Podcasts about Scruffy

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 Gen 1 Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe.Brownie 4 joins the podcast for Episode 133. We review our recent ICCC trip and…. Katee remembered Scruffy!Hyperspace Heroes Podcast does weekly livestreams on Thursday nights at 8pm eastern. Audio versions are posted on all the pod catchers the following Mondays. You can find all of our links for livestreams, podcasts and social media athttps://beacons.ai/brownsquadronIntro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/Support HoliznaCCO via hisPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/HoliznaBandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HoliznaVoice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri GageYou can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 Gen 1 Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe.Episode 130 fhas BL & Scruffy talking Star Wars Celebrations Japan new, their trip to see Revenge of the Sith in the theatre and they review Andor Season 2 Episodes 1-3. They wrap up with Collection Corner.Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/Support HoliznaCCO via hisPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/HoliznaBandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HoliznaVoice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri GageYou can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans

Jon’s lawyer Craig Leggat does his homework, analysing witness statements and other documents to discover significant and inconsequential flaws in the evidence. He knows that if things go badly in the inquest, Jon faces a murder charge. But if defects in the evidence are properly highlighted, there’s a chance Jon can walk away. Bronwyn’s cousin Megan Read faces another torrid time in the witness stand because Jon and his lawyer see her evidence as the weakest link. Bruised but not beaten, Megan finally gets a reprieve, and then it’s the turn of Scruffy, his wife Maria, and Andy. Bronwyn’s brother shares his suspicions that the missing mother of two was dumped in a septic tank in Sandstone Crescent. Read more about this case and see photographs, maps, timelines and more at bronwynpodcast.com. If you have information which may help solve this cold case, you can – contact our team confidentially by emailing bronwyn@theaustralian.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 Gen 1 Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe.Scruffy is back for Episode 127!! We talk about and feature some Star Wars Fan Films. We wrap up the show with Collection Corner and talk ALOT about the recent Hasbro Pulse announcements and exclusive merch for SW Celebration 2025.Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/Support HoliznaCCO via hisPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/HoliznaBandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HoliznaVoice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri GageYou can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 Gen 1 Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe.For Episode 125 it's just DB And Brown Leader talking Ronald D. Moore, Star Wars and more. We wrap up the show with Collection Corner.Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/Support HoliznaCCO via hisPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/HoliznaBandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HoliznaVoice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri GageYou can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans

Living with a fun, carefree, and transparently honest person is a wonderful thing! You never know what each day will bring but it always ends up with deep personal growth. Today we learn that Georgi doesn't like Hallmark leading men scruffy beards, but she does really really like maple syrup. Thanks for listening, enjoy!

Episode 40 of Campfire Songs with Clem Snide, Annalibera, Joseph Kabasele, Pigeon Club, Scruffy the Cat, Drugstore, Ultimate Painting, Naked Giants.

Step into a world of philosophical musings and practical wisdom with Oliver Burkeman. 'Meditations for Mortals' is his latest book designed as a four-week mental retreat, promising to help readers lead a 'saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life'. Oliver joins Kate to talk about everything from the inspiration he took from Marcus Aurelius to how to invite people over without feeling like you have to spend three hours tidying the house. He also reveals his tips on making life-changes that stick, and the books he turns to when he's not reading for work. Keen to test out the methodology, Kate is then joined by City high-flyer and busy mother-of-three Emily Bohill to discover how Meditations for Mortals works in practice. From managing work-life balance to facing literal rats in the PTA shed, we explore whether the lessons of Meditations are ones that will stay. This episode is for everyone who is keen to turn knowledge into action and embrace life's imperfections. No less important is the fact that Meditations for Mortals is perfect for sparking deep conversations, and there's nothing we love more at The Book Club Review than that. Reading list 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis   Find out more and sign up for The Imperfectionist (a free newsletter) at Oliver Burkeman's website   Subscribe and support the show Want more from the pod? You can subscribe to The Book Club Review via Patreon. Click through for full details and to sign up with a 7-day free trial.   You'll get a weekly-ish minisode, with access to the full archive, and extra bits and bobs like extended episodes or Patreon-only specials, plus access to book recommendations from Kate and fellow pod fans in the chat group. At the higher tier you can join the pod book club and come and talk books with me, Kate, in person. We meet on the last Sunday of the month via Zoom, with a recording posted to listen back to anytime. In February we're reading All The Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley, and in March it's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munroe. Upcoming books are decided by members vote, so join in and suggest one that you would love to read and discuss.    If you're a Substacker you can also subscribe and support the pod there. (It's slightly cheaper as you don't get the chat or the book club options, but everything else is just the same.)   Timecodes for the time-poor 00:00 Introduction 01:32 An overview of the book, and the degree to which Oliver Burkeman put himself in there 03:55 The relationship between Meditations for Mortals and Four Thousand Weeks 06:24 Imperfectionism 10:45 Practical Applications and personal reflections 13:01 Field-testing the book's methodology 29:37 Daily-ish and embracing imperfection 34:34 Scruffy hospitality and overcoming procrastination 45:34 Has it changed our lives? 

On this weeks Podcast @jennyandmaireadnow we start with some bending and stretching followed by straight in with the recommendations. Jenny is on a reading roll and down 81% on her phone usage! What!? Mairead and Jenny tell about being so chill about the 6th year holiday and promise they are NOT considering stalking their teens on a European Island in June. Jenny tells us about Scruffy Hospitality and Mairead talks about Nudges from the other side and we have some great emails and messages from our lovely listeners.Thanks to our sponsor @VHI 

Key topics in today's conversation include:Welcome to Today's Episode (1:02)Megan's Back to Co-Host (1:57)How the Podcast Has Grown (3:59)Adrian's Background in Trucking (6:21)Family Dynamics (7:59)Pneumatic Trucking Insights (9:42)Unloading Process Duration (14:15)Starting Trucking Journey (18:18)Finding Good Eats on the Road (19:33)Adrian's Wife's Flea Market Adventures (20:03)Truck Purchase Experience Through Arrow Truck Sales (22:39)The Story behind “Scruffy Transportation” (26:21)Challenges of Owner-Operator Life (32:00)Discovering Oakley Trucking (35:04)Importance of Dispatcher Relationship (37:43)Enjoying the Journey (41:12)Public Perception of Truck Drivers (43:59)Future Plans as a Truck Driver (46:09)Audience Question of the Week: Strategies for Parking as a Driver (48:03)Oakley Trucking is a family-owned and operated trucking company headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas. For more information, check out our show website: podcast.bruce oakley.com.

Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel. WASP - Shoot From The Hip The Most Evil Nazi and how to restore a Mercedes 770 The Place Where Eva Braun's Bum Was What makes an Elegant Car? Paul Russell Restorations The Authenticity of the Unrestored Car The “bad” $35m GTO J's enthusiasm for a Preservation car winning Bullitt - Stay Wild The Ex-Mullin Talbot which shoulda won (according to many other Pebble docents) A Tribute to Peter Mullin Accept - Too High To Get It Right Mercedes vs Bugatti: The Unnofficial Score of Most Winning Marque at Pebble A Eulogy on the Winning Bugatti Type 59 Sublime to the Ridiculous. Or the Ridiculous to the Sub Lime - a long digression on the green 2005 Kawasaki ZX10R, which I paid $775 for from a Copart Salvage Auction, and brought back from the dead Windward Art District in Miami and a hand painted Kawasaki ZZR600 An Avant-Garde Collecting Manifesto The comi-tragic opera of transporting a ZX10 from Minnesota to California on an open trailer in January After 8 years sitting, the ZX10 Gets Its Turn Harlequin Plastic Pattern Doesnt Work Down, repaired (well it would seem) but downed again Peak Analog. How that is defined by Jon A digression on the value of ABS brakes on a motorcycle Twenty years ago and the annual arms race by the big 4 On its test ride, ZX10 races a Kawasaki H2, the Top Gun: Maverick bike Kreator - Grinder (Judas Priest cover) ZX10 tied to the Elegance, Pebble Beach and Concours Judging Hillsborough Concours and the Hagerty Junior Judges The Pebble winning Bugatti and J's Ninja - are they the same? Manowar - And The Gods Made Heavy Metal How I Became a Pebble Beach Docent Ironstone Concours What is a Pebble Beach Docent and What Does He Do? 3am; my uniform Charity. And rich people showing off their cars “I am going to try to knock it out of the park telling stories about cars on the lawn” The Day In The Life of a Pebble Docent The Great Pebble Accommodation Conundrum and Hollister The absurd cost of accommodation on the peninsula Pebble weekend Learning from other docents Meeting the winner on the lawn I love that the car was driven over the weekend Working with Rolex and Jackie Stewart. And missing his stories Meeting the CEO of Rolex Rolex VIPs wives and elegance The Mercedes EQS design team tour meets the Vanderbilt Cup 90hp J goes behind the ropes, invited by owner Frua trunk hinges and the nature of connoisseurship The leveling of the car guy playing field Cathedral - Hopkins, Witch Finder General  How to make the most of Pebble without breaking the bank Bob Devlin and the History of Pebble Beach The Pebble Beach Road Races, and the California road racing scene in the 40s/50s Ken Miles and the Flying Shingle Kimberly Clark and Bill Kimberly Driving the course in Phil Hills winning Jaguar XK120 Junk car or Ferrari ? Vain - Whisper A Eulogy to Don Williams and the Blackhawk Collection  Nora Wagner, the Blackhawk Docent Program and interpreting old cars in museums Collector cars in the 50's? “A new 50 Ford or a 29 Duesenberg needing some work?' The individuality of the prewar Olympian cars JB Nethercutt and the Nethercutt Museum The Blackhawk Museum Creation Myth; cars as jewellery Roxx Gang - Scratch My Back Gooding and Auction review; auctions as car shows Legends of the Autobahn Concorso Italiano Concours de Lemons Pebble increasingly a car event for rich guys Mecum - so much to see because they sell so many cars DAD - Point of View Laguna Seca history and comments Pebble increasingly a rich guy lifestyle event Dokken - Standing On The Outside (Intro) Practical Advice for Enjoying Pebble Beach week Accommodation: Expensive in Monterey, Hollister and Soledad are distant but cheap Leave the stick shift interesting car at home and take the air conditioned automatic modern RM/Sotheby's: The free car show in downtown Monterey at the Portola Hotel Ian Kelleher The Tony Paravanno Ferrari 410 Mercedes W196 Stromlinwagen Valuing unique one of one cars vs. GTOs, Cobras (where there are plenty of comps) Dokken - Standing On The Outside (chorus) RM equalling Gooding nowadays Drew Alcazar J sits in a Ferrari 288 GTO The Almighty - Thunderbird RM compared with Bonhams The Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance on Thursday Morning, arguably the best single event of Pebble week Casey Maxon and collecting 90s sportbikes Ollie sits in Gooding's 1961 Lotus 18 Market analysis - pre 1980 stuff struggling, post 80's stuff up, at least Testarossas are Running Wild - Adventure Highway The car park after the tour, and a white Cizetta Moroder V16 Running Wild - Freewind Rider Monterey Historics Visit Some anecdotes on the Quail; blagging entry with a John McGuiness shirt Jenson Button sneers at J Getting invited to show your Maserati at the Quail, but losing the keys Watching three Martini Lancias loaded  Pushing an Indy Offy Roadster Dining advice from J: the Baja Cantina Judas Priest - Running Wild Pod advice from a 9 year old The best biscuits and gravy OG Vanlife camping at Laguna Seca The rhythm of Laguna Spins at Turn 8 The appeal of the Jaguar E-Type Stuck in traffic on the Saturday The Inn at Spanish Bay - “the place to see the supercars and celebrities” Josh Altman The Almighty - Power The Dawn Patrol Twin Spark 50s Maseratis Saxon - Midas Touch 2024 Tour Learnings Pebble Beach deductive judging vs. Amelia Island Lancia Stratos Zero Vector W8 The Olympian Cars book Black Label Society - Set You Free Casa Ferrari A eulogy on 50s and 60s Ferrari Superfasts Chinetti's Ferrari 340 Mexico Black convertible 400 Superfast The Superfasts together allow J to compare design details Ferrari and Fake It Till You Make It People J looks for his BOLUX wrist watch Hawkwind - Moonglum Mercedes E55 AMG Bravo! Dormant for a year but worked fine except disintegrating wheel bearing Hot August Nights ‘24 Road trip recommendation: Highway 25 south from Hollister Saxon - Forever Free

