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Join Scoot, John Walter and GK as they find the best plays from racing in Queensland and Scone.

Oracle is back from a freshen-up and ready to dive into the some previews. The Queensland Group 1 carnival fires up this weekend, kicking off with a cracking WFA 1200m sprint featuring some serious Group 1 horses. The road to the Doomben Cup, Q22, Stradbroke, Derby, JJ Atkins and Oaks officially begins – the big names are stepping out in some of the lead up races. Plenty of quality racing on offer at both Scone and Flemington as well. Just a heads-up for punters: tread carefully with early plays, with rain forecast right along the East Coast, track conditions could change quickly.If you have a problem with gambling please visit gamblinghelponline.org.au or call 1800 858 858 for free and confidential support.

Daggy & Beaver return with Show Us Your Tips, to look at one of the feature meetings of the Queensland Racing Carnival, headlined by the Doomben 10,000. The big card also includes Group 2 Spirit of Boom Classic and G3 Rough Habit Plate & JRA Chairman's Handicap. BEST Daggy – R6 N1 Sir Delius Beaver – R5 N8 Beskar VALUE Daggy – R3 N4 Apuntar Beaver – R7 N1 Tiger Shark We also check out the Andrew Ramsden meeting from Flemington, where a free ticket into the Melbourne Cup is up for grabs in the staying feature. BEST Daggy – R2 N1 Highvol Beaver – R 6 N11 King Zephyr VALUE Daggy – R8 N12 King Zeus Beaver – R8 N10 Wings of Song And just because Beaver is a sucker for punishment, he's also done the form at Scone! BEST Daggy – R4 N5 Our Diamond Lil Beaver – R10 N16 Gallant Star VALUE Daggy – Brudenell Beaver – R2 N4 Rouge Moulin Throw in quaddie numbers from both venues and best bets from the rest of Australia for a fun show as always!

Join Scoot, John Walter and GK as they find the best plays from racing in Queensland and Scone.

Episode 200. We couldn't have done it without the loyal support from you, the Unit Army. We celebrate it the only way we know how; taking this piss out of each other and attacking four meetings from all over Australia in a quest to find you all as many winners as possible. Flemington, Doomben, Scone and Morphettville dissected in this week's SULTS SPECS.Other segments included in this week's episode:The Sultan's SupperPack Ya Nags2 UNITSOutro: Matchbox Twenty - Real World2 UNITS are proudly supported by Betfair, Australia's only and the world's biggest betting exchange.Imagine what you could be buying instead. For free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au

The Group 1 caravan rolls into Brisbane for the 10,000, there's plenty of black type at Scone in the heart of thoroughbred country and the stayers battle for a Melbourne Cup golden ticket at Flemington.

Zach, Tom, and Kohei are back after the autumn carnival and straight into Scone and Doomben this weekend. Horse Racing doesn't stop. This Brisbane winter Racing Carnival will kick off with the 10,000 this weekend. We preview Scone, Doomben, and a couple from Flemington. Jump in FB - www.facebook.com/groups/giveusaspellpodcast Instagram and X - @giveusaspellpod Rate and review the show! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Perth liegt etwas unscheinbar auf halber Strecke zwischen Edinburgh und Aberdeen. Doch das Städtchen mit rund 50.000 Einwohnern ist ein geschichtsträchtiger Ort, der den schottischen Königen einst sogar als Hauptstadt diente. Heute macht der Ort auf sich aufmerksam, weil sich dort der bedeutsame royale "Stone of Scone" befindet. Der Stein spielte einst im schottischen und spielt nach wie vor im britischen Krönungsritual eine Rolle. Gabi Biesinger - war in Perth auf den Spuren der schottischen Könige unterwegs. Außerdem war sie im Dumfries House, nicht weit von Glasgow entfernt. Die King’s Foundation hat dort ihren Sitz. Es gehört zu den Herzensprojekten von König Charles. Das denkmalgeschützte Herrenhaus beherbergt eine einzigartige Sammlung von Chippendale Möbeln und dort, im "Pink Dining Room", können sich zahlungskräftige Gäste auch ein Menu servieren lassen, ganz stilecht mit Butler-Service. Mit den Erlösen wird die Arbeit einer Reihe von Wohltätigkeitsprojekten auf dem Landsitz unterstützt.

Brandon, Lindsy, BT  and Jennifer Parks delve into the multifaceted significance of thresholds in various cultural contexts, exploring their connections to covenants, hospitality, and spiritual protection. They discuss how thresholds have historically been associated with blood sacrifices and the establishment of covenants, drawing parallels to modern practices and beliefs. The conversation highlights the importance of understanding these ancient concepts in today's world, emphasizing the depth and richness of the topic. In this conversation, the speakers explore various themes surrounding human sacrifice, cultural traditions, and the significance of thresholds in religious practices. They discuss the concept of 'living pillars' in ancient cultures, the deeper meanings of the Passover, and how these rituals connect to the idea of covenants with God. The conversation also delves into the symbolism of handbags in different cultures, linking them to fertility and the act of sacrifice.The Threshold Covenantgrittyladiesbookclub@gmail.comTimestamps:00:29 The mystery of ancient handbags01:00 What is a threshold covenant?02:15 Understanding lost cultural context03:45 Thresholds in biblical history05:30 The spiritual significance of crossing a threshold07:20 Cryptids, vampires, and the power of invitation09:00 The ancient art of hospitality and covenant11:10 Sacrificial rites at thresholds13:45 The importance of blood in covenant-making16:30 Passover as a threshold crossover18:50 How modern culture has lost the sacred home21:40 The red carpet connection to threshold sacrifices23:15 Foundations laid in blood—gruesome ancient rituals26:00 The connection between thresholds, altars, and temples28:30 Occult practices and spiritual gatekeeping30:45 The Stone of Scone and its eerie significance33:00 The Mayan sacrifices and the embroidered purse35:10 Theories on ancient handbags—pollen, fertility, and power38:00 The connection between palm trees, pollination, and sacred bags40:20 Were the Watchers pollinating humanity with forbidden knowledge?43:00 The Maori legend of sacred baskets of knowledge45:00 Why do relief carvings show gods with handbags?47:30 Final thoughts and what's next for this research

For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to double bassist and returning guest Roberto Cassani to hear all about the album Pictish Spaghetti which he has made with guitarist Graeme Stephen, and which is out now on Brooklyn label 577 Records.Roberto talks about collaborating with Graeme and how that came about, the dynamic of the double bass and guitar, their recording process, the joys of improvisation, the landscape of Perthshire being an influence, the healthy state of jazz in Scotland today, and explains that intriguing album title.He also tells the fascinating story of how he ended up living and making music in Scotland, before the two discuss his work as an educator, specifically his project Music for the Purpose of Joy which provides group music sessions to children, young people and adults based on Roberto's improvisational approach.The last time Roberto was on the podcast was during COVID and over Zoom, and it was such a pleasure to be able to talk to him face to face, especially in the beautiful setting of the town of Scone. The resulting interview is a warm, passionate and inspirational conversation which will lift spirits and gladden hearts, and we all need a bit of that.Full details, including all the ways to listen, are over at scotswhayhae.com

The Stone of Scone, an oblong block of red sandstone used for centuries in the coronation of British monarchs, was recovered by Police on April 11th, 1951; three and a half months after its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day. Four Scottish students from the University of Glasgow (Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Kay Matheson and Alan Stuart) stole the stone in the hope it could boost interest in Scottish nationalism. Instead, it seemed to provoke a national discussion about where the stone - which they'd accidentally split in two before bungling it into their Ford Anglia - should now reside. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly decode the religious myths surrounding this ‘stone of destiny'; explain why Charles III *will* want it to ‘groan' when he sits on it; and reveal the ingenious way the authorities tracked the stone up to Arbroath…  Further Reading: • ‘Theft of the Stone of Scone' (The Guardian, 2007): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/dec/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview • ‘The students who stole the Stone of Destiny' (BBC News): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63130942 • ‘Coronation Stone of Scone discovered in Scotland' (Gaumont, 1951): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ni0XrAmtA Love the show? Support us!  Join 

Historia Szkocji to opowieść o niezłomnych wojownikach, buntach przeciw imperiom i walce o niezależność, która trwa do dziś! W tym odcinku przeniesiemy się na tereny spowite mgłą, gdzie rodziła się tożsamość Szkotów. Przejdziemy przez starożytne czasy Piktów, czasy panowania Rzymian, narodziny Królestwa Alby, epokę wikingów, burzliwe wojny z Anglią, aż po współczesne dążenia do niepodległości. Część I: Kolebka – w krainie mgieł i wojowników Zaczynamy w czasach pierwszych osadników, którzy zamieszkiwali te tereny już tysiące lat temu. Jak wyglądało ich życie w surowym klimacie? • Rzymianie w Szkocji – Gdy potęga Imperium Rzymskiego rozrastała się, napotkała na swojej drodze obrońców z północy Brytanii. Mimo budowy Wału Hadriana i Antonina, Rzymianie nigdy nie podbili całkowicie szkockich ziem. Czym był ten mur i jak wpłynął na rozwój regionu? • Powstanie Królestwa Alby – Jak doszło do utworzenia pierwszego szkockiego państwa? W jaki sposób Kenneth MacAlpin zjednoczył Piktów i Szkotów, tworząc zalążek przyszłej Szkocji? • Era Wikingów – brutalne najazdy Skandynawów, ich osady i wpływ na kulturę oraz politykę regionu. Część II: Unia – krew, pot i miecz Przez wieki Szkoci walczyli o swoją niepodległość, a legendy takich bohaterów jak William Wallace i Robert Bruce do dziś budzą podziw. • Wojna o niepodległość – jak Wallace i Bruce pokonali Anglików? Jakie taktyki stosowali przeciw liczniejszym wojskom króla Edwarda I? • Dynastia Stuartów i Auld Alliance – szkocko-francuski sojusz, który miał powstrzymać Anglię, ale czy rzeczywiście był skuteczny? • Reformacja w Szkocji – dlaczego kraj, który przez wieki był wierny papieżowi, stał się bastionem protestantyzmu? • Unia Koron i Unia 1707 – czy Szkoci dobrowolnie zgodzili się na połączenie z Anglią, czy też zostali do tego zmuszeni? Jakie konsekwencje miał ten akt? Powstania jakobickie i czystki w Highlands Po Unii w 1707 roku nie wszyscy Szkoci pogodzili się z nowym porządkiem. Zwolennicy dynastii Stuartów podjęli próbę odzyskania tronu dla Jakuba II i jego następców. • Pierwsze Powstanie Jakobickie (1715) – dlaczego się nie powiodło? • Drugie Powstanie Jakobickie (1745–1746) – Bonnie Prince Charlie i bitwa pod Culloden – ostateczna klęska, która zmieniła Szkocję na zawsze. • Czystki w Highlands – jak po powstaniach Anglicy brutalnie rozprawili się z góralami, niszcząc ich kulturę i tradycję. Część III: W kilcie ku referendum – nowoczesna Szkocja Szkoci nigdy nie przestali dążyć do niezależności. XX wiek przyniósł zmiany, które odnowiły dyskusję o suwerenności. • Referendum 2014 – dlaczego Szkoci niemal zdecydowali się na odrębne państwo? • Brexit a Szkocja – czy wyjście z UE oznacza nowy impuls dla niepodległości? Część IV: Mitologia, kultura i popkultura Historia Szkocji to nie tylko bitwy i polityka, ale również bogata tradycja folklorystyczna i kulturalna. • Selkie, Kelpie i Potwór z Loch Ness – czy legendy mają ziarnko prawdy? • Kultura klanowa – czym były klany? • Braveheart – fakty i mity – co w filmie było prawdą, a co hollywoodzką fikcją? Dobrego słuchania! Rafał Timeline: 0:00 Intro 4:30 Prolog: Kraina Mgieł 11:59 Rozdział I: Kolebka. W krainie mgieł i pierwszych wojowników. Piktowie 17:53 Rzymianie: Zderzenie imperiów. Rzymski podbój Brytanii. 20:39 Bitwa pod Mons Graupius 84 r. n.e. 26:10 Szkocja po Rzymianach 31:39 Narodziny narodu. Powstanie Królestwa Alby i przybycie Szkotów 36:09 Zjednoczenie Szkocji pod Kenneethem MacAlpinem 40:25 Kamień ze Scone 42:56 Wikingowie 45:07 Bitwa pod Largs 1263 r. 47:25 Krótkie podsumowanie początkowych dziejów Szkocji 49:24 Rozdział II: Unia – pot, krew i miecz. Szkocka walka o tożsamość i niezależność 53:19 William Wallace 59:18 Robert Bruce 1:04:09 Dyniastia Stuartów, Auld Alliance, Reformacja 1:10:02 Reformacja Religijna 1:14:02 Unia Koron 1603 r. 1:17:23 Chwalebna Rewolucja 1688 r. 1:23:27 Unia Anglii i Szkocji z 1707 r. 1:26:58 Powstania Jakobickie 1:31:48 Drugie Powstanie Jakobickie 1745-1746; Bonnie Prince Charlie 1:36:02 Bitwa pod Prestonpans 1:39:16 Bonnie Prince Charlie Prze Dalej 1:45:55 Bitwa pod Culloden 1746 1:51:06 Po powstaniach: czystki Highlandów, wymazywanie szkockiej kultury 1:56:13 Podsumowanie dotychczasowej historii 2:00:49 Rozdział III: W Kilcie Ku Referendum 2:04:44 XX Wiek – w kierunku autonomii 2:08:35 Referendum niepodległościowe Szkocji 2014 2:15:09 Brexit 2016 r. 2:18:43 Brexit a Szkocja 2:23:07 Rozdział IV: Folklorl i legendy. Selkie, Kelpie, Potwór z Loch Ness 2:31:18 Klany, tartany, kilty, dudy 2:36:06 Szkocja i popkultura – ile wspólnego z historią ma „Braveheart”? 2:45:06 Epilog: Wrzosowisko 2:46:49 Outro 2:47:43 Patroni 2:49:00 Ciekawostka Źródła: https://pastebin.com/h7iDYDN8 Patroni: https://pastebin.com/233Wrjnh Dziękuję!

