Podcast appearances and mentions of Russel Simmons

Bob Goodson was the first employee at Yelp, founder of social media analytics company Quid, co-inventor of the Like button, and co-author of the new book Like: The Button That Changed the World. On Oct 1, 2025, Bob spent a day with our MBA students at the University of Kansas, and he shared so much great content that I asked him if we could put together some of the highlights as a podcast, which I've now put together in three chapters: First is Careers, second is Building Companies, and third is AI and Social Media. As a reminder, any views and perspectives expressed on the podcast are solely those of the individual, and not those of the organizations they represent. Hope you enjoy the episode. - [Transcript] Nate:  My name is Nate Meikle. You're listening to Meikles and Dimes, where every episode is dedicated to the simple, practical, and under-appreciated. Bob Goodson was the first employee at Yelp, founder of social media analytics company Quid, co-inventor of the like button, and co-author of the new book Like: The Button That Changed the World. On Oct 1, 2025, Bob spent a day with our MBA students at the University of Kansas, and he shared so much great content that I asked him if we could put together some of the highlights as a podcast, which I've now put together in three chapters: First is Careers, second is Building Companies, and third is AI and Social Media. As a reminder, any views and perspectives expressed on the podcast are solely those of the individual and not those of the organizations they represent. Hope you enjoy the episode. Let's jump into Chapter 1 on Careers. For the first question, a student asked Bob who he has become and how his experiences have shaped him as a person and leader.   Bob:  Oh, thanks, Darrell. That's a thoughtful question. It's thoughtful because it's often not asked, and it's generally not discussed. But I will say, and hopefully you'll feel like this about your work if you don't already, that you will over time, which is I'm 45 now, so I have some sort of vantage point to look back over. Like, I mean, I started working when I was about 9 or 10 years old, so I have been working for money for about 35 years. So I'm like a bit further into my career than perhaps I look. I've been starting companies and things since I was about 10. So, in terms of like my professional career, which I guess started, you know, just over 20 years ago, 20 years into that kind of work, the thing I'm most grateful for is what it's allowed me to learn and how it's evolved me as a person. And I'm also most grateful on the business front for how the businesses that I've helped create and the projects and client deployments and whatever have helped evolve the people that have worked on them. Like I genuinely feel that is the most lasting thing that anything in business does is evolve people. It's so gratifying when you have a team member that joins and three years later you see them, just their confidence has developed or their personality has developed in some way. And it's the test of the work that has evolved them as people. I mean, I actually just on Monday night, I caught up for the first time in 10 years with an intern we had 10 years ago called Max Hofer. You can look him up. He was an intern at Quid. He was from Europe, was studying in London, came to do an internship with us in San Francisco for the summer. And, he was probably like 18, 19 years old. And a few weeks ago, he launched his AI company, Parsewise, with funding from Y Combinator. And, he cites his experience at Quid as being fundamental in choosing his career path, in choosing what field he worked in and so on. So that was, yeah, that was, when you see these things happening, right, 10 years on, we caught up at an event we did in London on Monday. And it's just it's really rewarding. So I suppose, yeah, like I suppose it's it's brought me a lot of perspective, brought me a lot of inner peace, actually, you know, the and and when you're when I was in the thick of it at times, I had no sense of that whatsoever. Right. Like in tough years. And there were some - there have been some very tough years in my working career that you don't feel like it's developing you in any way. It just feels brutal. I liken starting a company, sometimes it's like someone's put you in a room with a massive monster and the monster pins you down and just bats you across the face, right, for like a while. And you're like just trying to get away from the monster and you're like, finally you get the monster off your back and then like the monster's just on you again. And it just, it's just like you get a little bit of space and freedom and then the monster's back and it's just like pummeling you. And it's just honestly some years, like for those of you, some of you are running companies now, right? And starting your own companies as well. And I suppose it's not just starting companies. There are just phases in your career and work where it's like you look back and you're like, man, that year was just like, that was brutal. You just get up and fight every day, and you just get knocked down every day. So I think, I don't wish that on anybody, but it does build resilience that then transfers into other aspects of your life.    Nate:  Next, a student made a reference to the first podcast episode I recorded with Bob and asked him if he felt like he was still working on the most important problem in his field.    Bob:  Yeah, thank you. Thanks for listening to the podcast, as this gives us… thanks for the chance to plug the podcast. So the way I met Nate is that he interviewed me for his podcast. And for those of you who haven't listened to it, it's a 30 minute interview. And he asked this question about what advice would you share with others? And we honed in on this question of like, what is the most important problem in your field? And are you working on it? Which I love as a guide to like choosing what to work on. And so we had a great conversation. I enjoyed it so much and really enjoyed meeting Nate. So we sort of said, hey, let's do more fun stuff together in the future. So that's what brought us to this conversation. And thanks to Nate for, you know, bringing us all together today. I'm always working on what I think is the most important problem in front of me. And I always will be. I can't help it. I don't have to think about it. I just can't think about anything else. So yes, I do feel like right now I'm working on the most important problem in my field. And I feel like I've been doing that for about 20 years. And it's not for everybody, I suppose. But I just think, like, let's talk about that idea a little bit. And then I'll say what I think is the most important problem in my field that I'm working on. Like, just to translate it for each of you. Systems are always evolving. The systems we live in are evolving. We all know that. People talk about the pace of change and like life's changing, technology's changing and so on. Well, it is, right? Like humans developed agriculture 5,000 years ago. That wasn't very long ago. Agriculture, right? Just the idea that you could grow crops in one area and live in that area without walking around, without moving around settlements and different living in different places. And that concept is only 5,000 years old, right? I mean, people debate exactly how old, like 7, 8,000. But anyway, it's not that long ago, considering Homo sapiens have been walking around for in one form or another for several hundred thousand years and humans in general for a couple million years. So 5,000 years is not long. Look at what's happened in 5,000 years, right? Like houses, the first settlements where you would actually just live at sleep in the same place every night is only 5,000 years old. And now we've got on a - you can access all the world's knowledge - on your phone for free through ChatGPT and ask it sophisticated questions and all right answers. Or you can get on a plane and fly all over the world. You have, you know, sophisticated digital currency systems. We have sophisticated laws. And like, we've got to be aware, I think, that we are living in a time of great change. And that has been true for 5,000 years, right? That's not new. So I think about this concept of the forefront. I imagine, human development is, you can just simply imagine it like a sphere or balloon that someone's like blowing up, right? And so every time they breathe into it, like something shifts and it just gets bigger. And so there's stuff happening on the forefront where it's occupying more space, different space, right? There's stuff in the middle that's like a bit more stable and a bit more, less prone to rapid change, right? The education system, some parts of the healthcare system, like certain professions, certain things that are like a bit more stable, but there's stuff happening all the time on the periphery, right? Like on the boundary. And that stuff is affecting every field in one way or another. And I just think if you get a chance to work on that stuff, that's a really interesting place to live and a really interesting place to work. And I feel like you can make a contribution to that, right, if you put yourself on the edge. And it's true for every field. So whatever field you're in, we had people here today, you know, in everything from, yeah, like the military to fitness to, you know, your product, product design and management and, you know, lots of different, you know, people, different backgrounds. But if you ask yourself, what is the most important thing happening in my area of work today, and then try to find some way to work on it, then I think that sort of is a nice sort of North Star and keeps things interesting. Because the sort of breakthroughs and discoveries and important contributions are actually not complicated once you put yourself in that position. They're obvious once you put yourself in that position, right? It's just that there aren't many people there hanging out in that place. If you're one of them, if you put yourself there, not everyone's there, suddenly you're kind of in a room where like lots of cool stuff can happen, but there aren't many people around to compete with you. So you're more likely to find those breakthroughs, whether it's for your company or for, you know, the people you work with or, you know, maybe it's inventions and, but it just, anyway, so I really like doing that. And in my space right now, I call it the concept of being the bridge. And this could apply to all of you too. It's a simple idea that the world's value, right, is locked up in companies, essentially. Companies create value. We can debate all the other vehicles that do it, but basically most of the world's value is tied up in companies and their processes. And that's been true for a long time. There's a new ball of power in the world, which is been created by large language models. And I think of that just like a new ball of power. So you've got a ball of value and a ball of power. And the funny thing about this new ball of power is this actually has no value. That's a funny thing to say, right? The large language models have no value. They don't. They don't have any value and they don't create value. Think about it. It's just a massive bag of words. That has no value, right? I can send you a poem now in the chat. Does that have any value? You might like it, you might not, but it's just a set of words, right? So you've got this massive bag of words that with like a trillion connections, no value whatsoever. That is different from previous tech trends like e-commerce, for example, which had inherent value because it was a new way to reach consumers. So some tech trends do have inherent value because they're new processes, but large language models don't. They're just a new technology. They're very powerful. So I call it a ball of power. but they don't have any value. So why is there a multi-trillion dollar opportunity in front of all of us right now in terms of value creation? It's being the bridge. It's how to make use of this ball of power to improve businesses. And businesses only have two ways you improve them. You save money or you grow revenue. That's it. So being the bridge, like taking this new ball of power and finding ways to save money, be more efficient, taking this new ball of power and finding ways to access new consumers, create new offerings and so on, right? Solve new problems. That is where all the value is. So while you may think that the new value, this multi-trillion dollar opportunity with AI is really for the people that work on the AI companies, sure, there's a lot of, you know, there's some money to be made there. And if you can go work for OpenAI, you probably should. Everyone should be knocking the door down. Everyone should be applying for positions because it's the most important company, you know, in our generation. But if you're not in OpenAI or Meta or Microsoft or whoever, you know, three or four companies in the US that are doing this, for everybody else, it's about being the bridge, finding ways that in your organizations, you can unlock the power of AI by bringing it into the organizations and finding ways to either save money or grow the business. And that's fascinating to me because anybody can be the bridge. You don't have to be good with large language models. You have to understand business processes and you have to be creative and willing to even think like this. And suddenly you can be on the forefront of like creating massive value at your companies because you were the, you know, you're the one that brings brings in the new tools. And I think that skill set, there are certain skills involved in being the bridge, but that skill set of being the bridge is going to be so valuable in the next 5 to 10 years. So I encourage people, and that's what I'm doing. Like, I see my role - I serve clients at Quid. I love working with clients. You know, I'm not someone that really like thrives for management and like day-to-day operations and administration of a business. I learned that about myself. And so I just spend my time serving clients. I have done for several years now. And I love just meeting clients and figuring out how they can use Quid's AI, Quid's data, and any other form of AI that we want to bring to the table to improve their businesses. And that's just what I do with my time full-time. And I'll probably be doing that for at least the next 5 or 10 years. I think the outlook for that area of work is really huge.    Nate:  Building on the podcast episode where Bob talked about working on the most important problem in his field, I asked if he could give us some more details on how he took that advice and ended up at Yelp.    Bob:  So I was in grad school in the UK studying, well, I was actually on a program for medieval literature and philosophy, but looking into like language theory. So it was not the most commercial course that one could be doing. But I was a hobbyist programmer, played around with the web when it first came up and was making, you know, various new types of websites for students. while in my free time. I didn't think of that as commercial at all. I didn't see any commercial potential in that. But I did meet the founders of PayPal that way, who would come to give a talk. And I guess they saw the potential in me as a product manager. You know, there's lots of new apps they wanted to build. This is in 2003. And so they invited me to the US to work for them. And I joined the incubator when there were just five people in it. Max Levchin was one of them, the PayPal co-founder. Yelp, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons were in those first five people. They turned out to be the Yelp co-founders. And Yelp came out of the incubator. So we were actually prototyping 4 companies each in a different industry. There was a chat application that we called Chatango that was five years before Twitter or something, but it was a way of helping people to chat online more easily. There were, which is still around today, but didn't make it as a hit. There was an ad network called AdRoll, which ended up getting renamed and is still around today. That wasn't a huge hit, but it's still around. Then there was Slide, which is photo sharing application, photo and video sharing, which was Max's company. That was acquired by Google. And that did reasonably well. I think it was acquired for about $150 million. And then there was Yelp, which you'll probably know if you're in the US and went public on the New York Stock Exchange and now has a billion dollars in revenue. So those are the four things that we were trying to prototype, each very different, as you can see. But I suppose that's the like tactical story, right? Like the steps that took me there. But there was an idea that took me there that started this journey of working on the most, the most important problems that are happening in the time. So if I rewind, when I was studying medieval literature, I got to the point where I was studying the invention of the print press. And I'd been studying manuscript culture and seeing what happened when the print press was invented and how it changed education, politics, society. You know, when you took this technology that made it cheaper to print, to make books, books were so expensive in the Middle Ages. They were the domain of only the wealthiest people. And only 5% of people could read before the print process was invented, right? So 95% of people couldn't read anything or write anything. And that was because the books themselves were just so expensive, they had to be handwritten, right? And so when the print press made the cost of a book drop dramatically, the literacy rates in Europe shot up and it completely transformed society. So I was studying that period and at the same time, like dabbling with websites in the early internet and sort of going, oh, like there was this moment where I was like, the web is our equivalent of the print press. And it's happening right now. I'm talking like maybe 2002, or so when I had this realization. It's happening right now. It's going to change everything during our lifetimes. And I just had a fork in my life where it's like I could be a professor in medieval history, which was the path I was on professionally. I had a scholarship. There were only 5 scholarships in my year, in the whole UK. I was on a scholarship track to be a professor and study things like the emergence of the print press, or I could contribute to the print press of our era, which is the internet, and find some way to contribute, some way, right? It didn't matter to me if it was big or small, it was irrelevant. It was just be in the mix with people that are pushing the boundaries. Whatever I did, I'd take the most junior role available, no problem, but like just be in the mix with the people that are doing that. So yeah, that was the decision, right? Like, and that's what led me down to sort of leave my course, leave my scholarship. And, my salary was $40,000 when I moved to the US. All right. And that's pretty much all I earned for a while. I'd spent everything I had starting a group called Oxford Entrepreneurs. So I had absolutely no money. The last few months actually living in Oxford, I had one meal a day because I didn't have enough money to buy three meals a day. And then I packed up my stuff in a suitcase - one bag - wasn't even a suitcase, it was a rucksack and moved to the US and, you know, and landed there basically on a student visa and friends and family was just thought I was, you know, not making a good decision, right? Like, I'm not earning much money. It's with a bunch of people in a like a dorm room style incubator, right? Where the tables and chairs we pulled off the street because we didn't want to spend money on tables and chairs. And where I get to work seven days a week, 12 hours a day. And I've just walked away from a scholarship and a PhD track at Oxford to go into that. And it didn't look like a good decision. But to me, the chance to work on the forefront of what's happening in our era is just too important and too interesting to not make those decisions. So I've done that a number of times, even when it's gone against commercial interest or career interest. I haven't made the best career decisions, you know, not from a commercial standpoint, but from a like getting to work on the new stuff. Like that's what I've prioritized.    Nate:  Next, I asked Bob about his first meeting with the PayPal founders and how he made an impression on them.    Bob:  Good question, because I think... So I have a high level thought on that, like a rubric to use. And then I have the details. I'll start with the details. So I had started the entrepreneurship club at Oxford. And believe it or not, in 800 years of the University's history, there was no entrepreneurship club. And they know that because when you want to start a new society, you go to university and they go through the archive, which is kept underground in the library, and someone goes down to the library archives and they go through all these pages for 800 years and look for the society that's called that. And if there is one, they pull it out and then they have the charter and you have to continue the charter. Even if it was started 300 years ago, they pull out the charter and they're like, no, you have to modify that one. You can't start with a new charter. So anyway, it's because it's technically a part of the university, right? So they have a way of administrating it. So they went through the records and were like, there's never been a club for entrepreneurs at the university. So we started the first, I was one of the co-founders of this club. And, again, there's absolutely no pay. It was just a charity as part of the university. But I love the idea of getting students who were scientists together with students that were business minded, and kind of bringing technical and creative people together. That was the theme of the club. So we'd host drinks, events and talks and all sorts. And I love building communities, at least at that stage of my life. I loved building communities. I'd been doing it. I started several charities and clubs, you know, throughout my life. So it came quite naturally to me. But what I didn't, I mean, I kind of thought this could happen, but it really changed my life as it put me at the center of this super interesting community that we've built. And I think that when you're in a university environment, like starting clubs, running clubs, even if they're small, like, we, I ran another club that we called BEAR. It was an acronym. And it was just a weekly meetup in a pub where we talked about politics and society and stuff. And like, it didn't go anywhere. It fizzled out after a year or two, but it was really like an interesting thing to work on. So I think when you're in a university environment, even if you guys are virtual, finding ways to get together, it's so powerful. It's like, it's who you're meeting in courses like this that is so powerful. So I put myself in the middle of this community, and I was running it, I was president of it. So when these people came to speak at the business school, I was asked to bring the students along, and I was given 200 slots in the lecture theatre. So I filled them, I got 200 students along. We had 3,000 members, by the way, after like 2 years running this club. It became the biggest club at the university, and the biggest entrepreneurship student community in Europe. It got written up in The Economist actually as like, because it was so popular. But yeah, it meant that I was in the middle of it. And when the business school said, you can come to the dinner with the speakers afterwards, that was my ticket to sit down next to the founder of PayPal, you know. And so, then I sat down at dinner with him, and I had my portfolio with me, which back then I used to carry around in a little folder, like a black paper folder. And every project I'd worked on, every, because I used to do graphic design for money as a student. So I had my graphic design projects. I had my yoga publishing business and projects in there. I had printouts about the websites I'd created. So when I sat down next to him, and he's like, what do you work on? I just put this thing on the table over dinner and was like, he picked it up and he started going through it. And he was like, what's this? What's this? And I think just having my projects readily available allowed him to sort of get interested in what I was working on. Nowadays, you can have a website, right? Like I didn't have a website for a long time. Now I have one. It's at bobgoodson.com where I put my projects on there. You can check it out if you like. But I think I've always had a portfolio in one way or another. And I think carrying around the stuff that you've done in an interactive way is a really good way to connect with people. But one more thing I'll say on this concept, because it connects more broadly to like life in general, is that I think that I have this theory that in your lifetime, you get around five opportunities put in front of you that you didn't yet fully deserve, right? Someone believes in you, someone opens a door, someone's like, hey, Nate, how about you do this? Or like, we think you might be capable of this. And it doesn't happen very often, but those moments do happen. And when they happen, a massive differentiator for your life is do you notice that it's happening and do you grab it with both hands? And in that moment, do everything you can to make it work, right? Like they don't come along very often. And to me, those moments have been so precious. I knew I wouldn't get many of them. And so every time they happened, I've just been all in. I don't care what's going on in my life at that time. When the door opens, I drop everything, and I do everything I can to make it work. And you're stretched in those situations. So it's not easy, right? Like someone's given you an opportunity to do something you're not ready for, essentially. So you're literally not ready for it. Like you're not good enough, you don't know enough, you don't have the knowledge, you don't have the skills. So you only have to do the job, but you have to cultivate your own skills and develop your skills. And that's a lot of work. You know, when I landed in, I mean, working for Max was one of those opportunities where I did not, I'd not done enough to earn that opportunity when I got that opportunity. I landed with five people who had all done PayPal. They were all like incredible experts in their fields, right? Like Russ Simmons, the Yelp co-founder, had been the chief architect of PayPal. He architected PayPal, right? Like I was with very skilled technical people. I was the only Brit. They were all Americans. So I stood out culturally. Most of them couldn't understand what I was saying when I arrived. I've since changed how I speak. So you can understand me, the Americans in the room. But I just mumbled. I wasn't very articulate. So it was really hard to get my ideas across. And I had programmed as a hobbyist, but I didn't know enough to be able to program production code alongside people that had worked at PayPal. I mean, their security levels and their accuracy and everything was just off the, I was in another league, right? So there I was, I felt totally out of my depth, and I had to fight to stay in that job for a year. Like I fought every day for a year to like not get kicked out of that job and essentially out of the country. Because without their sponsorship, I couldn't have stayed in the country. I was on a student visa with them, right? And I worked seven days a week for 365 days in a row. I basically almost lived in the office. I got an apartment a few blocks from the office and I had to. No one else was working those kind of hours, but I had to do the job, and I had to learn 3 new programming languages and all this technical stuff, how to write specs, how to write product specs like I had to research the history of various websites in parts of the internet. So I'm just, I guess I'm just giving some color to like when these doors open in your career and in your life, sometimes they're relationship doors that open, right? You meet somebody who's going to change your life, and it's like, are you going to fight to make that work? And, you know, like, so not all, it's not always career events, but when they happen, I think like trusting your instinct that this is one of those moments and knowing this is one of the, you can't do this throughout your whole life. You burn out and you die young. Like you're just not sustainable. But when they happen, are you going to put the burners on and be like, I'm in. And sometimes it only takes a few weeks. Like the most it's ever taken for me is a year to walk through a door. But like, anyway, like just saying that in case anyone here has one of these moments and like maybe this will resonate with one of you, and you'll be like, that's one of the moments I need to walk through the door.    Nate:  That concludes chapter one. In chapter 2, Bob talks about building companies. First, I asked Bob if he gained much leadership experience at Yelp.    