We're joined today by one of my favourite guests, space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk from Flinders University.In this episode we talk about the research she and her colleagues have been doing with the International Space Station. Apparently it's rather like a share house. We wonder how you might develop a feminist map of the Moon. And as usual we veer off on plenty of tangents.Full podcast details and credits at:https://the9pmedict.com/edict/00236/Please consider supporting this podcast through this season's crowdfunder, The 9pm Summer Series 2024, by 5 December:https://the9pmedict.com/summer2024If you miss that deadline:https://the9pmedict.com/tip/https://skank.com.au/subscribe/

"Buckle up, NASCAR fans, because Norm and Rocky are about to take you on the ride of your life with Scruffy City Motorsports. These two good ol' boys know their way around a racetrack better than a moonshiner knows his still. Get ready for a podcast packed with juicy gossip, scorching hot takes, and enough spice to make your eyes water. From the smell of burning rubber to the sizzle of southern-fried drama, these self-proclaimed 'racing aficionados' will leave you begging for more laps around the track. So strap in, hold on tight, and get ready for an unapologetically entertaining podcast that'll make your momma blush. This ain't your grandaddy's NASCAR - welcome to Scruffy City, where the racing is rowdy, and the banter is spicier than a Tennessee whiskey." #Motorsports #Nascar --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scruffycitysports/support

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 Gen 1 Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe. Episode 109 - Scruffy and BL talk revisit the 2003 Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars series. Collection Corner is sprinkled throughout the episode. Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/ Support HoliznaCCO via his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Holizna Bandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/ Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Holizna Voice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri Gage You can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans

Fenrir is poisoned. The crew question the accused. They meet another whose life has been ruined by the Hidden Hand.  **Find us at:    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomesofthechaosbard/    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1078849449250614   Our Email: chaosbardpod@gmail.com   Our Discord: https://discord.gg/8NZZ5vyDUX   Merch & Patron Program: https://ko-fi.com/tomesofthechaosbard   Our Website: https://tomesofthechaosbard.wixsite.com/podcast   X: @ChaosBardPod **Shields of Power: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/266946 **Coltrin Compositions: https://linktr.ee/coltrincompositions  **Realmwalker D&D Soundscapes: Forest Campfire. You can follow his work on X or even better subscribe to his YouTube Channel & use his soundscapes for your very own RPG!! **Our Sound Fx and additional audio were created by many folks at www.freesound.org, Monument Studios, and Tabletop Audio https://freesound.org/people/slappy13/sounds/151779/ https://freesound.org/people/BockelSound/sounds/489495/  ***

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 Gen 1 Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe. Episode 108 - The crew is back and Scruffy is in charge! Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/ Support HoliznaCCO via his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Holizna Bandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/ Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Holizna Voice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri Gage You can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 Gen 1 Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe. Episode 106 - It's Raining Scruffy features the whole crew talking about ICCC.. again! Last week we talked about our schedules at the con and this week we go a little more in depth on our experiences at the con plus A LOT of collection corner throughout. Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/ Support HoliznaCCO via his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Holizna Bandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/ Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Holizna Voice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri Gage You can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans

Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan have been Hijacked once again and forced to play a game. Mythic supporter Disratory has chosen a video game to make us play and this one has us quite interested! Join us as we reveal the video game chosen, our initial thoughts and impressions on being forced to play it and predict where it will land on our gaming leaderboard. It's another can't miss gaming episode from your favorite video game podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Ol' Jake and Disratory Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q   Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All about current pets in the family (Leia, Eddie and Monty) , dogs, a gerbil disaster, Tiny the cat, Scruffy the dog, Lady the Scottish terrier, and all sorts…White hamster Trotsky, who may or may not have been unwittingly buried alive, Woody and Buzz the cats…Luther our podcast editors Tonkinese cat (who, yes, was named after Idris Elba)…   Hear all about it! And a baby owl rescue…and dolphin dangers!   [And who knew, Nick is a cat person!]   #tricres #fyp #escapethe9to5  #kickassculture #coachtraining  #entrepreneur #sme #consulting #businesscoaching #business consulting Find the whole podcast at: https://tricres.com/podcasts/   We now have over 200 podcasts with entrepreneurs at the beginning, middle or end of their business journey.   Subscribe to Tricres! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0EUHMC2CckN6amdXL2F3Q?sub_confirmation=1   If you're a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and get into the heads of business owners and gain their insights and drives.   Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants.   If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast with business owners around the world! ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Escape 9 to 5 Live Event? Find out more and sign up for our free event here: https://tricres.ac-page.com/9-to-5

Scruffy is a team from the southwest of England, though most of the active members moved to Brighton a few years ago. On October 12th, they are releasing Foreign Exchange, a video project they filmed over the summer featuring a huge variety of athletes from all over. Instagrams: @doddspk @doddsfilm @by.bloggy @joebergine If you want a more immersive experience where you can listen to the podcast and catch exclusive clips and photos related to the conversation, consider becoming a YouTube Join member on Storror's YouTube. This membership grants you access to a treasure trove of weekly members-only content - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdPui8EYr_sX6q1xNXCRPXg/join

Key topics in today's conversation include:Welcome to Today's Episode (1:02)Megan's Back to Co-Host (1:57)How the Podcast Has Grown (3:59)Adrian's Background in Trucking (6:21)Family Dynamics (7:59)Pneumatic Trucking Insights (9:42)Unloading Process Duration (14:15)Starting Trucking Journey (18:18)Finding Good Eats on the Road (19:33)Adrian's Wife's Flea Market Adventures (20:03)Truck Purchase Experience Through Arrow Truck Sales (22:39)The Story behind “Scruffy Transportation” (26:21)Challenges of Owner-Operator Life (32:00)Discovering Oakley Trucking (35:04)Importance of Dispatcher Relationship (37:43)Enjoying the Journey (41:12)Public Perception of Truck Drivers (43:59)Future Plans as a Truck Driver (46:09)Audience Question of the Week: Strategies for Parking as a Driver (48:03)Oakley Trucking is a family-owned and operated trucking company headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas. For more information, check out our show website: podcast.bruce oakley.com.

Go check out my first children's book!! Scruffy by Heather O'Daniel on Amazon!! ❤️

Neil & Scott discuss their Olympics withdrawal and the dirtiest cities in the USA. Then the OCB Kitchens has a salute to Scruffy and the dog days of summer.