Brian Cunningham makes a welcome return to the Scotland Grows Show, two years since he appeared as the very first guest on the show.  In this episode, we talk about the ways in which Scone Palace Garden Fair has evolved over the last few years including the introduction of a speakers' tent, the launch of the small space and showcase garden in the Scottish Garden Design Competition, a new demonstration area for this year, and the very unique experience offered at Scone Palace. Brian's passion for Scottish horticulture as always shines through and he updates us not just on what to look forward to at this year's Scone Palace Garden Fair, but on his top plant choices and his love for gardening in all seasons. Further information and tickets for Scone Palace Garden Fair on 30th & 31st May 2025 can be found HERE. Welcome to the Scotland Grows Show, the podcast which celebrates everything that is good in Scottish gardening, as we join gardeners around the country to find out what grows well where they are, and pick up tips and stories along the way. -------------------------------------------- Be sure to sign up to our mailing list so we can let you know when new episodes are published. Scotland Grows magazine is our digital title which celebrates Scottish gardening, and drops into your inbox 6 times a year. If you would like to receive a copy, just follow this LINK. You can follow Scotland Grows on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, we'd love to have your company there! And of course, you can always find your share of gardening goodness on our website at scotlandgrowsmagazine.com. -------------------------------------------- This series is sponsored by ROOTS, a subscription from the National Trust for Scotland which helps both your garden and Trust gardens thrive. For £7 a month you will be sent a ROOTS pack every six weeks, with gardening gifts, including Scottish seeds six times a year, stories about Scotland's plant life, and tips from  expert Trust gardeners, as well as an invitation to two exclusive ROOTS events a year with the Trust gardens team. Whether you buy ROOTS for yourself or as a gift for a loved one, your £7 a month will go towards supporting Trust gardens and designed landscapes in Scotland. Sign up today at nts.org.uk/roots and use the code Grows25 to receive an extra packet of seeds in your first pack.

Allan Kehoe has had some handy horses through his hands in twelve years as a professional trainer, but until recently a horse with that elusive X factor had never walked into his Wyong stables. Fate played a hand just over a year ago when a colt he was chasing at the Inglis Classic Sale was suddenly withdrawn by the vendor. That vendor knew of Allan's interest and called him unexpectedly a few days later.  That phone call triggered a deal which saw the Wyong horseman actually take out a three year lease on the son of freshman sire Sandbar. That colt now bearing the curious name of Shaggy is unbeaten in three starts, culminating in a dashing defeat of some hot opposition at Randwick on Feb 15th. Shaggy has lifted the profile of his hard working trainer literally overnight. I joined the media scrum last week in getting Allan to join me on the podcast just 48 hours after the talented horseman had “ bitten the dust” in a nasty spill on his private training track. He explains how the tumble happened and describes the extent of his injuries. Allan says Shaggy spent a few quiet days after the Randwick win in a spacious paddock on his Gorokan property near Wyong. He takes us back to last year's Inglis Classic Sale where he made a close inspection of the Sandbar colt, and expressed his interest to the vendor. Allan talks of the sire Sandbar who's had a flying start to his stud career thanks to the emergence of a very talented two year old in his first crop. The trainer has opted to run Shaggy in the Skyline Stakes on March 1st which leaves a three week corridor into the Golden Slipper. Allan explains how the youngster was given his curious name. He looks back on two brilliant wins at Coffs Harbour and on the Sunny Coast, and says he was quietly confident going into the Pierro Plate. The versatile horseman explains the reason why Aaron Bullock had to be replaced last minute by Adam Hyeronimus. Allan describes the facilities at his disposal on a twenty five acre property a stone's throw from Wyong racecourse where he also has 10 permanent boxes. He talks about his personal involvement in trackwork and explains that other Wyong trainers sometimes use his services. The 41 year old talks about the breaking-in and pre-training arm of his business.  He talks about his siblings and early life in Newcastle, Scone and Narromine. He looks back with gratitude on his first job and the opportunity to work with a great horseman. Allan says his four years with the late John Lundholm at Coonamble provided a great learning curve in his life. He looks back on time spent with other top horsemen in his formative years. Kehoe says his brief stint as a picnic jockey provided some of the happiest years of his racing life. Allan is proud to be a father of four. He and first wife Kelly are the parents of daughter Mikayla and son Beau who follow his progress as a trainer. He and partner Kim have a pigeon pair Mia and Jack. 14 year old Mia is displaying definite signs of considering a future as a jockey Allan looks back on the thrill of saddling up his first winner as a solo trainer in 2012, and pays tribute to some of the horses who've subsequently shaped his career. He mentions a couple who are currently in work.  Allan's been around for a long time and his reputation in the industry is a sound one. Shaggy has propelled him into new found prominence on the eve of the autumn carnival.

Blood of Kings HIGHLANDER Podcast EP.173. Behind The Scenes w/ Special Guest, Director Richard Martin!   Blood of Kings Fandom Podcast Network YouTube Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/@FandomPodcastNetwork Blood of Kings Fandom Podcast Network Audio Podcast Link: https://fpnet.podbean.com/category/blood-of-kings Kevin and Lee are back for more Highlander discussion! On this episode of Blood of Kings Highlander Podcast we continue our discussion for the Highlander TV Series Season 6, episode 10, 'Two Of Hearts'. We have a very special guest, the director of 'Two of Hearts', Richard Martin! Richard has directed nine episodes of the Highlander TV series, including fan favorites 'The Valkyrie', 'Duende', 'The Stone of Scone' and 'To Be'.   We return to the Highlander TV Episode 'Two Of Hearts' with director Richard Martin, who provides a special look working on location and behind the scenes with a video of the "dailies" or "rushes" from his 'Two of Hearts' filming location in France. In filmmaking, "dailies" or "rushes" refer to the raw, unedited footage captured during a single day of shooting, which is then reviewed by the director, crew, and sometimes actors to assess the quality of the day's work and make adjustments moving forward; essentially, it's the first look at the day's filming before any editing takes place. Richard discusses his first hand experience working on location for this episode. Blood of Kings - Highlander Podcast Contact Info:   Please follow Blood of Kings and the Fandom Podcast Network on YouTube! Please subscribe to the Fandom Podcast Network YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FandomPodcastNetwork   - Blood of Kings Podcast Audio Master Feed:  fpnet.podbean.com/category/blood-of-kings/ - X : @BloodOfKingsPod / https://twitter.com/BloodOfKingsPod - Instagram: @BloodOfKingsPod / https://www.instagram.com/bloodofkingspod/ - Facebook: Blood of Kings: A Highlander Fandom Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1551389528504825 - Facebook: Blood of Kings: A Highlander CCG Collectible Card Game & Gaming Discussion Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/273198053027339   Blood of Kings Host & Guest Contact Info: - Email: BloodOfKingsPodcast@gmail.com - Kevin on X, Instagram, Threads, Discord & Letterboxd: @spartan_phoenix / Bluesky: @spartanphoenix - Lee on Instagram: @the_way_of_the_way & @Fight_Monkeys / Bluesky: @Fight-Monkey Fight Moneys on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563413546014 TeePublic / Blood of Kings Store: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts?query=fandom-podcast-network-blood-of-ki… #FandomPodcastNetwork #FPNet #FPN #BloodOfKings #BloodOfKingsHighlanderPodcast #HighlanderPodcast #Highlander #HighlanderTVSeries #HighlanderTheSeries #DuncanMacLeod #AdrianPaul #HighlanderReboot #HighlanderTwoOfHearts #ClaudiaChristian #ClaudiaChristianHighlander #HighlanderClaudiaChristian #RichardMartin #RichardMartinDirector #RichardMartinHighlander #StevenOShea #GregoryWiden #JamesThorpe #KevinReitzel #LeeFillingsness #FightMonkeys

Welcome to the FINALE of Season 2!!! For the end of the second season, it only makes sense to bring on iconic cosplay duo Regan and Scone of Cowbutt Crunchies Cosplay! We start by going back to where their journey began in the early 2000's, and the evolution of craftsmanship, resources, and contests. We discuss cosplay education extensively, and skill development in crafting as it pertains to teaching and paneling. We expose the “evolution of contest trends”, and the truth behind competition. We get the full rundown on the inspiration and intent behind the Cosplay Couture Gala and the intricacies of designing original cosplay inspired by beloved characters. Our personal areas of desired crafting growth are highlighted, and we promote “stupid” cosplays! Of course we have to talk about the latest hot topic: Cosplayer compensation and the value of recognizing cosplayers as skilled artists.Find us at the below:Website: CosplayCrunch.comInstagram: @cosplaycrunchpodcastYouTube: @TheCosplayCrunchPodcastIf you have a question for one of our amazing guests, you can email us at cosplaycrunchpod@gmail.com

Quick, put on your secret black leather uniform and prepare yourself for moral dubiousness as we prepare ourselves for the upcoming film- ‘Star Trek: Section 31.' With the film debuting in just a few days after this episode drops, Miles and Charlie prepare themselves by choosing three episodes tangentially related to the forthcoming film, in ‘Inquisition,' we and Julian Bashier meet Section 31 and all Bashier wants are Scone and Jams, then in ‘Yesterday's Enterprise,' we slip into an alternate universe/Tasha Yar fixfic and meet Captain Rachel Garrett (who will apprantly be in this movie) and we encounter that most deadly Star Trek threat… WALL ROCKS and then in Saints of Imperfection, Captain Pike meets the worst kind of secret operatives, catty drama kids who can't shut up about how secret they all are, will any of this actually relate to the film? We don't know, but we've assembled a team of our own to talk about it in the next episode! Inquisition (11:52) Yesterday's Enterprise (46:00) Saints of Imperfection (1:16:08) Talking Points: Favourite Spy TV Shows, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, A whostrobot, Charlie is trying to play every Super Mario Brothers and he's just wrong inside, Section 31 just feels like a 15 year old's attempt at edgy, we talk realpolitik for a second, The Prisoner, Jam and Scones, a surprise Jeffrey Combs appearance, William Sadler also being Death in Bill and Ted, the subtle differences with the alternate Enterprise characters, this is a Tasha Yar fixfic, wall rocks are useful… maybe, Picard being a bit more like his ‘ST:Picard' counterpart here, bloody bloody deaths, the mysterious ‘Arratia', Section 31 is run like Starbucks'. Tech differences in Discovery, how Mirror Phillipe gets tedious really quickly, Miles talks Blake's 7, Miles and Charlie LOVE Death Stranding, EastEnders, Tilly being earnestly hopepunk (I hate that term), Spock is a kleptomaniac, Pedants Corner: Roj Blake is played by GARETH Thomas, not GARTH Thomas

Quick, put on your secret black leather uniform and prepare yourself for moral dubiousness as we prepare ourselves for the upcoming film- ‘Star Trek: Section 31.' With the film debuting in just a few days after this episode drops, Miles and Charlie prepare themselves by choosing three episodes tangentially related to the forthcoming film. In ‘Inquisition,' we and Julian Bashir meet Section 31 and all Bashir wants are Scone and Jams, then in ‘Yesterday's Enterprise,' we slip into an alternate universe/Tasha Yar fixfic and meet Captain Rachel Garrett (who will apparently be in this movie) and encounter that most deadly Star Trek threat… WALL ROCKS. Finally, in 'Saints of Imperfection' Captain Pike meets the worst kind of secret operatives, catty drama kids who can't shut up about how secret they all are. Will any of this actually relate to the film? We don't know, but we've assembled a team of our own to talk about it in this episode! The post 65. Death by Ceiling Rocks first appeared on Nerd & Tie Network.

