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As we navigate the treacherous seas of HR, Warren and I can't help but question the absence of compassion in corporate corridors. This episode exposes the hard truths behind the firing of an employee from Kite Baby—a company that prides itself on family values—simply for requesting remote work to care for her adopted micro-preemie. The uproar that followed on TikTok serves as a stark reminder that the face behind the brand isn't always what it seems. We also shine a light on the pulse surveys trend, revealing how these quick-fire employee feedback tools could be the next revolution—or just another fad—in gauging staff contentment.Now, let's talk optics and interviewing—two things that should go hand in hand but often don't. A poorly handled GoFundMe campaign can cause more than just a PR hiccup; it can lead to a full-blown identity crisis for brands like Kite Baby. Warren and I dissect the aftermath of their mishap, then pivot to the interviewee's perspective. We share candid tales from our own hiring experiences, drawing from the good, the bad, and the cringeworthy to equip you with the insights you need to bring your true self to your next big opportunity.Concluding with the darker side of HR, we recount Brittany Peach's ice-cold layoff via video call and debate the ethical quagmire of recorded firings. The emergence of 'fake experts' in HR is also on our radar, prompting a call for vigilance in whom we trust for career counsel. And who could forget the time HR pros sampled CBD products on a rooftop? It sure was a memorable (and somewhat foggy) lesson in the unpredictability of our profession. Hang tight until our next episode, where we hope Feathers will be back from the digital warfront to join Warren and me in dissecting more HR conundrums.Support the showWant to:* Share a dumb employee question* Share a crazy story* Ask us a question* Share a best practice * Give us feedback Our Link Tree below has links to our social media sites, Patreon, Apple podcasts, Spotify & more.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast player and interact with us online!Linktree - https://linktr.ee/jadedhr

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Yeah, yeah, we know... talk about lawyers in Shakespeare and everyone quotes the famous line to kill them all.  But do they actually need to all be killed?And what about the doctors in the canon? Are they as shitty as the lawyers?In this episode, we ponder those very questions, and discuss the characters that fall in those categories.To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're a 501C3 Non-Profit - helllloooooo, tax deductible donation!!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueOr on Paypal:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJTo visit our website, go here:https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo donate to an awesome charity, go here:https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-reliefLike us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us?? Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, the Lumen Brothers discuss everything from The Las Vegas Sphere, to Being a Jerk, Rude, and Generally Unpleasant.   Join Brackley, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about:  Not receiving your last fee payment; Small claims court; Protecting yourself with contracts; "Shystettes"; How to deal with cheap clients; Being paid by "The Lord"; Shysters in training; Dealing with friends who do not wish to sign contracts; Entertainment lawyers; Club owners; Working with people with bad reputations; Do you really need an entertainment attorney?; Protecting your intellectural property; Do you need liability insurance?; How to deal with fight calls; and The benefits of not being liked.   Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense.

VISIT HTTP://PETERNAVARRO.SUBSTACK.COM FOR THE REST OF THE STORY Beware of pollsters bearing pro-Biden or pro-DeSantis gifts.  I base this conclusion on two recent polling events that (once again) reveal a deeply biased and partisan pollster swamp. for example, the post-mortems of the polling results for the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections conducted by Fordham University political scientist Costas Panagopoulos.  In each November election, the IBD/TIPP Tracking poll got the results exactly right.  Good for it! Yet, the vast majority of the remaining pollsters showed varying degrees of Democrat bias – 10 of the 14 featured in 2016 by Panagopoulos skewed Left and that number was 11 of 14 in 2020.  Would you be surprised to learn the worst offender in 2020 was Quinnipiac while Fox News finished in the middle of the Democrat bias pack in both cycles. Here's the obvious takeaway: Today's polling industry simply cannot be trusted to deliver an accurate and unbiased result.  Here's a more subtle takeaway:  LISTEN TO THE PODCAST FOR THIS

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We debate how to protect our kids in school, we discuss the WWE sale for 9.3 billion dollars, and then we get pissed at Bud Light

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers"

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Part 5 -- BUSTED: DOJ Launches Widescale Cover-up of Bankman-Fried Money Laundering Slush Fund Heist to Protect Guilty Elites & Deep State Shysters; DeSantis Pretends to Get Tough on Big Pharma? MUCH MORE HERESIMPLY PUT -- We Cannot Say Much of the 'Really Good Stuff' on HereThat's Why We Created Paine.tvYOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE SHOW BY CLICKING THIS LINK -- *** DONATE HERE ***GET the Intel that's Too Hot For Anywhere Else atPAINE.TVCONTRIBUTE TO THE SHOW BY CLICKING THIS LINK -- *** DONATE HERE ***...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Got company vehicles on the road? Then don't miss this month's conversation about a serious but preventable problem that could cost you a bundle- or even put you out of business. Insurance broker Mike Bell, CEO of Robert Bell Insurance, cautions IEDA members on the potential fallout of a blemished DOT record, which starts with voracious injury lawyers who are prepared to pounce if one of your delivery vehicles is involved in an accident, but it doesn't stop there. Since prospective customers can access your DOT record, any violations could even result in lost rental business or sales. What kinds of violations do you need to guard against? And how far can an ounce of prevention really go? Find out how to protect yourself from enormous jury awards, even if you don't have a big administrative staff or HR department. Robert Bell Insurance: https://robertbellinsurance.com/ IEDA: https://www.iedagroup.com/

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In this episode, Paddy & The Yank discuss some of the biggest bank heists in history, ranging from infamous robberies in Northern Ireland to war-torn Iraq and depression-era America. Sit back, strap in and prepare to be entertained!

About “Matty”Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. Matt is the keeper of the Thought Leaderboard for the DevOps Party Games online game show and you can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.Links Referenced Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/ Arrested DevOps: https://www.arresteddevops.com/ 8bits.tv: https://8bits.tv Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattstratton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstratton/ speaking.mattstratton.com: https://speaking.mattstratton.com twitch.tv/Pulumi: https://twitch.tv/Pulumi 8bit.tv: https://8bit.tv duckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. Spelled V-U-L-T-R because they're all about helping save money, including on things like, you know, vowels. So, what they do is they are a cloud provider that provides surprisingly high performance cloud compute at a price that—while sure they claim its better than AWS pricing—and when they say that they mean it is less money. Sure, I don't dispute that but what I find interesting is that it's predictable. They tell you in advance on a monthly basis what it's going to going to cost. They have a bunch of advanced networking features. They have nineteen global locations and scale things elastically. Not to be confused with openly, because apparently elastic and open can mean the same thing sometimes. They have had over a million users. Deployments take less that sixty seconds across twelve pre-selected operating systems. Or, if you're one of those nutters like me, you can bring your own ISO and install basically any operating system you want. Starting with pricing as low as $2.50 a month for Vultr cloud compute they have plans for developers and businesses of all sizes, except maybe Amazon, who stubbornly insists on having something to scale all on their own. Try Vultr today for free by visiting: vultr.com/screaming, and you'll receive a $100 in credit. Thats V-U-L-T-R.com slash screaming.Corey: Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service is flexible, full-featured and fully managed with built in access via key-value, SQL, and full-text search. Flexible JSON documents aligned to your applications and workloads. Build faster with blazing fast in-memory performance and automated replication and scaling while reducing cost. Capella has the best price performance of any fully managed document database. Visit couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud to try Capella today for free and be up and running in three minutes with no credit card required. Couchbase Capella: make your data sing.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Returning today for yet another round on the Screaming in the Cloud podcast is my dear friend, and hopefully yours as well, Matty Stratton. Since the last time we spoke, you've changed jobs, Mattie; you're now a staff developer advocate at Pulumi. I don't believe you were the last time you were on this show, but memory escapes me.Matty: You know, I was just wondering that myself, and I guess we'll have to go back to the archives.Corey: Yes, but that sounds like work, so we're going to roll with it anyway.Matty: Everyone who's listening, go do the homework for us. And, like, just tweet and let us know what my job was last time.Corey: And yell at us if we get it wrong, of course.Matty: Yell at us if we get it right.Corey: In the interest of being, well, I guess a little on the judgey side—because why not I tend to be good at that.Matty: I was hoping to be on the judgey side on this show.Corey: Oh, absolutely. You have a very strange career trajectory, in that—the companies you work for and how that winds up going back and forth. But when we first met, you were at Chef; and Chef, great company. And after that it was PagerDuty; great company.Matty: [laugh].Corey: And then it was IBM Hat, which I—was it Red Hat, was it IBM side?Matty: For me, it was Red Hat.Corey: So, it went from Chef, which is great, and a company that was doing a lot of things on the container side of the world became a thing and mutable infrastructure did sort of change Chef's business model. And then you went to PagerDuty, the wake-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night service named after some legacy technologies. And should be very direct in the popular consciousness, IBM views pagers as newfangled technology in some circles, in some areas, so it feels like you were traveling back in time a bit, again and again and again. On the federal side as well which, for excellent reasons, is not usually the absolute bow wave of innovation because you don't usually want your government doing that in some ways. And now you've leapfrogged into Pulumi, which is sort of the bleeding edge of the modern way we think about provisioning cloud infrastructure.It feels like it's a very interesting trajectory. Now, this is speaking as a complete outsider, I'm going to assume that's not how you view basically any characterization of any of those companies I've just named. How do you view it?Matty: You know, I don't know that I necessarily disagree with the way that you've put everything, but there's some nuance and some interesting stuff when it comes to that. So, I'm going to specifically talk about the Red Hat thing; why did I leave PagerDuty? And one of the interesting things is, I actually had an offer from Pulumi at the time that I took the job from Red Hat. So, it actually took me a year to come and work at Pulumi. And the little bit of the short answer is Red Hat backed up a big truck of money. And we all have a price.Corey: Yeah, the dulcet tones of a dump truck full of gold bricks emptying itself into your backyard, it's hard to say no to.Matty: The reason that I want to bring that up is that has nothing to do with specifically Red Hat the company versus other companies. It was the role. It was a sales-oriented role, so if you don't know, sales gets paid a lot of money and there's good reason. One of the reasons—again, if you don't work in sales, you don't necessarily know this—is, the last day of the quarter, you will have your VP of sales talking, he'll be like, “Corey, you are amazing. I love you. Look at this big deal you brought in.” Twenty-four hours later, “What have you done for me lately?”Corey: Mm-hm.Matty: That didn't matter, right? And I remember the CEO of PagerDuty—so Jen Tejada—at one of the sales kickoffs I was at, she said—you know, because salespeople, like, you might know this, like, the top sales reps in the company, they go on trips, they have all this stuff—and Jen said, you know, “I've got engineers here that are like, well, I don't understand.” It's like, “How come the salespeople get to go to Bermuda or do whatever?” And she's like, “Would you like your paycheck to change every quarter based upon specifically what you did and have the stress of what have you done all this stuff? No? Okay, cool. Then you can keep”—you know, there's a trade-off. So, the point of that was—Corey: And as your paycheck gets smaller, you're getting closer and closer to losing your job because a salesperson needs to perform to keep. It's very feast or famine. It's a heck of a role, and I have nothing but respect for people who can do it.Matty: And people can do it well. And I do feel like a lot of people don't understand how sales works, especially in a larger organization, and I think it's really important. So, one of the things that was interesting is we've all—I shouldn't say all, but many of us have worked in jobs that have some form of variable compensation, some kind of annual bonus. So, let's say for example, at x company I'm working at, they're like, “Mattie, your bonus is equal to 10% of your paycheck.” Well, the most it could be, generally speaking, it's like, let's say that your bonus would be, I'm just going to make up a number and say it's a $10,000 bonus.That's the most it could be, and that's if everything is amazing. Maybe I'll get a little more. Now, your commission, your what they call your on-target earnings and sales, they'll tell you a number and they'll say, “Okay, Corey, you're on-target earnings are, say $200,000.” And you're like, “Oh.” But whatever.The thing is, if you're only getting you're on-target earnings, you probably are needing to look for another job. So, you remember, like, we hear it differently, those of us that have done bonuses in a non-sales way. We're like, “But that's not a lot.” You're like, “No, but what they tell you your commission is, it's actually… it better end up being more or else you have trouble.” Anyway, point is—Corey: And in some cases, it could be a significant multiple of that number as well, for top performers.Matty: Absolutely.Corey: The upside is always interesting, and calculating out the nuances of the sales plan is always a challenge, speaking as a business owner. It is a very specific field that has a bunch of nuance to it. Something I learned very early on is that if you manage salespeople as if they were engineers, or manage engineers as if they were salespeople, you are going to have an absolutely terrible time.Matty: I think one of the things that, along those lines, I've have had conversations with people who work in different parts of technology, different parts of the business, who their long-term desire is to be a CEO, and I'm like, you really should go spend some time working in sales because most CEOs—again, this is blunt, but it's true—if you think about it, what is the area of the business that they pay the most attention to? And I don't mean, they don't care about the other stuff, but who is the person on the executive team that the CEO is mostly joined at the hip with, and it's your chief revenue officer, it's your head of sales because you have to understand that, you have to understand pipeline, how that—you have to understand a lot of things as a CEO, but if you don't know how sales works—it doesn't mean know how to sell but know the ideas behind it. I mean, you should know how to sell, but you know what I mean?Corey: Yeah, I think every CEO is selling. It is a sales job, whether that is selling the company to prospective employees, whether it is selling strategic partnerships, whether it's being brought in to help close strategic deals, et cetera, you're always selling in that role.Matty: That's a very good point. I should rephrase that, where I wasn't saying you don't need to know—Corey: CEO who has no idea how to sell [unintelligible 00:07:42] the fundamentals of—like, you put them in a meeting, and they wind up saying the wrong thing and pooching the deal, yeah, they're not CEO for very long.Matty: It's not just knowing how to sell, it's understanding how a sales process works. That's sort of the thing.Corey: I'll take it one step further beyond that, and that is that I believe that every professional is working in sales and is selling something, but not everyone's aware of it“. Well, I'm an engineer, and I don't do any sort of sales work.” Well, I hear about that from folks who are—“I have all these great ideas, but none of them ever get implemented.” Well, you're not doing an effective job of selling the idea. “I keep getting put up for promotion and not getting it,” or, “I'm not doing well in job interviews.” Or, “I'm trying to get a raise and it just isn't working for me.” And every job has elements of sales to it. I'd argue a lot of facets of modern life have sales elements to it.Matty: They do and I think the reason that people get hung out—I agree with you; I could not agree with you more. I have a talk I used to give called “The Five Love Languages of DevOps” but it was really a talk about effecting organizational change, and you have to be a salesperson, right? But I think we have this—and this is a much larger topic because it comes into how people always want to distance themselves from sales—we have this thing in our head that when we think of sales, we think of tricky people. Shysters, right? Someone that's trying to, like, pull a fast one on us, like the used car salesperson thing.And I'm like, that's not most salespeople. Like, salespeople want you to—because when we talk about learning how to sell, it's not learning how to trick somebody. It's actually learning about how to—I mean, here's the biggest thing. You want to know—we talk about DevOps all the time and stuff like that, you know, and empathy. You want to know one of the most important skills of a salesperson is? Freaking empathy.Because you need to be able to understand what your prospect—and that's if you've, you know, there's the book, The Challenger Sale, which like all business books can be summarized in a blog post, right, so you can just go read the blog post about The Challenger Sale; that'll tell you everything you need to know, but a good salesperson that's a challenger-style salesperson knows the customer better than they know themselves and knows there problems they might have that they're not aware of. And it's not because they're smarter; they have a different perspective. So, the same thing is true. So, to Corey's point, we're always selling. And even whether it's figuratively, like, conceptually—but I used to say when I was a Chef I said, the two best sales—most effective salespeople at Chef were Adam Jacob, the founder, and Nathan Harvey, the VP of community.Sales engineers are powerful because a customer will tell things to a sales engineer they won't tell the rep because they think the rep is trying to take advantage of them, which isn't true. Most important conversations that happen are on the walk from the front desk to the conference room. How many conversations would I have with the SRE, or whatever, who was the one who came to get me from reception, and we're just walking to the conference room. I learned so much there than in any other discovery session? You know, and then you use that to be—Corey: And there's not such thing as an easy sale either. And I think that gets overlooked a lot. Like, here at The Duckbill Group, if you bring us in on a consulting engagement to fix your AWS bill, you will turn a profit on that engagement. That has always been true. And we are quite literally selling money.It is effectively one of the easiest possible sales you can make; it is incredibly easy to calculate out what the ROI looks like on any of these things, and it's great, and we still have a full-on enterprise sales force because that is what it takes to wind up getting deals done when you're selling business-to-business. These are not selling t-shirts to the masses. It is a nuanced field, and honestly, when I'm interviewing people, one of the easiest ways for me to discount someone as a potential hire is that they start talking smack about sales because it is clear, first, they lack empathy, and secondly, they don't understand what sales does.Matty: One of the things that I think people who are not connected with it don't understand