This episode I am super stoked to meet and chat with ‘Scruffy Lookin RGB' of the same Youtube channel and Instagram. Scruffy has been living in Japan for most of his adult life. After a family visit at age 21 he realized that was where he wanted to be in the world and made it his goal to make residence in Japan and not long after discovered he has a liking for all things retro gaming. And being situated in a place some would call the motherland of retro gaming, Scruffy is on a constant hunt for games, consoles and overall retro junk to repair, restore and collect whilst sharing his hunts and finds via Youtube and Instagram. Living the dream in the land of the rising sun. Youtube  - https://www.youtube.com/@ScruffyLookinRGB Insta - https://www.instagram.com/scruffylookinrgb/ You can find me at @skt73 on Instagram and contact me at pixelpiepodcast@gmail.com with any questions, gdays or feedback whether it be positive or not...all communications are appreciated. You can also find the podcast on SPOTIFY, GOOGLE PODCASTS, APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER, OVERCAST, BREAKER, POCKET CASTS & RADIO PUBLIC

This is our interview with voice acting LEGENDS John DiMaggio and David Herman from Futurama. We discuss their favourite characters, favourite lines, as well as what makes the show so special and why they think the series keeps making a come back. David also shares an EXCLUSIVE never before heard line from an upcoming yet to be produced episode!The first two episodes of Futurama Season 12 are streaming right now on Disney+. Check out Geekcentric onYouTube | Instagram | Twitter | TikTokJoin the Geekcentric Discord HEREJoin Nate on Twitch at - twitch.tv/nateplaysgames

In this heartfelt episode of Talking Couch Potatoes, Matt and Mel sit down with pet loss counsellor Grant to explore the emotional journey of saying goodbye to our beloved furry companions. Grant shares personal stories that inspired his counselling career, the cherished memories of his greyhounds, Hope and Stella, and his terriers, Nan and Scruffy. Listeners will gain valuable insights as Grant offers compassionate advice on navigating the grieving process, honoring the bonds we share with our pets, and finding healing in the midst of loss. Join us for an episode filled with empathy, support, and understanding as we recognize the deep connections that make our pets so special, and the profound impact of their loss. Find Grant's counselling service here https://www.thepetlosscounsellor.com/