Requiem.Based on a post by FinalStand, in 13 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels. Once more, our esteemed academic Captain, Dr. Pierre O'Rourke Jean-Georges, led us through a rather confused and unhappy post-game liturgy in honor of; well in support of racial unity, I guessed. It was really hard to tell with the way he would ramble off-point every few minutes. The Football Team was in chairs on the floor of the gym with the Cheer Squad and Student Government. The rest of the student body was squeezed into the bleachers; very cozy.The Special Investigator also spoke briefly to the assembly, asking for our help on the case. The school was also hiring a 'Racial Grievance Counselor' who was, surprise, surprise, Dr. Nubia Franklin Jean-Georges; our Principal's wife. I was kind of curious who was making the school system pony up the money for her services as well as precisely when the 'interview' process had taken place.‘I wonder if she's qualified,' Kaelyne whispered.‘I wonder where they are going to stick her,' Vicky mused.‘Oh, I imagine she is going to get 'stuck' alright,' Mikhail snickered beneath his hand. Oh yeah, she was statuesque, smart, Black and projected complete confidence; right up my youngest triplets' alley.‘Ow,' he play-protested after Kaelyne smacked him.‘I did that for Taliyah,' she declared.‘She'll appreciate that,' I promised.‘I know she will,' Kaelyne smiled at me. After that disastrous Monday, Taliyah had been making steady headway in gaining Kaelyne's forgiveness which showed both her character (it was the right thing to do) and smarts (fear of my Mom).‘So; Alexander, what kind of bathing suit should I wear tomorrow?' Vicky teased our eldest.‘One made out of edible body paint,' he turned and winked. ‘Big Bob is gone all weekend to some Sheriff's convention in Miami, Florida. He goes to it every year.' Alexander being sexy-nice to Vicky was Also a good sign for our upcoming weekend.A withering glance from the Coach stilled our conversation. It was bad enough we were 'disrespecting' Darius' shindig. Our team had gotten their asses handed to them tonight in a game they should have won even without our star Running Back. It was easy to see having his father face criminal charges and loss of employment had shaken up Rashaan.His first outing as Team Captain had been a disaster; and now he had to sit here and listen to the various tributes to the guy he'd failed to replace instead of going anywhere else and getting shit-faced drunk and laid. The prognosis for both were pretty grim too,; what with the law enforcement being extra vigilant and the Cheer Squad being surprisingly inattentive to the Football Team's needs; which he was also getting blamed for.Darius had not only provided his players with victories, he had provided them status and perks as the premier athletes at school with the heritage of multiple highly successful teams being handed to them. Everyone 'looked the other way' because they were on the Football Team. All the girls wanted to be with them. Their parties always had plenty of alcohol and weed. They got good grades with minimal, if any, studying. Life had been good.Rashaan was having a horrific time maintaining that legacy. Not only could he not supply for his team, he couldn't even keep his own house in order. He had gone from 'three' hot-ass bitches (running true to type, the BBCs still refused to believe Taliyah had left him for Mikhail a week ago but now she, Sultana Berry and Randi Leigh Upshaw were openly gone) to none.Sure, they could still get 2nd and 3rd tier 'skanks', but just seeing all that prime booty walking around and knowing it Should be theirs and wasn't really bothered those student-athletes. A further complication was that under Darius, he kept the prime cunt specifically regulated both coming and going. That way the boys didn't have to worry about condoms, pregnancies and STDs.He kept the players clean by keeping the mouths, asses and vaginas they were fucking clean. No player stuck his cock into an unauthorized hole because if you did, Darius would destroy you. The object was to fuck who you wished in a safe hunting ground. Rashaan couldn't keep that level of discipline among either the women, or his own teammates.Rashaan also couldn't keep the booze and weed freely flowing. Darius hadn't shared his drug pipeline and wasn't likely to. Rashaan wasn't even trusted with the names of the entities capable and willing to buy and distribute alcohol to the under 21 crowd, plus Sheriff Big Bob's deputies were on the lookout for such shenanigans; more than happy to slap the cuffs on anyone 'Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor'.As a final blow, his dad was no longer Chief of Police. Sure, he was being promised that ruling would soon be reversed; but for Rashaan, it was yet another blow landing at an unfortunate time. His problems weren't mine, and I had more than enough of my own. He'd have to sink, or swim, on his own.We were released at 10:37 pm; far past the time for any of us to have any fun. The Cheer Squad angled for us as we left the bleachers with Taliyah looking particularly livid. A few football players were making a nuisance of themselves, but I sensed her troubles ran deeper.‘Hey, Betty Jo,' one of our linemen tried to separate out the pale-haired blonde, ‘let's head out and party.' Two more moved to put a wall between my brothers and her.‘I'm tired,' she complained.‘You'll feel better soon,' he promised.‘Without your help,' I grumbled. I wedged between the two, they put their hands on me and then Mikhail and Alexander drove fingers into each of their Solar Plexus. With them temporarily gasping for air, we put a perimeter around the other ladies while I put an arm around Betty Jo's waist.‘Boy,' the athlete hissed, ‘you best let go of this piece of ass.'Betty Jo's eyes flashed from him to me, caught between shame and hunger.‘I'm not a boy, your boy, or anyone, but my parent's boy,' I hardened. ‘I'd appreciate it you never demean Betty Jo like you just did either.'‘Is there a problem?' a White Deputy working his way through the crowd called out.‘This ain't over, Peckerwood,' the lineman snarled under his breath.‘Thanks for the warning, Dumbo,' I mocked him. He had big ears.‘It is Greg, Shithead,' he corrected me angrily.‘Separate; you two,' the Deputy demanded.‘Yes, officer,' I backed off. I had the girl which was the important thing.‘Vlad?' Brandy cuddled up to me as we left the auditorium.‘All's good,' I assured her. ‘Normal threats and insults. Nothing more.'‘Betty Jo; are you okay?' she turned her attention to the woman I was escorting along.‘Oh, I'm okay. Greg wanted to talk with me, but I'm not really interested in him anymore,' and then she smiled over at Alexander.‘He doesn't do it you for anymore?' Brandy teased.‘Who?' Betty Jo pursed her lips.‘Greg; the defensive tackle.'‘Oh him!' she seemed surprise. She was Alondra's cross-racial twin alright. ‘Yeah. He and the other guys just want to push and pump me; it feels so; boring really.'‘Not like Alexander?' Brandy led her along.‘Oh no!' she exulted. ‘Alexander makes me feel all tingly; and he doesn't call me bitch, or whore, or nothing like that,' she tacked on.The crowd was dissipating as we moved into the Parking Lot.Alexander was in the lead with Vicky and Alondra on either side should he need support. Mikhail was slightly detached off to my left, arm around Taliyah, deep in conversation with her. His normal cheerful carelessness was gone, replaced by a serious mein. Kaelyne was behind Alex, with the other cheerleaders spread out between us. At the rear of our clump, herding us along, was; Mom and Jewel; huh?They were chatting amiably, one adult to another, not a teenager to a mother. That worried me for reasons I couldn't pinpoint. A little tug from Brandy reminded me where I was suppose to be paying attention.‘Some of the girls are coming over tonight,' she murmured seductively.‘The only one I want to be with is you,' I frowned.A million mega-lumens-bright smile flashed across Brandy's face.‘Not bored with me?'‘How would that ever even be possible?' I gasped.More pure, unfiltered happiness from my Lady.‘You make me very happy, Vlad,' she snuggled in.‘Ditto, Princess,' I kissed the top of her head.‘Hey,' Betty Jo interrupted. ‘Are you anything like your brother?' (?? because, ya know, we were only identical triplets??)‘We are triplets, Betty Jo,' I instructed. ‘We are identical; in all physical regards.'‘Does that mean your dick is just as big?' she asked with innocent intent.‘Yes,' Brandy confirmed. ‘Yes, it is.'‘Oh; nice,' she smiled at Brandy.‘Betty Jo, why don't we get your stuff and head out?' Brandy suggested. Betty Jo left my side with that smile still on her lips. ‘Will I see you tonight?' Brandy directed my way.‘I'll try,' I grinned.‘Okay,' she winked then off she went to round up the others. Mikhail brushed passed me, going the other way; toward Mom.‘I'll be hanging out with Taliyah tonight, Mom,' he addressed our maternal unit.‘Is there a problem?' she studied him. Jewel was silently observant.‘I'm eighteen, tomorrow isn't a school day and I don't have any chores to do I'm aware of,' he ticked off his salient points.‘Why don't you say 'hello' to Ms. Lafontanté?' Mom was falsely polite.‘Hey, Jewel,' his words were brutally sparse of emotion.‘Hey, Mikhail,' she was somewhat amused.‘Hey, Vlad,' she was a tad more polite toward me.‘Hello, Jewel,' I projected much more civility than my brother. If Mom found it necessary to chat with Jewel, it was worth all our time to be more polite and Mikhail should have known better.‘Jewel, please give me a moment with my youngest,' Mom separated from that imposing young lady and walked five steps away with Mikhail.‘I'm glad we didn't have a misunderstanding last night,' I proffered.‘Why?' Jewel tilted her head and appeared to dissect my every word and move.‘Violence without purpose is beyond wasteful; it is stupid and the product of nonadaptive minds,' I stated.‘I don't recognize the quote,' she smiled after a moment.‘It is a Vladimir original,' I smiled back.‘I think I could have taken you,' she added.I had to think over that for a few seconds myself.‘Is that what you were talking to Mom about; asking to come over to our house and spar?'‘Perhaps; that and a few other things,' she allowed.Mom was coming back. Mikhail was going off with Taliyah. Why? I didn't know.‘Night Ms. Lafontanté,' Mom nodded.‘Good night, Ms. Samsonov. Night Vlad.'‘Night Jewel and; you would have lost,' I affirmed as I turned to leave.There was no reply. Before we split up; I was going back home with Alexander; she was hanging around until Dad finished up and dismissed the other Deputies; Mom gave me a shoulder 'bump'.‘Nice one,' she grinned up at me.‘Huh?'‘With Jewel.'‘She thought she could take me with a rattan practice weapon and I thought to dissuade her of that delusion,' I explained. It was the truth after all.‘Girls like Jewel; don't take 'no', or 'you can't do that' for an answer, Vlad,' she enlightened me.‘Even when it is the truth?'‘Especially if it is the truth,' she smirked. ‘Girls like Jewel want to change the World, not accept anyone's assignment for them in it.'‘Well; she is Mikhail's problem, not mine. He's hot for her. I'm perfectly happy with Brandy.'If only that was the way the World worked;Cheer Squad (12 Girls: 4 Black, 6 White and 2 Mixed)The Black girls were;·         Sultana Berry (Very Light fawn complexion).·         Vantrice Kirby (Very Dark umber complexion), (hair dyed florescent red-black striped, shoulder-length hair).·         Alondra Lamb (Very Light tawny complexion).·         Taliyah Malik; the Co-Captain.The White girls were;·         Brandy Crystal Carson is Co-Captain.·         Amber Lee Huffington, (Brunette hair).·         Mia Ryker, (blonde hair).·         Misty Dawn Sizemore, (Russet hair).·         Betty Jo Starling, (Blonde hair).·         Randi Leigh Upshaw, (Brunette hair).The mixed girls were;·         Le 'Pearl' Yates; (Raven-haired, half-Vietnamese/half-Black·         Noémie Lucie Desdunes (Creole) Zulu Princess Posse·         Jewel 'C. S.' Lafontanté·         Dana Owens·         Régine Hunt·         Maxine Shaw·         Shayla Karen White·         Sunny Cobb·         Lana Michelle Moore (the token white girl)Saturday: The Flashpoint.Note:  currently, Vlad is dating Brandy Crystal Carson {the Sheriff's daughter} and Mikhail is dating Taliyah Malik {the Madam Mayor's daughter} while Alexander remains somewhat unattached.)I wasn't able to make it to the Carson household Friday night, though I did learn about the reason Mikhail did: Thursday night the Malik family had begun to implode. Mamma Malik had gone to a separate bedroom; and locked the door. Papa Malik hadn't taken that well, deciding to bury himself in alcohol as an appropriate response. That had been Taliyah's Friday morning. A series of late-afternoon blistering communication exchanges with her parents hadn't helped much.I resolved to make it up to Brandy by going over early ~as in 7:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning, early; and waking her with kisses. She'd told me the passkey for the home's security system (and 'yes', it had been changed after she dumped Darius for me, just in case).I got there; and the Living Room looked like it needed more than a little cleaning. Pizza boxes and soda cans were strewn about the place. Apparently, Brandy and company hadn't gone straight to bed last night..From what I'd already been told, she had Taliyah (Malik), Noémie Lucie Desdunes, Amber Lee Huffington, Alondra Lamb, Misty Dawn Sizemore and Betty Jo Sterling already here. The other five members of the Cheer Squad would be arriving later this morning and all were planning on spending tonight (Saturday night).Noémie Lucie, Amber Lee and Misty Dawn were strong supporters of the Brandy and Taliyah co-captaincy of the Cheer Squad, so that explained their presence. Alondra and Betty Jo were here out of worry the members of the Football Team might try to 'kidnap' them, once they were off school grounds: so safety measures had been taken.With Robert 'Big Bob' Carson, the County Sheriff, away for the weekend at a Law Enforcement convention in Miami, Florida, he had wisely deposited at least one Samsonov guarding his northwestern Arkansas home last night. Surprisingly, Mikhail had sensed Taliyah's soul-hurt about the situation and wanted to be there for her. He'd put his burgeoning playboy tendencies aside when she really need him. His transformation last night had surprised both me and, to some degree, my Mom, Gayle Fonteneau Samsonov.No one was awake in the house yet. From the rich aroma wafting from the Kitchen, I could tell the automatic coffeemaker had already prepared a full pot and was keeping it warm. I dropped my book bag; sans books, but with a change of clothes, two swimsuits and a few other 'gifts from Mom'; by the sofa first, then began transferring plates and glasses from the Living Room to the dishwasher in the Kitchen. I thought I heard someone out on the front porch.No one knocked, so I finished the trip to the kitchen. I was on the way back when I was pretty sure I heard someone trying to get in; with no luck. You had to be a pretty stupid thief to try and break into the County's chief Law Dog's domicile, even if he was currently out of town. Then there were the four cars and two electric-blue with yellow lightning bolts KTM 690 Enduro R's motorbikes (mine and Mikhail's) in the driveway and front lawn for Pete's sake. It wasn't like the house looked deserted.Seeking the Carsons.Someone rang the doorbell. I wasn't sure how to take that. A quick double-check revealed the door had a spy hole and there was a security screen further into the room. I made use of the spy hole since it was closer. The object on the other side was the best disguised house burglar I'd ever seen, or heard about. I opened up the door, a sappy smile plastered to my slightly flushed face. At the last second I thought to shove my hard-on to the side in a doomed attempt to make it less obvious.‘Hello, how may I help you?' I greeted the gorgeous, mature, platinum-blonde feminine bombshell standing before me.‘Do the Carson's still live here?' she appeared distressed.‘Oh, yes Ma'am,' I bobbled my head. ‘Hi. I'm Vladimir Samsonov. The owner is out right now and I'm here for a party being thrown by his daughter, my girlfriend, Brandy.'Her face transformed from confusion and worry to secret amusement.‘It is a pleasure to meet you, Vladimir,' she put forth her hand. I gladly took this elegant, graciously offered extension of her luscious form. I ended up kissing her knuckles instead of shaking it as I understood that was the Southern Gentlemanly thing to do to a lady. Her eyes twinkled as she added, ‘I'm Jodi May Memphis Carson; Brandy's my daughter.'My heart caught in my throat. From what little I knew, a few months back, Brandy's Mom had run off with the previous Senior Deputy; Big Bob's #2 Man; a Black 'gentleman'; and Big Bob was still pissed about it. I'd never broached the subject with Brandy.So, how upset was Big Bob? Well, I hadn't recognized his gorgeous wife because Big Bob had taken all pictures of her down around the place and Brandy never talked about her. That was a pity because she was an absolute beauty. Her name and history would definitely explain the luggage she had with her too.No car was in evidence which suggested she'd arrived via hitchhiking, or taxi. There was no one outside expecting money, or checking to see if she was okay;‘Please,' I stepped aside. ‘Come on in. Don't worry about your luggage. I'll get it.'‘Thank you,' she stepped inside. ‘That is very gentlemanly of you.' Points for me!With two over-stuffed dress bags, two large suitcases and a roll-on, I definitely felt overburdened, and I was certainly getting my weight training in for this morning, but following Mrs. Carson into the house made all but one of my physical aches go away. I was certain she was talking to me.What she actually said; I had no idea. She had on this contour-hugging, pale lavender skirt and a white, nearly-transparent imitation Peasant blouse with a black mesh bra underneath. This was above unadorned, creamy-tanned calves and white, open-toed heels (4 inches maybe?). Her finger- and toe-nails were a dazzling, pale pink to accent the ensemble.With the way her hips rolled when she walked, each step made her firm ass bounce just a tad which also just happened to accentuate the luscious lines of those exquisite calves and thighs (what I could see of them). Her hair boiled down to her mid-back like a wild torrent of molten gold. I swear to God, I had this unnatural impulse to push her over the back of the sofa and fuck the ever-living soul out of her.‘Vladimir? Vlad?' Jodi May addressed me. Apparently she'd been asking me one, or more, questions while I had been daydreaming. She'd stopped and twisted at the hip so she could look at me. Her salacious twist of the lips and carnivorous eyes told me she knew exactly why I hadn't answered her and where my mind had wandered off to.‘I; I apologize, Mrs. Carson.'‘Call me Jodi May,' she purred.‘Wha-ha, Yes Ma'am!' I nodded vigorously.‘I was asking I thought Brandy was dating Darius Pope. What happened to him?'Ice flushed thru my veins and my brain re-engaged. She'd known about Brandy and Darius; to some degree anyway; and she'd run off with a Big Black Cock-Monster herself. As a mature woman, she was a 10+, but as a Mother, in my book, she wasn't rating so high all of a sudden.‘So you were aware Darius Pope treated your daughter like a cum dumpster?' my countenance hardened. ‘She was handed about the team for all of them to use?'I could see it in her eyes; the comprehension; the denial; the creation of some fantasy which allowed her to carry on with the illusion she'd done no wrong.‘All White men think that way,' she settled on an imperious frown. ‘Darius loves my daughter.'‘And he's got the copious amount of humiliating footage to prove me right too,' I glared. ‘Or would have had if my family not intervened. Now Brandy has someone who truly loves her and wants to protect her from predators who would treat her as nothing more than three nameless orifices, a smoking hot body and a pretty face.'‘As it currently stands, it turns out Darius pissed off one too many folks and somebody decided to beat the ever-living crap out of him and six of his boys; all at the same time. Darius ended up crippled, maybe for life. He is currently hospitalized, undergoing reconstructive surgery on both his knees; in Little Rock. That doesn't matter because by the time Darius got his, I'd already convinced Brandy she was better off with me and she's stuck with me ever since,' I concluded.‘Poor Darius,' Memphis grew all concerned, nostalgic and misty-eyed. Yep, Darius had fucked Brandy's Mom as well. A quick information rewind had me recalling this convention of Big Bob's was a 'yearly thing', making the return of his runaway wife to his stoop rather conveniently timed.‘Where do I put your bags?'That brought her back to the here-and-now and looking at me, not through me.‘I imagine the Master Suite might be a tad inappropriate,' I stated factually.‘Young man,' she studied me, ‘this is still my house and I'll hang my clothes were I wish.'‘Absolutely, Mrs. Carson,' I nodded. ‘It is just placing them in the Master Bedroom comes with a complementary call to your husband; in Miami; while doing so in the Guest Room, the one at the other end of the house (because this house had Three), comes with some forbearance. By all means; decide away. After all; it is your house.'‘How do you think Brandy will feel about you threating her Mamma this way?' she pouted remarkably like her daughter.‘She won't give a damn,' I gave back nothing.‘My daughter and I had a better understanding of; things,' she turned all hurt and aggrieved. 'Things' like Mamma's infidelity and running off with a Black stud; because Brandy was lying to her father about getting some of her own at school.‘Things a White boy wouldn't understand,' she dug in her claws.‘Possibly,' I shrugged. Her shit was getting heavy. ‘I'd appreciate it if you would make your decision now. I was planning on cleaning up down here before waking Brandy with a few 'good morning' kisses. I can top that off with the knowledge you are here as well.'‘Put my things in the; far; Guest Room,' she motioned in the proper direction with a head toss. ‘I'll wake my daughter. I'm sure she has missed me.'‘Good choice,' I nodded. ‘Here is a piece of unsolicited advice. Your family hasn't picked up an automotive fetish in your absence; your daughter has friends over for the weekend, so making a commotion might by; unfortunate.'My information perplexed her.‘She is probably alone,' Mamma Carson hazarded.‘Unlikely. Taliyah was pretty upset last night so I'm willing to bet they crashed out with my brother; in the Master Suite while the five others are in the Game Room making use of the three sofas, sleeping bags and bear skin rug,' I hypothesized right back.‘Brother?' she worked out from all that information.‘Please come along with me while I explain,' and off I went. Reluctantly, the delinquent Mamma followed. Mind you, the far Guest Room was hardly a hardship being 12'x18' with a queen-sized canopy bed, walk-in closet and 72' wall-mounted TV. The counter-top space was minimal and the bathroom was down the hall, but since this wasn't the sleep-occupancy part of the dwelling, it was pretty much hers alone.‘As I said 'I'm Vladimir Samsonov'. My Mom and Dad are Gayle and Nicolay Samsonov. He is the new Senior Deputy and has over two decades of experience with the Alaska Highway Patrol and a legacy of law enforcement going back hundreds of years.'‘Of greater importance to you, no doubt, is that my Mom is Gayle Fonteneau Samsonov, heir to the Fonteneau fortune and estate; which is what brought us to town; my Great-Aunt Matilda's death and her Willing us the whole deal,' I gave Jodi May Memphis the 4-1-1.‘Oh,' she pursed her lips. ‘How is the 'town' handling this?'‘What?'‘The return of Gayle Fonteneau?' she inquired. She was in the closet, hanging up what she needed to while I was in the room, ass resting on the bed.‘Why do you think they would be upset?'‘Let's just say Gayle and her crazy brother didn't leave Kingston on the best of terms,' she evaded.‘I already know about my Mom's rape and the town's denial. I know my Uncle Theo went into Kingston, found four of those bastards and beat them so badly none ever fully recovered. I know the Mayor and Great-Aunt Matilda struck a bargain so that Uncle Theo stayed out of jail. I know the Mayor has passed-on, as has my Great-Aunt. I know my Mother hasn't forgotten, or forgiven, a damn thing.'‘I'm sure Mayor Fox and Chief Quinterre are less than impressed,' she smiled at me. She knew the score. This was BBC Country.‘Chief Quinterre is no longer Chief. He lost his job last Thursday night; for molesting my Mom, having one of his buddies molest your daughter, and being caught at it by an Arkansas State Investigator. My Mom is supporting Mayor Fox's bid for the State Senate seat while Chinedu Malik is in the dog house for his philandering ways.'‘That's; something,' she muttered.‘Oh, and the previous High School Principal is no more. He attempted to put his hands on my Mother, so she put him in Intensive Care; including ripping his dick off,' I kept chatting. By the flashing of Memphis' big baby blues; that was another BBC she'd be missing. Sadly, I was no longer surprised.‘The new guy; well, you'd have to meet him to believe him. He's a treat.'‘How so?'‘How to describe him; He's a college-marinated, proudly bi-sexual, agnostic, married-to-a-freaking-Goddess, beefy, Black Canadian-Haitian-American Fruit Loop.'‘Huh?'‘I stand by my assessment,' I grinned. ‘Let me go get Brandy,' I headed for the door.‘Vladimir, Vlad, ah; is Brandy; okay?' Jodi May worried.‘I do my utmost to make her happy; and I; well, I'll let you talk with her and decide for yourself,' and then I left.I worried about what I was going to say when I found Brandy. As I had surmised, she was upstairs, in the Master Suite, on her Daddy's bed,

