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Welcome to episode 21 of the Testing Peers and thank you for sticking with us. What better topic to discuss for our Valentines Day release than our experiences of dealing with conflict? We are a three again for this episode with David's dulcet tones missing from the recording. So Simon, Russell and Chris do their best to fill the void.The peers start by discussing how they deal with arguments/disagreements generally in everyday life (and it seems like Russell and Simon deal in similar ways) before diving into their experience with conflicts they have had in the workplace.We conclude by discussing ways in which we as leaders need to behave during conflict. Did Simon and Russell actually disagree on something?? Surely not!Hope you enjoy this episode and as always, please feel free to get in touch and tell us what you think.We really appreciate all the feedback that we have received and invite you to get in touch with us:ContactUs@TestingPeers.comTwitter (https://twitter.com/testingpeers)LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/testing-peers)Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/testingpeers/)Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TestingPeers)If you like what we do and are able to, please visit our Patreon to explore how you could support us going forwards: https://www.patreon.com/testingpeersSaffron QA is a provider of recruitment and consultancy services, exclusively for the software testing industry.You can find out more at https://saffronqa.co.uk/  or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/saffron-qa/We've found Ben from Saffron QA to be a great partner who has signed up to the vision and values that we have set out in our Testing Peers charter and we hope that you will take the time to visit and connect with him.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/testingpeers)

2016 IndyCar Champion Simon Pagenaud, winner of the 2019 Indy 500, is a long time Friend of the Freaks. So Simon's visit was well accepted and enjoyed. While Pagenaud talked fun in the racing off-season he had some sadness at not being able to spend Christmas at home in Paris for the first time in his life. He said the pandemic would keep him in North Carolina this year. Listen...

2016 IndyCar Champion Simon Pagenaud, winner of the 2019 Indy 500, is a long time Friend of the Freaks. So Simon's visit was well accepted and enjoyed. While Pagenaud talked fun in the racing off-season he had some sadness at not being able to spend Christmas at home in Paris for the first time in his life. He said the pandemic would keep him in North Carolina this year. Listen...

A famous biologist, Paul Ehrlich, predicts that overpopulation will lead to global catastrophe. He writes a bestselling book — The Population Bomb — and goes on the Tonight Show to make his case.An economist, Julian Simon, disagrees. He thinks Ehrlich isn't accounting for how clever people can be, and how shortages can lead to new, more efficient ways of doing things. So Simon challenges Ehrlich to a very public, very acrimonious, decade-long bet. On today's show: The story of that bet, and what it tells us about the future of humanity.

Simon Berg was 16 years old when he decided the education system wasn’t for him, but it wasn’t because he didn’t want to learn….In fact, all Simon cared about was learning about his passions. So Simon took a job as a coffee boy and before he knew it, he was a multi-time CEO. Today, Simon is the CEO of Ceros, and he joined Marketing Trends  to discuss why it’s okay to take a less conventional path as long as you’re passionate about the path you choose. Plus he does a deep dive into why content marketing is the worst phrase in the marketing industry. 3 Takeaways:   Treat digital experiences with the same respect, care, and attention you would a physical experience. If your customer engages with it, it’s time to start giving it that same attention Always ask yourself why you are producing content. Address the why, then ask yourself over and over again if this is the best piece of content you could be producing Digital experiences are not about driving traffic to a website. It’s about representing your brand and your platform like an artist would treat a performance as a chance to represent who he or she is to the audience --- Marketing Trends podcast is brought to you by Salesforce. Discover marketing built on the world’s number one CRM: Salesforce. Put your customer at the center of every interaction. Automate engagement with each customer. And build your marketing strategy around the entire customer journey. Salesforce. We bring marketing and engagement together. Learn more at salesforce.com/marketing.  To learn more or subscribe to our weekly newsletter, visit MarketingTrends.com.

So Simon asks, have I worked with clients from Europe who sold their products/services to US customers? And is it more difficult for Europeans to sell on the US market? Yes I have, and the answer is no.

So Simon asks, have I worked with clients from Europe who sold their products/services to US customers? And is it more difficult for Europeans to sell on the US market? Yes I have, and the answer is no.