FROM MAY 14, 2024: There's nothing quite like springtime in Knoxville ... except for summertime. OK, fall and winter are awesome too.  Knoxville has plenty to offer any time of year, from mouth-watering bars and restaurants to family-friendly festivals to natural amenities like the Urban Wilderness.  But with summer quickly approaching, hosts Ryan Wilusz and Brianna Paciorka share their bucket list of things they hope to accomplish before football season picks up – things like finding their go-to place, enjoying the river and trying ice cream from a classic Knoxville fixture (no, it's not Cruze Farm).   What activities are on your bucket list? >> Link: 23 things you have to do in Scruffy City "The Scruffy Stuff" is presented by knoxnews.com. Want more downtown analysis? Sign up for the free weekly Urban Knoxville newsletter by clicking here, and join the downtown discussion by becoming part of the Urban Knoxville group on Facebook.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains adult language, depictions of violence, drug use, and/or sexually sensitive material. The city of Pineville has been overrun by skelemen! But it's not all doom and gloom, because they just built a brand new, state of the art Superarena right in the middle of town! THE WIZARD SCROLL is written, read, performed and edited by me, Chris RR Bauso. Tales of high fantasy, warriors, wizards and laser guns with my own sick little twist. Starring Ace D Wizard as Gregorc Orcmire III Gavin Reiser as Private Pjarts James Hart as Ita'dik & Emperor Porkus Gabriel B as Waffle Wench Tim Jennings as Rah'd'ny Kier Zhou as Kier the Skeleman Graham Capobianco as Giganticorpse Umbriel's Shadow as Stinkass the Unbeatable & Scruffy the Janitor Krissi Williams as Umbrelei the Lich Queen Show Artwork by Nick Vanamee Writing assistance by Ace D Wizard & Jon "Dr Phil" Anderson Background Ambiences by Michael Ghelfi Songs used: New GAIA & Lichen Encrusted Chamber- Equip ; Spanish Ladies- HillTopTrio ; The Fire Gate- Alex Grohl ; Uka Uka- Crash Twinsanity OST ; Africana Heat- Anthony Vega ; Toy Shed Blues- Randy Sharp ; Royalty Free TV Intro Music ; Radio Loop- Portal OST ; Hulk Hogan's Theme- WWF Royal Rumble (Sega Genesis) ; Old MacDonald Had A Farm- Kashido ; Mystic Mansion- Sonic Heroes OST ; Bloody Tears- Castlevania II OST ; 3000 Miles to Shell City- Spongebob Movie Game OST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode of the IC-DISC show, I chat with Jane Howze, founder and managing director of executive search firm Alexander Group. Jane shares her remarkable transition from commercial lending and law into this male-dominated industry. Her insight into culture, growth, and talent acquisition provided invaluable counsel for aspiring leaders. We explore nuanced career shifts and hiring new teams, emphasizing integrity's strategic importance. Jane highlights fact-checking credentials for ethics and vetting, referencing a shocking case of credential fabrication. Our conversation sheds light on work evolutions, from mentorship changes to communication innovations over the years.   SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Jane Howze shares her career transition from a commercial lending officer and lawyer to the founder and managing director of the Alexander Group, a top retained executive search firm. We discuss the early challenges Jane faced in a male-dominated industry and her experiences at Korn Ferry, emphasizing her success in executive search. Jane and I reminisce about shared history at Korn Ferry, including nostalgic and entertaining stories from the early days of our careers. li>Jane emphasizes the importance of integrity during career transitions, particularly when handling professional references and avoiding misrepresentation. We touch on the strategic advantages of honesty and the repercussions of fabricating qualifications, as highlighted by a CEO's false claim of a computer science degree. The episode covers the evolution of workplace dynamics, mentorship, and the practical advice Jane offers for aspiring paid board members. Crazy industry tales are recounted, such as an adventure with a $700 car in LA and setting realistic client expectations in executive search scenarios. Jane provides insights into networking and career strategy, especially relevant during the Great Resignation and for those aiming for public company board positions. We explore Dave's innovative client communication strategies and the impact of networking, as well as the significance of crafting a board-specific resume. The episode concludes with a light-hearted exchange about "tours of duty" within a firm, comparing it to conscription, and reflects on the demanding but rewarding nature of our work experiences. Contact Details Email (jhowze@thealexandergroup.com) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhowze1950/) LINKSShow Notes Be a Guest About IC-DISC Alliance About The Alexander Group GUEST Jane HowzeAbout Jane TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dave: Hi, this is David Spray and welcome to another episode of the IC Disc Show. My guest today was a very special guest. Jane Howes is the founder and managing director of one of the world's top retained executive search firms, the Alexander Group. Jane was actually my boss two different times about 25 years ago. As we talked about on the episode, she was both the greatest boss I'd ever had and my least favorite boss I ever had, sometimes in the same day. Jane has a wealth of knowledge on all aspects of culture building all aspects of culture building, firm building, growing a firm, picking the right people. We also took some stories down memory lane back from the days we worked together and when the firm was very young. This episode has a lot of great information for any executive or business owner who has any hiring responsibilities. Finally, if you've ever considered becoming a board member, jane has some great insights and tips on how to start your career as a paid board member. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. Jane, welcome to the podcast. Jane: Well, Dave, it's wonderful to be with you. Dave: This is so. I was so excited for this, so I think I've told you this before. Jane, you were my all-time favorite boss and my least favorite boss, sometimes in the same day. Jane: And probably sometimes within 10 minutes of each other right. Dave: Perhaps, but you're the only boss I ever had twice. So I had left. I was gone a couple of years and then I was in a spot where I needed some contract work. This was before Uber, so I couldn't just go start driving my car around and you all were gracious enough to have me come back and it was wonderful. But I just want to thank you for all the opportunities you've given me, all that you've taught me. I've learned. I learned so much about business, communication, ethics, client service, so that served me the rest of my career. So thank you, jane. Jane: Dave, when you came back the second time, I was like our ship has come in. Dave Spray is back for more punishment, more reward, and I just feel really honored that our paths have crossed, because you could have been a great, you were a great recruiter, could have and still could. Dave, You're the best. Dave: Well, that's very nice of you to say so. Yeah, I enjoyed a lot of my time at the firm, so where are you calling in from today? Jane: I am in our Houston office today. As you know, we have offices in California, new York and DC. As you know, we have offices in California, new York and DC, but I will work out of Houston until it gets too impossibly hot to work out of Houston, as you know, and we'll head west. Excellent, well, that sounds great. Dave: Now, are you a native Houstonian? Are you one of those rare people born here that lives here? Jane: No, what's the saying? I got here as soon as I could, but I am from Birmingham Alabama and went to college in Memphis, tennessee, and my roommate from college was Houstonian and back in the day, you know, the Galleria had just been built and Houston was just this huge boomtown and I was glad to come here back in the infancy almost. Dave: Wow, and what did you do for work when you got here? Jane: I worked as. Are your listeners mainly in Houston, or are they scattered all over? They're all over the country in Houston or are they scattered all over? They're all over the country. Yeah Well, I worked for the largest bank in Houston and I was a commercial lending officer and attended law school at night. And then the story goes I practiced law and I left Houston and went to California and practiced law and then came back. So you know, kind of roads lead back to Houston. Dave: Ultimately, Okay, and then what? Did you just like have a dream or a vision or something that you needed to leave the law business and get into executive search? What prompted that? Jane: Well, a lot of practicing law, as I'm sure your listeners know, a lot of it is very compliance oriented, very regulatory oriented, and I'm not a regulatory kind of person. And I had gone from being a commercial loan officer, where my job was to deal with people all day, to being stuck in a law library reading compliance regulations. Oh my goodness, this is not good, this is not my personality. And read an article in Fortune magazine about Korn Ferry, the largest executive search firm in the world, and it was like the proverbial bolt of lightning went off. Dave and I was oh my gosh, I would be fabulous at this. I need to go work for Korn Ferry. And they had an opening back in Houston. So I left the practice of law in California and joined Korn Ferry in Houston. Dave: Wow, and you were, and I'm guessing that you were one of many women at the firm. I'm sure, right, this was the 80s executive search. Jane: Let's see there were 200 partners and two women, and the minorities were all in the Hong Kong office. Dave: Okay, I mean diversity was achieved, but there were like six men in the Hong Kong office. Jane: Okay, I mean diversity was achieved, but there were like six men in the Hong Kong office and that is not a knock on Korn Ferry that the executive search business was oh, we want to give a CEO search to somebody we've served in the military with, or somebody that we go hunting with, or somebody on our bowling, you know that kind of thing, and women just weren't in that place then. So it was definitely an early time and a good time to get into executive search. In retrospect at the time it seemed a little challenging. Dave: And you. So how did it go, did you? Was it all you hoped it would be? Jane: You know, the minute I started recruiting I was happy I knew I had found my calling. Before I got into search, I had always been one of the people that said I'd love to introduce you to this person, I'd love to fix you up with this person, and so I finally got in a position that you got paid for it which is great by two partners from KPMG who wanted to do recruiting of C-suite positions for their KP clients, and K wouldn't let them do it. So they formed Korn Ferry, and so I was lucky. It was kind of the early days of Korn Ferry they were maybe 15 years old by the time I joined them and global, so it was a really great move to learn the search business. Dave: You weren't there too long, right Before you felt the need to unfurl your own wings. Jane: Yes, that is true. I was wow. There are not many women partners here and I know I'm good at this and I know I can be successful at this. So, dave, I hooked up with another woman at Corn Ferry and the other big search firm is Russell Reynolds and we were like, well, let's start our own search firm, and I don't know that I would have done it by myself. But we started, really got going in 19, which is 40 years ago now. I feel like I'm the oldest living person alive still doing it. But we started and back then you didn't have the internet to do research and our first client was Grant Thornton the public accounting firm and the number two person at Grant met us and we went walking in their offices and there were no women audit partners then, or tax partners, and we went strolling in and he goes. Well, I believe in you all and I want you to help me build the firm. I'm going to do acquisitions, I'm going to do partner searches, I'm going to do campus recruiting, and we rode along for over 50 searches and practice acquisitions in our first years, which made it really a great foundation upon which to build. Dave: Oh, that's awesome. That is awesome, and that's been 40 years ago. Jane: Yeah, Dave, I probably tried to recruit you back in the days you were at Arthur Anderson. You were probably one of my recruits, even not knowing it. Dave: Yeah, you never know, you never know. And one of the is that when you started, the billing by the hour approach, or did that come later. Did you do that from the beginning? Jane: We started because, having been with a law firm where you're basically selling your time, we thought, well, we're going to be a different kind of search firm, we're going to bill by the hour. And it proved to be a great thing. And, dave, we were so cheap that people would go, you'll do, you'll take over all our campus recruiting for $50 an hour. And we were like, oh great, well, here's 10 colleges we don't want to go. You guys go, just do our recruiting for probably 10, 12, 13 years, which made it challenging because not everybody wants to fill out timesheets to the 10th of an hour, which we were. Dave: Yeah, no, but I remember when we would talk to potential clients, that was part of the pitch and the fact that they could do we could do all a card search for them. It's wrong as the source candidates, you know, we would just do that. And the other thing I loved was the independence that gave, because I know there were times that right late in the search we had three finalists and they would say, hey, we identified somebody on our own, can we throw them into the mix? And of course we were very receptive because we were just paid by the hour, like we didn't care. Whereas I think a lot of other firms, especially if there was a success fee component you know, would be very resistant to that, so I always thought that was great. What caused you to move away from that? Jane: Just the cumbers of it or just the greater tendency to do fixed. But you know, we started out doing lower level positions and as we built our reputation we were, frankly, we were leaving. Frankly we were leaving. We weren't great timekeepers and we kind of thought, well, let's still provide a win for our clients Because the big search firms you are obligated to pay the fee. Even if they find their own candidate, you're obligated to pay the fee. So what we decided was we will do a fixed fee. We will tell the client at the beginning of the search this is what your fee is. So it's not really tied to the compensation but the complexity of the search. So, for example, if we were doing a search in Fargo, north Dakota, in December, that might be a harder search. You know, with the pain in the bottom 10% of compensation ranges, that might be a harder search than doing a search in December in Florida, for example, or with the time. So we just pivoted I think it was in 2001 that we'll give you a fixed fee for the search, but it will be less usually than a third of total comp. So even if you put your own candidate into the process, you're still paying for it, but you're paying for a process, not a candidate. So we still had a competitive advantage. And it's interesting. Here we are today, in 2024, and some of the other search firms are now doing what we do. Some of our biggest competitors are going. Well, we'll give you a fixed fee if the Alexander Group's giving you a fixed fee. So it's interesting how it's turned out. Dave: But you were a disruptor in a number of ways in the industry. Jane: I mean it didn't seem like it at the time but now that I see other firms doing the same thing to try and compete effectively, they don't want to. They'd rather just get a third. But one of the things we tell our clients when they retain us is for your budgeting purposes, you're going to know how much the fee is and we'll have no reason to present the most expensive candidates because our fee is already in your budget and we're just going to be on your side of the table trying to find the best person at the most cost-effective salary compensation package. So I think it's a win and it's something that has worked for the clients. And you know the thing that and I know you know this we said it when you were there and we still say it 85% of our business every year is the same people and we're really proud of that because most search firms their repeat business is 6%. And why is that? And you know we laugh and say, well, we have an unstable product. You know and you know there's so many things that can go wrong when you're dealing with people, but we try and provide very I want to say a really strong relationship focus. I mean I tell clients. I don't want to just see you one time. We want a long-term relationship with you and that's really important to us and I think it makes a difference and I think the clients feel like we really care about being part of their team and that's really important to us. Dave: Yeah, that's great and I did experience that, and life's just more fun when you have happy repeat customers and clients Instead of people you try to squeeze for every last dollar for one time transaction. Jane: And you're well. I hope we don't have to see each other again. Right, you know it's like no, we want to be around for the long haul and I know you know this because but our first client from Grant Thornton, who's now 88 years old, is still a friend and a client and a mentor of the firm and we wouldn't really have it any other way. That means a lot to us. Dave: You know, one of the most valuable lessons you taught me was when I went into your office after I worked there about a year and a half and I just said, jane, I don't think this is for me and I don't know what I'm going to do, but I just want to set expectations. And you said hey, as long as you continue to do good work, you can stay. You know, as long as you want, right, I mean, just keep doing good work. And then the other thing you told me do you remember what you told me? You said, and it was very, it was good advice, but it was also clever on your end too. What did you tell me? Jane: I told you, no one will remember the job that you did, but everyone will remember how you leave. Dave: Yep, yep, that's so true and it's such simple advice, right? Because you work someplace for years and then all you really have to do to even make up for mistakes you made is just end on a really high note, right, you could have been a average employee, but just end on a high note and they'll all say, oh yeah, that change, she was great. She was great. We loved having her around. Jane: No, I remember that Because I mean I tell people I was not the best lawyer in the world, but I left, left. Like how do I transition my clients? How do I help train the new person? Can I be available after I'm gone? If I need to come in on a Saturday to help out? And I tell people when I make speeches no one will. You could be really bad at your job, but you can be a good, a great departing employee if you aren't a current employee. And that is just so true. And you know today, you never know when you're going to need a reference. Today, with everything so transparent, even if you don't give somebody as a reference, people will look on LinkedIn and say, oh well, I'm going to call this person and see how Betty was as an employee. So you're going to be found out, good or bad. So you might as well be the best ex-employee you can possibly be. Dave: I love it. Yeah, I know one of the things we did when I was with the team was we would do reference checks, and I think we would oftentimes do them even before the offer was extended. I forget. I think we did it both ways. Sometimes we did it subject to reference checks, sometimes we did the references first and I was always surprised. Every so often you'd find out people lied on their resume or exaggerated. But I imagine with social media and such, that's probably all gone away, right, nobody tries to get away with that anymore, I suppose do they? Jane: You know, dave, it's really interesting. Somebody asked me the other day what surprises you the most. That happens today, that happened 20 years ago. And the answer is exactly as you say. People still try and fudge. They'll say, well, I received an MBA when they did the coursework but didn't write the final paper. Or they'll be credit short of a college degree. Just last month we weren't at the final stages. But we try and check educational background and someone had on their resume they had on their LinkedIn received a bachelor's degree. And we check and there's no bachelor's degree. And they say, oh well, but I was only four hours short and I go. But four hours short does not a degree make, and I'm always surprised that. And people will have maybe a year gap where they're unemployed. And it's okay with COVID and all the changes that we have all gone through as a country, as a business community, it's okay that you have gaps, but it's not okay to misrepresent the gaps and sometimes you'll have people go. Oh well, you know, it was during COVID, I'll just kind of fudge it a little bit. And you're always going to be found out almost every single time, and I'm always surprised that people still do it, though, but even at the highest levels, dave, they still do it Like even like at the C-suite level, you mean. Yeah, at the C-suite level. You know, I wrote an article as a commentator for MSNBC 10 years ago because the CEO of, I think, hp said he had a degree in computer science, but it was a degree in history, you know, which is a pretty big difference. And I wrote an article saying and this was even before the proliferation of social media 10 years ago and I said you will be found out. This guy did, and it was very public and it was he got fired from H. It was a big deal and I was like do not let it stand. If you fudged, go fix it, fess up. Dave: The irony was, if he was, you know, at that level, he probably had graduated at least 25 years earlier. So the irony was his degree had no nothing to do with his current level. Yeah, nobody cared, except that he lied about it. If somebody lies about something that can be checked. What are they lying about that can't be checked, right? Jane: Exactly Well. And the other thing is, when you think about somebody's personal branding, wouldn't it make a great story? Hey guys, I don't know. I had a history degree and look how good I am. I'm running HP now and I had to leave the hospital. But to say he had a computer science degree. I mean it made no sense. But people do that still and I always tell people I know some of your listeners are small businesses where they don't have huge departments but one of the most important things you can do is do background checks and reference checks, unofficial and official, because people they never will stop doing it and no matter how many commentators tell them don't do it, they do it. Dave: Well, you know, I guess it's time for me to go update my LinkedIn. For all these years, jane, I've been telling the world that I was the CEO of the Alexander Group and you worked for me, so I think I'd better go fix that before it backfires. Jane: Well, you know, people always say how did you get the name the Alexander Group? And we, truly the name Alexander kind of has a masculine kind of connotation and you know, even when you were with us, dave, we would get calls once a week going Mr Alexander, please, yeah, and so so. So I think you just, I think not only did you say you were CEO, I think your name you've been passing off your name is David Alexander, right. Dave: That could very well be and I learned so much about presentation because, you know, when I was there, a lot of the the recruiters were young, you know, fresh out of college. The recruiters were young, you know, fresh out of college, and you know you and John did a great job of mentoring these folks and developing them. But it was always so interesting that, you know, we had a pretty casual environment and back then you would leave a message for a candidate and they would call back the main switchboard. I don't know we've, I don't think we even had direct dial numbers back then and they'd call back and switchboard. I don't know, I don't think we even had direct dial numbers back then. And they'd call back and here's this scruffy 23-year-old unshaven guy wearing, you know, birkenstocks to work, named you know Tom, let's say. And when the person would call back and they'd say, yeah, tom Smith, please you train the receptionist to say, oh, hold on. May I ask Mr Smith, you know who's calling you? know, just to I mean there's no harm in saying Mr Smith because that is his name, but why say, oh yeah, let me see if Tommy Boy's you know done, you know done having his afternoon tequila shot, right, I mean there's no use in. Jane: No, it was all about. It was all about the, you know, because we were so small in Scruffy and the other thing we would do would be to say I'd train the receptionist to go never say Mr Smith is not at his desk. Dave: Right, he is not at his desk. Jane: Right, he is not in his office and I will have one of his assistants call you back. Dave: Nice, nice, one of them. I like that. Jane: I know, I mean, you know, I just am blushing, thinking about what we did to make ourselves sound substantial. And there's Tommy Smith back in the back office, sound asleep at his desk, you know. Dave: Exactly. Jane: And sometimes I go, oh well, and sometimes you know candidates would call back. Well, is Tommy Smith calling me? And if I happen to be at the office late at night, you know some of it is the smoke and mirrors of making yourself sound like you're Well, I remember when I would like when you or John would be like traveling. Dave: I would try to book the mother BD. Right, you're interviewing folks in Kansas City, what other companies are headquartered in Kansas City or just other things. And one of the things that the things I did that I learned a lot about this is that even though you and John were based in Houston, if I was trying to set up Houston appointments, I would act as if you and John were based in San Francisco, like I'd say oh, you know Miss Howes will be in, you know she'll be in Houston for two days next week. You know she'll. she won't be in the San Francisco office, she'll be in the Houston office for two days Now the reality is you were going to be there for two weeks, but you were going to be there for those two days and it was what's the biblical saying you can't be a prophet in your own homeland. And I think it's still true to this day that expert from out of town and they rearrange their schedule for the person from out of town. Jane: Well, you know, there's a Buddhist saying that says the visitor from afar brings knowledge and I like that. Dave: I like that. Jane: And you know, sometimes I get asked to talk to college students about how our young people, about how do you find jobs, and my clients, kids, want to know how do we find a job. And I don't I'm not a career counselor but what I tell them is the further like if you went to NYU, say you're going to have more success calling NYU alums in Houston trying to get them to help you than you will in New York City. If you're a University of Houston graduate and you're in San Francisco, there's probably only 20 of you in the whole town and all people are hardwired to help people who come from afar. If there's a limited population and it goes kind of with that thing of being unique, like you know how many people come from Houston to San Francisco for a meeting. 