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Who doesn't want a huge scone? Chef, Kevin Dundon joined Dave to chat about Savour Kilkenny which takes place on the October Bank Holiday weekend.

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The Miskatonic Playhouse presents a new investigation for Rivers of London, taking place in Edinburgh. Consisting of three casefiles, we follow the newly founded Special Assessment Unit. Wood falls for the most obvious trap in the world. Cadwallador blames Nate. While Nate babysits, Cadwallador discovers his 'good friend' is missing, but finds another occupant. ---------- Game Moderator: Hedge DC Isabelle Wood : Lynne Hardy DS Rhodri Cadwallader : T.A. Newman Nathan Reed: The Tall Halfling --------- Find us at www.MiskatonicPlayhouse.com Support us at ko-fi.com/MiskatonicPlayhouse

The Miskatonic Playhouse presents a new investigation for Rivers of London, taking place in Edinburgh. Consisting of three casefiles, we follow the newly founded Special Assessment Unit. Cadwallador makes one more deal with a river before going to visit another, while Wood conducts an important interview. The fuzz make their way to Queensferry to pay their respects to Forth herself and Nate is faced with an agonizing choice. ---------- Game Moderator: Hedge DC Isabelle Wood : Lynne Hardy DS Rhodri Cadwallader : T.A. Newman Nathan Reed: The Tall Halfling --------- Find us at www.MiskatonicPlayhouse.com Support us at ko-fi.com/MiskatonicPlayhouse

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The Miskatonic Playhouse presents a new investigation for Rivers of London, taking place in Edinburgh. Consisting of three casefiles, we follow the newly founded Special Assessment Unit. It's time for the Coronation and the Faustian Fuzz are ready for anything! Except a large, avuncular American, Nathan Reed, barging his way into their lives and following along as the Scone of Stone is stolen. ---------- Game Moderator: Hedge DC Isabelle Wood : Lynne Hardy DS Rhodri Cadwallader : T.A. Newman Nathan Reed: The Tall Halfling --------- Find us at www.MiskatonicPlayhouse.com Support us at ko-fi.com/MiskatonicPlayhouse