that again, back to Corey's point about because selling is hard, and selling internally is hard. So, this is the thing. So, you can have a champion inside your prospect who's, like, “I'm all about hiring Duckbill.” But they have to convince other people. So, what are salespeople really good at doing? They're really good at helping you build your business case to be able to get your thing that you want.Corey: How to turn your champion into an effective advocate for the thing that's going to make their job easier because they're not the person that signs off on it.Matty: And they're not the expert. Like, this used to happen when I was at Chef and I would have a customer who was like, “Okay.” They go and buy a bunch of licenses, and they're like, “Well, it didn't get deployed.” And we're like, “Well, how can we help you?” And they're like, “Well, no, it's just internal stuff. We got to convince people or whatever.”And I was like, “So, what you need to do is what you're telling me, what you need to do is sell Chef, right?” “Uh-huh.” There is nobody on this planet better at selling Chef than Chef. So, that's where that comes in because again, that's how everybody wins. So anyway, I went there because I was getting paid like a salesperson.Also, I one thing I wanted to touch on. So, you're right, usually, public sector is not seen as the most cutting edge. One of the things that's interesting at Red Hat, especially on the sales side—and friends of mine who are working on the commercial side may disagree with this, but it's generally not been true—what they call NAPS, so the North America Public Sector, I used to say I was a NAPS specialist, which sounded awesome. Because that was my title, I was NAPS specialist; I specialized in NAPS—is actually—Corey: Your status in the internal messaging system should always be sleeping at that point, why not?Matty: Sleeping. Yeah. But it's sort of known that actually the kind of emergent tech group and sales inside of the public sector, inside Red Hat, is very innovative compared to other ones. So, a lot of stuff was created there. So, it was we were doing something around a transformation office that wasn't being done in the same way anywhere else, so it was very exciting.So, I—also was the opportunity to go and work with people like Andrew Clay Shafer and John Willis and people that were—you know, it was all the people I was going to get to work with. So, that got me excited to be there. And then Covid happened, and I got news for you. Like, my job was to have challenging conversations with people about how they should do work differently. It's pretty easy to tune somebody out on the Zoom, it's a lot harder to tune somebody out when they're challenging you in a room.So, it was very hard to do this job during Covid, so our team really kind of disbanded towards the end of the year. I was really on the fence to join in the first place, and the person who was referring me to come work on the team who wanted to convince me said, you know, “What's holding you back?” And I said, “Well, it's not”—I said, “I really like developer advocacy. I like DevRel. That's not this job.” And he said, “Hey. Come try this for a year, and… if it turns out you didn't like it or wasn't for you, then go back and do DevRel.”And so that's sort of what happened. And I have seen though I am much happier in a smaller organization that's creating—you know, like, I like to feel my impact. I think everybody should spend some time in a large org because if you're going to be working with other people—right, you know what I mean—especially if you're a vendor, if you work on the vendor side like I do and stuff, Corey, you and I've talked before about background and doing developer advocacy, and I always say that, like, I do DevRel on easy mode because it's very easy for me to have empathy for my prospects and community because I did the job for 20 years. It's not impossible to be effective doing this job if you haven't literally done it. It's just that much harder. So, I [crosstalk 00:15:04]—Corey: It's a lot harder. And there's a credibility question and the rest. Yeah.Matty: I do this on easy mode. I can sit there and I can say, “Yes, I feel your pain. I literally did it for 20 years.”Corey: And you're at a point, too, let's be clear here, that you have a gravitas to you. I use you as my default example when I talk about, like, the expression of DevRel in that if you—like back when you were at PagerDuty, which I guess dates the reference a bit, but it was, okay. If you sit down and say you're doing on-call wrong, now I've been around this industry at that point 15 years or so, and I'm pretty sure I'm not. But if you're going to say that you have already got my attention in a constructive way, not in a, “Well, let me just tear this apart.” It's, no, no. I'm about to learn something by whatever it is you're about to say. And it's very hard to have that level of credibility without having done the role.Matty: That's true. Without doing it in that way. I mean, this is [crosstalk 00:15:59]—Corey: In the practitioner way of practicing the thing for which you are advocating. Like, someone telling me that I'm doing on-call wrong, who has never themselves been in a role where they themselves were on call is a little lacking in the authenticity department. It's not impossible and it can't be overcome.Matty: And you have to do it in a different way, right?Corey: Yes.Matty: And this goes back to another thing that I say a lot—my pithy Stratton quote is, “DevRel contains multitudes,” right? So, this is one of the things that we ran into, like, when we're building out our advocacy team at PagerDuty, it was seeing sort of my boss was an amazing dude and everything like that. I love him, but like, we don't scale horizontally. Our team was made up of enough of different kinds of people that, like, the way that I was able to do it because I had a certain experience, you couldn't expect that out of another one of my teammates because they actually had a different way of doing it that was just as effective, but in a different way because they have a different background, they have a different—so that's—Corey: And there's so many ways to do DevRel. Oh, yeah. Like, I'm going to call it my own bias here where when I think about DevRel, I think about it through a lens of the way I approach things, and when I give conference talks, of how I present myself, and the rest. And my approach would absolutely be aligned with what I just described, “So, you're doing AWS billing wrong.” And based upon who I am, and what I do, I can make that claim with some credibility.If I were relatively new to the industry and giving a talk about AWS billing, I would not lead that way because it does not present nearly as well, and it's going to call into question a whole bunch of skepticism. I would instead approach it as, “Here are some interesting facets about AWS billing that you may or may not be aware of.” There are different ways to approach it. Let's also be clear that it's not just conference talks; it can be blog posts, it can be documentation, it can be writing sample code, it can be Twitter, it could be TikTok of all things. There are so many ways to communicate with an audience, and your audience is wherever you happen to find them.Ideally, not in line at the Starbucks harassing the poor person in front who's just trying to order their coffee, but you know, as long as it's all consensual, talk to people who are interested in this stuff, wherever they happen to be.Matty: I think that's a really important statement you said there towards the end, which is meet people where they are, whether that's where you want them to be or not. And this comes up, it's interesting because one of the things—I'm a big believer in repurposing of content, and that's just partially because of effectiveness, but it's like, hey, if I give a talk, I should make that a blog post, I should make it a video, I should do a code example. And it's not so much because then I can hit all my OKRs with my boss.—I mean, that's part of it, right?—but not everybody likes the same kind of content.You know, there are people who really like videos, and there are people who are like, “I don't want to learn from a video at all.” And there's two ways you can approach that. One is you can say, “You're wrong. Videos are better. You should watch all my videos.” And take a guess about how well that's going to work with them getting your information or say, “I'll meet you where you are.”And I learned this even well before doing DevRel when I just thought about internal communication at an organization I was at when I was at Apartments.com and I was like, how do we get information? And you can't just say, like, well, we have this email we send to everybody. Well, everybody doesn't read email, right? So, it could be, maybe some people like RSS feeds, they want to capture it there. And the example I always gave was the most effective way that I ever saw that information was communicated inside our organization was signs in the restroom.Corey: Oh, yeah. That's a well-renowned way of doing it. That I think that Google pioneered this for a while. They had these all these things up about interesting things going on inside the—Matty: Oh—Corey: —company, about the way some systems worked—Matty: —I was at Google office and using the restroom, and I was standing there, and right in front of me with a whole good practice on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. I guarantee they probably sent that email to everybody, it's probably been in meetings, and the people who saw it, [unintelligible 00:19:53] they saw it in the restroom.Corey: Now, of course, I'm sure they probably sell ads on those sheets, but okay.Matty: Yeah. You know, a little bit of that. When I was at Apartments.com, the floor that I worked on, the main restroom I used was a shared restroom with another office, which meant corporate never put anything up in there, and there was actually a fair amount of stuff that I didn't know about because I ignored it everywhere else and [unintelligible 00:20:14] anyway. So, the point is, back—if you will do work in person, which who is doing that anymore and why bother?—your most effective way to communicate. So, if you can figure out how to do DevRel in signs in a restroom at a conference—ohh, conferences should sell sponsorship of restroom signs.Corey: The jokes write themselves and almost certainly violate the code of conduct of at least four different [unintelligible 00:20:38], but it works. It works.Matty: [laugh]. We'll take those to Twitter.Corey: You've been around the industry for a while. You are one of the cohosts of the Arrested DevOps podcast; you've been instrumental in organizing a number of DevOps Days… or Devs-Ops days, however you want to mis-pluralize that is fine by me; roll with it. Ant—Matty: We argue more about the capitalization than the pluralization.Corey: Very fair. I want to talk to you a little bit of how the DevOps movement slash community slash role has evolved. For a long time now, it's been, “Great. So, where are the DevOps people sitting?” And then when you hear the shouted response of, “It's not a job. It's a culture,” good work. You found them. Now, you can go talk to them and all. What has changed over the past few years in the world of DevOps?Matty: So, I am fond of saying you can't buy DevOps, but I can sell it to you.Corey: Oh, absolutely. You're an exemplary DevOps salesman.Matty: Yeah. So, what happened? When we think back across the decade-plus, you know, back since 2009, one of the things I think that's interesting is, when we look at things like DevSecOps, or the other portmanteaus that are being created. It's a little bit like that meme, right, with the astronaut: “Wait. You mean, it's been DevSecOps all along?” You know, it's, “Yes, always has.”That's the thing. Like, for those who don't know, Andrew Clay Shafer is best known as coining the term. And I love Andrew, but wow, is it the worst name in the world for what we're talking about. Because it makes us all think that it's only about development and operations. And it's always been about cross-functional across all of those things. And if it helps us to give it a different name, great.Corey: It's replacing dysfunction with cross-function.Matty: Yes. There we go. That's DevOps right there. That's the best definition of DevOps I've heard. You heard it here.Corey: That one coins a phrase, in case you wondered.Matty: So, we still use the term CALMS to say what is about: It's about Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing. That's held up for a reason. For something that was scrawled on a napkin in 2010, there's a reason we still talk that way. It sounds like we talk about culture more than anything else, and it's not because it's more important. It's because it's the one that we have to scream from the rooftops.You don't have to convince engineers to play with automation tools; they're going to do it. That's fine, right? So, they're all equal. Now, that said, what's changed is we have definitely found DevOps to feel a lot more that it's about automation. It's about the technology. We've veered away from the people to your statement about, like, “Oh, it's a culture, not a ti”—well, it's all of these things.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle Cloud. 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Visit snark.cloud/oci-free that's snark.cloud/oci-free.Corey: Well, one thing I do want to call out because the whole point of having you on the show, of course, is to embarrass you with proof-positive, for example, that you are in fact, a good person at heart despite, you know, your dubious friendship with people like me, is we both used to be adamant about the idea of DevOps is not a role, not a job title, and we both stopped, but for different reasons. The reason that I stopped was that I took a job as the director of DevOps at a company because I was trying to solve about five or six different things that were important for me to negotiate for, and job title did not make the cut of impactful changes. You had a far less self-serving reason for no longer picking that particular fight. What was it?Matty: [laugh]. I do want to call out one of my favorite jokes which is not supposed to be gatekeeping, but it's making fun of Corey so it's okay—Corey: Hmm.Matty: —Nathan Harvey said years ago, and it was actually I think, intended as a shot at our friend Pete Cheslock, who also has had the title of director of DevOps, which said, “The only DevOps tool is a person that calls themselves director of DevOps.”Corey: Oh, absolutely. It's super lucrative. I was really insulted by that and cried all the way to the bank.Matty: Uh-huh. Now, I'll tell you there's two reasons that I've changed my tune on—you know, I used to say it's not a tool, title, or team. I still will agree that it's not a tool. The title and team—and the reason for that is twofold, and neither of which are self-serving other than I don't want people to think I'm a jerk. The first reason that deviated me from a little bit was again, to go back to your friend and mine, Pete Cheslock, he gave a talk, I don't remember where it was, but he made the point where he said, “You look at it, the title ‘DevOps engineer' is a 30 to 35% pay bump, so it's like, I don't care what you call yourself. Go get paid.” So, that's that.Corey: Yes.Matty: So, first of all, I was like cool—Corey: J. Paul Reed did a whole talk-pay thing that shined a light on that.Matty: Absolutely. The one that I think is more empathetic and probably was… is maybe a little more important—or equally so—Ian Coldwater has pointed out before, and this really resonated with me, is that when we get on Twitter and are like, “Oh, my God. DevOps engineer is not a real title, blah, blah, blah.” The people that hear that are the people who have that title. They did not give themselves that title. It's very exclusionary, and all that will happen out of that is it doesn't eff—Corey: “I'm going to go quit my job and not be able to make rent this month.” “Why?” “Because Twitter said that my job title was bad.”Matty: Yeah.Corey: All the reasons to quit a job, I promise you job title is not one of them. Unless it is something horrifying, as into the territory of discriminating or belittling. There are always exceptions to every rule, but by and large, “That's a ridiculous job title,” is not the reason to quit a job. Says the self-proclaimed chief cloud economist.Matty: Totally yeah. I mean, like, you know what is very similar? There's a meme about, like, every time people want to make fun of a political figure or something and they'll make fun of them being overweight, or any kind of thing, and the meme is like, the only people who hear that are your friends that have a similar condition, not the actual person you're making fun of, so all you're doing there is hurting people who… so that's a similar thing.Now, I will say—and I think you and I might disagree about this a little bit, so that'll be fine—Corey: I hope so.Matty: So, when I hear—and actually the title doesn't do this, for me; it's actually very specifically a DevOps team. When people say, “We have a DevOps team.” This is not a perfect analogy when I say it's a code smell; I call it an organizational smell. And what I mean by that—it's not as bad as a code smell—what it does is it makes me ask more questions. If it's relevant to me to ask questions. It might be none of my damn business. If you tweet that I'm on the DevOps team, I'm not going to come into your mentions and start questioning your existence, but—Corey: Oh please, I have way better personal attacks than that.Matty: Oh, yeah. But if I'm working with you and we're working on that, or we're having a conversation, and it comes up that you have a team called DevOps Team, I'm going to ask questions because that could be, okay or it could be, [sigh] I want to use the word dangerous lightly; it's not, but like, counter-effective. And the reason for that is if the DevOps team is the one who does all your automation and you haven't really enabled other squads and all you've done is move a silo around, doesn't make you a bad person, but that's not the most effective way you could be. So, it makes me start to ask questions, right? But sometimes DevOps teams are people who lead in the organization, they are empowerment teams, maybe they run dojo, maybe they are subject matter experts that help.As long as there are good bridges still being built, it's not bad, right? So, it just—again, it raises questions. It's not inherently wrong. I am sure that… Pulumi where wo—actually, many of the tools I've worked with have been called DevOps tools; I will still tell you there's no tool that gives you DevOps, right? You can't—Corey: But when other people—like, read as ‘buyers'—refer to you as the ‘DevOps tool company,' well, you can be right or you can make a sale, in some cases.Matty: [laugh]. Yeah, I'm not going to tell you—Corey: On some level, you have to meet people where they are, and this is a part of that. I say that in full sincerity. Same story with the idea of culture. I hear this question all the time, “How do we wind up making all of our engineers aware of AWS billing issues?” And to a point, you should have understanding that when you turn something on it runs forever, bigger things cost more than smaller things, but the knowledge fits on an index card.You shouldn't have every engineer wanting to—or needing to—become deep experts in this space. Having a centralized team that specializes in that, at a sufficient level of org size and maturity, makes an awful lot of sense, and they can float around. But yeah, having the AWS bill team, in some cases is the right answer and others it's the complete wrong answer, and it really does depend. I think the way that we solve this problem, authoritatively, is a way that neither you nor I can argue with it because the only source for authoritative DevOps answers is from the source itself, and that is, of course, Emily Freeman, whose treatise on the subject, DevOps for Dummies, despite the weird title, is absolutely fantastic work that gives insight into all of this. And are you prepared to tell her she's wrong? Because I'm certainly not.Matty: Well, there are plenty of people who will. As we know.Corey: Yes. And we call them shitheads if we're being perfectly honest with you.Matty: Yeah. [laugh].Corey: The internet what a ple—no, Emily is an absolute treasure in the space and I'm continuing to watch her meteoric rise with nothing other than pure admiration. It is just spectacular to see her succeed.Matty: I could not agree more. This is something I struggle with a little bit. I don't think Emily would mind me saying it this way. This is the thing where you don't want to sound condescending, but I always love when I look at people and it's not—it's going to come off a little bit about, like, “I knew them when,” and it's not like I was a Corey Quinn fan before he went pop, but I love to see and remember where we all came from, and it's true of myself and it's true of other people, but that's one of my favorite things is I love to see my friends succeed.Corey, I love to see what you've done. Like, I think back to when we knew each other. I'm not saying you weren't successful, but it's funny, this [unintelligible 00:30:08] sounds a little condescending to be like, oh, I'm so proud of you, but I am. And I'm impressed. It's great to see.And Emily's another example. Like, I remember when I first met Emily, and not like I was any big deal, either, but it's like, everybody comes from somewhere, right? Like Jacquie Grindrod who just recently left Hashi, I remember when she started to get into DevRel and I was talking to her because she's like, “I may be thinking I want to do this thing.” And you look and you see these people. And it's not supposed to be like, “Oh, I remember when you were like the cute little baby DevRel.” It's not like that.And it's like, it's just impressive to see—and not even impressive. It's you like to see people who do good work and have a good heart and want to help people grow and be successful. And I'll tell you something, here—we're going to get real for a second—you can be jealous of them. It's okay. And I'm going to be honest, there are times that—Emily and Corey are both good friends of mine, and there are times that I'm like, “Wow. I'm a little jealous of you. Sometimes I'm a lot jealous of you. Sometimes I'm not at all.” So, I'm telling everybody, it's okay to be jealous. [laugh].Corey: I agree with the sentiment that I changed the word ‘envious' because envy is one of those, like—Matty: Okay.Corey: —“I want that, too,” whereas jealousy is a lot more a shade of, “I want to have it and I don't want them to.” And I don't believe that's the direction you're heading in. [laugh].Matty: No. Thank you. No, you're exactly right. Envy is the better one yeah because it's never—Corey: Now, I recently learned the distinction there by getting very wrong and saying things I didn't intend to imply, which is why I bring it up. Again, let my mistake be something others can learn from. Sometimes the best purpose I can serve in this industry is as a counter-example.Matty: Example. I was going to say, you know, just for everybody, I remember at the beginning, you know, Corey said, “Maybe we'll learn something.” I'm like, I guess that's what we learned [laugh] is the difference between envy and jealousy.Corey: Yeah.Matty: [unintelligible 00:31:50] gotta say, you know, it took us half an hour to get there. But you know.Corey: No no. And I appreciate your friendship throughout the years. Like, you were one of those people that has been something of a guiding star, where it's, sometimes I get it right, sometimes I get it wrong, and you've always been someone who has been very willing to share which side of the divide you think I'm on with anything that I've done. And for lack of a better term, you knew me before I basically bought ink by the barrel. And back when I was just the conference speaker that had to follow one of your ridiculous talks, like, “Oh, God. Those are big shoes to fill. I'd better learn how to give a conference talk.” So, most of what I become is your fault. But I do want to thank you for your guidance over the years on these things.Matty: Can we tell the real story about how I claim ownership of The Duckbill Group?Corey: By all means, take it away.Matty: Oh, okay. So, [[laugh]] I honestly still think that I should have a part ownership in The Duckbill Group because for those of you who don't know, Corey mentioned that I had worked at PagerDuty, and actually that job came down between the two of us and Corey didn't get it. And then went and started his own company and became famous and amazing. So really, it's because of me is what I'm trying to get at. I—Corey: To be fair, they made the right hire. Which one of us do you think makes the better employee, let's be very clear?Matty: [laugh].Corey: And yeah, I am thrilled to deal in you in on ownership of The Duckbill Group because the way we're structured, you cannot have ownership without also assuming liability. So yeah—Matty: [laugh].Corey: I would love to dump legal responsibility for my shenanigans on someone else. Come on in. Yeah, there's always a cutting edge to everything else. But no, you're right. I always wonder what would have happened if that decision had gone differently.And I'm very glad it played out the way that it did. You were the right hire for the company in a way that I never would have been. But I would have given it a good try for a while before they begrudgingly had to fire me or I sensed the axe was coming and left on my own. That is the nature of me as an employee. You have a very different perspective because you're good at things that I'm terrible at.Matty: And vice versa. It was interesting. You just talked about, like, how would things go different? So I—yesterday—just recorded—I don't know when it's going to come out—I was on a podcast called 8 Bits—so it's 8bits.tv—and it's really a show about people's journey through tech.And what was interesting that came out of that conversation was, first of all, how much of how I got to where I am is because of spite. Which you're going to have to go back and listen to the episode to hear the whole story of all the spite. But we did talk about, like, those junction points that happen that seem innocuous. And it's like, I made this one choice that wasn't even necessarily a choice and you follow all the forking logic that gets you to, Corey, you and I are sitting here on a podcast right now. How many decisions that weren't even decisions? There's the alternate universe where this doesn't happen where this doesn't exist, right?Corey: It's weird how this stuff all works. Years before I'd met either one of you, you videotaped my wife's law school musical and burned it to CD. We found that out when you were here over dinner one night.Matty: That was my favorite thing.Corey: It was surreal.Matty: Yeah, I was at dinner with Corey and his wife and we got into a conversation about that she had gone to law school in Chicago. And I was like, “Oh, funny thing. Like, I produced the video of the law school mu”—and she was like, “Wait, what was that?” And I couldn't even remember. I had to, like, dig back into, like, an old blog post. And was that and then yeah, and Bethany, like—Corey: She walks into the other room and comes back with a DVD that you burned, your handwriting on it.Matty: Yeah.Corey: Yeah.Matty: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. The world is small. Be nice to everybody.Corey: It never hurts. I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to basically tell stories once again. It's always good to talk to you. If people want to learn more about who you are, what you're up to, where's the best place they can find you.Matty: So, really the best place is Twitter. You know, so I'm at @mattstratton on Twitter. If you're not a Twitter person, that's okay. LinkedIn is not great for fi—I don't always remember to post stuff there. If you want to know about upcoming, you know, so if you go to speaking.mattstratton.com, that has all my previous talks, my upcoming talks, and things as hopefully we'll have more and more of that.And yeah, and every week, I stream on twitch.tv/Pulumi on Thursdays. And it's not webinars, it's not slick demos, it's just me screwing around and sometimes having fun people on, and sometimes just proving how little I know about coding. So yeah, good times. Thank you for having me on, again, Corey. It's always fun.Corey: Of course. Links to all that's going on in the [show notes 00:36:20]. And as always, it's a pleasure.Matty: Also, I will say, Corey, I'll give you the link to that 8bit.tv, if you want to put that in the [show notes 00:36:28]—Corey: Oh, of course, we will.Matty: —if people want to go and find that. Because I think it's similar, connected to what we talked about.Corey: Good. I look forward to listening to it myself. Mattie Stratton, staff developer advocate at Pulumi. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with a long angry comment detailing that DevOps is in fact a role and here's what it means, and then go ahead and describe a sysadmin.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP CO-HOST: MARK SEBASTIAN, THE OPTION PIT CO-HOST: MIKE TOSAW, ST. CHARLES WEALTH MANAGEMENT IN THIS EPISODE MARK, THE GREASY MEATBALL, AND UNCLE MIKE BREAK DOWN: MOST ACTIVE EQUITY OPTIONS INCLUDING SNAP, PTON EARNINGS VOLATILITY IN HAS, PFE, LYFT, PTON, DIS, MAT, DUK, UA UNUSUAL OPTIONS ACTIVITY IN COTY, APTS, ARCC A BACK DOOR ROTH IRA - TAX STRATEGY WHAT'S ON OUR RADAR FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AND MUCH MORE

HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP CO-HOST: MARK SEBASTIAN, THE OPTION PIT CO-HOST: MIKE TOSAW, ST. CHARLES WEALTH MANAGEMENT IN THIS EPISODE MARK, THE GREASY MEATBALL, AND UNCLE MIKE BREAK DOWN: MOST ACTIVE EQUITY OPTIONS INCLUDING SNAP, PTON EARNINGS VOLATILITY IN HAS, PFE, LYFT, PTON, DIS, MAT, DUK, UA UNUSUAL OPTIONS ACTIVITY IN COTY, APTS, ARCC A BACK DOOR ROTH IRA - TAX STRATEGY WHAT'S ON OUR RADAR FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AND MUCH MORE

This program will discuss the nearly complete transformation of our Constitutional Republic into an oligarchy of judges who happen to be members of the Supreme Court. Specifically, I will comment on the latest ruling by the US Supreme Court that denied religious exemptions for health care workers from having to be injected with the COVID-19 “vaccine.” The denial by the US Supreme Court of any religious exemption is a blatant repudiation of the very first right enumerated in the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” By permitting the government-coerced mandate of inoculations, the US Supreme Court ignored the strongly-held religious beliefs of some of our citizenry (thus prohibiting these citizens from the free exercise of their religion) while at the same time forcing these citizens to “take the jab” of the witches' brew of chemicals produced during the “warp speed” development of the gene therapy mRNA that skipped nearly all of the typical 10-15 years of testing to which vaccines are normally administered. “Taking the jab” appears to be a government-mandated ritual of the new religion that some call “Fauci worship.” This religion, which is established by government mandate, will require that the entire populace take part in the testing of an experimental gene therapy inoculation. This is the de facto end of our Constitutional Republic. We are now ruled by the whim of Black-robed shysters who affirm the dictates of unelected bureaucrats imposing an agenda of government-subsidized medical malpractice. The program title, Liberty and Posterity, comes from the US Constitution, the preamble of which states that one of the reasons for writing and ratifying the Constitution was to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” our posterity being our children and descendants not yet born. As a reminder, on the Liberty and Posterity program, we view all events and activities in relation to reality, truth, and Biblical morality, the same principles stated in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence that entitle the United States to be separate from, and equal to, other nations: The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God. The Laws of Nature are the physical laws by which the physical universe operates (also called reality and truth), and the Laws of Nature's God are the moral laws of God as specified in the Bible. If you have a problem with that, the problem is on your end, not ours. Five people died during the January 6, 2021 demonstration at the US Capitol, but the only two deaths by violence were that of Ashli Babbitt, callously shot by a Capitol Police Officer, and Rosanne Boyland, who appears to have been savagely and sadistically kicked to death by Capitol Police Officers. Never forget Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland. My email address is freedom@libertyandposterity.com. Ron Higgins © Copyright 2021 Liberty and Posterity

George Hartmann helps people repair their credit. His approach, though, is based on intensive 1 to 1 relationship building rather than a volume clientele.****SUBSCRIBE/RATE/FOLLOW What's Your Problem? PODCAST:www.whatsyourproblempodcast.comRandom 5 sponsored by CULLEOKA COMPANY!@Culleoka Company Culleoka is here to eliminate the toxicity generally associated with cleaning. Our probiotic and plant based cleaners contain multiple live strains of beneficial (good) bacteria producing powerful enzymes to break down foul organic matter on surfaces. Clean powerfully and naturally here:https://culleokacompany.com/?rfsn=5722255.0f51be Talking about the real problems (and possible solutions) of everyday business owners and professionals in and around Middle Tennessee and beyond...this is the What's Your Problem Podcast! WYP is recorded and shot in the Big Dot Lighting HQ in Spring Hill, TN.Big Dot Lighting - Commercial LED Lighting Specialists@Big Dot Electrical, LLCBig Dot Heating and Airwww.bigdotlighting.comwww.bigdotelectrical.comwww.bigdotinc.com WYP Intro VO: @johndavidwells #podcasts #podcast #podcasting #tennessee #nashville #podcastproduction #sales #selling #business #marketing #radio #production #voiceover #vo

Hello, thanks for listening in! 1957 Chevy Nomad project, and some funny stories about deals we get in to. Also have a 1994 Ford F-150 coming up for sale, a 2000 BMW 323i Touring

On today's episode of Bailey's Black Cloud Podcast we hear of the men in Bailey's life who just won't call him back. And you won't believe what item he was trying to purchase from Facebook Marketplace when he got ghosted! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-bailey-show/message

Making a return to the Samrat, Peter, Chris and Tom host the inaugural Shysters celebrating the best acts of ‘housery’ nominated by the listeners. There’s a very special guest to kick things off, Clive Tyldesley is your MC for the evening and Chris has pulled out all the stops when it comes to the entertainment. There’s ten awards, some chat from the toilet and the Laouts are flowing on what is a fitting end to the series.

Peter, Chris and Tom lay out their plans for the SHYSTERS awards ceremony and go through the best listener messages for the final time this series. Ryan Shawcross, anti-doping officials and David Blaine all feature and there’s an update on something that had gone quiet, until now.

In this episode I interview Richard Hayhow of the Open Theatre Company about his work in Non-verbal Physical Theatre with Music. We explore the work of actors with learning disabilities and the importance of inclusion at all stages of the artistic process. We talk about how engagement in this work is transformational, both for the actors, as well as those participating in it in support roles or as audience members. Richard and I examine the values of the work, discussing why the work matters and the gains to be had from recognising the actors as actors with talents and things to communicate, rather than focussing on their disabilities. We take a look back at our work together in promoting the art form, where I was a member of the Trustee Board of the Open Theatre Company and Richard was one of its first Directors. We then look forward to what the future holds and the growing reputation of the Company which is keen to develop its international presence and to collaborate with others. Richard has been Director of Open Theatre for 30 years. Open Theatre aims to place the creativity of young people with learning disabilities at the centre of the cultural life of Birmingham and Coventry. As part of this aim, Richard set up The Shysters, a company of actors with learning disabilities, in partnership with the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in 1997. Through the development of a unique nonverbal physical theatre practice, the company gained a national reputation for the ground-breaking quality of its performance work ‘on the borderlines of theatre, dance and mime'. For the past fifteen years Richard has been forging long-term creative collaborations with special schools in the West Midlands region, to examine and maximise the impact the nonverbal physical theatre practice can have on children's learning and development and on young people's transition into adult life. Open Theatre currently has a team of 12 practitioners working all year round in 18 special schools. In 2018, Open Theatre became an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation with ambitious plans to support the emergence of a significant number of professional artists with learning disabilities over the next four years through appropriate training provision and landmark production work. Open Theatre have just co-produced The Twisted Tale of Hansel and Gretel in partnership with Birmingham Hippodrome and MBD, featuring an integrated cast of actors with and without learning disabilities. Contact Richard Hayhow by email: richard@opentheatre.co.uk For more information on the Open Theatre Company, visit their Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/OpenTheatreCompany or their website at: https://www.opentheatre.co.uk/ For more information about this podcast series, or to make any comments or to ask any questions relating to English Language learning, please contact me at johnscottlawton@hotmail.co.uk or visit my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-scott-lawton/ or my company page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/john-scott-lawton-consulting/?viewAsMember=true Finally, please take a look at my website where I post additional content to support this podcast series: https://johnscottlawtonsenglishyouknow.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/john-lawton/message

Join us for a humorous take on Florida news as we check in on headlines from around the Sunshine State.In Okaloosa County, a man uses fake cashier checks to buy a Porsche 911 Turbo. In Miami, a man uses his COVID business loan to buy a Lamborgini and more. In Flagler County, a beachgoer uncovers a brick of cocaine washed up on the beach. In Port Charlotte, a man set his car on fire in a drive-thru using a scented candle. Finally, in West Palm Beach, a congressman paints a weird pornographic rant over the Anime cartoon industry.Veteran journalists Cory and Kirsten O'Donnell may not be comedians, but they easily find the comedy behind Florida's headlines. Like what you hear?Make sure to follow our virtual freak show on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

Shysters and con men are as Las Vegas as are sequined thongs and half-drunk cocktails. Today Don gives a quick triptych of scams he’s had to field on the casino floor.

What better way to wrap up the year than with Henri Safran’s classic holiday tale of farm foreclosure, horse thieves, and the kids determined to set things right. When traveling Shysters, played by John Ewart and John “The People Eater” Howard, steal the prize racing horse from a small family farm, it’s up to Mark Spain, James Wingrove, and Nicole Kidman to work alongside the family’s horse trainer to track down the thieves and save the farm. It’s a solid 90 minutes of horse-riding, hiking through mountainous terrain, and all sorts of family-friendly hijinks.

Small Business Small Talk host, Christ Smallwood, talks about the shysters out there in this episode. www.SmallBusinessSmallTalk.com www.ChristySmallwood.com

VICE story on Five Pawns, diacetyl and acetyl propionyl http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-butter-flavored-e-cigs-are-fueling-a-crucial-vaping-controversy California lawsuit alleges cancer risk in Vuse electronic cigarette http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/california-lawsuit-alleges-cancer-risk-in-vuse-electronic-cigarette/article_00068d9c-72b2-5331-87f7-68b521736f53.html Rapper Stitches making stupid e-liquid https://www.reddit.com/r/electronic_cigarette/comments/3a497w/rapper_stitches_is_releasing_cocaine_custard_and/ We need a lot more Davids: http://www.thevaporbarstore.com/blog/we-need-a-lot-more-davids/ Man on Death Row Freed after it was discovered that a Judge bribed a witness to lie: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/montez-spradley-innocent-man-once-death-row-free Life in prison without possibility of parole for first time nonviolent drug offense: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/07/15/from-a-first-arrest-to-a-life-sentence/ https://www.change.org/p/president-barack-obama-sharanda-jones-does-not-deserve-to-die-in-prison Retired Tennis Star James Blake Allegedly Tackled & Detained By Mistaken Cops In Midtown http://gothamist.com/2015/09/09/james_blake_nypd.php Guy who the NYPD spread on instagram was totally innocent and not connected in any way with the identy theft suspects http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/australian-james-blake-lookalike-speaks-nypd-mess-article-1.2361143 NY Times: Fire the officer who tackled Blake http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/opinion/questions-on-the-blake-assault.html NYC CCRB report on police abuse: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2384291/2015-semi-annual-report.pdf Man arrested for writing profanity on speeding ticket guilty plea: http://www.nyclu.org/news/court-rules-man-was-unlawfully-arrested-using-profanities-while-protesting-speeding-ticket If you like playing pool, check out the APA. http://www.poolplayers.com/ .

The afterhours portion of the broadcast.

First fan submitted version of Daily(ish)! And a the start of some thoughts on dealing with shysters, charlatans and liars.

First fan submitted version of Daily(ish)! And a the start of some thoughts on dealing with shysters, charlatans and liars.

First fan submitted version of Daily(ish)! And a the start of some thoughts on dealing with shysters, charlatans and liars.

The boys talk about dreaming, premonitions, and the supernatural! Tweet us @shystersradio. Featuring: "Payphone" by Maroon 5, "The Freedom Song" by Jason Mraz, and "BURN IT DOWN" by Linkin Park.

The boys mellow out this week with talk about: eras, technology, and outsourcing. Tweet us @shystersradio. Featuring "The Wolves" by Ben Howard, "A Little Piece" by The Jezabels, and "Wax & Wire" by Loch Lomond.

The boys talk about: Near death experiences, the death of the penny, and taming wild animals. Tweet us @shystersradio. Featuring "So Good" by B.o.B, "Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys, and "I Don't Know" by The Sheepdogs.

Chris, Matt, and Jaime attempt accents and talk mancaves. Follow us @shytersradio. Featuring "She Wolf" by Shakira, "Elle Me Dit" by MIKA, "Young Wild & Free" by Snoop Dog and Wiz Khalifa.

Jaime Chris and Matt let there Imagination's run wild. Tweet us @shystersradio. Featuring "Princess of China" by Coldplay, "We Are Young" by Fun., and "Feel So Close" by Calvin Harris

The three shysters have a special guest on to talk about Kony 2012. Also Survivor for real! Featuring "X Gon' Give It to Ya" by DMX, and "Beautiful Lasers" by Lupe Fiasco. Follow us on twitter @shystersradio

Imagination Station! Tweet us @ShystersRadio Featuring "Bread & Butter" by Hugo, "Go Baby" by Lupe Fiasco, and "Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men.

Taylor Swift, Equality, and the last day on earth! Tweet us @shystersradio. Featuring "Glad You Came" by The Wanted, "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Goyte, and "Starships" by Nicki Minaj

Jaime, Chris and Matt talk about whats going on in there lives. Featuring "Uncle Sam Goddamn" by Brother Ali, "Respect" by Melanie Amaro, and "Give Me All Your Luvin'" by Madonna. Tweet us @ShystersRadio

--{ Ode to P.T. Barnum and His Modern Ilk: "Ancient Past is Full of Myth and Confusions, A Goldmine for Shysters with 'What If?' Conclusions, His Imagination is Constantly Movin', Claiming Things that Cannot Be Proven, For Every Wonderful Thing We Like to Believe, There's a Clever Shyster Ready to Deceive For Personal Gain and for Aggrandizement, 'Cause Mystery is its Own Advertisement, Historians Like the Past All Neat and Tidy, Giving Too Much Credence to Rich and Mighty, Optimists Say, 'No Aliens, World's Perfect and Bright,' The Pessimists Fear the Latter are Right, Take the Best from Belief and to All Good Luck, Enjoy Glib-Tongue Shysters, But Don't Be a Schmuck" © Alan Watt }-- Waking Up, Knowing Something's Wrong, Seeing Injustices - Generational Indoctrination, Youth Programmed for Coming Changes - Sociological Study of Dictatorships - Worship of Mao Tse-Tung and "Heroes" - Elevation onto the Stage (Altar) - Beria - Logical Critical Thinking, Questioning All Data - "Rebel" Groups Given Ideas and Fashions. Collectivist-Socialist System, State Makes ALL Your Decisions for You - "Ultra-Liberals" Used to bring in World Soviet then Destroyed. Religion of Elite - Darwinian Eugenics, "Evolved" Superior and "Unevolved" Inferior Types - "Evolution" based on Hinduism - Madam Blavatsky, Theosophy to Blend East and West (and Spirit with Science) - Darwinism to Destroy Old Religions - Medical Quackery, "Wonder Drugs" of Pharmacology. Changing Theories of Science and Medicine (Never Admit Wrongs) - Corrupted Institutions - Albert Einstein - Isaac Newton - Famous Front-Men Elevated to Status - Foundations' Agenda - Club of Rome - Marx's Telegraph to Lincoln Congratulating Him - U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, Early U.S. - Revolution vs. Rebellion - French Revolution. John Dewey, Lester Pearson, Invasion from "Outer Space" to Unite World - Von Daniken Exposed - Profit from "Aliens". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Feb. 12, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Babylon has Fallen, Risen, Fallen, Risen: "Predictive Programming in Movies from Think Tanks Show Perpetual Rioting with Collapse of the Banks, The World is Run by Those Who Dared Fleece the Public, Who're Always Unprepared, Who Do the Right Things, Follow the Rules, Then Left Destitute, Once More the Fools, The Tower of Babel, Material Rape, Is Bandaged and Held by Sticky Tape, Trillions Placed at Base for Propitiation In Hopes to Uphold its Shaky Foundation And to Fend Off Alternate System Usurpers, Saving the Shysters and Societal Corruptors" © Alan Watt }-- Monetary/Stock Market/Banking System - "Greatest Country in the World" Propaganda - "Casino" movie. British Commonwealth, Crown Corporations - Private Institutions, Bank of Canada - Planned Crisis, Science Fiction, Futurists, Predictive Programming. Economy Comes First - IMF, World Bank, Middlemen - Europe, EU Parliament - Think Tanks, Club of Rome, GEAB, New Global Economic System. Ongoing Banker Bailouts, Money Heaven - Bernanke, U.S. Treasury - Militarization of Society for Now. India, Modified Seeds, Pesticides, Pollution, Farmer Suicides - George Soros, British Economy Crash - Philanthropic Foundations, Reece Commission. Barack Obama, Politicians and Advisors, One Agenda - Hollywood Actors, Oratory Techniques - Political "High-Life" - Benjamin Franklin. (Articles: ["Beginning of Phase 5 of the global systemic crisis: phase of global geopolitical dislocation" Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin, GEAB N.32 (leap2020.eu) - February 16, 2009.] ["Think-Tanks" Europe 2020, GEAB N.32 (europe2020.org).] ["US banks may need more bail-outs, says Ben Bernanke" by Edmund Conway and Angela Monaghan (telegraph.co.uk) - March 3, 2009.]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 3, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Austin City Life exists to redemptively engage peoples and cultures. Vision and teaching pastor Jonathan Dodson speaks out of Colossians 1:15-20. "Lord of the Story" answers the question, "Is Jesus a deus ex machina, a 'god from a machine'?" Taking Aristotle's critique of story seriously, that the resolution of the plot must arise from within the story, we examine how Jesus emerges from the Old Testament and what he does to resolve the conflict in the grand Story of Scripture. We also check out Shysters, Fundys, and Hypocrites along the way.

Consciousness and Memory - Drive to Thwart Agenda. Military-Industrial Complex - War on the People. Zbigniew Brzezinski - Planned Global Society - Propaganda - Worship of "Superiors". Serving the World State, No Individuality - Ideal Design (ID) Slaves - Huxley's "Brave New World". The Hive - Utopia of Elite - Virtual Worlds, Virtual "You" - Popular Movements, Social Creatures. H.G. Wells' "Open Conspiracy" - Aldous Huxley: Brainwashing, Pharmacological Methods. Debasement of Society and Natural Morality - Destruction of Old, Building the New (Totalitarian). Communication - Indoctrination - Emotive Topics - Confronting Front-Men, Shysters. Prof. Carroll Quigley, Global and Parallel Government, War on the World, Royal Institute for International Affairs, CFR. Bertrand Russell, Recruitment from Plebian Masses - Plato, Guardian Class. Home-schooling - Being Unpopular with the Populous - Group-Think Schooling, Group Consensus, Predictable Masses. Dehumanized Culture, Appeal to Humane - Ability to Think for Ourselves - Arthur Koestler - Secret Services, Culture Creation, Radical Groups, CIA. Substitute Families for Youth - Soviet System, Young Communist Party - British Army Cadets - Hitler Youth - Gangs, Leaders. Government becomes Master - George Orwell's "1984" - Spying, Paranoia. Psychopathic-Led System - Competition, Profit, Success, The Pyramid - Psychopathy, Aristocratic Families - Selective Breeding, Inbreeding - DNA Collection, Psychological Evaluations. Abolition of Private Employment, Private Property - Issuance of Credits Weekly (Cannot Save Up) - Habitat Areas. United Europe, Deindustrialization of Britain - New Feudal System - Market Suppression. British Department of Defence Projections: Riots, Mobs - Internal Police Force (Army) - United Nations, Food Shortages. Psychological Preparation - Getting Out of Cities - Brownouts, Power Outages, 60 Hz Electronic Grid. HAARP Frequencies, Aerial Spraying - Strobe Lightning, Bizarre Storms - UN Treaty on Weather Warfare - Mood Alteration. UN Model State: China - Chinese Culture.

9-11 Fiasco - United World Agenda - Terrorism Nonsense - Fortress America. H.G. Wells: Obsolete Governments - World of Experts - Semi-Hypnotic State, "Routines" - Groupthink - Carroll Quigley - "Payola" - Free Trade (for Big Corporations). Kindergarten, Day Care, Plebeians - Scientific Indoctrination - Government Role as Husband - New Age, "Oneness", New Nirvana, Hinduism, Karma, Mantras. "Something wonderful is going to happen" - Fear-Based Religion - Becoming "God" - Modified Coffee, Bad Dreams - Hypnotism, Huxley's Speech - Blavatsky. Symbol of Spider - 8 Legs, Money and Power, 8 in Freemasonry - Black Widow, Widow's Sons - Cloning - the Net, the Web, Alternate Reality. The Unpopular Individual - Minority and Majority. Healing Gadgets, Shysters, Money off Misery, Royal Rife Machines. Trends in Art, Nihilism, Schizophrenia - Populous Mindset - Cartoon Figures, Animation - Commercial Exploitation. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 26, 2007 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)