20 years ago I mean it happened, but it wasn't every day that a head of human resources got that phone call right. Dave: In my business that it's easier for me to get an appointment in Syracuse, New York, if I'm going to be up there for business anyway. It's easier to get that appointment than it is with somebody in Houston, Because in Houston they're just like I'm busy this week, you know. Call me next month, you know, because you're so available. It's just like it seems like if you're meeting somebody for dinner, the closer the restaurant, the more likely you are. The closer the restaurant, the more likely you are to be late, or the more likely I am to be late, because if I'm driving 30 minutes I'm going to allow 45 for traffic and stuff, but if it's three minutes away, I'm going to leave two minutes before the dinner and then exactly a stoplight pot ad and then the parking lot's full and yeah no, it is, but it is something about the further something is away. Jane: And I remember one of the ways I built up our and some of our first clients. Most of our first clients were California companies because California had more. They were more used to women in doing C-suite searches. But you know, I was in California every two weeks for probably 30 years and I would call and go well, I'm from Houston, I'm a woman-owned search firm, I'm going to be in LA, can I come see you? And we got a lot of great clients like Wells Fargo, warner Brothers, yeah, a lot of McKesson company, because they were like oh, the visitor from afar they're coming to, they're coming from Houston and they're women in the search business Great, they're coming from Houston and they're women in the search business Great, you know. And I I spent a lot of time where people would go well, I have time tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock and I'm going to be there. And I quickly hung up the phone and called United and called Continental Airlines and started booking that airline ticket as fast as I could. Dave: Yeah, I do remember my listeners love stories. What are some stories of just interesting or amusing or candidate screw up things that come to mind where, yeah, I don't know a candidate showed up intoxicated or a candidate showed up and forgot to put pants on that day, you know. I don't know a candidate showed up intoxicated, or a candidate showed up and forgot to put pants on that day. Jane: You know, I remember way back in the early days one of my first big searches was a senior lending officer for a regional bank here and the candidate was great and it was. I was so excited and so I called the CEO of the bank after the interview and I said Rex, how did the interview go? He goes, jane, he didn't come. I said he didn't come. What the hell? Why didn't he come? He said, oh, it was okay. He drove through the teller window and passed a note to the teller to pass to me that he wouldn't. He changed his mind, you know, and you just go, who drives through the go in for the interview but drives through and says will you give this note, handwritten note on a scrap of paper I'm not coming. And so that was kind of the early days. A second story, and I mean it's crazy what we did back in the early days but one client wanted us to live in LA and take over all their staffing for it. This is when we were hourly billing and we were pretty cheap and they said, yeah, we'll get your room at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA. We want you there for a month and we're trying to figure out how to save money, because back then, you know, we just wanted to be and so we bought Dave a $700 car so we wouldn't have rental car charges, and we called it the gray ghost. It was a delta 80 and we drove this car and I am embarrassed to tell you, and I hope your listeners will think we were really creative rather than really cheesy but when we were done with the car, when we finished the search and the client actually is still a client in other iterations we just left the car at a Friday's Marina Del Rey and that was it, because it was on its last legs, you know, and we just that was it. We just left the keys in the car and that was it. Dave: That was it. We just left the keys in the car and that was it. You know you reminded me of something. A good friend of mine owes you his job because you just reminded me of something and I know I learned this from you. So it's really good friend of mine. Cpa, a classic, stereotypical CPA, introverted, not very outgoing but very technically sound, and he was working at a public accounting firm and he was kind of stuck at the senior level. He couldn't get promoted to manager, which usually happens after like five years. And there's a firm in town that I knew a guy there and they were looking for like a first year audit manager. So he was perfect for it. Looking for like a first year audit manager, so he was perfect for it. And so the three of us met for a drink at Papa Do's on Westheimer, over in the Galleria. But I told him ahead of time. I said Pete, he is. I'm just going to tell you right now, he's not Mr Personality. If you're looking for a glad handing, you know, outgoing salesman type, he's not the right guy for you. And so, of course, what did he say? No, we're not looking for a salesman, we're looking for a manager, right, somebody technically solid. So we met and afterwards we had a good time. And afterwards I said so what'd you think? And he said I'm glad you told me that he wasn't Mr Personality, because I was kind of prepared for it. And he did the same thing when they met with the people at the firm. He told them on the front end hey, this guy's not Mr Personality, but he's really smart. I think he can do the job. And 30 years later he's a senior partner at this Houston CPA firm and I know I learned that line from you. Now let me just tell you this person's not Mr Personality. Does that sound like something you might've said for? Jane: Yeah, well, you know what I mean. Part of what I look at a recruiter's job, an executive search person's job, is you tell the client what's wrong or what's missing, because they're smart and they're going to get it themselves. And if you tell them, you are adding value, you're being a consultant and you've managed expectations. So when we do a search, we write a paper, basically a report. These are the things that might not exactly fit, but these are the things that overcome what you are looking for. And which reminds me of one more story. I remember doing a audit partner search, for I think it was Grant Thornton up in St Louis and it was in Chicago actually, and so, as you recall, we would fly to the cities, park ourselves at a hotel restaurant and just sit there and make that our office. It was pretty soon, and so I got to O'Hare sitting down and my 3 o'clock appointment comes up at one o'clock and I go buddy, you're here a little bit early. He said, oh, yeah, yeah, I've heard great things about the Alexander group and I'm just going to sit at this next table and watch you in action. And I'm like, well, buddy, that's just not going, not gonna. And mentally I'm thinking well, buddy is no longer a candidate, but he wanted to sit and listen in on every other interview so he could get some good tips of how to interview himself, and anyway not a bad idea if he had just simply kept that information to himself. Right and not done it when I'd already started the interview. You know, I mean, I kind of lost two candidates right in one sitting. You know, you can't make this stuff up. Dave: That is something. I got a question somewhat related to search. Some of this conversation is about executive search. Right, we probably should have at least maybe a third of it about search. What about board members? So you know, I've got clients who ran, built, ran, sold $50 million revenue successful privately held companies, sold $50 million revenue, successful privately held companies. And they maybe think, yeah, I might like to be serve on a board. Now for somebody to be on a public company board do they need public company experience? Jane: You know, Dave, I think the question as I'm kind of rounding third base in my career and a lot of my peers are in their 60s and they're finishing, They've sold their private company, they retired from a public company. They, for whatever reason, they say well, you know, I'm going to retire, I'm going to, I want to be on a board. Can I get on a board? My answer is always this yes. However, it's a question of how much time do you want to spend to get on your first board? Once you get on one board, even if you're a private company executive, can you get on a public board, Asterisk, if you're willing to really work hard on at that. The average board tenure is 10 years. Board positions don't really turn over that much of a healthy company. So people get on a board and especially if it's a public board, there's incentive comp, there's options. It's not a hard gig for a lot of companies. So the answer is yes. And then what do you do if you want to get on a board? If you want to get on a board? Probably 70 percent of all board positions are not gotten through search firms. Does that surprise you? Dave: Maybe, yeah, maybe some. It's the network, the network of the other board members. Jane: Yeah, yeah, because people will say, oh well, I know somebody I'm going to, I'll go back to my UT alum group and see if they, you know, kind of knows around there. Or I'll see if, oh, I know a guy that works at Goldman Sachs, Maybe he knows somebody. I know a friend that's a part retiring from Ernst Young and I'll ask her. And so there's a lot of you know, with the call for diversity, search firms are becoming more involved but and doing more and 30% is still a lot to be putting out to search. But so the things that if any of your listeners are interested, I tell people, If any of your listeners are interested, I tell people, do a board resume. A board resume is different than a job resume. It's talking about your experience assessing risk, building a company, governance compliance, things that a board member would look at, governance compliance things that a board member would look at and the board members not looking at the details of you know, do you get two weeks or three weeks for vacation? They're looking at what's our strategic plan, the being the boss of the ceo, representing shareholders. So you want a board, one page board resume that talks about what you've done. That would be analogous to that. And then you really want to get on. A not-for-profit board Helps because, especially if it's big enough, there will be other corporate people there and you will make contacts. But it's really about making contacts. A lot of investment banks they don't use search firms when they take a company public. They have databases, they go through their contacts. Bankers know people. It's all about the three sources. I would say. If any of your listeners are saying I want to be on a board one day, do you know anybody in investment banking, private equity, public accounting, M&A law firms anybody like that and tell everybody you're looking for those recommendations. And then the last thing is a lot of your listeners are successful people who've had roles in companies that are entrepreneurial in nature, and a lot of them I know people that have taught an entrepreneurship class or a lecturer at Rice University here. And there's a lot of smart kids who are starting businesses. Let's not forget Google, Facebook, some of these companies that started from college kids, and I think that's a great avenue to think about when, if you're thinking about ways to get on a board. Dave: I like it. That's really cool. Well, speaking of rounding third base, I can't believe how the time has flown by. I have just a couple other questions for you. One is I've heard about this great resignation. For you One is I've heard about this great resignation. What has been your experience? Is this trickled up to the C-suite and the board level, or is this a problem that those people are having to deal with? People lower in the organization? Tell me about the great resignation from your perspective. Jane: Well, one thing hasn't changed. If you look at CEOs of Fortune 500 companies that are recruited from the outside, I would say they have a 50% chance of being there two to three years out. And why is that? Culture fit so the top. You will always have CEO changes, especially if they come from outside and they don't fit with the culture. What I think we are seeing and we see from our clients is post-COVID. There's been so many obvious changes but a lot of things that aren't obvious. People don't want to relocate as much as they might have pre-COVID. Why is that? Well, covid scared people in terms of my parents I've got to take care of my parents, I may have to have my kids at home for high school, and do I want to go to someplace new and have something like that happen? So I think you're having that we're coming out of. But you're also having middle range employees who aren't as loyal, and you know I always tease that a lot of the younger people today. If they have a bad Monday, they may be somebody someplace else by Friday. So I think there's not quite that dickiness of what you grew up with and I grew up with. Hey, you know we want to. You know we don't want to be a quote job hopper and I think people today don't care if they're job hoppers quite as much. And there's not that people are more willing. I think in COVID accentuated that where they're more willing to take risk. And, you know, maybe I'll be without a job for a month, two months, and yeah, I think we're seeing that. And what I tell small businesses that you know be focusing on long how do you make a culture that will keep people invested long term? And there've been a lot written on that and it's different for every company depending on where your location is and what your employee mix. But I think that's a really important thing that everybody's got to do in a bigger way. And also, lastly, dave, the emphasis on mental health, something that has changed dramatically in the last three years, where you know we've got to take care of people financially. And also, how are they doing? Because so many people were isolated during COVID and had mental health issues and people talk about that more, which we never did back in the day. You just bucked it up and, you know, kept making those source calls, dave, you know. Dave: For every six you made, you got to check off a tenth of an hour of work. Jane: Exactly. You had to make a left message with 10 people to get that six. I had it backwards. Dave: It was even harder than I remembered. That's why you get so excited if somebody answered the phone because that, even if you only talk 30 seconds, you got to put them down as a yeah, no, that's right they go no, I'm not interested and you go, that's OK. Jane: Awesome, ten minutes ahead here. Dave: That is great. So so I think the two questions left, so one. Is there anything that I did not ask you that you wish I had? Is there anything we did not talk about that you think we should have? Jane: No, you're a really good interviewer, Dave, which? Dave: I learned it from you. I learned it starts with interviewing candidates and it translates to other things. Jane: Well, I'm, you know, I'm really honored to be here, dave, because the people that you serve and that you do work for. I think it is much harder to run a smaller private company than it is a big company, because you've got to have employees who are multifaceted, You've got to have employees who have an entrepreneurial mindset, you've got to have employees who have an entrepreneurial mindset. So my hat is off to the work you do the clients that you serve, because it is a hard business. Dave: Well, I appreciate that. I love serving entrepreneurs, that is for sure. So here's the last question. This is a curveball one you may remember. When you asked if you need to do any preparation, I said no, we're just going to talk about your life story and you don't need any prep. But I promise you one curveball, and here it is. Are you ready? If you could go back in time and give advice to your 25 or 28 year old self, what advice might you give yourself? Jane: Yeah, oh, that is a great. That is a great question. Don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff. Dave: Okay. Jane: And the things that you worry about about 90% of them do not materialize. Dave: Was that? Was it Mark Twain or Will Rogers? I always get their two quotes conflated. But one of them said I'm an old man, man, and in my life I've known a great many. I've known a great many difficulties, most of which never came to pass, or something to that effect yes, that's right. Jane: And Mark Twain, as you will recall from our time together, said I didn't have time to write a short story, so I wrote a long story, right? Dave: Exactly. Yeah, I learned a lot about incise writing and just I'm always amazed that people that just the simplest stuff that I never picked up in English class. Like you know, bob is a person who does XYZ, he's not. It's not Bob that does something, it's Bob. Bob's not a that, he's a who. Jane: That's, that's right and word choice, and. But you know I, you know I sound like a geezer, but you know stuff like that is. I mean a lot of people today really don't know that. I mean even you know I see at the executive ranks a lot of people who, who just, and you know, I think one of the things when I talk to people early in their career is learn to write, learn business writing out there. I mean especially now with Zoom and you can do business with people by email A lot of people. And if I get a resume from somebody that doesn't spell check or anything else. Dave, one final story, and it's so good and it reminds me. It does remind me of you for obvious reasons, but I don't know if you remember that we sent a letter out one time when you joined, maybe when you rejoined us, and we said Dave is from you know, arthur Anderson, a leading public accounting firm, but we left out the L of public. Do you remember that? Dave: I remember that does sound familiar. I remember somebody saying well, I don't know what it is, but we want some right, that's funny because, yeah, when you send out as many, as much written correspondence as the firm has for so long, it can't try as you might, it can't all be perfect. Just like I'm amazed when I read, like a bestselling book that sold 20 million copies and you find a typo. You're like but you know, when I talked to an author about that they said, yeah, there's, you know, 100,000 words in here, like you, just sometimes they slip through the cracks. Jane: Well, Dave, I the thing I remember about you and I always feel like I can learn something from everybody, even though there's an you're younger than I am. But even back when you were really young and with us, you were so effective at client communication and getting business. And do you remember that? You are the ones that taught us that people are hardwired to want to help, but you have to give them a way to help you. And you would come up with a list, Like, do you know people from any of these five companies? And people would look at and go, oh yeah, I can help you, I do know somebody from here. And what a great way to teach someone how to develop their own clients as to teach the client how to help the potential client or source how to help them. Dave: Well, that's one of the benefits of being a bad employee who changed jobs every year is I was exposed to a lot of things. I learned that in the financial services business and what made it so powerful was because in the financial services business you're always trying to get you know referrals to folks and if you just say, hey, jane, you know who, do you know who's looking to buy life insurance, probably nobody comes to mind. Nobody, because nobody's come up and said hey, I need life insurance. Do you know anyone? But what I learned in that is still helpful today. But instead, if you give somebody a list of 10 people and you say, jane, I'm going to be calling these 10 people next week, I'm just curious, can you tell me, is there anyone on this list you think's particularly great or you think really highly of? And they'd say, oh sure, let me borrow your pen. They check off the before names, you're like great. And then I would say, hey, by chance, if you happen to talk to them before next week, will you tell them I'm going to call them and they, of course, would say, sure, I haven't talked to this guy. I went to law school in five years. It's unlikely I'm going to talk to him this week, but sure, I'll tell him, okay. And then, finally, jane, when I talked to John Lamar, is it appropriate to mention that you know that we had a conversation? You know that he came up in conversation? Sure, yeah, no problem. So then, when I would call the person, it was so easy. Hey, john Lamar, by chance did Jane Howes tell you I'd be calling? No, how's Jane doing? I haven't seen her since law school. Boy, she's really wonderful, I like Jane. And so, yeah, you know Jane. Huh, yeah, I haven't known her a long time. I haven't known her as long as I've known you. Meaning I've met her for 10 minutes, but all of my dealings with her were first rate, all of them. And then just say, hey, you know, jane had some nice things to say about you and she thought we might benefit from knowing meeting one another. You know, know, when are you? It was amazing how well that. But it all started with just having a list to start with, because there's a difference between if somebody like, let's say, that conversation went poorly and john lamar called you back and said, hey, why'd you have? that dave spray guy call me. Well, if you can say, I didn't tell him to call you. He already had your name. He was going to call you anyway he just asked me. Jane: Anyway, great guy, yeah right. Dave: He just wanted to know if you were a jerk or not. And apparently I was wrong because you're gonna give me a hard time. All I did was say you were a nice guy and and now you're giving me a hard time, but yeah and and dave. Jane: What I remember the funny thing was john lamar are my 30 year partner. He went to a meeting with you and he said jane, dave pulled out the list. And I said he pulled out the list. And he said yes, and it worked and we just like we were so nervous about the list. But, Dave, it really worked. Dave: It is funny. And the irony is, the time you pull the list out is when the meeting doesn't go well. You know, like it's a brief meeting and they're like no, my best man at my wedding is a partner at Horn Fairy. That's where all of our search goes. We'll never give it to anyone else. Well, now you have nothing to lose by pulling out the list. I mean, if they on the spot want to sign you up for some searches, well, just keep the list in your pocket. But and the irony was the worse the meeting goes, the more helpful. Jane: They would seem to be right because they kind of feel bad that you flew away from houston. Dave: You flew all the way from houston out to see them and they can't help you. So now, sure, I'll look at your list. I'll give you some. Jane: But it's true, the list, dave, I mean that is a course in business development and we were like God, that list is not going to work. But it works, it absolutely does. Dave: Well, and you know when I first used that this shows what how I approach business development when I was in the financial services business right at Arthur Anderson attorneys were my best prospects. So this was like 1990, excel hadn't even been invented, they were using Lotus one, two, three. And I bought the Martindale Hubble legal director. You remember this thing? The blue, yeah. Maybe it was an yeah, but it was a blue thing and what I did that I was so proud of myself. I went through that and I created a spreadsheet and I knew one attorney in Houston and he was like a second year attorney at some place and he went to U of H and I played basketball with him and I went and I had lunch with him and I pulled out the graduates from like the top 20 law firms in Houston and I'm sorted by year in college. So the first list I gave him was all of the people who graduated from law school, the ones in his start class. And then I gave him a list of all the other U of H grads who were like a couple of years older to a year younger Same thing, who do you know? And then I made the call to them and then, jane, it got to be so crazy. I would go to like V&E and I would be there like I'd have like 12 meetings in a row, like, and they would literally walk me from one office to the next and they'd be like, hey, so who's next on your list? Oh, bob. Oh, he's a hoot, yeah, you'll enjoy meeting him. And so they would escort me into the office. It was like it was this introduction from one stranger to another one, but then the new person I would meet with. So you know, lauren introduced me to a guy who started with him that went to UT, so I would have all the other UT guys at his firm and at the other firms in town and it just exploded. Like in three or four months I was like the guy for all the third year attorneys at Baker Botts and V&E and Fulbright, but anyway, that is so fun, but it works, dave, and it's something you know. Jane: 15, 20 years later I still remember. Quote the list. Dave: Yeah, yeah, some great times. So, jane, thank you so much for not only inviting me to the 40th anniversary party that was just spectacular. Seeing some of my former colleagues, that was just great and just having the ability to be friends with you and your husband and John Lamar all these years is very special. I like to say there's only one ex-girlfriend I keep in touch with and there's only one ex-employer I keep in touch with, and that's you all when you are a VIP favored status. Jane: you work for us twice and we keep hoping that phone will ring the third time, dave, and it'll be the charm. Dave: Yeah, you never know. And I would jokingly say I did two tours of duty which you know doesn't really sound very complimentary to the firm. I must say, tour of duty has a certain negativity to it in a way, you know, conscription drafted. Jane: Yes, it's. At least it's not like prison sentence. You know I'll give you that. Dave: That is awesome. Well, Jane, I could talk all day to you. Thank you so much. I really appreciate everything. Jane: Oh, my pleasure, Dave. How much fun this has been. Dave: It has been have a great day. Jane: Thanks, Dave Bye. Special Guest: Jane Howze.

Since September, Knox News journalist and co-host of  "The Scruffy Stuff" Ryan Wilusz has devoted Thursday nights to judging the bracket-style competition known as Band Eat Band, first at Scruffy City Hall and then at Asylum 801.  The West-family competition paid performers and donated to local charities, including Knox News' own Empty Stocking Fund, before signing a $5,000 check for the winning band. Listen as Wilusz and co-host Keenan Thomas discuss the competition, who won and how the format served as an incubator for Knoxville's local music scene.  >> Story and photos: Nine months later, Band Eat Band crowns the 'king' of Knoxville's music scene. See who won  "The Scruffy Stuff" is presented by knoxnews.com. Want more downtown analysis? Sign up for the free weekly Urban Knoxville newsletter by clicking here, and join the downtown discussion by becoming part of the Urban Knoxville group on Facebook.

From May 23, 2023: For fun under the sun, downtown Knoxville has plenty of patios to offer. And as the weather keeps getting warmer, our thirst keeps getting stronger for outdoor spaces to enjoy drinks and food.  Host Ryan Wilusz, along with producer Brianna Paciorka and higher education reporter Keenan Thomas, average their individual scores to determine an admittedly unscientific ranking of patios in the Scruffy City.  Scores are given a letter score, with a special "S" ranking we are calling "the Sunsphere," reserved for patios that should be considered a Knoxville icon. "The Scruffy Stuff" is presented by knoxnews.com. Want more downtown analysis? Sign up for the free weekly Urban Knoxville newsletter by clicking here, and join the downtown discussion by becoming part of the Urban Knoxville group on Facebook.