Bienvenidos a un nuevo Spaces en directo desde Twitter. Hoy vamos a ponernos en plan esotérico, para intentar explicar algunos de los misterios más escondidos y a la vez más a la vista de todos los tiempos. La energia que supuestamente recorre nuestros centros energéticos o chakras con k de kilo. Según la doctrina hinduista, los chakras son centros de energía inconmensurable y no medible mediante la tecnologia actual situados en el cuerpo humano. Y digo lo de k de kilo porque en castellano la RAE define a chacra con ce como Alquería o granja. Me pregunto si este nombre no estará relacionado con la granja humana de la que hablaba Freixedo. Si está por ahi Puntal de dios le aconsejo que cierre los oídos ya que vamos a utilizar algún texto de una persona que sigue a masones y magos negros como Manly Palmer Hall. Seguidor y propagador de las ideas de la también satanista Helena Blavatsky, también conocida como Madame Blavatsky. Le hablaré sobre los misterios mitríacos y nórdicos apoyandome en una traducción de un hilo de @AmurakaHidden del mismo nombre. Hall escribe: "Para el ocultista, el NACIMIENTO es la MUERTE y la MUERTE es el DESPERTAR. Los antiguos místicos enseñaban que nacer en el mundo físico era entrar en una TUMBA, porque ningún otro plano de la naturaleza es tan insensible y limitado como la Tierra”. "El TIEMPO y la DISTANCIA eran barrotes que encadenaban al alma a un entorno estrecho. El calor y el frío atormentaban al alma, la edad la privaba de sus facultades y la VIDA del hombre no era más que una preparación para la MUERTE.” Esto es interesante, ya que Hall continúa: "Los Misterios enseñaban que durante los grados superiores de iniciación los mismos dioses participaban en la instrucción de los candidatos o al menos estaban presentes, lo que era en sí mismo una bendición”. "Como las deidades habitaban en los mundos invisibles y sólo venían en sus cuerpos espirituales, era imposible para el neófito reconocerlas sin la ayuda de drogas que estimulaban el centro clarividente de su conciencia (probablemente la glándula pineal)”. "Muchos iniciados en los antiguos Misterios afirmaron enfáticamente que habían conversado con los inmortales y habían contemplado a los dioses". Hall escribe: "Los misterios nórdicos se daban en nueve cámaras o cavernas, y el candidato avanzaba a través de ellas en orden secuencial”. "Estas cámaras de iniciación representaban las nueve esferas en las que los Drottars dividían el Universo”. El inframundo azteca, Mictlan, constaba de NUEVE niveles distintos. Hoy en día, los rituales de iniciación suelen realizarse en CUEVAS o LUGARES DE OSCURIDAD. Esto proviene de los Misterios Nórdicos y Mitriacos. Mucha gente ha visto los rituales de la Muerte Simulada donde el Candidato es levantado por el Agarre de la Pata del León que, también, proviene del Mitraísmo. La Cueva de la Natividad de Jesús fue, también según Hall, un Ritual de Iniciación Oculta, los Tres Reyes Magos eran Adeptos Espirituales. WL Wilmshurst dice: "Los 'pastores que cuidaban sus rebaños' en el momento de la Natividad no eran rústicos ni granjeros, sino adeptos espirituales a cargo de grupos de iniciados". Los Misterios Mitriacos se realizaban en Cavernas Subterráneas conocidas como Mitreos, Templos Mitraicos Ocultos. Las catacumbas cristianas y los hipogeos o Mitreos de culto a Mitra estuvieron juntas durante por lo menos 300 años y lógicamente se produjo una colusión entre ambas religiones. En estas Cavernas Subterráneas, conocidas como Mitreos, los Iniciados serían conducidos de la Oscuridad a la LUZ. De la oscuridad a la LUZ MASÓNICA. Porfirio, en su Caverna de las Ninfas, afirma que Zaratustra (Zoroastro) fue el primero en consagrar una cueva al culto del Único Dios Verdadero, porque una caverna era un símbolo de la tierra, o del mundo inferior de las tinieblas. "Estas cuevas estaban adornadas con los signos del Zodíaco, Cáncer y Capricornio. Los solsticios de verano e invierno eran visibles, como las puertas de las almas que descendían a esta vida, o salían de ella en su ascenso hacia los Dioses; Cáncer era la puerta del Descenso, Capricornio, la del Ascenso”. Esto tiene que ver con los solsticios de verano e invierno que se venian representando en la llamada rueda de los años o de culto a Baal. Donde la celebración de Yule es en torno al 20-23 de diciembre y la de Midsummer entre el 19 y 23 de junio. Tanto el trópico de Cáncer como el trópico de Capricornio tienen una relación directa con el solsticio de verano, pues ambos son la línea imaginaria en la Tierra en la que los rayos del Sol son completamente verticales en el instante del solsticio, es decir, cuando el Sol se encontrará exactamente en el centro de la esfera de cielo visible cuando se produzca el solsticio y, por tanto, la sombra de cualquier objeto tendrá la componente longitudinal nula en dicha línea. Esto ocurre una sola vez al año por cada hemisferio, y también la igualdad en tiempo entre el día y la noche. Al hemisferio norte le corresponde el trópico de Cáncer y al hemisferio sur, el trópico de Capricornio. Hall concluye: "En el antiguo sistema de iniciación, el iniciado (o buscador) debe pasar por un SEGUNDO NACIMIENTO, y aquellos que alcanzaban este estado exaltado eran conocidos a partir de entonces como "Los Dos Veces Nacidos". Sólo aquel que ha nacido de nuevo puede comprender los misterios del cielo”. "Este nuevo nacimiento, sin embargo, no se logra simplemente uniéndose a una secta. Debe ganarse personalmente mediante una regeneración completa del carácter y la conducta." Así como un Fénix RENACE de las Cenizas, lo mismo ocurre con el Iniciado. Hall dice: "En los Misterios, a los iniciados se les llamaba fénix u hombres nacidos de nuevo, porque así como el nacimiento físico da al hombre conciencia en el mundo físico, así también el neófito, después de nueve grados en el vientre de los Misterios, nacía en una conciencia de lo Espiritual”. “Este es el misterio de la iniciación al que se refirió Cristo cuando dijo: “El que no naciere de nuevo no puede ver el reino de Dios”. El Fénix es un símbolo apropiado de esta verdad espiritual”. La Kundalini despierta sube por las 33 Vértebras, la Escalera de Jacob, la Columna Vertebral, pasa por los Siete Arcángeles hasta llegar y reunirse con el TRONO de Dios. Hay 33 vértebras en total. La palabra Elohim se utiliza 33 veces en Génesis. 33 años en la vida de Jesús. 33 grados en la Masonería. En el cuerpo humano, el Fuego Divino se arrastra como una serpiente por el Árbol de la Vida, la Médula Espinal o la Escalera de Jacob. Hay Siete Vértebras Cervicales en la Columna Superior que se asemejan a las Alas de un Ángel. Estos son los Siete Arcángeles que guardan la CIMA de la Escalera de Jacob, el Cerebro. En el mitraísmo, existían siete niveles de iniciación, que pueden estar relacionados con los siete planetas de la astronomía de la época (Luna, Mercurio, Venus, Sol, Marte, Júpiter y Saturno). La mayoría de los miembros llegaban únicamente, hasta el cuarto grado (leo) y solo unos escogidos accedían a los rangos superiores. Los niveles, conocidos gracias a un texto de San Jerónimo que confirman varias inscripciones, eran los siguientes: Corax (cuervo); Cryphius (oculto) o Nymphus (esposo); Miles (soldado). Leo (león). Perses (persa); Heliodromus (emisario solar). Pater (padre). Sus atributos (el gorro frigio, la vara y el anillo) recuerdan a los del obispo cristiano. En los ritos, los iniciados llevaban máscaras de animales relativas a su nivel de iniciación y se dividían en dos grupos: los servidores, por debajo del grado de leo y los participantes, el resto. Siete Arcángeles, Siete Puertas Planetarias, Siete Metales Alquímicos. Siete colores del arco iris. Teseo, el héroe fundador de Atenas cuya acción más conocida fue la de derrotar al Minotauro del laberinto de Creta y evitar así el sacrificio de 7 doncellas y 7 jóvenes como tributo al rey Minos. Siete notas musicales. Por cierto el dibujo de la Harmonía musical es clavado a la tetraktys pitagórica. Se atribuye a Pitágoras el descubrimiento de la representación de los ritmos básicos de la música griega mediante las razones 1:2 como octava, 3:2 como quinta y 4:3 como cuarta. Así, los pitagóricos estimaban que el orden y la belleza lo daban esos cuatro primeros números cuya suma es diez, que consideraban el número perfecto. En el Cuerpo Humano, la Escalera de Jacob (la Médula Espinal) conduce al Cerebro Humano. El Cerebro Humano tiene Dos Hemisferios, el Boaz y el Jachim del Templo de Salomón. En el cerebro humano, así como existe el hemisferio izquierdo y el derecho, también existe la amígdala izquierda y la derecha. En la "Atanomia bíblica", estas son las dos Marías: María Magdalena y la Virgen María. Estas "Marías" representan el nacimiento físico y el segundo nacimiento, el nacimiento espiritual. Existe, también, el Tálamo izquierdo y derecho (el “Tammuz” babilónico, Hijo de Semíramis, la “María” babilónica), las glándulas PINEAL y PITUITARIA están centradas y no están ubicadas en cada hemisferio si no reflejándose una a la otra: una ARRIBA y la otra ABAJO. La representación de estas dos glándulas la podemos ver en el gorro que porta el dios egipcio Khnum o dios cabeza de cordero, el protector o enriquecedor de la naturaleza. La Anatomía del Cerebro es el origen de la alegoría esotérica del “Padre” que está ARRIBA y el “Hijo” que está ABAJO. Jesús nació en un pesebre, aunque también otras costumbres lo sitúan en una CUEVA utilizada como pesebre; ésta es verdaderamente la ‘Cueva de Brahman’ dentro de nuestro Cerebro. La 'Cueva de Brahman' es donde la Pineal y la Pituitaria son capaces de iluminarse como un Árbol de Navidad cuando la Energía Espiritual se transmuta por la ESCALERA DE JACOB como un FÉNIX RENACIDO, ¡un verdadero Milagro de Navidad! La “CUEVA DE BRAHMA” es la “CUEVA INTERNA” dentro del Cerebro, directamente encima de la Pineal, la Pituitaria, el Tálamo y el Hipotálamo. Este es el PALACIO DE CRISTAL Taoísta. El Palacio de CRISTO-EL, el Reino de los Cielos en el interior, el TERCER VENTRÍCULO, el Asiento de Jehová. "Los Misterios enseñan que el Tercer Ventrículo es la sede de JEHOVÁ en el cuerpo humano. Si bien su función es a través del SISTEMA GENERATIVO, su CENTRO DE CONCIENCIA como parte del espíritu del hombre se supone que está ubicado en un mar de éter azul llamado el VELO de ISIS.” Hall finaliza: “El velo de ISIS en el hombre se encuentra en el centro del seno frontal”. ………………………………………………………………………………………. La abadía de Westminster, famosa mundialmente, fue construida donde estaba el templo pagano de Apolo, el dios Romano. Algo que me conmocionó profundamente fue saber de la Piedra de Scone, o Piedra del Destino, también conocida como Piedra de la Coronación. Una piedra que ha sido utilizada por todos los reyes escoceses y que también fue utilizada en la coronación de la reina de Inglaterra Isabel II, por cierto a pesar de sufrir muchos contratiempos ya que esta piedra fue supuestamente robada por unos estudiantes. ¿Qué tiene que ver todo esto de la piedra del destino con las líneas ley y los niveles de consciencia? Según la leyenda esta piedra es la piedra que hizo que se le apareciese a Jacob uno de los mas famosos dioses, Yahveh. El dios en el que sigue creyendo por cierto el pastor evangélico Rony Chaves que tiene uno de los pocos libros que hablan sobre estas lineas energéticas. Este Jacob soñó con una escalera por la que los ángeles ascendían y descendían del cielo. Vamos, lo que podría ser considerado un medio de comunicación interdimensional. La abadía de San Pedro y San Pablo en Bath, Inglaterra, incluye esculturas de ángeles que suben al cielo en dos escaleras de piedra. Concretamente son siete ángeles o mejor dicho, siete arcángeles. “[…]porque los ángeles no son todos iguales, sino que con arreglo a su condición están jerarquizados entre sí e integrados en tres grupos diferentes. Al primero de esos grupos damos el nombre de Epifanía, palabra que significa categoría máxima o superior; al segundo lo llamamos Hyperfanía, palabra que quiere decir categoría intermedia; al tercero lo designamos Hypofanía, que equivale a categoría inferior. […]Cada una de estas jerarquías consta de tres órdenes: a la primera de ellas, o Epifanía, pertenecen los serafines, querubines y tronos; a la segunda o Hyperfanía, según Dionisio, pertenecen las dominaciones, virtudes y las potestades; a la tercera o Hypofanía, también según Dionisio, pertenecen los principados, los arcángeles y los ángeles. Se da cierta semejanza entre la ordenación o disposición de los espíritus celestiales y la que existes entre los diferentes poderes terrenos.” Jacopo de la Vorágine, Leyenda Dorada, siglo XIII. En el articulo “Los Siete Arcángeles. Una iconografía al servicio del poder” de Cipriano García Hidalgo Villena leemos: “La tradición judía del Antiguo Testamento organizó a estos seres incorpóreos que, generalmente y comúnmente, llamamos ángeles, de la misma forma que estaba organizada la jerarquía babilónica, el gran imperio antiguo que influyó decisivamente en la concepción hebrea durante el periodo del exílio, que se data en el siglo VI a. C., la ordenación jerárquica de la corte celestial se inspiraba así en la tradición zoroástrica. En el libro sagrado del Avesta se recoge que, junto a la divinidad, se sitúan un consejo celestial de bienhechores inmortales formado por siete miembros y capitaneados por Ahura Mazda. El número siete es fundamental en la tradición numerológica oriental que se trasmitió también a occidente, pues es el número que aúna lo divino, formado por el número tres, con lo terrenal, que se corresponde con el cuatro. El problema es que los textos bíblicos, canónicamente aceptados por el cristianismo, sólo mencionan a tres arcángeles con nombre: Miguel, Gabriel y Rafael, que serán los arcángeles canónicos. Pero en los apócrifos aparecen muchísimos más nombres. El texto fundamental para la creación de la advocación de los siete arcángeles será el Libro de Enoch: “Me dijo Metatrón: Siete son los grandes príncipes, hermosos, temibles, maravillosos, honorables, que están a cargo de los siete cielos. Ellos son: Miguel, Gabriel, Satquiel, Sajaquiel, Bakariel, Badariel y Pajriel […] Todos ellos ciñen reales coronas, visten hábitos reales y se cubren con reales vestiduras. Todos ellos cabalgan sobre reales corceles y sus manos empuñan cetros reales. Cuando cada uno de ellos se desplaza por Raquia, van corriendo ante él reales sirvientes con gran pompa y boato, del mismo modo que se desplazan los príncipes en la tierra en carroza, con jinetes y numerosas huestes, con gloria, grandeza, alabanza, loa y ornato” Libro de Enoch (versión hebréa) en Díez Macho, Alejandro: Apócrifos del Antiguo Testamento El emperador Carlos V y los jesuitas fueron los que hicieron posible que se les rindiese culto hasta nuestros días. Si os fijáis hay siete niveles, como había 7 grados en el Mitraísmo. Para mi estas líneas ley sirven entre otras cosas para eso, para comunicarse con esos entrecomillas “ángeles”. Invitados: Semshu Hor @trips0 …. macaco @10macaco10 …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP @ayec98_2 Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: Sintonía Alfa 4x08 - Hipogeus (Hipogeos) Culto a Mitra https://www.ivoox.com/sintonia-alfa-4x08-hipogeus-hipogeos-enric-puig-audios-mp3_rf_26520071_1.html PODEMOS, LOS PITUFOS Y EL GORRO FRIGIO https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/11/27/podemos-pitufos-gorro-frigio/ Mitraísmo https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra%C3%ADsmo Los misterios de Mitra https://x.com/AmurakaHidden/status/1835514957707800983 Los Siete Arcángeles. Una iconografía al servicio del poder. https://www.investigart.com/2020/06/02/los-siete-arcangeles-una-iconografia-al-servicio-del-poder/ Universo fractal https://www.ivoox.com/universo-fractal-audios-mp3_rf_9991855_1.html EL VUELO INFINITO DE LAS MARIPOSAS I https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2023/07/27/el-vuelo-infinito-de-las-mariposas-i/ SINCRONICIDADES Y EL EFECTO MARIPOSA II https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2023/11/19/sincronicidades-y-el-efecto-mariposa-ii/ ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ………………………………………………………………………………………. Epílogo Red - Bian I El B Los Aldeanos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiAIkZ6BLlg

