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The Golden Steer Steakhouse, established in 1958, is Las Vegas’s oldest continuously operating steakhouse. It has been a favored dining spot for numerous celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe. The restaurant is renowned for its classic ambiance, featuring red leather booths named after its famous patrons, tuxedoed servers, and tableside preparations of Caesar salads and flambéed desserts.One diner once said, “The Golden Steer feels like the soul of Las Vegas.” Nick McMillan and Amanda Signorelli are the managing partners of the Golden Steer. Nick & Amanda took over as managing partners in 2018. Amanda's father, Dr. Michael Signorelli, purchased the Golden Steer in 2001. Nick has spent his career building companies in both the technology and food industries. Amanda's background is in the tech industry.Nick and Amanda created a mail order offering called Goldbelly in 2020 as a way to offset the impact of lost sales during COVID. The online sales continue today with a variety of high end seasonings and compound butters.Customer service and hospitality is a key part of the Golden Steer brand and they live that philosophy every day. It includes simple things like answering phones with a human voice, which Golden Steer has hired staff members to do. The Golden Steer has worked hard to build its social media presence, becoming one of the most viewed steakhouses on TikTok and using the channel to create offers that drive traffic to the restaurant. QUOTES “I'm born and raised in Las Vegas and my father purchased the restaurant back in 2001. He did it because he loved the legacy and the story and it was something that was near and true to his heart as it is to many Vegas natives.” (Amanda) “Our longest tenured server is a gentleman named Venko who's been with us almost 40 years. We've calculated that he's made somewhere in the ballpark of 375,000 Caesar salads in his career.” (Nick) “It's a ton of fun when Venko's making your Caesar salad. You'll definitely hear some stories about old Vegas for sure.” (Nick) “We're one of the most – if not THE most – viral restaurants in America on TikTok.” (Amanda) “We're in a strip mall. A lot of times folks say ‘When I first drove up I didn't think I was in the right spot.' But then you walk inside and it's like a little time capsule back to old Vegas.” (Nick) “We look at ourselves as stewards of this brand that has survived six decades plus and we hope to celebrate another six decades.” (Nick) “To quote Steve Wynn, ‘People make people happy.” We really try to embrace that.” (Nick) TRANSCRIPT 00:01.94vigorbrandingHello, welcome to Fork Tales. I’m Michael Pavone, and we’re really excited about this episode. This is gonna be a fun story. There’s a list, obviously, of truly legendary restaurants right in in the United States, but the Golden Steer in Las Vegas is one of those restaurants. it’s It’s the oldest continually operating steakhouse in Las Vegas, and our guests today are Nick McMillan and Amanda Signorelli. I’m Italian, so I got that right, right? 00:29.18Nick _ AmandaNailed it. 00:29.73vigorbrandingyeah Okay. So the managing partners, the Golden Steer, the Golden Steer is a steak house that became a regular stop of Frank Sinatra Elvis and many others. There are rumors of secret doors. We’ll talk about that. And, you know, as one diner once said, the Golden Steer feels like the soul of Las Vegas. So ah Nick, Amanda, welcome to the show. 00:49.07Nick _ AmandaWell, thank you, Michael, for for having us. It’s fabulous to be here. It’s a wonderful morning ah out here in Las Vegas. And we’re certainly looking forward to chatting with you a little bit and telling you about the Golden Steer. 01:00.62Nick _ AmandaThank you. 01:00.87vigorbrandingFantastic. Fantastic. So the question is for both of you guys. Tell us a little about yourselves and how you came to be a part of the Golden Steer Steakhouse brand. And I guess there’s like a love story or something else in there too, right? 01:13.37Nick _ AmandaThere it A little bit of everything. 01:14.54vigorbrandingOkay. 01:15.92Nick _ Amandaah So I’m born and raised in Las Vegas, fabulous Vegas. And my father actually purchased the restaurant back in 2001. And he did it because he loved the legacy and the story. And it was something that was really true and dear to his heart as it is with many Vegas natives. Now I left Vegas and went out to Chicago where I met this lovely, charming gentleman. And at some point I said, hey, 01:38.76Nick _ Amandawhy don’t we jump in and since you are got a bit of a background on the culinary side and I’m on the kind of data and marketing side why don’t we put our heads together and jump back in and return to Vegas and give it a shot. 01:50.74vigorbrandingThat’s awesome. That’s awesome. Nick, you made breakfast somewhere along the line for her. Is that how you, the culinary side? 01:54.75Nick _ AmandaYou know I tried I burned some boiling water but Yeah, originally from the Chicago area, I actually spent most of my career in the technology space. 02:06.21Nick _ Amandai But the interesting wrinkle is that I studied in Rome when I was in college and really fell in love. 02:11.53vigorbrandingAwesome. 02:12.27Nick _ AmandaOf course, the Europeans have such a different relationship with food and dining. And I came back to the States. I thought I wanted to move into the culinary hospitality world. 02:24.22Nick _ AmandaSo I did culinary school. My cousin owned a restaurant in Chicago that I cooked in his kitchen for a while. But ultimately said, you know, this is crazy. Who in the right mind would ever want to own a restaurant and left? the way I went back to the software world. The margins are much better and never really anticipated coming back to it. And then, and then, yeah, we met in and Chicago and We got married in 2018 and I sold the tech offer for my last business and had some some time and her father called and said, hey, I need you guys to so either take over the restaurant or I’m going to think about selling it. 02:59.30Nick _ Amandaand So we looked at each other and said, but let’s do it for a year. Right. Let’s do it for a year. 03:04.58vigorbrandingYeah, give it a try. 03:05.72Nick _ AmandaWe’ll kick ourselves. There’s such an iconic story and and history to to the place. So that year started March 1st of 2019. And of course, a year later, the the world changed with COVID. And so now here we are. 03:21.83vigorbrandingThat’s awesome. So I mean, are obviously Vegas has a storied history, all kinds of neat and maybe some bad background stuff. And your steakhouse has kind of been in the center of it all, hasn’t it? I mean, yeah if I remember, I think it’s like almost three different, ah sort of, I’ll say, historical chapters. So you had, didn’t you have people coming from California, ah coming out through the West, maybe to hunt? And the restaurant was a part of that. Can you talk about that a little bit? 03:48.00Nick _ AmandaYeah, so we first consider ourselves, and you nailed it, we really think about it as stages and horizons of history, which is really wonderfully wonderful to see how the restaurant itself has absorbed it. So the very first one was, we called ourselves the period of the Wild Wild West, friendly for the Cowboys. We were truly a Western frontier restaurant, which was a bit more technical back then. What would happen is the Cowboys would come in from all these different places around the world. They’d come to Nevada, they’d go on the mountains, whatever they shot and killed, they’d bring in, it would be our responsibility to clean, prep, serve, and cook all those things for whoever had them. And so you have a lot of iterations of rattlesnake game, things like that on the menu, but very much Wild West cowboy lore. And so that’s what we started as. And then the second phase of that was as Vegas matured and went from being a saloon-style town to something a bit more elevated, we decided as a city to dominate the entertainment space, which led us to what we like to call the showman era. And so with the showman era, that’s where you have Sammy Davis Jr. 04:45.14Nick _ Amandaah me monroe you’ve got frank sinatra You’ve got all these iconic, amazing celebrities and talents who are coming through Las Vegas, putting their foot on the ground and saying, let’s own this, let’s create it. And during that time, while they were out and performing for everyone else, they’d come back at night and dine at the Golden Steer. And we’ve actually got stories of patrons who said, oh, I remember my father and my grandfather used to come to the Steer because Frank Sinatra would get up on a table drinking whiskey, smoking a cigar and serenading the rest of the restaurant. 05:11.08Nick _ Amandajust really amazing moments that you wish you could see. Of course, when you’ve got the showmen and you’ve got the glitz and glam, you very quickly have the seedy underbelly, which ends up being the mob style. 05:14.47vigorbrandingYeah. 05:21.27Nick _ AmandaAnd so where all the fabulous flashy people come, mob’s there. And that is not surprising, especially when it started with someone like Tony Spalato, who came from the hole in the wall gang. And he made his mark in his business in Las Vegas, as he liked to call a jewelry shop. 05:35.18Nick _ AmandaI think of him more as a pawn shop because everything he had, you stole from a celebrity. You could just buy it back. So he began in Vegas and brought the rest of his um friends, we’ll call them lovingly, to this year to have meetings. And that began the mob period where they spent a ton of time here. It led to the mob room. We had the MatriD trying to exchange and make sure that we had the right mob partners not sitting right next to each other or in different rooms if we needed to. And it created quite a different ambiance. 06:02.56vigorbrandingit’s It’s amazing. And it’s really, I mean, again, so I can say this I’m Italian. So I’m always the old mob is I mean, I, i wrote you know, I think the greatest business movie ever made was a Godfather. And I swear by that, I think that is the best business movie ever made. 06:14.88vigorbrandingAnd so and the greatest movie ever made. So I love all of that, that, that, that mystique. I’ve been to your restaurant and the food is phenomenal. 06:21.44Nick _ Amandait 06:24.74vigorbrandingI’m not pandering. It really is phenomenal. 06:26.86Nick _ Amandathank you 06:26.94vigorbrandingBut you almost get that vibe when you walk in there, like with the brown booze and you have the other people’s names owner who used to hang out there. 06:32.06Nick _ Amandaand 06:32.49vigorbrandingum It’s just, it’s amazing. So you you had obviously all the showmen, you know, the whole brat pack was there. I know that there you have the picture behind you. ah But you also had celebrities like Joe DiMaggio, right? You had, I think it was Ali there. I mean, I think you had lots and lots of sports figures. I mean, I guess anybody that popped in Vegas, how’d he go to the Golden Steer? 06:48.32Nick _ AmandaThank you. Muhammad Ali ah celebrated his birthday here. Mario Andretti, yes, Joe DiMaggio, some more local folks. So, the comedian of Entroqua is Terry Fader. And then my favorite, one of my favorite stories, of course, is Mr. William Baxter. So, William Baxter is ah is a famous, for a number of reasons, one, ah very, very successful professional poker player. 07:17.87Nick _ Amandaum but also very so very well known because he sued the United States federal ah federal government in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court and he argued that poker is a game of skill and not a game of chance. 07:30.68vigorbrandingOkay. Hmm. 07:33.60Nick _ Amandaand so And that it should be taxed as income instead of gambling winnings. Gambling winnings are taxed higher than income is. 07:38.95vigorbrandingHigher. Yep. 07:40.44Nick _ Amandaah He ultimately won it and permanently recategorized poker winnings for for players across the country. And so just, ah I think it’s a great example of kind of the Vegas stories that you find here um that are that fly a little bit below the radar. 07:52.87vigorbrandingYeah. Yeah, it’s it’s crazy. And again, so much history, yeah you know, I think evolve. And it makes sense, right? Like we talked about like the the mob and stuff like that. Well, in every movie, I mean, you know, they got to go somewhere that’s sort of like a neutral ground, right? Where they’re, you know, they’re not going to be talking in the inside the casino or, you know, their hideout. So they’re gonna, they’re gonna go someplace where there’s ah other people and all that. And the Golden Steer was sort of like a centerpiece for that, wasn’t it? 08:23.81Nick _ AmandaIt was and actually it worked that we’re having this conversation from the mob room. So this is one of the private rooms that we have in the restaurant where they like to come in and dine and enjoy because it was it was separate and so they could have some candid conversations. 08:28.11vigorbrandingOh, there you go. ye 08:40.00Nick _ Amandaalso very close to a back hallway that we had so that they could ah sneak in and out as they needed to because one of the other booths that we have is Ralph Lamb and Ralph Lamb was very well known sheriff here in Vegas in the the at at the same time as the mob so he was kind of chasing them around and so there was certainly times that that one or both were coming in and required ah a quick getaway or a discreet exit and so that’s why they love to to kind of sit and dine in here in the mob room. 09:12.77vigorbrandingThat’s great. So we won’t talk too much about the mob, although I do love the mistake, but so this, yeah we can go to, let’s, let’s talk about like, you know, I know you don’t serve burgers anymore, but, but you said in in past interviews, I guess Elvis had had his last burger at the golden steer. 09:26.63Nick _ AmandaWell, I think he had the last burger that we served at the Golden Steer. I’m sure he had burgers after that. 09:30.40vigorbrandingOkay. 09:31.71Nick _ AmandaBut yeah, we used to do a little transition from the mob. 09:31.79vigorbrandingOkay. Oh no, we’re not saying he didn’t get poisoned there. No, no, no, no, no. You just had, yeah, I would have very clear on that. 09:39.04Nick _ AmandaWe had to make sure that we were clear about it. Um, no, he, he used to come in, he would sit at the, at the bar and and enjoy a burger. And then as you know, his, his fame continued to rise. He transitioned to sitting in, he has a beautiful, probably one of the best corner booths in the restaurant where he would sit and transition from burgers to, to steaks. And so at that point we decided, all right, no more, no more burgers on the menu. 10:05.00Nick _ Amandaand and and to this day have still not served a burger since Office of Time. 10:10.03vigorbrandingThat’s great. So, okay, you guys joined the the Golden Steer 2018, then COVID came around, obviously, and probably created a havoc for everybody, like it did everybody else. I know how it affected the restaurant industry. But you guys, i’ve been I’ve been to your website, you guys are doing mail order, things like that, too. Is that right? So we’re gonna talk a little bit about that and some of the thinking that you put behind that. 10:30.50Nick _ AmandaYeah, absolutely. So when COVID first hit, we both looked at each other and credit to Nick. He was really early on in this. We were actually planning for COVID in the December of the year prior. So we were looking out and thinking that there was going to be something that changed the restaurant dramatically. It was a question of what and how, and more importantly, how long. And so a lot of restaurants we’re looking at, do we do a to-go option? But the reality is our restaurant is on the strip. 10:53.31Nick _ Amandawith the world being shut down. We don’t have anybody here. Even if we wanted to deliver, given the radius, by the time the product got there to most of the suburbs that are going to be 20, 30 minutes away, the product and integrity and quality was going to be disastrous. So it did not make sense for us to try that. The other element, when you look at the actual nature of our business at the time, the predominant share of our customer base actually came from outside of Nevada. And so we said, all right, so most of our customers that we need to be able to get to aren’t here. Let’s ship to them. 11:19.84Nick _ AmandaFortunately, in a prior life, I had run a company and was good friends with some folks that had started a shipping company that was on Foodside and that was Home Chef. Nick also had his first company, which was Right Bites. 11:30.63Nick _ AmandaSo he also had an idea of how to do shipping. So we looked at each other and said, let’s give it a go. So we went live on Goldbelly, which was May 19th, sold out of our inventory with one email in about two weeks. 11:38.00vigorbrandingMm hmm. 11:43.08Nick _ AmandaSo there’s something there. Let’s turn it on and run with it for a bit. Fast forward to November of that same year, and we ended up taking it in-house and selling ourselves on Shopify and building that out. 11:52.01vigorbrandingThat’s great. 11:52.22Nick _ AmandaWow, we’ve been able to double that business pretty much year over year. And interestingly enough, that business is actually a seasoning company first and a state company second. 12:00.39vigorbrandingWow. Good for you. Well, I mean, there was the mail order stakes before, right? 12:02.46Nick _ Amandathere was states 12:04.20vigorbrandingPeople had that. That’s something that, you know, existed. So, uh, which that’s great. And it’s good to still have that, but the seasonings are, that’s what makes you guys special, you know? 12:12.82Nick _ AmandaIt’s a ton of, and it was, you know, something, you know, we’ve, so Sergio sees, so Sergio is our master butcher. He’s been with us for almost, almost four decades at this point. 12:23.22vigorbrandingWow. 12:23.37Nick _ AmandaAnd he, over the years has developed a seasoning blend in it. We use it on steaks in the restaurant. But it really came, we so during COVID, we did virtual private dining, which was we had all these conventions cancel, all these corporations that looked to do virtual events. 12:38.93Nick _ AmandaAnd so we we had our iteration of that, which is we would send a box of ingredients for a three-course meal. So our world-famous Caesar salad, rib eyes, the cream corn, twice baked potato, and then, of course, the bananas foster. 12:53.11Nick _ AmandaYou can’t forget, a little taste is sweet at the end. 12:54.34vigorbrandingnope yep 12:55.78Nick _ AmandaBut one of the items was Sergio seasoning. And as we did more of these events, and we did them for folks like Dell and Cisco and NASA and Second Watch, people started asking, like hey, this Sergio seasoning, can we can we buy this separately? And so a light bulb went off, and it was I think a year and a half after we first started selling steaks that we then allowed folks to to buy and and brought the Sergio seasoning to market, which then kicked off a line of seasonings, and now we have a line of compound and flavored butters that we also ship out as well. So it’s been a real like evolution of that online piece that you know I don’t think, um without COVID, I i mean, we we probably would have exported a little bit, but it was really a driver and catalyst for you know expanding into that online space. 