 ★★★Contact Me★★★  https://www.joynicholson.com/   Join my FREE Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marke...  Hi, everyone. I am here with Samuel today. Samuel is a friend I've met on Facebook probably well, probably six months ago now, Samuel probably, I don't know, three months ago. Three or four months.00:14Yeah. And Samuel is very, very good with time management skills. And it's funny enough, because when I did my little time management challenge thing, you know, he obviously popped up, I don't know how it happened, but he popped up and we started talking about things. So I want to invite him today to talk to the group and about management, because what I've found is that if your time management sucks, then you're going to struggle in your business, and you really need as much or as many hours as possible in your business, to obviously to be more successful. And this also ties in with pillar one which is the focus.00:52Samuel, hello, how you doing? Hi, I'm doing awesome doing great Joy. How are you?00:57I'm doing very well. Thank you. So can you tell the group a little bit about you, who you are, where you come from, and how this whole time management thing comes about and why did you decide to be in management?01:08Okay, great. Thank you very much Joy. This is Sammy Rosario, I'm from the Dominican Republic. Green own country and this side of the world I don't know in New Zealand, Australia, I can say that is a country located in the Caribbean. And in my case, I'm a general manager. And I'm living to student lifetimes through the end of everything, and time management regarding time management this thing came six years ago, Joy. Six years ago, I was working in a financial institution. And I was promoted, I guess I was a little smart, and I was promoted because of some skills, but I knew nothing about time management, productivity, I knew nothing, nothing. And something happened actually it almost killed me. He almost killed me because I had never ever been in a situation where I had to be working on many things at the same time. And it was horrible. It almost killed me. In my social media, I show some pictures of me and how I was back then I was 21 back then. And I look like I was 40 I was it was horrible. And that led me to study and learn and go deeply on time management I've been studying this subject for six years and now I am helping entrepreneurs from all over the world on time management productivity, and helping entrepreneurs organize Yes.02:35Now when he said almost killed you and me exactly what you mean because I was once completely rundown when I was so exhausted, I couldn't get out of bed for two days because I was just completely just rundown. And it is really that stress of having all these things on your plate and doing so much. You are just humanly impossible. It's just human beings who are just not capable of doing that right in a nutshell. So what is your first time hack that you can tell people like what is the first thing that you can do to save some time in your day?03:07Well, to save some time, the best thing I can, I can share with people, there's a lot of things I can share. But one of the best strategies that I can share is what I call the declaration technique, open declaration technique, it is that you do you to-do lists when people vote to-do lists, and you do it and you share it with two-three people, you trust and you admire each other within and you say something like, hey, follow up with being six or seven and five, and tell me what's going on with this what happened with this, you're gonna see that your productivity, your focus is gonna go up 50 times 50%, sorry, or 100%. So it's amazing.03:49It is interesting that you say that because when I was studying all these time management techniques and so on, one of the things that, you know, came up was exactly that. It says that accountability and I interviewed a guy called TG about six months ago or so. And the funny thing is he has a virtual assistant and it is actually an interview that we talked about that checks in with him to make sure that he's done those tasks. So it's very key to actually have that and he's incredible with what he does. And he's very successful. And he's very structured because he's got that accountability person that checks in with him to make sure that he's doing tasks. So it's interesting that you're saying. Okay, so what has been like okay, so we've got some people you've we've got Nanjing and Marta that's on here, as well. Hi, guys so what is this? Let me ask you this, Samuel. How do you how's your day structured? They wake up, they're not, you know, telling you you got to be how is your day structured to actually make sure that you get all your tasks done for the day?04:51Okay, awesome. Awesome. I get up. I wake up really early in the morning, five,five-thirty, and I follow this, this philosophy, Joy, this philosophy of don't start your day until habit finish don't start you that day into habits finish and it means when you're going to build when you when there's a construction, you're going to build something and you don't start that project and do you have the design and budget, they know that you didn't start the project? And do you have that? Or maybe you guys love rugby in New Zealand. We know that the coach doesn't start the game without having a plan a strategy to face the other team. And the same thing happens where I mean, what I do, I didn't I saw a day without planning.05:44I've got a question for you. So you say you make a priority list, right? How long is this priority list that you make?05:51Okay, it's a great question. So my question because we're going to simplify we got to be able to simplify things are we going to do what I do is I follow the ABCDE method. I don't know if you have heard about it  the method, and I get the eight things, my eight things are the things that I must do, I must do that they do. The B things are things that are maybe I have to do. See things are things that are not that important and D, that's the key. These things are the things that you delegate, and there's the thing because maybe you have a lot of things to do,but this strategy  you can develop is your skill to delegate to people and to become a leader and to be able to delegate not abdicate, because when you pass something to someone else, and that's it that's abdicating. But when you're able to delegate to be clear on what you want that other person to do, it's awesome. And that's the best ability. I may be, to be honest, I get a lot of things, maybe 20 things and 19 things but I delegate 50% that and I take the other 50% and that's one of the best things that leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives regard about. That means that ability to delegate.07:08Okay, I want to hear the rest of your day though, but I do have a question this because I find this to be quite important in my day specifically as well. I can't speak for other people. But I only focus on two to three things to do on a daily basis, you know, so the night before, I would know exactly why these are the two-three big things that I need to do. Now, I'm also talking out of a mom's point of view, because I only have five working hours a day, and I only have five working hours a day times four days. So it's not like I have a lot of time in my business. I make these hours up at knight, right. But in saying that I don't work usually I won't this last few weeks have been a little bit different. But usually, I won't really work at night, you know, because I only have that time because I'm very structured with my time. So my question to you is, do you feel overwhelmed when you have even like if you have like 15 things on your list and five sets 50% you delegate, you still have like seven and a half or seven, eight things, on your list, don't you feel overwhelmed when you look at that listing?08:08No, this great, this is great, you feel overwhelmed when you have that in your head. Don't forget that your head is for having ideas not for holding them that's when you feel overwhelmed when you know that you get to do a whole bunch of things, and that's in your head that's the yeah, that's the sad part. But when you see it on a paper or on a piece of paper or on a computer, I don't want to overwhelm. Because there's always a boundary that you gotta developing yourself, which is self-discipline, the open declaration technique that you're in the beginning, and that's awesome. When you know that you're going to have somebody that's gonna ask you how you made it if you made it because that's a problem that we as entrepreneurs have, we don't have anybody supervising us, and something like that. And that's good. And one side and as bad on the other side, so, I did I am overwhelmed if I haven't in my head,09:07Yes. Okay. Because I find sometimes like, even with my two to three things that I do, maybe the top of tasks that I do does take a lot of time because I mean, it's not like, I'm going to say that I'm replying on emails and I'm fixing this problem therefrom I guess if it's little menial tasks like that I can do like 15 of them in a day. But I think my tasks are quite big things. You know, one of my tasks is like two hours to complete. Okay, so what is the next part of your day looking like so now you started that you know exactly what you're doing. The next part of your day is you basically you know, you have this list of, you know, things mapped out you delegated your tasks. So, what's the next thing you do that you start doing them?09:47Okay, I start with my A thing, and yeah, and what happens is that my A thing it's gonna take me 85% of the time, because if I have to spend my whole day working on my eighth things, my most important things. It is that that's it. I mean is the way it is, it's the most important thing. So I can spend 80% of the time working on my A things and maybe the other person the other 15% is on the other BC things.10:19Do you take breaks in a day? And how long do you take breaks? Oh, absolutely,10:24Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. We get to understand Joy that we as human beings are now designed to work for long hours after two hours max after two hours. Yeah, I mean, it focused on one thing, our mind starts thinking about something else very different than what we are working on. So that is why that it is actually demonstrated that we got to think breaks everywhere we think our cycles, it can be 45 minutes, that means rest. I use 60 minutes and 10 minutes rest. So know that some other people use this for more neuro technique, that's what they call it is 25 minutes, five minutes. But the thing is that you get to find your cycle. It depends on the person. Sometimes it can be 90 minutes and 20 minutes rest. But the thing is that you're gonna take that break and you're gonna see that when you take the break and you get back, you're gonna be fresh, you're gonna be more focused. Because if you stay there for three hours, you know, your minds gonna get lost.11:28Yeah, so even if people will tell you to like, I can do this for three hours in reality that they cheating themselves because they can't really do that. Right? You think that you would actually be more productive if it's like breaks, right? Absolutely, absolutely Joy.11:42Yeah, see, I've got a problem. I can't wait longer for my bump. I am very fidgety. I've noticed there's like even like this, I have to hold my cup. I actually have a friend and he's in my Facebook group to Hannah's you say to me that you must watch it  with your fidgeting because you come into play with you're here. It's because I'm fidgety. Because I'm like, I can't sit still so this is a problem in my life. And I never used to be like that I adopted I'm going to where it comes from. But anyway so so I guess it tells me a little bit more about management thing. So Simon entrepreneur now obviously do but I am struggling with having time in my day so you can help people to get two hours back in a day, right? So what is your hack to give people two hours in their day? What is the number one thing that you can take a cause this is the thing that you do to get two hours in your day. What is that thing?12:32Okay, okay, remember that the essence of time management is not exactly that ability to do a lot of things without a reason without a purpose. Okay. The thing that different that makes me different from many other people that teach time management, and they are good, I respect them. Many good people in the world, teaching about time management, that's great. But the thing that makes me different is that that I focus Joy on that how in alignment are your daily activities which you cause I invite your audience, your people, I invite them to make this exercise Joy. And it is that let's say you write down your three big goals in life. You write them down your three big goals in life and you have them. And then you take you to think about yesterday. Let's say that you think about yesterday, let's assume that yesterday was not a holiday was not something like that. Let's assume that yesterday was a normal day. Yeah. And you write down that whole description, you write down every single activity that you did. You get to be descriptive. You get up right down, not something like I woke up after breakfast, I went to work, I got back to come not that way you get to be, I mean with details. You write down every single activity, let's say that you get 60 activities, something like that. And then you take this 60 activities and you convert those 60 activities with these three goals that you wrote down in the beginning. And you see how in alignment are your daily activities with your goals. And most people doing this exercise Joy, they get something like three activities out of 60 or five or two. And that's the thing. The reason for time management is to get you to achieve your goals. It's not this thing of doing a lot of things without a recent It's not that. Exactly.14:29Yeah, and it's interesting because I think I added you to the little group that I did a time management challenge for this is a while ago, I think I did this at the beginning of the year, I did a little time management. I think it was a 10 day time management. None of you were in the group. I don't remember how many days I did, but one of the hacks that I did teach the people in there was basically saying that you know, just be accountable for what you do and write down so I called it the honesty test, because it's just being honest with yourself you really spending your time because sometimes we do nonsense in the day that you don't need to spend your time on. It's just like little things, you know, you faff here and suddenly you, you're looking for a picture on Google and before you know it, you're spending two hours googling nonsense you don't need to do this. This is where it comes in like, and that's why I call it the honesty to be honest with yourself when we really spend your time. We have a question. So Nandi is saying  that is our question. She says I feel like I take breaks too often. I can't keep going again. I only take a break every two to three hours. I guess I need more practice. What would you recommend for Nandi with something like this? If she takes a break for you know, I need a break every two to three hours, but then she just doesn't get back into it again. What do you recommend they do I or what she does? Samuel sorry.15:43Yeah, it happens. It happens. Maybe you're taking a break and you take advantage of it and all of a sudden you have taking 40 minutes break a 15-minute break. Yeah, it happens. Yeah, yeah. First of all, what I have to say is again, this opened the equation technique is key because again, when you don't have somebody that is supervising us that is checking on us, it can happen because we are on our own. So use that that declaration technique, get some 1234 people that are gonna follow up with you at 6 pm or 7 pm or 5 pm. And you're going to see that that is called transition time and time management. Those times when you take breaks when you go to go to take, lunch something like that. That's transition time. I mean, what you do in this time if you take in longer if you take in as minimal as possible, up the deceleration technique is the big thing here.16:42Yeah. And also Nandi something that I did I don't know if you know about this, but what I did is I followed this person called Mel Robbins on YouTube. And she's got this thing called the five-second rule. And I've noticed for me that works but I've also noticed like enough of other people it doesn't work for but if you sit on your computer like, if you come back from lunch, for example, and you sit in front of your computer and be like, oh, I don't actually know if I want to do this right now and then you procrastinate, right? Because that's really what it is you procrastinate because, like I do this rather, I do that rather, well, I'll do everything else except the task I'm supposed to do. You go 54321 you take a deep breath and just start, just start. And before you know it, you back into it again. And that is something especially I find when I'm tired when I had like, you know, long working nights, and I've just I'm just not focused. I find like that really works is that five-second rule, so Nandi tries that, but it doesn't work for everybody. So and I mean, I've spoken to people, it doesn't work for them, I17:37guess. Okay, what I recommend herewith as you say, Joy is that we get to find that moment in our day where we are most productive, is we yeah, if we let's say that you're most productive in the mornings you cannot leave an important project under no a wet face that you are creating or a book that you are writing. You cannot leave that task from 4 pm to 5 pm when you are tired when you are not focused maybe that time is to call people something like that, that make these meetings, things that don't require that energy that you can use from here. So that's something that I recommend because if you leave those important activities that require a lot of focus to the afternoon when you're not that focused, it's a mistake.18:25Yeah, no, I completely agree with you and just find your umff. I am not a morning person Nandi I don't know about you and who else is on here, but I am not a morning person. So for me, it's like literally takes me two hours either I do it at five o'clock or at seven o'clock in the morning, I'm just not a morning person. So but at night, I am like this literally, this is me and I can be like this at one o'clock in the morning and I can just work. So I think it's just finding your, you know, really,18:53really position and I know a lot of directors and the best time to write music to create music is yeah 12pm 11 am yeah, I know that I see that from musicians all the time.19:10Yeah, yeah, I have a friend that does things like that he actually writes podcasts and things for, for you know, our podcast music and he's the same he's best in the middle of the night. It's just like his creativity is right there. It's quite interesting that right. Nandi's saying I'm not a morning person either I do my best to work in the evening. Yeah. And the thing is like Nandi for example, she's also she's a mom of two kids and kids drain your energy, nothing to the children we love them we are moms, but they drain your energy and it is exhausting. Do you know? So at nighttime, you're tired, you know, bulletproof coffee that's what you need, that's what I do not. Okay, tell me what else can you, I don't want to make this too long. What else can you give us like what is the one other big tip that you can you know, as a takeaway tip that people can implement immediately that can help them to start or just give them more time back in the day?19:59Yeah, sure. First of all, I have to say, first of all, thank you for inviting me here. It's an honor to be here with a person like you. Yeah. And I will say it again, our daily activities have to be in alignment with our goals, and time management doesn't make any sense. If you don't align your daily activities with your goals, because there could be a purpose or reason for why you're doing what you're doing. So that's what you got to do. And I invite people, the audience to do that, that exercise right now on whenever they have some time because they're gonna see how they're doing it. Because if you don't work on your dreams, how do you expect them to come true? It's not like magic. So that's very true. Yes. Yeah, every single day, you gotta do something that's gonna get you closer to those goals.20:54Yeah, and that's actually because that's why and I get a lot of people asked me like, uh, we don't understand the four pillars and I'm working on something that's going to make clear, but the focus is pillar one. And the focus is not just about focusing on one task it's about the other party now goals tie in with focus and your entire management task and was focused because if you focus on the task at hand, you're going to be focused on the goal. So the focus is like a broad thing, in my opinion anyway, that will help you to achieve your goals and if you don't spend the time every single day working on your goals, gosh, you just not going to achieve them. It is just not rocket science to figure that out for yourself. Now Samuel, write a really really nice comment. He's going to tell us a little bit about that. Samuel, please.21:40Yeah, it is called Stein booster Academy. I invite everybody who's interested in maybe you can text me directly and I'm going to be honored to help you to assist you to be in a call and we can talk about your needs. So yeah, at Stein booster Academy I have been an entrepreneur from all over the world to reclaim their time. That's our motto and that's great and I love it because I know what that is. I know what frustration what, you know, anxiety is so and I overcame that. And I have to be able to, you know, to overcome that.22:12Yeah. And it is important because you don't want to end up in hospital being burned out, right? Yeah, great to hear your voice Samuel, our conversations on messenger will be so much better now. Hehe, it's funny. Okay, cool. We will drop Samuels links below as well, you know, so you guys can find him join this Facebook group, and yeah, just check out his little course that he's got. Because it's really it's valuable. It's a lot of good things. And we haven't done all of it in this. I mean, obviously, there's a lot more in his course than what we've covered in this in this little training slash interview session. Thank you so much. Is anything Samuel, Are you good? I think we've covered everything. And let me just make sure there are no comments. Any questions? Anybody? Oh, even my husband popped onto this. Alright, awesome. Thank you so much, Samuel, I really appreciate your time. And yeah, we're like I said, we'll just pass the links in here and if you guys have any questions, queries, comments, let us know. And remember, I appreciate you, you guys are awesome. All right, talk soon. Bye-bye. Thank you.

There used to be a neighborhood in Tulsa where Black people were wealthy. They owned businesses, built a giant church, a public library. Some Black Tulsans even owned airplanes. Booker T Washington called it “Black Wall Street.” Others called it “Little Africa” and today, most call it “Greenwood.” In the early 1900s, the neighborhood was prosperous and thriving, but Black Tulsans were still a racial minority in a young city that already had a reputation for vigilante justice. A local chapter of the KKK was starting to form. In the Spring of 1921, a Black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland was brought into custody for allegedly assaulting a white woman. Over the coming night and day, a huge mob of white Tulsans burned and looted and murdered in Greenwood and the surrounding areas. Dozens or possibly even hundreds of Black Tulsans died, thousands became homeless. But authorities never held anyone responsible. In fact, they detained many Black residents, some for up to a week. And insurance claims made in the aftermath were denied, as the insurance policies did not cover “riots.” Further reading on the Tulsa Race Massacre:Official Report from 2001 which describes the events of 1921 in detail and with context. Educational comic about the massacre published by the Atlantic and sponsored by HBO's Watchmen. Riot and Remembrance By James S. HirschIn the decades that followed. Records of the event went missing, some fear they were destroyed. The mass graves have yet to be found. And many Black Tulsans believed they could face retribution for speaking out about the event. It wasn't even taught in school until recently. As a result, a lot of Tulsans still don't know the history of Greenwood. Local rapper Steph Simon was one of them. He grew up near Greenwood, and he went to middle school there. But it wasn't until his 20's when he stumbled upon a documentary about the massacre on Youtube. From there, he became obsessed with learning more about the true story of Tulsa. And in 2019, he released an album called Born on Black Wall Street where he reintroduces himself as “Diamond Dicky Ro” in homage to the young shoeshiner whom white mobs tried and failed to lynch on that night in 1921. In 2011, an Oklahoman journalist named Lee Roy Chapman wrote an article for the publication This Land. Chapman's story, The Nightmare in Dreamland, was a devastating re-telling of the life's story of an Oklahoman legend--a “founder” of Tulsa named Tate Brady. Brady was well known as an oil tycoon and hotel owner who ran in the elite circles. However, buried by history was Brady's legacy of violence and racial animus. He was a defender of the Confederacy, he was credibly accused of tarring and feathering some IWW union members, and for part of his life, he was in the Ku Klux Klan. And on the night of the massacre, Brady was there, acting as a night watchman. He reported seeing several dead black people in the streets in or around Greenwood. With these revelations, a movement started to remove the Brady name from Tulsa. That movement succeeded partially, but the Brady name is still a part of the Tulsan landscape. When Steph Simon shot the cover image for Born On Black Wall Street, he wanted to incorporate the symbolism of Tate Brady. So he went to Brady's former mansion—a house modelled visually after the house of Robert E. Lee's, with murals of the Confederacy painted inside and big stone columns out front. It sits on a hill overlooking historic Greenwood. And he stood on the front steps of the mansion only to see a childhood friend driving by. It was Felix Jones, an ex-NFL running back. The two grew up together. To Simon's surprise, Jones revealed that he'd just bought the mansion. And he invited Simon inside. Together they thought up ideas on how to transform the legacy of the house from something hateful to something loving. So Simon invited about a hundred Black kids to come have a party on the lawn while he filmed the music video for his single “Upside”. After that, Simon and Jones started throwing concerts there, drawing huge crowds and starting the slowly re-contextualizing the house into something positive. They renamed the house “Skyline Mansion.”As this transformation took place, another local DJ and producer, Stevie Johnson woke up in a cold sweat one night. He'd had a dream about rebuilding Black Wall Street, figuratively and literally. He opened his laptop and wrote down his ideas frantically, trying to remember his vision. And soon after, he started to act on it. His first step was Fire in Little Africa: a commemorative rap album to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, featuring nearly sixty artists from Oklahoma. And over the course of a weekend in early 2020, rappers and community members and businesses filled Skyline Mansion to record dozens of tracks for the album. Fire in Little Africa will be available in February of 2021. Their podcast is out now. They're also curating spotify playlists of the featured artists, and they're accepting donations via the Tulsa Community Foundation. On this episode of Here Be Monsters, Taylor Hosking visits the former Brady Mansion to talk to the musicians who are looking to build a new Black Wall Street in Tulsa. Taylor also published an article in CityLab called Avenging the Tulsa Race Massacre With Hip Hop.A lot of people and organizations helped make this episode possible. We'd like to thank Steph Simon, Verse, Stevie Johnson, Keeng Cut, Written Quincy, Bobby Eaton, Felix Jones, Dan Hanh, Mechelle Brown, Chris Davis, Shruti Dhalwala, Brandon Oldham, Ben Lindsey, John DeLore, The George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Oklahoma Historical Society, and The Woody Guthrie Center. Producer: Taylor Hosking (Instagram) (Twitter)Editor: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Steph Simon, Verse, The Black SpotAlso heard on this episode: recordings from Black Lives Matter protests made by Neroli Price of Seattle, Washington; Bryanna Buie of Wilmington, North Carolina; and Bethany Donkin of Oxford, UK.

There used to be a neighborhood in Tulsa where Black people were wealthy. They owned businesses, built a giant church, a public library. Some Black Tulsans even owned airplanes. Booker T Washington called it “Black Wall Street.” Others called it “Little Africa” and today, most call it “Greenwood.” In the early 1900s, the neighborhood was prosperous and thriving, but Black Tulsans were still a racial minority in a young city that already had a reputation for vigilante justice. A local chapter of the KKK was starting to form. In the Spring of 1921, a Black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland was brought into custody for allegedly assaulting a white woman. Over the coming night and day, a huge mob of white Tulsans burned and looted and murdered in Greenwood and the surrounding areas. Dozens or possibly even hundreds of Black Tulsans died, thousands became homeless. But authorities never held anyone responsible. In fact, they detained many Black residents, some for up to a week. And insurance claims made in the aftermath were denied, as the insurance policies did not cover “riots.” Further reading on the Tulsa Race Massacre:Official Report from 2001 which describes the events of 1921 in detail and with context. Educational comic about the massacre published by the Atlantic and sponsored by HBO’s Watchmen. Riot and Remembrance By James S. HirschIn the decades that followed. Records of the event went missing, some fear they were destroyed. The mass graves have yet to be found. And many Black Tulsans believed they could face retribution for speaking out about the event. It wasn’t even taught in school until recently. As a result, a lot of Tulsans still don’t know the history of Greenwood. Local rapper Steph Simon was one of them. He grew up near Greenwood, and he went to middle school there. But it wasn’t until his 20’s when he stumbled upon a documentary about the massacre on Youtube. From there, he became obsessed with learning more about the true story of Tulsa. And in 2019, he released an album called Born on Black Wall Street where he reintroduces himself as “Diamond Dicky Ro” in homage to the young shoeshiner whom white mobs tried and failed to lynch on that night in 1921. In 2011, an Oklahoman journalist named Lee Roy Chapman wrote an article for the publication This Land. Chapman’s story, The Nightmare in Dreamland, was a devastating re-telling of the life’s story of an Oklahoman legend--a “founder” of Tulsa named Tate Brady. Brady was well known as an oil tycoon and hotel owner who ran in the elite circles. However, buried by history was Brady’s legacy of violence and racial animus. He was a defender of the Confederacy, he was credibly accused of tarring and feathering some IWW union members, and for part of his life, he was in the Ku Klux Klan. And on the night of the massacre, Brady was there, acting as a night watchman. He reported seeing several dead black people in the streets in or around Greenwood. With these revelations, a movement started to remove the Brady name from Tulsa. That movement succeeded partially, but the Brady name is still a part of the Tulsan landscape. When Steph Simon shot the cover image for Born On Black Wall Street, he wanted to incorporate the symbolism of Tate Brady. So he went to Brady’s former mansion—a house modelled visually after the house of Robert E. Lee’s, with murals of the Confederacy painted inside and big stone columns out front. It sits on a hill overlooking historic Greenwood. And he stood on the front steps of the mansion only to see a childhood friend driving by. It was Felix Jones, an ex-NFL running back. The two grew up together. To Simon’s surprise, Jones revealed that he’d just bought the mansion. And he invited Simon inside. Together they thought up ideas on how to transform the legacy of the house from something hateful to something loving. So Simon invited about a hundred Black kids to come have a party on the lawn while he filmed the music video for his single “Upside”. After that, Simon and Jones started throwing concerts there, drawing huge crowds and starting the slowly re-contextualizing the house into something positive. They renamed the house “Skyline Mansion.”As this transformation took place, another local DJ and producer, Stevie Johnson woke up in a cold sweat one night. He’d had a dream about rebuilding Black Wall Street, figuratively and literally. He opened his laptop and wrote down his ideas frantically, trying to remember his vision. And soon after, he started to act on it. His first step was Fire in Little Africa: a commemorative rap album to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, featuring nearly sixty artists from Oklahoma. And over the course of a weekend in early 2020, rappers and community members and businesses filled Skyline Mansion to record dozens of tracks for the album. Fire in Little Africa will be available in February of 2021. Their podcast is out now. They’re also curating spotify playlists of the featured artists, and they’re accepting donations via the Tulsa Community Foundation. On this episode of Here Be Monsters, Taylor Hosking visits the former Brady Mansion to talk to the musicians who are looking to build a new Black Wall Street in Tulsa. Taylor also published an article in CityLab called Avenging the Tulsa Race Massacre With Hip Hop.A lot of people and organizations helped make this episode possible. We’d like to thank Steph Simon, Verse, Stevie Johnson, Keeng Cut, Written Quincy, Bobby Eaton, Felix Jones, Dan Hanh, Mechelle Brown, Chris Davis, Shruti Dhalwala, Brandon Oldham, Ben Lindsey, John DeLore, The George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Oklahoma Historical Society, and The Woody Guthrie Center. Producer: Taylor Hosking (Instagram) (Twitter)Editor: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Steph Simon, Verse, The Black SpotAlso heard on this episode: recordings from Black Lives Matter protests made by Neroli Price of Seattle, Washington; Bryanna Buie of Wilmington, North Carolina; and Bethany Donkin of Oxford, UK. 

So now we are introduced to Paul, still named Saul at the moment, and we see that he was instrumental in the persecution of the Christians of the early church. The way Luke records it, “entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committing them to prison” makes it sound personal, not just as a part of his role as a devout Jew. We then see Philip emerge from Stephen's legacy and begin his ministry by preaching to the Samaritans. As a side note, the Samaritans were mixed group of partly Jewish and partly Gentile ancestry that was disliked by both Jews and non-Jews in the region (this was a very fractious society and world at the time - lots of in-crowds). They were Greek-speaking, and they believed in Israel's God but they had their own expectations of a Messiah to come named “Teheb”. I just find that interesting. At any rate, we then see the first larger section for this chapter, which is where I wanted to camp out this morning - the story about Simon the Magician. So Simon was this guy who was doing all sorts of magic, which we can't really relate to but apparently was more common at this time (or perhaps there were people that were trained in the art of deception, not exactly sure on that). But people apparently could clearly differentiate between Philip's teaching and miracles vs. Simon's. There was something clearly divine about Philip's teaching - so much so that Simon himself was baptized. I think that, in a subtle way, this illustrates a difference between having power or magic that is for your own gain and having power that is leveraged for God's gain. We can see this different illustrated when Peter and John actually come down to visit Philip as the chapter continues because we get a peak into what Simon was apparently really after in being baptized...he wanted to get in on the power. Simon, in some way, could see the power of the Holy Spirit falling upon these people who'd been baptized and he offered to PAY the disciples for some of this power. I love this interchange because it gets to the heart of an issue that I think we all struggle with in one way or another - we want to leverage God for our own benefit. Sometimes this is really overt - like in Simon's case. Sometimes it is much more subtle - for instance, the person who behaves according to God's will and expects God to give them extra protection, or the person who tithes because they believe that they will receive more blessing from God, or really just the ‘fairness' doctrine in general - these all fall along the same lines. If we pursue God for anything other than the relationship itself, we are committing the same sin as Simon. Today, I am reminded that relationship is the reason - it is the reason for engaging God. The relationship will reward me, sure, but if I want to get the most out of my relationship, it should be viewed similarly to how a healthy relationship works with anyone else on this earth - time together, enjoying each other, understanding each other, and pursuing each other > the journey will reveal things about me, it will shape me, and it will grow me. That's the reward in-and-of-itself. What a great reminder from Simon today!

So Simon broke his leg recently and we've not been able to do as much but our mini re-launch comes in the form of an interview with award winning property investor Paul Lanfear.  We chat about . . .  In part 1 of the pod Paul tells a bit about his story and how he got into property. The struggles with growth and the difficulty of starting out in property!!  Where to find practical advice Buying from people and being personable In part 2 we (Paul mainly) gives some top tips on making a plan, things to be wary of in a HMO portfolio and how to gain clarity in 2020!!  Paul has 5 places left for our Discovery Day on Friday 24 January 2020.

GUEST BIO: Simon Maple is the Director of Developer Relations at Snyk, a Java Champion since 2014 and was a JavaOneRockstar speaker in 2014 and 2017.  Simon is also a Duke’s Choice award winner, the founder and organizer of Virtual JUG, co-leader of the London Java Community and a regular conference speaker. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on today’s show is Simon Maple. He is a developer advocate who spent 20 years working with IBM and is now involved with start-ups. Simon is well known for setting up vJUG, the Virtual Java User Group, which now has 16,000 members. He is also the co-leader of the London Java Community and a Java Champion. On a regular basis, Simon presents at major conferences, including, Devooxx Fr and UK, JavaOne, JavaZone, JAX, JavaLand and many more. KEY TAKEAWAYS: ­(1.02) – So Simon, can you expand on that brief introduction and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Simon started his career as a developer for IBM, 20 years ago. After 10 years, he moved into what IBM called technical evangelism, which is also known as developer advocacy. It was a big change. Suddenly, he had to do public speaking, customer engagement and blogging. Developer advocacy, for Simon, is all about helping developers with the day to day issues that they have. He does this in many different ways. Mostly, by introducing tools and techniques that can be used to make things easier for the developer. Part of his role is to educate developers about different issues, for example security. (2.50) Do you find that there are certain subjects that people ask questions about more than others? Simon says that is more to do with the number of questions people ask rather than specific topics. When a developer has the confidence to start asking you more questions, you know you have hit the right level in terms of the information you are giving out as an advocate. If you overwhelm people they clam up because they are having trouble keeping up. Give them too little information and they find it impossible to piece things together and understand what you are trying to say. When you get the balance right, you know because the conversation flows and the questions come. People will talk more about topics that interest them or that resonate with them. Also, after speaking about a topic a few times you will pick up on the questions that most people want to be answered. (4.22) – Phil asks Simon for a unique IT career tip. Simon explains that his role is basically to communicate something to someone. Over the years, he has learned that it is important to share the information your audience wants to consume. This is the case whether you are talking to one person or a thousand, or more. When you empathize with the person you are speaking to, you naturally adjust what you say and make it as relevant to the audience as possible. Empathy will also help you to change the way you say things, so that it easier for them to digest the information you are sharing. When you do that, regardless of what your role is, you will progress in your career. (6.26) – Simon is asked to share his worst career moment with the I.T. Career Energizer audience. For Simon this was more of a personal situation rather than a professional one. As humans it is hard to keep up with all of the social pressure that comes with change. The developer world moves very quickly. You are doing your job in a certain way following a known path. Suddenly, Agile comes along and everything moves far faster. Testing has to be done in 2 weeks. Then you have to take on DevOps and SecOps as well as your main role of developing. Basically, the work keeps on being piled onto your plate. In that situation, it is all too easy to take on too much too quickly. When you do that, you burn out physically and mentally. That has happened to Simon twice, which put him in a bad place and stopped his career in its tracks. He is now careful about what he takes on and has got into the habit of prioritizing things properly.  Simon has found that taking things out of his head and feeding them into a “to do” type tool helps him a lot. He finds that getting everything out of his head and into the tool enables him to concentrate once again on his work. Phil described it as removing clutter from his brain. (9.23) – Phil asks Simon what his best career moment was. Simon feels that the best inventions come about when someone is trying to solve a problem. His best career moment came about because Simon was struggling to see enough of his family and still fulfill all of his work responsibilities. He wanted to attend the London Java group events, they were very beneficial, but he was very short on time. So, he came up with the idea of setting up a virtual Java group. At the time, this way of bringing people together was very rarely done. Now user groups stream their events so everyone can benefit, regardless of where they are in the world. Today, the virtual community that he set up, vJUG has 16,000 members. It has helped tens of thousands of people to collaborate and become more successful. His work with the group has helped Simon to become well-known something which has greatly helped his career. He thinks that setting up and running the group is the main reason he got the Java Champion award. (12.23) – Phil asks what excites Simon about the future of the industry and IT careers. Simon finds the pace of change exciting, because it represents an incredible learning opportunity. Although, the pace of change means that just learning technical skills is no longer enough. Every developer now needs to develop additional skill sets to ensure they can keep up and remain relevant. (14.44) – What first attracted you to a career in IT? Simon’s dad was a developer, so he gave Simon a book on C and the rest was history. He was hooked. (15.02) – What is the best career advice you’ve ever received? Simon said always ask questions. There are no stupid questions and the sooner you ask them the less likely you are to think it is a stupid question. (15.18) – If you were to start your IT career again, now, what would you do? Simon says he would have taken something like a computer science and cybernetics or AI degree instead of pure computer science. He would still choose to work in software development, but would move more quickly from working for a large company to joining a startup. (16.01) – Phil asks Simon what he is currently focusing on. Right now, Simon is learning how to grow high performing teams and ensure that each individual in them reaches their full potential. So, that they can grow and so can the team. (16.32) – What is the No. 1 non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Simon says the way he has learned to communicate with others has really helped him to progress. When you are happy and friendly people enjoy talking to you, which means that you can learn more. (17.05) – Phil asks Simon to share a final piece of career advice. Never look at what you want to be in 10 to 15 years. Instead, make sure you enjoy what you are doing and who you are working with. If you are not happy, do not be frightened to follow your gut and change your career. BEST MOMENTS: (5.19) SIMON – “Always make sure that the information that you’re giving is the information that person wants to actually consume.” (9.44) SIMON - “The best kind of inventions come from problems or issues.” (15.08) SIMON – “The earlier you ask a question the less likely it will be that you will think it’s a stupid question.” (17.35) SIMON – “Always make sure that you’re enjoying the job you are doing.” CONTACT SIMON MAPLE: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sjmaple LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmaple/ Website: https://www.devangelist.blogspot.com

Why Dave Decided to talk to Simon Thompson: Simon Thompson is a podcast content marketer, and founder of Content Kite. In the past he has worked on major content projects for the likes of L’Oreal, Nissan, Disney and Nike to name a few. He now focuses solely on helping B2B companies establish authority and build relationships through podcasting. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: How much content is too much and what's the right type of content to produce? (2:00) How are you and your clients using podcasts to drive traffic? (4:29) Time management with podcasts (6:50) The 4 Pillars Content Kite focuses on (8:15) Pros/Cons of interviewing vs solo content podcasts (12:45) Quotable Moments: "There’s certainly no ‘one size fits all’ content approach." "Time is obviously the most expensive thing any of us as entrepreneurs have." "Be a guest on other podcasts. Because other podcasts already have the audience built; you just have to put your message in front of them." Other Tidbits: Look at a podcast as a win-win-win. The host is getting exposure to the guest’s audience and vice versa and the listener is getting value. Links: FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1:   00:00     Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. Everybody. Welcome back to funnel hacker radio. I'm your host, Dave Woodward. This is going to be a lot of fun today. Ah, Speaker 2:   00:21     I wanna introduce you guys to a friend of mine basically who has been in the business world, has done huge things in the branding side, working for l'oreal, Nike, Disney, things of that, but now has his own company and is crushing it as far as all based on content, which is one of the main things we talk so much about as far as try to get free traffic and I'm super excited to welcome to the show, the founder of content type, Simon Thompson. Simon, welcome Dave. Thank you very much for having me on the show. It'll be a lot of fun. I've, so if you don't mind, tell people right now as far as what exactly is content kite and why is content so critical these days. So content content is a content marketing agency essentially and for the last two years after I left the corporate world where we're focusing primarily on, on blog content or text based content, so things like white papers, ebooks, blog posts, that kind of thing and had some success with that with some clients. Speaker 2:   01:16     But as you know, there's kind of this shift that's been happening for awhile now, but it's really sort of becoming relevant now into podcasting and video content as well. Just richer forms of content essentially. And so that's Kinda what we're primarily focusing on now, which we can get into why that is. But um, uh, yeah, I mean we can get enjoined now if you like. So we produce a ton of content. Obviously you've got funnel hacker radio podcast here that you're on right now and people listen to this. Russell has his own marketing secrets podcast, where do funnel hacker TV and we're always throwing a ton of content out there and people are always saying, gosh, you guys have so much content. How do people consume it all and why you guys spend so much time putting content on facebook and instagram and youtube, all these different places. Speaker 2:   02:03     So if you don't mind turning that over to you as far as how much content is too much and what's the right type of content to produce? Yeah, it's a great question. So I don't think you can ever produce too much content. That content that you put out. Like I follow a lot of it but I probably don't follow all of it and it's probably because like different people consume content in different types of ways. So some people prefer podcasts, some people just do not like listening to podcasts. Right. So it's not like the bale and video is the same text is the same. What I do like about podcasts is when when people listen to podcasts, they listen intently because like they usually doing something else. I might be at the gym or in the car or washing the dishes or whatever it may be. There's certainly no one size fits all content approach and I mean, to answer your question, yeah, I just don't think you could ever produce too much content. There's never too much student debt. There's always a way to give your perspective on things and give some more value to someone and no one's got not enough time for more value. They can always give more of that. Speaker 3:   03:08     I'm actually trying to find it. I was literally talking with Russell about this the other day. We just produced a piece trying to find it on my desk here. We've talked about this for a long time. No one's going to be able to see this bitch you. And it's really kind of our own little thing as far as free traffic goes. And the idea behind it was, um, we've talked a long time about this, the, and I've heard this probably from Gary v and others where, you know, you go back to the seventies, eighties, there was really only three networks and those three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC here in the states. And since then, now with cable, everything else that, the attention span has just been so diluted. And so now we're starting to see from a content standpoint, instagram obviously is a big, is a platform that a lot of people play on. So it's facebook, so as youtube and podcasts are there as well. And so it was kind fun. We were talking about, you know, podcasts, they've kind of become the radio show of the olden days where people would tune in as much content. Youtube is kind of like the Sitcom, facebook's more like the talk show. And that whole reality show is kind of like instagram. And so when you take a look at content, uh, and especially with what you guys are doing, yeah, from podcast, how are you and your clients using podcasts to drive traffic? Speaker 2:   04:26     Yeah. Oh, well I'm in facade is when you produce a podcast, you have access to like these freight distribution channels. So just by putting your show into things like itunes, stitcher, Google play, if you convert it to video, you get youtube, you can automatically just get yourself like 200 listens per month, which was, you know, like not the, the greatest amount of, of listens, but it's exactly. And it's a really, really good start. Um, and like I said before, when people listen to podcasts, they're listening like, so they're really engaged. I mean, to get that condo of amount of engaged viewers of say your blog content, you'd probably need actually about a thousand readers to get like 200 that are actually going to read the full blog price. So that's one way. And then apart from that, uh, every guest, if you have an interview based show, every guest you have on your show is going to be a promoter of your show if you ask them to be. Speaker 2:   05:19     Because if you think about it, they, they kind of positioned as a, well perhaps an expert or an authority or someone who knows a lot about a given topic and so they kind of, if they share it, they're going to look good because they are kind of positioned in this, in this way. And so if you ask them, hey, would you share this out? Then that's another promoter who's going to, you know, send your message far and wide and share your brand as well. You have 50 guests on over a year that's 50 people who are promoting your brand and your content and if some of them have really big audiences, that's a hell of a lot of traffic that you can drive. You know, it's not going. I appreciate that because I get the question all the time. People go, I have a podcast and they're all seeing, well, so David, is it better when you have a. Speaker 2:   06:01     is it better to be a guest on a podcast or is it better to be the host of an interview podcast? So what's your take on that? Yeah, it's a really good question. And I don't know if there's a one size fits all answer. What I will say is if you're a business and you just want to get some leads quickly, uh, be a guest on other podcasts because other podcasts already have the audience built, uh, you just have to put your message in front of them and you can get some, some quick leads that way. However, if you want to play the long game and build your own audience who you can market to on a consistent basis when you want to, then you're going to nature on platform and that could be in the form of, of having your own podcast. So it sort of depends on what your goals are. Speaker 2:   06:45     There's absolutely nothing wrong with just going on podcast after podcast after podcast. But one thing we always recommend is do both. I mean, once you properly delegate and outsource or, or whatever you do when you have your own podcast, it actually comes down to a pretty small time commitment. You can just bring it down to just doing a call itself. And then going on another podcast is just doing a call. And that's like 30 minutes each time. So, you know, most founders or companies are gonna have a lot of calls every week, you know, whether it be five, 10, 20, could be more than that. It's just one more of those or two more of those. So I'm sort of depends on what your goals are really. So Simon, uh, you and your company, you guys help basically produce a podcast for other people, is that correct? Speaker 2:   07:35     That's correct. So help people understand exactly what that service does for them because time is obviously the most expensive thing any of us as entrepreneurs have. It's the most hardest thing to come by. And so I know for me that was one of my biggest hesitations when I started looking at doing a podcast with, there was no way I was going to spend the time to do all the tech and do all that crazy stuff that's required. So what does content kite provide? What does things people should look for if they want to create their own show? Yeah. So, so I mean, from, from an overall perspective, there's four main pillars that we focus on. Uh, so it's strategy, creation, promotion and conversion. Now I'll focus this around the production component because that's probably what most people are thinking of, but once you've got sort of the strategy, uh, created and what you want the show to be about, the production is really where most of the time commitment comes in. Speaker 2:   08:27     So things like editing the audio, you know, publishing it to your hose, get writing up, show notes, putting it on the blog, that's a really time consuming stuff and stuff that as a, as a founder can you, Tom can probably be better spent. So will help a lot in that area. Um, we also do a lot of things in regards to promotion. Uh, so a few things that I mentioned before, so making sure that you're in all the podcast directories for starters, and then promoting it on social media at working in with each guest to find out the best way that they can share it with their audience. And then the conversion point component is sort of multipronged. So we always recommend that every podcast has some sort of lead magnet or content upgrade that goes along with an episode or along with every episode, and I'm sure the listeners are familiar with this. It's a piece of gated content that you can call out on your car, say go to this link, sign up for it and that way you get someone on the email list and then Speaker 3:   09:25     so let's just do this live so you've got to link. So how would your work and what are they going to get? Again to go to [inaudible] dot com, forward slash Speaker 2:   09:36     funnel hacker, and that is going to send them to a free podcasting workshop, uh, which we'll go through our entire process, added credit strategy and produce the podcast and promote it properly and set up these conversion mechanisms. And so everyone who goes to that link is going to be added to a funnel. I'm breaking the fourth wall here and you'll see what a sequence like that might look like. Um, there's also, and this might be an entirely separate rabbit hole, which we might not choose to go down, but if you're a B to b business, podcasting is just a great way to build relationships and if you get really strategic about that, uh, then you can start to bring on like prospects who could use, you could potentially work with or referral partners. So that is probably a very deep rabbit hole. But that's kind of another element to this, this conversion component is, is, is building a guest list of essentially people you want to work with or people you want as referral partners, et Cetera. But let's go back to the content upgrade. Um, get somebody, let's stay on that for a second because I, Speaker 3:   10:44     one of the things, I'm in charge of all of our top line revenue and all of our business development opportunities and so I get approached all the time by people to promote, you know, Dave will promote you if you promote us. And I'm like, well, we don't promote other people's products or services. And they're like, well, there's gotta be some reciprocal going on here. And so I can tell you, for me, and especially for someone, if you're building a list and you're protective of that list as much as we are, um, one of the ways I'm able to protect our list actually is by offering people to come onto a podcast like this to where they know they're going to get some traffic. They know they can basically soft pitch, just kind of like you just did. So I'm aware, you know what you're, they're going to go to content kite.com, forward slash funnel hacker where they're now going to be added to your list. Speaker 3:   11:28     You're going to have the optimum market. And then obviously in exchange for that, they're going to get something. And so as a podcast host and as someone's trying to protect our brand as a business goes, it's actually a great opportunity for me to be able to bring other people on to give them exposure to our audience without and having a direct promotion. And so you guys who are in the same situation, we are as far as click funnels where you're trying to protect your audience. It's a great way of doing where the reciprocal basically if someone then most likely would end up promoting for us because they know they've got access to our audience and is in a podcast because the majority of most podcast listeners we find typically have higher incomes. They typically are bigger buyers. They're typically a much better client or qualified prospect than someone who might just be on a member of a facebook group. Speaker 2:   12:15     Yeah, exactly, and that's a really good point and it really can turn into a win win, win. So that sort of mechanism that I talked about before where you bring on a particular type of guests, whether they can benefit you in some way, you're also benefiting them by giving them access to your audience and at the same time the listener is getting value so the listener wins. You win as the host and the guest when. So it's, it's, it's a beautiful thing. Speaker 3:   12:39     I love it. So I get. The other question I get quite a bit these days is, is it better to have a podcast where it's just you talking and you're providing all the content versus you basically bring in like I am right now where I'm bringing you on and I'm interviewing you. So what are the pros and cons to either being a host where you're interviewing people versus having your own content that you're providing? Speaker 2:   13:01     Yeah, I liked the interview format for a few reasons. One is, as I just mentioned, it's, it's a great way to just build relationships. So if you interview whether it's your ideal prospects or referral or apartments, whatever it may be, you can build a lot of really solid relationships and if you're in like high ticket database services or a high ticket, anything really relationships of the name of the game. So that's one. The second is if you're doing a podcast longterm as a content marketing channel where your guests like free content that you don't really have to think about too much. Um, so it's, it's, it's just a lot easier. I mean, if, if you're doing a podcast where you talk where you have to come up with all of that content every single week and you know, whether you're scripting it out or not, it's still like a lot to think about and possibly not foremost, but um, Speaker 3:   13:54     it's just, Speaker 2:   13:55     I find less engaging to be a one person talking kinda show some people do it really well and it, it can be done really well, but I find when there's a conversation that just tends to be a bit more engaging and less so the top news incredibly interesting and something to share. I'm definitely on a ad hoc basis. You can do like a one off episode and share something that only you can talk about. Um, but in general it just, you can get a much more consistent result. Have you interview people for the, for those stories. Speaker 3:   14:28     That's interesting. I appreciate that. I know I've been going back and forth myself. I my times becoming, I'm getting smaller amounts of time these days to do podcasts and yet at the same time I'm still trying to provide a lot of content and so I'm starting to intersperse now some of my own thoughts just to be able to do it at whatever time of day I want and that's freed up. That's free things up for me and I've appreciated that. I don't know if my listeners like that or not. We'll see as the downloads, uh, whether they prefer me or my guest, but the other thing I've seen and I think you made mention of it and it sounded, I really appreciate it and that is especially in a B to b type of environment. The great thing about the relationships there, I was talking with Markus Maura, exactly how a podcast we just did. Speaker 3:   15:15     And he's a guy who basically he has, he's done, you know, 40, $50,000,000 now and this whole business is selling franchises in assisted living for a senior type of, of care. And it was interesting. He goes, you know, Dave, I don't know if I should do a podcast or not, and I'm like, man, if I were you, because he targets is really, really specific as far as his prospects that he wants there typically people in the medical field, but typically people who are currently working as a pharmaceutical representative and these are guys who were driving around, they got a ton of time. They're probably listening to podcasts and so it'd be really easy for him just to bring on his success stories and they're gonna be excited to share it and they're going to share it and typically they're going to share it with their other people who were the same place. Thank you. From pharmaceutical reps and so it's been interesting to see, as you mentioned there, the relationships that are created and the ability to share those because everyone loves to brag about I was on a podcast or I was on this or something like that, so I think that's super critical. As we. I want to talk to you real. Go ahead yet some middles. Speaker 2:   16:14     No, no, no. I was just going to echo your point. I'm in as channels like all day, email and called outrageous. Just get less and less and less effective. Just having a white to be able to access your primary audiences is more important. Yeah, Speaker 3:   16:31     I love that. So tell people how they can get started because I know that's always the hardest thing. It seems like this overwhelming task. I know it was for me. I was, I remember I went through, uh, John Lee Dumas, of course, a paradise podcast, podcaster's paradise, try to learn all that kind of stuff and I realized, you know, I don't have to learn all this stuff. Somebody else can do it for me. So what if a person, obviously you mentioned there's four different pillars. One of them was the strategy aspects far as identifying what your podcast is going to be about. What are some of the things people need to do and how, how can they get started? If a person wanted to have a podcast out in the next month, what would they need to do? Speaker 2:   17:05     Yeah. So the first thing I would say, and I know the word strategy can sound like really wishy washy at times, but just like put something down and committed like one page, who do I want to speak to is the audience and who do I want to get on as my, my ideal guests? Right? And you just start to map that out a bit. That will just, you'll find it will help you in. It will inform so many decisions down the track when when you sort of go, should I do this? Should I do this? Once you have that going on, so do that for status and then from there it's literally just download, zoom.us what we're using right now to record this and start having conversations with people. You can get fancy box if you want to, but you really don't have to like at the end of the day, you will wait given for sub optimal audio quality at the start, just get a feel for whether you like it the next spot, the production process. Speaker 2:   17:54     Maybe you want to edit your own episodes. I just don't recommend doing it. If you plan on being consistent with it, you might have all the fire in the world when you first get started and you're like, I can do this every week, but you will notice if you're a founder of a company or you have any sort of other job, asshole, you just want to consistently like, well, maybe I shouldn't say you just want, but I have never ever seen it done consistently, but someone edits Aaron show and that have a show that goes for more than, well, I think like seven episodes is the magic number, like 90 percent of shows drop off, popped off to seven episodes. So find someone to delegate all of that nitty gritty production work to um, and, and, and just be focusing on the content itself and having the conversation. And then from there it's just promoting it. So asking all your guests to share it out, uh, creating a lead magnet that you can call out on the show to, to turn listeners into leads and a happy days. It's not that simple. Speaker 3:   18:55     Well, I can say I went through the same thing. So from a strategy standpoint, when we originally created this, it was a funnel hacker radio, actually, it was click funnels radio at first, and so it was clickfunnels radio and we want to basically, it was going to be clickfunnels listeners and I was going to interview success stories. That was our strategy. We ended up changing it to funnel hacker radio as we kind of did a rebranding with funnel hacker TV and funnel like a radio, um, but, uh, it then grew to expand to be other people who might be able to provide added content or benefit or value to our listeners, you know, people like yourself who could then help them in building their businesses. And it's been interesting. Uh, I did, I think I edited my first three and then I was like, I'm done. I tapped out, had to have someone else do it because it was just too much time and everything that, uh, so I, I appreciate what you've been mentioned that you think you're going to do it at first. And it's like, you know what? This is a waste of my time. Speaker 2:   19:51     That's just it. It's not the best use of your time, like you know, if you're a founder or partner in a company, it's like you got better things to be done than editing mode here. Speaker 3:   20:02     I totally agree. Well, as we kind of get close to wrapping things up here, tell me what are the, any other tips, tricks, things you'd recommend people who want to get to a podcast up and running what they should do? Yeah, sure. Speaker 2:   20:14     The main tip and the main takeaway I would say to people, and I just don't think a lot of people do this when they have the podcast, is it just asked every one of your guests if they will share the show. Um, it, it is just the number one way to get a show out there. They used to be this kind of playbook, like if you google how to get a podcast, listen to the way you know how to get a ton of downloads via your podcasts. There's kind of like this playbook of, you know, ask all of your friends to write and review, get a bunch of people to subscribe and you'll get into new and noteworthy in itunes and then just happy days and thousands of listeners that doesn't work so well. It can work, but it's not, it's not like a shore thing anymore, so you need to get a bit more inventive with how you promote the show and the number one way that we found is just to have every guest to be a promoter of the show. Aside from that, the other thing which I've already mentioned is just get strategic about who your guests are. If there's someone who can first of all offer something to the audience, then start to think about, you know, could I build a relationship with this person? And then could that relationship turned into a potential partnership or a sales conversation down the road. And as long as it's a situation where everybody wins, you know, there's nothing wrong with you. Also benefiting from that relationship as well. Speaker 3:   21:36     I love that. I think that's probably the biggest mistake I made was I never asked anybody to promote it. You'll be my first ask, I guess a 100 percent, but no. Honestly I think that's, for me, that was probably the biggest mistake I made. I would encourage others to to make sure they do ask you. It's just such a win win. I think it's an opportunity and I think a big reason that Speaker 2:   22:01     that people don't do it as is they think they're putting the other person out or asking something that they want, want to do, but like they generally want to do it because as you said before, like they look good in the podcast and it's like that. They might as well people share things that make them look good. By having someone on a podcast, you make them good, so it's not a big ask. Speaker 3:   22:22     Well, I mean I'm over 250 episodes in and I've never asked, so we'll make this inefficient. My first one I'll do, I'll do a better job or my assistant will get. I will. Not that you didn't add additional listeners, but definitely we always do it again. I appreciate your taking the time. Speaker 2:   22:41     What was that call to action one more time for people that were wanting to find out? Yeah, so it's content kite.com, forward slash funnel hacker, and it's a free podcasting workshop which basically takes you through eight is zed, how to start a podcast that gets listened to and producers leds. Speaker 3:   22:58     Awesome. It'll be in the show notes as well, so again, I appreciate everyone's listening. Simon, thank you so much for your time today and we'll look forward talking to you soon. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Jason. Speaker 4:   23:08     Hey everybody. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to the podcast. If you don't mind, could you please share this with others, rate and review this podcast on itunes. It means the world to me where I'm trying to get to as a million downloads here in the next few months and just crush through over $650,000 and I just want to get the next few 100,000 so we can get to a million downloads and see really what I can do to help improve and and get this out to more people at the same time. If there's a topic, there's something you'd like me to share or someone you'd like me to interview, by all means, just reach out to me on facebook. You can pm me and I'll be more than happy to take any of your feedback as well as if people would like me to interview more than happy to reach out and have that conversation with you. So again, go to Itunes, rate and review this, share this podcast with others and let me know how else I can improve this or what I can do to make this better for you guys. Thanks.

Special Thanks to the Berkeley Law chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy for assistance with this podcast episode! Simon Tam found himself at the Supreme Court because of his rock band’s name: “the Slants.” Simon and his band mates chose the name as a way to reclaim a racial slur. The band members, including Simon, are of Asian descent, and wanted to use the name to reframe cultural identities and fight stereotypes. But when the band attempted to get a registered trademark from the federal government, their application was rejected for being offensive. So Simon went to court, and fought it all the way to the Supreme Court, where finally he prevailed. All nine justices supported his argument! See Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017). In this podcast, Tony and Chante (JD Candidates ’18) discuss why Simon Tam found himself in the Supreme Court to defend his “offensive” trademark. The group discusses trademark laws’s defunct non-disparagement prohibition and why it failed to advance the plight of minority groups.

Who you gonna call? Not Keith it seems, as the ghouls have made moves on him. So Simon is joined by Clive Ashenden to talk about the director Ivan Reitman. Hailing from Canada, Ivan made his name in the States with comedies like MEATBALLS, TWINS and KINDERGARTEN COP. The films under discussion are STRIPES, GHOSTBUSTERS, SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS and MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND. Movie Heaven Movie Hell is a show where filmmakers Simon Aitken (BLOOD + ROSES, POST-ITS, MODERN LOVE) and Keith Eyles (FEAR VIEW, DRIVEN INSANE, CROSSED LINES) go through the A-Z of directors. Simon and Keith talk about their favourite and least favourite film from that director's body of work. Like our Facebook Fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/MovieHeavenMovieHell You can follow Movie Heaven Movie Hell on Twitter at @MovieHeavenHell Check out Clive's (and Rob Wicking's) THE A-Z OF SFF podcast at http://theatozofsff.com Check out Clive's work at https://vimeo.com/user26166512 You can find Simon Aitken's work at http://www.independentrunnings.com

This is a bonus week for the guys over at www.starandcrescent.org.uk Simon has lived in Portsmouth his whole life. So Simon and Liam take on the wonderful city, and the darker sides of it too. One thing never go to a strip club sober with your dad! #portsmouth #southampton #football #Spinnaker Tower #strip #club #cold #podcast #funny #strippers #two4one #comedy #idiots #blue #red #sober #drunk

So Simon went on a zombie survival day. Did he survive? Well yes because otherwise how did he make this #podcast #zombie #survival #training #zombies #two4one #comedy #entertainment #28dayslater #zedevents #zed #events #experience

The Transition Years 134:0.1 (1483.1) DURING the Mediterranean journey Jesus had carefully studied the people he met and the countries through which he passed, and at about this time he reached his final decision as to the remainder of his life on earth. He had fully considered and now finally approved the plan which provided that he be born of Jewish parents in Palestine, and he therefore deliberately returned to Galilee to await the beginning of his lifework as a public teacher of truth; he began to lay plans for a public career in the land of his father Joseph’s people, and he did this of his own free will. 134:0.2 (1483.2) Jesus had found out through personal and human experience that Palestine was the best place in all the Roman world wherein to set forth the closing chapters, and to enact the final scenes, of his life on earth. For the first time he became fully satisfied with the program of openly manifesting his true nature and of revealing his divine identity among the Jews and gentiles of his native Palestine. He definitely decided to finish his life on earth and to complete his career of mortal existence in the same land in which he entered the human experience as a helpless babe. His Urantia career began among the Jews in Palestine, and he chose to terminate his life in Palestine and among the Jews. 1. The Thirtieth Year (A.D. 24) 134:1.1 (1483.3) After taking leave of Gonod and Ganid at Charax (in December of A.D. 23), Jesus returned by way of Ur to Babylon, where he joined a desert caravan that was on its way to Damascus. From Damascus he went to Nazareth, stopping only a few hours at Capernaum, where he paused to call on Zebedee’s family. There he met his brother James, who had sometime previously come over to work in his place in Zebedee’s boatshop. After talking with James and Jude (who also chanced to be in Capernaum) and after turning over to his brother James the little house which John Zebedee had managed to buy, Jesus went on to Nazareth. 134:1.2 (1483.4) At the end of his Mediterranean journey Jesus had received sufficient money to meet his living expenses almost up to the time of the beginning of his public ministry. But aside from Zebedee of Capernaum and the people whom he met on this extraordinary trip, the world never knew that he made this journey. His family always believed that he spent this time in study at Alexandria. Jesus never confirmed these beliefs, neither did he make open denial of such misunderstandings. 134:1.3 (1483.5) During his stay of a few weeks at Nazareth, Jesus visited with his family and friends, spent some time at the repair shop with his brother Joseph, but devoted most of his attention to Mary and Ruth. Ruth was then nearly fifteen years old, and this was Jesus’ first opportunity to have long talks with her since she had become a young woman. 134:1.4 (1484.1) Both Simon and Jude had for some time wanted to get married, but they had disliked to do this without Jesus’ consent; accordingly they had postponed these events, hoping for their eldest brother’s return. Though they all regarded James as the head of the family in most matters, when it came to getting married, they wanted the blessing of Jesus. So Simon and Jude were married at a double wedding in early March of this year, A.D. 24. All the older children were now married; only Ruth, the youngest, remained at home with Mary. 134:1.5 (1484.2) Jesus visited with the individual members of his family quite normally and naturally, but when they were all together, he had so little to say that they remarked about it among themselves. Mary especially was disconcerted by this unusually peculiar behavior of her first-born son. 134:1.6 (1484.3) About the time Jesus was preparing to leave Nazareth, the conductor of a large caravan which was passing through the city was taken violently ill, and Jesus, being a linguist, volunteered to take his place. Since this trip would necessitate his absence for a year, and inasmuch as all his brothers were married and his mother was living at home with Ruth, Jesus called a family conference at which he proposed that his mother and Ruth go to Capernaum to live in the home which he had so recently given to James. Accordingly, a few days after Jesus left with the caravan, Mary and Ruth moved to Capernaum, where they lived for the rest of Mary’s life in the home that Jesus had provided. Joseph and his family moved into the old Nazareth home. 134:1.7 (1484.4) This was one of the more unusual years in the inner experience of the Son of Man; great progress was made in effecting working harmony between his human mind and the indwelling Adjuster. The Adjuster had been actively engaged in reorganizing the thinking and in rehearsing the mind for the great events which were in the not then distant future. The personality of Jesus was preparing for his great change in attitude toward the world. These were the in-between times, the transition stage of that being who began life as God appearing as man, and who was now making ready to complete his earth career as man appearing as God. 2. The Caravan Trip to the Caspian 134:2.1 (1484.5) It was the first of April, A.D. 24, when Jesus left Nazareth on the caravan trip to the Caspian Sea region. The caravan which Jesus joined as its conductor was going from Jerusalem by way of Damascus and Lake Urmia through Assyria, Media, and Parthia to the southeastern Caspian Sea region. It was a full year before he returned from this journey. 134:2.2 (1484.6) For Jesus this caravan trip was another adventure of exploration and personal ministry. He had an interesting experience with his caravan family — passengers, guards, and camel drivers. Scores of men, women, and children residing along the route followed by the caravan lived richer lives as a result of their contact with Jesus, to them, the extraordinary conductor of a commonplace caravan. Not all who enjoyed these occasions of his personal ministry profited thereby, but the vast majority of those who met and talked with him were made better for the remainder of their natural lives. 134:2.3 (1484.7) Of all his world travels this Caspian Sea trip carried Jesus nearest to the Orient and enabled him to gain a better understanding of the Far-Eastern peoples. He made intimate and personal contact with every one of the surviving races of Urantia excepting the red. He equally enjoyed his personal ministry to each of these varied races and blended peoples, and all of them were receptive to the living truth which he brought them. The Europeans from the Far West and the Asiatics from the Far East alike gave attention to his words of hope and eternal life and were equally influenced by the life of loving service and spiritual ministry which he so graciously lived among them. 134:2.4 (1485.1) The caravan trip was successful in every way. This was a most interesting episode in the human life of Jesus, for he functioned during this year in an executive capacity, being responsible for the material intrusted to his charge and for the safe conduct of the travelers making up the caravan party. And he most faithfully, efficiently, and wisely discharged his multiple duties. 134:2.5 (1485.2) On the return from the Caspian region, Jesus gave up the direction of the caravan at Lake Urmia, where he tarried for slightly over two weeks. He returned as a passenger with a later caravan to Damascus, where the owners of the camels besought him to remain in their service. Declining this offer, he journeyed on with the caravan train to Capernaum, arriving the first of April, A.D. 25. No longer did he regard Nazareth as his home. Capernaum had become the home of Jesus, James, Mary, and Ruth. But Jesus never again lived with his family; when in Capernaum he made his home with the Zebedees. 3. The Urmia Lectures 134:3.1 (1485.3) On the way to the Caspian Sea, Jesus had stopped several days for rest and recuperation at the old Persian city of Urmia on the western shores of Lake Urmia. On the largest of a group of islands situated a short distance offshore near Urmia was located a large building — a lecture amphitheater — dedicated to the “spirit of religion.” This structure was really a temple of the philosophy of religions. 134:3.2 (1485.4) This temple of religion had been built by a wealthy merchant citizen of Urmia and his three sons. This man was Cymboyton, and he numbered among his ancestors many diverse peoples. 134:3.3 (1485.5) The lectures and discussions in this school of religion began at ten o’clock every morning in the week. The afternoon sessions started at three o’clock, and the evening debates opened at eight o’clock. Cymboyton or one of his three sons always presided at these sessions of teaching, discussion, and debate. The founder of this unique school of religions lived and died without ever revealing his personal religious beliefs. * 134:3.4 (1485.6) On several occasions Jesus participated in these discussions, and before he left Urmia, Cymboyton arranged with Jesus to sojourn with them for two weeks on his return trip and give twenty-four lectures on “The Brotherhood of Men,” and to conduct twelve evening sessions of questions, discussions, and debates on his lectures in particular and on the brotherhood of men in general. 134:3.5 (1485.7) In accordance with this arrangement, Jesus stopped off on the return trip and delivered these lectures. This was the most systematic and formal of all the Master’s teaching on Urantia. Never before or after did he say so much on one subject as was contained in these lectures and discussions on the brotherhood of men. In reality these lectures were on the “Kingdom of God” and the “Kingdoms of Men.” 134:3.6 (1486.1) More than thirty religions and religious cults were represented on the faculty of this temple of religious philosophy. These teachers were chosen, supported, and fully accredited by their respective religious groups. At this time there were about seventy-five teachers on the faculty, and they lived in cottages each accommodating about a dozen persons. Every new moon these groups were changed by the casting of lots. Intolerance, a contentious spirit, or any other disposition to interfere with the smooth running of the community would bring about the prompt and summary dismissal of the offending teacher. He would be unceremoniously dismissed, and his alternate in waiting would be immediately installed in his place. 134:3.7 (1486.2) These teachers of the various religions made a great effort to show how similar their religions were in regard to the fundamental things of this life and the next. There was but one doctrine which had to be accepted in order to gain a seat on this faculty — every teacher must represent a religion which recognized God — some sort of supreme Deity. There were five independent teachers on the faculty who did not represent any organized religion, and it was as such an independent teacher that Jesus appeared before them. 134:3.8 (1486.3) [When we, the midwayers, first prepared the summary of Jesus’ teachings at Urmia, there arose a disagreement between the seraphim of the churches and the seraphim of progress as to the wisdom of including these teachings in the Urantia Revelation. Conditions of the twentieth century, prevailing in both religion and human governments, are so different from those prevailing in Jesus’ day that it was indeed difficult to adapt the Master’s teachings at Urmia to the problems of the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men as these world functions are existent in the twentieth century. We were never able to formulate a statement of the Master’s teachings which was acceptable to both groups of these seraphim of planetary government. Finally, the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission appointed a commission of three of our number to prepare our view of the Master’s Urmia teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus’ teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.] 4. Sovereignty — Divine and Human 134:4.1 (1486.4) The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God — God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them. 134:4.2 (1486.5) The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty — God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man. 134:4.3 (1486.6) If different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers. 134:4.4 (1487.1) Religious peace — brotherhood — can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign. 134:4.5 (1487.2) You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to some superhuman level, to God himself. 134:4.6 (1487.3) The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority — religious sovereignty. 134:4.7 (1487.4) God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren. 134:4.8 (1487.5) But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, even religious wars, at least wars among religionists. 134:4.9 (1487.6) Freewill beings who regard themselves as equals, unless they mutually acknowledge themselves as subject to some supersovereignty, some authority over and above themselves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their ability to gain power and authority over other persons and groups. The concept of equality never brings peace except in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence of supersovereignty. 134:4.10 (1487.7) The Urmia religionists lived together in comparative peace and tranquillity because they had fully surrendered all their notions of religious sovereignty. Spiritually, they all believed in a sovereign God; socially, full and unchallengeable authority rested in their presiding head — Cymboyton. They well knew what would happen to any teacher who assumed to lord it over his fellow teachers. There can be no lasting religious peace on Urantia until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty. Only when God the Father becomes supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth. 5. Political Sovereignty 134:5.1 (1487.8) [While the Master’s teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth — only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world’s religions — his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers — the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East — and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master’s teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.] 134:5.2 (1487.9) War on Urantia will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty. There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total — man and mankind. 134:5.3 (1488.1) Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men. 134:5.4 (1488.2) This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the especial benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time. 134:5.5 (1488.3) Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power — the family — and the final consummation of political growth — the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind. 134:5.6 (1488.4) Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans which become united, for various reasons, into tribal units — superconsanguineous political groupings. And then, by trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified by empire. 134:5.7 (1488.5) As sovereignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding sovereignty become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major wars, world-wide conflicts. So-called sovereign nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating wars. 134:5.8 (1488.6) The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind, lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the “scaffolding stages” of the previous developments in political organization. And this is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the supertribe — the territorial state. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind. 134:5.9 (1488.7) Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe. 134:5.10 (1489.1) Urantia will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men — mankind government. Internationalism — Leagues of Nations — can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth. 134:5.11 (1489.2) As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of supernational power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind. 134:5.12 (1489.3) Peace will not come to Urantia until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all the peoples of Urantia create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail — but not until then. 134:5.13 (1489.4) To use an important nineteenth- and twentieth-century illustration: The forty-eight states of the American Federal Union have long enjoyed peace. They have no more wars among themselves. They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal government, and through the arbitrament of war, they have abandoned all claims to the delusions of self-determination. While each state regulates its internal affairs, it is not concerned with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce. Neither do the individual states concern themselves with matters of citizenship. The forty-eight states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal government’s sovereignty is in some way jeopardized. 134:5.14 (1489.5) These forty-eight states, having abandoned the twin sophistries of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy interstate peace and tranquillity. So will the nations of Urantia begin to enjoy peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands of a global government — the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men. In this world state the small nations will be as powerful as the great, even as the small state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the American Congress just the same as the populous state of New York or the large state of Texas. 134:5.15 (1490.1) The limited (state) sovereignty of these forty-eight states was created by men and for men. The superstate (national) sovereignty of the American Federal Union was created by the original thirteen of these states for their own benefit and for the benefit of men. Sometime the supernational sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will be similarly created by nations for their own benefit and for the benefit of all men. 134:5.16 (1490.2) Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All other sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status. 134:5.17 (1490.3) With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become almost racially suicidal. How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of nations must fail before men will be willing to establish the government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and thrive on the tranquillity of good will — world-wide good will — among men? 6. Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty 134:6.1 (1490.4) If one man craves freedom — liberty — he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals. If one man is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW. 134:6.2 (1490.5) Religion makes it spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men, but it will require mankind government to regulate the social, economic, and political problems associated with such a goal of human happiness and efficiency. 134:6.3 (1490.6) There shall be wars and rumors of wars — nation will rise against nation — just as long as the world’s political sovereignty is divided up and unjustly held by a group of nation-states. England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the United Kingdom. 134:6.4 (1490.7) Another world war will teach the so-called sovereign nations to form some sort of federation, thus creating the machinery for preventing small wars, wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the government of mankind is created. Global sovereignty will prevent global wars — nothing else can. 134:6.5 (1490.8) The forty-eight American free states live together in peace. There are among the citizens of these forty-eight states all of the various nationalities and races that live in the ever-warring nations of Europe. These Americans represent almost all the religions and religious sects and cults of the whole wide world, and yet here in North America they live together in peace. And all this is made possible because these forty-eight states have surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of self-determination. 134:6.6 (1490.9) It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of conscription or voluntary military service enter into these problems of maintaining world-wide peace. If you take every form of modern mechanical armaments and all types of explosives away from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their delusions of the divine right of national sovereignty. 134:6.7 (1491.1) War is not man’s great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty. 134:6.8 (1491.2) Urantia nations have not possessed real sovereignty; they never have had a sovereignty which could protect them from the ravages and devastations of world wars. In the creation of the global government of mankind, the nations are not giving up sovereignty so much as they are actually creating a real, bona fide, and lasting world sovereignty which will henceforth be fully able to protect them from all war. Local affairs will be handled by local governments; national affairs, by national governments; international affairs will be administered by global government. 134:6.9 (1491.3) World peace cannot be maintained by treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government — the sovereignty of all mankind. 134:6.10 (1491.4) The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively, and much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to trustee their sovereignty as regards international affairs into the hands of global government. 134:6.11 (1491.5) Under global government the national groups will be afforded a real opportunity to realize and enjoy the personal liberties of genuine democracy. The fallacy of self-determination will be ended. With global regulation of money and trade will come the new era of world-wide peace. Soon may a global language evolve, and there will be at least some hope of sometime having a global religion — or religions with a global viewpoint. 134:6.12 (1491.6) Collective security will never afford peace until the collectivity includes all mankind. 134:6.13 (1491.7) The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all men. And there is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be realized. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * 134:6.15 (1491.8) After the death of Cymboyton, his sons encountered great difficulties in maintaining a peaceful faculty. The repercussions of Jesus’ teachings would have been much greater if the later Christian teachers who joined the Urmia faculty had exhibited more wisdom and exercised more tolerance. 134:6.16 (1491.9) Cymboyton’s eldest son had appealed to Abner at Philadelphia for help, but Abner’s choice of teachers was most unfortunate in that they turned out to be unyielding and uncompromising. These teachers sought to make their religion dominant over the other beliefs. They never suspected that the oft-referred-to lectures of the caravan conductor had been delivered by Jesus himself. 134:6.17 (1491.10) As confusion increased in the faculty, the three brothers withdrew their financial support, and after five years the school closed. Later it was reopened as a Mithraic temple and eventually burned down in connection with one of their orgiastic celebrations. 7. The Thirty-First Year (A.D. 25) 134:7.1 (1492.1) When Jesus returned from the journey to the Caspian Sea, he knew that his world travels were about finished. He made only one more trip outside of Palestine, and that was into Syria. After a brief visit to Capernaum, he went to Nazareth, stopping over a few days to visit. In the middle of April he left Nazareth for Tyre. From there he journeyed on north, tarrying for a few days at Sidon, but his destination was Antioch. 134:7.2 (1492.2) This is the year of Jesus’ solitary wanderings through Palestine and Syria. Throughout this year of travel he was known by various names in different parts of the country: the carpenter of Nazareth, the boatbuilder of Capernaum, the scribe of Damascus, and the teacher of Alexandria. 134:7.3 (1492.3) At Antioch the Son of Man lived for over two months, working, observing, studying, visiting, ministering, and all the while learning how man lives, how he thinks, feels, and reacts to the environment of human existence. For t

On the eve of the New Year, we are pleased to present a new edition of our podcast. This time our guest is a wonderful British musician, DJ and producer Simon Huxtable, known to all lovers of progressive and atmospheric sound in drum & bass music under the alias Aural Imbalance! His musical career began in 1997. He was fond of music, equipment, and collected some hardware for his studio, being thrilled by these things, along with his friend and producer Dave Parkinson, with which they began to play and experiment with the sounds of early drum and bass and jungle. His work is a beautiful soundscapes, fantastic worlds, distant planets and genuine emotion. And more respect from the fans deserve musicians who do not stop at one style, and try their hand at creating different music. So Simon creates not only drum and bass, but also a wonderful deep progressive house and downtempo music. And especially for us, he recorded his own mix of copyright works and remixes in the style of deep and progressive house music and spoke a few words about the mix and gave Happy New Year to his fans: "The music within the mix are various deep space house creations that I have been involved with either in the form of original tunes or remixes, I wanted to span various ages of the tracks so there are some older and newer pieces in the arrangement of the set, I really hope that you connect with the mix and feel that you want to listen to it over and over, when I plan my mixes I have the intention that if you were to listen to the mix in a loop it would work in a cyclic fashion so the end would work with the beginning, I hope that this makes sense. Anyway, thank you for listening to and supporting my music and I hope that in some small way you get pleasure out of the stuff that I create! I hope that you all have a happy new year and a great 2015, much love from Aural Imbalance!" movementinsound.com soundcloud.com/movementinsound soundcloud.com/auralimbalance 01. Grinda & Ambrela - Moscow (Aural Imbalance Deep Remix) [Callote / ADRO Records] 02. Aural Imbalance - Disque [Within Records] 03. Aural Imbalance - Dub Triangle [Cambrian Line] 04. Aural Imbalance - Toadstool [Cambrian Line] 05. Aural Imbalance - Warm Room [Embarcadero Records] 06. Iris Dee Jay - Love Shines Through (Aural Imbalance Deep Trip Remix) [Embarcadero Records] 07. Aural Imbalance - Real Imaginary [Within Records] 08. Ganesh - Maps Of Hyperspace (Aural Imbalance Remix) [Stasis Recordings] 09. Aural Imbalance - Legacy (Aural Imbalance Deep Trip Remix) [Movementinsound / Cadence Recordings]

One of Jon’s favourite films from his youth is a 1982 Rankin Bass animated fantasy called The Flight of Dragons, something he maintains is more than good enough to provide enjoyment to an adult. So Simon checks it out, despite an admitted dislike of animated fantasy. Then the guys both have their first experience of The […]

So Simon's away this week after our caretaker foolishly agreed to let him have the time off. Perhaps said he could be on the guestlist at our GDC party with Wild Rumpus and Venus Patrol. Except there is no guestlist for him to go on. Perhaps Simon being away might explain why we played our old theme for this week's episode. Wait, a better excuse is that we were having old members of the videogame establishment on the show so anything new might have caused them to worry. Old Man Dreamweaver Kieron Gillen shows how he's kept in touch with videogames by telling us the differences between scrambled eggs and real eggs, whilst Dave 'I'm Dave Green' Green helps us increase the share price of Game. Hang on, that excuse doesn't work because the Guiness Book of World Records Gaming Edition's Gaz Deaves isn't that old. Although Norris McWhirter did used to have a column in Zero magazine. (That was a parody column caretaker. You deserve stringing up for that one - Podcast Ed) I suppose we'll just have to blame it on the same person that we blame every time something goes wrong. It's all your fault Parko. Cheerio!Team OLL x P.S. If anyone has worked out the naming convention for this series then tweet your answer to @onelifeleft and you'll get a prize that the Caretaker hasn't thought of yet.