We chat about the SCONe's rulings on the ballot last week with Joe Jordan, formerly of News Channel Nebraska. We check in with Bill Stephan of the Lied Center to preview the fall season at the Lied. And, ahead of a huge week for Nebraska Volleyball, we chat with the Voice of Husker VB, John Baylor.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your hosts are Paul Marden and Oz Austwick.Fill in the Rubber Cheese 2024 Visitor Attraction Website Survey - the annual benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 21st August 2024. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenpriestnall/https://linktr.ee/oomphincStephen Priestnall founded oomph, now an accredited B Corp, in 2005, acquired Decision Juice in 2009 and is globally recognised as a specialist in CX driven transformation projects and digital innovation. He has advised at a senior level across public and private sector organisations in the UK, Americas, Asia and the Middle East and is an instigator of international research studies into behaviour change. He is a Board Trustee with Aneurin Leisure Trust, advising on CX and communications strategy and a founding Director at Wellbeing Economy Cymru, part of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance, advocating for a new approach to economic sustainability for people and planet. Transcription:  Paul Marden: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in and working with Mister attractions. I'm your host, Paul Marden. On today's episode, I speak to Stephen Priestnall, the CEO of oomph, a CX focused agency based in the UK and UAE who help clients to understand people and design better experiences. We're going to go back to first principles and understand what customer experience is all about and understand what attractions can do better to serve the needs of their customers. Paul Marden: Hello, Oz. Oz Austwick: Hi, Paul. So this is the last episode of Season 5, right? Paul Marden: Yes, that is right. Can you believe after we took the reigns from. From young Ms. Molson not too long ago, that we would actually make it to the end of the season? Oz Austwick: Do you know, it's crazy, isn't it? I mean, five seasons of a podcast. Most podcasts don't get through to the end of one season. And I can remember listening to this podcast years ago and actually sending people links as an example of what a good podcast is. And now here we are, you and I, at the end of Season 5. It's crazy.. Paul Marden: Yay. Guardians of this little baby. Oz Austwick: Yeah. Yeah, no pressure. So today's quite an interesting one, right? Paul Marden: Yeah. I've got a guest who has been a friend of mine for some time, Stephen Priestnall of Oomph agency. And we're going to talk a little bit about customer experience. So nice little chat between Stephen and I, and then you and I will come together in a little while and talk a little bit about. Let's reminisce about season five and talk a little bit about what might happen in Season 6. Oz Austwick: Awesome. Great. I'm looking forward to it. Paul Marden: Let's get on with it then. Welcome to podcast, Stephen. Stephen Priestnall: Nice to be here, Paul. Thanks for inviting me. Paul Marden: Good to have you on. Longtime listeners will know that we always start the podcast with some icebreaker questions, which hopefully not too challenging, but we get to know you a little bit better before we start talking about work. So both of my icebreakers are all about visiting attractions this time. So how organised are you in advance? If you go to an attraction, do you take a picnic with you, or are you always partaking of a cup of tea and a slice of cake in the coffee shop? Stephen Priestnall: I think it would have to be a particularly kind of informal attraction for me to have thought about taking a picnic beforehand. So normally it's just the anticipation of going to the place, and then I'll utilise the services in the place. Paul Marden: I love a good slice of cake in the coffee shop afterwards. Scone, cream, tea and scone that would be me. Stephen Priestnall: No way. Maybe a bit of our breath or fruitcake. It's probably more me. Paul Marden: Oh, lovely. I was at the Roman Baths yesterday with my little girl and we had a lovely wander around and they had a brilliant self guided tour. So if you've got a choice, do you go for a self guided tour? Do you wander around and follow your nose? Or would you rather have a guide take you around and tell you the stories? Stephen Priestnall: I almost never have a guide to take me around. And then sometimes I even find the self guided tours a little bit invasive. If I'm in a different country where there is kind of a language barrier, a filter, then I might use it then. But you know what? I kind of like that the ability just to bump from one bit to another. Paul Marden: Yeah. Stephen Priestnall: And experience the experience through my own kind of filter. So that's what I would normally do. I haven't been able to wander around with the headphones on, almost never with a guy. Paul Marden: Yeah, they had a lovely one at the Roman Baths yesterday. So it had both adult interpretation and kids interpretation, and I found myself switching to the kids one so that I was experiencing what Millie was experiencing, because I was saying to her, “Oh, did they tell you what that was?” “Oh, no, that wasn't in the kids version.” So I swapped the kids one and it brought it to life. It was really. It became much more shared experience for us. Stephen Priestnall: Yeah, well, that's like that's like the horrible history stuff. Yeah. But actually, it's brilliant. Rattles that was what they were on about in the tudor period, then. I didn't get it until now. Paul Marden: Yeah, look, listeners, Stephen and I have known each other for quite some time. We've been working together a lot on different projects, and his agency, Oomph, does a lot of work in customer experience. And so today's episode is going to be a little bit more about a primer on what do we mean by customer experience? And really, what I'd like to get to the bottom of today is what can attractioners do better to serve the needs of their customers. Yeah. So, really, Stephen, what I want to do is pick your brains. Let's introduce this whole subject of CX and customer experience and help people to better understand a little bit about what does that mean and how can they bring that into their day to day work in running attractions and meeting customers. Paul Marden: So, before we start that, why don't you tell us a little bit more about you and a little bit more about Oomph. So that listeners can better understand the context. Stephen Priestnall: Yeah, thanks, Paul. We've positioned ourselves around the concept of customer experience for about ten years now, and customer experience ten years ago was a bit of an oddball place to be. It kind of grew out of the user experience, the UX world, with a little bit of event management thrown into it and a little bit of actually, you need to think about people in the middle of all of this. And we come from a background of combining digital and data quite successfully to kind of help devise communications campaigns, kind of brand engagements, that kind of thing. And what we could see was if you brought all these things together as data was getting more sophisticated, with digital interactions on the rise, that you could get yourself much more informed about the way in which people's customers were actually behaving. Stephen Priestnall: And not so much what they were actually how they were behaving, but also what their needs were that drove the behaviours. And so we have, we've grounded our work and customer experience around a very clear desire to understand the needs of our clients' customers, and then to hold that mirror up for our clients and say, “Look, I know you have these products and services to sell and to engage with, but what we're going to do is a job of letting you know at the point of engagement they're hitting your customers needs in this way. And if you then flip the lens around from the customer need first rather than the product or service first, you might determine a different way of building that service or designing that interaction, or maybe even changing the way in which you invite customers into a journey with you.”Stephen Priestnall: So a lot of data and digital inside are our space port that inform CX. And then in the last couple of years, AI has been another transformative technology that we've started to utilise. And we know we treat it as good AI. We know there's bad AI out there, but the good AI is really helpful. Paul Marden: That's really interesting. We know from the Rubber Cheese Survey this year that most attractions have dabbled. They've played with ChatGPT, or something like that. But there's still a large portion of attractions that have done nothing with AI. And then there's a couple that I would consider at the leading edge. So they're doing things beyond GPT. They're looking at AI enabled CRM or AI enabled workforce management solutions.Paul Marden:  So there's some interest in here, but it's definitely, there's a conversation that we've had on the podcast just recently with Oz and I talking about the idea that we can't quite figure out if we're in a bubble because a lot of people that we talk to talk a lot of good game about AI, but when we're talking to the businesses, the clients, they're only just getting into this in the most shallow way. Agencies like yours and ours are kind of. We're leading the conversation on this, I think. Stephen Priestnall: Well, I think it's really interesting you frame it like that, because one of the things that has informed our approach to CX is the idea of understanding behaviour change, which is a science in itself. So if any listeners are familiar with behaviour change, you'll know how long the tail of kind of investigation evaluation that is. We launched a study in 2020 which ended up over three years and three waves, 10,000 respondents looking at the impact of Covid-19 on people's behaviour and their interaction with organisations. That is part of our research centre which we call tide of events, which is now about to launch another study which is going to be looking at the impact of AI. Paul Marden: Oh really? Stephen Priestnall: As employees, as citizens, as customers, as service users, as members, as supporters. I'm expecting some very interesting things to come out of that study as well. Paul Marden: Yeah, very interesting. So there's this idea of kind of CX thinking and embedding that, embedding it the heart of your agency, but you then helping your clients to embed it into the business. So how can CX thinking help an attraction to improve its offering? And I think if we can look at that in two directions, because obviously most visitor attractions are an in person experience, there's lots of thinking around their interaction and the experience that they feel when they're in the attraction itself. But there's a lot of us looking at either side of that interaction. How do we use marketing to get more people to want to do stuff? And then how do we make sure that they got the best experience after they did and reengage with us. How can CX thinking offline and online help an attraction? Stephen Priestnall: The principles of customer experience thinking, certainly from our perspective, is to deal with the reality of that there are people involved. And I think you and I both know, Paul, in the digital world it's kind of quite easy to forget as a person we spend a lot of time in front of technology, trying to get technology to do stuff that we think is helpful. And then it's easy to lose sight of the goal, which is to help a person achieve a task or do something which they have, they enjoy doing. I think in the world of attractions, destinations, then when you're in a kind of physical world, that you're sat in that environment designing something, and you're a physical person yourself. Stephen Priestnall: And as a designer, looking in that environment, feeling that, okay, well, if I walk from here to here, it's going to feel like that. If I put this in the wrong place, if my member of staff is trained in the wrong way and uses the wrong language, that's going to have a direct impact. So you kind of get brought back to the people side of it quite a lot when you're in it in person. So I would say that the world of CX thinking is about bringing the importance of the human into the overall experience. So you don't treat the digital experience with kind of it in a different frame set than you treat the in real life, in person experience. Stephen Priestnall: And that's quite hard to do, because sometimes you're trying to drive the digital experiences as a kind of conversion funnel to get people to do something and buy something or consume some content. And you can kind of get hung up on the word optimisation and funnel management, and you then get drawn into, how can we push people through to the next phase? And push people through to the next phase? And imagine if you're in an attraction, and yeah, you might make certain parts, physical areas, a place where you would want people to go to, but you wouldn't have somebody walking up and nudging them in the back, pushing them down the aisle and stopping them from turning around and staying in one place. Paul Marden: Yeah. Stephen Priestnall: And yet, that's often what happens in the digital world. It becomes an optimisation process to kind of channel a particular behavior that we think is optimal for the organisation. So the world of CX stands back from that, identifies the needs that were satisfying, and looks at Paul and Stephen as two individuals who are unique as individuals, and can be defined by a set of age, gender, sociological, economic characteristics. But actually, Paul and I might have five or six relevant needs for the attraction of which two are consistent. And, you know, two or three are completely different. So we can't treat Paul as Paul and Stephen as Stephen. We have to understand the relationship between the needs that we have as individuals and the thing that we're doing, or the point of the point on the journey we're on. Stephen Priestnall: And I think that's tricky to kind of link the digital and the in real life worlds together. But that's the trick I like to think the kind of CX approach would bring. Paul Marden: Yeah. Just as you're saying that it can be hard to think about the person. But also many of the attractions that we work with have very different offerings. And so consequently they have very different audiences that have very different needs. And, you know, are you trying to serve online an audience that's never going to attend? How do you serve those people's needs? If you've got an educational remit, how do you serve those people's needs whilst at the same time serving the needs of the people that you want to bring in and spend money on site with you? If you're a historic house that also has a golf course and it has a hotel and it has some sort of kids attraction associated with it, there's so many different audiences. Paul Marden: So that kind of CX thinking can help you to step back. Stephen Priestnall: Absolutely. And actually just maybe think of a great triangulation process between three different clients that we've been working with recently that show that kind of breadth of differences. So we work with the saudi arabian government on a new, one of their giga projects on a new destination out in the desert near Rhea called Duria. And that is an amazing set of destination components. Golf courses, equestrian centres, hotels, business centres. And that's creating a destination for a country which has never had any tourism in it before. So with a whole bunch of high net worth individuals that you've got to think about, then also a challenge to get people who live in Saudi to not spend the $90 billion a year that they do going to visit the rest of the world and to actually visit somewhere in Saudi. Stephen Priestnall: So we've had a set of kind of challenges around how do you drive a customer journey, a visitor journey for that. And we've been working with an organisation called Marketing Manchester, helping them devise a new segmentation so they can, I'm going to use the term, attract the right kind of visitors to go to Manchester to hook in with their sustainability strategy. They don't just want people in the shopping malls and going to the football, sports events or shows, albeit they would like that. They also want to understand the community engagement, the cultural engagement and the environmental footprint that they leave behind. And then we're just in conversations with North York Moore's National Park. And then there's a whole different set of conversations about engagement with the local community, communities, a little bit arms folded about tourists. How do you make that come together? Stephen Priestnall: And all of this is about people and it's about understanding people's relationship with people and things. Paul Marden: Brilliant. So let's have a little think about given that those are the ideas behind CX thinking. If you were starting out down this road, what are the simple things that people can do to start to bed the customer at the heart of their thinking as they're planning their services? And I'm thinking in terms of, we've got very different types of attractions in this country, very small, up to, you know, big international attractions. Let's pick the small guys. Yeah. Imagine you're running a small town museum and, you know, you've got a handful of people working in the team. How can you start to embed the customer into your thinking to improve the service? Stephen Priestnall: So I think, I don't think the principles change with scale. I think that the executional methods will change with scale, but the principles. And you can have, you know, if you've got a small team of three or four people, you can have these three or four people working together in a room. You can support a research or not, if you can afford the research that great. If you can't, then you use. So we use a term called foundational intelligence. So before we start any research with a client which might go and look at their customers or prospective customers or visitors.Stephen Priestnall: We say, “Right, let's go all of the information in your organisation on the surface, first, because there's however many people around the room's years of experience, which is not necessarily formed in a cx way, but if we get that on the table, we've probably got a 60, 70, 80% starting point for what we're going to need to know in the end. I think that's the first thing I would say, is take confidence in the fact you've got some foundational intelligence about customer experience. But there might be a clever way of bringing that out through a little workshop. So you ask the right questions of each other. And one of the ways which I think is useful to do and quite practical is to think about three different ways of looking at people as individuals. Stephen Priestnall: So think about themselves as a, you know, a standard attribute based, if you like, cohort or segments, you know, age, demography, all those things that we talked about, but then move those to one side and then ask a relatively straightforward question, what needs are being satisfied by your services? So it's kind of, what's the point of what you do? Yeah, well, harsh question. Paul Marden: Yeah. Stephen Priestnall: But it's devoid from, if you like, knowing your customers at that point, devoid from any transaction based evaluation or business case to say, what's the point of what we do? Why do people turn up and then be quite hard about answering those questions. And when you get the first answer in your head, which is based on what you've always thought you've always done, just go right. Is that really why people turn up? Paul Marden: Is that right? Stephen Priestnall: Really why people walk through the door? Is that really why people tell their friends about us? Paul Marden: There's a little bit of lean thinking there, isn't there? You've got five whys, haven't you? You could go, but why? But why? But why? Just to keep pushing yourself to think that hard thought. Stephen Priestnall: Exactly. Whatever, you know, whatever little mental games you want to play with it, that's the kind of point. What's the point? And then the next lens to look at it is the journey your visitors are on in order to not just get to your destination, but get out of your destination and be reflecting on it to their I, peers, friends, colleagues, family. And that journey doesn't mean I book a ticket, I turn up, I walk around the attraction and then I go home. It means what are the component parts of that journey when they're in planning more just you asked me earlier on about whether I plan a picnic. What are they planning? How likely are they to plan? Do they not want to plan? Do they just want to turn up? Stephen Priestnall: You know, when they're getting to, when they're coming, when they're traveling to the destination, how are they traveling? What's their preferred method of travel? And then what are the different ways in which people engage with the attraction itself? And then what happens afterwards when they walk out? Do they walk out and go for a beer? Forget about it. Did they do that thing you do in a golf club where you spend the next 3 hours talking about what you did for the last 3 hours? And what's the version of that could be done in social media afterwards? And again, do that. Do that without necessarily worrying too much about who does what. So you end up these kind of journey components. Stephen Priestnall: Now all these things can be really heavily researched if you've got resources and the time to do that, but you can do it in a room with three or four people in 2 or 3 hours. And what you'll end up with is a set of right. The people who visit us look a bit like this. Typically, here's five or six types of people, here's a pool type, here's a Steven type, here's a whoever else type of. We've got ten or eleven needs. Well, who knew we had ten or eleven needs? That were satisfying. Paul Marden: Yeah. Stephen Priestnall: So you write those down. Oh, look, we got a journey which looks like planning, engagement, reflection. And I use those three terms because we use them all the time because they're nice and easy to get your head around. Planning, engagement, reflection, and within engagement here are all the different bits that are happening in engagement here. At the different bits that, all right, we might have a dozen, maybe even two dozen components underneath those kind of three big things. And you've then got a bit of a jigsaw. And it's also objective at that point as well. You've then got this objective jigsaw to say, which of those five or six groups of people have which of those needs do we think you might end up with that funny place where. Stephen Priestnall: Oh, actually that cohort doesn't have any of those needs, so we think they really like coming to us, but we're not doing anything to satisfy their needs or this other group that we don't get many of. Look how many needs we're satisfying in that group. Maybe we should be targeting that group. Paul Marden: Yeah. Stephen Priestnall: So whether you're. Whether you go outwards and change your segmentation, your targeting, or whether you come in with and change your service design, you've already got some things to think about. And then when you map the journey on top of that, and again, you know, nice. It could be a done on paper, it could be done. There's loads of tools online you can do this without getting too scientific. You've then got the points at which, all right, so if that need is being satisfied for those people at that point, we now have a design intervention to work out. So we now have, essentially, we have a brief, we have a specification now that might be a piece of digital interaction, it might be a piece of communications design, it might be a piece of signage in the attraction, it might be a follow up social media nudge. Stephen Priestnall: You're then not inventing what you think it is that you need to do for your attraction. We use a phrase which I think clients are pretty comfortable with in the end because it. It's a real reflection. It's completely normal for organisations to kind of end up with an inside and view of the world. Everything is all about the product and the service because that's where the investment goes, that's where the thinking goes. And what we try and do is just to persuade people to take an outside in view. So actually look at this from the point of view of the customer. And I think what the exercise I've just described does is help you take that outside in view. Paul Marden: I'm smiling for those listening. I'm smiling because I just, it reminds me of so many times where I can, you know, I can see observing in the projects that we do or just, you know, interacting with the outside world, where you can tell that people often take a very parochial internal view and they'll communicate with the outside world in their own internal language. They will try and, you know, influence people to do things rather than thinking, how does this appear outside? Stephen Priestnall: Yeah, and it's, it, but it's also, it's not a critique. It's normalised behaviour. If you just think about how organisations grow, you end up with an idea, you know, where often it is about the customers. You've got this entrepreneurial, innovative spark that kicks the idea off, satisfying the needs. And then you build up a bunch of teams who, by definition, have broken out into departments with different roles and responsibilities. And then, and then the sense of self of the people in those teams is derived from the departmental responsibility. Paul Marden: Yes. Stephen Priestnall: But as a consequence, you then are trained, naturally trained to be inside out. Paul Marden: Yeah. Stephen Priestnall: And so, it's normal. And then when that, then when the salesperson comes back and says, “Why did you build it like that?” You know, the designer, the product person says, “Well, because that's the best way of doing this thing.” And the salesperson says, “I can't sell that.” And that actually, and I don't know how much. In your podcast, Paul, you talked about agile, but this is when the concept of squads really can work. I think that you have to take real care with squads because they can end up creating rooms of people who don't understand each other. I think unless there's one other thing I would say about the human part of CX, you have to take this into the culture of the organisation as well. So you asked me earlier, how do you present a CX focus for an organisation? Stephen Priestnall: Well, you can't just drop the results of that little workshop on top of everybody, because it's the going through the process of looking at those three lenses that puts you in a different mindset. If you then just end up telling the product people or telling the sales people or telling the ops people, can you do it like this now? They'll just add that onto their list of things to do. It won't be a change. Paul Marden: But when you bring those people into the conversation, I think it brings a different perspective, doesn't it? And I think that's the one thing I've learned from you in the few years that we've known one another is that when you boil it down, everything is a CX project. And I don't think I ever really thought about that. That there can be something which to me seems so navel gazing, internally focused as a technical project to deliver in the business. But actually, when you think, when you apply the rigor of thinking about the client, the customer, then you find that it is a CX driven project, even if it is completely internally facing. It can be about the communication between two teams, but in the end, because they don't have good communication, it's resulting in this poor customer experience over here. Paul Marden: So when you think about it hard, then these projects have a CX focus, even when they are very kind of internally facing.Stephen Priestnall: And it's sometimes difficult. I mean, I think that's a really good articulation of it. It sometimes can be a challenge to make that process seem worthwhile, because what you end up doing is spending more time challenging what you think is right at the beginning of the process. And there's always a desire from somewhere to move things on. I think that there's a little value based model that I always apply in my head, which if we treat this kind of CX phase as the planning phase, and then you go through a design phase, then you go through a build phase. For every extra hour you spend in planning, without spending that, you would spend ten more hours in design and a hundred more hours in production. So if you leave that hour aside, you're going to have a tenfold in design phase. Stephen Priestnall: And if you don't deal with it in design phase, you'll have it 100 fold, then build phase. But choosing to do that extra hour, which is tension filled, it might be a bit of conflict, there might be a bit of defensiveness. It needs to be carefully managed and kind of cajoled, but the value of it is meant. Paul Marden: Yeah. So you've described this kind of approach to take, identifying who the customers are, trying to use a little bit of intuition to be all science if you've got the budget to go and do the research, but to understand those customers in more detail and what their needs are, and then driving down and finding out where, you know, the journey maps onto that and where the gaps are and starting to look to fill those gaps. Is there room in the world for a dirty bottom up approach where you can see a problem already and you want to address that problem? Can you attack this from both angles or do you need to start from a top down approach? Stephen Priestnall: I'm an arch pragmatist and if we know there's a problem to solve and it's screaming for a solution, then that's going to solve the problem. I would only cancel that try and stand back and look at the unintended consequences through a very objective lens. You don't need to spend long doing that. But I think the magnetism of solving a problem that's been a longstanding problem can also act as a set of blinkers. So that's the only thing I would say. Paul Marden: Yeah, you can be distracted by the screaming problem that turns out not to be the real root cause. If you take the bigger picture of you. Stephen Priestnall: If we got this horrendous problem just before checkout, whether that's a digital or at the attraction itself and queuing up going on, you know, there's a need to solve that through a piece of technology or extra stuff on the tills. But actually, it turns out that there's a funneling process going on in the start of the process that's causing everybody to end up at the checker at the same time. And that can be solved by a different distribution of products in the attraction itself, or bringing in some different content to inform people in the digital journey. That means they don't have to do task X and Y because they now know about it. You know, we've all had that before, which it looks like people can't get through this bit of the funnel. Let's try and make this bit of the funnel easier. Stephen Priestnall: Let's try and do more things. More buttons, more. Let's just try and make it easier. But actually, it turns out, if only we'd given that visitor to the digital journey more time to consume content and not push them through the first stage of the transaction process so quickly, they would have entered the second stage much better informed and relaxed about completing the overall thing. Paul Marden: It's just such a challenge, isn't it? Because I can just feel me even now with our fictitious scenario, all I want to do is squeeze them down the funnel. But you have to focus at the end about getting the right outcome, don't you? Stephen Priestnall:  There's another great metaphor I like to use, and we do this all the time because we talk about something called sustainable customer experience. And sustainable customer experience strategy isn't about a green CX strategy. It's about saying, if you get your CX strategy right, you will have to spend less money on acquiring new customers, so it's more economically sustainable and there's a really interesting kind of just different way of looking at it. So normally if you look at the typical retail conversion process, if you get 100 people on the top of a digital funnel, you might get five out the end as a conversion there's usually really simple numbers, five. So everybody works on how do we make five six? That's the big thing because that's like 20% improvement. If you get five to six, we've just put 20% on the bottom line. Stephen Priestnall: Meanwhile there's 95 people. Do you care? Are you interested? I came here for a reason and you don't like me anymore, so. Well, goodbye then. So what we do is we say, right, we want to put as much effort into understanding the 94. It's not wasted effort. I'm a pragmatist, as we do making the five six, because if out of that 94 we can get another 20 over the next twelve months to do the same thing. We've not spent any money on customer acquisition. We've built and engaged in a relationship. We've had opportunities to talk and engage them, which probably means they're going and talking to other people and checking about the experience. So they're probably doing some recruitment for us anyway, which we can also nudge behaviour. Stephen Priestnall: And then what that does, it changes the mentality inside the organisation to not just think about, we've got six out the other end. Yes. Celebrate. And actually think about. Because imagine if you did that physically. Imagine if physically you could see the hundred people in a queue and everybody went off celebrating the 6th that went through. And then you look back and you looked at these 94 people just milling around having a chat with each other and what just happened. Paul Marden: Yeah, that would feel pretty uncomfortable, wouldn't it? Stephen Priestnall: It will. Especially for an attraction. Paul Marden: Yeah, for sure. Look, this has been brilliant. It's nice. I think sometimes to take a step back and look at that kind of the 101 class, the intro to the subject. And I think this is a subject that we will come back to again and again. We've talked about taking it back to its first principles a little bit today, but this is embedded within the attraction sector. They know and understand the people that come through the door. This is something that they take really seriously, obviously. But I think there are ways in which we can take what we've learned today and use that as a springboard into some more deeper conversations. Paul Marden: Maybe in Season 6, which is coming up where we can talk a little bit more about, you know, your conversations about AI, the direction that you take these things in. How does AI help you in a world where you want to be cx centric? What does AI do for you? So thank you ever so much. This has been brilliant. Thank you. Stephen Priestnall: Really enjoyed it. Paul Marden: One last ask of you, though. We always ask our interviewees to come up with a book recommendation. And it can be fiction, it can be factual, it can be about the subject. But we will give this book away to the first person that retweets the show advert and says, I want Stephen's book. So what is the book that you'd like to share with the world? Stephen Priestnall: Well, so I'd love to say it was. It was a book I wrote in 1986 on expert systems in context. I was doing AI back in the 80's. That one is out of print. You definitely will get hold of it. Instead, it's a book that I think challenges, whatever your persuasions about understanding of the environment and climate, challenges your way of thinking about. It's a book by an activist called George Monbiot, and it's called Feral. And it's to do with the rewilding of Britain, the potential for rewilding Britain. And again, whether you're minded to think that's a good thing or not, it's a great book to just think, okay, that's my perceptions challenge. I hadn't thought of things like that. Paul Marden: Excellent. So, listeners, if you'd like to get a copy of Stephen's book, then head over to X, find the show tweet that we put out and say, I want Stephen's book. And the first person to do that will get a copy. Stephen, this has been wonderful. Thank you all so much. And hopefully we will talk more about this in Season 6. Stephen Priestnall: Thank you very much, Paul. Oz Austwick: He's a really interesting guy, isn't he? Paul Marden: He is indeed. I said to Stephen afterwards, it was such a nice conversation because we've been working together for years, and today I got to ask the questions I've been too embarrassed to ask for the last few years because I really should, at this point, know the answers to them. But today I was able to take the place of the listener and ask those questions without fear of embarrassment. Oz Austwick: Yeah, there does come a point where you kind of feel that you probably shouldn't be asking this question anymore. You should already know this. Yeah, I love that. I thought, it's really interesting. I love this concept of nudging that he talked about, and it's something I've been aware of online for years, but the kind of putting it in the context of happening in the real world, I thought was really interesting. It gives you a bit of insight into how weird it is that we try and force people into certain pathways online. When you'd never dream of doing that in the real world, just having somebody outside a room just pushing you into it. Yeah, you wouldn't do that. Paul Marden: You're in a queue for the log flume and you get poked in the back to say, “Do you want to buy your photo? Do you want to buy your photo? You really do want to buy the photo, don't you?”Oz Austwick: Well, I mean, that does kind of happen, doesn't it? It's usually my children that are doing it, if I'm being honest. But, yeah, really interesting stuff. Paul Marden: A nice way to round out some amazing interviews and fireside chats that we've had over Season 5 and look forward to Season 6. Oz Austwick: Yeah, I'm really excited about Season 6. Paul Marden: Yeah, we want to do something a little bit different, don't we? Oz Austwick: Yeah, well, I mean, firstly, I'll get to start the season of the podcast. Because I wasn't here at the start of Season 5. I've kind of just weaseled my way in halfway through the season and gone, “Yes, mine now.” Paul Marden: Tell listeners, what is it that we want to do differently? Oz Austwick: Well, it feels a bit weird to me that we're creating a podcast all about the visitor attraction sector, which is designed to get people out of their houses to a place and actually experience it in the real world. And yet you're sitting in exactly the same room, and I'm sitting in exactly the same room. And as we pointed out not long ago, I'm wearing the same t shirt as I seem. This appears to be my podcast t shirt. And yet, you know, we're not getting out. So we're gonna get out. We're gonna get in a car and go to a place and record a podcast in an attraction with a person. And I think that's amazing. Paul Marden: Yeah, I just can't wait. We've got a couple lined up. One's crazy, one's going to be a big event. It could be really fun, but we love listeners with attractions who would like two blokes and some cameras to turn up to invite us along. We would love to come and visit your venue. We would love to talk about whatever subject it is that you think our listeners would like to discuss, and we'll come along and we'll record it in real life at your place and see how amazing your venue is and talk more about the stuff that everybody's interested in. Oz Austwick: Absolutely. But it's not just that we're going to do a little bit differently, is it? We're kind of focusing a little bit more on different groups. Paul Marden: Yeah. There was some lovely feedback for those, for listeners that listened to Kelly's final episode, her swan song. When Ross from Drayton Manor came on and talked about his experience of being on the podcast and how influential it was for him to have his 15 minutes of fame for Skip the Queue, and how important that was to him in his stage, in his career, that prompted us to think about, can we use this platform now that so many people before us built to help to shine a light on new and emerging talent in the sector? So if you are in early stages of your career and you are doing something interesting in the attraction space, could be digital, it could be something customer focused in real life. Paul Marden: There's so many different ways where we could have an interesting conversation about what it is that you do and why other people would find it interesting. You know, invite us in. We would love to have that conversation with people. If you know someone, if there's someone in your team who, you know, you can see is doing amazing things and could grow in their career with the spotlight shone on them, and there's lots of people like that, then point them in our direction. Point us in their direction. We can definitely do something to help them to share their story and hopefully to benefit from that springboard, that stepping outside and talking to the outside world about what you do can really have on a career. Oz Austwick: Yeah, absolutely. I think it's lovely that hopefully now, after five seasons, the podcasts kind of mature enough that we don't need to lean on those famous, influential people in the industry quite as much. And hopefully that maybe we've got enough loyal listeners and enough of us standing as a podcast that we can tell stories just because they're interesting. Yeah, you already know the name of the person we're talking to, so, yeah, that's going to be really exciting. Paul Marden: But, you know, there are stories to be told that we don't know about yet that I'm sure will be going on inside listeners minds and, you know, hit us up, send us an email, send us a tweet, an X. I don't know what. I don't know. That's another story, isn't it? But send us a message by carrier Pigeon, if you can, that tells us what you think we should be talking about, the people we should be meeting and the stories that should be told. We would love to hear from you. Oz Austwick: Yeah, and in the meantime, enjoy your two or three weeks without Skip the Queue. Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. Hopefully you're all busy working in your attractions, being absolutely swamped. If the attractions I've been to are anything to go by, it is a rip roaring success of a summer. We've had some pretty good weather and yeah, we'll be looking back at this September October time thinking what an amazing summer it was after a disappointing start to the year. Oz Austwick: So yeah, well, fingers crossed. Absolutely. Paul Marden: Thank you, Oz. It's been delightful. I've enjoyed every minute of it. Oz Austwick: Yeah, me too. Here's to Season 6. Paul Marden: Yeah, see you on the other side. Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, SkiptheQueue.fm. The 2024 Visitor Attraction Website Survey is now LIVE! 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Cheap tuner pegs, digging deeper, and the return of the sausage breakfast sandwiches. Jimmy James (True Loves, Parlor Greens) "You could say that Parlor Greens are greater than the sum of their parts…however, the individual parts are simply stellar on their own. Tim Carman (GA-20) on drums, Jimmy James (True Loves, formerly Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio) on guitar, and Adam Scone (Scone Cash Players, The Sugarman 3) on organ. Scone is perhaps the most tasteful living organist on planet Earth (and beyond) and to watch him play is to truly watch a master at work. He bends the organ to his will like a true mastercraftsman. He's a veteran of the soul revival scene, having played on many Daptone recording sessions since their inception, but also has learned from some of the legends of soul jazz: Melvin Sparks and The Turbanator himself Dr. Lonnie Smith. Jimmy James needs no introduction to many as he's been seen all over the world performing with instrumental groups The True Loves and the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. Perhaps the most dangerous right hand in all of soul music, his signature funky approach can be identified by even the most novice of music fans, a feat most musicians could only dream of. Tim Carman. The backbone. The pocket. Having cut his teeth touring the world with blues group GA-20, Carman's expertise in the world of blues shuffles might make him an unlikely candidate to lay the foundation for the funky Parlor Greens, but this debut LP shows otherwise. Steady, heavy pockets and as funky as they come." Excerpt from https://www.parlorgreens.com True Loves: Bandcamp: https://truelovesband.bandcamp.com/music Instagram: @truelovesband Website: https://www.truelovesband.com Merch: https://truelovesband.bandcamp.com/merch Records: https://www.truelovesband.com Parlor Greens: Bandcamp: https://parlorgreens.bandcamp.com/music Instagram: @parlorgreens Website: https://www.parlorgreens.com Merch: https://www.coleminerecords.com/products/parlor-greens The Vineyard: Instagram: @thevineyardpodcast Website: https://www.thevineyardpodcast.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSn17dSz8kST_j_EH00O4MQ/videos

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10 (!) years ago today former WWE NXT Diva Skyler Moon aka Buggy Nova who was then known as Invexi Li, comedian David Burger and Scone from the internet show Pinkgirl & Scone joined Mark and Josi for a battle royal of a show. Invexi talked about changing her name from her independent wrestling name of Buggy Nova, which was changed to Skyler Moon when she was in WWE, though she did not explain the new moniker. She talked about being featured and highly rated on wikifeet.com, how independent wrestlers are cattier than in WWE, how wrestling fans can be sometimes odder than porn fans, and how she is transitioning into an acting career which includes playing the super villain "Iron Maiden" in the web series Pinkgirl & Scone. David talked about the exclusivity of having his name on the Comedy Store wall, what it was like growing up as an "Aryan" looking jewish guy in Pacoima, how he likes symmetrical feet though doesn't feel men should wear flip flops, how the show I'm Burger has evolved to the point of having a trivia contest where the loser gets shocked with a shock collar Scone wore a wrestling mask for the entire show and described his superpower, which was the power of being stale, and his super English accent came in and out of conversation. Oh...and Mark leg wrestled Invexi with hilarious and controversial results... This podcast is sponsored by Eddie by Giddy FDA Class II medical device built to treat erectile dysfunction and performance unpredictability. Eddie is specifically engineered to promote firmer and longer-lasting erections by working with the body's physiology. Get rock hard erections the natural way again. Using promo code DARKMARK20, you can save 20% on your Eddie purchase, and you and your partner will be chanting incantations of ecstasy together faster than you can say “REDRUM.” Go to buyeddie.com/DarkMark for 20% off your purchase using code DARKMARK20 today. Raze Energy Drinks Go to https://bit.ly/2VMoqkk and put in the coupon code DMS for 15% off the best energy drinks. Zero calories. Zero carbs. Zero crash Renagade CBD Go to renagadecbd.com for all of your CBD needs Tactical Soap Smell Great with Pheromone infused products and drive women wild with desire!