13:43.94vigorbrandingYeah, I mean, it’s brilliant. And look, you know, necessity is the mother of invention, right? You guys, I know restaurants are hard and it can be a daily grind, you know, whether you have one or 50 or for franchisee, franchisor to then start an online, really, in a way, a CPG business, right? i mean e-commerce business, it’s a whole other world and it’s a whole other venue. So it’s really kind of cool that you were able to have the energy, the fortitude and the desire to drive that way. That’s that’s awesome and kudos to you guys for doing that. 14:14.81Nick _ AmandaAnd that is, I, you know, Amanda has really taken that by the horns and driven that um to an amazing extent. 14:14.89vigorbrandingum 14:24.40Nick _ AmandaI think it’s it’s wild. I mean, it’s been it’s been a long journey, right? we’re We’re almost four years in, but it’s been exciting to see kind of how that has evolved and changed. um Because it is. 14:35.21Nick _ AmandaIt’s an entirely different world. 14:36.55vigorbrandingSure. 14:37.18Nick _ AmandaThe digital ad space is, um is ah of course, massive. um And so it’s been it’s been fun to to kind of lean into that. And it’s to see where the two have fed off of each other, I think, is is very exciting for us. 14:53.69Nick _ AmandaAnd so as an example of that, It used to be two sister brands. So we had Golden Steer Las Vegas as one of the domains and then Golden Steer State Company. And it was only in March of this year that we kind of brought it all under one umbrella. 15:06.96vigorbrandingSure. 15:07.41Nick _ AmandaIt’s goldensteer dot.com, which really we saw a lot of benefits in and value to it, which has been it. 15:10.93vigorbrandingOf course. Yeah, I mean, it’s that’s super smart. I mean, this all came about like Fork Tales, this podcast all came about because we have we have an agency. My background is is advertising marketing and we have a holding company and in our company, we created different brands. And one is Quench, which is CPG food and beverage. When we were doing that, people would come and say, hey, 15:32.60vigorbrandingYou should you know market our restaurant or do you do restaurants and. Everyone thinks well restaurants food and beverage right so it’s the same as cpg but it’s not and you guys know that cause you’ve done both so. We created vigor or you know take on and a brand called vigor which is a restaurant. 15:49.99vigorbrandingbranding and marketing agency and they are very different. I did it because they’re different. and We have different skill sets in there and you know it’s retail and the speed of retail in the restaurant side and CPG is just a different animal. 16:02.86vigorbrandingSo I mean it’s a yeah it’s it’s ah um kudos to you guys again for doing both. 16:06.33Nick _ Amandato go. 16:08.20vigorbrandingI see that a lot because we’ll have a lot of folks on that’ll be ah they’ll they’ll start with ah a food product, a CPG and they’ll create restaurants from it. or they’ll have a restaurant and then things will emanate off of it. 16:19.82vigorbrandingYou know, we just did a thing with Guy Fieri ah with his sauces. We just did a thing with, I’m trying to think who else was, it doesn’t matter. But we’ve we’ve had a lot of these guys, a home run in is another one who’s started out as a restaurant and and now they’re, you know, yeah. 16:33.66Nick _ Amandaoh yeah ah 16:36.53vigorbrandingthey’re phenomenal pizza, right? So it’s really kind of neat to see these evolutions and how they grow. So well thank goodness that the whole industry of the conventions is back. and I’m sure that’s great for you guys. In fact, i’m i and believe it or not, I’m not just saying this, we have 15 people coming in to your restaurant. I think it’s in October. If that reservation is not made, we have ah one of our companies and our holding company is a company called Varsity, which is senior living. We have we market and brand retirement communities around the country. 17:06.78vigorbrandingAnd there is a, ah the acronym is SMASH. I’m not sure exactly what it stands for, but they’re having a convention in Vegas. And so we’re bringing a bunch of clients ah to the restaurant. 17:16.97Nick _ AmandaThank you. 17:17.92vigorbrandingYeah. Yeah. So I’ll have to make sure they get the bananas foster. 17:18.87Nick _ AmandaWe’ll see you. 17:22.79vigorbrandingSo, oh yeah. 17:22.81Nick _ Amandait’s the bottom one 17:24.05vigorbrandingBut now the stay on the let’s say when you’re Caesar Salads killer, I was at the restaurant and the gentleman at the serve, they talk about him a little bit. 17:31.84Nick _ AmandaYeah, so our longest tenured server, a gentleman named Banco who’s been with us for also almost 40 years, and we calculated that we think that he’s made somewhere in the ballpark of 375,000 Caesar salads in his career. 17:50.13Nick _ AmandaUh, so it’s, it’s, he, and he tell, he tells some wonderful stories. 17:50.59vigorbrandingyeah 17:55.52Nick _ AmandaHe’s been in Vegas for a long, long time and has met some incredible people. And, you know, one of them, most interestingly, coming back to kind of the the mob era. 18:06.14Nick _ AmandaSo Tony Spelatro. Camino talked about his his jewelry store. It was right next to the Golden Steer, which is why he would come in. And one of it the gentlemen on his henchmen team was Frank Colada. And Frank Colada, there is a ton of stories and books and podcasts about him. 18:24.98Nick _ Amandaum because he yeah actually was ah an informant and went into witness protection for a long time and then came out of it and he would still after he came out he would still come in and dine at the Golden Steer and Vanco was the only server that he would that he would really allow to to wait on him and so they had a they had a special relationship and Vanco yeah has some tremendous stories and It’s still with us. 18:48.76Nick _ AmandaWe are grateful um through through all of the ah the craziness of COVID remained with us and and is a treasured part of of the team. And we are not just him, but we have a tremendous team. 19:00.25Nick _ AmandaBut it’s a ton of fun when Van Gogh is making your season salad. You’ll definitely hear some stories about Old Vegas for sure. 19:04.81vigorbrandingYeah, ah it’s it’s super cool. Like I said, I absolutely loved ah my time there. and And you were not there, but he was so that, you know, he he was there. 19:13.26Nick _ Amandayeah 19:14.38vigorbrandingthen We got the Caesar and, you know, it was it was a phenomenal. So and the whole like the whole mistake. And what’s really cool and and you I should say for anybody who’s interested in in in checking out the the the restaurant, you know, we think about Vegas and restaurants like there’s these big casinos and all the restaurants in the casinos. 19:30.51vigorbrandingYou guys are not in a casino. I mean, you’re old Vegas, you’re on the strip, right? 19:34.33Nick _ AmandaWe are, our address is not technically on the strip. We are about a half a block or a block off the strip, but we’re in a strip mall. 19:41.22vigorbrandingYeah. 19:41.54Nick _ AmandaAnd so a lot of times we get feet, like folks drive up and they say like, when I first drove up, I don’t, I didn’t think that I was in the right spot. 19:46.04vigorbrandingYeah. 19:50.61Nick _ AmandaUm, because, you know, we talk about all this history and everyone that’s come in and you drive up and it’s a strip mall. 19:55.88vigorbrandingright 19:56.10Nick _ AmandaUh, but then you walk inside and it’s like a little time capsule back to old Vegas. We still have, you know, 20:00.15vigorbrandingyeah 20:01.01Nick _ AmandaWe still have the carpets and the dining rooms and the popcorn ceilings and a lot of the elements that make, that kind of transport people back to to that time. And so, um but yeah, and we’ve always been in this location, ah you know, 66 years. And you can think about, back to Amanda’s story about the frontier days. 20:23.72Nick _ Amandayou can kind of see it when you come here like this is not you know there was the old strip down on Fremont and then some of the kind of the new hotels were being built in the 50s and 60s but this was kind of just a little bit off the beaten path and so there were hitching posts and it’s easy to see how folks would you know go and hunt in the wilderness which was not that far from where we currently are but now of course today it’s it’s a much different story Vegas has seen some tremendous growth but 20:42.38vigorbrandingRight. 20:47.30vigorbrandingYeah. 20:48.45Nick _ Amandaah But yeah, it’s a ton of fun when folks come in for the first time and kind of look at themselves at the outside like, are we at the right spot? And then walk in and a whole different world. 20:56.76vigorbrandingyeah Well, the way you explained it was absolutely 100% my experience. Because when I went out there, I think I took an Uber, and you know how sometimes Ubers you put an address in and you’re like, well, this doesn’t look right. I did the old, well, this doesn’t look right. And then I was like, wait, wait, no, there’s, oh, yep, yep, yeah, we’re right, okay, great. And walked in and it was like, to your point, it’s like ah Oz, right? You open the door and there you are. And so I think anybody that goes to Vegas, you know, the the mystique, the history, all that stuff is so important and so cool. and You know, I just need to go to, uh, you know, anybody can go to the wind or whatever, which they’re all fine. 21:26.30vigorbrandingThey’re all great. But I mean, like to go out and see your place is like, it’s like going to a museum. and And then, but then on top of it, the food is as good as anything you’re going to get anywhere, if not better as far as a steak. So I just think you have such a cool vibe going and, uh, kudos. 21:38.08Nick _ AmandaWell, thank you. yeah you know and it’s And especially this year, it’s bittersweet, right? So the Tropicana is in the process of being torn down. 21:43.48vigorbrandingYeah. 21:45.67Nick _ AmandaAnd and it’s a remind. What’s that? The Mirage. The Mirage, of course, is you know the first hotel that Steve Wynn built from the ground up is is also in the process of being demolished. 21:49.01vigorbrandingYeah. 21:55.82Nick _ AmandaSo it’s exciting. the The town has seen tremendous growth. And I think the um the community has benefited from it greatly. But it’s also a little bittersweet because these icons of the past kind of are continuing to to transition. 22:06.50vigorbrandingYeah. 22:08.96Nick _ AmandaAnd so we we look at ourselves and we think, and we talk about it a lot with the team, that we feel like stewards of this brand that has managed to survive you know six decades plus, and that we you know hopefully would love to celebrate another six decades. 22:25.51vigorbrandingSure. 22:25.95Nick _ AmandaPast this so it’s been you know, the town is is is wild. it’s It’s been really great um But yeah, they’re it’s kind of always in that transition period 22:36.05vigorbrandingThat’s funny. I mean, it’s really ah yeah it’s ah it’s an amazing kind of thing. And just to have that history is just it’s a treasure to your point. So a lot of the restaurants will claim that, you know, they focus on hospitality, but very few do it well. What’s your secret? How do you make it real and make sure that your staff brings that, you know, to life every day? 22:54.75Nick _ AmandaIt’s a great, way it you know, I’m from, or like I said, I’m originally from the tech world. And so it’s been, um, It’s been phenomenal to see just, I think, just want to talk about for a second. I think the, the work ethic and, uh, the quality of people that are in the industry is tremendous. Um, and I think, you know, people really that are in this, like have a passion for, for it. And I think Vegas itself is unique in that. Uh, and I think it, it starts with people. Um, I think to quote Steve, when he always said that, you know, that people make people happy. Uh, and I think we really try to embrace that. 23:32.99Nick _ Amandaum And one, so Pete Wells just retired as the New York Times food critic in his final column. One of the things that he talked about was phones, that a lot of restaurants don’t answer phones anymore. And we do. We actually, ah we get a tremendous number of of inbound phone calls and we’ve hired up folks in the restaurant to be able to try and answer as many of those phone calls as possible with a human voice because we think that that is important. And we, 24:02.19Nick _ AmandaYou know, at the end of the day, we were a family business. There’s not too many family businesses on the Las Vegas Strip. And so we try to bring that warmth and the idea of, you know, folks are coming in to celebrate their most treasured moments, their birthdays, their anniversaries, graduations. 24:21.88Nick _ AmandaIt’s always fun when a local came in for prom and now they’re coming in for, you know, their kids’ graduation or or anything like that that’s multi-generational. 24:27.56vigorbrandingAwesome. 24:30.23Nick _ AmandaAnd so there’s a lot of, ah history that folks have with the restaurant and warmth I think is one of the big pieces that we try to to focus on. I mean there’s the there’s the tactical ah you know the steps of service and all of those pieces but we really try and say how do we make people feel feel good and feel happy feel welcomed if If something is wrong, if there is a miss on food, um we will you know either replace it or take it out late. We do everything that we can to ensure a great experience because we know that folks are coming in to to celebrate celebrate those special moments. so 25:08.31Nick _ AmandaWe really try and focus on the people first. ah We have a tremendous, tremendous staff um that I think enjoys the history and kind of being a part of that stewardship of ah a legacy brand. And it’s a ton of fun. And I think we are We are fortunate that we have had folks that have been with us for a long time to kind of keep that, like a, like a Vanko and a Sergio over the decades that have seen the ebb and flow of the city, that have seen the ebb and flow of the restaurant and have some, ah you know, a foot kind of in the old Vegas hospitality that folks like to to reminisce about. 25:34.68vigorbrandingwho 25:47.75Nick _ AmandaAnd so we try and and bring that and make that real, ah you know, day in and day out, which is, which is a fun, a fun and interesting challenge as a part of the restaurant industry. 25:57.16vigorbrandingYeah I mean we’ll like you know okay so and I’m not saying everyone can do it well but anyone can make a steak you know I can go home and grill a steak but if I go to your restaurant I’m gonna get it I’m gonna get a phenomenal but really it is about that whole experience right and those people become they’re part of the brand like we I said I did have the Uh, uh, your gentlemen, Benko, I guess is his name that did you make my, so my salad was phenomenal. I mean, and that was part of the whole, the whole deal and and and part of the romance of the whole place. So, uh, I think that’s, that’s phenomenal. So now talking about special moments last year, you guys purchased a thousand square foot of adjoining space. You’re expanding for the first time in 50 years. Um, now you you have a classic look architecturally, how hard is that to do? And what is the, what are what are you going to do with that space? It’s just tables. You can do more banquets. Is it, you know, talk a little bit about that. 26:43.00Nick _ AmandaYeah, so we opened it. um And it it was exciting. It was the first time in 50 years. And to Amanda’s point, in the restaurant, you could see the evolution over the six decades because the the the current bar that exists today was the last expansion that we did in the 70s. And so it was it was fun to to take on this bra of of you know this first expansion in 50 years. So we opened it last November right before F1. 27:10.62Nick _ AmandaAnd it is additional dining space, but also mainly with a focus on large parties and private dining, which is a tremendous part of ah Vegas now with with all of the social parties that come in and of course all of the conventions. 27:16.19vigorbrandingGreat. 27:20.66vigorbrandingSure. 27:25.69Nick _ Amandaand and we kept We kept everything as, you know, it was very inspired, of course, by the existing space. So ah wood paneling, which is a huge part of the existing restaurant or the the original restaurant, it was kept. The carpet is the same. We kept the popcorn ceiling. So its it was a very fun conversation with our designer and architects before we even started construction. 27:53.76Nick _ AmandaWe walked through the existing space to to kind of get some ah design ideas. And we were talking about the ceilings. And I was like, well, of course we have to keep the popcorn ceilings because we have the popcorn ceilings in the existing space. And our designer looked at us and she’s like, you know, I’ve taken a lot of popcorn ceilings out in my career, but I’ve never actually had a clock that wanted to put them in. And, you know, of course, would it be our first choice if we were just, you know, starting from scratch? Maybe not. 28:19.14Nick _ Amandaah But it’s a part of the history and kind of the rounded coving of where the walls meet the ceiling is a part of that. 28:19.44vigorbrandingThat’s it. 28:27.28vigorbrandingThat’s awesome. 28:27.44Nick _ AmandaAnd so all of those pieces that we that we could we took the, you know, we have ah this beautiful um circular soffit that is in the main dining room. And we also created a similar one in one of the the new rooms as well, just to make people continue to feel like this is this is an extension, you know, no different than what the steer has done over the six decades of, you know, continuing to um to kind of grow and do it in a way that that is in harmony with the with the rest of the space. So it’s been and we but to 29:03.30Nick _ Amandaum I guess I’ll just say we were very excited so when we opened it the first night we did a friends and family dinner and the first couple that walked in they gave us a hug and ah she was super excited she’s like oh congratulations on the opening like and we were at this time we we greeted people in the new space so she walked into the new space gave us a hug and she’s like after the hug she’s like all right this is awesome congratulations can we see the new space but she was standing in the new space and asked to see it and really made a smile. 29:32.74Nick _ AmandaAnd that was kind of the goal that folks wouldn’t have any idea that they were standing in a space. 29:34.02vigorbrandingah 29:36.59vigorbrandingYou have to pump like some old cigar smoke in the seat cushions right in the new place. 29:39.18Nick _ AmandaWe didn’t know about that. All right. 29:40.74vigorbrandingyeah 29:41.52Nick _ AmandaThe joke was the mill workers that I was going to have, you know, bring in like four and five year olds with like keys and like socks to like mark up the woodwork to make it look aged. 29:50.06vigorbrandingYeah. That’s awesome. That is awesome. All right. So now I’m going to ask you, that you know, I’ve read that the the steer has the best steaks on earth and I’ve had a phenomenal, absolutely. I concur. um Now you’re the couple that makes the best steaks. I’m going to give you something personal. man I’m going to start with you. ah What’s your favorite cut and how do you like it cooked? 30:08.78Nick _ AmandaThat’s easy, ribeye 100%, absolutely. Medium rare and always with, if I can, I really like our maturity butter. I think we did a great job with it. So I like to put that on top. 30:17.99vigorbrandingWell done. Well done, Nick. 30:22.50Nick _ AmandaWhy, i the our ribeye is our signature cut, 24 ounce bone in. If, and I won’t pick that, but I would say actually the strip loin, our New York strip, our 16 ounce New York strip is is probably my go to now. I think it’s the perfect blend between, you know filet of course is delicious if you’re looking for that, very lean, tender. A ribeye is fantastic, great marbling. 30:46.92Nick _ AmandaA good bite and I think the the strip kind of plays right in between those It’s got good fat for good flavor, but it’s still got some good tenderness. We butcher all of the meat in house. So everyone’s Steak is cut fresh that day which I think really adds to that element of freshness and we wet age everything for a minimum of 28 days to to bring a little tenderization to to the meat and It’s a ton of fun. 31:16.48Nick _ Amandaand We cook, it we we keep it old school. We cook on commercial broilers, uh, that really help us kind of measure the amount of char that we’re getting, uh, you know, based on kind of the, the distance from the heat source. 31:29.86Nick _ AmandaSo it’s a very old school. I think the broiler broiler is as old as Sergio is. 31:34.84vigorbrandingI was going to say evening, bought him a new broiler. 31:35.26Nick _ AmandaUh, 31:37.20vigorbrandingHe’s been there all these years. 31:38.45Nick _ Amandahe likes the old one. 31:38.62vigorbrandingThe guy can, he needs a new broiler. 31:40.40Nick _ AmandaHe likes, he knows how it works. yeah He likes the old one. 31:42.08vigorbrandingThat’s it. That’s awesome. Yeah. That’s great. Now, Amanda uses the butter. What do you, any, anything you’d like to add to your steak? 31:49.44Nick _ AmandaNo, I like to keep it traditional and classic. 31:51.93vigorbrandingSo I’m kind of in between both guys. I’m always a ribeye. I did Devone in at your place, phenomenal. I don’t put anything on my steak. So I just, I’m, and I love ribeyes. I, you know, there’s probably a healthier steak out there. 32:02.72vigorbrandingThey’re filet, but I figure, you know, my deathbed, I’m not going to wish I ate more filets. I’m always going to eat a ribeye. So ribeye and a big bottle of Cabernet or an amaron. 32:07.23Nick _ Amandaah great a hundred 32:10.30vigorbrandingI love amaron lines. Oh, that’s like heaven on earth. I’m hungry. um So, I mean, yeah, so so nothing on your stake. um is is If someone wants to put a catch up, is there any judgment? 32:22.36vigorbrandingHow do we feel about that? 32:22.65Nick _ AmandaThere’s not, there’s not. 32:23.52vigorbrandingNot? 32:23.88Nick _ AmandaAnd I think so for us, that comes back to the hospitality piece, right? 32:24.04vigorbrandingOkay. 32:27.63Nick _ AmandaAt the end of the day, we’re serving you your steak. So if you want ketchup or you want A1 or Heinz 57, or you want it butterflied and well done, ah no no judgment from us. 32:40.62vigorbrandingMm-hmm. 32:41.32Nick _ AmandaWe’re going to prepare it the way that you want, ah which I think is is important because you’re you know you’re coming in to celebrate and so who are we to to to say that you can’t have it that way? 32:51.78vigorbrandingsee see but that’s what we do differ a little bit because I do judge and and I love I love my wife but she’s always well done steaks well done we were we were in Italy and the steak Florentine right and they make their steak Florentine it’s just aged and it’s basically they make it one way they only make it one way and she and you know and very expensive and to your point it’s it’s your your your time your money people should be there she walked in and she asked the waiter she said 32:54.86Nick _ Amandaand Yeah. 33:18.17vigorbrandingI know I probably shouldn’t ask this because they make it well done. He’s like Sure, but I’d rather I’d like to recommend the filet for you. He would not sell her the the t-bone the steak Florentine He would I he’s like I will get you a filet That’s all you’re allowed to have and she was happy that she was okay with but that’s that’s the truth I have one other anecdote like when I started my my illustrious career Like like I and like I think a lot of people did and I think everyone should you start in a restaurant I just think that is like The greatest education anyone can have that and I think everyone should have to sell something like I don’t care if it’s like ah ah subs for your baseball team or Girl Scout. I think everyone should sell something and everyone should work in a restaurant and in my ah my illustrious career. I started out at this restaurant and it was a 34:02.41vigorbrandinga gentleman by the name of Hobart Umberger, and and he he had a restaurant he did very, very well with. He had a bunch of restaurants at one time called Um-ee’s, just a local fair. It wasn’t like, it was like all one-offs. When he was getting ready for retirement, 34:15.31vigorbrandingOr as he aged, he didn’t need money and he didn’t care about serving a million meals. He wanted to make everything by hand by himself. So he created this thing called Hobarts. It was high end, very high end. Hershey, Pennsylvania. So we would get a lot of people in from the factory, a lot of dignitaries, lots ah lots of C-sweep types of folks. He had one bottle of ketchup. One. And it was next to a knife. 34:36.89vigorbrandingin the kitchen next, behind him. And inevitably Hannah was the waitress. I can still picture it like it was a, he’d be, and he did these things, these tornadoes of beef. He would do these center cuts of the filet and he was very proud of those. And inevitably it would be this thing and Hannah would be all nervous and stuff. she open the door in the kitchen. 34:53.71vigorbrandingI was washing dishes, by the way. And she’d be like, Hobart, I don’t want to hear any shit. this I know you’re going to yell. I need to catch up. And he would be like, he’d start throwing stuff. 35:04.41vigorbrandingAnd he’s like hey do and he’d be banging stuff. And he was like, who the hell? And he knew because he made everything by hand. and He made it. He was like, that’s the guy. There’s just sort of the plays. The tornado is a beef. 35:14.76vigorbrandingAnd he’s like, there I’ll be damned if I’m going to have my cake. Anyway, so i I’m glad we had that question. here Because it’s a it’s a thing. 35:20.38Nick _ Amandaah i edit a hundred percent and and but we We like to have these conversations because a lot of folks share your perspective, um and which you know in some sense i can I can understand and empathize with. but i think we I will say to you know to the the story you told about your wife in Italy, 35:40.38Nick _ AmandaWe will recommend, so I think a good example is like the tomahawk. So we we offer a 40 ounce tomahawk and it’s a tomahawk ribeye cut. so it’s that So it has a good amount of fat in it. 35:50.13vigorbrandingOh, yeah. 35:52.39Nick _ AmandaAnd so one of the places that we will do some recommendations is if someone comes in and orders the tomahawk rare, we will maybe suggest like, hey, um, because it’s, if you want it rare, some of that fat is not going to render out. 36:07.65vigorbrandingMm hmm. 36:07.83Nick _ AmandaAnd so it’s going to be a little, it could come across as a little tougher, a little gristly. And so there will be some times that we’ll make some recommendations, but, um, at the end of the day, folks are are ordering what they would like. 36:18.37Nick _ AmandaAnd I think for us, it comes back to that hospitality piece of, you know, we want you to feel warm and welcomed, uh, and I don’t know if you can feel too welcome if you order a captive and you’re taken and you hear the shaft in the back laying in top of his pants. 36:33.46vigorbrandingAnd he did and he but he didn’t care like he was like he would actually would rather them left because him at his point in life He was just an artist and he wasn’t looking for money and it was just that was his like ah Passion project. 36:38.34Nick _ Amandaah I’m sorry. 36:43.68vigorbrandingSo it’s just yeah, it’s crazy. But sorry. So now we’ve got we’ve we have a phenomenal steak you guys make the best steak on earth What sides you have a lot of sides what which sides are we getting? I mean everyone’s got their go-to’s at a steakhouse. 36:54.91vigorbrandingWhat do we got in here? 36:57.19Nick _ AmandaOh, so I always loved the twice baked potato. I think it’s phenomenal. 37:00.35vigorbrandingI 37:00.52Nick _ AmandaI think it’s our go-to. We actually at one point were featured in, there was like a Idaho potato Gazette that came out and asked for an interview. 37:05.84vigorbrandingNice. 37:07.11Nick _ AmandaCause they’re like, Oh, we’ve heard that you’ve got the biggest potatoes. I was like, well, if it’s coming from the Idaho potato Gazette, I’m pretty honored to hear that. 37:12.47vigorbranding That’s great. 37:13.86Nick _ AmandaYeah. The twice baked is great. And then our cream corn. I love our cream corn. uh it’s got it it certainly got its sweetness from the corn and then we use cinnamon and i heard a customer described it as like it’s like taking a bite of christmas and i hadn’t heard that before and i was like that’s the perfectly summarized is kind of the cream corn and so it’s the i love to take a little cut of steak kind of 37:24.23vigorbrandingThere you go. 37:44.26Nick _ Amandadrag it through the cream corn a little bit to get some of that sweetness. And it’s ah to for me, it’s one of the most perfect bites. 37:49.86vigorbrandingFantastic. That’s awesome. And then what for dessert, I think I know the answer to this, but. 37:55.20Nick _ AmandaI mean, we i Our tableside desserts, they’re a ton of fun, right? 38:01.76vigorbrandingYep. 38:01.89Nick _ AmandaAnytime you’re going to light something on fire for a dessert, it’s awesome. 38:03.48vigorbrandingYeah, sure. 38:05.77Nick _ AmandaBut I think, you know, it’s in their classic, in their pure, in their simple, ah but executed very well. So, I mean, I’m partial. We do two tableside flambe options. 38:16.73Nick _ AmandaOur bananas foster our cherries jubilee. 38:18.43vigorbrandingMm hmm. 38:19.15Nick _ AmandaI am partial to the bananas. I think we use brown sugar with it. and A little banana liqueur, some 151, a little orange zest, and it is it is excellent. 38:27.87vigorbrandingnice 38:30.02Nick _ AmandaBut a Amanda has a separate opinion. So we ran this interesting test where a problem we were running into was, you know, when people make a reservation at the Valencia, let’s say states it’s a party of six, only one of you are probably giving us your information, whether it’s your phone or your email or what have you. 38:44.13Nick _ AmandaAnd so if you want to continue to build a relationship online with the rest of the party in there. 38:48.04vigorbrandingNice. 38:48.67Nick _ AmandaHow do you get them to go to your site or engage or have some sort of a back? 38:50.40vigorbrandingMhm. 38:52.28Nick _ AmandaAnd so we realized that what is really strong is our social media presence. We are one of the most, if not the most vile restaurant in America on TikTok. We just passed 175 million views of hashtag gold. 39:02.98vigorbrandingWow. 39:03.56Nick _ Amandayeah And so we were like, okay, what can we do to combine this in honor of our 65th? And how do we create what I call an organic trigger? So if you’re dining, you can do something else. And so I was like, okay, let’s play with the flames. What can we do? That’s going to be a flaming dessert that can be exciting, that can be different. And so we worked and created something called the Sapphire Jubilee in honor of the 65th anniversary. And of course you like throw some blue in there at the server’s head of it because they were always covered in like blue dust on their white shirts. 39:30.90Nick _ AmandaIt was a little messy, but it was fabulous. And it really did turn bright blue flames. And so the I was like, okay, let’s try it. We’re going to make it where you can only order it if you have the code word from TikTok or Instagram. 39:42.30vigorbrandingWow, I like it. 39:44.36Nick _ AmandaWe’ll look up on there or say something. Or then ah when the server says that to them, if they’ll follow us or try and find it. And sure enough, I was like, I have no idea how this is going to go. First night comes. And within like the first, I guess, hour of opening, boom, somebody ordered it with the code word. I’m like, all right, we’ve got something. And it was, to this day, it’s my favorite version of that flam bazer. 40:05.22vigorbrandingThat’s excellent. oh that’s and the The marketer in me is very proud and honored. 40:08.87Nick _ Amandaa 40:09.14vigorbrandingThat’s that’s fantastic. I mean, I love it. 40:10.55Nick _ Amandayeah 40:11.44vigorbrandingReally. i’ saids that’s ah It’s awesome. 40:11.84Nick _ Amandaand since sense that it’s 40:13.45vigorbrandingum So I had the banana foster and it was wonderful. 40:14.75Nick _ Amandaso as foster 40:17.86vigorbrandingum i So I have one last question for you guys, and and then you’re free to go. And you can’t say the golden steer, but if you have one final meal, what would you eat and why? 40:31.11Nick _ AmandaSo for me, ah it’s risotto. Risotto was probably one of the first dishes that I really started to make during culinary school and just kind of fell in love with. I am ah studied in Rome, Italian heritage, and i i love like to me, it’s like, 40:55.32Nick _ Amandasuch a pure distillation of Italian cooking. right it’s very at the At its core, it’s very simple, but there’s a lot of ways that you can that you can go wrong with it. um And it takes some work, right? You have to be standing over it with your wooden spoon, kind of slowly adding stock. 41:14.38Nick _ AmandaAnd it’s also a it’s kind of also almost a blank palate. So you can add orabela mushrooms or butternut squash or asparagus or any number of things. And so I think I would i love risotto and that would probably be my, that would be my five if I had to pick a final dish, that would be it. 41:33.19vigorbrandingNice. Amanda, you can say Nick’s risotto if you want. 41:34.49Nick _ Amandaand think 41:35.93vigorbrandingI mean, ah, nice. 41:36.61Nick _ AmandaIt’s close to that. So Nick was actually, was very kind and he he knows this well, but something that he makes for me on all of the special occasions is a beef wellington. And I’m very picky about how I like my beef wellington and all the things and he’s like really nailed it down. 41:51.40Nick _ AmandaI wasn’t before, he’s now like spoiled me and I blame him all the time. I’m like, you’ve created the monster here. So it would be the beef wellington that Nick does make for me because I do it amazing and it’s my favorite. 41:59.24vigorbrandingThat’s awesome. Guys, I want to thank you. 42:01.92Nick _ Amandai 42:02.99vigorbrandingThis was fantastic. Like I said, the first time I ever had a couple and you guys were great. There was no fighting. It was close. I thought there for a while over the desserts, but that was good. 42:07.74Nick _ Amandayeah 42:09.71vigorbrandingThat was good. You guys do great. So thank you so much. It was my honor to talk to you guys and I really appreciate your time. 42:14.97Nick _ AmandaWell, thank you so much for having us on, Michael. low was ah It was an awesome conversation. We certainly appreciate being here. 42:20.11vigorbrandingGood deal. 42:20.09Nick _ AmandaPleasure.
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Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's 27-20 loss to Michigan in the Rose Bowl. * Details of final play, including pre-timeout formations and hashmark impact. * Alabama running backs bright spot on offense. * Michigan defense wasn't going to give up anything deep. * Four-minute football to end both halves proved critical. * Tide run game bashed Wolverine D with unbalanced line. * Big usage rate for Kendrick Law on offense, special teams. * James Burnip, Will Reichard shine. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube). Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's 27-24 win over Georgia in the 2023 SEC Championship Game. * Early defensive adjustments helped slow UGA's offensive success. * Alabama saw UGA's tight ends and upped them by one (or two on some occasions). * Defensive back subs stepped up big time. * Isaiah Bond to the rescue when it mattered most. * Anatomy of Georgia's momentum shifting punt return. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube). Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's latest win over the Auburn Tigers. Among the highlights: * Mistakes precede many of them, but no other offense converts third- and fourth-and-longs like UA's. * Auburn running backs hurtful on ground in first half, quarterback in the second. * After lengthy sabbatical, red zone field goals reappear. * Red zone stop by Alabama defense in fourth quarter proved big. * "Gravedigger" took many souls Saturday night. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube). Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the Chattanooga Mocs. Among the highlights: * Jalen Milroe, passing game strike for first quarter explosives. * Offense continues strong play on third down and in the red zone. * Defensive busts pave way for UTC chunk plays. * Caleb Downs pays off change at punt return spot. * Second OL, tight ends get job done on Justice Haynes scoring run. * Dylan Lonergan makes UA debut. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube). Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the Kentucky Wildcats. Among the highlights: * Once again, third down conversions set tone for Alabama offense. * UA offense doesn't look to just make the sticks on third down. * Slowing UK run game from nickel personnel was key. * Terrion Arnold must want to be a first round pick or something. * Rulings on the field for UK held up through review. * Near disaster in punt game. * Backs and tight ends shine in passing game. * Everybody gets to play in the fourth quarter. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube). Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the LSU Tigers. Among the highlights: * Kendrick Law has officially achieved script status. * Inside linebacker wasn't the position to play on Saturday night. * After 2022 Tennessee and 2023 LSU, I think know what targeting is (or isn't). * Jaeden Roberts is always looking for work. * Return of Terrion Arnold in second half was big. * Alabama has emerging hammer in interior run game. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube). Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How high is the ceiling for Ohio State in 2023? The Buckeyes performance on Saturday against No. 6 Penn State has THE Podcast's Bill Landis and Jeremy Birmingham pondering that point. Right now the Buckeyes are dominant on defense but still haven't put it all together on offense. Did the rewatch of Saturday's win over Penn State provide any signs that things are moving in that direction for Kyle McCord and the offense?Want to talk even more Ohio State football with the guys? Text us! Send a text to 614-662-4509 to get started and receive your first two weeks free.
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the Tennessee Volunteers. Among the highlights (and lowlights): * Individual effort, good fortune showed up on first-quarter red zone stops by Bama D. * Crimson Tide offense answered Vols' haymaker late in first half with opening salvo in the second. * The return of easy touches for explosive plays. * Jalen Milroe decisive in run game. * On a day that he had more than a few, Jihaad Campbell's most impressive play came on third-and-17 stop. * Will Reichard wasn't going to miss from 50 in the fourth quarter again -- but had us wondering there for a sec. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube). Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the Arkansas Razorbacks. Among the highlights (and lowlights): * Three-play sequence in the first quarter sums up UA offense to date. * Quandarrius Robinson shines on special teams, defense. * Four Crimson Tide running backs make big impact. * SEC defenders won't miss tackling KJ Jefferson. * Defensive and offensive heroes resurface late, but bizarre end game management remains part of storyline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
THE Podcast Daily is taking a second look at the 37-17 Ohio State win over Maryland as Bill Landis and Jeremy Birmingham break down their thoughts of the game following their personal rewatches.Want to talk even more Ohio State football with the guys? Text us! Send a text to 614-662-4509 to get started and receive your first two weeks free.
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the Texas A&M Aggies. Among the highlights (and lowlights): * Early fourth-down stop by UA defense weighed heavily in final outcome. * Quick passing game showed up in second half. * Lack of "fast ball" from A&M offense helped Crimson Tide D heat Max Johnson up. * Interior OL, running backs firmed up protection. * Jase McClellan helps cover for mystifying end game performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the Ole Miss Rebels. Among the highlights (and lowlights): * The return of the NOT; things to clean up against the run. * Between completions and runs, big number of explosive plays for Jalen Milroe. * Jase McClellan, offensive line impressive during defining sequence. * Amari Niblack nearly went Tyrone Prothro 2.0. * Will Reichard keeps making field goals and Conor Talty made a tackle. #alabamafootball #crimsontide #secfootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the Ole Miss Rebels. Among the highlights (and lowlights): * Not much in variety, but an addition to designed quarterback run game. * Lane Kiffin offered up some formational flex -- and the Ole Miss offense went from rolling to overmatched. * Jalen Milroe overcomes repetitive mistakes to get the job done. * Alabama edge defenders continue to shine bright as interior guys show signs of life. * UA receivers made plays for their starting quarterback. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube), where you will also find our video breakdowns. Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's win over the South Florida Bulls. Among the highlights (and lowlights): * Accuracy evaded Tyler Buchner in first start. * Stars came out for Alabama defense. * Mixed bag for special teams. * Three games in, who is playing to the "Alabama Standard"? * How Roydell Williams ran wild in the second half. * Ty Simpson states case for starting quarterback job. In addition to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, the BamaOnLine Podcast is now on YouTube (@BOLonYouTube), where you will also find our video breakdowns. Please subscribe and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Osceola's Patrick Burnham leads a discussion with football analyst Mark Salva, publisher Jerry Kutz and editor Bob Ferrante. We give our second look impressions on FSU's offense, which overcame some drops and inconsistencies, as well as a defense that made Southern Miss one dimensional. We also discuss younger players who stood out as they have earned playing time. And last we wrap with some early thoughts on the ACC — a league that has recorded some victories over SEC schools in the first few weeks — as well as FSU's No. 3 ranking in the polls. For more on FSU football, go to theOsceola.com.
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews Alabama's loss to the Texas Longhorns. Among the highlights: * What Jalen Milroe saw and didn't see (and what he can expect to see more of). * Run game against sub package effectiveness flipped after halftime. * May not have felt like it real time, but not all the breaks went against UA. * Will Reichard's 51-yard make even more impressive upon review. The BamaOnLine Podcast is now on Apple Podcasts as well as Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher. Please subscribe, and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Happy Labor Day and welcome to THE Podcast Daily for Monday, Sept. 4, 2023.Today's episode features Bill Landis and Jeremy Birmingham as the two go a little deeper in the 23-3 season opening Ohio State win after rewatching the contest against Indiana.
Join BamaOnLine senior analyst Travis Reier as he reviews some of the key plays in Alabama's season-opening blowout of MTSU. Among the highlights: * Blue Raiders wasted no time challenging defensive backs not named Kool-Aid McKinstry. * Once the ball started coming out, Jalen Milroe and the rest of the passing game flourished. * Big night for UA linebackers. * Always -- and I mean ALWAYS -- set punt returns to your sideline. The BamaOnLine Podcast is now on Apple Podcasts as well as Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher. Please subscribe, and leave us a rating and a review! Contact Travis Reier by personal message or on Twitter (@travisreier). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Within the film, it is here, as a possibility, that we see Arthur losing his facade, his identity as Arthur to become the Joker, much like Jack, the narrator, losing more of himself as he becomes Tyler Durden. And within the loss, is the aspect of more freedom it seems. "You were looking for a way to change your life, you could not do this on your own. All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look. I fuck like you wanna fuck. I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free, in all of the way you are not" Copyright to Two Takes
Commitment #4 – Demonstrate Grace First on the list: Complete the Mission. Second: Watch for Distractions. Third: Keep in Prayer Touch. Next, hone the skill of Demonstrating Grace. One dictionary describes ‘grace' as a disposition of kindness, courtesy, and clemency. Jesus' humanity was obliged to cultivate this temperament, this way of his being in the world. Grace is not spotlighted when all is well, when love is abundant, when circumstances are a blessing, a soul comfort. Grace is called upon in adversity, in moments of rejection, of insult, of harassment, of abuse, even in moments of frustration. And grace is found wanting in those trying circumstances if not having been developed well in advance (In Hebrew, Matthew 12:34 reads: ‘Truly the heart awakens and the mouth speaks'). John 13:1-17 -Grace demonstrated ___________________________________ Luke 22:14-23 –Grace demonstrated __________________________________ Mark 14:27-31 – Grace demonstrated _________________________________ “God's marvelous grace has manifested in person, bringing salvation for everyone. This same grace teaches us how to live each day as we turn our backs on ungodliness and indulgent lifestyles, and it equips us to live self-controlled, upright, godly lives in this present age.” Titus 2:11,12, TPT.
The Cleveland Browns beat the Houston Texans on Sunday in the return of quarterback Deshaun Watson. Yes Watson looked rusty and it's because some football things can not be replicated in practice or training sessions. Those things will improve in the upcoming weeks. Sione Takitaki going down is a big blow for the Browns and for Taki himself with free agency looming. Tony Fields had a very impressive day and will see a ton of playing time over the final five games. Donovan Peoples Jones continues his impressive third season and is adding more to his repertoire. Perrion Winfrey and Alex Wright are getting more reps and are players who are improving as we get to the final weeks of the regular season. #Browns #DeshaunWatsonLinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFLBuilt BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!PrizePicksFirst time users can receive a 100% instant deposit match up to $100 with promo code LOCKEDON. That's PrizePicks.com – promo code; LOCKEDONSimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnNFL to learn more.TuroForget boring rental cars and find your drive at Turo.comAudibleHead over to Locked On NFL for a sneak peak of Block Forever or catch the full series available anywhere you get your podcast. Available everywhere now!BetterHelpThis episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at Betterhelp.com/LockedOn and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Cleveland Browns beat the Houston Texans on Sunday in the return of quarterback Deshaun Watson. Yes Watson looked rusty and it's because some football things can not be replicated in practice or training sessions. Those things will improve in the upcoming weeks. Sione Takitaki going down is a big blow for the Browns and for Taki himself with free agency looming. Tony Fields had a very impressive day and will see a ton of playing time over the final five games. Donovan Peoples Jones continues his impressive third season and is adding more to his repertoire. Perrion Winfrey and Alex Wright are getting more reps and are players who are improving as we get to the final weeks of the regular season. #Browns #DeshaunWatson LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFL Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! PrizePicks First time users can receive a 100% instant deposit match up to $100 with promo code LOCKEDON. That's PrizePicks.com – promo code; LOCKEDON SimpliSafe With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnNFL to learn more. Turo Forget boring rental cars and find your drive at Turo.com Audible Head over to Locked On NFL for a sneak peak of Block Forever or catch the full series available anywhere you get your podcast. Available everywhere now! BetterHelp This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at Betterhelp.com/LockedOn and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Whisper of the Heart, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Cat Returns and, for purposes of this episode, A Whisker Away all have the same sort of fantasy-like theme centring on many things, including cats. Whether cats have a small or larger part to play, there are present for the reason that is ironically explained in a small sentence from 2005's film Constantine: "Cats are good. Half in, half out anyway" Copyright to Two Takes --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ttakes/support
Ohio State beat up Michigan State 49-20 in a game that could've been significantly worse if the Buckeyes didn't take their foot off the gas pedal.With another near perfect offensive performance behind them and an off-week ahead of them, THE Podcast Daily's Bill Landis and Jeremy Birmingham are taking another look at the battle with the Spartans and what went right, what couldn't been been better and what they're looking for moving forward.This is THE Podcast Daily for Oct. 10, 2022.
Within many film concepts straying into horror, or perhaps more precisely body horror, we question what would happen if we were stripped of the thing or multiple things that make us different from any other animal. Of course, we think we are the most powerful creature on our world, and whether or not that is truth, it doesn't matter. We reflect upon ourselves and this is just one avenue of exploration of understanding the difference between us and what happens when a parasite takes it away. Copyright to Two Takes Podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twotakespodcast/support
Multiphased Rescue Mission, First Watch, Second Watch and Why I Believe ** THIS IS AN IMPORTANT - BEST OF SHOW ** God Bless You! Join Johnny Baptist while he discusses the empirical events across the world leading up to World War III, the trickery and deceit of the New World Order, and the bizarre weirdness of the fallen angelic UFO phenomenon as we plunge head first into the forthcoming apocalypse and the Seven Seals of Revelation (chapter 6). Join us tonight for "Multiphased Rescue Mission, First Watch, Second Watch and Why I Believe": a program about my supernatural journey to understanding that there are actually three raptures (or rescue missions), the Barley, Wheat and Grape harvests. God Bless You - See you there! To sign up for radio show Email Notifications click Mail Link: http://gem.godaddy.com/signups/185380/join
Yo Cellar Dwellers, have we got a treat for you, our friends at On Second Watch have jumped in to join us for a talk about the classic VHS hit: Big Long Dongs, hope you enjoy and make sure to go give them a listen as they review all the movies that you remember so fondly from yesteryear! oswpodcast.com
The connection actually stems from the secondary, or even minor characters, depending on how you see it. However, like all characters that we thought might not have that much importance, it turns out they change the whole plot on its head, and we see ourselves whisked away on some kind of adventure, mostly on the self-realisation side. And I don't aim to disappoint. Copyright to Two Takes Podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twotakespodcast/support
5 Minutes to Live By: The Second Watch, Part 5 (Thanksgiving) - Season 36.5 TUESDAYS: Register For Blessing From Pastor Wil During Lunch & Learn: https://bit.ly/100Bless DEVOTIONAL (https://victoriouspraise.org/sermon-notes): 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 (AV)16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. The Second Watch: ● A Time of Protection & Provisions ● A Time of Worship & Thanksgiving ● A Time of Blessing & Divine Favor SUBSCRIBE to Pastor Wil's Podcast: ● 5 Minutes to Live By; Mon-Fri 10am - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-5Min ● Lunch & Learn; Tue 12 Noon - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-Lunch ● Videos Available at: https://victoriouspraise.org/podcast DONATIONS: ● VPFMobile App: https://victoriouspraise.org/download-mobile-app ● Website: https://victoriouspraise.org/giving ● Text to Give: Text “VPFGIVE” to (833) 603-4136 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pastor-wil-nichols/support
The Second Watch, Part 4 (Blessing & Divine Favor) - Season 36.4 TUESDAYS: Register For Blessing From Pastor Wil During Lunch & Learn: https://bit.ly/100Bless DEVOTIONAL (https://victoriouspraise.org/sermon-notes): Psalm 23:1–6 (AV)1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want... The Second Watch: ● A Time of Protection & Provisions ● A Time of Worship & Thanksgiving ● A Time of Blessing & Divine Favor SUBSCRIBE to Pastor Wil's Podcast: ● 5 Minutes to Live By; Mon-Fri 10am - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-5Min ● Lunch & Learn; Tue 12 Noon - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-Lunch ● Videos Available at: https://victoriouspraise.org/podcast DONATIONS: ● VPFMobile App: https://victoriouspraise.org/download-mobile-app ● Website: https://victoriouspraise.org/giving ● Text to Give: Text “VPFGIVE” to (833) 603-4136 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pastor-wil-nichols/support
5 Minutes to Live By: The Second Watch, Part 3 (Worship & Thanksgiving) - Season 36.3 TUESDAYS: Register For Blessing From Pastor Wil During Lunch & Learn: https://bit.ly/100Bless DEVOTIONAL (https://victoriouspraise.org/sermon-notes): Psalm 23:1–6 (AV)1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want... The Second Watch: ● A Time of Protection & Provisions ● A Time of Worship & Thanksgiving ● A Time of Blessing & Divine Favor SUBSCRIBE to Pastor Wil's Podcast: ● 5 Minutes to Live By; Mon-Fri 10am - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-5Min ● Lunch & Learn; Tue 12 Noon - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-Lunch ● Videos Available at: https://victoriouspraise.org/podcast DONATIONS: ● VPFMobile App: https://victoriouspraise.org/download-mobile-app ● Website: https://victoriouspraise.org/giving ● Text to Give: Text “VPFGIVE” to (833) 603-4136 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pastor-wil-nichols/support
The Second Watch, Part 2 (Protection & Provisions) - Season 36.2 TUESDAYS: Register For Blessing From Pastor Wil During Lunch & Learn: https://bit.ly/100Bless DEVOTIONAL (https://victoriouspraise.org/sermon-notes): Psalm 23:1–6 (AV)1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want... The Second Watch: ● A Time of Protection & Provisions ● A Time of Worship & Thanksgiving ● A Time of Blessing & Divine Favor SUBSCRIBE to Pastor Wil's Podcast: ● 5 Minutes to Live By; Mon-Fri 10am - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-5Min ● Lunch & Learn; Tue 12 Noon - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-Lunch ● Videos Available at: https://victoriouspraise.org/podcast DONATIONS: ● VPFMobile App: https://victoriouspraise.org/download-mobile-app ● Website: https://victoriouspraise.org/giving ● Text to Give: Text “VPFGIVE” to (833) 603-4136 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pastor-wil-nichols/support
The Second Watch, Part 1 (Intro) - Season 36.1 TUESDAYS: Register For Blessing From Pastor Wil During Lunch & Learn: https://bit.ly/100Bless DEVOTIONAL (https://victoriouspraise.org/sermon-notes): Psalm 23:1–6 (AV)1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want... The Second Watch: ● A Time of Protection & Provisions ● A Time of Worship & Thanksgiving ● A Time of Blessing & Divine Favor SUBSCRIBE to Pastor Wil's Podcast: ● 5 Minutes to Live By; Mon-Fri 10am - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-5Min ● Lunch & Learn; Tue 12 Noon - Follow on Spotify at https://bit.ly/PastorWil-Lunch ● Videos Available at: https://victoriouspraise.org/podcast DONATIONS: ● VPFMobile App: https://victoriouspraise.org/download-mobile-app ● Website: https://victoriouspraise.org/giving ● Text to Give: Text “VPFGIVE” to (833) 603-4136 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pastor-wil-nichols/support
In today's episode, we ask ourselves a simple question: "How Would Sean Bean Have Died" in 1965's Christmas animated television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas". I am joined once again by Rob and Pete from the incredible comedy podcast "Rico and The Man".Subscribe to On Second Watch on iHeart - https://ihr.fm/3Gx1nQmSubscribe on Stitcher - https://bit.ly/3jBVQ12Subscribe Everywhere Else - https://bit.ly/2XLDymjSubscribe to these guys right now and listen to all their episodes here - https://linktr.ee/RicoandthemanJoin On Second Watch as we explore what role would be perfect for Sean Bean to play (Lead, Supporting, or Cameo) and share our take on how that character would ultimately meet his demise.----------*NEW* Become a member exclusively on Ko-fi for as little as $1 per month. Access to our personal Discord server, Ad-free RSS feed, merch, and more awaits! Join today - https://ko-fi.com/movie/tiers----------If you'd like to join us on future episodes of HWSBHD, support us on Ko-fi and we'll schedule a recording with you - http://www.ko-fi.com/movieRequest a personalized shout out - https://ko-fi.com/movieCommission a movie review of your choice! - https://ko-fi.com/movie/commissionsCheck out all our episodes and subscribe – http://www.oswpodcast.comTwitter – http://www.twitter.com/oswpodcast1Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/oswpodcastInstagram – http://www.instagram.com/oswpodcast
After numerous references through the years, 2 Guys 5 Movies joined for the first time by a longtime friend, Zeke Lawrence. We discuss the positives and negatives of Tim Burton's Batman sequel, Batman Returns, starring Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Walken. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important ways you can help us. First, you can please subscribe, rate, and leave a review on your podcast client. That not only would be useful to us for the feedback, but also help us receive more attention. Second, if you like your Facebook page, 2 Guys 5 Movies, it would be helpful to like or share our posts so others can learn about 2 Guys 5 Movies and decide if it is for them. Finally, if you have your own ideas for the podcast, you can also email us with list suggestions at 2guys5movies@gmail.com, and thank you all for listening and your support.