FROM MAY 16, 2023: For fun under the sun, downtown Knoxville has plenty of patios to offer. And as the weather keeps getting warmer, our thirst keeps getting stronger for outdoor spaces to enjoy drinks and food.  Host Ryan Wilusz, along with producer Brianna Paciorka and higher education reporter Keenan Thomas, average their individual scores to determine an admittedly unscientific ranking of patios in the Scruffy City.  Scores are given a letter score, with a special "S" ranking we are calling "the Sunsphere," reserved for patios that should be considered a Knoxville icon. Stay tuned next week for part two!  "The Scruffy Stuff" is presented by knoxnews.com. Want more downtown analysis? Sign up for the free weekly Urban Knoxville newsletter by clicking here, and join the downtown discussion by becoming part of the Urban Knoxville group on Facebook.

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Welcome to today's episode where Sam and Morgan discuss our third novel from Emily Henry which is called Funny Story.    About This Novel: Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it's all just for show, of course, because there's no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex…right?   Check Out Our Socials:  IG: www.instagram.com/justonemorepageofficial/ Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@justonemorepagepodcast Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpgQxE__Hxln2LWHWza_94w  

Dateline: April 26, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!  Our Headline Story of the Week is a follow up about the San Francisco Bonus Episode last week, including a discussion of some follow ups and a big announcement from the zoo about panda bears.  We then get to our births for the week, which include exciting additions at Busch Gardens with some amazing help, the Nashville Zoo, Pueblo Zoo, the Staten Island Zoo, the Dallas Zoo, the Memphis Zoo, Zoo Tampa, the Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium, Potawatomi Zoo, Chattanooga Zoo, a huge birth at Brevard Zoo, and the Cincinnati Zoo!We say goodbye to some beloved animals headlined by two wonderful red pandas that I loved dearly, Betsy and Scout. We also say goodbye to Karen, an ostrich at the Topeka Zoo, Fred the tegu at Capron Park Zoo, Scruffy the sun bear at the Honolulu Zoo, the oldest panda in Japan, and more. We then move on to our other Zoo News stories, including another opportunity to vote for some facilities you might love, a conservation success story from The Wilds, amazing stories about helping animals at Central Park Zoo and the Cincinnati Zoo, followups on the young lion that is getting help at Lincoln Park Zoo, the gorilla introductions at Cleveland, and the Miami SeaQuarium lease, and then a bunch of quick hits including stories from Rolling Hills Zoo, The Desert Museum, the Berlin Zoo, Brookfield Zoo, the Louisville Zoo, the Columbus Zoo, the Toronto Zoo, and the Tulsa Zoo. Then we end this section with a great example of transparency from Woodland Park Zoo. In Conservation News, we talk about an investigation into where plastic bags go when they get recycled, the lengths one country went to to stop a single invasive predator, a look at the current global coral bleaching event, and people being idiots with animals for social media credit. In Other News, we talk about coyotes and badgers being besties and an elephant on the loose. ROSSIFARI LINKS: www.rossifari.com patreon.com/rossifari @rossifari on socials @rossifaripod on TikTok

Bunheads Episode 7 "What's Your Damage, Heather?"/Firefly Episode 7 "Jaynestown"One's a familiar face from Jayne's past, back for revenge. The other's a familiar face from our Gilmore Slayer past, back as a sh*tty plumber, and they both have one eye. Coincidence, Amy!?! It's hard to imagine which smells worse, Fanny's mildewy dressing room, or Jayne's muddy planet. Also which is more disgusting, mudder's milk or that fried food buffet the bunheads consumed. Neither Michelle nor the Magistrate's son feel like grownups, and later both Sasha and the Magistrate's son act out in a big way to get adults to notice them. And Bryan puts his spin on a Olsen Twins classic.Please check out Wasabi Girl, if you haven't already.Want more content? Sing up for our Patreon! We've got 3 tiers of bonus content, including access to our Discord, early extended episode teasers, outtakes, watch parties, and of course, our Angel and Veronica Mars video reviews! patreon.com/bryanandstaceyDon't want to join Patreon? You can access our Veronica Mars content right here on our feed by subscribing for $5/month.Don't forget to check out our music video for "Getaway (Stars Hollow)" from super talented musical artist, The Other Realm. Check out his other music and follow him on social media @theotherrealmmusic.Introduction - 0:00Bunheads Episode 7: What's Your Damage, Heather? - 9:15Movies One of Us Has Never Seen - 41:57Firefly Episode 7: Jaynestown - 50:26Similarities - 1:19:20The Winner - 1:19:46Follow us on social media for more Buffy/Gilmore content, and to see what other projects we're up to!YouTube:Bryan & StaceyInstagram:@gilmoreslayer/@bryanandstaceyTikTok:@gilmoreslayer/@bryan.and.staceyTwitter:@gilmoreslayer/@bryanandstaceyFacebook:Buffy the Gilmore Slayer/Bryan & StaceyEmail us at: bryanandstaceyreviews@gmail.comWebsite: bryanandstacey.comTheme song written and performed by @louiearonowitzSupport the show

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 OG Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe. Wook 'Supp is a series from HHP that delves deeper into the universe of Star Wars, one Wookieepedia article at a time. One of the BS boys takes the next letter of the alphabet and looks up a random article in Wookieepedia to read and give some thoughts on. Today BL gives you a Scruffy double header and learns that U stands for Obese Thor-Back Dragon AND U-3PO. Hyperspace Heroes Podcast can be listened to on all major podcasting platforms. Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/ Support HoliznaCCO via his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Holizna Bandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/ Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Holizna Voice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri Gage You can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hyperspace-heroes/message

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 OG Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe. Episode 76 is entitled - Scruffy & DB are jealous of our Guest, Star Wars Thrifting.  Silver the ever delightful host of the Star Wars Thrifting channels (on social media) and the Into The Garbage Chute Podcast joins us to talk collecting and Bad Batch S3 Eps 4 & 5. You can find Star Wars Thrifting on Instagram and X (Twitter) https://twitter.com/StarWarsThrift https://www.instagram.com/starwars_thrifting/ https://open.spotify.com/show/08f4vsfx0uOEDxbMAec44k?si=07711104abd04282 Hyperspace Heroes Podcast can be listened to on all major podcasting platforms. Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/ Support HoliznaCCO via his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Holizna Bandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/ Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Holizna Voice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri Gage You can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hyperspace-heroes/message

We are graced with the presence of both Andy and Shawn from the Just Shillin Podcast where we get to know Shawn, talk the latest in our lives, Star Wars news, the latest Bad Batch episode and more!   See Shawn and Andy's new podcast "Just Shillin" at https://justshillin.com/   Email us at: scruffypodcasters@gmail.com If you like us, feel free to leave a 5 star review on iTunes! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM! https://www.facebook.com/ScruffyPodcasters/ @scruffypodcast We have a teepublic site! https://www.teepublic.com/user/scruffylookinpodcasters If you like the intro/outro music check out the Fogcutters and Mamas Boomshack: http://mamasboomshack.com/ http://www.thefogcutters.com/ Podcast artwork by Chris Hall himself! check him out: Instagram: @chrishallillustration Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackSheepRebellion?ref=shop_sugg Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/blacksheeprebellion Follow us on Twitter! Scruffy Looking Podcasters: @ScruffyPodcast Ed: @ScruffyEdB James: @RealEcho207 Kev: @kpg1974 Chris Hall: @chrishallbsdc

From Oct. 30, 2023: Nearly one year ago, we embarked on a mission to create a resource for new residents – something to help people adjust as they settle in their new home or take on new roles in the community. We're happy to share with you Knoxpedia, the one-stop shop for all things Knoxville. Whether you're new to town, looking to become more civically engaged or just a generally curious person, this comprehensive guide is for you! Looking for the best brewery or music venue in town? Knoxpedia has you covered. Confused about local politics or how to sign up for services like trash and recycling? We have entire sections dedicated to that. Listen to learn more!  "The Scruffy Stuff" is presented by knoxnews.com. Want more downtown analysis? Sign up for the free weekly Urban Knoxville newsletter by clicking here, and join the downtown discussion by becoming part of the Urban Knoxville group on Facebook.

Join the Scruffy boys for another episode as they discuss the latest in their lives including their thoughts on the first 4 episodes of Bad Batch Season 3.   Email us at: scruffypodcasters@gmail.com If you like us, feel free to leave a 5 star review on iTunes! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM! https://www.facebook.com/ScruffyPodcasters/ @scruffypodcast We have a teepublic site! https://www.teepublic.com/user/scruffylookinpodcasters If you like the intro/outro music check out the Fogcutters and Mamas Boomshack: http://mamasboomshack.com/ http://www.thefogcutters.com/ Podcast artwork by Chris Hall himself! check him out: Instagram: @chrishallillustration Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackSheepRebellion?ref=shop_sugg Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/blacksheeprebellion Follow us on Twitter! Scruffy Looking Podcasters: @ScruffyPodcast Ed: @ScruffyEdB James: @RealEcho207 Kev: @kpg1974 Chris Hall: @chrishallbsdc

Welcome to the Hyperspace Heroes Podcast, where 3 OG Star Wars fans are just trying to make their way in the Star Wars podcast universe. Episode 72 is another Scruffy & DB Unleashed!! They talk about the latest Star Wars news, updates and the upcoming Bad Batch Season 3. We wrap up with Collection Corner. Hyperspace Heroes Podcast can be listened to on all major podcasting platforms. Intro/Outro Music: Strange Signal (Instrumental) HoliznaCCO/ Licensed under CCO 1.0 Universal License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ legalcodeSource: Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/straight-to-vhs/strange-signal/ Support HoliznaCCO via his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Holizna Bandcamp: https://holiznaroyaltyfree.bandcamp.com/ Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Holizna Voice Over Work in Intro/Outro Performed by Milz Bowden & Henri Gage You can find Milz & Henri at https://youtube.com/@video4humans --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hyperspace-heroes/message

Join the Scruffy boys for another episode as they discuss the latest in their lives including their thoughts on the trailer of Bad Batch Season 3, Are You Kidding Me segment comes back! and more!   Email us at: scruffypodcasters@gmail.com If you like us, feel free to leave a 5 star review on iTunes! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM! https://www.facebook.com/ScruffyPodcasters/ @scruffypodcast We have a teepublic site! https://www.teepublic.com/user/scruffylookinpodcasters If you like the intro/outro music check out the Fogcutters and Mamas Boomshack: http://mamasboomshack.com/ http://www.thefogcutters.com/ Podcast artwork by Chris Hall himself! check him out: Instagram: @chrishallillustration Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackSheepRebellion?ref=shop_sugg Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/blacksheeprebellion Follow us on Twitter! Scruffy Looking Podcasters: @ScruffyPodcast Ed: @ScruffyEdB James: @RealEcho207 Kev: @kpg1974 Chris Hall: @chrishallbsdc

"Boom Boom Boom Bingo" Scruffy The Cat dominated the College Rock scene of the late '80s with a run of fabulous albums like Tiny Days and Moons of Jupiter, plus two stellar EPs High Octane Revival and Boom Boom Boom Bingo. If you don't have these four releases-get them. They're the most perfect blasts of rootsy indie pop you'll ever hear. The six member Boston outfit, which formed in '83 lasted just under a decade, breaking up in 1990. Over the course of their career they went Top 5 on the CMJ College Radio Charts, were played on MTV's 120 minutes, were critically lauded by pretty much everyone, including the Village Voice and The Chicago Tribune, cracked the Billboard Top 200 and toured with Los Lobos, The Replacements and Yo La Tengo. The six member Scruffy personnel consisted of Charlie Chesterman, Stephen Fredette, MacPaul Stanfield, Randall Lee Gibson IV, Stona Fitch and Burns Stanfield. Omnivore put out two great anthologies that celebrate the band's legacy and as far as alums go, Scruffy is down two men with the deaths of Chesterman and Gibson, but the music remains and it sounds as fresh as ever. As for Stephen Fredette, he's a marvelous and accomplished artist who did all the Scruffy covers, and he just had his first gallery show in the Boston area. And he's been working on some songs.... www.scruffythecat.com (http://www.scruffythecat.com) www.stereoembersmagazine.com (http://www.stereoembersmagazine.com) www.bombshellradio.com www.alexgreenbooks.com Stereo Embers Twitter: @emberseditor IG: @emberspodcast Email: editor@stereoembersmagazine.com (mailto:editor@stereoembersmagazine.com)

In this episode we look back on the milestones of 2023 including The Marvelous 3, Ted Lasso, the vinyl resurgence, and more. Also we look ahead to 2024 and Spence makes an important show announcement. Happy holidays from Beacon House!

The boys are joined by Andy Bell as they give thanks to 8 years of new Star Wars   Email us at: scruffypodcasters@gmail.com If you like us, feel free to leave a 5 star review on iTunes! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM! https://www.facebook.com/ScruffyPodcasters/ @scruffypodcast We have a teepublic site! https://www.teepublic.com/user/scruffylookinpodcasters If you like the intro/outro music check out the Fogcutters and Mamas Boomshack: http://mamasboomshack.com/ http://www.thefogcutters.com/ Podcast artwork by Chris Hall himself! check him out: Instagram: @chrishallillustration Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackSheepRebellion?ref=shop_sugg Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/blacksheeprebellion Follow us on Twitter! Scruffy Looking Podcasters: @ScruffyPodcast Ed: @ScruffyEdB James: @RealEcho207 Kev: @kpg1974 Chris Hall: @chrishallbsdc

Its been a little while since everyone's been on, but here we are! Join the Scruffy boys for another fun episode as they discuss the latest big news from Kev, a little Star Wars and more!   Email us at: scruffypodcasters@gmail.com If you like us, feel free to leave a 5 star review on iTunes! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM! https://www.facebook.com/ScruffyPodcasters/ @scruffypodcast We have a teepublic site! https://www.teepublic.com/user/scruffylookinpodcasters If you like the intro/outro music check out the Fogcutters and Mamas Boomshack: http://mamasboomshack.com/ http://www.thefogcutters.com/ Podcast artwork by Chris Hall himself! check him out: Instagram: @chrishallillustration Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackSheepRebellion?ref=shop_sugg Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/blacksheeprebellion Follow us on Twitter! Scruffy Looking Podcasters: @ScruffyPodcast Ed: @ScruffyEdB James: @RealEcho207 Kev: @kpg1974 Chris Hall: @chrishallbsdc

Payton and his cat Scruffy enter a Surfing Competition but encounter a Shark Written by Alex BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUTS!

Have you ever wanted to reboot your computer and have it come alive with the ability to think and feel and MURDER?! Listen, COS is just trying to survive, ok? It's not the computer's fault that the Defense Department wants to use technology for evil and that Brad's scruffy mind has to give it a virus to prevent world destruction!! Scruffy minds weren't meant for this sort of thing! HE IS DOING HIS BEST. (*COS voice* Brad... whyyyyyy.) It's S1E7: Ghost In The Machine, and don't worry because the AI survives and now, thirty years later, lives among us. bee boo bee boo bee booLaToya Ferguson gives this X-File a scary rating of 1/5 NON-MURDEROUS SCRUFFY MINDS ADVANCE TICKETS TO THE LIVE RECORDING OF S1E11: "EVE" ON JUNE 10TH: http://bufferingcast.com/streamTickets are available with a patreon-only code, and will go on sale to the public on Friday, May 26thLOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNETJenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.comKristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.comBuffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram MUSICTheme song and jingles all composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs.PATREONpatreon.com/bufferingcastMERCHbufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop+++Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya FergusonEdited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin RussoLogo: Devan Power+++We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts atbufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting