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In this episode, Brett has a conversation with Mark Merkelbach, the CEO of Green Earth Operations and COO of Sustainable Water Infrastructure Group (SWIG).  Mark has dedicated his career to water quality improvement all over the world including India, Mexico, Haiti, and China.  He's now using his creativity and experience to solve water quality problems right here in Florida.  They discuss growing up around the Jersey Shore; a love of the outdoors passed down from his father; a professional wanderlust that has taken him all over the globe; his need to solve environmental problems; the secret sauce that he and SWIG are using to impact water quality in Florida; and of course, they talk about the Merkelbach family's rescued one-eyed and three-tooth Shitzu name Button.   To visit SWIG's website and find out what Mark and his team are doing to make Florida (and the world) a better place, head here.  To see more information about SWIG's Doctor's Lake project as reported in the Florida Specifier, head here: To read the Florida Specifier article that introduced the work of SWIG to Florida's environmental scene, go here. This episode is brought to by my friends at Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) RES is the nation's leader in ecological restoration, helping to restore Florida's natural resources with water quality and stormwater solutions that offer communities guaranteed performance and outcomes. Check them out at www.res.us  This episode is also brought to you by my friends at Sea and Shoreline.   Sea and Shoreline is the Southeast's leading innovator in protecting coastal communities from devastating storms and restoring ecosystems that once faced ecological collapse. Visit their website at www.Seaandshoreline.com.   Please be sure to check out the Florida Specifier Podcast hosted by Ryan Matthews and myself as part of a new venture where we're striving to become Florida's first source for environmental news, educational tools, and unique perspectives on our state's natural environment and the events that shape it.  To learn more about its flagship print publication and more, visit The Florida Specifier. You can follow the show on LinkedIn and Instagram @flwaterpod, and you can reach me directly at FLwaterpod@gmail.com with your comments and suggestions for who and/or what you'd like to know more about. Production of this podcast is by Lonely Fox Studios. Thanks to Karl Sorne for making the best of what he had to work with. And to David Barfield for the amazing graphics and technical assistance.   And finally, a very special thank you goes out to Bo Spring from the Bo Spring Band for giving permission to use his music for this podcast.  The song is called Doing Work for Free, and you should check out the band live, or wherever great music is sold. 

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Wide ranging conversation with Mario Reder. Mario is an engineer at Orderly (on-chain perps), lead dev at Shitzu (NEAR's OG memecoin and most active community).Some of the topics we covered include:- How we was lured from being a web2 developer to web3 thanks to WASM- The beauty and nuance of Rust language- The origins of Shitzu: how AGT managed to get him onboard- Memecoins & Fundamentals....- Alpha on everything Shitzu has been building, plus a major launch coming up!ResourcesDelegate to Shitzu Validator - https://shitzuapes.xyzTrade Shitzu NFT on Mitte - https://beta.mitte.gg/?contractAddress=shitzu.bodega-lab.nearFarm $Shitzu on REF.Finance - https://app.ref.finance/memeFollow on SocialsMario - https://x.com/marior_devShitzu - https://x.com/ShitzuCommunityProtocol Pawns - https://x.com/ProtocolPawnsShroom Kingdom - https://x.com/shrm_kingdom

This week we welcome another drummer with a ferocious and punishing style who parents two small dogs that are not on brand with his band's loud and aggressive musical style. It's Matt Byrne of Hatebreed and his pasta themed Shitzu's Ziti and his recent addition Ravioli. Hatebreed will be celebrating their 30 year anniversary as a band in 2024. For tour dates and info go to Hatebreed.com. Matt chose to shine a spotlight on the Duchess County SPCA, an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, no-kill shelter, whose mission is to shelter animals in need and secure permanent homes for adoptable pets. He also gave a shout out to ShamPooches Doggie Day Spa who provide a safe, low-stress environment where certified groomers give dogs premium baths, haircuts, mani-pedis and more. For pics and clips of this episode follow us on Instagram at @rockerdogpodcast

Keb & Beebs play Jokers Wild again, discuss strange Easter celebrations, Play Real or No Real with a familiar Mystery Guest. and This Day in History.

Val will be on the  BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT APRIL 19TH 2023 8:40AM - 9:25AM Pacific Time.  Val is an international Business Success Coach.  She has coached, held retreats and spoken at many large events around the world.  She is passionate about sharing her connection techniques with women business owners of service-based businesses so they can offer their gift to the world and get paid very well for it.    Being a dynamic, motivational speaker, Val has won the "Outstanding Speaker of the Year" award from Polka Dot Powerhouse.  Doing retreats around the world is one of her special passions, giving women the experience of a lifetime to connect and create while transforming themselves.   After being a successful business coach for 10-plus years, she is now using her connection techniques to create more business, more sales, and more FUN! Val is passionate about being a grandma and loves spending time with her husband and three children.  They have a goofy Shitzu named Max that keeps everyone laughing and well-loved.   Register here:  www.elevateyouronlinepresence.com/Val   This event is sponsored by You Can Automate, the All in One Business Suite www.youcanautomate.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitchandbrainstorm/message

Michael screwed the pooch on his big shot with Melissa. Can we get him a chance at redemption?

Bienvenidex a esta temporada de Las Comadres Del Río! En este programa hablamos sobre la visita de la comadre Elo con los Shitzu y Ponchote, Gallilea Montijo quiere irse (de nuevo) de HOY , los comentarios en De Historia en Historia, hijos de Jenny Rivera se hacen prueba ADN, Lucía Méndez se comunica con Ponchote y para terminar Lucía Méndez no va a Siempre Reinas. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lascomadresdelrio/support

Bienvenidex a esta temporada de Las Comadres Del Río! En este programa platicamos sobre cuando entregan el premio de Ivonne Monter, ¡Feliz cumpleaños Werito!, la experiencia del hélicoptero para Ivonne , las declaraciones de Yuri, siguen dándose con todo LCDLF 2, la historia de amor de Joe y Werito y para terminar únete a la causa "Zapatitos blancos". --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lascomadresdelrio/support

Nyxi is a 6 year old Shitzu Yorkie mix and Noki is a 7 month old Siamese cat who both live in Washington, DC. They are best friends and made an instant love connection from the first day they met. Brighten your day by listenening to their mom Sterling talk about how they met, their personalities and their favorite things!

They say that a man's best friend is his or her dog...and I tend to agree.  This episode is dedicated to remembering our sweet Shitzu who passed away January 31 of this year named Nobi. I tell the story of how we crossed his path years ago and how he became ours.  Our friends and family like to say that we changed his life for the better, but truth be told, he changed ours. There are a few life lessons that we can learn from this little guy and I share them here in Episode 48.  Enjoy! If you need prayer, support, or encouragement please feel free to reach out via email: melcoach80@gmail.com or follow me on Instagram @melcoach80

We're dishing on our recent live events in Florida and New York and a Boca granny who's full of “Shi-Tzu”! Grab a drink and join the fun for Pod-A-Palooza 2: Boca “Bishes”, Madoff mayhem, HOA hell and more! We left the audience in a lather with some shower scrubbie shenanigans!FOLLOW US:www.crazyrichneighbors.com/bougiebiblewww.facebook.com/CRNPodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/crazyrichneighbors/SOURCE: https://bocanewsnow.com/2022/02/22/full-of-shih-tzu-boca-woman-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison-for-dog-theft/

Trevor is returning from the AKC Agility Internationals. Taking home top Shitzu and Silky Terrier medallions. His dogs also achieved Gold Elite Performance Trick Dog Title. His 4--month old Border Collie pup made it on AKC.TV! We are going to be speaking about anything dog training, Your dogs mental, physical and social health. Have a question about your dog? This would be a great time to call in live and speak with Trevor! GUEST NAME: Trevor SmithGUEST BIO: Trevor has more than 20 years of experience training dogs. In 2015, 2017 and 2018 he was invited to speak at the Association of Professional Dog Trainers conference on his work with kids and dogs. In 2016, he launched a dog training educational platform called The Doggie Dojo. GUEST URL: www.thedoggiedojo.com

Ernie de los Santos is an optimist and author, Co-founder of the Non-Profit TopGun Audit School, founder of Appeal Academy, Host and creator of Finally Friday! LIVE, and Executive Director of the Council for Certification of Medical Auditors, Inc. Ernie created TopGun Audit School in early 2019 to promote his vision of a healthcare system where you can wake up every morning excited to go to work because you get to be part of helping people in need of healthcare, feel your job is secure, and go home fulfilled at the end of every day. He founded Appeal Academy and Finally Friday! LIVE in 2011; and continues to produce weekly free webinars on process improvement, regulatory compliance, and Revenue Integrity Grand Rounds (aka RIGOR) – now numbering over 260 free webinars. Prior to entering the healthcare industry in 2006, he spent over 20 years in research and development of new business models and production processes, working on projects for Fortune 100 corporations, including Coca-Cola, Kodak, SONY, Panasonic, MCI, US Sprint and the International Olympic Committee. He holds degrees in Archaeology, Computer Science, and Marketing. (That means that anytime he speaks, if you dig up an old hospital, he's probably the only one present who can tell you what they did in each room by studying the trash left on the floor.) Ernie currently lives in the Texas Hill Country in Boerne, Texas, about 30 miles north of San Antonio. He lives with the wife BettyLee and their ShiTzu puppy, Meena – 11 pounds of Love. They enjoy spending time with their blended family of 6 children and 14 grandchildren. LINKS Creator, Host of Finally Friday! President, Co-Founder, TopGun Audit School Executive Director, CCMA – CMAS Member Site Member, Board of Directors, BOHI – Blue Ocean Healthcare Investments

SHUT UP and listen to me rant about the increasing amount of grown men I have seen on moped and bicycles around town and the recent story of how a rabid Shitzu tried to attack me at work.

Joanna gets interviewed by Dali Rivera from The Dali Talks show in this episode.We are incredibly grateful for this interview and the opportunity that Dali gave Joanna as a guest on her show.  In this episode you will learn about:You're not born with insecurities.People are always going to judge you regardless of what you choose in lifeUnlearning the stories that were created when you were growing up.Showing up on 30 day challenges for yourself.We speak energy before anything else.  FOLLOW DALI:InstagramFacebookDali Talks ABOUT DALI:As a parent who went through bullying as a child and who had to advocate for her own child, I bring value to parents with the knowledge, tools, and resources that help parents learn how to teach their children to prevent and stop bullying as well as how to advocate effectively.I offer virtual and in-person workshops, virtual and in-person coaching and an online master class so that parents can have options on how to learn and when. The very unique part of my workshops is that parents will find them refreshingly interesting because I teach from a diversity lens. Stereotypes are a big topic in my workshops because they are a major factor in what and how children think of others as well as themselves. Oftentimes, stereotypes are used to tease, but because kids don't know facts, they use them to justify bullying others due to their differences.When I hold the in-person workshops, I usually include the parent AND the child. In order to make them fun, I incorporate games and a fun book that makes the workshops seem like a time of activities rather than a time of instruction. Ready to LEVEL UP your habits? Join my FREE 30 Day Challenge on Instagram. Text: CHALLENGE to (323) 524-9857 to receive a daily morning text to get you up and out of bed. Resources: The Get Up GirlJoanna Vargas on InstagramLive Fully Academy on IG!Joanna Vargas on FacebookTikTok @joannavargasofficialJoin my monthly online academy: LIVE FULLY ACADEMYOperation Underground Railroad – OURRescue.orgLearn more: Dance Your LifeTEXT: BUSINESS to (323) 524-9857 to get on my VIP lift for my next upcoming business coaching group! 

OLÍMPIA FICA NA AMARELA OU VAI PARA A LARANJA? Governo do Estado anuncia hoje reclassificação do Plano São Paulo. Olímpia fica na amarela ou vai para a laranja. O que muda? Os parques ficam abertos? NA TV TEM! Prefeito da entrevista de 11 minutos na TV Tem e fala sobre planos, obras antienchentes e volta às aulas. OLÍMPIA PODE COMEÇAR VACINAÇÃO DIA 25! Com os novos anúncios dos governos federal e estadual, Olímpia pode começar a vacinar ainda este mês. TOMÓGRAFO ESTÁ SENDO INSTALADO! Santa Casa iniciou esta semana a instalação do tomógrafo computadorizado. A VOLTA DO NOSSA SENHORA! Prefeitos e Geninho conseguem verba do Estado e Hospital Nossa Senhora em Barretos volta a ter 52 leitos de UTI para covid. A CAMINHO DO CAOS? Olímpia mantém mais de 25 positivos por dia com 16 internados na 4.ª feira. Divisão de casos dos seis dias do mês de janeiro continua com média de 25 por dia. Média móvel (duas semanas) também mostra aumento de 18 pra 21 casos. Mas, nos últimos 30 dias mais que triplicou o número de casos indo de 05 para 21 casos/dia. BARRETOS NA SUBIDA - Barretos que é a sede regional da região a qual pertence e a maior cidade da DRS V, registrou mais 127 casos em 24 horas. Na UTI do hospital Nossa Senhora estavam 19 internados, dentre eles dois pacientes de Olímpia, dois homens, um de 37 e outro 47 anos de idade. Se 13 leitos apenas estão credenciados pelo governo federal, Barretos está com 146% de ocupação de UTI, ou seja, 06 internados a mais que a capacidade. Se fossem os 53 leitos credenciados até novembro, ocupação seria de 35,8%. Na enfermagem da Santa Casa também tem um paciente de 76 anos de Olímpia com covid. POLÍCIA - Artista olimpiense sofre tentativa de golpe. - Ladrões fazem "limpa" em fabrica de artefatos de borracha. - Levaram cachorro Shitzu de casa na Otavio Lopes Ferraz. - Morador reclama que poste da CPFL pode cair. - Mande seu vídeo, sua mensagem de voz, ou escreva sua reclamação pelo nosso WhatsApp 17 996564897. - Pergunte que a gente responde. Se a gente não tiver conhecimento, pesquisa e tenta entender junto com você. Vamos discutir a vida. Vamos refletir juntos. - Cidade em Destaque, com o jornalista José Antônio Arantes e sua tromba, Bruna Silva Arantes Savegnago, pelos 98,7 MHz da Rádio Cidade, pela Folha da Região e pelo iFolha, em https://www.facebook.com/siteifolha ou https://www.facebook.com/siteifolha/live/ no Facebook, no endereço https://www.youtube.com/siteifolha pelo Youtube. Clique em SEGUIR no Face e se inscreva no nosso canal no Youtube. Nos dois, busque por siteifolha. - NO SPOTIFY – Além de assistir o vídeo a qualquer hora, em qualquer data, no Youtube e no Facebook, você pode ouvir o áudio do programa Cidade em Destaque no Spotify. E só entrar e buscar por Cidade em Destaque e você terá todos os áudios do programa e de reportagens para ouvir no seu celular. - Para ouvir na internet, a programação ao vivo, você pode também buscar o radios.com e procurar por “rádios em Olímpia” e clicar no logo da Rádio Cidade.

Join Mary and her very special guest Simone Turner as they talk about finding your path to feminine embodiment. Simone Turner is the Founder of The Wildly Nourished Woman Collective and a holistic lifestyle expert guiding women to become the most successful and healthiest versions of themselves possible. Simone is a professionally trained Holistic Health & Embodiment Coach and a Reiki Level 2 Practitioner attuned and initiated through the lineage of the Usui System of Natural Healing. Empowering women to step into and reclaim their personal autonomy while building authentic sisterhood is what lights her up. She is passionate about supporting women like you to feel their best from the inside out - spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. When Simone isn’t doting on Oatmeal, her ShiTzu dog, she's coaching women to step outside the "societal" box, disrupting the norm, and helping them birth new beliefs of what feminine embodiment and living a Wildly Nourished life personally looks and feels like.   ON THIS EPISODE WE WILL DISCUSS... -What is feminine embodiment -The experience of embodiment for woman of different races -Incorporating your whole self into healing    -How trauma can delay embodiment -Practical tools to begin to listen to the language of your body   -The shadow side of archetypes -The bravery it takes to step into embodiment work -What causes our resistance to softening -And much more!   — SEASON 2: Each month will be a deep dive into a topic that supports you on your journey to living more fully alive. December’s topic will be on Femininity.    --- Simone’s Website http://www.SimoneTurner.com Fully Alive Circle Membership Waitlist: https://www.maryhyatt.com/circle Full List of Episodes & Show Notes: https://www.maryhyatt.com/show Subscribe to My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/maryhyatt Sign Up For My Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/c1JNJv Follow Me On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maryghyatt/

One of Atlanta’s top lifestyle, fashion and travel blogs, NikkiFreeStyle.com is a repository for all things fun, fabulous and fashionable. I created NikkiFreeStyle.com to document my personal style, and to inspire and encourage ladies considered plus size to disregard antiquated fashion rules often imposed on our community. I also wanted the blog to be an outlet to connect with others who share my passion for fashion, beauty, travel and LIFE!I love sharing my life and the things I truly love with others, and my goal is to become an even more trusted source of all things fabulous. Throughout this journey, I have discovered some fascinating finds, met some wonderful people, and worked with many unbelievable brands, including Walt Disney World and Delta Airlines.I am a plus size curvy fashionista who totally owns her body, her curves and her style with cool confidence. I launched NikkiFreeStyle.com to showcase her individual style and personal taste with the masses. Since launching the blog, I've graced the cover of Redbook Magazine as a winner of the publication’s Real Women Style Awards. The groundbreaking 2015 issue was the first national magazine to feature non-celebrity, non-models on the September cover.I've been named by several fashion magazines and websites as an up and coming blogger to watch and has been featured in several publications including Plus Model Magazine, TheCurvyFashionista.com, bustle.com and Fashion Bomb Daily. I'moften invited to speak at various events about fashion, beauty and style, and has styled several professional women in various industries. I pride herself in promoting fun fashion for women of all ages and all sizes.I am a former news reporter and spokeswoman for a number of government agencies and corporate entities. I earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism for Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU). I am married and has a Shitzu named Petey.

Anne jogs in this episode. Okay, she really just plops along while talking to ya about things like doing 'PE' (Passive Exercise), a sick mini coonhound and, the real struggle to stay fit with each passing day.

Você sabia que algumas raças, como o Shitzu, têm predisposição genética para comer fezes? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Desculpe a grosseria, mas quanto antes você fosse avisado melhor. Se você é uma das muitas pessoas que fez folia na internet pra termos o vira-lata caramelo na nota de 200, mas tem um Shitzu chamado Ted, esse episódio é pra você. Chame a Mel, a Belinha, o Thor e o Marley e ouça esse podcast com toda sua família para ter uma epifania sobre seu processo criativo na hora de dar nomes. Como todos os pets importam, vamos investigar também boas histórias de gatos, peixes, papagaios, tartarugas e chesters. Host: Scheid, o CEOBancada: Punk Willians, Farinhaki, Fael e Guilherme Maciel.

Trevor is returning from the AKC Agility Internationals. Taking home top Shitzu and Silky Terrier medallions. His dogs also achieved Gold Elite Performance Trick Dog Title. His 4--month old Border Collie pup made it on AKC.TV! We are going to be speaking about anything dog training, Your dogs mental, physical and social health. Have a question about your dog? This would be a great time to call in live and speak with Trevor! GUEST NAME: Trevor SmithGUEST BIO: Trevor has more than 20 years of experience training dogs. In 2015, 2017 and 2018 he was invited to speak at the Association of Professional Dog Trainers conference on his work with kids and dogs. In 2016, he launched a dog training educational platform called The Doggie Dojo. GUEST URL: www.thedoggiedojo.com

Jackson Bliss is an assistant professor of creative writing at BGSU. His genre-bending fiction focuses on being mixed-race in a global world. This episode features a conversation about exploring identity through writing and a reading from his forthcoming novel, The Amnesia of June Bugs.   Transcript: Intro: This podcast features instances of explicit language. If you are listening with children, you may want to save this conversation for later. Intro: From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas. Musical Intro: I'm going to show you this. It's a wonderful experiment. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome to the Big Ideas Podcast, brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Dr. Jolie Sheffer, associate professor of English and American culture studies and the director of ICS. Jolie Sheffer: Today I'm joined by Dr. Jackson Kanahashi Bliss. Bliss is an assistant professor in the creative writing program here at BGSU. He's published in The New York Times, The Boston Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, and many other publications. He earned his MFA from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California. Today we have the pleasure of hearing him read from his new work, Amnesia of Junebugs. Thanks for joining me today, Jackson. Jackson  Bliss: Happy to be here. Jolie Sheffer: You are both a creative writer and a literary scholar. How do you think of your creative writing as being shaped by scholarship on Asian American literature? Are there other ways in which you see your work as interdisciplinary? Jackson  Bliss: Yeah, it's a funny marriage, actually, and I think it's an accidental one, because, in the beginning, I wrote most experimentally, and then when I started studying Asian American studies, I realized there was a sort of strong bent towards experimentalism and activism and how it connects to ethnic nationalism, ethnic studies, academic studies, and academic centers and universities. So this was completely accidental. I didn't intentionally sort of imitate the preferred genre of activist-minded APIA literature. It just sort of happened that way. But the more I studied Asian American studies, particularly works like Immigrant Acts by Lisa ... What's her last name? Jolie Sheffer: Lowe. Jackson  Bliss: Lisa Lowe. Yeah. It sort of made me realize there's a strong sort of push against the stylistics of the empire, which tends to be connected to linear narratives and coming-of-age stories. That made me want to write that story, particularly because I found it a little bit both historically informed, but also generically arbitrary that a particular sub-genre of fiction would supposedly work so well, right, in something that we are actively trying to deconstruct. Jackson  Bliss: I feel like writers like Viet Thanh Nguyen are perfect examples of people who said, "No, you can have a narrative arc and do a lot of important work instead of deconstructing standardized, sort of imposed European models of narrative." Jackson  Bliss: So I think all of those things appealed to me a lot. So it became much more conscious the more I wrote fiction, I think. Yeah. But in the beginning, it was totally accidental and organic. Jolie Sheffer: Your peace Dukkha, My Love is an experimental hypertext novella, created for the web. Can you describe our audience, what that term means? What is an electronic novella, and what can people expect when encountering a text like that? What were you hoping to explore, both formally and thematically? Jackson  Bliss: I think part of it is that there is a very tiny archive of electronic writing, just in general. If you go to the standard places that catalog experimental writing, for example, they're really small. They're highly limited. A lot of writers that write experimentally or create online hypertext don't even publish through them. They just publish on their website. So it's highly decentralized in a way that can be really frustrating for, for example, scholars in new media, because there is no clearinghouse for someone to find all the works. Jackson  Bliss: I think the thing that new readers of hypertext, which is online experimental writing, have to sort of keep in mind is a lot of it is about the ability to create your own narrative, sort of on your own terms. This is sort of the burden, but the beauty of reading. In Dukkha, My Love, essentially, readers click on hypertext, not knowing where it takes them. So they have control, but they're doing it blindly, right? So there's a lot of that going on. It's highly immersive, but it's also indeterminate in terms of where your freedom and control as a reader will take you. Jackson  Bliss: Eventually, as readers start reading more and more, they sort of participate in the cyclicity of the three intersecting narratives, which is absolutely part of the point of reading it, which is the ways in which there is a historical cycle that would repeat, the ways in which we repeat sort of certain cultural modalities of xenophobia and fear against the other, the ways in which our own understanding of reality sort of goes in these continuous cycles of knowledge and awareness and denial, and the proof of this as well is on the first page, when readers click on one of the destinations, where you can basically pick where you want the story to go. It'll even say, "My life is a circle," right, sort of reinscribing this idea in the reader that they are participating in it, but they are not necessarily aware of where they're going, which I think is kind of a fitting cultural analogy of sort of our own conceptualization of history, right? So we sort of have an idea of where it's going, but we're sort of blind as to where exactly it lands. Jackson  Bliss: So yeah, it took me about probably four years of doing research and writing the excerpts and about four months of teaching myself how to code enough to learn how to strip audio files off of YouTube videos and then basically take my own music and sort of record it and then time it and cut it in such a way where it worked with the videos, which I basically ripped off from the Learning Channel and someone else. God bless all of you. Thank you for your fine work. Jackson  Bliss: Yeah. But I was learning as I was creating. That particular genre was something I had never done before, and that's why I wanted to contribute to the discourse, because I felt like it's pretty emaciated, in terms of a genre, right, but also highly accessible. Those two things really appealed to me. Jolie Sheffer: That project in particular, you set yourself a set of hurdles that were challenges you had to then work within, right? So you make something that is, by nature, through coding, deeply linear and kind of limit certain pathways. It is not an endlessly, right? You have to create a set of possibilities, which means foreclosing others, and yet your work itself and the things that interest you are all about the chaotic, the unpredictable, the messy. So how did you kind of respond to the challenge that you set for yourself? Did you feel like you'd handcuffed yourself, or was it liberating, in some sense, to have to work within these limitations? Jackson  Bliss: To be honest, I thought the limitations were there to keep me sane, because I think I would have lost my (beep) mind if I had literally created a work of infinity, because, originally, the idea was I was going to create [inaudible 00:06:50] Book of Sand, right? You could almost make that argument, but if you read Dukkha, My Love enough, you will eventually hit the same narrative strand. So you do sort of touch on finitude at some point. It's impossible to avoid that textual finitude. Jackson  Bliss: But the constraints ended up being lifesavers for me, because this project otherwise could have gone on forever. Let me give you an example. When I was trying to keep track of all the three separate narrative strands and then create a separate stub for each one on my website, this required a level of organization that, frankly, I don't like to have in my art. That goes against my entire ethos as a multimodal, mixed-race, experimentalist-leaning, voice-driven, stylized writer. Yet here we were, where I basically had to control my choices, one, so that I could finish this product before the next semester started and, two, to sort of create a bottleneck, I guess, a narrative bottleneck, where, at some point, everything does have to go through certain sort of narrative choices. Jackson  Bliss: That's both because of the limitation in my coding skills, frankly, but also because there are certain sort of narrative strands I want readers to go through, and I don't want them to necessarily be negotiable. So, for that reason, the index page is, in and of itself, a sort of delimitation of the narrative choices, right? Readers only have basically 10 to 15 places to choose, and then they only have 4 to 10 actionable links on that page. So it sort of starts and ends with finitude. Jackson  Bliss: There is, believe it or not, those of you that have read this, a goodbye page, an acknowledgement page, but, as it turns out, it's incredibly (beep) difficult to find. I mean, I can't even find it, and there's other details that I put that I think were just a little too [inaudible 00:08:41] for themselves. There was an asterisk next to certain narrative strands, letting readers know, "Hey, this is it. This is about to take you to the final page," and I hope that readers would note that this was connected to the theme of the star colonies. That's why the asterisk's there. But you have to scroll down, and if you don't scroll down, you don't see it, and then it doesn't take you to the final page. Jackson  Bliss: But I'm not upset about this. I don't hate myself. I have accepted that there are limitations to reading, and you really can't predict, unless you're into analytics, what your readers are going to do. To me, that's the beauty of it, is that it gives readers, essentially, some blind power to decide how the story is told, which, frankly, isn't done very often in speculative fiction. So that's why it appealed to me. Jolie Sheffer: Much of your work deals with being hapa, or mixed race. How do you see your identity playing a role in your creative work, or, conversely, how has your fiction played a role in your understanding of your own identity? Jackson  Bliss: It's interesting you ask me that, because, in the beginning, when I look back to my earliest fiction, all my characters were white, and this is for a couple of reasons. One, because, at that point, I was definitely passing as white. Two, it's just simply easier for me and my mom, who's hapa as well, my brother, who's also hapa, to just not push the mixed-race button. I was born in Northern Michigan. I didn't live in a community where we celebrated, right, sort of any sort of multicultural, multiracial identity. Jackson  Bliss: There was a lot of survival going on. I mean, even my obachan would not speak to me in Japanese unless I begged her. This was partially because she had a sort of assimilationist paradigm, when it came to living in America. So she thought she was helping me by just making me only speak English. Jackson  Bliss: So, ironically, as I got older and started realizing I have two very different racial and cultural modalities, I mean, I'm literally the son of Japanese immigrants on my mom's side, and that's how close that side of the genealogy is. It's insane I'm never writing about that. It's bizarre that I don't talk about that. I think part of it's because I didn't know how to. There's a lot of things I love about growing up in the Midwest, but it's culturally not the most progressive place to examine your racial hybridity, and I think if I had grown up in SF or New York City, a place where there are strong multicultural identities as the centering of the urban ethos, I probably would have found myself a lot earlier. So it took me a long time. Jackson  Bliss: So I realized at one point that my racial hybridity, in a lot of ways, sort of mimicked my generic hybridity, right, where I like to write in a lot of different genres. I sort of pick and choose. I don't feel like I should be pigeonholed. I sort of embrace this idea that I can almost pick the concept of the neutral, in terms of what it means and [inaudible 00:11:35]'s notion of you don't have to pick one side or other. You can choose to not pick between two options, especially when they're highly binary and deeply delimiting, existentially. Jackson  Bliss: So these things sort of coincided. My desire to sort of subvert genre conventions and just find whatever's the right genre and voice for me coincided with my realization that I had a lot I wanted to understand and investigate about my own mixed-race identity, as someone who's French, British, and Japanese. So it's really my PhD years where I really started fully embracing this and really interrogating it. Jolie Sheffer: What kinds of research do you do for your creative work? You alluded to some of that. What scholars or authors have shaped your work and worldview? Jackson  Bliss: The first people to influence my voice, Junot Diaz and then JD Salinger, and the third one is Zadie Smith. These three writers really informed my whole conception of voice and textual and racial hybridity. So the thing I liked about JD Salinger as a teenage boy was the authenticity of someone questioning authenticity, right? That sort of self blindness, I found really compelling, right? Jolie Sheffer: All his talk of phoneys, right? Jackson  Bliss: Yeah, phoneys. Right. Jolie Sheffer: Yeah. Jackson  Bliss: In many ways, he's [Salinger] the phoniest of all. But, on the other hand, there's a tender side to him that often gets ignored, where he's deeply concerned about preventing trauma to people, because he himself appears to be traumatized, in a way that Holden Caulfield was incapable of sort of working out. So that was powerful to me, and the stylization of the voice was really powerful. Jackson  Bliss: But then when I read White Teeth by Zadie Smith and then Drown by Junot Diaz, I suddenly realized that there was space for my voice, this sort of multicultural urban realism combining with almost sort of Creole sort of language, patois, right, in English. I didn't know that you could do that. I didn't know we were allowed to put the language of our other identity into English. It sounds really crazy when I hear it, but yeah, it was sort of a revelation to me that we could have a stylized voice that sort of embraced and sort of interrogated and was a product of a multicultural identity. Jackson  Bliss: With White Teeth, I think I was just so invested in the ways in which she sort of did these portraitures of different racial and historical and cultural communities and gave each of them a sort of majesty and humanity and an interrogation that I found really amazing and actually rare and then combine it with a sort of these moments of maximization, where the language just explodes off the page, right? Jackson  Bliss: I realized these writers were doing a lot of important work that I myself wanted to do, that I needed to understand better and also, at the same time, that they were giving me permission to sort of figure out my own narrative modality, my own stylized voice, because it's easy to feel like you have to basically come off as neutral, which is code for sounding white. A lot of writers of color I'm friends with feel the same way. They feel this invisible constraint all the time to write in a way where Ivy League-educated, East Coast white readers will understand and connect with. Jackson  Bliss: The problem is there's things that that demographic cannot connect with, and if we write for this imagined, embodied, universal voice, we can give up a lot of the most vital parts of our own sort of unique lyricism and our own techniques for storytelling. So that was a huge revelation for me. Jolie Sheffer: You recently published an essay in TriQuarterly called The Cult of Likability, or Why You Should Kill Your Literary Friendships. In it, you talk about how readers frequently criticize characters for their likeability, or lack thereof. Do you see this as a racialized or gendered criticism, and what qualities do you think are important to make characters compelling? Jackson  Bliss: I do think it's heavily racialized, and I think it's heavily gendered. I think it works in a really sort of sinister, unconscious way for a lot of people. There's still this notion of universal literary merit. When something's amazing, it has this broad appeal. But universality in literature, at least in the 21st century, is mostly code for literature that appeals to a massive white readership. What I've noticed in my workshops, but also in a lot of book reviews, is that works that are written with characters of color or by authors of color or both, especially when they're women, are much more heavily criticized than when they are, for example, white narrators or white female narrators, right? Jolie Sheffer: Yeah. You don't hear people complaining that Humbert Humbert wasn't likable enough in Lolita. Jackson  Bliss: Right. Exactly. Yeah. Jolie Sheffer: That's not the criticism, or that Rabbit Angstrom isn't likable. Jackson  Bliss: Right. That's right. So one of the arguments I made in this essay is, first of all, some of the most important works that I think have shaped, in a positive way, a sort of expanding sort of foundational text canon in America comes from books that weren't necessarily fun to read, with characters who we didn't necessarily like at all, who are important. I mean, Native Son has Bigger Thomas, I think his name is, and that's a crucial character, right? To say, "I don't like this, because I didn't get him" or "I didn't like him" or "He didn't appeal to me" is so essentially irrelevant to the importance, both culturally and historically and racially, that that voice sort of incarnates. Jackson  Bliss: I'm noticing a tendency now where liter agents and now MFA students and a lot of readers are using love and infatuation as this sort of literary metric for determining the value of something. "I didn't love it. I didn't love the voice. I didn't love the character," as if we are now given permission to not consider the literary value of the work, the importance of the marginalized voice, for example, because we realize we don't like the character. Jackson  Bliss: I think it's connected, partially, to cancel culture. But I also think it's partially connected to reality TV, because, with reality television, when we saw a character we didn't like, we would vote them off. So, essentially, likability had consequences, right? Jackson  Bliss: What I think is happening now is people are reading texts that decenter them or ask them to do work or research. Suddenly, they will just decide, "I don't like this character," and that's the end of it. Jolie Sheffer: It also seems to me, though, related to what you were talking about before, which is that if you don't recognize, if you're encountering a new voice, a new perspective, that is not one that you have been taught to recognize because of literature and because of established kind of genres of reading, that first impulse might be, "I don't like this person," and it takes time to actually get used to new voices. Jackson  Bliss: That's right. Yeah, and I think that sort of discomfort maybe at being de-centered is a completely understandable, very normal one. Everyone feels that way. The problem is communities of color and marginalized communities have felt this their entire lives. They go into any room, they go into any white space, and they are always de-centered, all the time. I think this is something that, in general, white readers are a lot less capable and patient and willing to deal with, in part because they've never had to, right? Jackson  Bliss: So for this to happen in the sort of sacred American pastime of reading I think rubs people the wrong way, but I feel there is a silver lining, which is these readers can sit in that lack of comfort and know, at the end of the day, that it's going to be okay and that they will work it out and they will start to slowly understand these characters and potentially empathize with them. But that takes time, and if we don't learn to learn about people and sort of enter into their space, we will never get there. Jackson  Bliss: That's actually one of the arguments I make in this essay, which is not only would we erase some of the greatest literature written by writers of color if we decide we don't like the characters, but, more importantly, we lose our critical thinking skills and our empathetic ones, because this requires us to learn from the other, whoever the other is for us. Jackson  Bliss: I think that's my issue with likability, is it's become this eroticized literary metric, as if infatuation is actually a legitimate metric to analyze the literary value of a work. Frankly, I don't give a (beep) whether someone loves a book of mine or not. What I care about is if they can enter into it, if they can learn from it, if they can go someplace new, from the end of the book to when they started. To me, that's, in some ways, almost more important. Jackson  Bliss: Whether I'm friends with a character, whether we're besties or not is ... I could give two (beep) about that. But it's becoming a sort of standard comment to make in workshop, and I do my best to sort of interrogate that a little bit. But I feel like we have now reached a point in our culture where not liking something, in our eyes, gives us permission to essentially dismiss it. Jolie Sheffer: We're going to take a quick break. Thanks for listening to the Big Ideas Podcast. Intro: If you are passionate about big ideas, consider sponsoring this program. To have your name or organization mentioned here, please contact us at ics@bgsu.edu. Jolie Sheffer: Hello, and welcome back to the Big Ideas Podcast. Today I'm talking to Dr. Jackson Bliss about fiction, form, and mixed-race identity. You prepared a reading for us called The Amnesia of Junebugs. Can you tell us a bit about the piece you're going to read and where it fits into the work as a whole? Jackson  Bliss: Sure. So this is a tiny excerpt from one of four principal characters. This character's name is Winnie Yu, and he's essentially a culture jammer. So he creates political graffiti, and/or he takes ads from companies and essentially turns the ads against themselves by adding different color, texture to essentially make the ad self-indict itself. It's a very sort of critical novel, as a whole, on capitalism and sort of begs for the role that public art plays in a sort of taking back of streets that are essentially corporatized, in a lot of ways. Jackson  Bliss: So this tiny part here is just a tiny sort of backstory of Winnie describing the first time he realized he did not live in Asia, but that he actually lived in New York City, a tiny secret he didn't realize at the time because he had never taken a train to another borough. So that's sort of like the context for this work. Jackson  Bliss: Winnie had lived off of the Bowery his whole life. Didn't even know that New York was in America until he was six. His parents spoke Cantonese, Taiwanese. Everyone in his fam did. The market signs on Grand Street, where his mom bought her groceries, were written in simplified Chinese characters. His neighbors watched Cantonese soap operas in the afternoon. Old men hung out at Mr. Chang's corner store at night, playing dominoes and drinking ginseng tea and Viper Whiskey, cracking jokes in Wu. His super was Fujian, the cheapest mother (beep) he'd ever seen, who tried to fix everything with duct tape, tinfoil, and DAP. Jackson  Bliss: For the longest time, Winnie believed he lived in Asia. He thought white people were the tourists. But in one day, Mama changed the rules of his storytelling. By taking the subway together for the first time to Brooklyn, she thought it would be cool for them to go over the Manhattan Bridge, and it kind of was. He'd never ridden over a bridge before, didn't understand that New York City had islands or that they were connected together by bridges, the vertebrae of the urban body. It took him a long time to see that subway lines are veins; the major subways, arteries; the streets, capillaries. Jackson  Bliss: Until that fateful and transformative day, Winnie didn't know he lived in a fractal world, in a city of billboards, insects, damaged vascular systems and wandering spirits. He didn't know that New York is an ethnographic sponge, silently absorbing the screenplay of immigration. He didn't know that New York is a megapolis, its streets, highways, and bridges resembling the human nervous system. NYC is an urban hive imploding with refugee stories, diasporic longing, bustling multiculturalism, and inherited fortune, a collapsing urban space where culture dances between neighborhoods and history intersects ethnicity, creating abstract forms that interact, but don't touch each other, like a kaleidoscope. Jackson  Bliss: Until that day, Winnie thought New York was only ten blocks, from Mr. Chang's bodega all the way to Good Times Dry Cleaners. He thought New York was the unofficial capital of Taiwan, a nation and an island and a freaky global village. He was half right, actually. Jackson  Bliss: The straight (beep) is that the day they took the train over the Manhattan Bridge, Mama was showing him the way to St. Ursula's School, were Asian, Latino, and black kids wore unforgiving white polo shirts with stiff colors that dug into their necks like plow yokes and old man pants with creases running down their legs like highway meetings that resisted wrinkles and clumps and refused to be rolled up at the ankles at a school were Asian, Latino, and black girls were forced to wear skimpy plaid skirts, even in the spring, where poor students of color pretended they were rich, rich white students pretended they were gangsta, and all the teachers spoke Midtown English. It was an academy of impersonations and a theater of the restless mind. Jackson  Bliss: The day Mama enrolled Winnie in Catholic school and filled out the paperwork for a St. Martin de Porres Scholarship for Immigrant Students, a detail and a reference he wouldn't even understand until he was in high school, when he realized his mom had accidentally taken away his fixed identity and shoved him into a chrysalis of his own making. As they passed over the Manhattan Bridge again, he didn't understand how the whole world he'd seen that day could all be one city, didn't understand why all the Asian people disappeared, or so it seemed, why no one spoke his family's languages anymore. Jackson  Bliss: Even now, as a 30 something, he still couldn't figure out how his parents had managed to sequester him from the class struggle, the racial conflict, and the spatial tension of inner-city life for as long as they did. What he did know is that after Mama had enrolled him for classes, smoothed his hair back for a school ID, bribed him with feng li su cakes from a Taiwanese Baker he'd never seen before to celebrate his enrollment, and then led his (beep) back to their apartment, pineapple paste caramelized in his teeth, Winnie realized that he didn't know (beep) about his American life anymore, except he wasn't living in Asia, and he certainly wasn't Catholic. Jackson  Bliss: As far as birthdays went, turning six (beep) sucked, the worst thing to happen to him, at least until explosive acne in 10th grade, at least until his Ba peaced out of his life for good too soon. Jolie Sheffer: You really set the scene of this world within a world, where a child could grow up in New York's Chinatown without realizing they were even in the US. You've lived in the Midwest, on the West Coast, in Japan, Argentina, and Burkina Faso. How do you approach the idea of setting a sense of place, in this story in particular and generally in your work? Jackson  Bliss: One thing is that I think places are characters. I have felt this way pretty much ever since, I think, I watched my first Bertolucci film. It's something I learned very early on, and I feel, as a writer who considers himself to be a sort of stylized urban maximalist, it's impossible for me to define or construct characters without understanding the sort of cultural context in which they grew up and evolve, because that's true for me, and that tends to be true for them. So, for me, setting and place are interconnected with voice and identity. Jolie Sheffer: What kind of research did you do for that piece? Jackson  Bliss: Mostly just walked around Chinatown a million times. I wrote a lot of this novel when I had an editorial internship at Hachette Books in New York City. I also visited in the fall of 2006. So I spent a lot of time just walking around New York City, taking the subway, looking for sort of famous graffiti that people were talking about. I spent a lot of time eating vegan dim sum in Chinatown. I feel like sometimes the best way to do research for cities is simply live in the city and see how it breathes. So a lot of it, yeah, was simply walking around, observing, taking notes, talking to my New York friends, asking them questions, asking my Chinese American friends questions. But most of it was just walking, breathing, living, eating in those places. Jolie Sheffer: Your characters always have very distinctive voices. You were just talking about character, but in the characters in your stories, how do you think about approaching developing their particular patterns of speech? Jackson  Bliss: I feel like, a lot of times, the verbal tics, they take time, because who I think a character is in the beginning when I write them is almost never who they are at the end, and then it's sort of up to me to go back and sort of reconcile the voice, so to speak, because there's this implicit rule in fiction where a character's voice has to actually be more consistent than people's voices in real life, right? Because in real life, we, for example, especially people I know who work in different sort of social, professional, racial, and cultural spheres, they code switch all the time, and this can seem inauthentic to people, but it's very normal. But in fiction, you actually have to have a more sort of reconciled voice that readers won't see as too contradictory. Otherwise, they won't think it's the same person. Jackson  Bliss: So this is one of those sort of secret constraints that most fiction writers I know struggle with. How do I keep a voice? How do I construct it, and then how do I maintain it? So I think a lot of times, I will read my dialogue out loud, and I'll just basically understand the character through their orality first, right? How do they sound? How do they feel? Jackson  Bliss: Then, I think, from there, I make modifications, especially when these characters make important sort of plot decisions that might alter their voice or their modulation in some way. For example, I once wrote a character, and then I realized halfway through, "Oh, this character isn't going to be Portuguese-Japanese. They're going to be" ... I don't know. I don't know what I decided, French-Japanese or something, and that changed some of the vocabulary, right? That changed some of the sort of place names and cultural references. Jackson  Bliss: I have another novella that's actually interconnected with this novel, and, for the longest time, it was written from a Senegalese American point of view, because I had spent a decent amount of time in West Africa. Then I realized I was interested to see what would happen if I changed the character and made him mixed-race and made him Japanese Senegalese American. I did that, and it suddenly transformed his voice. There were certain beats that didn't work anymore, right? There's certain slang that doesn't make sense anymore, and there are other things that had to sort of have a presence. Otherwise, it was just a whitewashed mixed-race character. Jackson  Bliss: I think that's the general process, but it always begins and, I think, ends with me simply speaking, because I need to literally hear the voice to understand it on the page. Jolie Sheffer: Lots of creative writers read their work in public, right? That is a kind of professional part of the job. You have a very particular kind of performative approach. How do you think about preparing what you're going to read, how you read, and how do you think that shapes your readers' or listeners' perception of the work? Jackson  Bliss: Yeah, I'll confess right now I'm a speech and debate geek, so in high school and even college, I was a debater, and I was one of those extemporaneous speakers. So I have a long history of sort of seeing the value that public speaking makes. Jackson  Bliss: But I also think that most of my important characters, the ones I'm really invested in emotionally, almost always have some level of identification with their language. So that's where the voice will end up being so sort of important and sort of fleshed out, and I've noticed in the past couple of years that when I give readings, I tend to read either the character or passages from a longer work that allows me to sort of take a very performative, language-driven sort of role in my reading. Jackson  Bliss: For that reason, if I've written a really difficult extemporaneous-feeling work that's actually highly edited and revised, that is really prolix, I guess, and heavily language-driven, I may not read it, especially if, for example, I can't find space to breathe. I have certain work that was pretty much meant to be read, even though I didn't realize it. Jackson  Bliss: So, for me, I think a lot about reading as performance, I think a lot about performance as text, and I think one of my big complaints with a lot of readings I go to is they tend to fall in a couple camps, which is, one, either they just read in this really monotone voice and they have this kind of arrogant idea that work should speak for itself. But the problem with that is what if you suck? What if you're awful? What if everyone's falling asleep? In that case, shouldn't they just stay home and read the book? Why did they waste their time to go out to this reading, where you became the greatest American sleep aid? But on the flip side, I've also seen people who sort of take it really far, and they act like they're basically unpaid beatniks. Jackson  Bliss: So I feel like every writer who ends up becoming a sort of social public figure on some level, which is inevitable once you start publishing, they have to negotiate the sort of reading ethos. For me, it's always been really important. I want readers and listeners to hear the rhythm, because musicality informs a lot of my writing, and that's from my music days. But I also want them to be transported, on some level, by my reading. I want them to feel the language and the cadence and the emotion. Jackson  Bliss: I used to get shamed when I was younger for my performances. People would be like, "Yeah, that was really something." Then you would go to their reading, and half the people were on their iPhones, fiddling away. So, for me, I see my readings as a performance, and I think that to ignore the audience is to be incredibly deceitful and to be delusional. You aren't reading to yourself. You're not reading to your partner. You're not reading to your little Shitzu. You're reading to people, and their experience should be something you think about, because that process is dialectical. It's not just about you, and it's not just about them, but there's an interplay that I honor and that I love. Jackson  Bliss: So yeah, I think a lot about how to read, when to read, and I always practice my readings because of that. Jolie Sheffer: Thank you so much, Jackson, for joining me today and sharing your work. Jackson  Bliss: Oh, it was my pleasure. Jolie Sheffer: You can find Dukkha, My Love and more of Jackson's work at his website, jacksonbliss.com. Jolie Sheffer: Our producers for this podcast are Chris Cavera and Marco Mendoza, with sound engineering by Jackson Williams. Research assistance for this podcast was provided by ICS intern Taylor Stagner, with editing by Stevie Scheurich. This conversation was recorded in the Stanton Audio Recording Studio in the Michael and Sara Kuhlin Center at Bowling Green State University.  

My ex and I remained friends after our split... well.. not immediately, but a short while after the dust had settled. We had bought a ShiTzu puppy together about a year ago. She kept him, he was "her" dog". She had asked me if I would be interested in taking him for a few days, one time when she was going out of town. I said I would in the future, but could not this time. So he went to a kennel. I felt bad for him. "Hey, can you watch Jax next week?" she texted. "Umm, sure how long?" I replied. "Only 8 days." she texted. Eight days! I'm in full-time dating mode! I definitely recall him being a lot of work, but the alternative would be eight days in a kennel. "Sure." I replied. This will be interesting, my apartment building is full of dogs, and he always goes nuts around dogs. My apartment is also on the 20th floor.. could he make it without relieving himself in the hallway to the elevator? I guess we will see... besides, chicks love cute dogs... right? I had recently taken up cycling again. I used to really enjoy it, but then did not have time. Well, I have time again, so I pulled the bike out of storage. It's a pretty bad-ass bike. I can't do the official bike shorts, because I don't like my nuts ending up behind me, so I just wear mid-length black running shorts. Together with black Nikes, a black long-sleeved Underarmour shirt, and my reflective blue Costa's on the front of my bald, tanned head.... I look pretty bad-ass also. I had been riding up and down the Tampa Riverwalk and Bayshore Blvd, and getting my share of looks from the females I whizzed past. Maybe it was the bike... or my almost clipping their elbows as I passed. It was in the back of the closet. A basket I had bought for the front of my bike, to carry crap when my ex and I used to ride. It does not belong anywhere near a bad-ass bike, but if I wanted to ride this week, I would need to take the puppy. So the basket goes on. Maybe it's good, chicks love cute puppies, and bad-ass looking guys on bad-ass bikes. Sunday afternoon, the Riverwalk is always packed with people. Ordinarily, I would continue my game of seeing how fast I could ride through crowds of people, without hitting one. But today, I will put Jax in the basket up front, and go slow. Not only might he jump out, but I also want to be able to stop quickly for any women that want to pet him. As expected, we are stopped many times... he really is a super cute puppy. One time we stopped, so a woman could pet him, in front of a large window. I looked over, and saw in the reflection... the gayest looking motherfucker I had ever seen. A German Shepard, Doberman or Labrador running along next to me would have been fine. But this little fru-fru puppy, super cute though he is, killed my entire persona. Dating with a dog is... unconventional. He's still a puppy, so leaving him alone in my apartment is not an option... he would bark nonstop. I have him until Sunday, but I don't want to wait that long. "Any plans for tomorrow night?" I text. "Not yet." she replies. "You do now!" I text. "Great! When/where?" she replies. "Somewhere pet-friendly." I text. Long pause. "You never mentioned that you had a dog?" she replies. "Only for this week." I text. Long pause. "Do you have to bring it?" she replies. At this point, I am not sure what she is thinking the dog is, but she clearly does not seem crazy about the idea. "Unfortunately, I do, he's a puppy. Small and super cute!" I text. I am hoping she does not want to put it off until after Sunday. "Sure, why not." she replies.  

Había una vez una ardillita llamada Rita. La ardillita Rita vivía en el parque principal de aquella ciudad. El parque principal era un paraíso verde que protegía toda clase de animales, plantas y arboles. El parque principal era además un refugio para los habitantes de aquella ciudad ya que les permitía caminar y hacer deporte sin la molestia de los autos. En fin, el parque principal era el hogar perfecto para una ardillita como Rita. Rita vivía en una agujero en la parte superior de el más alto de los arboles de aquel parque y por ello se sentía privilegiada. Una noche Rita estaba sentada en su agujero mirando la ciudad cuando vio que una gran tormenta se acercaba a su parque. Se adentro en su agujero que le servía de casa, refugio y almacén de comida y durante la noche sintió como su árbol se estremecía con el viento de aquella tormenta. Cuando pasó la tormenta y el sol salió al otro día, Rita se asomó desde su árbol y vio que durante la tormenta los arboles habían dejado caer todas las bellotas al suelo. Para una ardillita como Rita. Eso era un milagro. Todas las bellotas que necesitaría para el invierno estaban allí en el suelo del parque y solo tendría que recogerlas antes que el servicio de mantenimiento del parque las recogiera. Si las cogía aseguraría su alimentación por el resto del año. Y como el hueco de su gigante árbol era tan grande tenía donde guardarlas todas. Corriendo bajó del árbol y se apresuró a comenzar a recoger las bellotas, pero rápidamente se dio cuenta que solamente podía recoger una por una y que aún a toda velocidad solamente podría recoger unas cuantas antes de que limpiaran el parque. Tenia que idear otra solución. Rita era muy inteligente y recordó que ella tenía una amiguita que era una arañita que hacia las telas de arañas más fuertes y maravillosas, y pensó que si lograba que su amiga le hiciera una tela bien grande podría hacer un red con la cual subir las bellotas a su almacén en lo alto de su árbol. Y corriendo fue hasta la araña y le pidió que le hiciera su tela de araña y al final le dijo y a cambio te conseguiré lo que tu mas quieras. La arañita se puso a pensar y le dijo. Sabes desde pequeña he querido hacer colocar una campana en mi tela de araña, pero nunca he podido tener una… Si me quieres conseguir una campanita te lo agredecere. Pero si no la encuentras De todas maneras aquí estaré haciéndote tu tela de araña. Rita que conocía a todos en el parque, recordó que había una perrita shitzu muy cariñosa que venía todos los días con su amo a caminar por el parque y recordó que dicha perrita tenía una campanita en su collar, Y precisamente la perrita estaría entrando a esa hora al parque. Rita Salió corriendo y encontró la Shitzu y le dijo que si le podía regalar su campanita. La shitzu le dijo que si y Rita le dijo. Como eres muy amable dime si quieres algo y yo tratare de encontrarlo para ti.. La perrita le dijo. Noo Rita es con mucho gusto pero Sabes yo siempre he querido tener una pelota de tenis… Me vuelven loca las pelotas de tenis, pero a mi amo no le gusta el tenis y nunca me ha regalado una pelotica de esas amarillas. Si me consigues una pelotica de tenis amarilla te to agradeceré, pero cuenta con la campanita de todas maneras. Rita, que de nuevo conocía a todos los animales, Sabía que en el campo de tenis había un topo que le gustaban las pelotas de tenis y cuando un tenista dejaba abandonada una pelota, el topo la cogía y rápidamente se la llevaba para su casa que quedaba en un agujero debajo de las flores del parque. El topo, que se encontraba en su agujero, escucho a Rita llamándolo y salió de su casa. Rita le pregunto si tenia alguna pelota de tenis que le pudiera regalar y le dijo que si se la regalaba ella

This week rad dude and hilarious comedian Andrew Michaan comes to the show to talk about his soft spot for the show Seinfeld. We also get into his new van, the lifestyle that comes with it, and the movie Labyrinth! Andrew also has an adorable Shitzu named Bluetooth and we have video! This is one of our favorite episodes, enjoy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Trevor is returning from the AKC Agility Internationals. Taking home top Shitzu and Silky Terrier medallions. His dogs also achieved Gold Elite Performance Trick Dog Title. His 4–month old Border Collie pup made it on AKC.TV! We are going to be speaking about anything dog training, Your dogs mental, physical and social health. Have a question about your dog? This would be a great time to call in live and speak with Trevor! GUEST NAME: Trevor Smith GUEST BIO: Trevor has more than 20 years of experience training dogs. In 2015, 2017 and 2018 he was invited to speak at the Association of Professional Dog Trainers conference on his work with kids and dogs. In 2016, he launched a dog training educational platform called The Doggie Dojo. GUEST URL: www.thedoggiedojo.com

Trevor is returning from the AKC Agility Internationals. Taking home top Shitzu and Silky Terrier medallions. His dogs also achieved Gold Elite Performance Trick Dog Title. His 4--month old Border Collie pup made it on AKC.TV! We are going to be speaking about anything dog training, Your dogs mental, physical and social health. Have a question about your dog? This would be a great time to call in live and speak with Trevor! GUEST NAME: Trevor Smith GUEST BIO: Trevor has more than 20 years of experience training dogs. In 2015, 2017 and 2018 he was invited to speak at the Association of Professional Dog Trainers conference on his work with kids and dogs. In 2016, he launched a dog training educational platform called The Doggie Dojo. GUEST URL: www.thedoggiedojo.com

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This week it's all about mugs! Buy em, drink em, live longer. We also chat about protestant dreams, the evil Shitzu, farm life, Arlene's emails and Dev's economics ''Fetish Cheese''

Brian Bonsall (Blank Check, Family Ties) and his real life bro Victor DiMattia (The Sandlot, Dennis the Menace) face off in twenty questions on two things they love more than Ton Loc and Big Chief Chaw, Videogames and Punk Rock Music! Brian chats about playing guitar and touring with The Ataris currently and Victor shares summers of screening America's favorite baseball movie at fests. Budds relives renting Blank Check for his 7th birthday party and nerds out over befriending these awesome dudes through working on an NBC special. Category Round:  Famous Guitarists. And, a Listener Quiz on Budds in LA!   Brian Bonsall:  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095176/ Victor DiMattia:  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227224/ Word of the Week:  hallux:  anatomy term for big toe. Bad Ass Pop Culture Thing of the Week:  Killer Klowns From Outer Space on Walmart Blu Ray On This Day:  Sept 16th, 2006:  The Departed premiered in NYC.  Theme song by Frawsty:  https://soundcloud.com/frawsty SUPPORT THE SHOW! Grab some much-needed equipment off the Amazon Wishlist for Trivia with Budds.  Send in your audio rounds! Pick a topic, introduce yourself, and ask 5 questions. Then Say the questions again but with the answers. Then plug something! Record it on your phone in voice memos and send the file to ryanbudds@gmail.com and I'll insert it at the end of a future show for our Listener Rounds.  Book your next big party with Budds! Read his 60+5 Star Yelp Reviews and more at TriviaWithBudds.com.  YOU PICK THE ROUNDS, BUDDS WRITES THE QUESTIONS! Have an in-home trivia night for a super low price, totally customizable.  PARTY, EVENT, FUNDRAISER COMING UP? Book Budds for some trivia! Email ryan@ryanbudds.com for more details on how to make your event unique and fun. Hosted by Ryan Budds. For more info on all events check these sites: Click the BRAND NEW http://TriviaWithBudds.com RSVP to events for a bonus point when you show up! http://Facebook.com/TriviaWithBudds http://Twitter.com/ryanbudds http://Instagram.com/ryanbudds http://RyanBudds.com  FULL SHOW NOTES by Listener Amber McGeachy Guests: Brian Bonsall and Victor DiMattia Intro (0:33) About the show Brian Bonsall - guitar player from The Ataris. Blank Check (1:16) Victor DiMattia - Timmy Timmons in Sandlot (1:25) Budds has been in LA 5 years (2:25) Weekend (3:29) Baby boy Budds due Nov 20th Diaper and Beer Party over the weekend Check out ‘That's You' on PlayStation plus (4:21) Trivia Nughts (4:33) Triviawithbudds.com Tuesday - Surfside - Venice Beach 9pm and Bingo Wednesday 9pm  El Segundo Brew Port Tap Room  Disneyland (5:41) Enchanted Tiki Room Train around the park  8 min of Thor  Hulk Annabelle's Birthday next month - first full length movie  Movie pass $9.95 (7:34) Word of the Week (8:24) Hallux - anatomy term for big toe  On This Day (8:59)  Great Chicago Fire finally stopped  Bad Ass Pop Culture Thing of the Week (9:31) Killer Clowns from OuterSpace Blu-ray from Walmart  Business of the Week (10:28) Minty Tees - Sean Arenas Covina CA promo code Budds for 10% off  Studio City, CA (12:25) Victor DiMattia's apt with Brian Bonsall The Atraris  Victor (13:33) Timmy Timmons (Sandlot) Dennis in Dennis the Menace Dinosaur Hunter  Turner and Hooch Cool As Ice  Host of weekly podcast Vic in a Box  Brian (17:09) Andy - Family Ties  Star Trek  Mikey  Blank Check  Guitar Player in Ataris currently touring  Topics (21:25) Brian's Topics (21:31) Punk rock (21:35) Fat Records Bands  NoFX  Lagwagon  Video Games (24:38) Backpacks (25:17) Tacos (26:44) Carmelo is underrated (28:03) Vic's Topics (29:14) Shitzu's (29:16) Follow Vic's dogs on insta Booge Brothers Video Games (30:35) Guitars/Music (30:40) Conspiracy Theories (31:39) Fantasy Football (33:27) Topic Reveal (35:23) Punk Rock vs Video Games  Trivia Showdown (35:33) Buzzword: Porkchop (35:57) Combo Question (47:24) Police Truck by Dead Kennedy's and Psycho Vision by Suicidal Tendencies were 2 punk songs found on the first in a long series of video games?  Categories with Budds (48:26) Famous Guitarists  Plugs (50:47) Vic in a Box Podcast  Ataris  Brianbonsall.bandcamp.c Victor DiMattia on FB and Twitter  Mr Brian Bonsall on FB  Rate. Review. Subscribe (54:10) Amazon wishlist (54:21) Hotline (424)265-1212 Triviawithbudds.com for parties and events (55:45) Listener Quiz (56:41) what was the first food truck Ryan and Ashlee tried in LA? A. Grilled Cheese Truck  B. Get Shaved Ice  C. The Lobsta Truck  D. The Jagasaki Sushi Burrito Truck  Ryan has been in 3 movies which has he not been in?  A. Airplane vs Volcabo  B. Sharknado  C. Snakes Outta Compton  D. Doomsday Pirhana  What town have the Budds' not lived in? A. Van Nuys B. Burbank  C. West Hills  D. La Verne  What tv show has Ryan not been an extra on? A. New Girl  B. Bones  C. How I Met Your Mother D. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia  What kind of venue has Ryan not done stand up in? A. Comic Book Store B. Sub Sandwich Shop C. Treehouse D. Medical Marijuana Waiting Room 

Michele was formerly in real estate but completely fell in love with the direct selling industry. She is currently a Double Diamond Leader with It Works Global. Michele has 2 children Derek (20) and Olivia (18). Charlie is her husband and they’ve been married for over 23 years.  She has a sweet Shitzu named Chester that she’s absolutely crazy about! Michele and her family live in sunny Florida near the Gulf of Mexico in Bradenton and lived here for over 18 years. She loves to travel with her family and enjoy the good life. She also likes to volunteer weekly and serve others. http://michelelersch.com/    

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Ahoy hoy! This week, we're running a smidge behind – but are hopefully still within the bounds of fashionable lateness – so we humbly apologise for the tardy nature of this week's BRB UK. But it's here now, so Dan, Jon and Tim and primed and ready to be slipped into your ear holes for your general amusement and enjoyment.   This week, we burble about: Mass Effect 3 – extended ending Mass Effect 3 – Resurgence Pack DLC Witcher 2 Jon's got an iPad 3 Burnout: Crash (iOS) Infinity Blade II clashmob update (iOS) The Great British Debate: Would prohibiting the use of 2nd-hand games in next-gen consoles be beneficial for gamers?

Advice for living in an apartment with a dog and tips to prevent unwanted dog barking while you aren't home. We also share another listener story, this time sent in as an audio comment! We've also joined the Amazon.com Associate program, so a small percentage from purchases you make on Amazon through clicking the links in the shownotes will go towards supporting the show! -Direct download -K9Cast podcast player -Enhanced Feed Subscribe -Standard Feed Subscribe Shownotes: 00:00 Intro 00:12 Advice for dogs and apartments -Small doesn't necessarily mean good for apartments -Some big dogs can good in apartments too -Dogs behavior inside the apartment will be determined by how much training and outdoor exercise you give it. -Before getting your dog make sure it is allowed -Be courteous to your neighbors, barking and poop scooping -Dogs friendly to other dogs and children are a strongly recommended because you are more likely to run into them in apartments -Recommend keeping your dog on a leash at all times 05:55 Petfinder.com 07:11 Breeds that do well in apartments -Examples: Boston Terrier, Bulldog, Chihuahua, Corgi, Dachshund, Great Dane, Greyhound, Italian Greyhound, Lhasa Apso, Maltese, Miniature Pinscher, Poodle, Papillon, Pomeranian, Pug, Silky Terrier, Shitzu, Wheaten Terrier (Mr. Sheep!) 14:21 Tips to prevent unwanted dog barking while you are out -Kongs 20:43 Mark's story of his dog Fly 27:19 Outro -Spay or Neuter your dog