Bob:  I gained some. I suppose my first year or two in the US was in a technical role. So I didn't have anyone reporting to me. I was just working on the user interface and front end stuff. So really no leadership there. But then, there was a day when we still had five people. Jeremy started to go pitch investors for our second round because we had really good traffic growth, right? In San Francisco, we had really nice charts showing traffic growth. We'd started to get traction in New York and started to get traction in LA. So we've had the start of a nice story, right? Like this works in other cities. We've got a model we can get traffic. And Jeremy went to his first VC pitch for the second round. And the VC said, you need to show that you can monetize the traffic before you raise this round. The growth story is fine, but you also need to say, we've signed 3 customers and they're paying this much, right, monthly. So Jeremy came back from that pitch, and I remember very clearly, he sat down, kind of slumped in his chair and he's like, oh man, we're going to have to do some sales before we can raise this next round. Like we need someone on the team to go close a few new clients. And it's so funny because it's like, me and four people and everyone went like this and faced me at the same time. And I was like, why are you looking at me? Like, I'm not, I didn't know how to start selling to local businesses. And they're like, they all looked at each other and went, no, we think you're probably the best for this, Bob. And they were all engineers, like all four of them were like, background in engineering. Even the CEO was VP engineering at PayPal before he did Yelp. So basically, we were all geeks. And for some reason, they thought I would be the best choice to sell to businesses. And I didn't really have a choice in it, honestly. I didn't want to do it. They were just like, you're like, that's what needs to happen next. And you're the most suitable candidate for it. So I I just started picking up the phone and calling dentists, chiropractors, restaurants. We didn't know if Yelp would resonate with bars or restaurants or healthcare. We thought healthcare was going to be big, which is reasonably big for Yelp now, but it's not the focus. But anyway, I just started calling these random businesses with great reviews. I just started with the best reviewed businesses. And the funny thing is some of those people, my first ever calls are still friends today, right? Like my chiropractor that I called is the second person I ever called and he signed up, ended up being my chiropractor for like 15 years living in San Francisco. And now we're still in touch, and we're great friends. So it's funny, like I dreaded those first calls, but they actually turned out to be really interesting people that I met. But yeah, we didn't have a model. We didn't know what to charge for. So we started out charging for calls. We changed the business's phone number. So if you're, you had a 415 number and you're a chiropractor on Yelp, we would change your number to like a number that Yelp owned, but it went straight through to their phone. So it was a transfer, but it meant our system could track that they got the call through Yelp, right? Yeah. And then we tracked the duration of the call. We couldn't hear the call, but we tracked the duration of the call. And then we could report back to them at the end of the month. You got 10 calls from Yelp this month and we're going to charge you $50 a call or whatever. So I sold that to 5 or 10 customers and people hated it. They hated that model because they're like, they'd get a call, it'd be like a wrong number or they just wanted to ask, they're already a current customer and they're asking about parking or something, right? So then we'd get back to and be like, you got a call and we charged you 50 bucks. So like, no, I can't pay you for that. Like, that was one of my current customers. So now the reality is they were getting loads of advertising and that was really driving the growth for their business, but they didn't want to pay for the call. So then I was like, that's not working. We have to do something else. Then we paid pay for click, which was we put ads on your page and when someone clicks it, they see you. And then people hated that too, because they're like, my mum just told me she's been like clicking on the link, right? Because she's like looking at my business. And my mum probably just cost me 5 bucks because she said she clicked it 10 times. And like, can you take that off my bill? So people hated the clicks. And then one day we just brought in a head of operations, Geoff Donaker. And by this point, by the way, I had like 2 salespeople working for me that I'd hired. And so it was me and two other people. We were calling these companies, signing these contracts. And one day I just had this epiphany. I was like, we should just pay for the ads that are viewed, not the ads that are clicked. In other words, pay for impressions to the ads. So if I tell you, I've put your ad in front of 500 people when they were looking for sushi this month, right? That you don't mind paying for because there's no action involved, but you're like, whoa, it's a big number. You put me in front of 500 people. I'll pay you 200 bucks for that. No problem. Essentially impression-based advertising. And I went to our COO and I was like, I think we should try this. He was like, if you want to give it a go. And I wrote up a contract and started selling it that day. And that is that format, that model now has a billion dollars revenue running through Yelp. So basically they took that model, like I switched it to impression-based advertising. And that was what was right for local. And our metrics were amazing. We're actually able to charge a lot more than we could in the previous two models. And I built out the sales team to about 20 people. Through that process, I got hooked, basically. Like I realized I love selling during that role. I would never have walked into sales, I think, unless everyone had gone, you have to do it. And I dreaded it, but I got really hooked on it. I love the adrenaline of it. I love hunting down these deals and I love like what you can learn from customers when you're selling. You can learn what they need and you can evolve your business model. So I love that flywheel and that's kind of what I've been doing ever since. But I built out a team of 20 people, so I got to learn management, essentially by just doing it at Yelp and building out that team.    Nate:  Next, I asked Bob how he developed his theory of leadership.    Bob:  I actually developed it really early on. You know, I mentioned earlier I'd been starting things since I was about 10 years old. And what's fascinated me between the age of like 10 and maybe, you know, my early 20s, I love the idea of creating stuff with people where no one gets paid. And here's why. These are charities and nonprofits and stuff, right? But I realized really early, if I can lead and motivate in a way where people want to contribute, even though they're not getting paid, and we can create stuff together, if I can learn that aspect, like management in that sense, then if I'm one day paying people, I'm going to get like, I'm going to, we're all going to be so much more effective, essentially, right? Like the organization is going to be so much more effective. And that is a concept I still work with today. Yes, we pay everyone quite well at Quid who works at Quid, right? Like we pay at or above market rate. But I never think about that. I never, ever ask for anything or work with people in a way that I feel they need to do it because that's their job ever. I just erased that from my mindset. I've never had that in my mindset. I always work with people with like, with gratitude and and in a way where I'm like, well, I'll try and make it fun and like help them see the meaning in the work, right? Like help them understand why it's an exciting thing to work on or a, why it's right for them, how it connects to their goals and their interests and why it's, you know, fun to contribute, whether it's to a client or to an area of technology or whatever we're working on. It's like, so yeah, I haven't really, I haven't, I mean, you guys might have read books on this, but I haven't really seen that idea articulated in quite the way that I think about it. And because I didn't read it in a book, I just kind of like stumbled across it as a kid. But that's, but I learned because I practiced it for 10 years before I even ended up in the US, when I started managing teams at Yelp, I found that I was very effective as a manager and a leader because I didn't take for granted that, you know, people had to do it because it was their job. I thought of ways to make the environment fun and make the connections between the different team members fun and teach them things and have there be like a culture of success and winning and sharing in the results of the wins together. And I suppose this did play out a little bit financially in my career because, although we pay people well at Yelp, we're kind of a somewhat mature business now. But in the early days of Yelp and in the early days of Quid, I never competed on pay. You know, when you're starting a company, it's a really bad idea to try and compete on pay. You have to, I went into every hiring conversation all the way through my early days at Yelp, as well as through the early days at Quid, like probably the first nearly 10 years at Quid. And every time I interviewed people, I would say early on, this isn't going to be where you earn the most money. I'm not going to be able to pay you market rate. You're going to earn less here than you could elsewhere. However, this is what I can offer you, right? Like whether then I make a culture that's about like helping learning. Like we always had a book like quota at Quid. If you want to buy books to read in your free time, I don't care what the title is, we'll give you money to buy books. And the reality is a book's like 10 bucks or 20 bucks, right? No one spends much on books, but that was one of the perks. I put together these perks so that we were paying often like half of what you could get in the market for the same role, but you're printing like reasons to be there that aren't about the money. Now, it doesn't work for everybody, you know, that's as in every company doesn't, but that's just what played out. And that's really important in the early days. You've got to be so efficient. And then once you start bringing in the money, then you can start moving up your rates and obviously pay people market rate. But early on, you've got to find ways to be really, really, really efficient and really lean. And you can't pay people market rate in the early days. I mean, people kind of expect that going into early stage companies, but I was particularly aggressive on that front. But that was just because I suppose it was in my DNA that like, I will try and give you other reasons to work here, but it's not going to be, it's not going to be for the money.    Nate:  Next, I asked Bob how he got from Yelp to Quid and how he knew it was time to launch his own company.    Bob:  Yeah, like looking back, if I'd made sort of the smart decision from a financial standpoint and from a, you know, career standpoint, I suppose you'd say, I would have just stayed put. if you're in a rocket ship and it's growing and you've got a senior role and you get to, you've got, you've earned the license to work on whatever you want. Like Yelp wanted me to move to Phoenix and create their first remote sales team. They wanted, I was running customer success at the time and I'd set up all those systems. Like there was so much to do. Yelp was only like three or four years old at the time, and it was clearly a rocket ship. And you know, I could have learned a lot more like from Yelp in that, like I could have seen it all the way through to IPO and, setting up remote teams and hiring hundreds of people, thousands of people eventually. So I, but I made the choice to leave relatively early and start my own thing. Just coming back to this idea we talked about in the session earlier today, I I always want to work on the forefront of whatever's going on, like the most important thing happening in our time. And I felt I knew what was next. I could kind of see what was next, which was applying AI to analyze the world's text, which was clear to me by about 2008, like that was going to be as big as the internet. That's kind of how I felt about it. And I told people that, and I put that in articles, and I put it in talks that are online that you can go watch. You know, there's one on my website from 10 years ago where I'd already been in the space for five or six years. You can go watch it and see what I was saying in 2015. So fortunately, I documented this because it sounds a bit, you know, unbelievable given what's just happened with large language models and open AI. But it was clear to me where things were going around 2008. And I just wanted to work on what was next, basically. I wanted to apply neural networks and natural language processing to massive text sets like all the world's media, all the world's social media. And yeah, I suppose whenever I've seen what's going to happen next, like with social network, going to Yelp, like seeing what was going to happen with social networking, going to building Yelp, and then seeing this observation about AI and going and doing Quid, it's not, it doesn't feel like a choice to me. It's felt like, well, just what I have to do. And regardless of whether that's going to be more work, harder work, less money, et cetera, it's just how I'm wired, I guess. And I'm kind of, I see it now. Like I see what's next now. And I'll probably just keep doing this. But I was really too early or very, very early, as you can probably see, to be trying to do that at like 2008, 2009, seven or eight years before OpenAI was founded, I was just banging my head against the wall for nearly a decade with no one that would listen. So even the best companies in the world and the biggest investors in the world, again, I won't name them, But it was so hard to raise money. It was so hard to get anyone to watch it that, after a time, I actually started to think I was wrong. Like after doing it for like 10 years and it hadn't taken off, I just started to think like, I was so wrong. I spent a year or two before ChatGPT took off. I'd got to a point where I'd spent like a year or two just thinking, how could my instinct be so wrong about what was going to play out here? How could we not have unlocked the world's written information at this point? And I started to think maybe it'll never happen, you know, and like I was simply wrong, which of course you could be wrong on these things. And then, you know, ChatGPT and OpenAI like totally blew up, and it's been bigger than even I imagined. And I couldn't have told you exactly which technical breakthrough was going to result in it. Like no one knew that large language models were going to be the unlock. But I played with everything available to try and unlock that value. And as soon as large language models became promising in 2016, we were on it, like literally the month that the Google BERT paper came out, because we were like knocking on that door for many years beforehand. And we were one of the teams that were like, trying to unlock that value. That's why many of the early Quid people are very senior at OpenAI and went on to take what they learned from Quid and then apply it in an OpenAI environment, which I'm very proud of. I'm very proud of those people, and it's amazing to see what they've done.    Nate:  That concludes Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, we discuss AI and social media. The first question was about anxiety and AI.    Bob:  Maybe I'll just focus on the anxiety and the issues first of all. A lot's been said on it. I suppose what would be my headlines? I think that one big area of concern is how it changes the job market. And I think the practical thing on that is if you can learn to be the bridge, then you're putting yourself in a really valuable position, right? Because if you can bridge this technology into businesses in a way that makes change and improvements, then you are moving yourself to a skill set that's going to continue to be really valuable. So that's just a practical matter. One of the executives I work with in a major US company likes to say will doctors become redundant because of AI? And he says, no, doctors won't be redundant, but doctors that don't use AI will be redundant. And that's kind of where we are, right? It's like, we're still going to need a person, but if you refuse, if you're not using it, you're going to fall behind and like that is going to put you at risk. So I think there is some truth to that little kind of illustrative story. There will be massive numbers of jobs that are no longer necessary. And the history of technology is full of these examples. Coming back to like 5,000 years ago, think of all the times that people invented stuff that made the prior roles redundant, right? In London, before electricity was discovered and harnessed, one of the biggest areas of employment was for the people that walked the streets at night, lighting the candles and gas lights that lit London. That was a huge breakthrough, right? You could put fire in the street, you put gas in the street and you lit London. Without that, you couldn't go out at night in London and like it would have been an absolute nightmare. The city wouldn't be what it is. But that meant there were like thousands of people whose job it was to light those candles and then go round in the morning when the sun came up and blow them out. So when the light bulb was invented, can you imagine the uproar in London where all these jobs were going to be lost, thousands of jobs were going to be lost. by people that no longer are needed to put out these lights. There were riots, right? There was massive social upheaval. The light bulb threatened and wiped out those jobs. How many people in London now work lighting gas lamps and lighting candles to light the streets, right? Nobody. That was unthinkable. How could you possibly take away those jobs? You know, people actually smashed these light bulbs when the first electric light bulbs were put into streets. People just went and smashed them because they're like, we are not going to let this technology take our jobs. And I can give you 20 more examples like that throughout history, right? Like you could probably think of loads yourselves. Even the motor car, you know, so many people were employed to look after horses, right? Think of all the people that were employed in major cities around the world, looking after horses and caring for them and building the carts and everything. And suddenly you don't need horses anymore. Like that wiped out an entire industry. But what did it do? It created the automobile industry, which has been employing massive numbers of people ever since. And the same is true for, you know, like what have light bulbs done for the quality of our lives? You know, we don't look at them now and think that's an evil technology that wiped out loads of jobs. We go, thank goodness we've got light bulbs. So the nature of technology is that it wipes out roles, and it creates roles. And I just don't see AI being any different. Humans have no limit to like, seem to have no limit to the comfort they want to live with and the things that we want in our lives. And those things are still really expensive and we don't, we're nowhere near satisfied. So like, we're going to keep driving forward. We're going to go, oh, now we can do that. Great. I can use AI, I can make movies and I can, you know, I don't know, like there's just loads of stuff that people are going to want to do with AI. Like, I mean, using the internet, how much time do we spend on these damn web forms, just clicking links and buttons and stuff? Is that fun? Do we even want to do that? No. Like we're just wasting hours of our lives every week, like clicking buttons. Like if we have agents, they can do that for us. So we have, I think we're a long way from like an optimal state where work is optional and we can just do the things that humans want to do with their time. And so, but that's the journey that I see us all along, you know. So anyway, that's just my take on AI and employment, both practically, what can you do about it? Be the bridge, embrace it, learn it, jump in. And also just like in a long arc, I'm not saying in the short term, there won't be riots and there won't be lots of people out of work. And I mean, there will be. But when we look back again, like I often think about what time period are we talking about? Right? People often like, well, what will it do to jobs? Next year, like there'll certain categories that will become redundant. But are we thinking about this in a one year period or 100 year period? Like it's worth asking yourself, what timeframe am I talking about? Right? And I always try and come back to the 100 year view at a minimum when talking about technology change. If it's better for humanity in 100 years, then we should probably work on it and make it happen, right? If we didn't do that, we wouldn't have any light bulbs in our house. Still be lighting candles?    Nate:  Next was a question about social media, fragmented attention, and how it drives isolation.    Bob:  Well, it's obviously been very problematic, particularly in the last five or six years. So TikTok gained success in the United States and around the world around five or six years ago with a completely new model for how to put content in front of people. And what powered it? AI. So TikTok is really an AI company. And the first touch point that most of us had with AI was actually through TikTok. It got so good at knowing the network of all possible content and knowing if you watch this, is the next thing we should show you to keep you engaged. And they didn't care if you were friends with someone or not. Your network didn't matter. Think about Facebook. Like for those of you that were using Facebook, maybe say 2010, right? Like 15 years ago. What did social media look like? You had a profile page, you uploaded photos of yourself and photos of your friends, you linked between them. And when you logged into Facebook, you basically just browsing people's profiles and seeing what they got up to at the weekend. That was social media 15 years ago. Now imagine, now think what you do when you're on Instagram and you're swiping, right? Or you go to TikTok and you're swiping. First of all, let's move to videos, which is a lot more compelling, short videos. And most of the content has nothing to do with your friends. So there was a massive evolution in social media that happened five or six years ago, driven by TikTok. And all the other companies had to basically adopt the same approach or they would have fallen too far behind. So it forced Meta to evolve Instagram and Facebook to be more about attention. Like there's always about attention, that's the nature of media. But these like AI powered ways to keep you there, regardless of what they're showing you. And that turned out to be a bit of a nightmare because it unleashed loads of content without any sense of like what's good for the people who are watching it, right? That's not the game they're playing. They're playing attention and then they're not making decisions about what might be good for you or not. So we went through like a real dip, I think, in social media, went through a real dip and we're still kind of in it, right, trying to find ways out of it. So regulation will ultimately be the savior, which it is in any new field of tech. Regulation is necessary to keep tech to have positive impact for the people that it's meant to be serving. And that's taken a long time to successfully put in place for social media, but we are getting there. I mean, Australia just banned social media for everyone under 16. You may have seen that. Happened, I think, earlier this year. France is putting controls around it. The UK is starting to put more controls around it. So, you know, gradually countries are voters are making it a requirement to put regulation around social media use. In terms of just practical things for you all, as you think about your own social media use, I think it's very healthy to think about how long you spend on it and find ways to just make it a little harder to access, right? Like none of us feel good when we spend a lot of time on our screens. None of us feel good when we spend a lot of time on social media. It feels good at the time because it's given us those quick dopamine hits. But then afterwards, we're like, man, I spent an hour, and I just like, I lost an hour down like the Instagram wormhole. And then we don't feel good afterwards. It affects us sleep negatively. And yeah, come to the question that was, posted, can create a sense of isolation or negative feelings of self due to comparison to centrally like models and actors and all these people that are like putting out content, right? Kind of super humans. So I think just finding ways to limit it and asking yourself what's right for you and then just sticking to that. And if that means coming off it for a month or coming off it for a couple of months, then, give that a try. Personally, I don't use it much at all. I'll use it mostly because friends will share like a funny meme or something and you just still want to watch it because it's like it's sent to you by a friend. It's a way of interacting. Like my dad sends me funny stuff from the internet, and I want to watch it because it's a way of connecting with him. But then I set a timer. I like to use this timer. It's like just a little physical device. I know we've all got one on our phones, but I like to have one on my desk. And so if I'm going into something, whether it's like I'm going to do an hour on my inbox, my e-mail inbox, or I'm going to, you know, open up Instagram and just swipe for a bit, I'll just set a timer, you know, and just keep me honest, like, okay, I'm going to give myself 8 minutes. I'm not going to give myself any more time on there. So there's limited it. And then I put all these apps in a folder on the second screen of my phone. So I can't easily access them. I don't even see them because they're on the second screen of my phone in a folder called social. So to access any of the apps, I have to swipe, open the folder, and then open the app. And just moving them to a place where I can't see them has been really helpful. I only put the healthy apps on my front page of my phone.    Nate:  Next was a question about where Bob expects AI to be in 20 years and whether there are new levels to be unlocked.    Bob:  No one knows. Right? Like what happens when you take a large language model from a trillion nodes to like 5 trillion nodes? No one knows. It's, this is where the question comes in around like consciousness, for example. Will it be, will it get to a point where we have to consider this entity conscious? Fiercely debated, not obvious at all. Will it become, it's already smarter than, well, it already knows more than any human on the planet. So in terms of its knowledge access, it knows more. In terms of most capabilities, most, you know, cognitive capabilities, it's already more capable than any single human on the planet. But there are certain aspects of consciousness, well, certain cognitive functions that humans currently are capable of that AI is not currently capable of, but we might expect some of those to be eaten into as these large language models get better. And it might be that these large language models have cognitive capabilities that humans don't have and never could have, right? Like levels of strategic thinking, for example, that we just can't possibly mirror. And that's one of the things that's kind of, you know, a concern to nations and to people is that, you know, we could end up with something on the planet that is a lot smarter than any one of us or even all of us combined. So in general, when something becomes more intelligent, it seeks to dominate everything else. That is a pattern. You can see that throughout all life. Nothing's ever got smarter and not sought to dominate. And so that's concerning, especially because it's trained on everything we've ever said and done. So I don't know why that pattern would be different. So that, you know, that's interesting. And and I think in terms of, so the part of that question, which is whole new areas of capability to be unlocked, really fascinating area to look at is not so much the text now, because everything I've written is already in these models, right? So the only way they can get more information is by the fact that like, loads of social networks are creating more information and so on. It's probably pretty duplicitous at this point. That's why Elon bought Twitter, for example, because he wanted the data in Twitter, and he wants that constant access to that data. But how much smarter can they get when they've already got everything ever written? However, large language models, of course, don't just apply to text. They apply to any information, genetics, photography, film, every form of information can be harnessed by these large language models and are being harnessed. And one area that's super interesting is robotics. So the robot is going to be as nimble and as capable as the training data that goes into it. And there isn't much robotic training data yet. But companies are now collecting robotic training data. So in the coming years, robots are going to get way more capable, thanks to large language models, but only as this data gets collected. So in other words, like language is kind of reaching its limits in terms of new capabilities, but think of all the other sensor types that could feed into large language models and you can start to see all kinds of future capabilities, which is why everyone suddenly got so interested in personal transportation vehicles and personal robotics, which is why like Tesla share price is up for example, right? Because Elon's committed now to kind of moving more into robotics with Tesla as a company. And there are going to be loads of amazing robotics companies that come out over the next like 10 or 20 years.    Nate:  And that brings us to the end of this episode with Bob Goodson. Like I mentioned in the intro, there were so many great nuggets from Bob. Such great insight on managing our careers, building companies, and the evolving impact of AI and social media. In summary, try to be at the intersection of new power and real problems. Seek to inspire rather than just transact, and be thoughtful about how to use social media and AI. All simple ideas, please, take them seriously.   

