storm wegot to go and storm had told generallike yo tell Charles we'll be out in alittle while and then he looked at mesaid yo ace let's keep goingand then we just kept going for or awhile longer and when we left you knowhe was like really happy you know I meanI knew I was happy but he was havinghe's like yo ace like I haven't dancedlike that in like I can't even tell youhow long you know and I was like get outof here bro like you know like you're ina different country like every week youknow surrounded by amazing dancersuh-huhno no no you know it's different youknow like people either are in likelooking like look at me like too high orthey're trying too hard to impress meyou know like instead like just six hesaid me and you we were just kind ofhaving a conversation you know and andthat's the whole thing about dance danceis a conversation you know like likehe's like you were doing somethingthat's giving me ideas and I was goingout and doing something then you weregetting ideas and he like he said youknow that that I haven't had that in areally long time yeah you know wheresomebody just had a conversation with meyou know and he said like for me thatthat just blew my mind and like I saidyou know we well we're kind of I don'tknow to me kind of like kindred spiritslike you know like we see things a lot alot the same way and you know I feelblessed that I have people like Robynpuja you know like we're all kind of inthat you know like I try to surroundmyself with people that are like-mindedyou know that you have thatopen-mindedness and and if they don't Itry to cultivate it yeah yeah you knowand help them to understand that becauseat least for myself that's where I foundthe real joy in dance is in the exchangein the conversation in being open-mindedto new ways of moving and takingsomething and flipping it yeah you knowon its side on its back on its headwhatever it might be you know cuzthere's no one way of looking at thisthing like you know and the beautifulpart is we will never have this thingfigured out and it's what keeps mecoming back yeah because when I come outto a dance floor when I go to a practicethere's an exhilaration that I have noidea what's gonna happen today yeah yeahand that's amazing uh-huh you know Ilike I gave up the preconceived notionoh this is what I'm gonna do this I havea few ideas like oh I want to try thistoday on that I just give it up becauseI found that when I go out withpreconceived notions that oh I'm gonnado this this this and this you think toomuchthat's what it becomes well I mean inthe end like we talked about thatsubatomic level how you go in and you'regonna do this move and it doesn't workout and sometimes it works out betteryeah because your body on a subatomiclevel new nope we're doing this yeahwhen you try to work against your bodywhen you work you know like your body'sgonna win and you could just come outall kinds of ugly you like you know likeat some level you have to give in towherever your body's at on that day likeoh I'm will work on this if it if yourbody says nope we're doing this insteadyou got you like you're best offtrusting because in the end your yourDNA knows better yeah for me like whatI've always done is and what I've beentrying to do a lot more is like when Itrain I'll train you know differentsequences of movements that I think workwell together but when I actually danceyou know perform or battle or whatever Itry to just not think of anything I justtry to focus on music try to focus onwhoever I'm battling or whatever I'mperforming at just focus on the momentand just let my body do whatever it'sgonna do because I've spent all the timein practice working through differentcombinations that I think makes sensethat I trust that my body's gonna knowwhen to do that or when not to do thatso if I just focus more on music andjust let let it happen it just feelsmore natural to me it probably looksmore natural to and then hopefully thosecombinations I have been practicing maketheir way out in some form and you knowI'm happy with that too so it soundslike that's maybe like what you do aswell yeah I mean I have ideas you knowlike I think it's it's it's at least formyself good to go out like okay I wantthese things to come out at some pointin time you know yeah like anda lot of the muscle memory will kick inyeah it is moving yeah you know ifyou've put together certain combinationsand certain movements you know they'regonna come together at some pointthey're gonna execute just becauseyou've done these different things butof course there's a spontaneity to ourdance and you know working in with musicand all that you know and of course Ifeel that music is important I feel likeI think there's some people that thatplay too hard to the music to where theystart to kind of lose themselves thatand when you hit him you know and and toeach their ownyeah every single beat you knowsometimes when people work every singlebeat then they they kind of lose I guessa certain moment like for me like I'm inthe flow of the music the way I dance Istay in the flow in the pocket of themusic and then I accent different partsthat I want really to stick out or standout and being in that wave the rest justgoing and flowing through the rest ofthe music you know and there are somepeople who are amazing hidden everyevery single beat for me I I see a lotof hit or miss with that though toosometimes it's a super amazing momentthat's etched in the history of timethat's enough well there's others thatit was like I kind of lost the messageoh yeah like they're trying too hard todo every single thing and it's like okayI don't they stay in the story you'reactually trying to portray now yeahbecause I mean at least for me I feellike when we're you know when I go outand the dancers that I seem to gravitatea little bit to a a little bit morethey're they're moving and they'retelling some sort of story you knowto make you know beginning a middle andan end you know and just for me the onesthat every single be every single timelike I said there there are somespectacular moments you know some roundsthat will always be remembered but thenthere's also some times that you areleft walking away soon I didn't reallyget what they were trying to tell me youknow just me you know that just the wayyou know I see it so so it's definitelya catch-22 and it's a difficult thing topull off and only a certain few arereally at least to me that that I'veseen that really pull that off and makeme say oh wow okay they're like thatthat they pull it off more times thannot yet they have a higher ratio youknow higher percentage of being able topull it off what what is one of the Iguess highlight moments that you've seenI guess in all your history of the dancewhat's something that stands out I meanobviously your story with battling stormis probably a highlight but what aboutother things maybe something that youmay be a battling with we were we weresharing you know yeah it was aconversation yeah of course that was ahot like you know like I've just had youknow with the moments there's there'sjust so many you know I mean just nojust sharin in the community seeing allthe different generations of dancers youknow come through and give their givetheir party inspire in their way andthen being able on our end to be able topartake in and share with them like asyou know whatever practice that I'm ator event if I see something that I feelcan be helpful to another dancer youknow I'll usually make my way over andjust kind of throw it out theresay you know like this is take it orleave it you know you don't youcertainly don't need to use this butthis is this is something that I seethat I think can help your dance but youknow like like I hope you don't takethat you know the wrong way yeahbecause we've always been a firmbeliever you know me and the guys havealways been firm believers in in helpingbring bring the next dancers or evenveterans like it doesn't matter likeI've had guys that have come to meyou know so many like you know and sayhey you know I know people look at uslike legends you know but like we wewant to grow to like you know what likedoesn't mean that that we don't want tolearn yeah you know and I knew what thatkind of meant like that they werelooking for help and for me like I'llhelp anybody who has a decent heart youknow so I my response has always beenlike well yeah of course like if we'renot learning and growing what are wedoing here you know like anyone whothinks they have this dance figured outyeah they're out of their mindyeah and they've stopped growing yeahyou know that that that's two things cuzthe moment you think you have anythingfigured out growth is done like there isno more growth the moment you think youhave it figured out you're wrong youdon't have it figured yeah because it'san endless thing but if for those whoare you know lucid or out of their mindenough to think that they do havefigured out and oh I'm on this level sothe growth is done like it you stop soso anyone who who has ever like a like Isaid I offer it up you know to to anyonejust really I'll walk over you know andoffer it up so if somebody were to askme you know in many who are consideredlegends of coursemany you know they've been my studentsyou know and others that have made theirlegend status on their own but just arestill on the path of growth if they'veever had a question or wanted to learnsomething I'm all for it you knowbecause yeah like we don'tlet's keep growing let's keep doing ityou know feel free to ask me anytimelike I love it you know it'sever-changing thing I mean hip-hop Iguess if you look at it throughout itshistory every couple years it's adifferent thing and so if you're not Iguess you know evolving with it you'realso you know you're losing yourself alittle bit you know kinda you know asfar as ever evolving it on some levelit's fads - oh yeah you know on somelevel things come and go so you knowit's cool to pay attention and to keepgrowing but if it's something that thatcalls to you - cuz in the end you stillhave to be true to who you are as anartist yeah so there's a lot of thingsthat I see that like look great but Idon't feel they're for meso I continue to grow in the ways thatmove me you know because if we'reconstantly worrying about what somebodyelse is doing and what's in right nowthen we're never really gonna findourselves you know like we're nevergonna find who we are as a dancer and tocontinue to build us like to buildyourself as an artist so but if so youknow it's good to pay attention becauseif you see something that says wow likeyes I want to use that and incorporatethat into my dance because I think thatthat will take what I want to do and youknow change you know take my art where Iwant it to goyou know like we talked about at one ofthe last practices a vision a vision foryour dance you know you may not be ableto do everything that you want to do butI think any any great artists has hadsome sort of vision for what they wantto do like some grand scheme like Ohlike that's kind of crazy you know andyou may not be able to do it now but ifyou have when you have that vision youknow you kind of start doing differentmovements and different exercises andstretches and whatever else whateverelse it might be to kind of work towardsthat goal you know to work towards thatvision you know and then of coursethere's a whole lot of play that comesalong that that will change your visionaround but but I feel like you know allthe great artists have to have some somesort of vision you know even if itchanges along the way you know to have avision and to work towards a vision youknow and not be to be cognizant ofwhat's around you but not consumed towhere you have to do what they do toknow like okay you know that's dope andI recognize that's dope but that's notyou know I'm gonna continue to do what Ido and take the parts that I really wantthat I feel will take me towards myvision yeah yeah the thing that me andVince do a lot is we'll see what otherpeople are doing you know what the fadreally is and rather than try to do thatwe'll go okay if someone does thatagainst me in a battle like what am Igonna do well ya know I mean I know youcan respond to it well especially ifyou're looking for battles you know theresponses to to questions you know oryeah to be able to respond and kind ofyou know in a battle you knowthis is what is generally out there yeahthis is gonna come and you have aresponse you know those are just goodbattle tactics to be able to have aresponse within what you did well yeahwhat I do yeah you know but but youalready have answers to the questionexactly you know so yeah those are thoseare things that are very important andthen of course like you said you knowand then things like battles and stufflike that that's a that's a wholedifferent you know it's its own elementand conversation and being able to Imean of course you have to do what youdo but be able to like even the way wepackage what we do you know ourmovements and and the packaging anddelivery of what we do can be the energyin which we do what we do it's verydifferent yeah you know like yeah youknow it but I think one of the importantthings is that it comes from a genuineplace you see a lot of actors you knowin the scene to where yeah it's that'snot really who they are it's not agenuine part of their dance actor I'venever heard someone say that but that'swhat it is yeah it's acting you know andthe ones who like are best at what theydo I think more times than not things docome from a genuine place yeah that'swhy it receives more credit like thennot because people can fill somethinggenuine behind their movements and atleast for the ones to me that that standout and over time like they still likenot just when in a jam and not just whenin an event but being admired being ableto be understood as a pioneer of whatthey do and to be like to drawinspiration from otherto where because they just see somethingthat is more genuine in in in theirmovements than the typical person whoexecutes things and wins that Jamthere's a lot of people who win gemsthat are not maybe and never really beremembered you know I'm sure there's somany people you know when you look backyou're like who won this gem who on thatJam and not remember them whereasthere's people like Rob Silla or a Cujoyeah that have lost more gems than theother one and you remember there but butthey will when when their name is talkedabout people know and are like wow likethat guy is amazing I'm glad you broughtthat up because I have the same thoughtabout it is because there's so manybattles I remember vividly because youknow either I was there I saw footageand I was like this is a crazy amazingbattle and I can't remember who won youknow that battle or who won the jam oranything about it other than the battleand who was in it I could tell youexactly what each person is wearing orwhatever in the battle but I'm like Ihave no idea if they even won the gym Idon't even know where the jam was youknow what I mean yeah and I could careless to be honest but that battle therewas crazy and it's cemented in my brainas like one of the coolest things I'veever seen you know and so it just goesto show you that the jam is not thedefining thing it's and the win andwinning a jam is not the defining thingit's it's like the moments that you'recreating the moments that you create theway you inspire and an hour inspire byothers and the way you inspire otherswith dancing from a genuine place youknow just yeah though though manydancers have come to me over the yearsand said oh what do you think I shouldwork on and what would you recommend forthis you know Ana's like okay you knowwe'll onewhat is your end goal are you looking towin a jam or are you looking to beremembered mmmyou know because those are twocompletely different things yeah yeahyou know and then I usually bring up theanalogy of things like Cujo and Rob andstuff like that you know and that thatwhen people bring up their name they'realways like people now automaticallyknow who they are yeah you know andthey're inspired and think like wow likeyeah he dances like nobody's businesslike I don't even know how he came upwith that you know whereas there's manyothers that that are amazingthey you know they are they execute youknow mm-hmm well maybe they just haven'tfound their Oh something that makes thatstands out but solely yeah it's wherethis belongs to this person like nonobody dances like this guy you knowwhen somebody tells me like Oh ace youknow like I don't know I don't think Idance like okay I suppose maybe becauseI don't think too much about my owndance I just enjoy the process always inprocess and you know and I just there'sa just a genuine joy in dance but whensomebody comes to me and says oh manlike yeah like when you dance like Iknow it's you like nobody dances likeyou I mean like you bring that brings mea joy and satisfaction because that's myend goal I don't know if I'm if I'mdoing it you know and on to what levelyou know but for me I want the freedomof being me I want you know when I danceI'm trying to just find me all the timeyeah you know and and it's a continualthing because we're ever-changing we'reever-growing you know like the me ofninety-one should not be the me of nowmm-hmmyou know I should be a different me soeven even when I go out and dance todayI'm searching for my truth today who ami today you know and just being open toif that'sdifferent you know I think for the mostpart it's going to there's gonna be afeel of who you are but but new aspectsof yourself yeah you know and I don'tknow for me that that's what II thought about creativity as an artistit's not to just hold on to you know tofind yourself but doesn't mean you haveto be the you of three years ago or lastweek or you know like that person wasamazing at that time love it cherish itand move on move on because you can'tever recreate those moments thosemoments were wonderful at that time butif you're stuck there you know it'snever gonna be the same you know you cando the same combination it's never gonnabe exactly the way it was at that momentin time on that day and you know andyeah I had to learn that a long time agotoo you know I had this some differentamazing moments you know that that justcame about and I tried to recreate themand worse worse sessions ever justbecause that moment had passed you knowand the moment I came to the realizationthat you gotta let go you know andunderstand that that was a beautifulmoment at that time but that is overyeah and and trust like we talked abouton a DNA level that whatever your bodyis telling you and wherever you're at atthat point in timetrust it go with it as long as you feelyou're notimitating or copying somebody else youyou're kind of finding your way andfinding your truth for that day that'swhere the beauty lies kind of embracingthe view of right now and moving with itof course because I know buddy's justgonna change and being a completelydifferent person but you can finddefinitely new elements of yourself youknow if you're open to it and for methat that's what makes you knowbeing an artist so much fun it isfinding these new parts of yourself likeevery single day yeah yeah so if youwere to go back in time to the 91version of you and tell that version ofyou I guess some advice what would youdo what would that be oh god you know II'm not really sure about what I wouldtell myself back then because I'veenjoyed the process the whole way youannounced observe you know like you meanobserve myself of old or observe you nowgoing back in time to see the 91 versionof you would you say anything or no oryou just observe or just well you knowit that's a double-edged sword toobecause yeah it might change well youknow like for me I've enjoyed thejourney yeah the journey is fun it's allabout you know like it's all about thejourney like you know the beauty oftoday like I've had so many amazingmoments throughout my life but I thinkit's because I understand that I'm onlygiven today I don't like iived at thispoint just because I woke up everysingle morning and said well I stilllove it so I'm gonna do it like that'sitI've never in my wildest dreams wouldhave imagined that going on near 30years that I'm still you know 45 yearsold still busting still still breakingyou know stay still dance in period at45 you know when I was a teenager youknow 16 year old you know a 16 year oldkid started we thought somebody who youknow busted for nine years was like whoaat that he's so gee like that's coollike nine years yeah like in here yeahmore than tripled that yeah you know and[Music]yeah like that's it's just crazy to eventhink that that we would still be denserand andlevel like you know that that's you knowone of the things that me and storm weretalking about the other daywas the the joy of dancing still at highlevel having high expectations forourselves and saying I never ever wantold man props like I'm sorry I dancebecause when I dance you know like I dothe things I do I take pride in my dancelike I love the process but make nomistake about it when I'm on a dancefloor with other dancers I want them tounderstand that I'm a bad man yeah thatthat when I do things that I do thingsthat that they can't do even youngeryeah like you know doing walks clotheslike you know certain Power Movecombinations that I can do it 45 that itthat some of the younger cats can docats don't do walks like me and Cujoyeah yeah yeah they just don't it's it'snot the same the the west coastmerry-go-rounds Deadman's all thedifferent high level sky turtlescarousels whatever you want to call themlike all the different variations wewalk around that we glide around a roomwith our body fully extended we're nothopping in one place you know and I knowa lot of people they don't know theydon't understand you know and on somelevel yeah it's weird and arrogant butthe walks that are out there are on anelementary level in comparison to theway that me and Cujo dueled is like ohit's a lost art I think I mean a lot ofit absolutely it absolutely is andpeople will never understand it untiluntil they try it when they when theystart down the journey of doing it theway me and Cujo do it they understandthere they have a what that hell momentlife you knowone of the homies gastro fromGuadalajara he was down here in LosAngeles dude is so strong super superstrong has amazing walks the wayeveryone else does him mmmhoppy well you know no problem knock itout the box I started taking him undermy wingyou know Cujo was trying to show himselfand then he started showing up andwanting to practice with me in Seoul Itook him under my wing and started toteach him the way me and Cujo did do andlike I said can do it the way everyoneelse does it like nobody's business andhis can hold his body straight out likenobody's business very strong butlearning how to do it the right way theway we do it West Coast walks hestruggled struggled struggled struggledand he was like I'm so tired brothank god this is so hard bro like youknow like month you know good monthworking with him regularly strugglingyeah and finally he started to get it atthe end but this was like like a regularthing that I was working with himimparting my knowledge telling him don'tput your hand here and get your hipsover here faster do this you know alongwith all of his already previousknowledge and he struggled with it andhe's starting to finally get it at theend but then he had to go back toGuadalajara and I told him practicepractice practicebecause high level walks is not likeregular moves yeah like if I were toassociate it regular like most movesthat you get it it's like once you getit you get it it's kind of like aone-night stand with high-level walksthat's a marriage you're in a long-termcommitment you better keep at it becauseshe will get up and walk and leaveshe will leave you and I told him thisabout six months you know to a year likebetween there went to vacation you knowwhen on vacation in Mexico was downthere and got a lotta met up with himand his crew and he told me I'm so sorrybroI lost him like I didn't I didn't listento you I didn't practice them andthey're gone and so I told him okay youknow I'm gonna teach you again like youknow and we'll work at it this timestick with it I have to see his accountto see where he's at but it just showsit just it's an example of how just howdifficult high-level walks are the wayCujo and I do them really are and I takea lot of pride in that and I can stillmean Cujo both can do all of our walksyou know different combinations thatwe've done from the past we can still dothem at a high level in our 40s yeah andfor me I take a lot of you know like themoment I I can't dance the way I want todancethen maybe maybe I'm gonna stop I don'tknow like I haven't gotten at that pointyet yeah you know but but I don't wantold man props you know I don't wantsomebody to say oh man you should haveseen ace back in the days like oh likeyou can't you can't tell can't see youcan't see it now you know but he used tobe really good yeah you know the thingthat brings me most joy is when a dancerwho doesn't even know me comes over tome and says hey yeah like hey what'syour name like where are you from likedude you're really good and then when Itell them who I am and a little bit ofmy history for them to have that youknow more like like I love that you knowbecause those props from a really gooddancer you mean more oh I mean you knowmore times than not it's a really gooddancer you know somebody I say all thatguy's pretty good you know and then theymake their way over and reciprocate thatsame love and admiration saying hey whoare you like you know when you walk overto somebody that you just don't evenknow and say I kind of have to know whoyou are like I think highly enough ofyour dance that I want to know who youare and then you know then to find thehistory later you know like and then ofcourse the admiration is much deeperonce they find out like well you're thisperson you're a kudos teacher you'rethis person's teacher you're four howold are you yeah all 45 what you knowlike like for me that is yeah there's asatisfaction and enjoy because just asan artist I want whoever it is it givesme respect or respects what I do I wantit to be from a genuine place like ifit's not there I don't want it becausethen that will feed by motivation towork harder to get back to where I needto be yeah like you know and there's youknow like I understand there's good playpeople come from good places whenthey're being nice but there's alsosomething that handicaps the otherperson whether it be kids or girls orwhatever it might bemm-hmm the reason why we've got into thepeople who have gotten good it's becausethere's there's a need of wanting to beappreciated to be recognized to bevalidated by others that they admire youknow there's a hunger you know not tosay people don't fulfill their own cupby like you know being an artist butthey're I firmly believe that you knowand I think that that we all want to berecognized by others we admire you knowwe want to be validated and for thatperson say that dude is good you knowlike III really you know like what thatfor the person I admire admires what Ido yeah Wow like okay that's you knowand that feeds our hunger that feeds ourflame you know so whatever it is Ialways want it to come from a genuineplace you know and like I say meansstorm we're laughing about that likedude like I call it quits you know likeif I can't do what I do and and feelgood about my dance when I step on adance floor like I don't want anyonegiving me pity props I don't wantsomebody saying oh that was you knowpretty good good job don't do it walkawayyeah like oh you still got it yeah likeit's not that you still got it it's likeit never left it was always here and itgot better so that's that's what you'regoing foralways I'm looking to grow I'm lookingto be a factor I'm looking to inspireyou know myself and others you know likeand I think a lot of really greatartists have this about themselves tothat they are their own biggest criticyeah you know like yeah I know I like wetalked about having a vision you knowlike I know what I want to do and I youknow it's something that that's been adouble-edged sword because I've alwaysbeen hard on myself to I could dosomething incredible and it didn't workout the way I wanted to and I kind ofwalked away like walked out of thecircle like it wasn't amazing you knowwe're where others are like you knoweven pump you spoke about popo used totell me to he had to kind of help mewith that too yeah where he's like dudewhat are you doing like you didsomething amazing and you walked awaywith your head down like he's like don'tthat like you know play you know whetherwhat it would like nobody else knew thatyou messed up like in your own head youmight have messed up yeah but nobodyelse knew that I was like I'll tell youthat right now nobody else knew that theonly way they knew it is you walked awaywith youso that was you know that was somethingthat I'm good you break very preciselyto and so like I can imagine where youmeant to put your foot exactly in thisspot but you missed it by an inch andyou're like oh I messed up but literallyno one can tell that you didn't put itan inch backwards where it was supposedto be and you missed it so you'd get upand go like oh crap I messed that up andthen they're like I don't know that wascrazy disappointed and that's you knowthat that's kind of been my you know myblessing and my curse because becauseI'm always out there searching for myown perfection it it pushes me I striveyou know I've worked I've always been aworker like I said I had two left feetyou know people will see me they're likewhat what do you mean you know but thatwas terrible mm-hmm I was terrible Iworked for everything that I had I'veI've had to break down use trained usemy mind you know more than the averagedancer because I had to like I've alwayshad to break down yeah an understandingof a step a combination of power movebody positioning like where I should beat a certain point in time so when I'mable to t like one I could a teacherit's helped me to really be a goodteacher to others because I myself couldnot do without having a full grasp orunderstanding you understand theintricacies of making them move yeah andI you know I think you can make moveswork but I think for me where it's beena blessing too is you know I've beenable to continue to grow and find moreefficient ways of doing things because Ijust because I can do something doesn'tmean I feel like that's the only way andthat there's not a better way I'm alwayssearching to see if there's a better wayI'm always questioning myself like yeahI feel it this way but I'm open to thepossibilities that I can do it better orthat there is a better way you knowbecause where I where I did something atthat point in time yeah it was effectiveyou know but yeah there's more you knowand we found a bunch of new ways whetherit be power moves or style of saying youknow what if you put your foot downfaster here you put this knee down youknow like and then we tried we're likeyeah that does work like dope and thenjust a whole new range of possibilitiescome in constantly you know so yeah it'samazing man I love it well I think withthat being said we could probably inthis show we've been going for an hourand 15 minutes already kind of timeflies by right yeah well yeah man Iappreciate you having me on you knowlike just being able to speak about allthe possibilities and the culture andour artistry mm-hmm you know cuz cuzthat's what we are you know I I alwaysappreciate the opportunities for to justconversate ya know it's important tokind of spread the ideas that we allhave and just put it out into the worldand see what other people have to sayabout it and just you know I guess theZulu nation each one teach one is it'simportant it's important in hip-hop todo that well yeah it's it's going to youknow like we're only a moment in time weare just a piece of of all of this so ifwe keep it to ourselves where does allthat knowledge go after after we're doneafter we leave you know like like I saidwe're only promised today so even withsomebody who has good intentions ohmaybe later I'll get around to it youknow like they're not promised that timeso you know yeah being able to sharewith each other is a vital part of anysociety yeah and as we said this dancehip hop is still in its infancy in a wayand that it you know there's so muchhistory that's you know beyond us soit's good to get these ideas out now andjust because you know we don't knowwhere the scenes gonna go from here andI mean it's it's it's exciting to seewhat is in store for the future anddefinitely yeah so well thank you forcoming on do you have any last-minuteshoutouts or anything you want to say orany plugs or anything which oh well justyou know the guys you know my brotherswhether it be master movements soulcontrol you know my my variousinspirations around the world you knowmy teacher airnow Coloma you know likeforgiving me just an opportunity youknow and even when he sees me now youknow he says and you were like the lastperson I ever would have thought wouldhave made hey you know yeah an impactbut look II look at you after all theseyears you know but but nobody canmeasure your heart your desire your playyour you know and many of the greatdancers I see around the world startedwith similar themes to where it was hardfor them at the beginning but nobody canmeasure their heart so you know if youhave a want for something do it for youyou know in the end always do it for youand have fun doing it the whole waythrough don't let anyone tell you whatyou can ordo I had that from the very beginningand many others have also we can dowhatever we put our mind to and I won'thave fun along the way here to herealright thanks you guys for listening[Music][Music]you 

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Quang Bang - The Most Interesting Man - Noise of the Broke Boys - Episode 004

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Quang Bang, a true Renaissance bboy, discusses his various interests, his infamous alias "the push Up Guy", and jokes around with a herb. Follow @Instagram: noiseofthebrokeboysTwitter: BrokeBoysNoiseListen to the Audio on all Podcast platforms. All The Links Here: https://linktr.ee/NoiseOfTheBrokeBoysA broke degenerate hooligan documents conversations about being a Bboy, Breakin', Hip Hop, Dance, Art, Music, Creativity, Innovation, and the slow subtle crumble of society in audio form.----more----this episode of noise of the broke boysis brought to you by child support areyou a deadbeat parent that hates herchildren and would rather buy easy thanpay your child support or maybe youenjoy seeing your children grow up to bemutated monsters because you couldn'tafford a nutritious meal since you spenttheir child support on new rims for yourFord Focusor maybe you receive child support fromyour child's other responsible parentbut instead of buying your children warmclothes you decided to buy a grill wellI'm here to tell you you should open upfavorite Maps app on your new smartphonepurchase with your children's food moneyand locate the nearest sewer treatmentplant once located to get into your newBMW purchase with your children'sclothes money and navigate to thedestination once they are slip into yournew silk swim suit purchase with yourchildren's medicine money take a dip inthe fecal infested water and contract anincurable disease a responsibleseparated parents please remember to payyour child support in full and on timefor more information please contact yourlocal governing body and now on to theshow[Music]in today's episode I sit down with atrue renaissance man he is one of thesmartest most thought-provoking creativehardworking and hilarious individuals Iknow I met him in college as a b-boy andhave been good friends with them eversinceI can literally talk and joke with thisguy forever so please enjoy the episodewith the one and only queen bang helloeverybody welcome to the travelingtrashcan bonanza today we are meetingwith some interesting people and we'regonna try to get them to say racistthings in any evidence I see todayhandsome a gentleman a scholar a dancera breaker a published author an upperbody built a finger tug in e-commercetycoon and lastly a porn star I have thename for it he's playing bang mr. QuinnBing in the flesh so I just wanted toput this out there me and Kurt we'retalking for 45 minutes and said I forgotto press record we're doing this allover again so I hope it seems organicyeah I'm splicing terrible the terribleaudio quality if this shit sucks youknow actually when you were when youwere doing thatwhen you're when we're talking I waslike interesting that the record buttonis green and then I realize when youpressed it I was like oh I guess it'snot supposed to be green it's supposedto be red that's freaking terriblethat's a fail oh my god um anyway so Igot my friend Kwang Bing here who is avery multi-talented guy very creativeguy very motivated guy and I want to askhim a few questions but first did I missanything when I was introducing youbecause you do a lot of thingsoh yeah well day job I'm a sleazy salesperson so I swindle people out of theirmoney hmmyeah have you ever swindled me out ofhahaha the I have I well I can't thinkthat a specific example I can't I'm sureyou have um here's an interestingquestion yeah so we're both b-boys whatis your take on b-boying entering theOlympics I think it's really cool it'sis really validating because these wewere talking about this in the otherpodcast that wasn't recorded it takes alot of fucking work and then it amazesme that some people so many peopleinvest so much of their time doing thisbecause it's dangerous you don't getpaid very well and so it's like rewardthem give them something give them theOlympics but but what was your it wasyour opinion because I think youmentioned that you don't agree with youoh no no I I think okay cool I do thinkthat it well my biggest thing on it isthat for it to be in the Olympics youneed to have like a good way of judgingit right and I think right now there'snot really a good way of judging itother than I mean coz what we doessentially is line up a bunch of peoplethat have been breaking for a longperiod in their life and say these guysopinions matter point to who you thinkwon this battleyeah in the battle is like three roundsback and forth so two people doing theirmoves or whatever I I don't know thatjust to me doesn't pass the sniff testin terms ofhaving good criteria to judge on wordslike the Olympics you know or likereally anything any sport NBA combatsports there's always like some kind ofcriteria you can judge on mmm I feellike breaking there's not because saylike I'm battling you and we do we havecompletely different styles and say youkill it and I kill itneither of us flop both of us probablydo equally hard moves what happens whohow do you vote like you know reallywhat's gonna come down to this judgesays oh I like his style more so I'mgonna vote for QueenI like Curt style more I'm gonna votefor him and then you have this you knowdivided judging panel and then one of uswins and then you say well why did I winand he lose and they go I like yourstyleand that's really it and it's like Ithink when you have when the judgingsystem really breaks down when you getto that point yeah it works well on thelower tier where you got someone who'sgood and someone who's bad and the badperson is just crashing yeah it's likethat's the universal criterias if youcrash you lose right so it makes sensethere but when you get to this higherlevel it just doesn't make any senseanymore yeah it is really hard becauselike gymnasts they're like they have aroutine already so you can tell ifthey're messing up any other likeOlympic sport it's very very clear-cutbut when you're talking about dancingit's like well I don't know it's kind oflike well I like this move better well Ilike this move better and so you can'treally and whatever they're dredging islike can you really fault them forwhatever their opinion is yeah I meanyou get that all the time where you havea battle and then Rob this guy was Robthis guy was robbed and your reason wasoh well I just like the other guy yeahyeah well can you really grab yeshow do you really define it ya know Imean cuz ultimately breaking is an artform right yeah and so I guess if youlook at it if you compare it to anotherart form like painting yeah you make apainting I make a painting we're bothequally skilled artists right somejudges are coming and looking at it theymight go oh I like the wake wing usedbrushstrokes on this in on this paintingyeah and then another guy goes oh but Ilike the way Curt use color on this yeahboth of those opinions are valid Yeahrightand they might they might you know theguy that liked my color use looks maybelooks at yours and goes oh yeah hedidn't quite hit the mark for me fromcolor use and maybe the guy that'sjudging you that likes your brushstrokeslooks at me and goes oh yeah Curt didn'treally do brush strokes on them hedidn't use those to his advantage yeahthat's also a valid point so now youjust got this criteria that doesn'treally make any sense I think yeah so Ithink that's where I'm at with Olympicsis you're trying to turn it into a sportyeah when it's really an art form so andI don't think that you that it's a badthing that you're they're trying to dothat and I think it's just a difficulttask to do because you're you knowyou're gonna what you what you have todo is essentially turn breaking intosome kind of gymnastics like thing mhmso what the what gymnasts have done islike for the for the floor routinethey'll go okay this is the moves thatwe're gonna do on the floor routine andyou're gonna judge us on that yeah andyou know each move gets a certain amountof points and you know then they gotthis clear score in the end you know andthen if they flop or anything they getdeductions for that so there's a clearscore at the end of the routine thatthey can get and then the next personcomes in they'll have a completelyunique routine too but then they alsogive the routine to the judges they gookaywe reviewed the moves you're gonna dothis is your possible score and you knowthen they're just judging on deductionsand stuff after that Sam goddamn howcould you do that would be that's my metsweaty right yeah um so I was likejudging it in the way of gymnastics Ithink is out the door so now what aboutjudging it in terms of like combatsports because in a way breaking issimilar to combat sports - becauseyou're going against an opponent you'rereacting to them you're also reacting tothe environment how do you do that Imean in combat sports a lot of it is youknow they'll judge on like the aggressorthey'll judge on how many like strikeshit or like a takedown or like someonegets knocked down each of those thingsis worth like some kind of point systemI don't know how you do that in breakingthough right like maybe maybe somewherein between the gym gymnastics and combatsports is where you do it but I reallydon't know how to mix that and so Ithink a lot of people have tried to mixit yeah and haven't got anywhere with itso yeah because even the point systemsin like all right it's like there's anunderlying bias on all of them rightit's like what do you think of the r16scoring yeah so that's Dizzy's yesscoring system shout-out to dizzy cuz Ithink he's doing a lot for this scene Ithink he's he's making his way towardsthe system because he's saying here'sthe criteria it's yeah I think he saysfoundation battle dynamics creativitymusicality creativity and musicalityyeah so each of those sound like goodcriteria for judging but the underlyingbias is that every b-boy to be a beatgood b-boy you have to have all that butmaybe not yeah see that's my that'swhere I differ because I think to myselflike do you sometimes I think you canhave an amazing round and do nofoundation I don't necessarily think youhave to do foot worker in yeah yeah yeahright well yeah so like how do youdefine each of those categories likehere's a good example um Susie Rock mhmI love this dude style I would say I'veseen some rounds from him where they'renot particularly dynamic but they'rejust like amazing they're just amazingrounds he's just like such a good dancerhe's just he knows how to work the crowdso based on that r16 judging system hisdynamics wouldprobably be low mm-hmm his musicalitywould be high and you know againstsomebody else maybe they don't score aswell you know I would think he's theclear winner but I think the system kindof breaks down when it's you know yougot a guy who's who's like that and thena guy who's completely different andthey're scoring like really high onthese thingsit's like how are you determining who'sbetter I mean in a way he uz rock isdoing some kind of dynamic stuff withhis musicality man right so does thatbleep you know how does that bleed intoeach other those two criteria I don'tknow yeah and then also what is goodwhat is good dynamics and what is baddynamics I think that's that comes downto a subjective opinion on it and samething with all the other categorieswhat's good foundation with badfoundation yeah right because itinherently uses bias the way you thinkbecause like you may come up with acertain series of moves combos and I youmight think it's cool by things like Iwell I could have thought of that yeah Idon't want to name any names here butpeople were like it's like I don't getwhy this guy's so popular like yes Idon't think it's that creative like Idon't think yes my mind blowing and it'sman like what so it's like at that pointsystem I mean I just inherently it'sjust difficult to do well you know theother thing is like the the the categoryof creativity I I mean I can I can thinkof a situation where someone would scorehigh in creativity but don't deserve itso think of somebody who bit Oh moveright from some unknown guy but nowthey're doing it on this huge stage soyeah in a way this is the first time theworld has ever seen this move but thisguy bid heats he took the move fromsomeone else he stole it he didn'tcreate the move at all now he's scoringhigh in creativity mm-hmm but he's notcreative he stole the movie bit so hewas rewarded for biting right uh youknow I I personally have a problem withthat name some names Kurtwing ding oh no it was me all along J sothis is really sanity his own brother sothis is an intervention you just wantedto bring me on to the showstop call me buddybit your name I don't utter okay thiswas in the other podcast so my fingertutting name is Quang bang and thenthere's actually a Glover name Quangbang and then I posted in this groupleveling Glover's lounge and I was likeoh cool I'm posting my my video and thenone of the comments was like hey there'salready a quayne bang how's it all surehe's like a billion times better than metoo yeah but you can do push it so ohyeah the push-up guy he's the push umOh was I saying about the Olympics umyeah so like the the criteria forcreativity kind of breaks down when itwell I guess a good judge on creativitywould have to have seen everybody andwhat they're capable of and know exactlywho's biting and who's not so which isnot a reasonable thing to ask of a judgecuz they're obviously not going to do beable to do that so but I do thinkcreativity is a big important thing tobe judging on in breaking something it'sjust I'm not against the r16 judgingsystem I just think that there's a lotof ways that it breaks down and doesn'tquite work for what we want breaking tobe but I guess in the Olympics though ifit like imagine it became its own thinglike hypothetically if maybe you saidbiting is okay yeah and then they wentinto this realm and then you're judgingon that andnow you're you're kind of like you'returning this artform into a sport whereyou're saying okay now you have toadhere to these specific rules and thatand that lets you compete in here so Imean the thing I can think of is maybelike skating how skating used to bewhere it's just like the Wild West backin like the 80s yeah and when it startedbecoming like a actual sport theystarted really defining what you do youknow and then it kind of branched outfrom Street skating and vert skating andso I mean I guess both of those are havetheir own competitive worlds but um in away I think breaking will do that whereyou it'll somehow turn into streetbreaking and competitive breaking maybemm-hmm where the street breaking is justkind of more of like what we do nowwhere it is maybe the wild west and yeahand you're you're presenting it's Iguess this it's more of the art form ofit and in the competitive world is moreof the sport world of it man I think PBSwould hate that I think you always willhate yeah but again I'm I don't thinkI'm necessarily against it right I justthink that as it stands breaking doesn'twork as a sport and so putting it in theOlympics I think there's a lot of workahead of everybody to get it to thatlevel or to get it to a point where itcan be easily judged and people and alsopeople watching would be able tounderstand what's going on because Imean imagine you don't know anythingabout breaking and then I have a judgingpanel of 10 people and then I go thatguy wins mm-hmm and you'd be like whyand then they go because I say sowhich is essentially essentially whatjudges that do now wait I don't thinkthat would go very well I mean yeah dudeso it's in what 2024 is in 2024 I thinkyou're gonna try it out look it I waslike I was like I'll be fucking cold bythem I fucking go for it fuck dude yeahhow's the oldI'll get smoked by about your kids likeI tried out for the Olympics I didn'tget very far though yeah theten-year-olds they'll be in the JuniorOlympics like oh ha hafuckers see their kids Steve I hope theOlympics is threes enough there's somegood 30 year old I know actually yeahactually Red Bull is it most I have noidea how old they wereoh I mean aren't you the older guysthere yeah a lot of them are over 30 Imean I would say half of them areprobably over 30 yeah which is so weirdbecause when I was when I first startedbreaking hmm you know but not I was like14 or something hmm everybody was intheir 20s and I was like these oldmotherha ha ha ha yeah and then I see one 30year old which I think he just turned 30when I was starting to break which isProvo and Rob nasty oh yeah you oldmother fuckers shout out to you guys butno there was a couple other guys fromback then I think like iron monkey and acouple others over like that age yeahyou know I was like it it blew my mind Iwas like oh you could still break atthat age that's crazythank you now I'm that agent like Oheverybody's this age and then I'mlooking at these like kids that were myage back then yeah 14 or whatever andI'm like these young little shits littlewhat is that the floss dance and so yeahoh my god I'd learn a real dance youguys play kickball guys play kickballand then you do 15 air flares against mein a battle you oh wait there's a guythat taught you right Tedlike when he's hit what did you go aheadoh yeah I was just gonna say Ted um hewas from my old crew flex Flav yeah andhe used to come to our high school andhe would just practice um just becauseit was a spot there and he would justteach us he was likedude how old is he I think he was in hislike early 20s but he just he knew likea couple of us so he would just come inhere like teach us and stuff and thenonce I graduated he I would go to hishouse and stuff and we just train inwhatever Oh what're they did you startbreaking um the girls women well okaythe first time I saw breaking with in umpro wrestling was really called the WWFback then and it was um was it thespinaroonie - no no okay Booker T yesbefore that guy oh it was um these twoguys named - cool and I can't remembertheir names but wait was it Scotty 2hotty Scotty 2 hotty oh yeah yeah theword ridiculous yeah Scotty 2 hotty andyeah bye anyway so like their specialmove was the one they like set the guyup yeah and then he would like do thestupid-ass dance around the ring andthen do this big like his mom was reallytight but yeah the warm across the wholethe whole floor and then just you Iloved about WWE or WF it was just sofreakin ridiculous yeah like the biggestfan of the rock he dude the moreridiculous he was uh-huhit's like the more I loved him like thelike the people's elbow when he when Iwas watching was get off and throw outthe audience I would be screaming oh mygod the people's elbow yeah yeah anywayrun from one side of the Ring to theother and just do a normal elbow drop Iwas like how did running from one sideto the other help with the elbow droplike how does that help with themomentum yeah I don't I don't think itdoesit was just absurd and then you justmake fun of people and his shit-talkingwas amazing is on pointprobably the greatest shit talker of alltime I don't know of anybody betterright I mean I think in a way like cuz II guess in the UFC there's a lot ofpeople that are starting to do that nowI think they take a lot of cues from therock from the way he used because he washe would shit talk so hard right and thecrowd would just get get in eat it up soridiculous and what they do and like andthe thing is like the more ridiculousthe rock cot with what he did thatpeople's eyebrows like but people justfucking ate it upso well the EOC I think like ConorMcGregor's yeah right he's that he'slike the number one yeahand then people mimic but think it'sthere was a guy before him Chael Sonnenhe was but he was he was very WWWE esquehe was very like though it was verycorny I loved it like I was a huge fanbut I think at the time he was like thenumber one selling fighter even thoughhe was never a champion but he was sucha good shit talker good talk and thenbut then you have Conor McGregor come inand then they're like it's a kick fromdude and then people were at first weresaying oh Conor McGregor is just tryingto be like Chael Sonnen they used to saythat but now everyone's saying everytime a new fighter comes up and startsto chuckling people just say oh he'sjust trying to be like Conor McGregorwas like Bru shit-talking has beenaround for a long time talking was withConor McGregor know it's been around formen were out there talking shit duderemember so we used to dance with thisperson Oh Candice Candice Candicebrother her brother yeah yes oh yeahyeah that guy is amazing shit talk dudehe's an amazing fighter yeah he was hewas like the thing is like people werelike um thing is people were like wouldhate on him cuz it's like oh he's justtrying to be like Conor McGregor butdude it works they keep us he talkedhimself well I mean he's he's stillreally he's a mate he's really a goodfighter and now he he's just being likehe's like the rock yes I was like dudenobody fucking worked because you knowin an interview right well I don't knowif this is sure and I assume it is butin an interview he was talking about howthe UFC was about to cut him right andthen like he got on the mic and he waslike talking shit to BruceBrazilians like this place is a dump youguys are animals world war and sin themoment and that became like a cut in hispromo and then that men they resignedhim i think i think is what happenedthat is hell yeah it was like you gottafucking do itcuz yeah i didn't watch it much of hisfight but I mean did you watch this manfight I didn't watch dude well I knewthe results I was I was rooting forcoming tonight because well we kind ofknow where I met it we used to work withthe Sooners his sister so I was rootingfor him but then my god dude they'reboth really high level wrestlersso who's mins uh was Division twochampion and then covington was he wasin the division one but he was rankedfive at the time so he was like reallyhigh up so it's like but when theyfought they were just fuckin swingingyes yeah like people were saying likefor how good the fight was yeah itwasn't very it wasn't very excited likepeople weren't cheering as muchinitiative but dude I don't know if youknow this but like he he like Guzmanbroke his jaw dude so he broke his jawin the third round and Covington stillkept fighting oh I was like what afuckin badass even even if you hate himright but he's doing it he's moving theneedle he's doing it he's keeping hiscareer he's getting paid so he's doinghis thingbut even if you even for the people whowere hating on him people were happythat he had brought his jaw broken butthe fact that he kept going till roundfive dude that was like if someone slapseemed like a stop you win like the guykept fucking fighting that's brutalhave you ever oh a key you used to domartial arts yeah yeah dudethe thing is I would I I was a I was ayellow belt that's as far as I got inkarate I was like I always lovedwatching fighting I was like I wouldnever fucking do it dude it's dangerousI did Taekwondo was like I feel I feellike I mean I feel like every match wewould do I'd see someone get knocked outdude I was like so fucking brain-deadactually even for breaking I'm like dudesome of these moves like the guys aredoing what the fuck are you doing that'sbrain damage like dude you probably haveacushion right now you probably know likeit's a cool some of the moves they doplus I do that's really so I'm like Ilove watching it I mean that's wipe theallure of double usually really excitingI'm like yeah kidding I would I loved Ilove the storylines I mean yeah fuck himup rock given the people's elbow give megive me the eyebrow yeah fuck abovewhich is basically just a hug in all itis it's it's kinda like a a chokeslamexcept you're hugging him instead yeahit's a hug dude the what what I loved uhwas it he was that famous the famous sirthe famous I was like dude my um bad assBilly good my brother my brother andsome of my friends were used towrestling moves on each otheryeah my brother did the pedigree on meonce my nose is bleeding is like goddammityeah oh but me my friend I had a friendand um growing up where we do the StoneCold Stunner on each other we're justlike randomly like like oh actuallythat's a perfect move of like dude whatdoes that move even do like like at thetime I was a kid I was like puzzles likewell how does that hurt someone knoweginning grip are they getting whiplashis that what it is is that what it iswas like itse trying to break cuz Idon't think that's a good way to know Iwas like I was really possible as likewait or is it because like they'rehugging they hit the shoulder hits thechin is that why I was like I don't butit's hyper shit oh okay you're the movieI love when the rock like when he'sslapping you and then he spits on hishead and they slap so fucking ridiculousyou know what the most ridiculous oh itwas well there's two of them then I canyeah is mankind's mr. Socko dicks itdown your throat yeah never made senseto me cuz I was like yeah it's a dirtyass sock so yeah you're probably gonnaget some diseases yeah yeah why don'tyou just bite his hand I know like itjust didn't makes it like he's trying tolike yeah I guess strangle you in a veryterrible way I guess he's opening upyour jawreally I don't know but like is it gonnabreak your jaw or something yes likeyour jaw is probably way stronger thanhis fingers so just bite him anybody dothat next like why is this my special sothere's that move that never made senseand then do you remember Rikishi oh mygod I was that's exactly what I'llfucking stinkface you just he justthrows you to the corner yeah he just healways worked he's like this big dude Idon't know how much you weigh he'sprobably like 400 pounds yeahbut he like he wears this like songthing and like well I know and he hasthis curtain over his ass and he and hejust shows his song ass and he juststicks it in their face and then justlike rut he like he like torque so fastcheeks and their disaster like biggerthan that body yeah and it's like on thedude just like dude I hope these guysgot paid like I'm just imagine if I waslike a wrestler yeah they're like yougot a fight Rikishi and I'm like dudehis ass is going on my face ass is onthe menu tonighthave you ever so there was one that wasviral but like he wasn't this guy wasn'tfamous the dude dressed up like MichaelJackson he got into it he so he dressedup as Michael Jackson he got the guy ina DDT like when you're having a headlockand then he does the moonwalk backwardsand they do like how ridiculous is itand then I saw another one dude it's sostupid but I was like but like I lovedit it was like so fucking funny and thenthere's another guy where I think Icould get this wrong but he does thisthing with his hands so he makes it looklike oh no Mortal Kombat when their dayslike I love it yeah that's one of theold school ones I think oh oh actuallywas he famous it was I don't rememberokay it was like it was on one of thosesmaller it wasn't on WWE yeah but butyeah dude oh yeah I know that was likeso okay the walls of Jerichoright that one yeah yeah oh when we werewrestling growing up I fuckin love doingthe walls of Jericho did you ever see avideo there's a guy that actually did itin an MMA fight and the guy tapped outOh for real he's like oh my god thatmove actually works yeah no frills youcan look it up like the walls like whatthe fuck I used to do it I did it to mycousin once yeah cuz we used to just trywrestling moves and I did it to him andhe was like look like it hurt yeah yeahI don't know I mean I can imagine you gofar enough it hurts well you ain't gonnawork on some people yeah cuz they justflexible as shit but dude what whenwe're on the Kings and the words we usedto do this powerbomb move all the timethis is the powerbomb so one time Kurtand I were in a competition and so whathappened so it was so we were businesstime crew they're all in suits and wewere in Seattle yeah massive monkeysmassive yeah so so Kurt we're allwearing suit and ties so Kurt was doinghis round and so the routine was nightbefore they thought you were likeplanted on the other side you're wearinglike a burglar I was I was wearing I waswearing a ski mask yeah I had a blackjacket on and so when Kurt went out andthey were like it looked like they're inthe middle of a routine and I pretendedto be on the other team so I run out Oha routine I run out and I push you andthen so you yeah it was a narrow andCarlos we're doing a routine yeah yeahand you run out and you're like noroutine and then and then I like I jumpout on bullying what the hell man I pushyou away and I start breaking like ohyeah we're gonna lose this you're likelet's just go and then and then you comeup and kick me in the stomach but butthen you punch me in the face and then Iland and I complete like a flatline likeI said yeah yeah but at first the funnypart was like the emcee was like chillchill shot yeah yeah they thought it wasreally shitreal and then the public and then youpush me to fit in there it landed likecompletely dead and it was like oh andthen they and I know the rest of thecrew pulled me off em seems like you gotsmoked and they just know it was sofunny because what right when we startedit people thought it was real oh there'sa fight about to happen yeahlike losers with these ties and the crewthat you were hiding that the guys wewere going against they just didn't knowwhat the hell is in the yeah thereaction from the MC was socialism itwas Joe from NASA monkeys he's he's areal dope host you know dope b-boy hewas he was there and he's like oh no Joeyeah and then like as soon as that hesees me punch you and you just drop onyour back yeah yeah it's just like wegot the judges to laugh we still lostthough we know we won that but we allnevermind we lost the next battle againOhNow or Never right okay okay yeah theyseem to be doing pretty well right nowall rightI think how do you kind of yeah I meanthey're they're good they're one of thebetter crews in Canada Vancouver I thinkis in Canada right yeah they're dope Ithink they're really good yeah um yeahthey're making noise I don't I haven't Imean I haven't really kept up with thebreaking scene too much in terms of likewho's winning the local right yeah butI'm sure there's they're still doingtheir thing dude I most of my breakingthat I see is just fucking on InstagramI just scrolling I'm like dudeeveryone's like a billion times betterthan me yeah I think what am i doingwith myself I should just quit getsmoked by every single person on thefucking little kids doing fucking helloto thousands and stuff or air flares onehanders as a Jesus Christ yeah dude I'mlucky if I get to air fleurs under goodyou used to have three I remember aboutI'm the day yeah and thenI've hurt this my right now older and Ilost them all yeah started getting himback I got like that was up to like tomaybe know what you didn't do beforeI've seen it ya know yeah I've done Ithink I did four oh shit point yeah butI so but I mean throughout my life I'vehad between zero and four yeah and it'sbeen like continuous just like losingthem yeah getting him back yeah so but Ithink when the most I had was like fourand then I busted his shoulder and lostall of it yeah had to had to train againto get I was probably about two and thenI hurt my left shoulder Oh Dannyopposite shoulder and so then I lostthat and then this this injury is likekind of bad yeah it's I don't know Idon't know if it'll ever be good againbut I kind of do maybe like two youprobably can yeah yeah I'm real controlman I do for Barry back in Davis I usedto like in-between classes I was likeI'm gonna get airflows I'm gonna get himdo I practice most of my time trying toget ear flares and I was just stuck onto the whole time like fuck fuck it waslike I actually gave up I was like dudeI couldn't I couldn't getting better atall these other things and I chose tostick with Air Force I God why did I dothis I really wanted them though but andthen I'm never getting like more onetime I think was like senior year andthen and then there was a bunch of newpeople I was like I'm a fucking dude infront of everybody and that helladrenaline and then I was like oh my godI feel I was I did the second one andthen I went through there was like oh mygod oh yeah that was like two and a halfand I was like oh my god I figured itout but then I never did yeah we weresaying that so I like started settleslike I don't think I'm gonna docontinuous air flows let me just try toget continuous would military flares thething is like we were talking about thiswe're in breaking to be like it's justpeople perceive you as power you have tohave air flow like an air flow or alignit if you don't do an air flare they'relikehe's he's got good ground no you'llnever be good at policy that's why I waslike I want to do windmills to airflares and get those consistently orflare to air flare consistently becauseif you combo was like oh he's he's nolonger the push-up guy he has more tooffer to me oh well you didn't hear inthe other podcast but today did hemention me already this one in thepush-up guy the push-up guy thing yesyeah wing there's a lot of push-ups inso he's a push-up guy yeah so I do thislegless push-up thing and I was sayingin the other podcast that wasn'trecorded so we're we doing thisso what happened was I I was dancing forthe Kings and then okay I was dancingfor the Kings and I people just lovedwhen I did the pushing move where mylegs were off the floor and then I waslike as a dancer like I spent all thistime I have all these moves but alleveryone wants from me is the fuckingpush-up move do that push it move yeahand then my friends would introduce meacquaintances would introduce me andthen actually not only would they tellthem they'll be like quake do it rightnow do the push it was like okay overI'll do the quick Oh dance mummy monkeydancepeople would people would randomly stopme in the street like hey aren't youthat push-up guy like fuck mandon't you have I have all these othermoves but don't you want to see thatmoves like no do the push-up movie upguys you have a lot more just do thepush-up actually so I recently um wasbreakdancing for like my company askedme was like so they they highlight um aemployee each each week and so one ofthe girls was like hey Quang can you forthe you know the All Hands meeting couldyou break dance I was like yeah sureI'll practice in small actually practicein this room I was a yeah practice insmall spacescuz it wasn't very a lot so I was likeyou know what maybe I'll just somethingthat bothers me I don't know why botherfeel like sometimes when people ask meto break I just do the push-up move andthat's itand I'm like no wonder they keep willcall me the post ship guys that's all Ifucking do and you ask me to break I waslike the go-to move the go-to moveso I was like packing and then when theyasked me I was like I thought to myselfso I'll just do the push-up andwindmills and make it easy and thenthought to myself like no quaynepreparing this stay no clang this is allyour fault this is why they call you thepushy guy this is all you fucking do soI was like I'm gonna fucking blow it upand then so I was like I was likepracticing like dude I was like runningmoves over and over it was like it waslike we were back at the words whereas arehearsal team I kept practicing themoves over and over as like I'm notgonna be called the push-up guy I'mgonna do fucking everything and so whenit when I actually did itwhen I say dude I was hella nervous likebecause that's like I was putting a lotof pressure myself I'm like no dude I'mnot the push-up guy I'm a brick morethan just that one move dude my I wasactually you happen I knew it was comingand he was comingten minutes before our meeting I waspracticing in the hallway I'll be likelooking around like it's like new movesin the hallways like I'm not gonna fuckthis up they're not gonna tell a nervouscause like the whole company's lookinglike like our office the CEO thehigher-ups the people in the Denveroffice and then some remote peopleeveryone's good they're all thereeveryone was looking or there was likebecause the thing is like everyone whenI got hired everyone's like oh quaintdances for the Warriors yes but theynever saw me break in person I was likedude the expectation is so fucking highif I come out and I'm a mediocre they'regonna think I suck oh he's he's awhere's dancer Oh and so when they whenthey introduced me like Wayne's beendancing since he was 13 he tends tothree seasons for the Kings threeseasons for the worst I was like sayingthe back there I was like my heart wasracing like oh my god clink don't fuckthis up that's like the whole day don'tfuck this up don't fuck this up don'tfuck this upyou'll never be anything more than apush-up guy Oh like you know you know ifsomeone if you do something and you suckpeople will tell you oh good job niceright but luckily that didn't happenthis time so what like they're like okayso we have a special performance andthen Gladys like my coworker Mike movedthe table I was like what's happeningand this is like she's like let me giveyou a clue so when I asked this personto perform he said sure I'll do it I'llpractice in small spaces and then she'slike could you guess who it isand then like Kwangand it's like oh my god it's happening Iwas like it's like you know like whenyou professor oh my god fuck fuck it'sactually it's actually morenerve-wracking than some of the Warriorsperformances on I was like oh my god allthis pressure like oh the Warriors breakdancers oh goodand so when I got up like I was it'slike I was like walking up I was likeyou guys are making me nervous oh my godand then like I was just like you know Ihad I had an idea before just to get areaction by doing nothing you know I didso I just got to the middle I just Ijust walked in the middle I kneeled downlike this like all dramatic i unzippedmy jacket this exact jacket and thenthrew it so the jacket like that itselfgot hello how's your boss in my face mybossoh you haven't liked when I tossed it Iwasn't even looking it went over like alike one of the founding members it wentover his head like this nearly likenearly missed his Havok Shh and then inthe end like my boss said that was likethe best part like it was like oh andthen and then I did my routine and thatis it's like dude I fucking threweverything I feel like a billion I feellike I want to say like I think sevenish moves yeah and then like and then Ibought like the CEO like her face wasred like she was like cheering so muchshe's like I was like in my bag is likeyes it's like yes no longer hey end updoing the push-up move however howeverthe good part about this story is theyjust said like oh great job blah blahblah they loved it but they didn't sayand I like that push-up move no one saidthatback at the Kings they would all war isoh just you gotta do that push-up movebut this time it was kind of redeemingelse it's like oh my god I've made itI'm more than just a push-up guy now I'mmore than just him it was my fault thisentire phoenix rising from the ashes I'mamazing so this is an example I broughtup earlier where imagine if you're anactor right and you're famous and youcare about your craft you're you'repracticing your crap you really careyou're trying really hard but you'reknown for one line like what you talkingabout Willisokay think about that's exactly whatyou're talking about that that's mecould you imagine everyone on thestreets or Oh a gate Oh imagine beingthe rock do that eyebrow thing do thateyebrowoh you're the eyebrow guy he probablyfucking hates it actually I love yourstory earlier that wasn't recording withthe Montell Jordan one there'd be a lotof celebrities that would come in and doyou know like music performances orwhatever and so one time Montell Jordancame to perform for halftime show and umwe were watching him rehearse and he wassinging the this is how we do and likeyou know he's kind of dancing but he hadsunglasses on he kind of took him offfor a second and I could see in his eyeslike that he was just deeply saddened[Laughter]basically performing this song everyperformance for his entire career whichis like he made a song in like early 90sor whatever yeah it's like 5020 likethis is crazy just collecting a paycheckI mean it's a tight song then org I knowthat see that would attract me Creekactually so that's why also he's thepush okay another story that we told onthe other one so when I was at the Kingsthere was this guy he was the emcee atthe Kings and what happened was everytime I went out he would introduce me hewould say this the strongest arms inSacramento he's like well I don't evenlive here but okay so one time he did itthe strongest arms of Sacramento and Ithought to myself like no I'm not gonnado the move I'm gonna do this spinningmove instead I have more than just amotion and so what happens is like afterour performance is done we walk into thetunnel it's like hey Quinn can I talk toyou he pulls me asidehe's like quang when I say the strongestarms in Sacramentoyou have to do the pushup move in a niceway you have to do I was like I was likehe's like yeah man when when you starteddoing spins like what is this guy doingdo the push like fuck and that you'renot the spin guy what are you doing stoptrying to break character character whodo you think you arewhy are you trying to show off thatyou're more versatile than you are youknow stop it quit it up oh oh yeah thisis like a totally random story so onetime I was at Burning Man right yeah andthis band was playing and like this guywas so bad was a band was playing in thein the playa the dust and then this guywalks up and like he's wearing like justunderwear that has like holes in itthey're like mesh underwear so he he'slike what you could see is dude I'mpretty sure I saw his dude I saw a lotof doodles at Burning Man a lot ofdoodles it's doodle town doodle man yeahso what happens like dude I wish I couldshow have this on camera but for thoseof us that are just listening he wasdoing this weird dancing he's likemoving around like like no the trunkwhite guy as freaky barbecue he's likewaving around I pretty sure like at onepoint he was like rolling on the floorhe's doing random motions like oh yeahokay think about in like a dramatic tointerpretive dance with modern andmodern dance it was like there's justbut you do random yeah she's right it'slike and then someone was like I heardsomeone behind missing oh my godit's so emotional you know they'reYellin right I mean so Lynn Lynn turnsto me and she says plain what kind ofdance is he doing I was like Lynn he'snot doing anythingdude he looks like he was on acid he'sdoing random oceans and I was like I waslike I was like Lynn and then Lynn'slike well how do you know I was likedude Alayna he was Lynn um I've beendancing for over half my life I think Iknowknow when someone's not doing anythinglike what the fuck he's not doing shitoh my god it's so emotional so I knowever the line that line it was like whatthe hell oh my god yesemotional oh my god viewing oh my god isso - it touches my soul he's literallydoing nothing oh my oh shut the fuck upso oh my god next time I MC a jam I'mabout to do that what do you do my godit's so emotional oh my god the emotionsthe emotions I mean III guess he's notwrong there's probably some emotion Iknow I used high on drugs that's what hewas he's feeling the high from the drugsthat was the emotion here this guy'sliterally doing nothing yeah actually Itold Kevin this story a long time agolike Beck and Davis right yeah isn'tcalled modern dancing where they're justdoing random stuffwhat is it cool I mean I guess that'scontradict interpretive interpretiveokay something like yeah I don't know Imean yeah see modern dance thephilosophy of it is that you're makinglike shapes with your body and there'snot necessarily like a certain formyou're supposed to do right so okay soit probably fits into there okay so whathappened was I did one of those I was Ican let's see how it is yeah just justto see how it is and so the danceinstructor right she gave the hero herinstructions okay you three start movingokay and then you other three whatyou're gonna do is you're gonna followthem but don't do their movements soyou're gonna sounds like wait so youwant them to follow them but also notfollow themoh I don't see oh and so they were justdoing random shit right just like likethe same thing like asking a guy justrolling around the floor us it's likewhat the hell is this and then and thenand then you know she says oh my godit's brilliantokay the next group 3 and 3 right thenext crew comes in J'son gives them thesame instructions okay you threetwo movements you other three followthem but don't follow them okay in thesame shit just a bunch of random andthen you have there doing it right justlike I don't get it like they're bothdoing nothing I don't fucking nothing Iwas like oh my god I was like my mindwas blown dude there dude what if shejust said that to fuck with oh I knowshe's like a troll yes yeah like it'sfucking brilliantbut you cling I don't that's that's whatthey pay me for I don't it was terribleWow awful what are you doing oh my godcalling them oh my god you know it'd befunny if there was a TV show like thatlike just like completely aware you hadlike a Simon Cowell type of person who'sjust like but he's like trollingeverybody I just I didn't feel theessence of your performance blah blahblah good really funny showespecially if yeah if if it's likesomeone who's killing it in theirperformance than the last guy just likeyeah I don't get itthere aren't there is actually a singingshow I didn't if you heard of it I thinkwas on The WB or something where likepeople like they were finding the worstsinger America so they they lie to thepeople saying like you're good have youheard that show no okay dirty as fuckbut that's hilarious dude yeah so theywere just like all these bad people thatwere horrible and then they would theywould just keep you know same thing asAmerican Idol except they'd pick andthey were just feeding these lies thesejudges but for the like for some peoplethat auditioned that we're actuallyreally good I remember one of thecomments was like yeah it sounded likeyou had like diarrhea or something buthe was actually amazing so it is likeKylie aligned with youoh my god oh man this is like yourstringer boy oh my god seems like youwere likeI ate it or something oh damn yeah I waslike oh my god it was so sad and oh myand then the reveal happens like Ohactually you know it's um it's not wedidn't find the best singer in Americawe actually found the worst singer inAmerica I think I was like but to cometo counter that the singing was like butthe you know it's not fake the the lovethis audience has for you and then theystarted cheering for him I was like I'mso sure he feels like shit yeah I waslike cut the next day he like killshimself I know dude that's like soembarrassed oh my god oh my god okaytalking about Edition actually I know afisherman in this story anyways someonethat we owe actually notice would giveit away okay no but like okay changeokay but you know like um so you'rethinking it dance right we've had somefriends I have auditioned but this onefriend in particular like he's actuallya really good dancer and should he justname namesokay who's not change their name okayokay so John was dancing but one of ourother friends Jimmy was watching him andlike so the way they cut it like soJimmy said like John was actually doingwell and and the judges gave him goodfeedback it's just he they just feltlike he didn't mix well together yeahbut during the actual like when they cutthe tapes and they were showingcommercials and then they made him looklike he was really bad without reallyshowing much of what he was doing andfelt like and and then the I thinksomething long was like and then somepeople just couldn't cut it like hoppingon his ass but like apparently he didreally well but the way they cut it theymade him look like he was really badlike and then some people just couldn'tcut it I saw our friend I was like oh noand then like later on as he few clipslater and then like in a few clips laterthey show they have a microphone to hisface and he was like it wasn't notalking aboutI feel so bad from because dude he'sactually a really good deal really goodoh dude I was like dude this is why Imean we've um we've auditioned for somethings before yes like dude I hope wedon't fake in me I fucking swear to godI hope we don't make the blooper reelblah blah blah hey remember this um thisone I wish get on camera but for thosepeople can't listen you can't really seethis dance move but you know that movewhere you like do this you push yourhead back yeah it's like you're pushingit's like you're looking like a robotyeah and then I do this and then like Ihold like this in front of me and youknow when we're auditioning for a BDCyeah I'm fucking you cuz I did that Idid it I did a competition you fuckingblew up people fucking loved it but whenwhen I did it on camera it was like ohmy god oh my god I fucking embarrassmyself I hope this is finished everyservices I thought that was so funnythough I love that movie I actuallybring it back so the Kings a snack and Ifucking I went against I think Sycharside shot I thinks I was a gay he dancesfor that job yeah so either he's reallya dancer but he's like he was doing morelike popping and krumping kind of stuffand so I was a b-boy so it was an allstyles competition so when I you didthat yeah and then and then like so Ipopped a little bit oh my god it'sfucking awful I should have never donethe popping part but they actually cutit a little bit during that - I was justtrying something I can do it - and thenI ended that popping sequence with thatmovie moment and I got the whole like myoh my whole like two rounds that I didlike I'm gonna push that clip actuallypart of me wants to post that clip on myInstagram but then like a couple of mybosses follow me on Instagram so I didso fucking inappropriate dude I've madesome questionable decisions in my lifelike some things like I like oh my godsome shits on the internet and howembarrassed is me to look back on itlike the Quang Bang thing this is becomeI'm running joke but I actually paidsomeone to write an e-book for me andyou wrote it a hundred percent no Iwrote it I wrote the book so it was likeamazing ways to make money and then Idoes the book but I thought to myselfyou know what I kind of like this nameQuangthat's like it's my brand that's who Iam and then like in the night on thebook it says authored by Quang Bang Iwas like yeah I love this name and thisis like and then like looking back islike that was really fucking stupidpeople one time okay Lin Lin again soLin was like you know what use likeshe's talking to max her husband's likeyeah you know I want to buy this book tosupport Quang the book was like threebooks like you two or three peoplebought it pity buys I post on Facebookand then Max is like no don't buy thatbook it's a joke it's not real it'soften quaint bang I was like lookingback it's like god dammit why did I dothat I just I keep it up now I was likeman that post hella embarrasses me I waslike no it's it's funny I'll keep it upbabe we should do is just say oh it wasa joke the whole timeyeah fucking brilliant so if anyone'slistening amazing ways to make money bycoin babe buy it on Amazon for 99 centsI've shameless plug I've ya know I readit and I made money do that you were youwere thinking in the clearest of mindsyeah shout out shout out to that bookanyways I think that's probably a goodway to okay so um anyways uh this is mygood friend Quang and do you have anyclosing remarks amazing ways to makemoney by Quang going by the book onAmazon now yeahhave you made money from dude so I paidsome guy $100 to white Oh 127 and thenlike three people bought the book atlike 99 cents so you lost money so soI'm teaching people how to make moneyand then I just lost my office book thatyou people how to make money so theirony hey well the Hustle is real thanksfor being here make that money dudealright man alright thanks guys[Music][Music]you[Music]  

We Should Talk About That
Grief. We Should Talk About That.

We Should Talk About That

Play Episode Play 24 sec Highlight Listen Later Feb 3, 2020 49:07


TTJ(es) (The Two Jess(es) share their personal experiences with grief. JessB lost her mother suddenly 10 years ago, and JessK lost her mother through illness four years ago. In this episode they tackle the process of grieving, anything, but especially grieving the one who brought them into the world. TTJ(es) take a look at the culture of grieving from a societal standpoint and how that differs from the experience of mourning, discuss the non-linear aspect of their sorrow and while there are a lot of tears in this one, there is a lot of laughter connecting them to the beauty of their memories, experiences, as well as reflections on the realization that grief is indeed, a gift. Show Notes: The Gift of Grief by Jessica Kidwell:https://www.writebitchwrite.com/december/2020/1/3/personal-essay-jessica-kidwell*Showcased at the end of this episode is an original song written by the following: The song: The Wreckage Of Why, was written collaboratively by Lindsay Herring (vocal), Norman Salant (guitar), Tammy Shaw (vocal), and Andrea Tom, during a songwriting workshop in the fall of 2019.The Wreckage of WhyThe years stack up like old coffee cupsThe kitchen’s so quietShould I just burn it downI wish I could tell you once more how I love youOh I wishBut there’s no one around I’m looking for answers in the wreckage of whyWondering will I come back againA sliver of honey in a fallen skySomehow a sweetness remains I’m always half-rightI’m always half-blindI’ve tilled all the memories at the end of the dayThe pull of the past ain’t a reason for leavingBut a house ain’t a reason to stay So I’m looking for answers in the wreckage of whyWondering will I come back againA sliver of honey in a fallen skySomehow a sweetness remains I’m looking for answers in the wreckage of whyWondering will I come back againA sliver of honey in a fallen skySomehow the sweetness remainsSupport the show (http://www.paypal.com)

Daily Gratitude Call
Gratitude for Red Flags

Daily Gratitude Call

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2019 29:48


I have had some low back pain the past few days. It’s been about 6 years since I have experienced this type of pain. One of the reasons I am so committed to gratitude is because of the lessons I learned when my back pain went away 6 years ago, after being plagued with it for 40 years. (Watch this video to learn more about that story)This morning I realized that the same thought – “lower back pain will get me out of something I don’t want to do” – had entered my subconscious decisions. That was a huge red flag!Red flags bring a certain feeling of attention, as do orange flags of caution, white flags of surrender, black flags of impending danger. All are a warning of some kind. When these flags show up, we get to choose if we will obediently heed, or rebelliously ignore them.Today, I Give Myself Permission to Heed My Red FlagsI give myself completely to my divine callingI am confident in heeding the guidance I receiveI see the result of full commitment to the true pathThe benefit of full commitment is joyI am fully engaged in lifeI trust that I am guided rightI choose to heed the signs and quickly follow the shortest and easiest routeClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson about a new perspective on an area of your life you desire to change, contact her directly at this link: askwylene.comTo work more closely with Wylene, become a North Star Navigator! click here to learn more about her new book The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business and the life-changing North Star Navigator Course that so many have discovered to be the key to living a life of purpose, fulfillment and happiness!Support the show (https://wylenebenson.com)

Church Planting Podcast
Daniel Im | The Gig Culture and Its Effect on Church Planting

Church Planting Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2019 40:31


In this episode, Clint Clifton talks with Daniel Im about church planters and the lessons they learn from the gig culture. Twitter: @danielsangiFacebook: @daniel.im.authorInstagram: @danielsangiWebsite: danielim.com Transcript[00:00:00] Albert Miller: This is the church planning podcast. Thank you for tuning in every week. We sit down with leaders who are shaping church planting efforts. Here's your host Josh Turansky and Clint Clifton.Josh Turansky: All right, welcome to the church planting podcast. My name is Josh Turansky, and I'm joined in Studio by Clint Clifton plant. Great to see you. All right, so we're going to jump right in to introing this episode. It's conversation that you had with Daniel Im. Yeah. Daniel has a background in working for Life Way.Clint Clifton: Yeah. Josh Turansky: And so let's talk about that first. You're familiar with Life Way. Our audience may not be, what is Life Way?[00:01:00] Clint Clifton: First of all Daniel Im and Daniel Yang, we mentioned this on the Daniel Yang interview that we just had but they're both Asians, they’re both from Canada, they both are in church planting and they get confused all the time. Josh Turansky: Where they met each other.Clint Clifton: They both worked with Ed Stetzer but they are there are two different individuals though and they have the same first name, but this is this is Daniel Im. He wrote the book No Silver Bullets and he's now leaving Life Way to go pastor a church that he was previously on staff in Canada and so we talked about that stuff in the interview but but yes Life Way is where Daniel has been working, he’s been leading NewChurches.com which is Life Way’s, you know church planting resource peace and Daniel is he's a brilliant guy just very bright and has been you know in Canada working in the hard soil. So he he definitely understands the church planting landscape and some of the hardest parts of North America and and it's a really sharp mind great thinker. [00:02:00] Life Way, though Life Way is the research resource arm of the Southern Baptist convention and it's not normally known because Life Way has had up until recently all these retail stores and so people know it as like the Christian bookstore, but it's actually a part of the Southern Baptist convention. It's an entity assistance subsidiary of the Southern Baptist convention. It's one of only two of the Southern Baptist convention subsidiaries that are profit producing. So it actually dumps into the Cooperative program every year so missionaries around the world and in the United States benefit from the sales of books and bibles and other resources to Christians around the country. Yeah, but it was originally started as the Baptist Sunday school board in the idea was the purpose was to produce curriculum and materials for for southern baptist churches.Josh Turansky: And they're still doing that.Clint Clifton: And they're still doing that. Yeah gospel project is maybe something you've heard of that is Life Way product. Many many others [00:03:00] but gospel project may be the most notable.Josh Turansky: Yeah. Another thing that comes up in this conversation is the gig economy. Yeah gig culture. This is huge for church Planters. Clint Clifton: Yeah, interesting. Just just some statistics for you 55 million Americans are freelancing right now in our country. It’s at an all-time high and people are. Are gigging a lot there. You and I were talking just a few minutes ago. There are a lot of ways to do that. Now that are just offered to us on a platter. I mean, you mentioned a few like Goose call them out againJosh Turansky: Uber and Lyft.Clint Clifton: Yeah. Yeah Uber. Yeah super and all the subsidiaries or I was noticing even that make office which is kind of like we work is owned by Uber and make office is really a place that helps, you know, gig culture thrive.It's like you don't have to have your own office. You can have another office with a bunch of other creatives or designers or or you know business folks Josh Turansky: I have a friend. Started a co-working space. Yeah and planted his church out of his [00:04:00] co-working space. It just graduated from the co-working space into a school because they outgrew it but that was his side gig and it well, I mean, it's his income.Clint Clifton: Yeah. Yeah. I mean so many, I remember just having my mind blowing when I was first in church planting by this guy who's simultaneously, this is in Stafford, Virginia so simultaneously started a mortgage company and a church at the same time and you would go into the office during the week and you'd have like mortgage brokers on one side of the the cubicle and a pastor on the other side of cubicle and they were all working in the same space when there's like 15 or 20 people in there some of them are on the phone and trying to sell you a mortgage and some of them are our counseling you because you just defaulted on yours. I mean it was like it was wild and I remember just having my mind blown like wow, this is a thing, you know, that's really working and actually initially the mortgage company did really good, but the church didn't and it grew really slowly and then as time went on [00:05:00] the church really got Traction in the mortgage company struggled in the crisis that happened at the end of the 2000s with the housing market. And so the it was just a beautiful like thing and but but the gig economy or good culture is happening all over the place. Interesting statistic, also the majority of freelancers, and this research is from the Freelancers Union, but the majority of Freelancers who left a full-time job made more money within the first year of their their full-time dedicated focus to their to their gig than they did in their previous job, so it's amazing just to think about that the freelancers are dumping a trillion dollars into the economy through their freelance earnings right now. So Josh Turansky: Incredible.Clint Clifton: Lots of stuff going on in that in that realm almost everybody I know, you know has something they have some kind of online thing. They do it's us-born books. It's you know, I mean, do you just I mean [00:06:00] I literally from you today I bought an item that your wife made and sells on Etsy. Yeah, and you just delivered it to me like and when you came here today, I hope this doesn't come out before my wife's birthday is not like she listens to the podcast anyway, you get the point. I mean everybody no matter where you are in the country everybody is experiencing this the gig culture is strong and what we talk about here is it has a profound effect on the church and on church planting in particular because as the our country gets more expensive. It becomes more and more difficult to to finance our ministry, especially in these very expensive very needed urban areas.Josh Turansky: Yeah, I'll just say really briefly. I've been able to do some side work and what that's allowed me to do is to be able to as a church planter pass money off to people around me. Yeah, and so it's allowed me to it's basically. I'm able to get workers in the church because I'm [00:07:00] able to employ themClint Clifton: Pay them through some other means. Josh Turansky: Yeah, that's great. I'm glad you covered this in the interview. Let's let's jump right into your conversation with Daniel Im.Josh Turansky: Hey church Planters. Your calling is to plant a church, but churches are also a business of Xillia partners with you to provide one time and ongoing Business Services enabling you to stay focused on Mission. Visit Auxilia Partners to learn more about the finances HR, and legal compliance services offered and schedule a free consultation. That's auxilio.partners and mention The Church Planting Podcast to receive a 20% discount.Clint Clifton: Well, Daniel. Thank you for joining me for this conversation today. Daniel Im: Yeah, I'm glad to be with you Clint. Clint Clifton: Well, Daniel, you're a really interesting guy to me. I watched you from afar. And can you describe kind of what you were doing at Life Way when you were with Life Way so that so [00:08:00] that we can kind of the listeners aren't familiar with you can kind of help understand. Daniel Im: Yeah, so for the last five years I was serving at Life Way basically started something called nutritious.com with Ed stetzer and we were trying to figure out how Life Way we'll could resource church planting multi-site and multiplication. That was the that was the Whiteboard dream and then after that it was okay, Daniel, what do you want to do, what can we do and for me, Jim Collins always talks about what in the world can you be the best at right and for Life Way being a resource provider is like well Life Way has a life research and a and you know, the only statistically verified and validated Church planter assessment yet Life Way's not planting churches Life Way's not assessing anyone. They have an assessment, but they're not assessing anyone. They're not funding anyone. So not wanting to go, in that way and neither wanting to go down the seminary route. I was just okay, how do we [00:09:00] create resources? So that's where I was like, well, you know, when you think about what Life Way can do. Life Way can be is one of the world's most premier resource providers and Life Way can publish and they can create resources and articles and courses and just and trying to do it broadly. So that's why when we start a newchurch.com, it wasn't Life Way new churches, it was new churches. Yeah and what ended up happening over the last five years was just the just just being able to broadly resource across denominational Network the active church planting resources around church planting multi set of multiplication. Clint Clifton: W hen you think about church planting what what's happening at least In Our Lifetime and right now and they have Angelica world is there's a lot of growth happening in church planting. So if you think about it like an. Please don't send me emailsI know it's not an industry. I know this is not business. But if you think about it, like an industry, it's a very growing industry. It's an industry that has a bunch of infrastructure scaffolding kind of being built all around it. Now. It's an Enterprise so to speak and there's there's everything from you know, funding mechanisms to to all sorts of written resources and online resources and and all these organizations that exist to supportChurch Planters specifically and and even now there are organizations that exist to support sending churches specifically and [00:17:00] so. All of that is coming online the last 10 or 15 years and some interesting things are happening. We're getting vernacular settled like everybody we have language and we know what it means and it's like industry language when other people here, they don't know what we're talking about and we know what we're talking aboutIt's so Insider language, but there's also so there's some areas that have like solidified. I feel like especially especially in the last five years or so. There's some areas of. Really settled like that's the industry standard. So to speak where five years ago. You couldn't have said there's an industry standard for assessment for our for example, so but now but I wonder you I can't see what you can see because you're working with a bunch of different groups and denominations at at Life WayWhat are those kind of gaps that aren't solidified yet or maybe still need to. Need to have Focus put on them. And so I just I just wonder what comes to your mind initially when we ask that question. Like what's [00:18:00] still in development anything come to mind? Daniel Im: Yeah. So let's let's maybe talk about the to size spectrums of church plants, rightSo we have the house church that has been going. I mean it's been going for a long time right long time. But if you look at kind of Our lifetime right you think. 90s 2000s Wolfgang Simpson, you look at that whole house Church Network movement that was going going going didn't really go to wear or have the I think broad impact that people hoped for and and Francis Chan right now what he's doing in San Francisco. Is that right? It's House Church that he's doing from apartment to apartment. So there's definitely that current that's continuing to go. And I know there are a lot of people were like, oh, what do you think about letters to the church? Right Francis is new book and and going along that way and I'm like man, I love the vision of the church that he's written about and I love what he's doing but it's still it's not there's no church planting movements in North America or in the [00:19:00] west. Right? Right. That's not yet. Fully proven. And yeah, so I hope it is I hope it does grow to that but they're so there's that undercurrent and then there's that other current that the complete all the other side where that is obsessed with and and really was a outgrowth of of the church growth movement Church Health movement breaking barriers. Just this whole idea of launch large, right and I feel like when you use the word industry, I feel like the industry quote-unquote around the launch large methodology is very mature and it's well-developed. That's true. And if you and there are several organizations that if you go with them that is what they do and they will help you, Fund you, I mean you're going to have to fund at least four or five hundred thousand dollars. If not more you're going to launch with over 200 people and the methodology is really well documented. There's a lot of dissertations on it as well on the larger your launch Team the larger your church is going to be several years later. So that's that's [00:20:00] really good too. The issue though is when you try to do that sort of methodology in a Metropolitan City in a big state like a New York right like a New York City. Unless you're Hillsong, right? It's going to be really hard to do a launch large 400 person. Event because you're not going to find a venue for 400 people on a Sunday morning unless you have a ton of money And then are you even a church plant? Right. So there's there's obviously that and then you look at where these organizations in these denominations networks are succeeding at launch large and where they're not succeeding. I think that's interesting to note. So in terms of a black hole what sort of church planting methodologies work in New England, right what sort of church planting methodologies work in Tacoma, Washington, right or up in Maine or or right there in Salt Lake City? [00:21:00] Or in Edmonton Alberta, right or in Vancouver Montreal. So I think that's a thing where a lot of people are trying to use these mature methodologies in larger cities like that. Yeah, and it's not necessarily proving as effective as if it were done in the South or in Texas or in larger is like that. Clint Clifton: Yeah, that's a great point. So, I mean I'm thinking of the the the person who had could test that idea that a methodology or a model so to speak would be. Better in you know, suburban area or a rural area that it would be in an urban area I mean I hear you say that I'm like, of course that's obvious. It's clear. He just observational it's clear, but I think you know. I think most of the proponents of a model there are some people out there in church planting that are that are really like Pro Mini models, but not most people most people are really attached to a and [00:22:00] an approach or a yeah, I mean most of them would sort of push back on the idea that their model wouldn't work in any context. So anyway, you could like substantiate that or house that substantiated in your mind. Daniel Im: Yeah, so. Part of it is you look at who are you? Okay. So let's kind of reverse engineer a large launch where a large launch would work very well with an unknown Pastor. Okay, so I'm not talking about celebrity Pastor who is famous already or other career? And does that thing right? That's that's a very that's an anomaly. So let's say you are a. Unknown I hate using that word. But I think we all understand what that means. Yeah, you're not a famous. You're not Instagram famous person and you plan to church because God has called you to plant a church and you are planting a church in a wealthy Suburban neighborhood, Yeah, okay versus you're planting a church [00:23:00] in a not yet gentrified. Urban area that is very low income and subsidized housing, right? Okay. Let's say in both situations. You can get 200 people. Let's let's just say let's just say you can get 200 people. I don't know how but let's just say you are able to gather 200 people who are going to come to your launch your one of your launch Services one of your preview Services. How in the world are you going to pay back and fund everything? In both scenarios in one if you're in a wealthy neighborhood. Yeah, that's one thing but in the other when the average income is $20,000 for household. Yeah, how do you expect to continue to run a full programmed three full-time staff Church. Yes, you're fully funded for the first three years. But how do you expect to continue to do that? Unless you're fully relying on outside funding, right? Right and a lot of the launch [00:24:00] large methodologies are completely reliant on a three-year fully funded large staff launch, which is really good. If you're in the right neighborhood and you're doing that but it's not necessarily sustainable because in the research that we did with new churches and Life Way research man, if you don't get to self-sustainability in the first three to four years, it's highly unlikely that you'll get there right based on the sampling of who we surveyed Right. Now here's the thing. That's interesting to observe or I think something that I'd love for people to just keep their fingerprint on and to to see if I mean and if you come up with examples, please reach out social media email whatever to let me know who is doing this well, but I have yet to meet a church or find a church who is knocking it out of the park simultaneously in church planting and in Mercy MinistriesLike I'm not just talking about churches that are doing both it's fine to do both a lot of churches are doing both but with the churches that are like men they are multiplying [00:27:00] like every year or every two to three years. Yeah, right. They are they're not just writing a check. They're sending people out there training Planters they're going out but they are also they have a thriving Ministry to the city Urban ministry as you know a city to the least of these and they're really measuringI don't I don't know. I mean, do you know Clint? Clint Clifton: No, I don't actually I mean it's I and it feels like the reason that doesn't exist right now. At least from my vantage point. And again, my perspective is smaller than yours because of who I who I primarily work with but the reason that's not true is because the the of Angelica world at least the tribe that I run in they they areSo suspect of this The Becoming social becoming a so social they lose the gospel. Yes, and so it's a very, you know, it's almost as if when you're in a room full of the folks, I usually run with it. In the angelical, you know world [00:28:00] and somebody gets up and starts talking about social stuff. It's almost like the air gets sucked out of the room and everybody becomes tense and like okay, this is going a directionI don't feel good about like this. This smells fishy, you know, and so there's there's not and I so I can't think of an example and I think if there was somebody that was crushing it on social front. Most of Angelica lz-- at least on my side of the aisle would be suspect of what they were doing on the gospel front or on the multiplication frontSo Daniel Im: yeah, it's interesting thing too that I want to keep on observing because. It's God. Jesus calls us to do both Clint Clifton: a tie every day and everybody agrees about that. Yeah, yeah, because that's what I mean up. It seems like an industry black hole in terms of like nobody has figured it out yet in a there's not like thisI mean you think about like if you think about like things of the past this makes sense like you think okay. Okay, the attraction will think okay. Alright that [00:29:00] we are mind goes to Willow Creek it goes to you know, like if we're thinking 90s era job growth so it goes. Saddleback like we have a thing to think of yeah and in and there's several things now that I look out and I go we all kind of feel it's right, but I don't have a big thingI can think of and go. Oh that's it. Even in even for in chance stuff, you know, I mean with the letters to the church. I think everybody like I can't think of a better book launch, you know, then he did with that though. Everybody was so spun up about that so fast, I felt like even people that have been like long time in the church planting world where all like man, this is amazingThis is great. But I was just you know from my. Finished when I was thinking like but show me the church, like where's the church that we all go to and go they're crushing it. And if you look under the I mean, hopefully it becomes the church that Francis is leading but. Yeah, I don't know. I mean we're all kind of waiting to see [00:30:00] you know, Daniel Im: yeah, you're rightYou're right. I think you know Clint I love what you've done at Pillar church. And I mean we Ed and I even wrote wrote about you and the work that you've done in planting missional churches. And I mean, I've talked about you and the work that you did at Pillar tons of times with others because I think that's just such a that's such an amazing picture of a kingdom mindsetFor you guys to reach the Marine Corps. All right, and for you to reach that them where they're at where you guys were at and you to discern what was happening as the Marines continue to come to your church, but you do then flip that out into a church planting strategy. So in terms of another black hole, I would say okayHey instead of everyone trying to reach everyone who is God called you to uniquely reach in your city. Clint Clifton: Yeah Daniel Im: yesterday. Yeah yesterday. I interviewed Knoll. Hey Cannon, so he's at Riverview and he's Acts 29 guy Lansing Michigan and and they do multi site and they do church planting and and meant how he put [00:31:00] it yesterday in the interview of so clearWell at the time of this recording right what he said was when it comes to multi-site they'll only do multi-site. When in Lansing when people can actually say hey, this is Lansing. I'm from Lansing and we're he can actually address and prophetically address Lansing right his area the moment. He goes beyond Lansing even within Michigan to like Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids or this that he can't address Lansing anymoreHe can't address because people in Grand Rapids will not say they're from Lansing. It was there from Lansing and he said the moment it goes beyond that. That's when they're planting. That's where they're planting. And I love that tension between that logo local that local and that broader approach toward multiplicationSo that's another one of those those black holes that I see. Yeah, Clint Clifton: And I actually think. Now we have the praetorian project is actually expanded to begin working with that army bases as well. And we're looking incredible. Clint Clifton: Yeah. Yeah. It's been fun. But looking for Navy and stuff like that, but I don't I think that it would not have gotten traction, especially in my experience level and kind of where I was at the time of getting it started had we had we broadened out just one more concentric Circle. I [00:34:00] think the fact that we were aiming at such a. A specialized group. Yeah helped us be better at what we were doing and it helped us communicate what we're doing in a more powerful wayYeah, and I don't know if it's a you thing or what but when I I remember having angst feeling like we're limiting ourselves by doing this, you know, and and actually now the older I get the more I feel like limited limits or so good limits helps Focus like they're just they're really what we need to really do something good. Daniel Im: Yeah percent. Yeah, Clint Clifton: okay. So talking specifically about the area of church planting that is what seems to be kind of growing to me is this like we talked about this a little bit earlier in a previous conversation today about like team church planting. Yeah instead of just. You know through the 90s and early 2000sIt was just kind of like the church. Everything was about the church planter and [00:35:00] even in the x29 kind of ramp up when x29 is really, you know, hot and heavy that it was all about. The planter SBC is definitely been all about the planter and it's kind of like it's kind of like if we have this thing then that's what we needSo it seems like. People are accepting the team thing a little bit more but there doesn't seem to be any literature produced for them or a way to talk about it. That's the common way like how we don't even know who to call that group of people right now, right the team all we know is to say the team.Daniel Im: yeahOkay, you know, what's interesting about this. I feel like we can talk about it for me a few different perspectives. You obviously can reverse-engineer larger churches that have teams. And that are doing team leadership and what that looks like and I think there's validity and there's a lot we can learn from thatThe only issue is that's not very helpful to a church plant that doesn't have the budget [00:36:00] to have a big team like that. So when you think about it from that perspective, you have these churches like Austin Stone like Village like Summit, you have a few of these Village and Summit both established churches that move toward more multiplication. They're very both teams structured Austin Stone that was planted Matt Carter but has but within their first couple of years actually moved very much toward a team model Riverview Church withNo, he can and he's been doing it a long time and has really neat model around team Ministry. He didn't plant the church, but he has been there for 28 years and leads it toward a team model. So there's a lot of these examples and larger churches that I've larger budgets and our Mega that are doing team [00:37:00] in terms of a church plant, rightI've friends out in La who co planted. Right, they were fully funded in ela well-funded because it’s LA, co-planted and recently one of them stepped off not because of anything. Their relationship or just because it wasn't working there other reasons. Yeah. So now there is a solo lead planter. Yeah Pastor that they're now going to hire someone else to now all that to say David Fitch is probably the one that I would encourage people to look up when it comes to Bible and when it comes to team model of ministry, he's at a Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. I believe it's in the somewhere. I think it's in Chicago. I forget specifically where he's at. But but what he's done is he's actually been a part of a team Ministry a team leadership Ministry that t hey are sustaining and they are doing it by vocationally, but the reason they've been so successful in terms of [00:38:00] internal metrics wise in terms of health and long-term ministry as because he has a lot of people that are all Bible occasional. Clint Clifton: Yeah, Daniel Im: right. So it's not just one person that's by vocational and their helpers but these are everyone all these people who are giving a lot of time and energy by vocationally into this workYeah. Yeah Hugh halter as well right in his book Bible Clint Clifton: right that that's the that's the kind of thing that I think we need like. 30 examples are 50 examples for to start to be like, okay. This is a thing that's really really happening out there because I actually know know what's happening. I can think of some examplesIt's not like definitely standardized yet, but it's the most hopeful thing in church planting to me. Because one of the things that's been really exceptional about our work at Pillar. That's unusual when I when I compare it to other church planning work. Is that regular everyday Christians are those marines that are [00:39:00] moving from Base to BaseThey inevitably get to be a part of those teams not because they signed up for it or because they're even that spiritually mature. But because they're a part of our church and they get orders to another one of our Church's I mean Uncle Sam tells them to go there so they can't really say no and then they go there and of course they're going to not look for a different church and the community what if they're going to go right to thatSo it's it has our work has inevitably involved the everyday Christian who's just involved in the in the church, but if you don't have a mechanism built into the life of your Movement Like That. It's Gotta Be You No, More defined. And so anyway, I'm just I'm just excited about that area because I feel like it is bubbling under the surface and I think when we get to the place where we have a bunch of examples and everybody validates it as a real thingThen I think we're going to have groups of friends getting together and saying let's go start a church. I mean, yeah, they just to Seminary buddies or something like that. Daniel Im: Yeah [00:40:00] and the unique thing about what what the praetorian project and what you've done it pillar is you didn't I mean the money questionYeah. The money question was solved. Clint Clifton: Yeah. Because Daniel Im: yeah, so that when it comes to team Ministry if we want to see well-trained, right and several friends who are well-trained theologically grounded have experience. They're not just 21 year olds who don't want to go to Seminary and they don't want to serve in an established routeSo there go plan to truly, you know, when you have well qualified trained individuals who are saying hey, let's go together. And let's go plant a church as a team. The thing that we need to solve is K 5 10 years ago. Did you get an education that was employable outside of the church? Yes, rightAnd I think if that is solved if that is salt and I think in the next 5-10 years anyone who's receiving a call to Ministry, they understand that okay. [00:41:00] Okay, is this degree? The one that's going to help flow or do I need to get another one first if that is solved I think we're going to see more of that the other thing though Clint so I have a book coming outMy next book is coming out in February and it's called you are what you do and six other lies about work life and love now. The reason I'm bringing this up is the seven lies that I talk about in the book our bait have basically written it risen to the surface because of the gig economy. Because of the the prevalence of the side hustle, so if you think about America, right just for example how like Amazon Prime just think of America and Amazon Prime like who doesn't have Amazon Prime, you know, it's just like it's really hard to youJust assume. Everyone has Amazon Prime and the reason is because half of America has Amazon Prime and the other half is probably using their moms. Clint Clifton: Somebody Amazon, right? Daniel Im: Yeah. Yeah, but half of America has Amazon Prime. So now think about that if half of America, right [00:42:00] 50% of America has this and we think everyone has it the gig economy people having a side hustle doing multiple jobsThat's almost at forty percent of America. Clint Clifton: Yeah. Daniel Im: Right. So if that's the case and if that's how normal it's become right, I mean I just I basically talked about these seven lies that have risen to the surface because of that but prevalent, you know relevant to our conversation is I actually thinkThat because of the rising side hustle in the gig economy. We are probably closer to a team model of planting than we might realize. Clint Clifton: Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I didn't know all that about the gig economy that you just said, I mean, but I definitely have seen the rise of a sudden decide household for sure and even in you know in my church and in the church Landing world, even in the military, I mean we’re Marines you who you think of it as more full-time than a marine, right? Yeah, I mean, but but these [00:43:00] guys are side hustling as well. You know, I mean, it's just normal, it's normal. It's totally normal and it does it does play a lot into especially especially in the age bracket that a lot of the guys in our church render in that lightAge bracket where there may be good enough at their side hustle that they're making substantial money on it, but they're not so good that it matches what they're making in their other job and their real job. So they're on the fence of like they're maxed out first of all their back style, but they're on the fence of should I should I just take the plunge and do this full time and they're scared to deathTo do that, you know because of all kinds of reasons. So Daniel Im: yeah and honestly Clint this is I would love to see this right and maybe some of your listeners are going to maybe God is already stirring in their hearts to do team model of ministry, right and and maybe this will spark something but I would honestly whether you have you know, a trade ticket or an employable skill or not, or maybe you just have a seminary degree or a bible college degree, right and you are moving forward and [00:44:00] you feel cold to plant if you got if you and three or four other friends, let's sayAll of you are theologically trained and feel called to plant right if you and three other friends, let's say for just to make a good good number four of you want to go plan to church right and you can find someone who can fund one full-time position. Then what I'd encourage you all to do is every one of you Uber 20 hours a weekHmm Uber 20 hours a week and each of you take 25% of that a hundred percent salary. Yeah and go and do it. Clint Clifton: Yeah. Yeah, you're totally right and their churches it's funny because at NAMM specifically there are churches try and dams on The Cutting Edge of church planting. Oh, yeah if there is a Cutting Edge in Turf Landing, right so names names has advanced as anybody but when we've got guys coming to our assessment saying describing what you just described. Okay. Hey, this is how we're planting our church and Nom Noms like you like Springs pop out of our ears. We don't know how to [00:45:00] compute that like, what do what do we do with that? We don't know where's this guy fit and it's like we have these very we built these systems around the singular Church planter and for years, they've been talking about specifically an assessment and they've been talking aboutOkay. Can we assess teams or can we assess pass? All pairs or pastoral partners and then ultimately like philosophically were I guess yes. Yes we can but then practically speaking the system isn't built for it. So it's all clumpy and it doesn't work right, you know, so so yeah, man what you're saying is so so true and if there's anything that I feel like is the way things areIt is I mean it start you see little glimmers of it even in the large church. It's like the teaching teams becoming the prevalent and so the congregations are becoming more accustomed to a rotating teaching team. I think the you know, every time a pastor Falls to a moral failure and a church collapses or some kind of [00:46:00] other failure integers collapsesEverybody goes woo, we better not have one guy in charge. Yes. That's that's bad. You know, and so all that stuff is contributing to the what I hope is God at work to make Church Plant a little church planting a normal part of the Christian Life and yeah and and are in our nation's. Daniel Im: Yeah. That's that that idea of a Permenter Church planter or Superman Pastor. I mean, that's just that's all hubris. Right, that's all just getting to your head and it's and part of it is the American obsession with celebrities. Yeah that as seeped into the church. Which Eugene Peterson anything he writes. I mean, the guy is antithetic, you know, he is so anti thatYeah, and because it's like well, what does it look like to be present? What is it look like to not be disembodied but embodied where you're at, so. Yeah, I'm really encouraged by how that's going. I mean even just practically speaking my years in Nashville. I was a teaching pastor at my churchThere's no [00:47:00] senior pastor at our church. Yeah, we had campus pastors who led locally their staff. We had a few of us who were teaching pastors who would teach at both campuses, but there was no single point of leadership now having been in it and having had worked in it for about four years. It's greatIt's really really great the downside is it slow? Yeah, right. So I worked with the elders for a year to develop the set of core values for our church a year. Write a took a year for most other churches. It would have taken two three four months out of Max. Clint Clifton: Yeah, right. Yeah, I think yeah, I think you're you're like really onto something the more the harder the higher you put the authority like as the pyramid goes up and comes to a peak the higher you put the authority the more unstable over it is, you know, it's so so when you push that Authority down its kind of balanced out or leveled out over a group of people is that the churches are more likely to be [00:48:00] like kind of rooted but they're also not very agile. And yeah, it's interesting. I planted pillar and we have very much a team approachWe've always shared the pulpit with a bunch of bunch of different guys, even from the very beginning of the church. We have a big eldership and. And deep bench of leaders basically always doing leadership result. And that's a really good. It's created a really healthy culture at the church, you know one leader doing some stupid or screwing up is not going to not going to really significantly mess it up, but on the other hand, I went about five years ago and started working with McLain BobAnd those guys are so agile if for such a big church, it's amazing because all the decision making is is in one room essentially like I mean you they can get they can get together in the afternoon and decide they're going to do something simple minute tomorrow morning. Yeah, and to me that sounds scary and like because I've been in this environment where you know, I get indigestion sometimes and have an idea and I want to implement itSo I just I don't trust my own [00:49:00] decision making on stop until it's like borne out with other leaders in our church. But yeah, anyway, we got off track a little bit but I think I think the point is that that's an area that's in development and I see I feel like it's growing a lot and developing a lot.Daniel Im: Yeah. No, I'm excited about what's going to come.Clint Clifton: Yeah, me too. Well Daniel, it's been really kind of you spent so much time with us. I know you're I know you're ramping up for big things in your life right now. So just thank you so much for for hanging out with me for a little bit today. Daniel Im: Yeah, it's honestly, I love I love you the work you're doing the kingdom work you're doing so I'm just grateful to be able to have this time to chatClint Clifton: Well, thank you, Daniel. All right blessings on your new Endeavor man. Daniel Im: Awesome. Thanks. Josh Turansky: Thank you for listening to The Church Planning Podcast. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review of your favorite podcast. Josh Turansky: Today’s episode of the church planting podcast is sponsored by new city Network the [00:50:00] church planting Ministry of MacLean Bible a special thanks to today's guests Daniel M for taking time to join usJosh Turansky produced the show Zukey Bastien was our showrunner and her husband Nick was our editor. Thanks to Hudson Turansky and Marvin more Who provided administrative and web support for the program and last but not least. Thank you for listening all the way through to the very end of the church planting podcast.Hey, if you'd like more information about the show, feel free to visit our brand new website www.churchplantingpodcast.org, there you can find all of our past episodes as well as notes. The links from today's show. Be sure to tune in to next week's podcast. We will be talking with Kevin Smith who's the president of the BCMD.

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Episode 55: I'm Just A Light Inside

Yoke and Abundance Wise Women Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2019 49:21


Sponsor: Triad Local FirstJoin us in our Yoke and Abundance Facebook Group ->Watch today’s unedited podcast hereStand-up comedian, Stay at home mom, Wife, writer, smiley, Sadness inspires her comedyA lot of people lean into their darkness in a creative way. Co-creator of shifting lensIt doesn’t matter, I’m just a light insideGrappling with tough issues through comedyRace isn’t realBeing a sexual person is part of the cool shit of life“Rocking my mustache today”Facial hair has always been so taboo“When my baby was born I wanted them to have an idea of naturalness.”Eye’s up here comedy Don’t give up on the stageDon’t take everything so personallyThe sign is: What makes your heart beat? What makes your heart jump?I am naturally the center of attentionDon’t take anything personalHow do you like to be loved?Pulling the rug out from under you and inviting you to sit down because we’re all the same. Believing that what my heart tells me is rightI’m good for the economy Scuppernong books shout outMy Time is coming because I’m taking the time to answer my calling

Online Forex Trading Course
#330: Another +6.55% this week – Get the Basics Right & Trade Well

Online Forex Trading Course

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2019 7:35


Podcast: Another +6.55% this week – Get the Basics Right & Trade WellIn this video:00:36 – Travelling and Trading – Focusing on the Basics01:18 – Another +6.55% gain this week01:45 – Trading the Basics well leads to good trades03:04 – Trading from the right hand side of the chart04:05 – Control your risk04:53 – Don’t count Pips05:25 – Reward:Risk is important06:01 – The importance of getting the foundations rightI'm going to explain why I believe it is so important that you need to get the fundamental basics correct in order to be a good trader. Let's talk about that and more right now.Hey, forex traders, Andrew Mitchem here, The Forex Trading Coach video and podcast number 330.You'll notice I'm wearing a jumper, a sweater back here in New Zealand in the middle of winter after three weeks over in Europe.Travelling and Trading – Focusing on the Basics If you've been following me over the last three or four weeks, you'd have been noticing that I've been overseas travelling around, and I've been really focusing on the basics.In that time, I've been trading just the monthly, weekly and daily charts and nothing else. You would have seen that we've made some exceptional gains, including last week, which was my first week back at home. We had made with only a quarter percent risk per trade, 12.79%. That's all trades that were posted on our membership site. Realistically, although I called it a 30-minute-a-day trip, most of the time, it was 10 minutes a day.Another +6.55% gain this weekJust this week, it's now Friday, I still have some open trades open that are at 0.9% so almost a 1% gain on open trades that are open just today, but this week already, we've had closed trades of another 6.55%, again, just using monthly, weekly, daily charts and a breakout strategy that we use once a week. Again, 10, 20 minutes once a day and that's it.Trading the Basics well leads to good tradesNot only did I want to share with you those results, which I believe are very outstanding and excellent results. Also, to let you know of course, they were on their membership site, but the thing is, the important thing is, yes, the results are wonderful, but it's more important to understand that we do this by trading the basics, the fundamental basics. I don't mean fundamental as in news announcements and worrying about what's happening politically around the world. I don't mean that fundamental. I mean fundamental basics as in getting everything correct, the basics, the building blocks, the foundations of trading.You must remember that we've been doing this for a long, long time, and so it's a bit like riding a bicycle. After a while, it becomes almost like second nature. However, we don't deviate from the basics with our trading and that we have a strategy that we know and we understand and that's very low time consuming for us to trade. It's very easy to identify a trade and go, yes, it's a trade or no, it's not. That's what I mean by the basics. You've got to have an understanding of price action if you want to become a technical trader. We use candle shapes, candle patterns, and it's very easy to look at your charts but in real time.Trading from the right hand side of the chartIt's no good having a strategy or a system that you can make a fortune for or from it, but with hindsight, after you see what's already happened. You've got to be able to do it from the right hand side of the chart. You'd hear me talking … You would have heard me talking about that many, many, many times about the profitable trader is the one that can trade from the right hand side of the chart and decide what's happening. You don't need to also sit there glued to your screens all day long watching line A cross over line B and all those things.

Find Your Voice
From World Championship Kickboxing to physical paralysis #4

Find Your Voice

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2019 54:43


Find your voice - Episode 4 - F*ck it by Joshua AsquithJoshua Asquith, is a genuinely loveable guy. He was a talented athlete destined to do great things, which he did. A World title in New York for kickboxing, semi professional football, acting in Macbeth to modelling he had the world at his feet.Until the death of his two close friends suddenly rocked his world. He then got hit with Quinsy illness along with more health complications. But with a mindset of a true champion, my UK Rock (a nickname I give him) has found a way to control what he can control.His mindset. He adopts a F*ck it mentality but the most beautiful thing about his story is, he sees himself as “ The luckiest man in the world”.I urge you to follow his story and watch this space as he comes out of his comfort zone to prove that physical or mental challenges should never stop you from being average or giving up.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josh_asquith/#JustDeuIt & #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into the show today so this episode offind your voice has really changed myperspective and I suppose this is one ofthe reasons I wanted to do this showbecause I believe everyone has a storyand there's some powerful stories outthere that just not being told now I'mvery grateful for my guests coming onthe show because although I know himthrough the property world I had no ideaabout the other things that were goingon in his life now at such a young agehe has done more things then more thingsthan I've done and he's done things thatI suppose I wish I could have done butmore importantly than that I'm moresignificant to this story and I hope youcan extract this from the end of thepodcast is how he's persevered throughso much adversity and when I say so muchadversity I mean there's a point in thepodcast where I've kind of had to stophim listing the amount of stuff thathe's going through for the simple factthat why it was hard to comprehend but -I felt like the message was alreadythere and I'm here to get him back at alater stage so we can obviously explorethat a little bit more but I rememberedand somewhere in the podcast you'regonna hear this I refer to him as the UKrock now I'm not talking about thatstick of candy that you get up that polepleasure Beach I'm talking about rockersin the Dwayne Johnson because he givesme inspiration or watch him on Instagramand it gets me to the gym in the morningit makes me kind of eradicate my excusesbut this gentleman that I spoke to doesthe same because he's battling far worsethen Dwayne the rock Johnson atsuch as young age as well and his storyis still being written I've managed tobring him out of his comfort zone toshare his story so hopefully you guyscan appreciate that and I do appreciateyou time because it's difficultsometimes sharing some of the storiesand there are some points in thispodcast which I don't even think he'sfamily knew about as well so I'm gonnastop rambling and let's check out thisepisodeokay so firstly I just want to begin bywelcoming Joshua to the show so how'reyou doing today my friend very goodthank you you yeah not too bad thank younot too bad so I just want to say thankyou for taking time out of your dayfirstly and I've briefly introduced youin the introduction myself but I thinkit's important for the listeners to geta feel for who you really are and tohear from yourself so if you wouldn'tmind if you could just explain how youbasically progress through life andended up where you are now okayso well first of all thank you forhaving me no you're welcome anythinglike this before so this should be fun Ithink it's probably easiest to startwhere I am now it's not a particularlylong journey but it's quite a packed oneI'm 24 I'm Josh I'm a physiotherapistand I'm currently just hopefully gonnabe a property investor soon all thingsbeing well God willing you will be sostart another child I am I was reallyreally lucky I had a really nice mothershe gave me everything she works allhours of the day so much so that for thefirst few years of my life I really sawthat much of her cuz she was always justkind of working hard and slaving away togive me and my sisters a good life I hadan amazing step dad and I had aintermittent real biological fatherthroughout reels a bad word my Stefan ismy real dad book and biological fatherand I saw every couple of weekends andcame down to Birmingham because that'swhere his family are so I got to have alittle bit of my black heritage a mixedrace by the way because you can't reallysee it no I Rachel whatever you want tocall it and played a lot of sportsbeing a kid through school and I am alsodid a an African recreation of Macbethwith some really famous actors which wasreally interesting experience althoughit kind of fit with some of the thingsthat I went to go and do in my teens soin my teens I am through school wasfairly normal with the exception of Iwas fighting as a kickboxer for GreatBritainso from kind of why I went whentraveling around New Zealand with myfamily in year eight of school so I wasprobably 13 got back start playing somefootball got given some trials for alocal football academy near me and theywere preseason trials so I went throughGoogle to see if I could find somewherethat keep me fit over this summer foundthis place advertised as fitnesskickboxingI fell in love with it very quickly andfrom then on I kind of never went to thetrials never pursued it that muchfurther and started fighting I had myfirst fight fortunately or unfortunatelyfor me it was with the current worldchampion from my age group and my weightand did really well- just somehow scrape a victory off himhe's now one of my really good friendsactually and then from then on I kind ofthought well maybe I'm not too bad atthis so stuck it out eventually carriedon fighting every week around thecountry and then ended up fighting forGreat Britain which was really nice gotto travel around the world then got myfirst proper world title in New Yorkwhich was kind of cool went out therethen I came home went back to school fora few dayswhen then we're back to training andthen got called up to go and fight Ithink that my next one was I picked upin Florida mm-hmm then I did I went tofight for a European title in Romebrought my toe in the finals it's kindof like knockout stages to get therebrought my toe in the final came reallyclose second then yeah so I kind of justcarried on traveling got to see somewhat got to see some really really coolplaces like Sicily Serbiaand then I managed to keep up my gradesthrough school so kept my mom happy keptmy stepdad happy and then I got to about17 and it all started to change quiterapidly from there can I just stop youjust for a quick second just before wego into that so obviously you've had avery very dull boring life and not notreally done much but they're just somany questions that it's almost likewatching a listen to a movie so I justwanna ask you a couple of questions justquickly then would jump straight backinto where you weigh the cost so youplayed Macbeth it was that sort of likewas it a school role or was it sort ofan external audition or oh yeah sorry soit was kind of there was an arm to theyoung Shakespeare come okay they werekind of doing some diverse work theywere travelling around the country andthere's some adult actors in it as welland I just I don't know how I came abouthaving this audition but ended upauditioning for this role and then I wasin a park in Salford called Horton parkwith my mum just having a picnic and shegot a phone call saying that I'd beenaccepted to play the role of youngMacduff Wow all right Mac Duff sorry soit was Macbeth that was the math wasthat play my role was young Magda rightokay shows how much I know aboutShakespeare okay have you done any sortof acting since then or that was thelast of my kind of theater acting I wentI wanted to go back into it and then gotsidetracked by football but then when Iturned about 17 mm-hmm I actually know16 when I left school I went back intoacting kind of by accident okay andanother one I've got here is kickboxingso I grew up as a massive massive VanDamme fan fan I'm not sure if you if youknow him I do I'm fantasticI would have loved to have donekickboxing and so kick box for GreatBritain that's fantastic but then youwent on to football as well yesWow okay out of the two if you have tochoose one and if you could have pursuedit for the rest of your career which onewould you have gone withvery very very good question I wouldn'tkick boxing I would say okay yeah I'mpassionate I love football I'm reallyreally passionate about football whatkickboxing gave me a and kind ofextended family around the world hmmand in terms of the places you've beenyou mentioned Sicily with what was whatwould you say was the greatest placethat you've seen oh the most interestingplace I've seen was Serbia I think ohwow why'd you say that because where westayed we got as with the Great Britainteam we got pop in a five-star hotel andthis five-star hotel was kind of like ait was built within a mall or the mallwas it built within the hotel I don'treally know which one but it was hugebut as he looked across the road you sawall the old war torn houses it still hadbullet holes in them and things likethat and it was a reality shock it wasone of those places where you have toget police escort around with you fromBritain and oh wow that must've beensome experience yeah it was sorry yeah Ijust had all these questions thinking ohmy god this guy's done a lot we're noteven at 17 yet so yeah sorry if you wantto continue from 17 you said it went alittle bit downhill yeah so it didn't gostraight downhill it kind of seems apeak fairly early I was playing footballand we're playing an elite called theNorthwest Youth Alliance which isessentially the the Youth League of thesemi-pro football teams around theNorthwest and it was kind of like thehighest non professionalsemi-professional level you could be atbelow 18 if you weren't in one of thosePro slash semi-pro first team selectionsso I was playing there and having areally really good time really enjoyingmyself and I'd also signed to a modelingagencyat that point for a little bit of extramoney and there is between shoots wherehour between castingswell I'd actually been cast there wasthe occasional day of extra work and oneday I got a phone call saying do youwant to do a day of extra work and Ithought kind of thought well it beatsgoing to college so yeah did a day ofextra work up to do my college workthere anyway just quickly jump in onthat if anyone out there listeningthis says they've got no time to doanything extra I just not gonna believehim because I don't know how you'll fitin all this in sorry carry on me ofcourse and so I kind of did a few moredays of extra work and then it kind ofjust evolved into doing a few one-lineroles in different TV programs and thenI joined then after that I thought maybeI should learn what I'm doing soenjoying like a drama group that'sreally well-known in the northwest andjoined a drive during an acting agencyand was being put forward for somereally good roles and at that time I wasalso just about to hit sponsorship fromone of the kind of biggest martial artsfight companies that were around at thetime so it's doing really well asplaying well at football my grades aregoing well at college and then all of asudden I got back to got back to collegeand I was just having a few days offfrom everything that was doing just totry and recover recuperate and I wasdriving from my mom's to my Nan'swhich was not very far away less than amile away and I remember getting a phonecall down a one-way street and Ianswered the phone on speakerphone andchucked it on the front sea and it wasjust somebody in floods of tears and Ithought why are you calling me in footto tears and it was a phone call to saythat one of my oldest ever friends hadgot meningitis and died in the nighthe'd got it the day before and he hedied in the night and I am so I kind ofjust stopped the car and couldn't moveit mmm I had to put the phone down tocall my mom and ask her would she comewalk for the car and drive it around tomy Nan's mm-hmmand I think that kind of I think thatwas probably the start of maybe it was astress or something in my in my lifethat started maybe it was something thestraw that broke the camel's back fromwhen I was carrying too much from do ifI'm acting fighting playing footballdoing my college work oh I also had ajob at McDonald's which is just in yourspare a few hours yeah so it's kind oflike and now I was where I should haveprobably beenleave I was I was working at McDonald'sfor a little bit of extra money and I'myes I'll then I kind of a few weeksafter that I was grading for my blackbelt and missed it quite a few timesthough I'd have to go and do my blackbelt and then a fight had come up andI'd take that instead because thought Iwas probably more important as part waythrough my black garden I got this kindof it was just a sore throat and myblack back was actually down nearTelford somewhere and I live in inBolton which is I don't know two hoursaway or something like thatand I was and I got this sore throat andwelcome the next day no tonsillitis andI thought nothing of it going to collegeand have some salt water couple ofparacetamol see how it gets on all thetime I was kind of like trying to dealwith my my grief so I thought wellactually maybe just kind of felt badbecause I was in a bad headspaceand it was coming up to exam time andall the rest of it and I am so it neverreally went away so I went to the doctorwho's got some antibiotics it clearedaway for a couple of days came back andthat process kind of repeated about Ithink it was 14 15 times I got someslices in a rowbetween going to the doctors gettingpainkillers and I'm one of thoseoccasions I am my at my mum's house thefloors are on different levels it's areally old house and my mum's on thevery top floor my bedroom is on themiddle floor and I kind of there was apoint where I hadn't eaten anything forabout ten days I've lost 11 kilos inbody weight and I was just lay in my bedjust sweating and in agony and Icouldn't I went to take a tiny codeinetablet to kill some of the pain and Ithink it closed what little was left ofmy throat so I couldn't so I kind ofcrawled upstairs mom or dad's room andthat's kind of last thing I rememberso I got the hospital and they were theysaid that you were very lucky becauseyou were if you'd come any later thenthat kind of would have been the end ofyou on that's what it said to my mom Iwasn't particularly awake for of courseyeah and this was what when your17:18 yeah 17 on the brink of 18 soeventually that cleared up happenedagain and it was because of somethingcalled Quincy's which are kind ofabscesses which sit behind these tonsilsand they're filled with just bacteriawhich when they burst they give you theycan give you some really serious sepsisbut Maya just burst so I was lucky to bein the hospital as mine burst so I wasluckier than most that get that then ithappened again about six months latercut the rest of that story short becauseit's quite a long story of me being outis there a reason why that happened oris it just literally like a bacterialinfection or was it a matter of youbeing perhaps rundown or everythingbecause you were doing about 300 thingsa day I think maybe it was being sorundown and then being stressed becausewhat I forgot to mention was in thisother time there was a close friend ofmine it was a female friend of mine thathadn't died sushi she had a headachejust never with a headache and it turnsout that she had a brain tumor so oneside kind of recovered from the coupleof rounds of Quincy's and my differentbouts of tonsillitis I am I had 18months of what they call post-viralfatigue syndrome which is essentiallyjust anybody's and there's kind of likeI didn't have the energy to do anythingfor the first six months if I wanted toget from my bed to downstairsI would have to have somebody eitherside of me because my legs weren'treally strong enough to carry me fromanywhere to anywhere and if if I so Icould manage kind of a longer landing tothe toilet because I could crawl it'dtake me a while so it'd be like I'm thefirst woman black right set off nowbecause if you need a way then you wantto get caught shortso about I had about six to twelvemonths of not being able to kind of beleft on my own for too long just becauseI couldn't do anything for myself reallyI couldn't I couldn't struggle to liftmy shoulders from the bed it felt likesomebody had nailed big nails throughthe front of my shoulders andinto sorry if I went quiet because I waslooking at my shoulders just rememberingnice line into the bed then after that Ikind of thought oh well kind of on themend here now so I started to get alittle bit fitter and I thought rightI'll go back to football training so myteam were nice enough to have me backwent back to football training minusthree training sessions of me doing kindof 25% of what the rest of the team weredoing and then I got home at one pointand my left knee just ballooned I don'tknow if anybody's ever injured their ACLbut I've seen one but it's kind of likeyou need your swells up goes purple butand I thought or mine hasn't gone purpleso maybe it's something else but Icouldn't it was so strong I couldn't fitmy trousers on the next day so I thoughtoh well I'll ice it and blah blah blahrested it never went away went to thedoctors they gave me someanti-inflammatories it never went awaythey sent me to a consultant who did asome keyhole surgery never went away andthen so they sent me to RheumatologyDepartment to see what was going onthey sent give me lots of blood testsand nothing came back positive theydrained the fluid couldn't figure outwhat it was as soon as they drained thefluid it came back every single time andduring this process it lasted about ninemonths of me going back and forth allthis time I felt really lethargic andjust not like the old me that could doall those other things I could barelyfind the energy to juice go to collegeor to just go and well I got fired frommy McDonald's job for being too ill andso oh sorry you feel strange bringing itall back I can only imagine so yeah fromfrom there kind of then as they kind offigured out what was going onit sort of deteriorated and it spreadfrom my knee to my left hip and then Icouldn't really use my left leg verywell a lot of the time which theythought caused a problem in my right hipturns out it was just the same problemand then it moved up from my hiptwo joints in my back and then it spreadup through the majority of my back itspread into my fingers spread into mytoes and it got to a point where as Igot to a kind of I got through mya-levels got really good grades somehowsomebody was looking over me gone to aphysiotherapy course as that kind of allwas happening I was just getting worseand worse and kind of more and I don'tsay disabled because it's not a greatword but I was I wasn't able to do thethings that to do anything and kind ofalways felt like I had the flu my eyeswere always on fire and it messed withthe way that my urinary function workedand all kinds of other problems and thenit got to a point where I justcompletely intermittent that completelycould not move so in my second year ofuniversity at the end of it I am I justthose days where probably three days outof the week I was bed bound anyway thisis getting probably getting bored no noit's not to be honest I mean in theintro which everyone hears and one ofthe reasons for this podcast is tobasically and to combat people's excusesbecause I believe that we always lookand we always think the grass is greeneron the other side or we've got it worsethan other people and we always give usour some rationale or reason in what wecan't particularly do something and thewhole premise behind this podcast itselfis to hear people who have gone throughsuch adversity but are still getting onwith it and just because at the end ofthe day there's a guy interviewed theother day and he mentioned you've gottwo choices in life you either gobackwards or you go forwards and mm-hmfor me it's inspiring to hear you sayall this because even myself and I'mguilty of this myself is I'm known asthe guy with the really poor immunesystem because I always catch a coldI've got a tissue in my hand as werespeaking now it's the kind of person Iam I'm always known for the guy withKleenex and people laugh I should haveshares with them but I've I've alwayssuffered but at the same time I'vealmost become a victim of my own storyas well because I mean I'm here tellingpeople they shouldn't make excuses orthe stories we tell ourselves butdictate our lives and I'm sitting herefeeling sorry for myself because I getcold easily and I've just listened toyour story and I'm just thinking I'vegot it so easy and and I'm sure I'm surepeople listening to this up it I thinkin the same because when I first saw youas wellI always recognized someone who keeps ingood shape and looks after him andyou've got very good physique you lookwhile you look like you eat welltraining well and you've got all thisgoing on in the background and up untilthis conversation now where I'veactually asked you specifically if youwould have mind opening up just fortheir listeners you've never mentionedyou never mention any of these excusesso I think it's admirable to be honestmate and it's inspiring so I wouldn'tfor one second think it's boring I thinkthank you people should hear this andpeople should take inspiration from itbecause I'd be very shocked if someonelistening to this has had that muchtrauma and not to mention at the age of17 you've also lost two of your bestfriends I mean I I've dealt with griefand I'm sure many of my listeners andeven some of the people I've interviewedhave dealt with a lot of grief and lossof family but I was what 26 27 wouldn'twhen it happened to me I don't know if Ihad the emotion of stability at 17 if Ihad gone through what you'd gone throughto manage the same way so pleasecontinuehonestly it's inspiring me okay as longas I'm not boring anybody no I'll makebasically I managed to get throughUniversity with a few other challengeswhich I'll touch on later but he got toa point it kind of everything that wasgoing through reared its head kind oflast year so up through all the stillfrom kind of age 17 to age 24 yeah 24 Ikind of I was kind of plowing on yes butnothing ever felt right like I neverfelt like I had the energy to do what Iwas doing but I was doing it anyway butI never felt like I could my attentionspan dwindled massively and and it wasjust hard to kind of couldn't have makea plan because I didn't know whether Iwas gonna need my crook shoes or whetherI was gonna be bed bound or whether Iwas gonna be okay to go and walksomewhereand it wasn't all doom and gloom withinthis because at one point I was onreally really high dose of steroidsand I felt like Superman for about sothat explains your physique then 2021and I just managed to kind of keep itfrom there I suppose I got I got luckythere but throughout all of this I waskind of despite the fact that I couldn'tsoexplains what really said last year oreven this year as opposed to a certainextent it kind of I got to a point whereI was on my crutches for two or threedays a week I was stuck in bed for twoor three days a week then the othercouple of days a week I was kind of Iwas I wouldn't say okay but I was goodcompared to the other bits so sometimesI'd have a couple of days where I wasgood sometimes I'd have one daysometimes out of four days I've neverreally know so I couldn't really makeany particular plans and I got to apoint where it was creeping up my spineso much that driving to work as a I'dalways be on my crutches at work as aphysiotherapist which came with its ownset of challenges not one not only beingthe jokes of all maybe you need a physioor can I help you where there's kind oflike eight speed bumps between there onthe route that I take to the clinicwhere I work and see most of my patientsand those peoples are only you couldeasily do thirty miles an hour over themand not particularly feel it but my backwas so sore that by the end of thosespeed bumps there was a I'd have to turnleft a junction some traffic lights andI would have to pull the car over at thetraffic lights loved to get out of thecar just to try and catch my breathbecause I was so I was so winded andI've broke I've been kicked in the ribsand broken themsemia I've had all sorts of pain book Iwas in so much painevery day going over these people I justhad to pull the car over and just gaspedfor air just to try and just so I couldfinish my journey to work Wowall the time while this was happening Iwas trying different medications whichweren't helping with the pain but one ofthem is a it's quite a commonly useddrug in rheumatology it's calledmethotrexate and it's in thechemotherapy family and it the sideeffects that fairly similar you don'ttend to lose your hair but the sideeffects such as vomiting and so I wouldtake my medication on Monday and spendTuesday and Wednesday kind of over thetoilet bowl when I could get there andand I would have to excuse myself frommy patients or I'd actually just takedays away from clinic or I'd just breakinto random sweats while I was talkingto people and just almost saturatemyself in sweat as a as a side effect ofthe medication and I am I had some otherhealth problems that going on at thesame time so kind of 18 months ago theyfound I had an x-ray just to track theprogress of the disease through myjoints and they found a tumor in my hipso for the past few years with the pastfew years for the past few months beingunder investigation for some cancer inmy hip all of the medications that hadbeen taken it kind of slowed my kidneyfunction down to below 20% so thosetalks of me needing some specialistkidney treatment or potentially gettingto the point where I'd need a kidneytransplant if things didn't pick up andyeah so that's kind of my health story Ikind of lost for words to be honest ermI think more importantly just currentlyI wish you all the best with the cancerscare hopefully is just a scare I knowcancer has affected millions of peopleacross the world is is broken through myfamily as well so mm-hmm it's somethingthat I don't know I just have a bad badtaste in my mouth when I think of cancerso hope hope to God and I'm not areligious man but I pray you know yourecovery I think you've been I think youcould do with a little bit of luck mateto be honest because you've sort ofcollected everybody's illnesses and howyou still manage to keep smiling andstill keep going and you're not sittingthere making excuses and I'm actuallyamazed because lucksaid earlier this is the first timewe've spoken really in-depth about aboutyour life and stuff I mean looking fromthe outside it's a completely differentperspective I mean nobody would thinkthat you've been through half of thisand and I'm sure you could probablyspeak for another 20 minutes on some ofthe stuff that you're experiencing andI'm not trying to move past that becauseI think it's important but I think thelesson is here already that peopleshould really just feel grateful foreverything that we have and it's thelittle things in lifewe're often chasing some sort ofdestination in terms of it's going togive us happiness when we've goteverything that we technically need ifwe just look at it in the right way tobe happy now I've got a lot ofadmiration for you mate you're young aswell so you keep going and hopefullythings will just start turning backaround for you I believe that yourthoughts matter as well so I'm not quitesure how you are in terms of your yourmindset and stuff but I do believe andI've done a bit of research I know I'mnot an expert that how we speak toourselves can dictate our physiologymm-hmm I know for myself for example ifwe use the analogy that I used to bescared of dogs and if somebody mentioneda dog for example my physiology wouldchange I would almost mmm as if the dogwas there and I think here I thinkpeople are aware of sometimes theirthoughts it might not necessarily belike a spider or a snake but sometimeswe're giving ourselves these fearfulthoughts that are affecting ourphysiology so hopefully you're workingon your mindset I'm sure you are I knowyou're doing pretty much everything elseso hopefully you're developing on thatand if you wouldn't mind if I could justbecause I'm fascinated by how you keepgoing and I'm sure listeners areprobably thinking firstly how is thisguy doing all this in 24 hours and thensecondly with all these complicationsthat you've got but if you could justexplain a day in the life of your lifenow so say for instance from the momentyou wake up to the moment you go tosleep because I just think it'simportant because if there are peoplethat out there making excuses for whatthey can't do stuff or they're justfeeling a bit under the weather andmyself included in that I'm not perfectthank you just how of course yeah so Idon't have a set routine because I'venever been able to have a set routinebecause I don't know whether I couldactually make our bed to do my day ornot but I docertain things that that do regardlessof whatever condition I wake up in andthe first thing I do is I wake up andcontrary to what everybody tells you isI checked my phone and I checked myphone in fear that somebody has sent mesomething that would be something Icouldn't get over maybe I've lost allthat I wouldn't like to see maybe I'velost a family member or something and ifthat's not the case then I go straightinto believing that I'm the luckiest manI know which puts a smile on my faceAbsalon I'll put something I put somenice music on usually it's a song calledthe fire by John Legend and the roots itinspires me that song and or somethingby Stevie Wonder or something justsomething half-baked something that I'veheard and something that keeps me in agood place and then if I can move I'llget up and I'll have a dance to thissong well nobody's watching absolutelyright luck cheers me up a bit and then Ilove that attack my day home usually ifI haven't some kind of thing planned inthe morning I will be awake two and ahalf hours before it if possible justbecause if I'm if I wake up and I'mincredibly sore and stiff then sometimesI can feel a little bit better in two totwo to three hours time something likethat so I just give myself that gap forjust in case but that's kind of my onlydaily routine I suppose okay okay and interms of exercise and stuff I mean Ithink you've done enough exercise by theway to last a lifetimebut if we are talking about exercisebecause I believe and I always try andpromote with my clients as well thatexercise is fundamental because you canliterally take some of the the mainthings from that in terms of likeresilience and building calluses andstuff into anything so do you still areyou still able to exercise maybe two orthree times a week or do you kind ofknock that on the head and look look atmore on how you're feeling and thenassess the day as you go on if Iphysically can do something then I willdo itI believe that rule that I have so if itmeans that I have to crawl to a place todo some exercisewhere my bottom half doesn't work and mytop half does then I'll do what I canwith my top half Wow and that is my onlyrule so sometimes it's just my left sidewhich I can't stand on or can't use orthen my right side is perfectly lookingI'm looking after two sides and thatside will work or if it's my right sidethat doesn't work then maybe my leftside is useful so I try my new actuallyhave a mutual friend that put my stateis about fitness goals and my fitnessgoal for this year is to do whatever ittakes to be well enough to beconsistently able to go to the gym anddo what I wanttwice a week by February 21st so you canhome it to that I've already made you'veactually got me feeling guilty nowbecause I did some cardio in the morningand I was planning on doing a legsession around 12:00 and I had a littlebit of Dom's and I was like now I'm notgonna do it and I wish I'd recorded thisearly because may inspire me to get myass to the gym because I feel bad nowbut I just loved what you said then I'vejust made a note of it I'm lucky enoughto have two sides and I think that'sincredible because that's perspectiveand I suppose maybe you've kind of beenforced into this reality I think a lotof people go through adversity and itmakes them stronger and they do verywell on the flip side you get people whogo through adversity and they just sitthere and feel sorry for themselves ahole their whole life you also haveanother set of people I believe on amacro level who don't really necessarilyhave the adversity or haven'texperienced it yet and they're kind ofwaiting for it they're kind of waitingfor that wake up wake-up calland I just wish that they could get somesort of inspiration or motivation orwhatever you want to call it fromsomebody like yourself because like likeyou mentioned previously like with withthe death of your your friend and likelife could just be taken away tomorrowor your own capabilities I mean you werein an extremely talented athlete and allof a sudden now you're kind of verygrateful just to be able to go to thegym twice and I just find it thatsometimes we think I will leave it tilltomorrow we'll leave it to next year andthat's not promised it's it's a shameyou don't actually actually I'm nottrying to give you another job here butit's a shame you don't you don't youdon't post more oftenabout your life and story because I'lltell you what you didn't fire a lot morepeople because I get inspired by peoplelike say for instance the rock and Ithink the whole world loves the Rockieskind of like the ultimate guy andsometimes you feel like you can't bebothered to do something you'll see youstay ascent boom you're off but foryourself to get there mate you are youare actually my UK rock at the minute sothat's a new name for you so keep it upbut if you do get time I think the worldwould love to hear a little bit moreabout you and hopefully this episode aswell will give give them a little bitmore of an insight into into your storybecause it's fascinating so far mereally enjoyed it and I've also got aI've just made a note I need to listento the fire by John so that's someonenext list I'm gonna move it over and I'mgonna move it over to fears at theminute you seem kind of unbreakable tome but if I was to ask you what yourbiggest fear is given that you've beenthrough so much alreadywould that be I thought thought long andhard about this question and I mean I'mgonna give you a bit of round the housesanswer and so I'm kind of scared ofeverything there's not many things inlife that doesn't scare mekind of walking down the street scaresme to an extent but by that same virtuethere's nothing really that scares mebecause everything seems to scare me anequal amount so I'm not gonna be pirateif I'm not paralyzed by a paralyzingcondition I'm not gonna be paralyzed bymy fears especially if I'm scared ofeverything in everybody so there's notreally anything that scares meother than mediocrity I suppose I don'tparticularly believe that I was put hereto be mediocre and fall into the crowdand to be and just to not make adifference to anybody else's life so Ithink not filling that purpose that Ibelieve I've held and that's kind ofscares me I love that well in thisconversation may I feel like I just feelcloser to you as a person now I don'thaven't you opened up and I've got a lotmore respect not that I never had anymore respect anyway that kind of comeout the wrong way but generallylistening to your story andunderstanding what you said I've got somuch admiration for you and I was I sithere sometimes and I I do a lot of selftalking mm-hmm what I always do is I wassafer in somewhere can I always give myself his self talk like I'm the baddeston the planet for example it's kind oflike a David Goggins thing love it whoelse is working at 5 or 5 a.m. in themorning and now all of a sudden I knowwhat I'm gonna be doing in the morningI'm gonna be thinking Joshua's work youknow he's ill he's got about six jobs todo he's gonna go to Mackey's and weapply for a job because he's bored Ibetter get going so I'm May hats off toyou honestly I salute you thank you sonormally at this stage I kind of jump inand ask people about adversity and and Idon't even know where to start with youmate because I think you've had obstacleafter obstacle after obstacle that youyou seem to be facing but but I'm gonnaask you anyway because I'm sure there'sthat there's a lesson here for thelisteners here that they can take awayso if you could just tell me about atime that you faced great adversitysomething that you haven't maybementioned at the minute and how youpersevered through it and then if youcould just explain the lessons and whathe's taught you because I think someonelike yourself who's given given thatexample it's gonna mean a lot more thansomebody just reading a book or readinga quote yeah so and I'm gonna pick aperiod of a couple of months in my lifewhere everything kind of went a littlebit wrong I'm gonna choose the Christmasof the end of my second year atuniversity and so they'd reached a pointwhere as I've mentioned before I wasn'tparticularly fit enough to go and workas a I would have worked as a waiter orsomething because that's what I've donein my bits where I was fitting like myfirst year Union College and there was apoint where I wasn't fit enough to doany of that my student loan wasn'tparticularly covering my rent at allI had a bursary to train which didn'twhich covered me to eat and a few of mybills but I was kind of like 1999 poundsinto a 2,000 pound overdraft and it wasabout the Christmas and it was aboutChristmastime so I was kind of I askedmy during that time as well I should saythat my um my stepdad had left my mom soand just because they parted ways atwhich meant that I was kind of the onethat was there to kind of I was up till4:00 in the morning with my mom or withmy sisters who were just kind of alldevastated by it and at the same time Ideadlines to me etc and and all thattime I had bills that I couldn't pay soit was kind of a point where I had askedmy mom for Christmas could I have somemoney to buy my younger and my oldersisters and some Christmas presentsthere's otherwise they wouldn't have gotanything from me and I would never havethem miss out just because I'dmismanaged my money or whatever and soall the time whilst this was going on mymy nan on my mom's side had got aserious case of rapidly deterioratingoutsiders where we couldn't care for heranymoreand so we had to try and find her a homeand my nan was kind of the one whichwhich brought me off as I said at thestart when my mom was working so hardand was working really hard and and mystepdads dad got some got Parkinson'sand so we were trying to find ways tohelp him so I'm just trying to keepeverybody afloat because I was the onethat that kind of just brushes stuff offbecause I've ruined everything else offand Kevin Hart says he shoulder shrugstuff I just kind of brush it off Idon't really have much alders but I gotto a point where it kind of all got andit just all the time it was just I wasjust kind of I couldn't make head ortail of anything because I was I had somuch to transfigure out out andeverything hurt so much physically and Icouldn't I was trying to figure outbills and I was trying to do myassignments so I didn't failing it keptbehind I'd already been kept behind incollege and I definitely didn't wantthat feeling again so there was a pointwhere I kind of when I'd gone back homethere was aa good bridge him Bolton that's quitehigh and quite secluded I took myself toit and just kind of thinking about whatwhat the consequences would be here if Iwas just to kind of take a trip and lookat the bottom of it I don't know what Ikind of don't know what what stopped meI think it was just the fact that Icouldn'teverybody was suffering so much alreadythat I wasn't gonna make them sufferanymore anymoreyeah and that was I think that wasprobably like my well at least I thoughtthat was my rock bottom and then afterChristmas there was a whole host ofbills which I'd never which didn't evenaccount for just cuz my head wasspinning so I ended up about threethousand pounds into my two thousandpound overdraft and I couldn't didn'twant to ask anybody because everybodywas already suffering with their ownproblems at home so I just kind of Ithink that was probably my moment ofadversity now of anything else that Ikind of struggled with the most and Ithink I got through it I found a JimRohn video on YouTube and watch that andthat kind of made me feel a little bitbetter and then I read a couple of bookslike The Alchemist and thought actuallymy life doesn't have to kind of be thisway so for well the most immediateproblem that I can affect is my moneyproblem so I learned a couple of newskills that learn a little bit of onlinemarketing and look we found a way tosell those and made my broke even andthen my student loan came in so I had alittle bit of money and so I could buy acouple more presents for my better halfand I didn't have to worry so much thenabout the bills for my rent and stufflike that so that was kind of nice andfrom there I kind of thought wellthere's no real situation that saysthat's as bad as that and I've been kindof smiling ever since to be honest Ithink reflecting on everything that hasbeen with my friends my family etc itkind of that's why I think I'm theluckiest man I know cuzcome through it all and I still gotmajority of my family still got themajority of my friends and still got anamazing dog lovely girlfriend and I'vemanaged to get a really really nicecareer so yeah I love that I'm just veryglad firstly that you didn't make thewrong move that day at the bridgebecause I think the world and yourfamily and your friends and even myselfnow getting to know you more you wouldhave all missed out mate and I mean thatsincerely you also touched on a verygood thing there as well I think whenyou when you've been at rock bottom andI don't wish this on anyone who hasn'tbeen there but sometimes I feel that ifyou've been rock bottom and you come outof it then everything's a blessing likeyou said you're the luckiest man thatyou know in the world and I suppose Isee this from my mom I see from my nanwho have who have had similar adversityto yourself and I used to laugh becauseI used to relate them to an episode ofEastEnders I was like you've almost gotlike a soap opera kind of life like thatthe adversity that we've always gonethrough and just hearing obviouslyyourself oneit proves that everyone in the world isgoing through something we're all facingour own battles and stuff just to kindof take the gratitude element from itand move forward from it and having comeout of it so even if you moved one stepaway so you move one step away from thatbridge now everything is it's so muchbetter that quite if that kind of makessense I think I think you've got theright perspective now and I'd certainlyurge you because I'm sure you've got avery very good Network knowing theperson you are and the piss and anythingthat you've got that if ever you do feelthat things spiral out of control pleasedo always reach out I'm sure you've gotmany people close to you as well thatyou can rely on and one thing I realizedis when I used to struggleI used to enclose a lot of stuff andthat's even from like my missus at thetime or my mom or my brother and it wasonly when I started showingvulnerability and I think for a guyVaughn durability is strength and we wesaw often me we have this provider thatwe can't cry or we made her cry I cryall the time you know I'm not I'm notafraid to say that becauseby me expressing my emotions andspeaking about it it just helps me somuch in terms of face and face inwhatever I'm going through and basicallydealing with it so I'm proud of you mateand I can't believe a young you are toshow such intelligence you mentionedalso something else I just took a noteof which was about the managing moneyand how you didn't when your sisters tobe without you took a kind of abilityfor mismanaging your money and up untilprobably the age of 25 myself I I had nosense of responsibility so again likeyour emotional intelligence is fantasticso um was it awkward for you man I gotmy fingers crossed for you we're on theway up the buzzer has gone off and whatI'm gonna be doing now is putting youthrough the paces so we're gonna see howquickly you can think and how quick youcan answer as many questions as possiblelet's do it there is no right or wrongif you can't think just say pass andwe're gonna start the timer for 60seconds in three two oneokay the ability to fly or be invisiblefly money or fame money Netflix orYouTube YouTube Van Damme or Bruce LeeVan Damme Coke or Pepsi pass would yourather know how you would die or whenyou were die pass summer or winter thewinter your favourite place in the wholewide world grasmere in the latest ratespeak all languages will be able tospeak to animals animals if you couldabolish one thing in the world whatwould it beit's self doubt love that your favoritesong ever the fire read minds or predictthe future and put it in feature cats ordogs dog have you ever been in a fightthen you know this hundreds and did youalways win no favorite movie star AmberHeard pancakes or waffles pancakescomedy or horror comedy singing ordancing dancing okay and that's time butI'm curious I don't know why you passbut Coke or Pepsi mate I need to knowcuz I don't really care for eitheralright okayyou don't drink any of them I do I don'tcare okay okay well I kind of carry alittle bit just a personal thing I'm aPepsi fan anyway a Pepsiexpand so okay we're just pretend thatyou like Pepsi as our yeah okay perhapsthey love it okay brilliant so we'rekind of coming towards the end of thepodcaster so we've just got a couple ofmore questions that I really want tojust try and get from you so the nextone is about reflection that's awonderful thing and when we reflect wecan often think of ways to get to wherewe are quicker or do things earlier orperhaps move us towards that goal isthat little bit quicker but I guess thejourney also teaches us a lot as wellI'm a firm believer that everythinghappens for a reason so what I want toknow is if you could go back in time toone moment where you really struggledand suffered with adversity and youcould whisper something in your ear soif you use the example that youmentioned I standing at the bridge andknowing what you know now what would youwhisper to your 17 year old right inyourself however old you were at thattime I would whisper don't be afraidbecause pain and fear are your friendsif that's the way you see them okay Ilike that because it is how we seeeverything isn't ityeah pain is fuel for me now now Istopped my toll the other day and foundit really really funny because somethingthat pain is something that motivates meto be more now it's made me stronger soI'm gonna be strong then you are me youare it's that's kind of them I don'tknow if you follow David Goggins Imentioned him earlier a little bit hmmhe's somebody who I'd certainlyrecommend looking out for he's got acouple of interviews on impact theoryokay and that guy's is incrediblebecause he kind of uses the whole painand basically pushing your body to tohis limits he's just got a new book outactually I should be getting sponsor forthis by the way but he's got a new bookout called can't hit me and I listenedto it and honestly if I'm feeling lazyfor like an ounce of a second it makesme feel like shit so it kind of likelistening to you today I feel reallymotivated I feel inspired by yourstories the stuff that you've beenthrough it's made you the person thatyou are today and you're gonna help somany other people and it's by a book Ithink you've just got a brilliantperspective on it and that brings us toour last question so the last question Ialways like to ask my guess is if in 150this time and there was a book andsomebody come across it and it was aboutyou about Joshua well I wanna know is Ishare one or two things so I'm justadding a question in here first I wantto know what the title of that bookwould be and secondly I want to knowwhat the blurb would say okay well thetitle of my book would be can I swearyou can say whatever you are me thetitle of my book would be fuckingbecause one thing I've learned is thatyou never really know what is gonnahappen so fuck it whatever happensembrace it enjoy it whether it's painfulor pleasurable or whether whether iswhether it happens to you or somebodyelse enjoy it embrace it learn from itand use it to feel you to go further soyeah I'd say fuck it cuz that's kind ofwhat I say whenever anything happens Ilove it and the blue and the blurb wouldsay he enjoyed every day that he livedhis dog was his best friendno it would say that I enjoyed every daythat he lived and he was the mostgrateful man he knew and he never he hada lot of pain and suffering but he neverreally suffered yeah I'd say that's me Ilove that endearment I love it and to behonest you're probably one of the mostgrateful people I know as well so it'sbeen a privilege before I and I justwant people to connect with youhopefully that's okay with yourself yeahcool I think your story is just startinglike I said you're very younggot all the years ahead of you you'vegot you're gonna do amazing things and Igenuinely mean that whether it's inproperty or whatever it iswho knows you might be you might be inthe theaters might be the great showman- who knows but I think before we leaveif you could just let us know just justone place that people could reach out toyou maybe connect maybe have aconversation with you because I feellikethere's so much more in your story and Ithink you'll inspire so many people maybe going through adversity and they canlearn so much from me yeah my I'mactually in the stages of writing a bookbecause there's lots that I left out ofthis interview so there's lots that Ican share with people and I would loveit if as the same courtesy you extendedto me if I could extend to everybodythat's listening that if they are everstill freed and feel like they're atrock bottom and please contact me andI'm gonna give up my Instagram becauseI'm currently in the at the beginningstage of rebranding and this is the onething that which won't be rebranded it'sjust Josh underscore Asquith that's asqu i th all but the actual links andeverything in the show ops anyway justin case anyone didn't get that spellingas for the book mate if you've got atitle let me know if you haven't closedit to the time please let me knowbecause I'll make a pledge now I'll bethe first to purchase that I think it'dbe fun lastly thank you like I saidearlier there's nothing boring ormundane about your story it's it'sinspiring and you truly inspired me Ithink people like the rock and all thosepeople yeah it helps me when I go onInstagram in the morning but seeingsomebody who I know in real life and Ispent some time with and I've got a lotof time for just in the back of my mindnow I could see myself in the morningjust be like fuck it let's go to the gymself I love it mate I just want to thankyou one more time for taking time out ofyour dayno thank you please do reach out to Joshand as always thanks for listening andremember this podcast is absolutely freeso all we ask in return is for you toshare this with a friend and drop us afive star review over on iTunes have anawesome day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ramona 1204
英文歌曲赏析之 Drive by 1

Ramona 1204

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2017 17:29


关注微信公众号: LizhiFM2635584 点击 节目信息 - 往期节目 ,就可以获取配文知识点啦! 都是实用干货哦!1. 歌词部分:On the other side of a street I knewStood a girl that looked like youI guess that's deja vuBut I thought this can't be trueCause you moved to west L.A or New York or Santa FeOr wherever to get away from meOh but that one nightWas more than just rightI didn't leave you cause I was all throughOh I was overwhelmed and frankly scared as hellBecause I really fell for you关注微信公众号: LizhiFM2635584 点击 节目信息 - 往期节目 ,就可以获取配文知识点啦! 都是实用干货哦!

These Things Matter Podcast
Ep. 174 - Sublime w/ Gregg Ziemba

These Things Matter Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015 84:46


I smoke two joints in the morningI smoke two joint at nightI smoke two joint in the afternoonIt makes me feel all rightI smoke two joints in time of peaceAnd two in time of warI smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,And then I smoke two more There's really not much more you can say than that. Join us as we talk to drummer Gregg Ziemba about the one and only Sublime.

DJ Groove
DJ Groove feat. Molodoj & Philipp Leto -Sunrise-

DJ Groove

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2012 3:51


I see the sunriseI see the sunrise, feel the day lightMy time is commingI see the sunrise, Should it feels niceTo be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHou hou houI see the sunriseGarra be the oneWho make it all rightI go straight this wayRise up todayI`ll getting my moneyDon`t you stop, Don`t stop meI can fly yes i know it, Let me rise upHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so highWowCheck out my flowBase Beat You MeYou can`t stop thisCatch me in unexpected placesYou know what i meanHoooo, UauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so highI see the sunriseI see the sunrise, feel the daylightCatch my ride on topHou hou hou, I see the sunriseGarra be the one, Who make it all rightI go straight this way, Rise up todayI`ll getting my money ,Don`t you stopDon`t stop me, Rise upHou hou houI see the sunriseGarra be the oneWho make it all rightI go straight this wayRise up todayI`ll getting my moneyDon`t you stop, Don`t stop meI can fly, Yes, i know itLet me rise upHoooo ,uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so high

DJ Groove
DJ Groove feat. Molodoj & Philipp Leto -Sunrise-

DJ Groove

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2012 3:51


I see the sunriseI see the sunrise, feel the day lightMy time is commingI see the sunrise, Should it feels niceTo be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHou hou houI see the sunriseGarra be the oneWho make it all rightI go straight this wayRise up todayI`ll getting my moneyDon`t you stop, Don`t stop meI can fly yes i know it, Let me rise upHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so highWowCheck out my flowBase Beat You MeYou can`t stop thisCatch me in unexpected placesYou know what i meanHoooo, UauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so highI see the sunriseI see the sunrise, feel the daylightCatch my ride on topHou hou hou, I see the sunriseGarra be the one, Who make it all rightI go straight this way, Rise up todayI`ll getting my money ,Don`t you stopDon`t stop me, Rise upHou hou houI see the sunriseGarra be the oneWho make it all rightI go straight this wayRise up todayI`ll getting my moneyDon`t you stop, Don`t stop meI can fly, Yes, i know itLet me rise upHoooo ,uauauaaaUarapara, I can be ride on topHoooo, uauauaaaUarapara, I can fly so high

The Deadpod
Dead Show/podcast for 3/9/12

The Deadpod

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2012 75:10


March winds will blow.. all my troubles away..... Well I can hope right? I thought for this March Deadpod that I'd bring you a show from the Spring of 1990, this one occurred the day following the show released as "Terrapin Station' .. on March 16th, 1990. I think this is quite an interested show as well and well worth a listen. Of particular interest in this first set is the first performance of 'Black Throated Wind' since October 19th, 1974.. with some alternate lyrics to boot.. (I've posted these alternative lyrics below).. I think the band was on a roll during this tour and personally I enjoy their sound.. I hope you do as well! Grateful Dead  3/16/90 - Friday  Capital Centre - Landover , MD   Set One:  Good Times ;  Touch Of Grey ;  New Minglewood Blues ;  Peggy-O ;  Queen Jane Approximately ;  Loser ;  Black Throated Wind ;  Bird Song ;  Blow Away ; You can listen to this week's Deadpod http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod030912.mp3">here:http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod030912.mp3">http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod030912.mp3 Thanks to everyone who has supported the Deadpod! Here are the alternate Black Throated Wind lyrics, used briefly in 1990: Verse 2Well, it's me and the road, yeah, we're lacking the codeThat will lead us to some as yet unforseen barAlone with the rush of the drivers who won't pick me upThe highway, the moon, the clouds and the stars But I'm here by the road, yeah, unravelling the codeThat will lead us to some as yet unforseen bar Verse 3The black-throated wind keeps on pouring inLike a siren it promises everything newAh, Mother American Night, invisible lightOhhh, I'm flying in you The black-throated wind keeps on pouring inWith its words of a life where everything's new Verse 4I left St Louis, the City of BluesOn a screaming blue bender I'd rather forgetWith no scars that show, the keys to the roadA couple of tens and some stale cigarettes Verse 5But I can't deny that times have gone byNothing is left but thoughts of regretWhen I was a man, with so much in handThat a bird in the bush would be singing there yet But I can't deny that times have gone byWhen being with her was as good as it gets Verse 6The black-throated wind, whispering sinAnd speaking of life that passes like dewIt's led me to see if you want to be freeHave your way with each day as its granted to you Verse 7What's to be found, racing aroundYou carry your blues to the edge of the skyThink a coyote could care about birds in the air?Think a raven thinks coyotes should learn how to fly? We drew lines all around us when I was downSo now mine turns out to go right to the sky Verse 8So I give you my eyes, they were just a disguiseAnyway where I'm going it's too dark to seeYes, and toss me to Chance and watch me danceChoreography certain as bats on the breeze So I leave you my eyes ... Verse 9The black-throated wind keeps on pouring inWith it's words of a lie I think just might be trueOh, Mother American Night, here comes the lightI'm going right on ahead, that's what I'm gonna do The black-throated wind keeps on pouring inThe prophet that promises everything newAh, Mother American Night, come wrong or come rightI will always go onward in you