On the 214th episode of Piecing It Together, Tim from On Second Watch Podcast joins me to talk about Finch, a unique, touching story about a man and his dog and his robot, starring Tom Hanks and only Tom Hanks. The movie didn't get much attention upon its Apple TV release, but I loved it and it was a fun one to talk about. Puzzle pieces include The Martian, Alpha, The Call of The Wild and of course... Castaway.
In today's episode, we ask ourselves a simple question: "How Would Sean Bean Have Died" in 1966's American prime time animated television special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".Subscribe to On Second Watch on iHeart - https://ihr.fm/3Gx1nQmSubscribe on Stitcher - https://bit.ly/3jBVQ12Subscribe Everywhere Else - https://bit.ly/2XLDymj I am joined by new friends, Rob and Peter, from the incredible comedy podcast "Rico and The Man".Subscribe to these guys right now and listen to all their episodes here - https://linktr.ee/RicoandthemanJoin On Second Watch as we explore what role would be perfect for Sean Bean to play (Lead, Supporting, or Cameo) and share our take on how that character would ultimately meet his demise.----------*NEW* Become a member exclusively on Ko-fi for as little as $1 per month. Access to our personal Discord server, Ad-free RSS feed, merch, and more awaits! Join today - https://ko-fi.com/movie/tiers----------If you'd like to join us on future episodes of HWSBHD, support us on Ko-fi and we'll schedule a recording with you - http://www.ko-fi.com/movieRequest a personalized shout out - https://ko-fi.com/movieCommission a movie review of your choice! - https://ko-fi.com/movie/commissionsCheck out all our episodes and subscribe – http://www.oswpodcast.comTwitter – http://www.twitter.com/oswpodcast1Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/oswpodcastInstagram – http://www.instagram.com/oswpodcast~~~~~~~~~~~Indie Drop-InAll content legally licensed from the original creator. Thank you to On Second Watch for the great episode. You can find Indie Drop-In at https://indiedropin.comCheck out Indie Drop-In Networks other showsTrue Crime - http://www.dummies.fan/truecrimeScary Time - http://www.dummies.fan/scarytimeHelp Indie Drop-In support indie creators by buying us a coffee!https://buymeacoffee.com/indiedropinBrands can advertise on Indie Drop-In using Patreonhttps://patreon.com/indiedropinTwitter: https://twitter.com/indiedropinInstagram: https://instagram.com/indiedropinFacebook: https://facebook.com/indiedropinAny advertising found in this episode is inserted by Indie Drop-In and not endorsed by the Creator.If you would like to have your show featured go to http://indiedropin.com/creators~~~~~~~~~~~
Host JeffLloyd is joined by SI's Corey Kinnan to give you your "On Second Watch" episode. Johnson showed abilities similar to Chubb and Hunt. Coach Stefanski called a hell of a game and got everybody involved. Myles Garrett will not draw a holding call on every play but at least once would be nice. It was a big night on defense for a bunch of the Browns newcomers.#Browns #D'ErnestJohnson #BlakeHance #MylesGarrett #JohnJohnsonIII #AnthonyWalker #TroyHillBuilt BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Host JeffLloyd is joined by SI's Corey Kinnan to give you your "On Second Watch" episode. Johnson showed abilities similar to Chubb and Hunt. Coach Stefanski called a hell of a game and got everybody involved. Myles Garrett will not draw a holding call on every play but at least once would be nice. It was a big night on defense for a bunch of the Browns newcomers.#Browns #D'ErnestJohnson #BlakeHance #MylesGarrett #JohnJohnsonIII #AnthonyWalker #TroyHill Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Host JeffLloyd is joined by SI's Corey Kinnan to give you your "On Second Watch" episode. Johnson showed abilities similar to Chubb and Hunt. Coach Stefanski called a hell of a game and got everybody involved. Myles Garrett will not draw a holding call on every play but at least once would be nice. It was a big night on defense for a bunch of the Browns newcomers.#Browns #D'ErnestJohnson #BlakeHance #MylesGarrett #JohnJohnsonIII #AnthonyWalker #TroyHill Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We can understand that being under the influence of something can enlighten you, can make you seem more open, and perhaps, in these cases, more susceptible to the suggestions of others; especially in an overwhelming environment. In both Midsommar and Fifteen Million Merits, there is a small connection when it boils down to some important scenes. Copyright to Two Takes Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twotakespodcast/support
Host Jeff Lloyd sits down with the OBR's Stephen Thomas to dig deeper into the Browns vixtory over the Bears. Stephen loved JOK coming out of Notre Dame but we can all agree we didn't see it coming this fast. The Dline showed it all power, speed, athleticism in just embarrasing the Bears offense. Grant Delpit in coverage is going to be a huge asset. Odell's return will allow this offense to truly achieve it's highest level. #Browns #BakerMayfield #NickChubb #OdellBeckham #MylesGarrett #JOK #GrantDelpitBuilt BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Host Jeff Lloyd sits down with the OBR's Stephen Thomas to dig deeper into the Browns vixtory over the Bears. Stephen loved JOK coming out of Notre Dame but we can all agree we didn't see it coming this fast. The Dline showed it all power, speed, athleticism in just embarrasing the Bears offense. Grant Delpit in coverage is going to be a huge asset. Odell's return will allow this offense to truly achieve it's highest level. #Browns #BakerMayfield #NickChubb #OdellBeckham #MylesGarrett #JOK #GrantDelpit Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Host Jeff Lloyd sits down with the OBR's Stephen Thomas to dig deeper into the Browns vixtory over the Bears. Stephen loved JOK coming out of Notre Dame but we can all agree we didn't see it coming this fast. The Dline showed it all power, speed, athleticism in just embarrasing the Bears offense. Grant Delpit in coverage is going to be a huge asset. Odell's return will allow this offense to truly achieve it's highest level. #Browns #BakerMayfield #NickChubb #OdellBeckham #MylesGarrett #JOK #GrantDelpit Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In an earlier episode in my 'One Shot' Series, I have talked about The Lighthouse in depth, merging its mythological undertakings of sea faring folklore and how, in my theory, their existence is a purging of one man essentially making the same mistakes in a purgatory existence. But what I haven't explored in depth, is the Lighthouse itself. What I have come to find is that in both the Lighthouse and in Annihilation, the lighthouse can be seen as something symbolic, presenting an almost end result to the story the characters see themselves in, as well as being it's own presiding presence in both films as the characters find themselves swallowed up in the happenings within and around this striking building. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twotakespodcast/support
Home depot runs, me having memory loss, discussion of zombie land how to kill Sean bean https://ta2squidpod.threadless.com/ https://www.podpage.com/ta2squid-podcast/episodes/ https://linktr.ee/Ta2squidpodcast https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ta2squidpodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ta2squidpodcast/support
We've been gone with no notice. We intended to take a week off, but not a month... Tim breaks down some of what's been going on and what's to come next.Be sure to subscribe to our show at https://www.oswpodcast.com Special shout out to Talkin' Shiz, Ta2Squid, AsYetUntitled, and the fine folks at Ko-fi!----------*NEW* Become a member exclusively on Ko-fi for as little as $1 per month. Access to our personal Discord server, Ad-free RSS feed, merch, and more awaits! Join today - https://ko-fi.com/movie/tiers----------Request a personalized shout out - https://ko-fi.com/movieCommission a movie review of your choice! - https://ko-fi.com/movie/commissionsCheck out all our episodes and subscribe – www.oswpodcast.com Twitter – www.twitter.com/oswpodcast1Facebook – www.facebook.com/oswpodcastInstagram – www.instagram.com/oswpodcast
I have talked about Horizon Zero Dawn and the concept of how humans and machines are living in this reality and why humans are not the head of the food chain anymore; how we are actually considered irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. And, you know what? That is how it should be. We shouldn't consider ourselves so important that everything else is deemed inferior. And there is a good reason for this. We are all the same, and we are all important in the grand scheme of epic proportions, especially if we expand our horizons onto a global scale. And both Horizon Zero Dawn and Final Fantasy VII make a good example of this type of philosophy. So let's dive in and explore this further. Copyright to Two Takes Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twotakespodcast/support
Understanding the Eight Prayer Watches by United in Christ Ministries of Canton. 6 am- 9 am First Watch 9 am- 12 pm Second Watch 12pm- 3 pm Third Watch 3pm- 6 pm Fourth Watch 6pm- 9 pm Fifth Watch 9pm- 12 am Sixth Watch 12am- 3 am Seventh Watch 3am- 6 am Eighth Watch Knowing what prayer watch God wakes you up in will allow you to become strategic in your prayer during that time. It doesn't mean that specific time is the only time you will pray because he can lay it on your heart to pray at any time. Allow yourself to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit so that you can intercede when God wakes you up. 1 Peter 4:7 "But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers." Encourage yourself this week to dig a little deeper with God in prayer and allow Him to teach you, if you have a chance try writing out your prayer and then reading it and find scriptures to back your prayers up. I enjoy writing prayers out because it allows me to see when and how God responds to my prayers. Let me tell you some of the responses are quick and some take a little time, but I learn in the process, and I grow closer to God. No matter what you are going through if you respond with prayer, it makes it the situation more manageable. I am not saying it is easy but putting Faith First allows your spirit man to align with your physical man and allows the unseen to be manifested. I encourage you to keep a journal of your progress and soon I will share a list of books that I have read and am reading to assist me in my walk with God. Have a marvelous day on purpose. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/widsomwalks/message
Let me ask you, have you thought of any new way to present your content? Today's guest has some amazing tools that he has used but I want to first ask you have you thought of any new ways to share contact that is getting results? Part of nitching down it's not just subject matter but it's also how we present contact and what we do to stand out. And if you can find different ways to present information and ways that no one else's, you have a mediately found a new niche that needs to be capitalized on.Today's guest is Kenneth, the author and DM for the Second Watch, a free resource for DnD content. He has a lot of great content for playing dnd as well as some unique approaches to spreading content. Find him on Instagram or on his website if you have any questions.Business RPG is a show where you can learn from successful nerds and find tools you need for your nerdy business/project. Follow me on Instagram @BuisnessRPG. Connect with me on Linkedin here.COFFEE, COFFEE, COFFEE!!!!! Support the podcast and buy a bag of Coffee.https://shoproastedriches.com/pages/coffee-exe?ref=RPGMusic: NEW HORIZONS by Lesion X | https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Happy Star Wars day everyone and May the 4th be with you! For this episode, I am joined by lifelong Star Wars fan Tim, from the On Second Watch podcast. He tells me why he thinks people give The Last Jedi a bad rep and how he would have liked to see this trilogy end. Be sure to find them at oswpodcast.com. You can also find them all over social media @oswpodcast. Follow the show linktr.ee/ynfmoviepod.
In the pilot, the Gregalians can’t figure out how to answer a phone and Hoff tries to follow his gut. In the finale, ripoff Norman Bates serves up some wall food. Freddie Sybian, Lisa Vanderpump, JCVD, dad Jencos, First, Watch, Second Watch, Third Watch, glue sticks, Tim Wakefield, Dennis Eckersley, and 94.7 NRK’s Gustaaav are also discussed.
April Fool's everyone! The guys from On Second Watch have invaded our feed and we've invaded theirs. Check out this episode of their show and if you like what you hear, subscribe to their show wherever you get your podcasts. We'll be back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming. Enjoy!
This week was a good choice. It was worth a watch and for Jack it was a re-watch. This is a movie that is certainly worth a couple watches simply because of everything that you miss the first time that you watch. The second time is much better. They also tell a new version of Little Red Riding Hood and it also plays a major theme through the movie. So give it a watch and tell us what you think of it. Producers: Bandai Studio: Production I.G Aired: June 2000 Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Mecha Source: Manga Run Time: 1 hr. 42 min. Jack's score: 8 / 10 Rick's score: 8 / 10 Next week's choice is a series called Tokyo Ravens. Have you seen next week's choice or one of the previous ones? Let us know what you thought of them or give us a recommendation on what we should watch next! Want to buy some merch? Check Out our TeeSpring Store! https://teespring.com/stores/the-fap-store Want to help support the content you love through other means? Well, we have a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/featuredanimepodcast Email: FeaturedAnimePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @ThoseAnimeGuys Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/featuredanimepodcast/ Discord: https://discord.gg/DZRKTAN
Dawn of the Dead. The 602 Club proudly presents Snyder Cuts: A Zack Snyder Directorial Podcast. This week, hosts Matthew Rushing and John Mills continue their journey with Snyder's remake of the classic horror film, Dawn of the Dead. Chapters Experience (00:02:24) The Set Up (00:13:06) The Zombie Baby (00:16:55) Getting to Andy's Shop (00:26:12) Seeing Snyder (00:29:25) Definitive Point of View (00:40:33) No Happy Ending (00:44:41) Redemption (00:47:55) A Second Watch (00:48:55) Ratings (00:51:47) Hosts Matthew Rushing and John Mills Production Matthew Rushing (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) John Mills (Producer) Social Twitter: @The602Club Instagram: @the602clubtfm
Dawn of the Dead. The 602 Club proudly presents Snyder Cuts: A Zack Snyder Directorial Podcast. This week, hosts Matthew Rushing and John Mills continue their journey with Snyder's remake of the classic horror film, Dawn of the Dead. Chapters Experience (00:02:24) The Set Up (00:13:06) The Zombie Baby (00:16:55) Getting to Andy's Shop (00:26:12) Seeing Snyder (00:29:25) Definitive Point of View (00:40:33) No Happy Ending (00:44:41) Redemption (00:47:55) A Second Watch (00:48:55) Ratings (00:51:47) Hosts Matthew Rushing and John Mills Production Matthew Rushing (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) John Mills (Producer) Social Twitter: @The602Club Instagram: @the602clubtfm
"The future comes, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall miss no game, withhold no news, report all rumors. I shall wear no jerseys and plead allegiance to no side. I shall live and die on my webpage. I am the word in the darkness. I am the watcher of the tv. I am the megaphone that informs the realms of geek. I pledge my hands and name to the Geek's Watch, for geeks and all the geeks to come." We, The Watchers, have decided to take a holiday break and come back December 6th, for our 200th episode to review The Mandalorian Season 2 episode 3, 4, & 5, but until then enjoy a second listening of the one hundredth episode of The Geeks' Watch.
"The future comes, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall miss no game, withhold no news, report all rumors. I shall wear no jerseys and plead allegiance to no side. I shall live and die on my webpage. I am the word in the darkness. I am the watcher of the tv. I am the megaphone that informs the realms of geek. I pledge my hands and name to the Geek's Watch, for geeks and all the geeks to come." We, The Watchers, have decided to take a holiday break and come back in two weeks, December 6th, for our 200th episode to review The Mandalorian Season 2 episode 3, 4, & 5, but until then enjoy a second listening of the first episode of The Geeks' Watch.
Do you want to play a game… wait, I mean watch a movie? Join us as the show does another movie watch along. This time we are checking out Ryan’s all-time favorite 1983’s WARGAMES and doing a running commentary filled with trivia and our personal histories with this Cold War classic!
This week's choice was a good revisit for Jack and a good one that made Rick watch it twice. Following the main protag Mima and her journey through becoming a TV star from a Pop-Idol at least that is what you are lead to think at first, but then things take a twist with her manager Rumi pretending to be Mami and eventually thinking that she is Mami and killing everyone that is portraying her in a way that Rumi does not like. It even causes Mami to question her whole outlook and leaves you on the edge until it gives you a satisfactory end. And while watching it for the first run through may make you miss a few things watching it a second time through will really bring it all together. Producer: Rex Entertainment Studio: MadHouse Aired: February 1998 Genres: Dementia, Drama, Horror, Psychological Source: Novel Run Time: 1 hr. 20 min. Jack's score: 9 / 10 Rick's score: 8 / 10 Next week's choice came from Twitter and they suggested that we watch The Promised Neverland, so that is what we are doing. Have you seen next week's choice or one of the previous ones? Let us know what you thought of them or give us a recommendation on what we should watch next! Email: FeaturedAnimePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @ThoseAnimeGuys Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/featuredanimepodcast/ Discord: https://discord.gg/DZRKTAN --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/featured-anime-podcast/message
Multiphased Rescue Mission, First Watch, Second Watch and Why I Believe Join Johnny Baptist while he discusses the empirical events across the world leading up to World War III, the trickery and deceit of the New World Order, and the bizarre weirdness of the fallen angelic UFO phenomenon as we plunge head first into the forthcoming apocalypse and the Seven Seals of Revelation (chapter 6). Tonight's show is my testimony of how I was brought to believe in multiple phases of our rescue (or rapture) from the earth. Those of us who have had supernatural experiences feel a powerful leading from the Lord to share those with others. Over the years I have been careful to only hint about the possibility, but as time goes on the Lord has continued to confirm things for me. Tonight I will share those experiences with the listeners. It is up to you to read the Bible, pray and hope along with me that there is more to this than meets the eye. There are reasons why this is an area of much confusion and disagreement. What if the answer is D: "All of the Above?" God Bless You - See you there! To sign up for radio show Email Notifications click Mail Link: http://gem.godaddy.com/signups/185380/join
Christopher Nolan's masterpiece, Inception, turns 10 years old today, but the conversation around the Best Picture nominee has veered negative in the age of Twitter. Jake is joined by Tim and Dana from On Second Watch podcast to consider the validity of the film's criticisms and defend the integrity of the penultimate "puzzle" film. Spoilers throughout, especially the last 30 minutes.
newline Podcast Sudo StephNate: [00:00:00] Steph, just tell us a little bit about your work and kind of your background with, like AWS and like what you're doing now.Steph: [00:00:06] Yes, so I work as a engineer for a manage services provider called Second Watch. We basically partner with other big companies that use AWS or some other clouds sometimes Azure for managing their cloud infrastructure, which basically just means that.We help big companies who may not, their focus may not be technology, it may not be cloud stuff in general, and we're able to just basically optimize the cost of everything, make sure that things are running reliably and smoothly, and we're able to work with AWS directly to kind of keep people ahead of the curve when.New stuff is coming out and just it changes so much, you know, it's important to be able to adapt. So like personally, my role is I develop automation for our internal operations teams. So we have a bunch of, you know, just really smart people who are always working on customer specific AWS issues. And we see some of the same issues.Pop up over and over. Of course, you know, security , auditing, cost optimization. And so my team makes optimizations that we can distribute to all of these clients who have to maintain their own. You know, they have their own AWS account. It's theirs. And we make it so that we're actually able to distribute these automations same way in all of our customers' accounts.So the idea is that, and it's really wouldn't be doable without serverless because the idea is that everyone has to own their own infrastructure, right? Your AWS account is yours does or your resources, you don't, for security reasons, want to put all of your stuff on somebody else's account. But actually managing them all the same way can be a really difficult, even with scripts, because permissions different places have to be granted through the AWS permissions up with access, I identity and access management, right? So serverless gave us the real tool that we needed to be able to at scale, say, Hey, we came up with a little script that will run on an hourly basis to check to see how much usage these servers are getting, and if they're not production servers, you know, spin them down if they're not in use to save money.Little things like that when it comes to operations and AWS Lambda is just so good for it because it's all about, you know, like I said, doing things reliably. Doing things in a ways that can be audited and logged and doing things for like a decent price. So like background wise, I used to work at AWS in AWS support actually, and I kind of supported some of their dev ops products like OpsWorks, which is based on chef for configuration management, elastic Beanstalk and AWS CloudFormation, specifically. After working there for a bit, I really got to see, you know, how it's made and what the underlying system is like. And it was just crazy just to see how much work goes into all this, just so you can have a supposedly, easier to use for an end. But serverless just kinda changed all that for the better.Luckily.Amelia: [00:02:57] So it sounds like AWS has a ton of different services. What are the main ones and how many are there?Steph: [00:03:04] So I don't think I can even count anymore because they just, they do release new ones all the time. So hundreds at this point, but really main ones, and maybe not hundreds, maybe a little over a hundred would be a better estimate.I mean, EC2 which is elastic compute is. The bread and butter. Historically, AWS is just, they're virtualized servers basically. So EC2, the thing that made AWS really special from the beginning and that made cloud start to take over the world was the concept of auto scaling groups, which are basically definitions you attached to EC2 and it basically allows you to say, Hey, if I start getting a lot of traffic on.This one type of server, right? You know, create a second server that looks exactly the same and load balance the traffic through it. So when they say scaling, that's basically what, how you scale, easy to use auto scaling groups and elastic load balancers and kind of distribute the traffic out. The other big thing besides the scalability of with auto scaling groups is.Redundancy. So there's this idea of regions within AWS, and within each region there's availability zones. So regions are the general, like you can think of it as the place where data center is kind of like located within like a small degree. So it's usually like. Virginia is one, right? That's us East one.It's the oldest one. Another one is in California, but they're all over the world now. So the idea is you pick a region to minimize latency, so you pick the region that's closest to you. And then within the region, there's the idea of availability zones, which are basically just discreet, like physical locations of the servers that you administer them the same way, but they're protected.So like if a tornado runs through and hits one of your data centers. If you happen to have them distributed between two different availability zones, then you'll still be able to, you know, serve traffic. The other one will go down, but then the elastic load balancer will just notice that it's not responding and send the traffic to the other availability zone.So those are the main concepts that make it like EC2 those are what you need to use it effectively.Nate: [00:05:12] So with an easy to instance, that would be like a virtual server. I mean, it's not quite a Docker container, I guess we're getting to nuance there, but it's basically like a server that you would have like command line access to.You could log in and you can do more or less whenever you want on an EC2 instance.Steph: [00:05:29] Right, exactly. And so it used to be AWS used what was called Zen virtualization to do it. And that's just like you can run Zen on your own computer, you can get a computer and set up a virtual machine, almost just like they used to do it .So they are constantly putting out like new ways of virtualizing more efficiently. So they do have new technology now, but it's not something that was really, I mean, it was well known, but they really took it to a new kind of scale, which made it really impressive.Nate: [00:05:56] Okay, so EC2 lets you have full access to the box that's running and you might like load bounce requests against that.How does that contrast with what you do with AWS Lambda and serverless?Steph: [00:06:09] So with , you still have to, you know, either secure shell or, you know, furious and windows. Use RDP or something to actually get in there. You care about what ports are open. You have security groups for that. You care about all the stuff you would care about normally with a server you care about.Is it patched and up today you care about, you know, what's the current memory and CPU usage? All those things don't go away on EC2 just because it's cloud, right? When we start bringing serverless into the mix, suddenly. They do go and away. I mean, and there's still a few limitations. Like for instance, a Lambda has a limit on how much memory it can process with, just because they have to have a way to kind of keep costs down and define the units of them and define where to put them.Right? But at its core, what a Lambda is, it actually runs on a Docker container. You can think of it like a pre-configured Docker container with some pre-installed dependencies. So for Python, it would have. The latest version of Python that it says it has, it would have boto. It would have the stuff that it needs to execute that, and it would also have some basic, it's structured like it was, you know, basic Linux.So there's like a attempt. So slash temp you can write files there, right. But really it's like a Docker container. That runs underneath it on a fleet of . As far as availability zone distribution goes, that's already built into land, but you don't have to think about it with . You do have to think about it.Because if you only run one easy to server and it's in one availability zone, it's not really different from just having a physical server somewhere with a traditional provider.Nate: [00:07:38] So. There are these two terms, there's like serverless and Lambda. Can you talk a little bit about like the difference between those two terms and when to use each appropriately?Steph: [00:07:48] Yeah, so they are in a way sorta interchangeable, right? Because serverless technology just means the general idea of. I have an application, I have it defined it an artifact of we'll say zip from our get repo, right? So that application is my main artifact, and then I pass it to a service somewhere. I don't know.It could be at work. The Google app engine, that's a type of serverless technology and AWS Lambda is just the specific AWS serverless technology. But the reason AWS Lambda is, in my opinion so powerful, is because it integrates really well with the other features of AWS. So permissions management works with AWS Lambda API gateway.there's a lot of really tight integrations you can make with Lambda so that it doesn't, it's not like you have to keep half of your stuff one place and half of your stuff somewhere else. I remember when like Heroku was really big . A lot of people, you know, maybe they were maintaining an AWS account and they were also maintaining a bunch of stuff and Heroku, and they're just trying to make it work together.And even though Heroku does use, you know, AWS on the backend, or at least it did back then, it can just make things more complicated. But the whole server, this idea of the artifact is you make your code general, it's like a little microservice in a way. So I can take my serverless application and ideally, you know, it's just Python.I use NF, I write it the right way. Getting it to work on a different server. This back end, like for, exit. I think Azure has one, and Google app engine isn't really too much of a change. There's some changes to permissions and the way that you invoke it, but at the core of it, the real resource is just the application itself.It's not, you know, how many, you know, units of compute. Does it have, how many, you know, how much memory, what are the IP address rules and all that. YouNate: [00:09:35] know. So what are some good apps to build on serverless?Steph: [00:09:39] Yes. So you can build almost anything today on serverless, there's actually so much support, especially with AWS Lambda for integrations with all these other kinds of services that the stuff you can't do is getting more limited.But there is a trade off with cost, right? Because. To me the situation where it shines, where I would for no reason ever choose anything but serverless, is if you have something that's kind of bursty. So let's say you're making like a report generation tool that needs to run, but really you only run it three times a week or something like things that.They need to live somewhere. They need to be consistent. They need to be stable, they need to be available, but you don't know how often they're going to call. And even if they can go from that, there is small numbers of times it's being called, because the cool thing about serverless is , you're charged per every 100 milliseconds of time that it's being processed.When it comes to , you're charged and units that are, it used to be by the hour, I think they finally fixed it, and it's down to smaller increments. . But if you can write it. Efficiently. You can save a ton of money just by doing it this way, depending on what the use cases. So some stuff, like if you're using API gateway with Lambda, that actually can.Be a lot more expensive than Lambda will be. But you don't have to worry about, especially if you need redundancy. Cause otherwise you have to run a minimum of two two servers just to keep them both up for a AZ kind of outages situation. You don't have to worry about that with Lambda. So anything that with lower usage 100%.If it's bursty 100% use Lambda, if it's one of those things where you just don't have many dependencies on it, then Lambda is a really good choice as well. So there's especially infrastructure management, which is, if you look, I think Warner Vogels, he wrote something recently about how serverless driven infrastructure automation is kind of going to be the really key point to making places that are using cloud use cloud more effectively.And so that's one group of people. That's a big group of people. If you're a big company and you already use the AWS and you're not getting everything out of it that you thought you would get. Sometimes there's serverless use cases that already exist out there and like there's a serverless application repo that AWS provides and AWS config integrations, so that if you can trigger a serverless action based off of some other resource actions. So like, let's say that your auto scaling group scaled up and you wanted to like notify somebody, there's so many things you could do with it. It's super useful for that. But even if you're just, I'm co you're coming at it from like a blank slate and you want to create something .There are a lot of really good use cases for serverless. If you are, like I said, you're not really sure about how it's going to scale. You don't want to deal with redundancy and it fits into like a fairly well-defined, you know, this is pretty much all Python and it works with minimal dependencies. Then it's a really good starting place for that.Nate: [00:12:29] You know, you mentioned earlier that serverless is very good for when you have bursty services in that if you were to do it based on and then also get that redundancy one. You're going to have to run while you're saying you'll have to run at least two EC2 instances, just 24 hours a day. I'm paying for those.Plus you're also going to pay for API gateway. Do you pay hourly for API gatewaySteph: [00:12:53] API gateway? It, it would work the same either way, but you would pay for, in that case, like a load balancer.Nate: [00:12:59] What is API gateway? Do you use that for serverless?Steph: [00:13:02] All the time. So API gateway?Nate: [00:13:04] Yeah. Tell us the elements of a typical serverless stack.So I understand there's like Lambda, for example, maybe you say like you use CloudFront. In front of your Lambda functions, which may be store images and S3 that like a typical stack? And then can you explain like what each of those services are,Steph: [00:13:22] how you would do that? Yeah, so you're, you're not, you're on the right track here.So, okay. So a good way to think about it is, if you look at AWS has published something which a lot of documentations on it called the serverless application management standard. So S a N. And so basically if you look at that, it actually defines the core units of serverless applications. So which is the function, an API, if you, if you want one.And basically any other permission type resources. So in your case, let's say it was something where I just wanted like a really. Basic tutorial that AWS provides is someone wants to upload an image for their profile and you want to, you know, scale it down to like a smaller image before you store it on your S3.You know, just so they're all the same size and it saves you a ton, all that. So if you're creating something like that, the AWS resources that you would need are basically an API gateway, which is. Acts as basically the definition of your API schema. So like if you've ever used swagger or like a open API, these standards where you basically just define, and JSON, you know it's a rest API, you do get here, post here, this resource name.That's a standard that you might see outside of AWS a lot. And so API Gateway is just basically a way to implement that same standard. They work with AWS. So that's how you can think of API gateway. It also manages stuff like authentication integration. So if you want to enable OAuth or something on something, you could set that up the API gateway level.SoNate: [00:14:55] if you had API gateway set up. Then is that basically a web server hosted by Amazon?Steph: [00:15:03] Yeah, that's basically it.Nate: [00:15:05] And so then your API gateway is just assigned essentially randomly a DNS name by Amazon. If you wanted to have a custom DNS name to your API gateway. How do you do that?Steph: [00:15:21] Oh, it's just a setting.It's pretty. so what you could do, yeah, so if you already have a domain name, right? Route 53 which is AWS is domain name management service, you can use that to basically point that domain to the API gateway.Nate: [00:15:35] So you'd use route 53 you configure your DNS to have route 53 point a specific DNS name to your API gateway, and your API gateway would be like a web server that also handles like authentication and AWS integration. Okay,Steph: [00:15:51] got it. Yeah, that's a good breakdown of what that works. So that's your first kind of half of how people commonly trigger Lambdas. And that's not the only way to trigger it, but it's a very common way to do it. So what happens is when the API gateway is configured, part of it is you set what happens when the method is invoked.So there's like a REST API as a type of API gateway that. People use a lot. There's a few others, like a web socket, one which is pretty cool for streaming uses, and then they're always adding new options to it. So it's a really neat service. So you would have that kind of input go into your API gate.We would decide where to route it. Right. So in a lot of cases here, you might say that the Lambda function is where it gets routed to. That's considered the integration to it. And so basically API gateway passes it all of this stuff from the requests that you want to pass it. So, you know, I want to give it the content that was uploaded.I want to give it the IP address. It originally came from whatever you want to give it.Nate: [00:16:47] What backend would people use for API gateway other than Lambda? Like would you use an API gateway in front of an EC2 instance?Steph: [00:16:56] You could, but I would use probably a load balancer or application load balancer and that kind of thing.There's a lot of things you can integrate it for. Another cool one is, AWS API calls. It can proxy, so it can just directly take input from an API and send it to a specific API call if you want to do that. That's kind of some advanced usage, but Lambdas are kind of what I see is the go-to right now.Nate: [00:17:20] So the basic stack that we're looking at is you use API gateway to be in front of your Lambda function, and then your Lambda function just basically does the work, which is either like a writing to some sort of storage or calculating some sort of response. You mentioned earlier, you said, you know the Lambda function it can be fronted by an API if you want one. And then you mentioned, you know, there's other ways that you can trigger these Lambda functions. Can you talk a little bit about like what some of those other ways are?Steph: [00:17:48] Yeah, so actually those are really cool. So the cool thing is that you could trigger it based off of basically any type of CloudWatch event is a big one.And so CloudWatch is basically a monitoring slash auditing kind of service that AWS provides. So you can set triggers that go off when alarms are set. So. It could be usage, it could be, Hey, somebody logged in from an IP address that we don't recognize. You could do some really cool stuff with CloudWatch events specifically. And so those are one that I think for like management purposes are really powerful to leverage. But also you can do it off of S3 events, which are really cool. So like you could just have it, so anytime somebody uploads a. Let's say it was a or CI build, right? You're doing IA builds and you're putting your artifacts into a S three bucket, so you know this is released version 1.1 or whatever, right?You put it into an S3 bucket, right? You can hook it up so that when ever something gets put into that S3 bucket. That another action is that takes place so you can make it so that, you know, whenever we upload a release, then you know, notify these people. So now an email or you can make it so that it, you know, as complicated as you want, you can make it trigger a different kind of part in your build stage.If you have things that are outside of AWS, you can have it trigger from there. There's a lot of really cool, just direct kind of things that you don't need. An API for. An S3 is a good one. The notification service, SNS it's used within AWS a lot that can be used. The queuing service AWS provides called SQS.It works with, and also just scheduled events, which I really like because it replaces the need for a crown server. So if you have things that run, you know, every Tuesday or whatever, right, you can just trigger your Lambda to do that from just one configuration point, you don't have to deal with anything more complicated than that.Nate: [00:19:38] I feel like that gives me a pretty good grounding in the ecosystem, in the setting. Maybe we could talk a little bit more about tools and tooling. Yeah, so I know that in the JavaScript world, on like the node world, they have the serverless framework, which is basically this abstraction over, I think it's over like Lambda and you know, Azure functions and Google up.Google cloud probably too. Do they have like a serverless framework for Python or is there like a framework that you end up using? Or do you just generally just write straight on top of Lambda?Steph: [00:20:06] So that's a great question and I definitely do recommend that even though there is like a front end you could do to just start, you know, typing code in and making the Lambda work right.It's definitely better to have some sort of framework that. Integrates with your actual, like, you know, wherever you use to store your code and test it and that kind of thing. So serverless is a really big one, and that's, it's kind of annoying because serverless, you know, it also refers to the greater ecosystem of code that runs without managing underlying servers.But in this particular case, Serverless is also like a third party company in tooling, and it does work for Python. It works for, a whole budget. That's kind of like the serverless equivalent in my head of like Terraform, something that is kind of meant to be kind of generic, but it offers a lot of kind of value to people just getting started. If you just want to put something in your, read me that says, here's how to, you know, deploy this from Github. You know, serverless is a cool tool for that. I don't personally like building with it myself just because I find that this SAM, which is Serverless Application Model, I think I said management earlier, but it's actually model.I just looked that up. I feel like that has everything I really want for AWS and I get more fine grain control. I don't like having too much obstruction and I also don't like. When you have to install something and something changes between versions and that changes the way your infrastructure gets deployed.That's a pet peeve of mine, and that's why I don't really use Terraform too much for the same reason. When you're operating really in one world, which in my case is AWS, I just don't get the value out of that. Right. But with the serverless application model, and they have a whole Sam CLI, they have a bunch of tools coming out.So many examples on their Github repos as well. I find that it's got really everything. I want to use plus some CloudFormation plugs right into that. So if I need to do anything outside of the normal serverless kind of world, I can do that. So it's better to use serverless than to not use anything at all. I think it's a good tool and really good way to kind of get used to it and started, but at least my case where it really matters to have super consistent deployments where I'm sharing between people and accounts and all of that. And I find that SAM really gives me the best kind of best of both worlds.Amelia: [00:22:17] So, as far as I understand it, serverless is a fairly new concept.Steph: [00:22:22] You know, it's one of those things it's catching on. Recently, I felt like Google app engine candidate a long time ago, and it was kind of a niche thing for awhile, but it recently it, we're starting to see. Bigger enterprises, people who might not necessarily want bleeding edge stuff start to accept that serverless is going to be the future.And that's why we're seeing all this stuff come up and it's, it's actually really exciting. But the good thing is it's been around long enough that a lot of the actual tooling and the architecture patterns that you will use are mature. They've been used for years. Their sites you've been using for a long time that.You don't know that it's serverless on the back end, but it is because it's one of those things that doesn't really affect you unless you're kind of working on it. Right. But it's new to a lot of people, but I think it's in a good spot where it's more approachable than it used to be.Nate: [00:23:10] When you say that there's like a lot of standard patterns, maybe we could talk about some of those.So when you write a Lambda function and code, either with like Python or Java script or whatever, there are bloods, they say Python because you use Python primarily right? Well, maybe we could talk a little bit about that. Like why do you prefer Python?Steph: [00:23:26] Yeah, so just coming from my background, which is, like I said, I did some support, did some straight dev ops, kind of a more assisted mini before the world kind of became a more interesting place kind of background.Python is just one of those tools that is installed on like every Linux server in the world and works kind of predictably. Enough people know it that it's, it's not too hard to like. Share between people who may not be, you know, super advanced developers, right? Cause a lot of people I work with, maybe they have varying levels of skills and Python's one of those ones you can start to pick up pretty quickly.And it's not too foreign really to people coming from other languages as well. So it's just a practicality thing for a lot of it. But there's also a lot of the tooling that is around. Dev ops type stuff is in Python, like them, Ansible for configuration management, super useful tool. You know, it's all Python.So really there's, there's a lot of good reasons to use Python from, like in my world it's, it's one of the things where you don't have to use one specific language, but Python is just, it has what I need and it gets, I can work with it pretty quickly. The ecosystems develop. There's still a lot of people who use it and it's a good tool for what I have to do.Nate: [00:24:35] Yeah, there's tons, and I was looking at the metrics. I think Python is like, last year was like one of the fastest growing programming languages too. There's a lot of new people coming into Python,Steph: [00:24:44] and a lot of it is data science people too, right? People who may not necessarily have a strong programming background, but there's the tooling they need in a Python already there.There's community, and it sucks that it's not as scary looking as some other languages, frankly. You know.Nate: [00:24:58] And what are some of the other like cloud libraries that Python has? Like I've seen one that's called like BotoSteph: [00:25:03] Boto is the one that Amazon provides as their SDK, basically. And so every Lambda comes bundled with Boto three you know, by default.So yeah, there was an older version of ODA for Python too. But Boto three is the main one everyone uses now. So yeah, Bodo is great. I use it extensively. It's pretty easy to use, a lot of documentation, a lot of examples, a lot of people answering questions about it on StackOverflow, but I'm really, every language does have an SDK for AWS these days, and they all pretty much work the same way because they're all just based off of.The AWS API APIs and all the API APIs are well-defined and pretty stable, so it's not too much of a stretch to use any other language, but Bono's the big one, the requests library in Python is super useful just because it makes it easier to deal with, you know, interacting with API APIs or interacting with requests to APIs.It's just all about, you know, HTP requests and all that. Some of the new Python three. Libraries are really good as well, just because they kind of improve. It used to be like with Python 2, you know, there's URL lib for processing requests and it was just not as easy to use. So people would always bundle a third party tool, like requests, but it's getting better.Also, you know, Python, there's some. Different options for testing Py unit and unit test, and really there's just a bunch of libraries that are well maintained by the community. There's a kazillion on PyPy, but I try to keep outside dependencies from Python to a total minimum because again, I just don't like when things change from underneath me, how things function.So it's one of the things where I can do a lot without. Installing third party libraries, so wherever I can avoid it, I do.Nate: [00:26:47] So let's talk a little bit about these patterns that you have. So Lambda functions generally have a pretty well defined structure, and it's basically through that convention. It makes it somewhat straightforward to write each function. Can you talk a little bit about like, I don't know, the anatomy of a Lambda function?Steph: [00:27:05] Yeah, so at its basic core, the most important thing that every Lambda function in the world is going to have is something called a handler. And so the handler is basically a function that is accessed to begin the way that it starts.So, any Lambda function when it's invoked. So anytime you are calling it, it's called invoking a Lambda function. It sends it parameters that are event. An event is basically just the data that defines, Hey, this is stuff you need to act on. And it sends it something called context, which a lot of time you never touched the context object.But it's useful too, because AWS provides it with every Lambda and it's basically like, Hey, this is the ID of the currently running Lambda function. You know, this is where you're running. This is the Lambdas name. So like for logging stuff, context can be really useful. Or for stuff where it's like your function code may need to know something about where it is.You can save yourself time from, you don't have to use like an environment. They're able, sometimes if you can look in the context object. So at the core it's cause you have at least a file, you can name it whatever you want. A lot of people call it index and then within that file you define a function called handler.Again, it doesn't have to be called handler, but. That makes it easy to know which one it is, and it takes that event and context. And so really, if that's all you have, you can literally just have your Lambda file be one Python file that says, you can say def handler takes, you know, object and then return something.And then that can be it. As long as you define that index dot handler as your handler resource, which is, that's a lot of words, but basically we need to find your Lambda within AWS. The required parameters are basically the handler URI, which is the name of the file, and then a.in the name of the handler function.So that's at its most basic. Every Lambda has that, but then you start, you know, scoping it out so you can actually know, organize your code decently. And then it's just a matter of, is there a read me there. Just like any other Python application really, you know, do you have a read me? Do you want to use like a requirements.txt file to like define, you know, these are the exact third party libraries that I'm going to be using.That's really useful. And if you're defining it with SAM, which I really recommend. Then there's a file called template.yaml And that's just contains the actual, like AWS resource definition, as well as any like CloudFormation defined resources that you're using. So you can make a template.yaml as the infrastructure kind of as code, and then everything else, just the code as code.Nate: [00:29:36] Okay. So unpacking that a little bit, you'll invoke this function and they'll basically be two arguments. One is the event that's coming in the event in particular, and then it'll also have the context, which is sort of metadata about the context in which this request is running. So you mentioned some of the things that come in the context, which is like what region you're in or what the name of the function is that you're on.What are some of the parameters in the event object.Steph: [00:30:02] So the interesting thing about the event object. Is, it can be anything. It just has to be basically a Python dictionary or basically, you know, you could think of it like a JSON, right? So it's not predefined and Lambda itself doesn't care what the event is.That's all up to your code to decide what is it, what is a valid event, and how to act on it. So API gateway if you're using that. There's a lot of example events, API gateway will send and so if you like ever try it, look at like the test events for Lambda, you'll see a lot of like templates, which are just JSON files with like expected outputs.But really it can be anything.Nate: [00:30:41] So the way that Lambda's structured is that API gateway will typically pass in an event that's maybe like the request was a POST request, and then it has these like query parameters or headers attached to it. And all of that would be within like the request object. But the event could also be like you mentioned like CloudWatch, like there's like a CloudWatch event that could come in and say, you basically just have to configure your handler to handle any of the events you expect that handler to receive.Steph: [00:31:07] Yeah, exactly.Nate: [00:31:09] So let's talk a little bit more about the development tooling. How in the world do you test these sorts of things? Like with, do you have to deploy every single time or tell us about like the development tooling that you use to test along the way.Steph: [00:31:22] Yeah. So I'm, one of the great things about SAM and there's some other tools for this as well, is that it lets you test your Lambdas locally before you deploy it, if you want.And the way that it does that is, I mentioned earlier that Lambda is really at its core, a container, like a Docker container running on a server somewhere. Is, it just creates a Docker container that behaves exactly like a Lambda would, and it sends your events. So you would just define basically a JSON with the expected data from either API gateway or whatever, right?You make a test one and then it will send it to that. It'll build it on demand for you and you test it all locally with Docker. When you like it, you use the same tool and it'll package it up and deploy it for you. So yeah, it's actually not too bad to test locally at all.Nate: [00:32:05] So you create JSON files of the events that you want it to handle, and then you just like invoke it with those particular events.Steph: [00:32:12] Yeah, so basically like if I created it like a test event, I would save it to my repo is tests slash API gateway event.json Had put in the data I expect, and then I would do like a SAM. So the command is like SAM, a local invoke, and then I would give it to the file path to the JSON, and it would process it.I'd see the exact same output that I would expect to see from Lambda. So it'll say, Hey, this took this many milliseconds to invoke the response code was this, this is what was printed. So it's really useful just for. It's almost a one to one with what you would get from Amazon Lambda output.Amelia: [00:32:50] And then to update your Lambda functions.Do you have to go inside the AWS GUI or can you do that from the command line.Steph: [00:32:57] yeah, no, you can do that from the command line with Sam as well. So there's a Sam package and Sam deploy command. It's useful if you need to use basically any type of CII testing service to like manage your deployments or anything like that.Then you can get a package it and then send it the package to your, Whatever you're using, like Gitlab or something, right. For further validation and then have Gitlab deploy it. Like if you don't want people to have deployed credentials on their local machine, that's the reason it's kind of broken up into two steps there.But basically you just do a command, Sam deploy, and what it does is it goes out to Amazon. It says, Hey, update the Lambda to point to this as the new resource artifact to be invoked. And if you're using and which I think it's enabled by default, not actually the versioning feature, it actually just adds another version of the Lambda so that if you need to roll back, you can just go to the previous one, which is really useful sometimes.Nate: [00:33:54] So let's talk a little bit about deployment. One of the things that I think is stressing when you are deploying Lambda functions is like, I have no idea how much it's going to cost. How is it going to cost to launch something, and how much am I going to pay? And I guess maybe you can kind of calculate if you estimate the number of requests you think you're going to get, but how do you approach that when you're writing a new function?Steph: [00:34:18] Yeah, so the first thing I look at is what's the minimum, basically timeout, what's the minimum memory usage? So number of invocations is a big factor, right? So like if you have free tier, I think it's like a million invocations you get, but that's like assuming like a hundred under a hundred milliseconds each.So when you just deploy it, there's no cost for just deploying it. You don't get charged until it's invoked. If you're storing like an artifact and as three, there's a little cost for you keeping it in as three. But it's usually really, really minimal. So the big thing is really, how many times are you give it?Is it over a million times and or are you not on free tier? The costs, like I said, it gets batchedtogether and it's actually really pretty cheap just in terms of number of invocations cause at the bigger places where you can normally save costs. Is it over-provisioned for how much memory you give it?Right. I think the smallest unit you can give it as 128 that can go up to like two gigabytes maybe more now. So if you have it set where, Oh, I want it to use this much memory and it really never is going to use that much memory and that's kind of like wasteful or if you know, if it uses that much, that's like something's wrongNate: [00:35:25] cause you pay, you configure beforehand, like we're going to use max 128 megabytes of memory and then it's allocated on invocation or something like that.And then if you set it too high, you were going to pay more than you need to. Is that right?Steph: [00:35:40] Yeah. Well and it's more like, I think I'll have to double check cause it actually just show you how much memory you use each time in Lambda is invoked. So you can sort of measure if it's getting near that or if you think you need more than it might give an error.If it doesn't, it isn't able to complete . But in general, like. I haven't had many cases where the memory has been the limiting factor. I will say that, the timeout can sometimes get you, because if a Lambda's processing forever, like let's say API gateway, a lot of times API gateway has its own sort of timeout, which is, I think it's like 30 seconds to respond.And if your Lambda is set to, you know, you give it five minutes to process it always five minutes processing. If you, let's say that you program something wrong and there's like a loop somewhere and it's going on forever, it'll waste five minutes. Computing API gateway will give up after 30 seconds, but you'll still be charged for the five minutes that Lambda was kind of doing its thing.SoNate: [00:36:29] it's like, I know that AWS is services and Lambda are created by like world-class engineers. It's the highest performing infrastructure probably in the world, but as a user, sometimes it feels like there's giant Rube Goldberg machine, and I have like no idea. All of the different aspects that are involved in, like how do you manage that complexity?Like when you're trying to learn AWS, like let's say someone who's listening to this, they want to try to understand this. How do you. Go about making sense of all of that. Like difficulty.Steph: [00:37:02] You really have to go through a lot of the docs, like videos, people showing you how they did something isn't always the best just because they kind of skirt around all the things that went wrong in the process, right? So it's really important just to understand, just to look at the documentation for what all these features are before you use them. The marketing people make it sound like it's super easy and go, and to a degree, it really is like, it's easier than the alternative, right?It's where you put your complexities the problem Nate: [00:37:29] yeah, and I think that part of the problem that I have with their docs is like they are trying to give you every possible path because they're an infrastructure provider, and so they support like these very complex use cases. And so it's, it's like the world's most detailed choose your own adventure.It's like, Oh, have you decide that you need to take this path? Go to or this one path B. Path C there's like so many different like paths you can kind of go down. It's just a lot when you're first learning.Steph: [00:37:58] It is, and sometimes like the blog posts have better kind of actual tutorial kind of things for like real use cases.So if you have a use case that is general enough, a lot of times you can just Google for it and there'll be something that one of their solution architects wrote up about had actually do it from like a, you know, user-friendly perspective that anything with the options is that you need to be aware of them too, just because the way that they interact can be really important.If you do ever do something that's not done before and the reason why it's so powerful and what, you know why it takes all these super smart people to set up and all this stuff is actually because are just so many variables that go into it that you can do so much with that. It's so easy to shoot yourself in the foot.It always has been in a way, right? But it's just learning how to not shoot yourself in the foot and use it like with the right agility. And once you get that down, it's really great.Amelia: [00:38:46] So there's over a hundred AWS services. How do you personally find new services that you want to try out or how does anyone discover any of these different services.Steph: [00:38:57] What I do is, you know, I get the emails from AWS whenever they release new ones, and I try to, you know, keep up to date with that. Sometimes I'll read blog posts that I see people writing about how they're using some of them, but honestly, a lot of it's just based off of when I'm doing something, I just keep an eye out.If there's something like, I wished that it did sometimes, like, I used some AWS systems manager a lot, which is basically. You can think of it. It's sort of like a config management an orchestration tool. It lets you, basically, it's a little agent. You can sell on servers and you can, you know, just automate patching and all this other like little stuff that you would do with like Chef or Puppet or other config management tools.And. It seems like they keep announcing services. What are really just like tie ins to existing ones, right? Which is like, Oh, this one adds, you know, for instance, like the secret management and the parameter store would secrets. A lot of them are really just integrations to other AWS services, so it's not as much.The really core ones that everyone needs to know is, you know, EC2 of course Lambda, so big API gateway and CloudFormation because it's basically. The infrastructure as code format that is super useful just for structuring everything. And I guess S3 is the other one. Yeah. Let's talk aboutNate: [00:40:15] cloud formation for a second.So earlier you said your Lambda function is typically going to have a template.yaml. Is that template.yaml CloudFormation code.Steph: [00:40:26] So at its core, yes. But the way you write it is different. So how it works is that the Sam templating language is defined to simplify. What you would with CloudFormation.So a CloudFormation you have to put a gazillion variables in.And it's like, there's some ways to like make that easier. Like I really like using a Python library called Tropo sphere, where you can actually use Python to generate your own cloud formation templates for you. And it's really nice just cause, you know, I like to know I'll need a loop for something or I'll need to like fetch a value from somewhere else.And it's great to have that kind of flexibility with it . The, the Sam template is specifically a transform, is what they call it, of cloud formation, which means that it executes against the CloudFormation service. So the CloudFormation service receives that kind of turns it into the core that it understands and executes on it.So at the core of it, it is executing on top of CloudFormation. You could create a mostly equivalent kind of CloudFormation template usually, but there's more to it. But there's a lot of just reasons why you would want to use Sam for serverless specifically, just because they add so many niceties and stuff around, you know, permissions management that you don't have to like think of as much and shortcuts and it's just a lot easier to deal with, which is a nice change.But the power of CloudFormation is that if you wanted to do something. That like maybe SAM didn't support the is outside the normal scope. You could just stick a CloudFormation resource definition in it and it would work the same way cause it's running against it. It's one of those services where people, sometimes it gets a bad rap because it's so complicated, but it's also super stable.It behaves in a super predictable way and it's just, I think learning how to use that when I worked at AWS was really valuable.Nate: [00:42:08] What tools do you use to manage the security when you're configuring these things? So earlier you mentioned IAM, which is a, I don't know what it stands for.Steph: [00:42:19] Identity and access management,Nate: [00:42:20] right?Which is like configuration language or configuration that we can configure, which accounts have access to certain resources. let me give you an example. One question I have is how do you make sure each system has the minimum level of permissions and what tools you use? So for example, I wrote this Lambda function a couple of weeks ago.Yeah. I was just following some tutorial and they said like, yeah, make sure that you create this IAM role as like one of the resources for launching this Lambda function, which I think they're like, that's great. But then like. How do I pin down the permissions when I'm granting that function itself permissions to grant new IAM roles. So it was like I basically just had to give it route permission according to my low, my skill level, because otherwise I wasn't able to. Create, I am roles without the authority to create new roles, which just seems like root permissions.Steph: [00:43:13] Yes. So there are some ways that's super risky, honestly, like super risky.Nate: [00:43:17] Yeah. I'm going to need your help,Steph: [00:43:19] but it is a thing that there are case you can, you can limit it down with the right kind of definition. SoIAM. It's really powerful. Right? So the original case behind a MRI was that, so you're a servers so that if you had a, an application server and a database server separately.You could give them separate IAM roles so that they could have different things they could do. Like you never really want your database server to maybe. Interface directly with, you know, an S three resource, but maybe you want your application server to do that or something. So it was nice because it really let you limit down the scope from a servers and you don't, cause you have to leave keys around if you do it .So you don't have to keep keys anywhere on the server if you're using IAM roles to access that stuff. So anytime you're storing like an AWS secret key on a server, or like in a Lambda, you kinda did something wrong. The thing they are just because that's, AWS doesn't really care about those keys. It just looks, is it a key?Do it here. But when you actually use IAM policies, you could say it has to be from this role. It has to be executed from, you know, this service. So it can make sure that it's Lambda or the one doing this, or is it somebody trying to assume Lambda credentials? Right? There's so much you can do to kind of limit it.With I am. So it was really good to like learn about that. And like all of the AWS certifications do focus on IAM specifically. So if anyone thinking about taking like an AWS certification course, a lot of them will introduce you to that and help a lot with understanding like how to use those correctly.But for what you talked about with you, like how do you deal with a function that passes, that creates a role for another function, right? What you would do in that kind of case is there's an idea of IAM paths. So basically you can give them like as namespacing for IAM permissions, right? So you can make a, I am role that can grant functions that can create roles .Only underneath its own namespace. Within its own path.Nate: [00:45:20] When you say namespaces, I mean did inherit permissions. But the parent permission has?Steph: [00:45:28] Depends. So it doesn't inherit itself. But like, let's say that I was making a build server . And my build server, we had to use a couple of different roles for different pieces of it. For different steps. Cause they used different services or something. So we would give it like the top level one of build. And then in my S3 bucket, I might say aloud upload for anyone whose path had built in it. So that's, that's the idea that you can limit on the other side, what is allowed.And so of course, it's one of the things where you want to by default blacklist as much as possible, and then white list what you can. But in reality it can be very hard to go through some of that stuff. So you just have to try to, wherever you can, just minimize the risk potential and understand what's the worst case that could happen if someone came in and was able to use these credentials for something.Amelia: [00:46:16] What are some of the other common things that people do wrong when they're new to AWS or DevOps?Steph: [00:46:22] One thing I see a lot is people treating the environment variables for Lambdas as if they were. Private, like secrets. So they think that if you put like an API key in through the environment variable that that's kind of like secure, but really like I worked in AWS support, anyone would be able to see that if they were helping you out in your account.So it's not really a secure way to do that. You would need to use a surface like secrets manager, or you'd have some kind of way to, you would encrypt it before you put it in and then the Lambda would decrypt it, right? So there's ways to get around that, but like using environment variables as if there were secure or storing.Secure things within your git repositories that get pushed to AWS is like a really big thing that should be avoided. And we said, what else did you ever own?Nate: [00:47:08] I'm pretty sure that I put an API key in mineSteph: [00:47:11] before. So yeah, no, it's one of the things people do, and it's one of those things that. A lot of people, you know, maybe nothing will go wrong and it's fine, but if you can just reduce the scope, then you don't have to worry about it.And it just makes things easier in the future.Amelia: [00:47:27] What are like the new hot things that are up and coming?Steph: [00:47:30] So I'd say that there's more and more kind of uses for Lambda at edge for like IOT integration, which is pretty cool. So basically Lambda editor. Is basically where you can process your lamb dos computers, basically, like, you know, like, just think of it as like raspberry pi.It's like that kind of type thing, right? So you could take asmall computer and you could put it like, you know, maybe where it doesn't have a completely like, consistent internet connection . So maybe if you're doing like a smart vending machine or something. Think of it like that. Then you could actually execute the Lambda logic directly there and deploy it to there and manage it from AWS whenever it does have like a network connection and then you can basically, it just reduces latency.A lot and let your coat and lets you test your code both like locally and then deploy it out. So it was really cool for like IOT stuff. There's been a lot of like tons of stuff happening in machine learning space on AWS too much for me to even keep on top of. But a lot of the stuff around Alexa voices is super cool, like a poly where you can just, if you play with your Alexa type thing before, it's cool, but you could just write a little Lambda program to actually generate, you know, whatever you want it to say in different accents, different voices on demand, and integrate it with your own thing, which is pretty cool. Like, I mean, I haven't had a super great use case for that yet, but it's fun to play with.Amelia: [00:48:48] I feel like a lot of the internet of things are like that.Steph: [00:48:52] Oh, they totally are. That they really are. But yeah, it's just one of the things you had to keep an eye out for. Sometimes the things that, for me, because I'm dealing so much with like enterprisey kind of stuff that excite me are not really exciting to other people cause it's like, yay, patching has a way to like lock it down to a specific version of this at this time.You know, it's like, it's like, it's not really exciting, but like, yeah.Nate: [00:49:14] And I think that's one of the things that's interesting talking to you is like I write web apps, I think of serverless from like a web app perspective, but it's like, Oh, I'm going to write an API that will let her know, fix my images on the way up or something.But a lot of the uses that you alluded to are like using serverless for managing, other parts of your infrastructure, they're like, you're using, you've got a monitor on some EC2 instance that sends out a cloud watch alert that like then responds in some other way, like within your infrastructure.So that's really interesting.Steph: [00:49:47] Yeah, no, that's, it's just been really valuable for us. And like I said, I mentioned the IAM stuff. That's what makes it all possible really.Amelia: [00:49:52] So this is totally unrelated, but I'm always curious how people got into DevOps, because I do a lot of front end development and I feel like.It's pretty easy to get into front end web development because a lot of people need websites. It's fairly easy to create a small website, so that's a really good gateway, but I've never like on the weekend when it to spin up a server or any of this,Steph: [00:50:19] honestly for me, a lot of it was like my first job in college.Like I was basically part-time tech support / sys admin. And I always loved L nuxi because, and the reason I got into Lennox in the first place is I realized that when I was in high school that I could get around a lot of the schools, like, you know, spy software that won't let you do fun stuff on the internet or with the software if you just use a live boot Linux USB.So part of it was just, I was using it. So, you know. Get around stuff, just curiosity about that kind of stuff . But when I got my first job, that's kind of like assist admin type thing. It kind of became a necessity. Because you know when you have limited resources, it was like me and like another part time person and one full time person and hundreds of people who we had to keep their email and everything.Working for them. It kind of becomes a necessity thing cause you realize that all the stuff that you have to do by hand back then, you can't keep track of it all. You can't keep it all secured for a few people. It's extremely hard. And so one way people dealt with that was, you know, offshoring or hiring people, other people to maintain it.But it was kind of cool at the time to realize that the same stuff I was learning in my CS program about programming. There's no reason I couldn't use that for my job, which was support and admin stuff. So, I think I got introduced to like chef, that was the first tool that I really, I was like, wow, this changes everything.You know, because you would write little Ruby files to do configuration management and then your servers would, you know, you run the chef agent to end, you know. You know, they'd all be configured exactly the same way. And it was testable. And there's all this really cool stuff you could do with chef that I, you know, I had been trying to play to do with like, you know, bash script or just normal Python scripts.But then chef kind of gave me that framework for it. And I got a job at AWS where one of the main components was supporting their AWS ops work stool, which was basically managed chef deployments. And so that was cool because then I learned about how does that work at super high scale. What are other things that people use?And right before I actually, you know, got my first job as a full time dev ops person was when they, they were releasing the beta for Lambda. So I was in the little private beta for AWS employees and we were all kind of just like, wow, this changes a lot. They'll make our jobs a lot easier, you know, in a way it will reduce the need for some of it.But we were so overloaded all the time. And I feel like a lot of people from a perspective know what it feels like to be like. There's so much going on and you can't keep track of it all and you're overloaded all the time and you just want it to be clean and not have to touch it and to do less work at dev ops was kind of like the way forward.So that's really how I got into it.Amelia: [00:52:54] That's awesome. Another thing I keep hearing is that a lot of dev ops tests are slowly being automated. So how does the future of DevOps look if a lot of the things that we're doing by hand now will be automated in the future?Steph: [00:53:09] Well, see, the thing about dev ops is really, it's more of like a goal.It's an ideal. A lot of people, if they're dev ops purists and they'll tell you that it means it's having a culture where. There are not silos between developers and operations, and everyone knows how to deploy and everyone knows how to do everything. But really in reality, not everyone's a generalist.And being a generalist in some ways is kind of its own specialty, which is kind of how I feel about the DevOps role that you see. So I think we'll see that the dev ops role, people might go by different names for the same idea, which is. Basically reliability engineering, like Google has a whole book about site reliability engineering is the same kind of philosophy, right? It's you want to keep things running. You want to know where things are. You want to make things efficient from an infrastructure level. But the way that you do it is you use a lot of the same tools that developers use. So I think that we'll see tiles shift to like serverless architect is a big one that's coming up because that reliability engineering is big.And we may not see people say dev ops is their role as much, but I don't think the need for people who kind of specialize in like infrastructure and deployment and that kind of thing is going to go away. You might have to do more with less, right? Or there might be certain companies that just hire. A bunch of them, like Google and Amazon, right?They're pro still going to be a lot of people, but maybe they're not going to be working at your local place because if they're going to be working for the big people who actually develop the tools that are used for that resource. So I still think it's a great field and it might be getting a little harder to figure out where to enter in this because there's so much competition and attention around the tools and resources that people use, but it's still a really great field overall. And if you just learn, you know, serverless or Kubernetes or something that's big right now, you can start to branch out and it's still a really good place to kind of make a career.Nate: [00:54:59] Yeah. Kubernetes. Oh man, that's a whole nother podcast. We'll have to come back for that.Steph: [00:55:02] Oh, it is. It is.Nate: [00:55:04] So, Steph, tell us more about where we can learn more about you.Steph: [00:55:07] Yeah. So I have a book coming out.Nate: [00:55:10] Yes. Let's talk about the book.Steph: [00:55:12] Yeah. So I'm releasing a book called, Fullstack Serverless. See, I'm terrible.I should know exactly what the title, I don'tNate: [00:55:18] know exactly the title. . Yeah. Full stack. Python with serverless or full-stack serverless with Python,Steph: [00:55:27] full stack Python on Lambda.Nate: [00:55:29] Oh yeah. Lambda. Not serverless.Steph: [00:55:31] Yeah, that's correct. Python on Lambda. Right. And that book really has, it could take you from start to finish, to really understand.I think if you read this kind of book, if I, if I had read this before, like learning it, it wouldn't feel so maybe. Some people confusing or kind of like it's a black box that you don't know what's happening. Cause really at its core lambda that you can understand exactly everything that happens. It has a reason, you know it's running on infrastructure that's not too different from people who run infrastructure on Docker or something.Right. And the code that you write. Can be the same code that you might run on a server or on some other cloud provider. So the real things that I think that the book has that maybe kind of hard to find elsewhere is there's a lot of information about how do you do proper testing and deployment?How do you. Manage your secrets, so you aren't storing those in them in those environment variables. Correct. It has stuff about logging and monitoring, all the different ways that you can trigger Lambda. So API gateway, you know, that's a big one. But then I mentioned S3 and all those other ones. there's going to be examples of pretty much every way you can do that in that book.Stuff about optimizing cost and performance and stuff about using that. SAM, serverless application, a repository, so you can actually publish Lambdas and share them and even sell them if you want to. So it's really a start to finish everything you need to. If you want to have something that you create from scratch.In production. I don't think there's anything left out that you would need to know. I feel pretty confident about that.Nate: [00:57:04] It's great. I think one of the things I love about it is it's almost like the anti version of the docs, like when we talked about earlier that the docs cover every possible use case.This talks about like very specific, but like production use cases in a very approachable, like linear way. You know, even though you can find some tutorials online, maybe. Like you mentioned, they're not always accurate in terms of how you actually do or should do it, and so, yeah, I think your book so far has been really great in covering these production concerns in a linear way.All right. Well, Steph is great to have you.Steph: [00:57:37] Thank you for having me. It was, it was great talking to you both.
Syd & Lex review 'A Fall from Grace' in this week's Tyler Perry Double Header. The hosts "start with the mess", but end with an appreciative discussion of Tyler Perry's greatest work. Follow The New Chitlin Circuit Twitter: twitter.com/tnccpod IG: instagram.com/newchitlincircuit www.thenewchitlincircuit.com The New Chitlin Circuit is the only podcast dedicated solely to highlighting Black, independent film. Every Monday, Syd and Lex review a Black indie, low-budget, or direct-to-tv movie.
Hi, everyone. For the end of the year, 2 Guys 5 Movies has recorded a bonus episode, the first of its kind where Chris forces Frank to watch a movie he hates for a second time. This episode is a deep dive on Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, and we discuss Frank's initial thoughts in 1999 and his thoughts now. This discussion acts as a precursor to our next episode, which will be released in a couple days, where we'll cover Frank's top five films of the year 1999. As always, thank you all for your support, and have a great rest of the holiday!
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Nancy Pearl, Steve Scher, Katy SewallRecorded at The Bryant Corner Café in Seattle. With so much turmoil in the world, sometimes a reader just wants to reset before plunging back into the intellectual fray. Nancy Pearl is calling the books you might turn to as palate cleansers. Pretty quickly, though, the readers around the big table at the Bryant Corner Café started putting their own spin on the notion. First off, though, mark your calendar. Don Delillo has a new book coming out May of this year. Nancy Pearl says “Zero K” is a cause for celebration. Palate Cleansers From Nancy The author Elinor Lipman. Nancy loves her books. She calls the frothy. She rereads “The Inn at Lake Divine” and “The Way Men Act” from time to time. She finds the writing appealing in all her books. Leslie turns to her favorite mystery writers including, “Second Watch,” by J.A. Jance. Other Palate Cleansers Mentioned This EpisodeJanwillem van de Wetering and his characters Grijpstra and de Grier.Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahöö and their character Martin Beck. Nancy says “The Laughing Policeman” is one of their best. Bob says any good poem is a palate cleaners. In non-fiction, anything by Bill Bryson is a palate cleanser and in fiction, anything by P.G. Wodehouse. Ros likes Stanley Kunitz and his book of poems about gardening. “The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden” Tom cleanses his palate with The Ascent of Man with Jacob Bronowski and Civilization by Kenneth Clarke. Christopher likes the entertaining British writer Professor David Lodge and the American writer Jonathan Tropper. Those two authors prompted Nancy to recommend Jonathan Coe. She likes his novel “The Rotter’s Club.” Rita says her palate cleanser is Haruki Murakami. Everyone's palate is different. Keith turns to Bernard Cornwell, Margaret Atwood or Donald Westlake. Permalink
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