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, David O. Sacks, Roelof Botha, Chad Hurley, Russel Simmons, and Jeremy Stoppelman are among those considered the “PayPal Mafia”. These are cofounders or early team members of PayPal who went on to found or invest in major tech companies like Yelp, Palantir, YouTube, Facebook, SpaceX, X, LinkedIn, Affirm, Airbnb, and others. In this episode, CJ is joined by Jimmy Soni, bestselling author of The Founders, which chronicles the early years of PayPal. He delves into some of the lesser-known aspects of PayPal's history. He sheds light on Peter Thiel's prediction of the dot-com collapse, why he advocated for the employment of Roelof Botha as CFO at the age of just 26, and his second-chance philosophy for hiring failures. The conversation covers PayPal's “frenemy relationship” with eBay, how they convinced their users to advocate for them, and pivotal moments that influenced their IPO and sale. Tune in for unique insights into one of the most important "seed funds" in tech history.—LINKS:Jimmy Soni on X (@jimmyasoni): https://x.com/jimmyasoniJimmy Soni on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmysoniThe Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley: https://www.amazon.co.za/Founders-Paypal-Entrepreneurs-Shaped-Silicon/dp/1501197266CJ on X (@cjgustafson222): https://x.com/cjgustafson222Mostly metrics: http://mostlymetrics.comRELATED EPISODES:How Upwork CFO Erica Gessert Drove 20 Points of EBITDA Growth in Just 3 Quarters: —TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Preview and Intro(02:12) Sponsor – Pulley | Brex | Aleph(07:40) Jimmy's Approach to Writing the Book(08:56) An Intro to the “PayPal Mafia”(10:57) The 1998 to 2002 Time Period(12:36) Present-Day Successes of “PayPal Mafia” Members(14:06) Challenges of Interviewing High-Profile Figures(16:06) Sponsor – RightRev | Navan | NetSuite(19:46) Comparisons to Other Influential Tech Groups(21:05) PayPal, YouTube, and the Embed Strategy(23:21) The Company's $20 Referral Program(27:10) Peter Thiel's Prediction of the Dot-Com Collapse(30:48) The Fallout From the Merger That Resulted in PayPal(33:00) The Evolution of PayPal's Business Model(36:58) The Unique Skillset That Roelof Botha Brought to the CFO Role(41:04)) Fraud-Fighting Techniques(43:26) PayPal's “Frenemy Relationship” With eBay(47:10) Challenges Faced by PayPal That Modern Fintechs Still Grapple With(49:13) How PayPal Made Its Users Advocates for the Business(53:44) PayPal's Talent Acquisition and “Misfits” Culture(56:54) Peter Thiel's Talent-Spotting Abilities and Second-Chance Philosophy(1:00:12) The Outcome of the eBay Sale(1:05:03) One of the Most Important “Seed Funds” in Tech History(1:08:07) Advice for Moving From Fast Work To Slow Work(1:11:18) Favorite Behind-the-Scenes Anecdote(1:13:04) The Most Underrated Member of the “Mafia”(1:14:04) One of the Most Pivotal Decisions Made(1:15:03) Wrap—SPONSORS:Pulley is the cap table management platform built for CFOs and finance leaders who need reliable, audit-ready data and intuitive workflows, without the hidden fees or unreliable support. Switch in as little as 5 days and get 25% off your first year: pulley.com/mostlymetrics.Brex offers the world's smartest corporate card on a full-stack global platform that is everything CFOs need to manage their finances on an elite level. Plus, they offer modern banking and treasury as well as intuitive expenses and accounting automation, bill pay, and travel. Find out more at brex.com/metricsAleph automates 90% of manual, error-prone busywork, so you can focus on the strategic work you were hired to do. Minimize busywork and maximize impact with the power of a web app, the flexibility of spreadsheets, and the magic of AI. Get a personalised demo at getaleph.com/runRightRev automates the revenue recognition process from end to end, gives you real-time insights, and ensures ASC 606 / IFRS 15 compliance—all while closing books faster. For RevRec that auditors actually trust, visit rightrev.com and schedule a demo.Navan is the all-in-one travel and expense solution that helps finance teams streamline reconciliation, enforce policies automatically, and gain real-time visibility. It connects to your existing cards and makes closing the books faster and smarter. Visit navan.com/Runthenumbers for your demo.NetSuite is an AI-powered business management suite, encompassing ERP/Financials, CRM, and ecommerce for more than 41,000 customers. If you're looking for an ERP, head to https://netsuite.com/metrics and get the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning.#PayPalMafia #JimmySoni #CAPTCHA #PayPal #fintech Get full access to Mostly metrics at www.mostlymetrics.com/subscribe

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OK BOOMER! Is 21 too young for 65? Arizona Goes Medieval Karel Cast 24-43 Arizona is going to enforce an abortion law from…1864…and that speaks volumes for who these people are; they are medieval leftovers, religious zealots, misogynist, subservients…Handmaid Tale much? OK BOOMER is the battle cry of GenX, Y, Z, Alpha and Millenials, but why do they consider it an insult and what, exactly is their beef? Russel Simmons 21 year old daughter is dating a 65 year old…is that too far of an age difference or is there such a thing? What's really on my mind today? Caring when you shouldn't. Putting emotional energy in to someone or something that doesn't care about you. Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember.

OK BOOMER! Is 21 too young for 65? Arizona Goes Medieval Karel Cast 24-43 Arizona is going to enforce an abortion law from…1864…and that speaks volumes for who these people are; they are medieval leftovers, religious zealots, misogynist, subservients…Handmaid Tale much? OK BOOMER is the battle cry of GenX, Y, Z, Alpha and Millenials, but why do they consider it an insult and what, exactly is their beef? Russel Simmons 21 year old daughter is dating a 65 year old…is that too far of an age difference or is there such a thing? What's really on my mind today? Caring when you shouldn't. Putting emotional energy in to someone or something that doesn't care about you. Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember. https://youtu.be/sgcrNclHOpU

Curb Your Enthusiasm's perfect finale, Eclipse exhaustion, Ricky Martin's on-stage boner, AOC v. A.I., Jellyroll wins the CMTs, and Caitlin Clark's TV ratings were through the roof. The eclipse happened. Some people are saying it was overrated. Trudi theme-worked today at 106.7 WLLZ. Soft people claimed they contracted ‘eclipse sickness'. Curb Your Enthusiasm perfectly wrapped up forever last night. Ricky Martin was Madonna's special guest on stage last night. He responded by getting an erection. The Kardashians go on Spring Break from not working. More trouble for Morgan Wallen. Three felony charges for the country star for throwing a chair off of a building. Pride of Detroit has podcasting problems, but their great blog remains. AOC's very mad that there are so many Deep Fake A.I. porno's with her in them. Donald Trump is suing a judge over a gag order. More student loan forgiveness from Joe Biden. RIP to this dude's weiner. The South Carolina Gamecocks defeated Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes to win the Women's NCAA Title. A lot of people watched the game. It is impossible to be a woman. The CMT Awards happened last night. Jelly Roll was a big winner, but his wife's “sex worker” past is confusing some people. A crazy road rage incident in Massachusetts. Drew gets road rage leaving Detroit Tigers games. Trudi paid $160 for parking on Opening Day. Kanye West's wife needs to put some clothes on. Russel Simmons' is totally cool with his daughter Aoki Simmons dating an old man for his money. Drew A.I. drops Rapper's Delight. Visit Our Presenting Sponsor Hall Financial – Michigan's highest rated mortgage company If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Page, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).

Russel Simmons's daughter who's in her twenties, makes headline after being seen by paparazzi's on the beach with a man 40 years older than her. Also, J Cole is in the news for making a diss track and then apologizing about it. learn more about this and more on the Rickey Smiley Morning ShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us on a hilarious and insightful journey as we dive deep into the life and experiences of the one and only Trevor Wallace! Hosted by yours truly Laura Clery, this podcast brings you exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and candid conversations with Trevor, known for his viral comedy sketches and stand-up performances.   Finding Laura Clery:  Read/Listen: Idiot & Idiots  Checkout our new Kids Show: Pammy's World  TikTok & Youtube & Facebook: @Laura Clery  Instagram: @lauraclery    Episode Breakdown:   -00:00 Make sure to follow and leave a comment to keep me going     -01:05 Way of words   -02:15 Liked watching TikTok   -03:19 Met years ago   -03:40 Went to film school   -04:30 Shy and Introverted   -06:30 Never (Drugs)   -08:16 Thought her the ropes   -09:59 I wanted to do everything   -10:32 Yes to things   -11:00 He was a loser   -11:48 College started making videos   -12:05 People gonna hate   -12:50 It hurts when it hits insecurities   -13:43 Russel Simmons   -14:13 He would yell at me   -15:25 Pamela Pocket   -17:10 Bad sitcom   -20:40 Garry Indiana   -21:01 Dating Apps   -22:04 Never a fan of Dating Apps   -22:29 Worst date   -22:45 Funny, tall and blonde   -23:30 Looks catch personality stays   -25:30 How do you define god   -26:11 Karma is my Boyfriend   -26:27 Power of swifties could do   -29:29 A lot of friends   -30:42 Doing content and standup   -31:06 Get married tonight   -31:41 Fraternal Sunshine   -32:25 No one likes you   -34:00 I have a wish   -37:20 Natural Deodorant   -38:00 Make sure to follow and leave a comment with your questions about Manon's birth story

Background:Los Angeles Times: Behind the calamitous fall of hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' CombsLA Times: Russell Simmons and Brett Ratner face new allegations of sexual misconduct Reuters: R. Kelly challenge to sex abuse conviction draws skepticism from US appeals court The New York Times: Music Mogul Russell Simmons Is Accused of Rape by 3 WomenVariety: Russell Simmons Sued for Alleged Rape of Def Jam Producer in '90s Hollywood Reporter: Writer Jenny Lumet: Russell Simmons Sexually Violated Me (Guest Column) TMZ: Usher Vacations in Bali with Russell Simmons, Partakes in Yoga Session  AP News: Rapper Kodak Black gets probation in teen's assault caseHollywood Reporter: Russell Simmons Sued For Defamation By Former Def Jam Recordings ExecutiveThe New York Times: Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for DecadesBody And Soul featuring Sista Dee Barnes & Rose Almighty - directed by Tamra Davis 

Micah welcomes his friend Alex to the show and they don't waste anytime getting to the conversation. They start the show discussing whether or not it's appropriate for someone to tell their partner to delete their social media accounts and figuring out what type of boundaries should be set in the relationship. Switching gears Micah and Alex discuss Donnie McClurkin's admission of wanting a spouse and a family but also feeling that he will be alone forever. This opens conversation centered around navigating faith and sexuality. Micah and Alex have a spirited debate about respectability politics and why some people desire to be more palatable to white people. The big top of the day is Usher's recent trip to visit Russel Simmons in Bali. This conversation is centered around how you show up for problematic friends, what does accountability look like and the overall dismantling of abuse culture. Let's have the conversation. Join our email list. https://bit.ly/3puGcHk   Watch Conversations the For The Culture on Youtube   https://bit.ly/3PYyMrZ   Follow the show on Instagram   https://instagram.com/convosfortheculture   Follow Micah on Instagram   https://instagram.com/itsmicahb Follow Alex on Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/xandert82 If you want to contribute to the show you can below.   CashApp - $ConvosFTC   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/convosfortheculture/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/convosfortheculture/support

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The one and only Zahlid Mohammad is back in the RO World to unpack:Wahlid is UP!Russel Simmons is up-side downWahlid joins forces with AIThe day Wahlid's dad dipped outWahlid's fake rolexForcing Kev On Stage to say the F-WordVideo version live this weekend! Stay posted to our TwitterMore video content, Merch, RO Snapchat Show on RandomOrder.orgTweet us and follow us InstagramLike the show? SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Random Order on:» Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/random-order-podcast» Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mO9AL0wCGeF6hFEa7MhoV Advertise on Random Order via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This episode, Trey freestyles off the dome then we seriously discuss:Punching a DoorThe longest order in Chick-Fil-A historySheldon gets down in silkSleeping with your neck openWHAT has Russel Simmons done now?Julian must be stopped: hotel gym editionVIDEO VERSION of this episode live Saturday 7:30AM!More video content, Merch, RO Snapchat Show on RandomOrder.orgTweet us and follow us InstagramLike the show? SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Random Order on:» Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/random-order-podcast» Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mO9AL0wCGeF6hFEa7MhoV Advertise on Random Order via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We are back! To begin we share updates on our lives this past month. Shanti shares her new relationship status, takes an art class and awaits for summer to actually begin. Meanwhile, Antoinette realizes the power of flirting like a Disney Princess and recounts a fight in her hot yoga class. Together we discuss the downfall of Russel Simmons, the drama of Queer Ultimatum and listen to caller voicemails. Join us...Do you have a question or comment you'd like to share with us? Join us on Discord or call in and leave a message!Hotline: (215) 948-2780Discord: https://discord.gg/v5Q8HkRp Email: aroundthewaycurls@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/aroundthewaycurls for exclusive videos & bonus contentShop ATWC Merch: https://www.aroundthewaycurls.com/collectionsThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4167099/advertisement

Happy Summer nieces & nephews!This week, your favorite aunties Bridget Kelly and Mandii B have some grown, honest, and slightly toxic conversations and help you get your week started off the right way with their music playlist Freshly Squeezed Segment (1:29:00). (5:10) Mandii recaps the romantic date she had that restored her fate in the dating pool for this summer(19:00) BK shares what she's growing in her herb garden(21:00) Grown segment: Missy Elliot appreciation(26:00) What does it look like to give legends their flowers while they are alive? (33:00) Billionaires and a submarine (38:00) Why have we normalized not feeling sympathy for the “rich” or for anyone who has more than us? (53:00) Mandii apologizes to Johnathon Majors and includes Complex article that lays out the evidence in favor of his case (1:10:00) Updates about Kimora Lee Simmons & Russel Simmons “co-parenting”(1:27:00) Different type of abuse and the role that child support plays to aid weaponize money leading to financial abuse (1:29:00) Freshly Squeezed---------------------------Sponsors of the show: European Wax Center: Whoever you are, whatever you wax, you deserve to feel smooth at European Wax Center. Make a reservation today and your first wax is on them! Zoc Doc: Go to zocdoc.com/STTI and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours.---------------------------LINKS:

How did you celebrate your Juneteenth? Well it seems some people still don't get the holiday.  The greatest weatherman in the world passed this week and right after we finished recording we learned the fate of the missing sub..    But the internet doesn't care!! What is going on with Russel Simmons?  The crew discuss his issues. 

In this week, I interview the amazing Kim Nicol who is known in San Francisco for bringing meditation and mindfulness to fast-growing tech start-ups, hacker houses, attorneys, and Fortune 500 executives. A former lawyer, Kim's practical approach and calming presence have made her a favorite among analytical thinkers. I first met Kim almost five years when she invited a group of us to a meditation session. Kim was probably one of the first people to introduce meditation and mindfulness to me. I remember after the session feeling so powerful, expansive, and clear-headed. Kim explained to the group the science and benefits of mindfulness training, and then left the group with a profound question: “if you all feel this amazing right now and you understand all the benefits from mindfulness training, then why aren't you doing it everyday?”I heard her say this and I myself couldn't answer the question. My answer or excuse was, “I don't have time,” or “I don't want to make the time.” And the truth of the matter, was sitting in silence and being “mindful” was difficult for me. I remember hearing Russel Simmons, the CEO of Def Jam records at one time, say that if you can't sit and practice mindfulness training for 20 minutes, then you should be doing it for two hours.

In this week, I interview the amazing Kim Nicol who is known in San Francisco for bringing meditation and mindfulness to fast-growing tech start-ups, hacker houses, attorneys, and Fortune 500 executives. A former lawyer, Kim's practical approach and calming presence have made her a favorite among analytical thinkers. I first met Kim almost five years when she invited a group of us to a meditation session. Kim was probably one of the first people to introduce meditation and mindfulness to me. I remember after the session feeling so powerful, expansive, and clear-headed. Kim explained to the group the science and benefits of mindfulness training, and then left the group with a profound question: “if you all feel this amazing right now and you understand all the benefits from mindfulness training, then why aren't you doing it everyday?”I heard her say this and I myself couldn't answer the question. My answer or excuse was, “I don't have time,” or “I don't want to make the time.” And the truth of the matter, was sitting in silence and being “mindful” was difficult for me. I remember hearing Russel Simmons, the CEO of Def Jam records at one time, say that if you can't sit and practice mindfulness training for 20 minutes, then you should be doing it for two hours.

On this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the Guru of Popular Music, Rick Rubin. This music producer took on mythological status by launching Def Jam records out of his dorm room in New York and pioneering hip hop alongside Russel Simmons. But his story doesn't end there. Over the past 40 years, he has won endless Grammy awards in the genres of hard rock, rap, and country. Every strange (but amazing crossover) from Jonny Cash covering “Hurt” to Run DMC teaming up with Aerosmith were all thanks to Rubin. He may look like a hippie guru who only wants you to get in touch with your inner self—but that's only because that's exactly what he is. Visit our Sources: https://www.openculture.com/2021/12/rick-rubin-the-invisibility-of-hip-hops-greatest-producer.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin_production_discography https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rick-rubin-60-minutes-video-2023-01-15/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rick-rubin-my-life-in-21-songs-26024/

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THIS WEEK: Night Owl (1993), The Addiction (1995), and Nadja (1994)Three filmmakers. Three films. Three black and white vampire movies from the mid-90s. Sounds like a good episode theme (and it helps us exclude Vampire in Brooklyn). It's art house meets bat house! It's Abel Ferrara reminding us that he knows Russel Simmons! It's David Lynch playing a security guard! What else could you possibly ask for?

2 corrections. 1) Russel Simmons is the Older brother of Joseph Simmons. 2) The metaphorical "You" in the message gets sent to jail for robbery not drugs in The Message.

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Mon invitée est considérée comme l'une des pionnières du Hip Hop en France. Anne-Valérie Atlan dite VALOU GOLD a croisé la route de PUBLIC ENNEMY, PUFF DADDY, DR DRE, ICE CUBE, LL COOL J, MARIAH CAREY, ALLIYAH et BEYONCE… mais aussi celles de RUSSEL SIMMONS et CLIVE DAVIS: c'est ce qu'on appelle avoir un réseau en or ! Justement cette entrepreneure créative a aussi produit l'historique tournée de l'âge d'or du rap français. Aujourd'hui, elle concilie ses précieuses expériences du business et de l'artistique pour les transmettre aux talents de demain. La voix d'Anne-Valérie est comme elle : franche, sensible et lumineuse… Elle est une voix qui porte ! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Not only is Howie a client but also a close friend. Howie comes from Brownsville Brooklyn NY were he later moved to Fort Lee New Jersey and now a Livingston resident. Being an expert in the apparel space landed him deals with some of the hottest celebrities in the world. Watch episode 33 to hear some awesome stories from Howie's career.

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at the achievements, impacts, and allegations against the original Hip-Hop mogul, Russell Simmons. A young Simmons fell in love the new art form of rap and immediately took charge of the genre's future. He signed Kurtis Blow from his dorm room on to a label that didn't exist, and he hustled every DJ in New York until he got him a record deal. From there, he created Def Jam records and was architect to the success of acts such as Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, and LL Cool J. He produced movies, reinvented stand up, created a fashion line, and put poetry slams on the map. In 2018, he stepped down from all of his corporate ties due to multiple sexual assault claims. Even under that dark shadow, Simmons stands out as a cultural titan that every rap mogul since has imitated.   Visit Our Sources: https://www.biography.com/musician/russell-simmons https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/russell-simmons-40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Simmons https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/russell-simmons-sexual-assault-allegations-a-timeline-202515/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/arts/music/russell-simmons-rape.html https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest-rappers/russell-simmons-net-worth/

Enjoy this incredible episode of dope soul collective podcast with Abyss! Producer of Spring and 3rd the story of the Yin Yang Cafe later known as Apache Cafe, the heart of Atlanta and birthplace of a culture that influences everything! During this episode peabody award winning poet of Russel Simmons Def Poetry, Poet Abyss shares the story of an incredible part of Atlanta History and culture, The historic Yin Yang Cafe in  the heart of the city that  influences everything! The south definitely has something to say. And it's still speaking loudly to another generation through arts and culture.  Enjoy a taste  of the amazing culture of black excellence that is represented in Atlanta and specifically on Spring and third home of the Yin Yang and later Apache Cafe! Thanks to Abyss the voice of the south is being heard through his new film about Yin Yang cafe that would later become Apache Cafe in the heart of Atlanta. It was the home of neo-soul, new sounds, and wordsmiths producing the likes of India Arie, Anthony David, Bone Crusher, and Dres Tha Beatnik.  No one tells its story quite like Dope Soul Abyss! Abyss brings the fire and the heart to the Dope Soul Collective!  Not to mention Dres Tha Beatnik  also featured in this film is coming soon for y'all as well! Dope Soul Collective podcast is devoted to creating safe spaces where dope souls can vibe, connect, heal and grow because dope souls go through real shit. Life is filled with adversity , pain, grief and challenges. Join me and other dope souls as we share our journeys, stories in effort to inspire and empower you on your own journey!The Dope Soul Collective Podcast is dedicated to creating a safe space where dope souls can vibe, connect heal and grow. Because dope souls go through real shit. Just because we make it look easy, doesn't mean it hasn't been hard or heavy. Founder Trisheana Hunter provides a space where authenticity, truth, healing and enlightened endings can live and thrive. Listen as she interviews other dope souls from different backgrounds, experiences and walks of life as they share their journeys through the adversity, healing, creativity, setbacks and  growth that lead them to the dopeness they create in the world everyday! Come vibe with us! Be inspired and empowered to grow through your struggles, trials and pain in order to gain new insight into how to tap into the true dope soul you already are!Watch Spring  and 3rd on Tubi  -https://tubitv.com/movies/655756/spring-3rd-the-story-of-the-yin-yang-cafe Shop Spring and 3rd: www.springand3rd.com Follow Abyss on Instagram - @teamabyss @springand3rdDope Soul Collective Instagram @dopesoulcollectiveDope Soul Collective Podcast is a production of Moving  Mountains Coaching LLCVisit moving Mountains coaching~ www.movingmounainslifecoach.comIG- @movingmountainscoachFacebook: www.facebook.com/movingmountainscoachShout out to my dope ass teamMusic production courtesy of Listen Twice ProductionsPodcast editing & production courtesy of J. Immanuel ProductionsSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/movingmountains)Support the show

Enjoy this incredible episode of dope soul collective podcast with Abyss! Producer of Spring and 3rd the story of the Yin Yang Cafe later known as Apache Cafe, the heart of Atlanta and birthplace of a culture that influences everything! During this episode peabody award winning poet of Russel Simmons Def Poetry, Poet Abyss shares the story of an incredible part of Atlanta History and culture, The historic Yin Yang Cafe in  the heart of the city that  influences everything! The south definitely has something to say. And it's still speaking loudly to another generation through arts and culture.  Enjoy a taste  of the amazing culture of black excellence that is represented in Atlanta and specifically on Spring and third home of the Yin Yang and later Apache Cafe! Thanks to Abyss the voice of the south is being heard through his new film about Yin Yang cafe that would later become Apache Cafe in the heart of Atlanta. It was the home of neo-soul, new sounds, and wordsmiths producing the likes of India Arie, Anthony David, Bone Crusher, and Dres Tha Beatnik.  No one tells its story quite like Dope Soul Abyss! Abyss brings the fire and the heart to the Dope Soul Collective!  Not to mention Dres Tha Beatnik  also featured in this film is coming soon for y'all as well! Dope Soul Collective podcast is devoted to creating safe spaces where dope souls can vibe, connect, heal and grow because dope souls go through real shit. Life is filled with adversity , pain, grief and challenges. Join me and other dope souls as we share our journeys, stories in effort to inspire and empower you on your own journey!The Dope Soul Collective Podcast is dedicated to creating a safe space where dope souls can vibe, connect heal and grow. Because dope souls go through real shit. Just because we make it look easy, doesn't mean it hasn't been hard or heavy. Founder Trisheana Hunter provides a space where authenticity, truth, healing and enlightened endings can live and thrive. Listen as she interviews other dope souls from different backgrounds, experiences and walks of life as they share their journeys through the adversity, healing, creativity, setbacks and  growth that lead them to the dopeness they create in the world everyday! Come vibe with us! Be inspired and empowered to grow through your struggles, trials and pain in order to gain new insight into how to tap into the true dope soul you already are!Watch Spring  and 3rd on Tubi  -https://tubitv.com/movies/655756/spring-3rd-the-story-of-the-yin-yang-cafe Shop Spring and 3rd: www.springand3rd.com Follow Abyss on Instagram - @teamabyss @springand3rdDope Soul Collective Instagram @dopesoulcollectiveDope Soul Collective Podcast is a production of Moving  Mountains Coaching LLCVisit moving Mountains coaching~ www.movingmounainslifecoach.comIG- @movingmountainscoachFacebook: www.facebook.com/movingmountainscoachShout out to my dope ass teamMusic production courtesy of Listen Twice ProductionsPodcast editing & production courtesy of J. Immanuel ProductionsSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/movingmountains)Support the show

Kimora Lee has been living life in the fab lane (Style Network 2007!) since she became a model at the tender age of 13. She has built an empire for herself and her five kids. Now if the men in her life could stop trying to tear it down. From joint ventures and split custody, legal battles and criminal investigations, Kimora could be living at peace in her House of Fab if it weren't for Russel Simmons, Djimon Honsu, and Tim Leissner.Melissa shared 3 clues to the next episode: BEVERLY HILLS, GRILL, CANDY!We are on YouTube! Subscribe to our channel and WATCH our episodes! https://bit.ly/3nfysJoFollow us on social media! We are @criminalityshow on IG/FB + TwitterYou can say hi and tell us what you're watching: criminalityshow@gmail.comEnjoy the show? Please rate/review then share with a friend because loving REALITY isn't a CRIME! https://podfollow.com/criminalitySOURCESBiz Journalhttps://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2015/04/21/celsius-lands-16m-celebrity-investment.htmlYahoohttps://www.yahoo.com/now/kimora-lee-simmons-argues-against-224400574.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/now/kimora-lee-simmons-argues-against-224400574.htmlNY Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/business/goldman-malaysia-1mdb-leissner.htmlYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGVTZs9SBsUWWDhttps://wwd.com/business-news/financial/kimora-lee-simmons-husband-tim-leissner-pleads-guilty-criminal-charges-1202896588/REUTERShttps://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ex-goldman-sachs-banker-1mdb-corruption-case-gets-smaller-ankle-bracelet-2021-07-20/VANITY FAIRhttps://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/05/russell-simmons-kimora-lee-tim-leissner-fraud-lawsuit-stock-transfer-money-laundering-bailThe Griohttps://thegrio.com/2020/05/08/russell-simmons-defends-dating-kimora-lee-simmons-as-a-teen/USA TODAYhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/26/kimora-lee-simmons-addresses-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-ex-russell-simmons/1068686001/Bloomberghttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-04-24/russell-simmons-wants-to-get-into-energy-drinksEUR webhttps://eurweb.com/2021/05/20/russell-simmons-suing-ex-wife-kimora-lee-over-celsius-energy-drink-stock/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kimora Lee has been living life in the fab lane (Style Network 2007!) since she became a model at the tender age of 13. She has built an empire for herself and her five kids. Now if the men in her life could stop trying to tear it down. From joint ventures and split custody, legal battles and criminal investigations, Kimora could be living at peace in her House of Fab if it weren't for Russel Simmons, Djimon Honsu, and Tim Leissner. Melissa shared 3 clues to the next episode: BEVERLY HILLS, GRILL, CANDY! We are on YouTube! Subscribe to our channel and WATCH our episodes! https://bit.ly/3nfysJo Follow us on social media! We are @criminalityshow on IG/FB + Twitter You can say hi and tell us what you're watching: criminalityshow@gmail.com Enjoy the show? Please rate/review then share with a friend because loving REALITY isn't a CRIME! https://podfollow.com/criminality SOURCES Biz Journal https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2015/04/21/celsius-lands-16m-celebrity-investment.html Yahoo  https://www.yahoo.com/now/kimora-lee-simmons-argues-against-224400574.html https://www.yahoo.com/now/kimora-lee-simmons-argues-against-224400574.html NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/business/goldman-malaysia-1mdb-leissner.html YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGVTZs9SBsU WWD https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/kimora-lee-simmons-husband-tim-leissner-pleads-guilty-criminal-charges-1202896588/ REUTERS https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ex-goldman-sachs-banker-1mdb-corruption-case-gets-smaller-ankle-bracelet-2021-07-20/ VANITY FAIR https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/05/russell-simmons-kimora-lee-tim-leissner-fraud-lawsuit-stock-transfer-money-laundering-bail The Grio https://thegrio.com/2020/05/08/russell-simmons-defends-dating-kimora-lee-simmons-as-a-teen/  USA TODAY https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/26/kimora-lee-simmons-addresses-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-ex-russell-simmons/1068686001/ Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-04-24/russell-simmons-wants-to-get-into-energy-drinks EUR web https://eurweb.com/2021/05/20/russell-simmons-suing-ex-wife-kimora-lee-over-celsius-energy-drink-stock/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys hang out in the world of hip hop to discuss the impact of Slick Rick and examine the one bad decision that sent him to jail for way too long. Support the show on Patreon!  SHOW NOTES: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/24/slick-rick-you-learn-from-prison-time-what-doesnt-kill-you-makes-you-stronger https://universalattractions.com/artists/slick-rick/ https://blackdoctor.org/slick-rick-eye/ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/nyregion/at-50-slick-rick-a-hip-hop-pioneer-still-has-stories-to-tell.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slick_Rick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show_(Doug_E._Fresh_song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Di_Da_Di Rick and Russell interview: https://youtu.be/bV8Ln38Iopc https://www.complex.com/music/the-best-rapper-alive-every-year-since-1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source#The_Source's_Five-Mic_albums

If Kent M$ney's name doesn't ring an immediate bell take a look at his past discography and you'll be impressed with his track record. Having appeared on tracks with the likes of Frank Ocean, Kid Cudi and Ty Dolla $ign among others he has built an incredible body of solo works that have helped him over the last decade keep his movement and journey under his own independent control. He joins us this week to recap most his career up to this point including his origins in Surf Club, his time with HS87, and some of his favorite projects to work on such as 2014's “Crowned” which caught the attention of Russel Simmons and All Def Digital giving Kent a platform to bring the tracks to life through a series of visual art pieces. With a new album in that is three years in the making he's been in the studio with Hit-Boy, Jansport J and our former guest HazeBanga who are helping him carve out the next chapter of his story. As huge fans of his work this was nothing short of a milestone and we welcome Kent back anytime as his success and fortitude continues to grow organically! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/provenknowledge/support

On this week's BONUS episode we talk with Larry Starks. Comedian Larry Starks has been acting, producing content, writing, and performing stand up comedy for over 9 years. After numerous requests to hit the stage from friends and family, Larry finally gave it a shot. As a result popularity gained from around town being “The funny guy” he didn't have to perform at the usual open mic to get his shot. Larry's first time ever performing stand up comedy on stage was his own show to a sold out crowd. Still working in the open mic circuit to enhance his craft he worked his way to being a paid regular at Comedy Off Broadway (his home club). Along with making a name for himself in standup comedy, he is also making a name for himself in the social media world creating comedy content that went viral several times generating millions of views. Content that has made several blogs and websites such as worldstarhiphop.com and Comedy hype even working on several occasions with the social media juggernaut Russel Simmons' All Def Digital. Follow Larry at Facebook: @Comedian Larry Starks Instagram: @starkstwo7 Twitter: @starks27 Watch The Blerd Dad Podcast LIVE! Mondays at 8:15PM EST on Facebook: @levelupcomedydc Twitch: @levelupcomedy Twitter: @GinnyMac25 . . . #blerddad #blerd #blerdlife #podcast #blerdpodcast #blerddadpodcast #TeamLevelUp #nerdy #BLERDS #dad #dadlife #newdad #newdadlife #comedy #funnydad #levelupcomedy #glennlawrence #fatherhood --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, our favorite girl with a pony tail gets hitched, a hip hop power couple is being accused of abuse and Russel Simmons is accusing a famous ex of fraud.  Oh yeah.. we are in LOVE with the new Halston series! Call the Press 2 hotline anytime 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 832.390.0279 or email questions to press2podcast@outlook.com   Follow @Press2Podcast on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and don't forget to hit "Subscribe" to hang out with Stan and Bruce every week! 

WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE!!!!! Well I had the longest week ever and Su went to Cali for her dads bday in this weeks Life Chronicles (2:10). Patron drinkers and people that judge an establishment by its non featured items are getting the smoke in this weeks Smoke w/Smilez (14:50). Hot Topics: RIP Pau Mooney; PC culture killing comedy; the Holy War continues; Kimora Lee v Russel Simmons; the loosely use of the word "friend" (23:50). RQOTD: What is something that people consider sexy during sex that you think is annoying or you see as unattractive? (1:22:23). Women decide when we have sex, men decide when to get married? (1:32:24). RATE, SUBSCRIBE, AND TELL A FRIEND OR TWO If you have anything you want to be discussed on the show hit up @speakmannyspeakpod on Instagram or email us at speakmannyspeak@gmail.com Manny: IG & Twitter @manny2n1ce Smilez: IG @smilez2tz Su: IG @simply_su Jas: IG & Twitter @muted_emotions --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/speakmannyspeak/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/speakmannyspeak/support

We can look around at distributed banking, crypto-currencies, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, and so many other innovative business strategies as new and exciting and innovative. And they are. But paving the way for them was simplifying online payments to what I've heard Elon Musk call just some rows in a database.  Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and former Netscaper Luke Nosek had this idea in 1998. Levchin and Nosek has worked together on a startup called SponsorNet New Media while at the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana where PLATO and Mosaic had come out of. And SponsorNet was supposed to sell online banner ads but would instead be one of four failed startups before zeroing in on this new thing, where they would enable digital payments for businesses and make it simple for consumers to buy things online. They called the company Confinity and setup shop in beautiful Mountain View, California. It was an era when a number of organizations were doing things in taking payments online that weren't so great. Companies would cache credit card numbers on sites, many had weak security, and the rush to sell everything  in the bubble forming around dot-coms fueled a knack for speed over security, privacy, or even reliability.  Confinity would store the private information in its own banking vaults, keep it secure, and provide access to vendors - taking a small charge per-transaction. Where large companies had been able to build systems to take online payments, now small businesses and emerging online stores could compete with the big boys. Thiel and Levchin had hit on something when they launched a service called PayPal, to provide a digital wallet and enable online transactions. They even accepted venture funding, taking $3 million from banks like Deutsche Bank over Palm Pilots. One of those funders was Nokia, investing in PayPal expanding into digital services for the growing mobile commerce market. And by 2000 they were up to 1,000,000 users.  They saw an opening to make a purchase from a browser on a phone or a browser or app on a cell phone using one of those new smart phone ideas. And they were all rewarded with over 10 million people using the site in just three short years, processing a whopping $3 billion in transactions.  Now this was the heart of the dot-com bubble. In that time, Elon Musk managed to sell his early startup Zip2, which made city guides on the early internet, to Compaq for around $300 million, pocketing $22 million for himself. He parlayed that payday into X.com, another online payment company. X.com exploded to over 200,000 customers quickly and as happens frequently with rapid acceleration, a young Musk found himself with a new boss - Bill Harris, the former CEO of Intuit.  And they helped invent many of the ways we do business online at that time. One of my favorite of Levchin's contributions to computing, the Gausebeck-Levchin test, is one of the earliest implementations of what we now call CAPTCHA - you know when you're shown a series of letters and asked to type them in to eliminate bots.  Harris helped the investors de-risk by merging with Confinity to form X.com. Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are larger than life minds in Silicon Valley. The two were substantially different. Musk took on the CEO role but Musk and Thiel were at heads. Thiel believed in a Linux ecosystem and Musk believed in a Windows ecosystem. Thiel wanted to focus on money transfers, similar to the PayPal of today. Given that those were just rows in a database, it was natural that that kind of business would become a red ocean and indeed today there are dozens of organizations focused on it. But Paypal remains the largest. So Musk also wanted to become a full online banking system - much more ambitious. Ultimately Thiel won and assumed the title of CEO.  They remained a money transmitter and not a full bank. This means they keep funds that have been sent and not picked up, in an interest bearing account at a bank.  They renamed the company to PayPal in 2001 and focused on taking the company public, with an IPO as PYPL in 2002. The stock shot up 50% in the first day of trading, closing at $20 per share. Yet another example of the survivors of the dot com bubble increasing the magnitude of valuations. By then, most eBay transactions accepted PayPal and seeing an opportunity, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion later in 2002. Suddenly PayPal was the default option for closed auctions and would continue their meteoric rise. Musk is widely reported to have made almost $200 million when eBay bought PayPal and Thiel is reported to have made over $50 million.  Under eBay, PayPal would grow and as with most companies that IPO, see a red ocean form in their space. But they brought in people like Ken Howery, who serve as the VP of corporate development, would later cofound investment firm Founders Fund with Thiel, and then become the US Ambassador to Sweden under Trump. And he's the first of what's called the PayPal Mafia, a couple dozen extremely influential personalities in tech.  By 2003, PayPal had become the largest payment processor for gambling websites. Yet they walked away from that business to avoid some of the complicated regulations until various countries that could verify a license for online gambling venues.  In 2006 they added security keys and moved to sending codes to phones for a second factor of security validation. In 2008 they bought Fraud Sciences to gain access to better online risk management tools and Bill Me Later. As the company grew, they setup a company in the UK and began doing business internationally. They moved their EU presence to Luxembourg 2007. They've often found themselves embroiled in politics, blocking the any political financing accounts, Alex Jones show InfoWars, and one of the more challenging for them, WikiLeaks in 2010. This led to them being attacked by members of Anonymous for a series of denial of service attacks that brought the PayPal site down. OK, so that early CAPTCHA was just one way PayPal was keeping us secure. It turns out that moving money is complicated, even the $3 you paid for that special Golden Girls t-shirt you bought for a steal on eBay. For example, US States require reporting certain transactions, some countries require actual government approval to move money internationally, some require a data center in the country, like Turkey. So on a case-by-case basis PayPal has had to decide if it's worth it to increase the complexity of the code and spend precious development cycles to support a given country. In some cases, they can step in and, for example, connect the Baidu wallet to PayPal merchants in support of connecting China to PayPal.  They were spun back out of eBay in 2014 and acquired Xoom for $1 billion in 2015, iZettle for $2.2 billion, who also does point of sales systems. And surprisingly they bought online coupon aggregator Honey for $4B in 2019. But their best acquisition to many would be tiny app payment processor Venmo for $26 million. I say this because a friend claimed they prefer that to PayPal because they like the “little guy.” Out of nowhere, just a little more than 20 years ago, the founders of PayPal and they and a number of their initial employees willed a now Fortune 500 company into existence. While they were growing, they had to learn about and understand so many capital markets and regulations. This sometimes showed them how they could better invest money. And many of those early employees went on to have substantial impacts in technology. That brain drain helped fuel the Web 2.0 companies that rose.  One of the most substantial ways was with the investment activities. Thiel would go on to put $10 million of his money into Clarium Capital Management, a hedge fund, and Palantir, a big data AI company with a focus on the intelligence industry, who now has a $45 billion market cap. And he funded another organization who doesn't at all use our big private data for anything, called Facebook. He put half a million into Facebook as an angel investor - an investment that has paid back billions. He's also launched the Founders Fund, Valar Venture, and is a partner at Y Combinator, in capacities where he's funded everyone from LinkedIn and Airbnb to Stripe to Yelp to Spotify, to SpaceX to Asana and the list goes on and on and on.  Musk has helped take so many industries online. Why not just apply that startup modality to space - so launched SpaceX and to cars, so helped launch (and backed financially) Tesla and solar power, so launched Solar City and building tunnels so launched The Boring Company. He dabbles in Hyperloops (thus the need for tunnels) and OpenAI and well, whatever he wants. He's even done cameos in movies like Iron Man. He's certainly a personality.  Max Levchin would remain the CTO and then co-found and become the CEO of Affirm, a public fintech company.  David Sacks was the COO at PayPal and founded Yammer. Roelof Botha is the former CFO at PayPal who became a partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the top venture capital firms. Yishan Wong was an engineering manager at PayPal who became the CEO of Reddit. Steve Chen left to join Facebook but hooked back up with Jawed Karim for a new project, who he studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with. They were joined by Chad Hurley, who had created the original PayPal logo, to found YouTube. They sold it to Google for $1.65 billion in 2006. Hurley now owns part of the Golden State Warriors, the MLS Los Angeles team, and Leeds United. Reid Hoffman was another COO at PayPal, who Thiel termed the “firefighter-in-chief” and left to found LinkedIn. After selling LinkedIn to Microsoft for over $26 billion he become a partner at venture capital firm, Greylock Partners.  Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons co-founded Yelp with $1 million in funding from Max Levchin, taking the company public in 2011. And the list goes on. PayPal paved the way for small transactions on the Internet. A playbook repeated in different parts of the sector by the likes of Square, Stripe, Dwolla, Due, and many others - including Apple Pay, Amazon Payments, and Google Wallet. We live in an era now, where practically every industry has been taken online. Heck, even cars. In the next episode we'll look at just that, exploring the next steps in Elon Musk's career after leaving PayPal. 

The year is ‘94! Imagine Jay-Z getting pulled over by the cops possibly doing some real jail time while Nas & Biggie are preparing to drop some of their best work of their careers. Puff attempted to sign Nas & Mobb Deep, B.I.G. felt Puff was taking too long with the deal money, and Russel Simmons passed on Nas at Def Jam. Fate would have it that Jay-Z and B.I.G. would become great friends as Nas & Hov would become frenemies.In Episode 3, Icy Johnson and I discuss the longevity of Ready to Die vs Illmatic. Illmatic is critically acclaimed as arguably the best Hip-Hop album of all time. We cannot take that from Nas AT ALL!!! What we can do is asses how good Ready to Die matches up against Illmatic. We thought about Outkast & Raekwon’s first albums but it is unfair to compare their albums to Nas’ first album which only had one feature. This podcast is no knock to Illmatic. This podcast is not saying it Ready to Die was better. This podcast is saying both albums are the first display of work from both artists. Illmatic reached the plateau of the golden years of hip-hop which embodied Jazz, Boom-Bap, and Witty Lyricism while Puff wanted the East Coast back with the same sounds that built the West Coast. Using Funk with heavy baselines Puff found a way to create the backdrop of Bad Boy along with Easy Moe Bee. The next time you listen to Illmatic remember Ready to Die came out the same year. Then, when you listen to Ready to Die listen to Doggystyle to see how it mirrors Doggystyle. Episode 3 is here!!!

On this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we look at the one and only kings of rock, the immortal Run-DMC. Composed of DJ Run (Joseph Simmons), DMC (Darryl McDaniels), Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizzel), this trio set the world of Hip Hop on fire and managed to take it from streets and dance clubs to the entire world. Without Run-DMC, Russel Simmons, and their unique take on style and marketing, the rap world would be an entirely different place. The three of them met each other as teens in Hollis, Queens, New York. When Run was only 17, he worked with the legendary Kurtis Blow thanks to his promoter/producer brother Russel Simmons. Eventually, Run, DMC, and JMJ wanted to record together, but it took them some convincing to get Russel on board. He changed their name to Run-DMC, insisted they keep a street looking style, and the rest was rap history. They started release hit after hit, becoming the first rap albums to make national attention and even get played on MTV. They had a lucrative deal with Adidas since that was their signature style. They were part of the recording and touring stable of Def Jam records along with LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, and the Fat Boys. They starred in movies, rejuvenated the career of Aerosmith, and merged rock and rap in ways nobody had done sense. So why did they break up? What made Run change his stage name? What helped cure DMC of his years long depression? Why did they team up with the unlikely Aerosmith? Why was Jam Master Jay Murdered? Did it have to do with a 50 Cent beef or a massive drug deal? Listen, laugh, learn.   Visit our Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-DMC https://www.rundmc.com/ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/run-d-m-c/ http://www.oldschoolhiphop.com/artists/emcees/rundmc.htm https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6296910/how-run-dmc-changed-rap-game-in-1984 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102675250 https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/aerosmith-run-dmc-and-story-behind-walk-way/582220/ https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/903335189/two-men-charged-in-cold-case-murder-of-jam-master-jay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Master_Jay https://www.songfacts.com/facts/run-dmc  

Let’s talk about the predatory behavior of Russel Simmons, LA Reid and Tory Lanez. We need you to stand up black men in every space whether at work, in the military, at college or on the street and protect us! We need men that will check and expose other men that harm black girls and women! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ortandia/support

Enjoy this exclusive interview with G-funk, west coast hip-hop legend Warren G. We talk about his history, 213, Russel Simmons and Def Jam, Tupac ,new music, and his new BBQ brand "Sniffin Griffins BBQ". Warren Griffin III (born November 10, 1970), known professionally as Warren G, is an American rapper and record producer who, aiding the G-funk sound, assisted West Coast rap's 1990s ascent. In 1990, he had formed with Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg a trio, 213. Topping his seven Top 40 hits the 1994 single "Regulate," Warren's duet with Nate, was a massive hit. Earlier, despite his teenage jailings in his California hometown Long Beach, having pioneering gangsta rapper Dr. Dre for older stepbrother, and having standout lyricist Snoop for groupmate, Warren G took a unique path into the rap subgenre G-funk's success. Sniffin Griffin's BBQ: https://sniffingriffinsbbq.com New Music: http://www.warreng.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/keyed-up/support

Kiara and Judah discuss Andrews Guardado, Elijah McClain, Vanessa Guillen, Minneapolis Abolish Police, Sex Trafficking Cops, Mr.Keung, Wendy Firestarter, Aunt Jemima, Black Business, Tidal, Revolt, & Russel Simmons, Mental change, Get Nancy Pelosi out!, NY votes are in, NJ Vote July 7th, & My Tweet Explained.

In this episode, we chop it up with Bay Area legend Richie Rich. We discuss everything from his friendship with the late Tupac Shakur to Russel Simmons. We also have a gift for you. Get 15% off Raycon Earbudsby visiting http://www.BUYRAYCON.com/SAL101

S2 E2 Now is the time to re-evaluate some things. Make the necessary changes. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Understand it's okay to "Do You" like Russel Simmons says. You can't "re-invent the wheel", but be open to re-inventing yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nonieb/support

I am glad Harvey Weinstein have found guilty of sexual harassment and rape. He have been sentenced for 23 years in prison. Are they going to banned his movies like they did to Bill Cosby. Oprah and Gayle have to be very careful. moving forward. According Hollywierd insiders Oprah and Gayle are lover allegedly. Those two MAMMIE have been very critical of powerful black men like Micheal Jackson, Bill Cosby, Russel Simmons, Koby Bryant. I wonder if Oprah is going to make a documentary on Harvey Weinstein sexual escapade in Hollywood. I doubt it

In this week, I interview the amazing Kim Nicol who is known in San Francisco for bringing meditation and mindfulness to fast-growing tech start-ups, hacker houses, attorneys, and Fortune 500 executives. A former lawyer, Kim's practical approach and calming presence have made her a favorite among analytical thinkers. I first met Kim almost five years when she invited a group of us to a meditation session. Kim was probably one of the first people to introduce meditation and mindfulness to me. I remember after the session feeling so powerful, expansive, and clear-headed. Kim explained to the group the science and benefits of mindfulness training, and then left the group with a profound question: “if you all feel this amazing right now and you understand all the benefits from mindfulness training, then why aren't you doing it everyday?”I heard her say this and I myself couldn't answer the question. My answer or excuse was, “I don't have time,” or “I don't want to make the time.” And the truth of the matter, was sitting in silence and being “mindful” was difficult for me. I remember hearing Russel Simmons, the CEO of Def Jam records at one time, say that if you can't sit and practice mindfulness training for 20 minutes, then you should be doing it for two hours.

Topics: A Black Renaissance?, Mariah Carey, House Party, In Living Color / The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Bonus Artist: hidingtobefound)     1990 General Snapshots   1.    George Bush Sr. President   2.    January - United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrenders to American forces.   3.    January - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.   4.    January - Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.   5.    February - James "Buster" Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson to win the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.   6.    February - A smoking ban takes effect on all domestic U.S. flights of less than six hours.   7.    March - Greyhound bus drivers’ strike for higher pay.   8.    April - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.   9.    June - Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian cities and 8 U.S. cities.   10.    July - George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.   11.    August - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.   12.    September - Chris Rock makes Saturday Night Live debut.   13.    October - Evander Holyfield defeats James "Buster" Douglas to become the heavyweight boxing champion.   14.    November - Sharon Pratt Kelly is elected Mayor of the District of Columbia, becoming the first black woman to head a major U.S. city. She takes office January 2, 1991.   15.    Top 3 Pop Songs   16.    #1    "Hold On"    Wilson Phillips   17.    #2    "It Must Have Been Love"    Roxette   18.    #3    "Nothing Compares 2 U"    Sinéad O'Connor   19.    Record of the Year - "Another Day in Paradise" – Phil Collins   20.    Album of the Year - Quincy Jones (producer & artist) for Back on the Block   21.    Song of the Year - "From a Distance" performed by Bette Midler   22.    Best New Artist - Mariah Carey   23.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female - Anita Baker for Compositions   24.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male - Luther Vandross for "Here and Now"   25.    Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group - Ray Charles & Chaka Khan for "I'll Be Good to You"   26.    Best Rhythm & Blues Song - "U Can't Touch This" performed by M.C. Hammer   27.    Best Rap Solo Performance - M.C. Hammer for "U Can't Touch This" 28.    Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group - Big Daddy Kane, Ice T, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel, Quincy D. III & Quincy Jones for "Back on the Block"   29.    Top 3 Movies   30.    #1 Ghost   31.    #2 Home Alone   32.    # 3 Pretty Woman   33.    Other Notables:   34.    Top 3 TV Shows   35.    Cheers   36.    60 Minutes   37.    Roseanne   38.    Debuts: In Living Color, True Colors, Brewster Place, The Fresh Prince   39.    Economic Snapshots   40.    New Home: 123k (previously 120K)   41.    Avg Rent: 465 (425)   42.    Avg. Income: 29k (27K)   43.    New Car: 16k (15K)   44.    Harvard: 13.5k (12.7k)   45.    Movie Ticket: 4 3.50 - same   46.    Gas: 1.34 (.97)   47.    Stamp: .25 (.25)   48.    Social Scene: Pop Culture Dominance and Influence   49.    Politics: Colin Powell, Douglas Wilder, Congressional Black Caucus @ 25 (John Lewis 2nd term)   50.    Business: Ebony/Jet, Russel Simmons, Reginald F. Lewis   51.    Sports: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr.   52.    Music: Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney, Janet Jackson, MC Hammer, Anita Baker   53.    Movies: Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Robert Townsend   54.    Television: Oprah (Daytime), Cosby (Prime time), Aresnio (Nighttime)   55.    Open Comments:   56.    Question: Assimilation? OK, but who is changing who? Are we changing America or is America Changing us?   57.    Music Scene   58.    Black Songs from the Top 40   59.    #4    "Poison"    Bell Biv DeVoe   60.    #6    "Vision of Love"    Mariah Carey   61.    #8    "Hold On"    En Vogue   62.    #11    "Do Me!"    Bell Biv DeVoe   63.    #13    "Pump Up the Jam"    Technotronic   64.    #14    "Opposites Attract"    Paula Abdul and The Wild Pair   65.    #15    "Escapade"    Janet Jackson   66.    #17    "Close to You"    Maxi Priest   67.    #21    "All Around the World"    Lisa Stansfield   68.    #22    "I Wanna Be Rich"    Calloway   69.    #23    "Rub You the Right Way"    Johnny Gill   70.    #24    "She Ain't Worth It"    Glenn Medeiros and Bobby Brown   71.    #26    "The Power"    Snap!   72.    #30    "Two to Make It Right"    Seduction   73.    #33    "Step by Step"    New Kids on the Block   74.    #36    "I Don't Have the Heart"    James Ingram   75.    #38    "Rhythm Nation"    Janet Jackson   76.    #41    "Everything"    Jody Watley   77.    #42    "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"    Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler   78.    #43    "Here and Now"    Luther Vandross   79.    Top RnB Albums   80.    January Tender Lover Babyface   81.    January Back on the Block Quincy Jones   82.    April Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em MC Hammer   83.    June Poison Bell Biv DeVoe   84.    June Johnny Gill Johnny Gill   85.    August I'll Give All My Love to You Keith Sweat   86.    December I'm Your Baby Tonight Whitney Houston   87.    Featured Artist: Mariah Angela Carey, (Songbird) singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and philanthropist   88.    Childhood - Born to Patricia (Hickey), an Irish American mezzo-soprano opera singer, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer. They got divorced when Carey was only three. Her first public performance was at the age of six. By the age of sixteen, she was skipping classes to write songs and her brother, Morgan, paid for her first recording session. She finally graduated from Harborfields High School, in 1987.   89.    Career - Before Carey got her big break, she worked as a temp and juggled with a few odd jobs such as a beautician, hair sweeper in a salon, waitress and as a coat check girl. After several years of struggling, Carey began singing background vocals for the pop and salsa singer-songwriter Brenda Starr in the late 1980s. Additionally, Carey wrote four songs with Ben Margulies, which solely constituted her demo tape. Margulies was a drummer, guitarist, piano player and singer. (One of Margulies's bandmates went to high school with Mariah’s older brother) Starr ultimately helped Carey land a record contract by giving her demo tape to Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola. In 1988, Mottola signed her***.   90.    In June of 1990, her self-titled album, ‘Mariah Carey’, which contained four No.1 hits were released. It was the best-selling album of 1991 and has been certified nine times Platinum.   91.    Aside from her voice, she has become known for her songwriting. Yahoo Music editor Jason Ankeny wrote, "She earned frequent comparison to rivals Whitney Houston and Celine Dion but did them both one better by composing all of her own material." Also, according to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States. Additionally, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lists Carey as the third best-selling female artist of all-time behind Madonna, Rhianna, maybe Taylor Swift.   92.    Open Comments:   93.    Point #1 – Divas status is earned. (She stuck to her guns re: song writing / Dunked on everyone / Checked Eminem)   94.    Pont #2 – Studio performer, but not studio tricks.   95.    Point #3 – The Christmas Song   96.    Question: Is Mariah a "Soul" singer?   97.    Movie Scene: House Party,” …an infectious, engaging comedy starring the rap duo Kid 'N Play.”   98.    Plot: Although Kid has been grounded by his father, he sneaks out for a party at his friend Play's house. But Kid has no clue about the trouble that awaits him in the form of three thugs from school.   99.    Release date: March 9, 1990 / Rotten Tomatoes: 93% 4.5 Stars   100.    Budget - $2.5m, / Box office - $26.4m   101.    Open Comments:   102.    Point #1: Cast is great (Tisha & Martin broke out)   103.    Point #2: First truly successful "Hood" comedy franchise. (4! sequels)   104.    Point #3: Not possible without the success of Robert and Spike. Director said the project only got the green light because of the recent box office success of "black" movies.   105.    Question: What are some of your house party war stories?   106.    Television Scene   107.    #1 - In Living Color (1990–1994): [IMDB Rating: 8.1/10] Keenen Ivory Wayans (@ wasn't looking to do a TV show. In 1988, he was riding high on the success of his cult hit I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and contemplating his next movie. But he took a meeting with a fledgling network called Fox, which made an offer he couldn't refuse. "They told me I could do whatever I wanted," Wayans, 61, recalls. What he wanted was to do a show like Saturday Night Live only much, much edgier. Homey Da Clown, Homeboy Shopping Network, Men on Films, Fire Marshall Bill, Oswald Bates, Wanda, The Fly Girls — the skits Wayans and his mostly African American cast performed each week pushed the envelope not just of TV's color barrier but of TV comedy, won an Emmy and incubated the careers of stars Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Lopez, and several members of the Wayans family.   108.    Open Comments:   109.    Question: Chapelle or In Living Color?   110.    #2 - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996) [MDB Rating: 7.9/10]: A streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion.   111.    Open Comments   112.    Point #1 - Will and Jazzy were supposed to do the movie House Party   113.    Point #2 - Quincy is doing the most! - Fresh Prince, a collaboration of Quincy Jones and the then-married team of Andy and Susan Borowitz, was based loosely on the life of Will Smith’s then-manager Benny Medina (and on the lifestyle of Jones’ own family) and ran on NBC from 1990-96. NBC was wary of a project starring a rapper, and the show was derided at first by some for a lack of grit. Ultimately, critiques proved ignorant, as the sitcom became part of the cultural DNA of the 1990s. “The Cosbys were affluent,” said Quincy Jones in 2015, “but the Banks’ were wealthy. I don’t think you’d ever seen a wealthy African-American family on television until Fresh Prince, and you definitely hadn’t seen a kid from the hip-hop generation until Fresh Prince.”   114.    Open Comments:   115.    Question: Why wasn't this just "Different Strokes" - Pt. 2?   116.    Vote: Best/most important/favorite pop culture item from 1990?

In this episode, Charles goes in on Tyler Perry's Netflix movie A Fall From Grace, Oprah dropping her Russel Simmons doc, MLK Day, and more. 

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On Episode 17 we get right into the important stuff. How abt them mf Tennessee Titans!!!!! After Art calms down we dive into this music heavy episode. We kick things off with discussing Nipsey and Victory Lap going platinum after almost two years. We talk abt Shaggy vs Rihanna, Rick Ross latest interview and Drake and Future latest single/video. Are we here for Kendrick's rock oriented new album. We take credit for Oprah removing herself from the Russel Simmons doc because we did that lol. We also usher in a new segment which is hilarious. Contest details for my local people so please listen out for that. Most importantly log on to www.CantKnockThePod.com to purchase so merch because "Merch Is Here!!" Follow us on all social media @CantKnockThePod

My top ten for 2020, The most awkward celebrity death perhaps ever, The Royals come to Hollywood. Star Wars Rise of the Resistance preview, Russel Simmons hates a movie, Legalzoom referral code: Vandals

Yung Mil has done a lot in his career starting at a young age (pardon the pun). From performing on 106 & Park and sit downs with Russel Simmons and Kevin Liles to building a business in Aeon Visual. The Portland based artist jumps on the podcast to speak on his journey and motivations on the latest episode of Klyph Notes. Klyph Notes is supported by XRAY FM and Akepele Apparel  Music produced by Theory Hazit Subscribe to Klyph Notes on all your favorite podcast platforms

Show Host - Melanin King @melaninxking + Producer Prince Jeremy ( FOLLOW US ) Instagram @basicbsicuitsldn MERRRRRY CHRISTMAS!!! Tis the season to be shady and this week we get into..1. Rihanna drops major hints in regards to her long-awaiting album on Instagram while also battling the rumors of her and Asap Rocky 'Dating'. Melanin King isnt here for this at all!! What happened to the other dude? Are y'all feeling this new couple?...2. P.Diddy throws an extravagant 50th Birthday Party and everyone who is everyone was there. The cameras caught the awkwardness between Kanye West and Jay- Z in serval photos the men took together and ooh chile, it's so bait Jay Z still aint here for the newly found God Mr West.Jay Z was also seen snatching a phone from a partygoer that was filming Beyonce and by the look in the video, Jay Z looked like he was about to have a Solange Moment...Jhene Aiko and Big Sean were caught snapped together and some of the girls online were gagged but no shade it's getting boring now. Y'all out here releasing music about your ended relationship and then post up together. We are bored sis...3. Beyonce is being dragged for allegedly unpaying her dancers. A former dancer has claimed on Instagram recently and the Beyhive won't leave him alone. Can everyone just relax...There is a chance the dancers aren't getting paid what they should be and she might not even be aware. Y'all know Beyonce isn't HR right?4. Gabrielle Union is our Gyal Lyk this week as she gives a passionate and very real read on the way the Corporate world thinks.Tanya Compass is also our Gyal Lyk for hosting a Queer Black Christmas, with food and presents. Rasing over £7000 and donating some to charity. This woman is about the change she wants to see.PAGAN AWARDSBrighton and Hove City Council have recently made headline news as they had a meeting in regards to stripping Meghan Markle and Harry's ROYAL title away. What in the RACISM!?! And y'all gammon colored wasteman will still scream that this country isn't racist.Oprah Winfrey makes another documentary about Abuse but this time it's Russel Simmons. Surprised? We aren't!! Why does Oprah keep making documentaries about black men? Where is Harvey Weinstein's doc? Kevin Spacey? Girl if you don't get the...5. Saucy Santana was recently in a Drive-By that injured him and two friends. This is off the back of an altercation he had in a Gentleman's club a few hours before. He had an argument with the bouncer after being told he was doing the most. Allegedly he then went around the club cussing and someone retaliated later by firing bullets. Ayo, please make this make sense. Does this really warrant death?6. Camila Cabalo or however you spell her name has been caught saying Racist and publishing Racist content on an old tumblr account. Of course, she came out with some whack ass weak apology but the fact that she allowed her stans to attack Normani ( a former bandmate and the only black member) for time and not say anything. Now, these posts come out... and you give some lame-ass excuse. It all makes sense. 7. The Tories won by a landslide and Boris Johnson is still our Prime Minister. We have no words other than Y'all Gon' Feel Very SoonGET TO KNOW INIT !!( GET IN TOUCH ) +44 (0) 7534180895mgnt@pneumamgnt.com

On this episode I and Diamond Stylz(Marshas Plate Podcast) discuss Oprah making a documentary on Russel Simmons, Bottom shaming in the LGBT community, Antonio Brown no more white woman campaign, Karol Sanchez staging her kidnapping and more. Support the show and become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hellnawpodcast Follow Hell Naw On Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellnawpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HellNawPodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellnawpodcast/ Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/africanoboishow

The week, the fellas reflect on an eventful weekend full of shows and parties. they discuss many topics like Cuba goodin Jr new alleged accusers, Offest Birthday gift, Good Time live action show, Harvey Wienstien case update, Russel Simmons and Oprah beef, losing a fight in front of your significant other, all that and so much more! Hope you all enjoy Evan's Social Media: Snapchat - @EvanCombest Instagram - @EvanCombest Twitter - @EvanCombest Akai's Instgram - Godzilla_Kinda SnapChat - BigReddXXX Youtube Channel For the visual(Wednesday) www.youtube.com/c/EvanCombest Produced By Tone Viera Engineered by Jade Zabric & Skyes Crescent Radio

The guys are back together again for this episode, starting things off with reactions to Lizzo at the Staples Center (17:35), & extending their condolences to Frank Ordonez the UPS driver killed & Juicewrld (46:35). They also offer their takes on Nick Cannon vs Eminem (70:20), the Spotify & Apple Music year wrap up (95:00), Oprah's new documentary regarding Russel Simmons (99:40), & Kanye West looking like the tin man from Oz (106:45). Enjoy, & as always make sure to rate us, tell a friend & if you haven't done so subscribe!  Follow us on IG/Twitter: @notsosoftpod Follow the guys: @nenorocwell | @task65 | @kinotg

Paypal Mafyası | #59 - 26.11.2019 Bilal Eren ve Cem Sünbül ile dijitalleşmenin hayatımıza etkilerini her salı 22.00'da bir başka konuyla ele alan DijitalHayatTV YouTube/Facebook/Periscope yayınımızda bugün; - Paypal Mafyası Nedir? - Paypal'ı Kuranlar Kimler? Paypal'ın Hikayesi Ne? - Paypal Mafyası İsmi Nereden Geliyor? - Paypal'ı Kuran 14 Kişi Kim? - Paypal Sonrası Neler Yaptılar? - Dünyayı Değiştiren Girişimcilerin Hayat Hikayeleri? - Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, Dave McClure, David O. Sacks, Premal Shah, Russel Simmons, Jeremy Stoppelman, Andrew McCormack, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Keith Rabois, Roelof Botha ve Paypal Mafyası Başlıklarını konuştuk. Haftaya salı saat 22.00'da görüşmek üzere. Hem canlı hem de geçmiş yayınlarımız için tıklayın; YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dijitalhayattv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dijitalhayattv Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dijitalhayattv Web: https://www.dijitalhayat.tv

Want to connect with Eric?   https://www.oneyoufeed.net/   https://ericzimmer.coach Hey Friend,   Welcome to another episode of The ODAAT Chat podcast. In case you’re new here, my name is Arlina and I’ll be your host.    Today I’m honored to share an episode with the host of the VERY popular podcast The One You Feed, with Eric Zimmer. At the time of this recording, it had over 10 MILLION episodes! His guest list reads like the who’s who of teachers and healers. This list includes, Byron Katie, Dan Millman, Russel Simmons and Simon Senik just to name a few. So excited to share this one!   But before we jump in, I’m really excited to share a resource to solve a problem so many of us in recovery which is weight gain and emotional eating.    We’re hosting a free webinar: "The 3 Secrets To Quickly Lose Stubborn Body Fat For  Busy Professionals Over 40 ...Without Starving or Exercising!"  (Even If You've Never Been Able To Lose Weight Before!)   It’s a health coaching program, based on a meal plan generated from a blood test which identifies the right foods for your specific body’s needs. I did it over a year ago and lost 16 pounds in less than 12 weeks. My husband lost over 50! It was such a life changing experience that we developed The Metabolic Food System to include everything you need to restore your metabolism so that you can achieve your ideal body weight.    It’s a highly personalized program so we can only take 10 clients at a time. Once those spots are filled, we won’t open up the program for another 3 months. If you’re ready to lose weight and and want to learn more, visit metabolicfoodsystem.com   So today’s guest, Eric Zimmer, is an author, TedX speaker, and a behavior coach. Eric shares about how he grew up, his family and how he descended into drug addiction. Although he eventually achieved long term sobriety, he also shares what happened when he relapsed and the challenges of trying to get sober again. I don’t want to give everything away, so with that, please enjoy this wide ranging episode, with Eric.

In marketing we see a lot of talk about pain points and we're pushed to talk about problems our client has, but we skip the most important buying triggers that lead to the moment people take action and are hooked.    I know you’re thinking what does hip hop have to do with business, SEO, marketing, and the Girl Get Visible Podcast, well not a lot on the surface but if when you look at what makes people fall in love with hip hop, a certain song, or artist you’ll find there is a lot we can learn about getting people to fall in love with and buy our products.    Taking actions and buying a product or service is a more an emotional decision than a logical one. Yes, people know they need a thing, but what’s that moment that makes you jump in to get?   In this episode We hear clips from hip hop greats like Pete Rock, Talib Kweli, Black Thought, Quest Love, Kool G Rap, Russel Simmons, and De La Soul on their falling in hip hop moments; and host Akilah Thompkins-Robinson digs into lesson we can learn about buying triggers from these moments in hip hop.   What you learn: Difference between pain points and buying triggers. How buying triggers can turn your leads into customers.  How to identify your audience's buying trigger?  How to create buying triggers in your customers journey The different triggers that influence buyer behavior

Rapper and author Prodigy from the group Mobb Deep discusses his challenges with Sickle Cell and the inspiration behind his cookbook Commissary Kitchen, their beef with 2 Pac, the best advice he got from street hustlers, how his grandma's coffee mug inspired an album, what drove his partner Havoc into production, and how being young and hard-headed effected their career.

The Epic Beard Men (Sage Francis and B. Dolan) stop by the Moodhouse to talk about their new album AND def poetry jam, Russel Simmons, Eminem, the social media climate, the aversion to flipping over school desks, 9/11, the creative process, taking a piss break, being grizzled vets, and so so much more!! Get the new record 3/29 on strangefamous.com

Not only has Tammy interviewed spiritual celebrities including Shirley MacLaine, Melissa Etheridge, Russel Simmons, Olivia-Newton-John and Jane Fonda, she has also interviewed popular spiritual self-help authors and leaders including Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Judith Orloff and Louise Hay. Add to all this Tammy's enlightening teachings about how to communicate with the Universe (and loved ones who have passed) plus how to uncover signs and synchronicity from the Universe, and you have the makings of an enlightening and fascinating interview! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Not only has Tammy interviewed spiritual celebrities including Shirley MacLaine, Melissa Etheridge, Russel Simmons, Olivia-Newton-John and Jane Fonda, she has also interviewed popular spiritual self-help authors and leaders including Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Judith Orloff and Louise Hay.  Add to all this Tammy’s enlightening teachings about how to communicate with the Universe (and loved ones who have passed) plus how to uncover signs and synchronicity from the Universe, and you have the makings of an enlightening and fascinating interview! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/griefandrebirth/support

Well yall, this marks the second livestreamed episode of TBEW as well as what may very well be one of our most focused entries yet! Mak and Sae'Von take quite the plunge into the implications of Bill Cosby's sentencing, why Russel Simmons ran off on the D.A., and even touched upon MLK's fascination with women for hire. There's also an extended look at sociopathy and how all the previous topics relate as well as plenty of other poignant points. As always, thanks for listening! Oh, and be sure to check out the links in the shownotes! 1:36 - Cosby Sentencing: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/23/650962962/bill-cosbys-sentencing-how-we-got-here-what-his-punishment-could-be About That Cosby/NBC Thing: https://ssnpodcast.com/2016/01/05/so-about-that-bill-cosby-nbc-thing/ Statutes of Limitations: https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/time-limits-for-charges-state-criminal-statutes-of-limitations.html FBI Evidence Whistleblower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmwBrDv--PE 29:22 The FBI & MLK https://www.newsweek.com/declassified-jfk-file-details-fbi-sex-smears-about-martin-luther-king-701996 36:37 - The Great Refusal of The Broken System 38:55 - Russel Simmons Flees The Country https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/arts/music/russell-simmons-rape.html 44:59 - An Extended Look At Sociopathy 53:24 The Alienation of The Elite Jeff Bezos Contributions https://splinternews.com/the-math-of-jeff-bezos-astounding-greed-1829032247 58:08 How To Create A Consumer In 2018 61:54 - A Quick Tangent About The Economy

Flatlinerz set the record straight on their past, present, and future. RedRum and GraveDigger get in depth on Origins of HORRORCORE, respecting originators, PMA, Russel Simmons, Jam Master J, Run DMC, Satanism, Onyx, Juggalos, Insane Clown Posse, Brooklyn, Juggalo Day, Reincarnation, Class of Disagreeability, and many more mind blowing topics. New Music dropping this JUNE and OCTOBER. New Single/Mixtape out now! After the interview, Ya boy KG goes in depth on WrestleCon, Ring Of Honor, Joey Janela Spring Break , Wildcat Sports, Highspots Wrestling Network, Joey Ryan, and all his New Orleans adventures and shoutouts. PLUS Details on how you can win A SIGNED FLATLINERZ MASK!!! @OGKevinGILL KG Show Shirts at: www.ProWrestlingTees.Com/KevinGill KG Show Shirts, Stickers, merch plus much more at www.DignifiedBastard.Com Support the show at www.Patreon.Com/KevinGillShow

Nba Scores, lebron, Jim Jones, Russel Simmons, G unit, Apple

Ryley, Dom, and Sam reminisce on how they used to mess with teachers, figure out the perfect vacation, and discuss how poorly memes are made on Instagram.   Fact Check Disclaimer: Only 20% of the world speaks english Russel Simmons created Phat Farm The Hyphy Movement started in the 1990s and went into the early 2000s Smoking sage is probably not a good idea You actually do get a prize for finding all the hidden Mickey's in Disneyland There are 11 Disney parks in the world  Hate-Monger's kindle hatred and prejudices against others Dom still doesn't know how to say Ryley's name

This episode Laura and Stephen celebrate 1 million subscribers, new Facebook show pages, and a little guided meditation with special appearances from Helen and Pamela Pumpkin.  -0.00 Intro -0.15 One million subscribers and biggest FB Showpage!! -1:10 FB vs. Youtube -2:11 Helen's the real star of the show Help Helen Smash -4:55 Jax Media -5:25 That old school actor life -6:41 My manager lived with his mom -7:41 Till Death -9:50 "There's not enough carts" CBS -10:47 "If it's funny & original that's all that matters" -11:39 No excuses! Because you're gonna die.  -12:47 Our first viral video English vs American -13:29 "Some of your videos I hate" -14:59 Laura's favorite early insta videos + Russel Simmons -20:04 All by myself -21:26 Exciting busy times! -21:50 Thank God for sobriety -24:02 Stay grateful -24:35 "How can I make millions of people laugh around the world"  -25:27 Pamela Pumkin's guided meditation -32:48 Outro

Hi Everyone! Tune into Episode 27 - Me Too Part Two. We dive into the progression of the #MeToo movement, the Silence Breakers, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Glenn Thrush, Mark Halperin, Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Russel Simmons, #MeToo vs. #NotMe, Gabrielle Union's Floodgates comment, and Coach P gives his insight on bullicide. #UnapologeticallyDifferent #bewhoyouare #stopbullying #bullicide #metoo #silencebreakers

It's time for another chat with Good Girls Behaving Badly. Listen to us talk about current events, including K. Michelle's Album, Joe Budden and Cyn Santana's newborn, Russel Simmons allegations and more! Plus our main topic of the week, active listening. Remember to subscribe, rate, like, and comment!

On this episode we welcome back the esteemed A&R aficionado, Mr. Dante Ross. Dante talks to us about his early days becoming the first hip hop A&R, signing Queen Latifah, working with ATCQ, Busta Ryhmes, Russel Simmons, Lyon Cohen, MF Doom and so much more. Dante also talks about what he's been up to of late working with some of the the new artists like Ugly God and Lil Dicky etc. Hit that play button and #RaiseTheBar

John, Nino, Richard and Myself(Chris) stage dive into: Ian McKayeâ??s family heritage, Office of War Information, Paul Popenoe, Cosmopolitan Club, Washington Post, Abby Rockefeller, Henry Rollins, Fugazi(Fake), The Palladium, All Ages Shows, Punk Rock Parents, Loren Michaels, Positive Force, Riot Grrrl Movement, NOFX, Hairy Armpit Bands, Kathleen Hanna, Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem, Nirvana, Condom Mania, AIDS, Veganism, Russel Simmons, Propaganda, North Korea, The Interview, Global Politics, Bestie Boys, Dave Grohl, James Harper Grohl, William Howard Taft, Robert A. Taft Jr.,Allen Ginsberg, The Golden Suicides, The Cro-Mags, Trans-Gender Homeless Shelters for Teens, Miles Mathis, Sunny Day Real Estate, Nate Mendel, Evergreen State College, Portlandia, Matt Groening, Sleater-Kinney, Rachael Corrie, Battle in Seattle, Mumia Abdul-Jamal, Atheism, Axis of Justice, Democracy Now, KAOS Radio, Grunge Movement. hoaxbusterscall.com Intro Music: Waiting Room by Fugazi Outdo Music: Saturday Night Story by The Dstroiz(Richards former band)

In this episode we welcome Lissa back. Miss Knows dishes on her Beyoncé experience. She & Pete get into matters of the heart, "Ho'ments" and how to find love. The dynamic duo welcomes Chris Morrow Co-founder of The Loud Speakers Network to the show. Morrow explains how he connected with Combat Jack, in time of need and eventually developed the podcasting network. Breaks down how some of the hottest podcasts out now came about. What it takes to be a great podcast & what LSN is looking for in a podcast. Chris also touches on producing the nationally syndicated Breakfast Club morning show and writing books with Russel Simmons, Tyrese, Rev Run & more. Pete and "the PodFather" also have a much needed moment of clarity and things get really, real. #ExpectTheUnexpected Get your first month free on your Bevel membership when you go to: getbevel.com/pete

  Kyron a.k.a Young Kay is a talented independent artist as a R&B singer-songwriter, music producer, and recording engineer. Young Kay creates his incredible sound from many different genres of music.    In the year of 2009, Young Kay started to pursue his dreams and begin working on his music. One of his biggest inspiration is Russel Simmons, "His is a true definition of a successful African American entrepreneur", says Young Kay.  

Here is a portion of my interview with Russel Simmons in 2008. Listen carefully to some of the jewels that Russel is dropping. Amaru's Podcast!

Kidkanevil and DZA - "Nuff Stickers" - dublab bonus beat blast [Free Music Archive] P Diddy, Lil John (pictured), Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Chris Brown, The Game, Mary J Blige, Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Jamie Foxx, Russel Simmons... - "Mega Song" - Mega Upload Viral Ad [this cost them 3 million dollars to make] - "(talking with Casey Rae-Hunter)" Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - "Waitin' for the Orange Sunshine" - On Welfare [Free Music Archive] Voyageurs - "Big Ritual" [Free Music Archive] Short Hand - "Certain Strangers" - Attila [Free Music Archive] Long Long Long - "There Are Tape Machines Down There" - Who The Fuck Said Family Ain't Family No More [Free Music Archive] Jimmy Cousins - "Bow and Arrow" - City Sunsets [Free Music Archive] Tracky Birthday - ""★☮ Olivia ☾☯"" - New Album [Free Music Archive] La Barca de Sua - "En un segundo" - La Barca de Sua [Free Music Archive] Univeria Zekt - "Something's Cast a Spell" - Unnamables [Free Music Archive] Teleidofusion - "Minako" - netBloc Vol. 32: Make Way For What Lies Ahead [Free Music Archive] Mutwawa - "Militant Shamanism" - Mayan Mutations [Free Music Archive] Pariah Qarey - "Debt Wreckage / Detroitism" - Tha Freewheelin Kubic Zirkonia [Free Music Archive] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/43099

Kidkanevil and DZA - "Nuff Stickers" - dublab bonus beat blast [Free Music Archive] P Diddy, Lil John (pictured), Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Chris Brown, The Game, Mary J Blige, Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Jamie Foxx, Russel Simmons... - "Mega Song" - Mega Upload Viral Ad [this cost them 3 million dollars to make] - "(talking with Casey Rae-Hunter)" Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - "Waitin' for the Orange Sunshine" - On Welfare [Free Music Archive] Voyageurs - "Big Ritual" [Free Music Archive] Short Hand - "Certain Strangers" - Attila [Free Music Archive] Long Long Long - "There Are Tape Machines Down There" - Who The Fuck Said Family Ain't Family No More [Free Music Archive] Jimmy Cousins - "Bow and Arrow" - City Sunsets [Free Music Archive] Tracky Birthday - ""★☮ Olivia ☾☯"" - New Album [Free Music Archive] La Barca de Sua - "En un segundo" - La Barca de Sua [Free Music Archive] Univeria Zekt - "Something's Cast a Spell" - Unnamables [Free Music Archive] Teleidofusion - "Minako" - netBloc Vol. 32: Make Way For What Lies Ahead [Free Music Archive] Mutwawa - "Militant Shamanism" - Mayan Mutations [Free Music Archive] Pariah Qarey - "Debt Wreckage / Detroitism" - Tha Freewheelin Kubic Zirkonia [Free Music Archive] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/43099

The #1 Father and Son Podcast! This episode Black Dot and Malcom discuss Russel Simmons doing an interview about his ex-wife, Cam'ron, new Diddy allegations, and more!Join the membership for $10: https://www.urbanx.nyc/xclusivesGet Urban X Merch: www.ShopUrbanX.comFollow Urban X on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@urbanxtv?_t=8hixZxC77m7&_r=1 Free Online Business Courses: https://www.BlackFamilyBiz.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/urban-x-podcast/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Culture Report Ep 33 | Russel Simmons, Young Thug Trial, Boosie vs Rod Wave, New York Ego Subscribe on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@mrraydanielsWatch full episodes on The GAUDS Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrEnyg2MBs&list=PLykiYt2yLGSj7ZrxMn-0t0SNeYx6lVocsFollow:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/raydaniels/?hl=enTwitter - http://twitter.com/raydanielsTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@ray.daniels#raydaniels#thegaudsshowAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ray Daniels & Tamira Smith, are back with another episode of The Culture Report, discussing all things culture. Are black fathers being hushed? Is Kimora Lee Simmons wrong for blasting Russel Simmons? All of this and more on this episode of The Culture Report.Subscribe on YouTube - https://bit.ly/RayDanielsYouTubeWatch full episodes of THe GAUDS Show - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLykiYt2yLGSj7ZrxMn-0t0SNeYx6lVocsFollow:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/raydaniels/Twitter - https://twitter.com/raydanielsTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@ray.daniels#raydaniels#thegaudsshow