Don't be confused by the length of this one it's definitely a bonus episode! A bonus episode that sees us plan out the final five editions of the Extremely Uninteresting podcast and go through our Euro 2024 predictions!

James Cummings joined RSN on Thursday morning, with Godolphin having a couple in at Flemington on Saturday and a huge team set to run at Scone. Parisal runs favourite in the Bright Shadow at Doomben. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blood Of Kings HIGHLANDER Podcast EP.172. Richard Martin, Director of 'Two Of Hearts'. 'The Fixening' & 'What If...?'    Watch the video version of this Blood Of Kings episode on the Fandom Podcast Network YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FandomPodcastNetwork   Kevin and Lee are back for more Highlander discussion! On this episode of Blood of Kings Highlander Podcast we discuss The Fixening & What If...? for the Highlander TV Series Season 6, episode 10, 'Two Of Hearts'. We have a very special guest, the director of 'Two of Hearts', Richard Martin! Richard has directed nine episodes of the Highlander TV series, including fan favorites 'The Valkyrie', 'Duende', 'The Stone of Scone' and 'To Be'.   As many fans know, the shortened season of Highlander season six became the audition season for female immortal character stand alone episodes, that may have been a pilot episode for an upcoming spin-off series, which eventually became 'Highlander: The Raven' starring Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda.   We return to our fun Highlander "Fixening" episodes where we discuss how we would had fixed Highlander IMDB lowest rated episodes, that many fans would agree weren't the best. 'Two Of Hearts' is the lowest rated IMDB episode. So your Highlander Blood of Kings Hosts Kevin and Lee asked the lowest rated Highlander episode director of 'Two of Hearts', Richard Martin join us on our discussion of 'The Fixening" of this episode.  We discuss what improvements we would had made to this episode, and how this episode could had been a fun an interesting Highlander spin-off series. We also discuss the recent Highlander Reboot News with special guest Richard Martin! Blood of Kings - Highlander Podcast Contact Info: Please follow Blood of Kings and the Fandom Podcast Network on YouTube! Please subscribe to the Fandom Podcast Network YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FandomPodcastNetwork   - Blood of Kings Podcast Audio Master Feed:  fpnet.podbean.com/category/blood-of-kings/ - X : @BloodOfKingsPod / https://twitter.com/BloodOfKingsPod - Instagram: @BloodOfKingsPod / https://www.instagram.com/bloodofkingspod/ - Facebook: Blood of Kings: A Highlander Fandom Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1551389528504825 - Facebook: Blood of Kings: A Highlander CCG Collectible Card Game & Gaming Discussion Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/273198053027339 Blood of Kings Host & Guest Contact Info: - Email: BloodOfKingsPodcast@gmail.com - Kevin on X, Instagram, Threads, Letterboxd & Discord: @spartan_phoenix - Lee on X: @TheWayOfTheWay / Instagram: @the_way_of_the_way TeePublic / Blood of Kings Store: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts?query=fandom-podcast-network-blood-of-ki… #FandomPodcastNetwork #FPNet #FPN #BloodOfKings #BloodOfKingsHighlanderPodcast #HighlanderPodcast #Highlander #HighlanderTVSeries #HighlanderTheSeries #DuncanMacLeod #AdrianPaul #HighlanderReboot #HighlanderTwoOfHearts #ClaudiaChristian #ClaudiaChristianHighlander #HighlanderClaudiaChristian #RichardMartin #RichardMartinDirector #RichardMartinHighlander #StevenOShea #GregoryWiden #JamesThorpe

DJ and Zack sit down with SCoNE owner Justin St. Louis and talk short track racing and then the boys discuss Thompson and weekend plans. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/turn4podcast/support

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Angela Scanlon is in for The Graham Norton Radio Show with Waitrose for the next few weeks.On the show today:Show Chef Martha makes a pistachio, sour cherry & orange blossom scone wheel.There's a round of Word Up!And we revisit an interview with Kieran Culkin from the Graham Norton archive.See more of Graham Norton's Greatest Bits on our YouTube, just look up @VirginRadioUK! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of the Harder Brunch Podcast, we talk with Chef Lucas Trinosky about Hot Sauce, Teaching in the Kitchen and First Jobs… Welcome to the Harder Brunch Podcast, where we blend the finest flavors of comedy and culture, dishing out engaging and entertaining conversations with a diverse array of personalities from across various industries. We invite guests rocking the worlds of stand-up comedy, food service, entrepreneurship, and beyond each week with your hosts Dyke Michaels and Thaddaeus J Mckee. Our podcast celebrates good vibes and the magic that unfolds when you gather people around a table. We treat our guests to a delicious five-course brunch and then dive into intriguing conversations that'll have you craving more. Each episode of the Harder Brunch Podcast features an exceptional lineup of guests, including comedians making their mark on the stand-up scene, passionate food truck owners, talented musicians, and innovative entrepreneurs. As we share a delectable brunch specially prepared for our guests, we dive into deep and entertaining conversations that cover a range of topics - from the creative process behind stand-up comedy to the challenges of running a food business and everything in between. The Harder Brunch Podcast nourishes the mind, body, and soul with its unique fusion of humor, culture, and insight. Whether you're a comedy enthusiast, a food lover, or simply someone who appreciates thought-provoking conversations, our podcast is guaranteed to leave you feeling inspired, informed, and thoroughly entertained. So, pull up a chair, grab a plate, and get ready to indulge in the most satisfying brunch experience you'll ever have - the Harder Brunch Podcast! Remember to subscribe and tune in every Monday for a fresh serving of food, fun, and fascinating discussions with the personalities shaping our world today.

Differing points of view regarding the Stone of Scone are discussed. Tracy also shares thoughts on "Assassins' Creed," its mixed reviews, and the most interesting historical elements in it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Christmas day in 1950, the Stone of Scone was removed, heist-style, from Westminster Abbey. Some believed it to be an act of theft, and others, liberation.  Research: Aitchison, Nick. “Scotland's Stone of Destiny : myth, history and nationhood.” Stroud : Tempus. 2000. BBC World Service. “The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny - BBC World Service.” Via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_FC2zWlOQ Brocklehurst, Steven. “The students who stole the Stone of Destiny.” BBC. 3/24/2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63130942 George, Stephen C. “What Is the Stone of Destiny?” Discover. 6/5/2023. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-is-the-stone-of-destiny Glasgow Police Museum. “THE STONE OF DESTINY – 1950.” https://www.policemuseum.org.uk/crime-casebook/interesting-cases/the-stone-of-destiny-1950/ Historic Environment Scotland. “Research shines new light on the Stone of Destiny.” 4/5/2023. https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/research-shines-new-light-on-the-stone-of-destiny/ Historic Environment Scotland. “Stone Of Destiny, Edinburgh Castle.” 3D Scan. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/stone-of-destiny-edinburgh-castle-4d46d1df627d41a2adc65f6550b2fa9c London staff. “No trace of missing Stone of Destiny.” The Guardian. 12/27/1950. https://www.theguardian.com/century/1950-1959/Story/0,,105149,00.html McAleer, Brendan. “When four students in two Fords stole the Stone of Destiny.” Hagerty Media. 9/29/2022. https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/when-four-students-in-two-fords-stole-the-stone-of-destiny/ Rodwell, Warwick. “The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone : history, archaeology and conservation.” Oxford, Oxbow Books. 2013. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Don't miss the big news on today's show! On today's fantasy football podcast, Andy, Mike, and Jason discuss the toughest teams to project targets for in 2023. What do all three teams have in common? Plus, the latest NFL News, lots of fantasy football questions answered, and the BIG announcement! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for May 16th, 2023 Preorder the 2023 UDK to get the lowest price! UltimateDraftKit.com Get instant access to Dynasty Pass content with the UDK+ Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices