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#556 MONSTER MUSIC MONDAY - The episode focuses on reviewing and providing feedback on music submissions from listeners. - Submissions are accepted via the Mike Herrera Podcast Facebook group, where artists can share their YouTube links. - Critiques various aspects of the submitted songs, including production quality, vocal performance, and song structure. - Offers constructive criticism and praise, highlighting both strengths and areas for improvement in each submission. Some Advice and Tactics: Avoid Excessive Auto-Tune - Use auto-tune sparingly and only as an effect. Overuse can detract from the authenticity of the vocal performance, especially in genres like punk rock. Simplify Intros - Keep the intro of your song short and engaging. Long intros or unnecessary samples can cause listeners to lose interest before the main part of the song begins. Focus on Production Quality - Invest time and resources into ensuring high-quality production. Good production can significantly enhance the listening experience and make your music more appealing to a wider audience. Duh! Monster Music Monday Submissions: 1. BEN TROUBLES - BREAK THIS BALL AND CHAIN New submission for Music Monday. Punk Rock from North Carolina, Y'all. Enjoy! 2. OLD TOWN ZERO - GRAPEFRUIT A little side project about getting all my old and new music out. This was me at 19 years young. I'm now 46 and still making silly songs. MxPx back in the day helped me learn guitar as I was figuring out your early years songs. Something fun, not for the fame, but for the enjoyment. Finally in a place in life, putting myself out there to the world. Would love to be able to be featured on Music Monday. 3. LAST CHANCE MARIE - WESTBOROUGH Punk rock band from Bellevue, Ontario. Have been around since 02/2007 with no signs of giving up. Would love your thoughts on our latest track. 4. THE BOY DETECTIVE - UNREALIZED GAINS Submitted by Brandon. No additional information provided. 5. GRUNGE PUNKS - ASHES FOR BREAD Grunge punk from the Fall Blues EP. Grunge Punks is my punk rock heavy music side project. Written and recorded by Aaron Reynolds, mixed and mastered by Jason Wisdom, released by the Charyn Collective. 6. WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF - WHAT DOES MARCUS WALLACE LOOK LIKE A band from Sydney, Australia. All about big sing-alongs and good times. This is an older track of ours, but sums up pretty well what we sound like. 7. LYCHEE CAMP - LET'S GO SURFING Submitted by Joe Markey from Florida. Self-produced music and video, DIY or Die. The kids are supposed to be little versions of us going around town in Tampa and getting into some hoodrat activities, gambling, vandalism, those kinds of cute harmless things. A cover by a band called The Drums. 8. LET ME DOWNS - BROKEN PROMISES Second single from the new Let Me Down's album North by Southwest. New album released January 23 on Felony Records. From the PNW, Tacoma represent. Song has a kinda long lead into it. 9. DANNY ATTACK AND THE REVENANT HEARTS - MOMENTS Submitted by Danny Attack from Jacksonville, Florida. Music video for the song titled Moments off the latest record, Kiss You in Hell. 10. SURRENDER THE GHOST - SMOKIN' DOESN'T HELP Submitted by Matthew Ellis. New to the page. Official video for your listening pleasure. Listen now! Share with a friend. Leave a voicemail- 360-830-6660 --------------------- Check out the new MxPx album 'Find A Way Home' at MxPx.com and streaming everywhere now! Listen or watch "Linoleum" here TEXT LIST - Join our Text list by texting MXPX to 31996 MXPX - Self Titled Deluxe Edition I now have an Artist Series Music Man Stingray from Ernie Ball! You can order straight from the shop on the Music Man website. A portion of proceeds goes to MusicCares! MIKE HERRERA SIGNATURE SERIES BASS If you like the podcast- Subscribe, rate and review on Apple. Support what I do at MXPX.com and also add MXPX and Mike Herrera to your music libraries on whatever streaming platfrom you use. Producing and editing by Bob McKnight. @Producer_Bob
**Trigger warnings for this episode are as follows**Mental health, sui***al ideation, mood disorders, sexual and emotional abuse, trauma, sexually explicit themes, and drug and alcohol use. If any of that sounds difficult to listen to, proceed with care and caution, or, you might want to skip this one.Happy Trans Day of Remembrance 2024. Rest in Power, Nex Benedict, Fern Galindo, Adalyn, and any other trans loved one who has lost their life due to transphobia, fascism, and hatred. May you all be never forgotten.This episode, I feature the art of some friends of the show, Tulsa based photographer and visual artist Tori Bock, Governess of Days and show contributor Ness Robinson, 2024 Lambda Literary Award Winning Tulsa based poet Quinn Carver Johnson, and transgender artist extraordinaire, Jordan Wright."Nothing to Lose" and "Bipolar Poem" both written and performed by Tori Bock. "Beautiful Broken Doll" and "What Does A Bird Hater Do?" written and performed by Bailey Rodfield."Bio" and "Actuality" written and performed by Ness Robinson.“The End of Pleasure” and “Some Advice” by Jordan Wright."Dinosaurs" written and performed by Quinn Carver Johnson. This piece was published earlier this year by World Literature Today, and can be found here: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/poetry/two-poems-oklahoma-quinn-carver-johnson . Support Quinn's work by ordering their poetry collection The Perfect Bastard, which can be found here: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146501/the-perfect-bastard/Quinn is also one of the editors and organizers for Zhenya Yevtushenko's Empire of Missed Chances Vol. 3 - Book of Young Myths. I was a contributor to the work, and you can find some of my own poetry within its pages as well. This publication is published through Torres Fine Art, and more information about it can be found here: https://torresfineart.com/emc-store/p/vol-3Quinn is performing their work at Norman Depot in Tulsa on Fri. Dec 6, and will be teaching a workshop on protest poetry at Oklahoma State University in March and April of next year. If you are local to the Tulsa area, and either of those interest you, please make it out if you can! Music in this episode is listed as follows, in order of appearance:"Sad Guitar Beat", by Seth Makes Sounds, off Freesound.org"Please, Don't Forget Me", by | e s c p | https://www.escp.space/, https://escp-music.bandcamp.com/"Neurodivergent", by Jaxius"Rain On The Window", by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/"Meditate", by Jaxius"Time Rider" by | e s c p | https://www.escp.space/"Feral Angel Waltz" and "Evening", by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Cover art: "Grungy Rainbow Road", taken in Downtown Santa Fe by Bailey Rodfield. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/litb/support
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Sex tips, porn revolutions, psychedelics, and enlightenmentAella writes at knowingless.com. Her posts and tweets provide a unique perspective about the data on sexual kinks and on being an escort & camgirl.In this episode, Aella talks about:* her escorting sex tips,* how tech will change pornography,* & whether trauma & enlightenment are realEnjoy!Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. TimestampsSex Tips - (0:00:21)Porn-tech Revolutions: Tiktokified Erotica? - (0:02:02)Trad Christian Life - (0:05:11)Can you be Naturally Talented at Enlightenment? (0:06:52)Camgirling, Escort Marketing, & Bulk deals - (0:09:15)Sex Work vs Student Loans - (0:13:25)Psychedelics and Deconstructive Suffering - (0:15:30)Aella's Extreme Reading Addiction - (0:21:08)Radically Authentic People are Hot? - (0:27:29)Some Advice for Making Better Internet Polls - (0:39:32)Hanging out with Elites - (0:43:59)Is Trauma Fake? - (0:53:49)Spawning as a Woman and Being Extremely Weird - (1:07:19)Boring Podcast Conversations - (1:12:09)TranscriptTranscript is autogeneratedDwarkesh Patel 0:00:00Okay, today I have the pleasure of speaking with Ayela, who needs no introduction.Aella 0:00:07So it's Ayla. Is it actually? Yeah.Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:10Okay, gotcha. The first question from Twitter from Nick Camerota.Aella 0:00:14It's about banging, right?Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:16It's right.Aella 0:00:17Smashing. As one might do in the dirty.Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:21I don't see it here, but he was basically asking, there's meditators who are experts, have all kinds of like special tips. He was talking about how they know how to hold their breath or close their eyes in aAella 0:00:31particular way.Dwarkesh Patel 0:00:32What do escorts know about sex that the mediocre new doesn't know?Aella 0:00:38Well, I don't know because like escorts don't necessarily have more sex. They just have sex with different people. Like if you're in a community relationship, you're probably like becoming an expert at your partner. So it's like, I guess like you're an expert at like very quickly figuring out so like what a new partner likes. So it's really dependent. It's like super dependent on like reading the person. But one is like, don't assume what they like. Because like for a while, it was like all guys like their balls fondled gently, right? You'd think this is a universal malpreference.Dwarkesh Patel 0:01:11It's not. Well, it's changed or it just never was?Aella 0:01:14Well, some people are just like, get the f**k off my balls. And you're like, okay. But also like, I don't know, I like learning how to ride dick. I didn't really know how to ride dick properly before being an escort. And when I first started escort, it was terrible. I was like, like clumping kind of like in a really unattractive fashion. Maybe something about like, like enthusiasm of b*****b is better than technique or something like more important than technique. Like you don't have to be the best b*****b giver at all. But if you're just like, you know, really going to town.Dwarkesh Patel 0:01:44Yeah, it's not like dancing as well, where they say you don't have to be a dancer, just like have fun.Aella 0:01:48Yeah, not there. Yeah, a lot of it's just having fun, right? Like really, like letting loose as much as you can. These are not like really excellent, like, go get them, hit them techniques. Like probably Cosmopolitan has published all those already.Dwarkesh Patel 0:02:02But the 10 things that drive your man crazy. Okay, I'm curious. There's been a lot of innovation in how movies and TV shows are shot and what kinds of plots and tropes they've used. I'm wondering over the next few decades, are you expecting what kinds of like innovations in erotic content are you expecting?Aella 0:02:22It'd be great if there were more funding for erotic content. Like if we had more money, like that would be excellent. But obviously AI. Like ignoring the funding issues. But AI clearly. Like I know that a lot of the models right now are not allowing not safe for work stuff. Do you want to like a normal pillow?Dwarkesh Patel 0:02:41Yeah, let me get her up. Leaning in like Sheryl Sandberg. Sheryl Sandberg?Aella 0:02:47Oh, she's the CEO of Facebook.Dwarkesh Patel 0:02:50Yeah, I've heard a book about leaning in. Like when you lean in. That's an escorting technique.Aella 0:02:54Well, I mean, it's just a generic seduction technique. Leaning in? Yeah. Like when I'm on it, like, usually when I'm as an escort, you meet a guy beforehand. And you're supposed to signal that you're really interested in him and leaning in.Dwarkesh Patel 0:03:08Oh, yeah. Yeah. By the way, do you? This is something I'm curious about. I watched your YouTube video about tips to have more seductive behavior. Are you always doing that or is that just in very specific scenarios when you're online? But like when you go to a meetup or something?Aella 0:03:22I think there's like degrees of it. Like some of it's not just seduction. Some of it's just like normal social behavior. Like I don't think I'm doing anything right now. I'm checking. I think this is how I would normally be with like friends.Dwarkesh Patel 0:03:35Right.Aella 0:03:36But I think there's like some, like there's a spectrum and obviously I turn it all the way up when I'm trying to be very seductive. But sometimes if I'm like enjoying the experience of being attractive, like trying to play into that for any reason, like pure fun, then I'll do it a little bit.Dwarkesh Patel 0:03:50Usually not to that degree, though. OK. Another question I was wondering about is TikTok. Are we going to have porn that's TikTok-ified where we'll have like one minute shorts, you just scroll through.Aella 0:04:02They've tried.Dwarkesh Patel 0:04:03They've really tried. Why has it not worked? Well, you can't get on app stores.Aella 0:04:08So there's not like what kind of money like your sort of market is limited, your marketDwarkesh Patel 0:04:13cap. You can just have a website, though, right?Aella 0:04:16Yeah, you can. But it really reduces the total amount of conversion for like when you're advertisingDwarkesh Patel 0:04:22it.Aella 0:04:23And they've tried it a couple of times, but they just didn't have enough people uploadingDwarkesh Patel 0:04:27things.Aella 0:04:28There are some other competitors like Sunroom right now is doing the thing that they're trying to get on the app store. But it's not porn. Like they can be optimized to be sexy, but like really right now, like the markets are not aligned such that like a porn TikTok. I mean, it's possible that if you did it really, really well, but I don't know. A lot of porn is shot this way, too.Dwarkesh Patel 0:04:49So if you want to take like pre-existing porn, it like never really looks good. I guess it depends on position as well, right? Like there's some positions where a vertical would work.Aella 0:04:58Yeah. It's like a TikTok for like only for like cowgirl standing. They have it, by the way. I don't remember if I said that, but there are products that are trying to replicateDwarkesh Patel 0:05:09TikTok for porn.Aella 0:05:10They're just not very good.Dwarkesh Patel 0:05:11Yeah, and another thing is you had to learn user behavior, but people are probably doing, you know, doing their porn and incognito. So you can't, you can't like learn their preferences that TikTok learns. Okay. People with your genetics, like your psychology, they probably existed like a hundred years ago or 200 years ago. But what would you have been doing if you were born in 1860? Because there was no OnlyFans back then, but would you have become a trad wife or what would happen?Aella 0:05:35Yeah, I probably would have been insufferable. Like I was raised Christian and so I got to see what my psychology does in like a very trad religious atmosphere and it took it very seriously. It kind of went just to the opposite extreme. I was like, ah, if I'm in this religion, like let's actually live the religion. Like we can't just like half believe in it. Like let's actually think it through, take it to the logical conclusion and live that. Yeah. And so I was like, I was maybe even a little bit more conservative than the people around me and took it very seriously.Dwarkesh Patel 0:06:03Do you think if you grew up in a left wing polycule, you would have become a super trad by the time you grew up?Aella 0:06:09I doubt it. I might have become like even like a hardcore polycule, I don't know. But my guess is like I'm probably actually suited to being a polycule. Like I am more like, even when I was Christian, I was like sexually deviant and like obsessed with sex and like just I just suffered immense guilt over it.Dwarkesh Patel 0:06:28Yeah. What are you the Christian men you were growing up with? Did they not jerk off? Like what did they do?Aella 0:06:32Well, all of the messaging when I was growing up was for men. It's like they have like men meetups about not jerking off and s**t. Like you're not supposed to masturbate as a Christian man.Dwarkesh Patel 0:06:42But did they actually not?Aella 0:06:44A lot of them would. Well, I don't know. I never like did a survey. My impression is they probably had a lower masturbation rate than most people and feltDwarkesh Patel 0:06:52worse about it when they did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm Christian. Do you think that, so you've done these really interesting enlightenment surveys and interviews. Do you think there's people who are just naturally enlightened because they're just so stoic and happy all the time, but they just don't have the spiritual vocabulary to describe their experiences as in these sorts of like, you know, boo-hoo ways? Is it possible that the guy who's just like super stoic is like actually just enlightened?Aella 0:07:16Well, it there's different like it depends what you mean by enlightened. Like stoic and happy is like one sort of conception of enlightenment, but there's lots of differentDwarkesh Patel 0:07:23ones.Aella 0:07:24There are probably people who like I interviewed one person who seemed like they didn't do anything. They just sort of like are that way all the time. It didn't seem like it was like a thing that occurred to them with any. So yeah, probably. I mean, like, I don't think that there's any like special soul like quality about it. I think like you could probably study the science of enlightenment or whatever kind of enlightenment you're talking about. Like obviously, it's replicable with brain states. And obviously, if you are enlightened, and we went to brain surgery, we could like undoDwarkesh Patel 0:07:48that.Aella 0:07:49So in that case, like it doesn't seem impossible to me that somebody could just be born with that like naturally very close to already there.Dwarkesh Patel 0:07:56Yeah, yeah. Did you meet anybody who you felt was enlightened in the strong sense in the Buddhist sense of like, this person has no thoughts? And no, like you could set him on fire and he would not suffer.Aella 0:08:06Is that the I'm terrible at Buddhism?Dwarkesh Patel 0:08:08No, but like in that sense of like, this guy's almost a god.Aella 0:08:12I've definitely met people who report not having like an internal monologue.Dwarkesh Patel 0:08:16Hmm. I don't believe them. Like they were answering questions. Yeah.Aella 0:08:20Like I've had experience times where I have no internal monologue before, but like the like responses still come out or something interesting.Dwarkesh Patel 0:08:28Like there's no distance between you and what comes out.Aella 0:08:31Well, are you having an internal monologue right now? Yes. Like as you're talking, like, are there words coming in your head that aren't what you'reDwarkesh Patel 0:08:37saying? Yeah, I just I'm not self aware enough right now to observe them. But if I was, I'm pretty sure I would, because I'm thinking about what I'm gonna ask you next or how I'm like, they just yeah, you're saying, yeah, I'm not exactly sure how toAella 0:08:48interpret it. Like there's a way where my guess is the words just like kind of emerge without there being any sort of like word process that happens beforehand. Which seems like a plausible state to me, seems like not an insane thing that human brains can do. Human brains can do insane s**t, right? Like, like your internal felt sense can be so radically different, just just literally evidenced by drugs, like you just take an insane drug, your mental state can change. So we know that it's possible for the brain to be in a state where this is the case.Dwarkesh Patel 0:09:15When you escort, do you charge extra to men who you find less attractive?Aella 0:09:19No, not at all. Uh, no, it feels like counter sort of my psychology. Like in my, my psychology around escorting is that it's like a job, and it doesn't have to do with my personal desires whatsoever. So if I were like charging, I don't really enjoy the same way. It's like, I don't know.Dwarkesh Patel 0:09:39Right, right. It's like, it's like completely independent, which is necessary for me, like, I think IAella 0:09:46have to be completely independent in some way of like my actual preferences in order to do it. Like if I were actually checking in with like, what do I want in this moment? I'd probably be like, I don't want to be here, I don't want to be f*****g a stranger. So I guess like, I just can't let that in at all.Dwarkesh Patel 0:10:00Yeah, how about both bulk discounting?Aella 0:10:03Both discounting?Dwarkesh Patel 0:10:04Discounting, like if somebody gets like a, like a lot, four straight sessions or somethingAella 0:10:08that that seems like more reasonable. That's like a business choice. I don't, I never did that.Dwarkesh Patel 0:10:13But like, I think that could do that. When I tell her how it on the podcast, we're talking about how the people who are top in any field often are smarter, because they have to think about how to get top in their field, somebody like a top YouTube creator, they've actually done a lot of analysis of how to get to the top of, you know, the leaderboards there. Yeah, are the top X-Squads and cam girls, are they noticeably smarter?Aella 0:10:35My guess is yes. Like, like, for example, the OnlyFans, I did very, very well on OnlyFans. I think that was because probably I'm like, smarter than the average. But it was surprising to me, like, especially like camming. Like, I was a cam girl and then for a long time, and this is like really, really competitive. It's competitive because you can see what other girls are doing at all times. So you know exactly what the techniques are, and the techniques proliferate much faster. And there's also stuff like branding and seduction and it's really high intensity, high pressureDwarkesh Patel 0:11:03environment.Aella 0:11:04Again, because like with camming, the site I was using, MyFreeCams, your ranking is determined by your average earnings per hour of live streaming over the past 60 days. And your rankings affect how many more people come into your room. So every time you're streaming, it's like really high pressure, because if you don't do well for an hour, this is gonna make it harder for you in the future. So it's really stressful. Anyway, so I went from that to escorting and escorting what other people are doing are not visible, or techniques are not viewable at all. And they and I think as a result of this, like low pressure, like, private slow thing, there was no ecosystem for like escort like tech strategies to really have like a highly competitive atmosphere. So I just brought all of my techniques from camming in regards to marketing, and I think I just blew it out of the water. Interesting. It was like I was shocked at how terrible the cop I was like this is what the landscape is like, like I could beat.Dwarkesh Patel 0:11:54How do you figure out what the competition is like?Aella 0:11:56You just talk to people? You can look at other escort websites.Dwarkesh Patel 0:11:58Oh, yeah, sure.Aella 0:11:59And you don't exactly know how much they're earning. I did a survey where I asked about earnings.Dwarkesh Patel 0:12:05But it's hard to know. What has building an escort profile? What does that talk to you about building a dating profile? Like, what advice would you give to somebody on building a Tinder or Bumble profile basedAella 0:12:15on I mean, the incentives are different. If you're building an escort profile, the thing that you want is money. Yeah, like that's what you're optimizing for on an escort or sorry, dating profile, you're optimizing for compatibility. So like with escorting, like you're trying to like, make find the kind of messaging that is appealing to the maximum number of people, which maybe is what men do when they're on a dating profile. But for me, I'm trying to alienate the correct people as as a dater. Like I don't want the people coming to me who aren't going to enjoy me actually. Like if I like did the same kind of escort advertising as I did dating, like I would just get a billion men and then like not want them because like, no, it's not I'm not like presenting my my real self like the kinds of things that are actually definitive about like what's going to make us a good match or not. So it's really all about like, sorry, dating profiles or advertising is all about likeDwarkesh Patel 0:13:04D selection.Aella 0:13:05Like how are we not going to get along here that like the deal breakers, you put them up front like. So in my dating profiles, I'm always like I'm poly, sex worker, like weird, right?Dwarkesh Patel 0:13:15That sort of thing. Yeah, narrow casting versus broadcasting. At what age do you feel like you could have consented to sex work? Is like 18 too young, too high?Aella 0:13:25Me personally, could have consented probably 15. I don't know. Like I think like if I had if I were in like the right kind of culture and at 15, like this were available to me and I took it, I think in hindsight, I've been like, yeah,Dwarkesh Patel 0:13:38that seems like a.Aella 0:13:40Right decision that I made that I'm willing to take responsibility for.Dwarkesh Patel 0:13:43Yeah, personally, how about the difference between I guess escorting a cam girl is that when you're putting video out there, it stays there forever, escorting it just like you regret it. I guess it's not there forever. I mean, do you see a difference there or in terms of like, would you is there a different age that makes sense for both or? Oh, yeah.Aella 0:14:02I mean, it's like a little confusing. We don't really have consistent standards about like how many permanent decisions youngDwarkesh Patel 0:14:08people can make.Aella 0:14:09Like we groom young teens into paying a lot of money for college pretty early, which I consider to be like a worse decision than going into sex work. Like in regards to the permanent impact it has on your life.Dwarkesh Patel 0:14:25So I don't know.Aella 0:14:26Yeah, but yeah, I mean, in regards to like the thing is, it depends heavily on culture. Like we're in a culture where like we have a lot of incentive against doing your sex work. I'm uniquely suited to it, but a lot of women aren't. And a lot of women would like suffer actual emotional damage if they did it. And like, it's important to know that. And so if we had like a culture that like adequately informed people, if you're like, ah, like, you kind of know a little bit earlier on whether or not this is going to like destroyDwarkesh Patel 0:14:51your soul or not.Aella 0:14:54So it depends on like how much knowledge we have access to. If we had really good access to it, then I'd be like, yeah, you could probably consentDwarkesh Patel 0:14:59younger. You should actually make that a goal or you might have already had. Would you rather be $200,000 in debt at 22 or have a porn video of you out there?Aella 0:15:07I have done this. I mean, a version of this. Yes. And it was I think most people would rather have a porn video.Dwarkesh Patel 0:15:11Okay.Aella 0:15:12Yeah. But again, a lot of my response, respondents are male, which might be skimming it.Dwarkesh Patel 0:15:16Yeah, yeah. Fair enough. Fair enough. So I've read this theory that if you're a medieval peasant and you encounter a beautiful church symphony for the first time, before you would be like a psychedelic experience. Do you find that plausible given your experience with psychedelics?Aella 0:15:30Have you just said? Yeah.Dwarkesh Patel 0:15:32Okay.Aella 0:15:33Maybe. Yeah. Like, I guess there's like a test where like, if you encountered a church service as a medieval peasant for the hundredth time, it would be like, so beautiful, but less cool. And this also seems to hold true with psychedelics, at least for me.Dwarkesh Patel 0:15:44Yeah.Aella 0:15:45I don't. I mean, what the thing is, you're just finding like a level of beauty that you had not found before that is really incredible.Dwarkesh Patel 0:15:51Yeah, which seems to be true. So yes. I guess then the question is, is it just that is the experience of listening to your first symphony the same as me putting on Spotify, except you just haven't heard it before? So surprising, or is the actual experience like getting on a psychedelic high? You know what I mean?Aella 0:16:09There's nothing like getting on a psychedelic high. Nothing. I mean, like, there's like the sense of beauty and awe is great. And I think there's that in psychedelics. But there's like a kind of like novelty in psychedelics that are just utterly on. Like I can conceive of like a beautiful thing. But like, even right now, I cannot easily conceive of being on psychedelics, despite having taken them a huge amount of time.Dwarkesh Patel 0:16:32Right. If I told you, you can press a button, and you will experience one random emotion or sensation in the whole repertoire of everything a human can experience, including on drugs, you press that button? Yes.Aella 0:16:45You do?Dwarkesh Patel 0:16:46Okay. Yeah, would you?Aella 0:16:48There's a lot of like, a lot of suffering states.Dwarkesh Patel 0:16:49Yeah.Aella 0:16:50But I guess I'm like, I optimize really hard for interesting as opposed to pleasant.Dwarkesh Patel 0:16:54Yeah. I guess that is what taking psychedelics is like. But I don't know, it's a daunting prospect. It could get pretty bad.Aella 0:17:03Are you trying to figure out if you should take them more?Dwarkesh Patel 0:17:05No, this is not even about psychedelics. It's just, are you maximizing the value of your experiences? Or I guess the volatility of your experiences?Aella 0:17:15I just like trying to feel everything that there is.Dwarkesh Patel 0:17:17Do you feel like you've done that?Aella 0:17:21Probably not. But there's a lot to feel.Dwarkesh Patel 0:17:25Is it important that you remember what it was like? Because we were just talking about how you'll forget what many of the sensations were like.Aella 0:17:31Maybe? I mean, depends on what it's for. It's nice to remember, but it's also kind of nice to forget too. There's a way where I just don't have easy access to a lot of quite intense suffering memories, which is nice right now because I can talk to you. So I don't know.Dwarkesh Patel 0:17:47When you think back to the days when you were taking a lot of psychedelics, how much do you feel like you actually uncovered the truths about your mind and the universe? And then how much are you just like, I was just tripping back then. I don't know how much of the stuff was accurate. It was good.Aella 0:18:02Well, I think that for me, the vast majority of psychedelic experience was like, in my head I have a division. Like for me, it was deconstruction as opposed to construction. I think like some people, not due to any fault of their own, I think it's like a brain chemistryDwarkesh Patel 0:18:16thing.Aella 0:18:17Like the experience they have in psychedelics is constructing beliefs. And usually you have this, when you do this, you kind of look back on the trip and you're like, well, I was believing some crazy s**t there for a while. That was kind of weird. But I never really had that because I never really believed a thing. It was more like observing my existing beliefs and then sort of taking them as object. Sort of no longer finding them to be like an absolute thing about reality, but rather like sort of a construction that I was already doing. And that I hold to all of it. I think everything that I experienced tripping was valuable in that way and led me to where I am now.Dwarkesh Patel 0:18:51What were the downsides? How is your personality change? Is there a downside you can identify in the deconstruction? It was just like so overwhelmingly worth it. I mean, the experience itself was often quite painful. And I was pretty non-functional during the time I was taking a lot and for like about a year afterwards.Aella 0:18:58So that was a downside. I would happily pay that downside several times over. But it wasn't like the most rewarding experience. I think it was like the most rewarding experience. I mean, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,Dwarkesh Patel 0:19:18you had that tweet recently about how you experienced executive dysfunction sometimes. And then there's a story about you working at 50 five hours a week at the factory when you were 19, right?Aella 0:19:29Yeah.Dwarkesh Patel 0:19:30So is do you think that might be because this I can elitist or executive disruption?Aella 0:19:34when I worked at the factory.Dwarkesh Patel 0:19:35But you were just working 55 hours a week anyways?Aella 0:19:37Yeah, well, I was horrible. I remember being at that factory and being really confused about the way other people were there. I was like, this is clearly not what I wanna do with my life. This is actively terrible. But other people were like, oh, I've been here 10 years and this is just fine.Dwarkesh Patel 0:19:56And I was not doing well.Aella 0:19:57I think I'm pretty, Jess would be like, we're pretty smart. But I was scoring really low in my accuracy and speed at the factory. And I think this is an example of my executive dysfunction issues. And even when I wasn't working at the factory, it was not very productive at all.Dwarkesh Patel 0:20:12What do you think is the difference between psychology between you and those people? Was it just that they enjoyed it more or they just were able to suppress the boredom? Or what do you think happened?Aella 0:20:22Yeah, I'm not sure. Part of it might be just they, maybe if I had just done it for some more years, I would have adjusted. But also, I don't know, I had been homeschooled and I think maybe school prepares you, like normal school prepares you better for a job like that. But you just have to sit and do tasks you don't want to for the entire day.Dwarkesh Patel 0:20:41So, I don't know.Aella 0:20:44I do think also just my brain's different. I seem to be extremely novelty-oriented compared to most people. And my guess is that just made me really not, and just attention, my attention is terrible.Dwarkesh Patel 0:20:56Speaking of which, if you were homeschooling your kids, or I guess if you were raising kids, what does their schooling look like? What kinds of decisions do they get to make when? Do you have some sense of how would you raise a child?Aella 0:21:08I'm not sure, I think maybe unschooling.Dwarkesh Patel 0:21:10Yeah.Aella 0:21:11I'm leaning more and more in that direction. My school wasn't great. The quality of it wasn't excellent. It also, I was forced to learn things I didn't want to, but at least it wasn't a huge part of my life. And the things that, now when I look back on my childhood, the things that feel the most valuable for me to have learned was almost entirely stuff that I did myself. On my off time, the learning that I performed by my own incentive, that's what stuck with me. That's what feels like it lasted. And so I'm like, s**t, if that's the case, I should just let my kids learn what the f**k they want, and just enable them, right? Put interesting things around them, and give them a project, if you wanna do this project, you're gonna have to learn these skills in order to do it.Dwarkesh Patel 0:21:51Well, what are some examples?Aella 0:21:53Of projects?Dwarkesh Patel 0:21:54Things you taught yourself when you were a kidAella 0:21:55that you thought were invaluable.Dwarkesh Patel 0:21:56Well, I read a huge amount,Aella 0:21:58which I think led to me being a good writer today. I just read books about things, I don't know. I learned juggling, a lot of physical comedy stuff. I did some movies, some short movies. You know, something like that.Dwarkesh Patel 0:22:15Could you juggle right now? I'm not asking you to.Aella 0:22:17I could, not super well, but a lot of random little skills, which have turned out to be much more relevantDwarkesh Patel 0:22:23to my life than before. Yeah, yeah, interesting.Aella 0:22:26But also, I remember I read psychology books. Just stuff that, in hindsight, psychology books about personality.Dwarkesh Patel 0:22:33I really liked that. I mean, it sounds like you probably didn't have a TV in your Christian fundamentalist house. Oh, we did.Aella 0:22:39We just had TV Guardian installed on it.Dwarkesh Patel 0:22:41Gotcha. So, could you just have watched TV the entire day if you wanted to, or was that not an option? I'm wondering if the voracious reader was because of all the other options were cut off, or you could have just explored?Aella 0:22:53Oh, no, I was obsessed with the reading, yeah. No, not because other options were cut off.Dwarkesh Patel 0:22:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.Aella 0:22:58I made it a vice to read in the shower, because I didn't like showering without reading.Dwarkesh Patel 0:23:03It just took too long without reading.Aella 0:23:06I would read by moonlight after my parents to turn off the lights. When we were driving in the car, you'd hold up the book to read by the headlights of the person behind you.Dwarkesh Patel 0:23:13Yeah, yeah, sounds like an addiction. Yeah.Aella 0:23:16I read about, for a while, I was reading about a novel a day.Dwarkesh Patel 0:23:20Hmm, was it science fiction or fantasy?Aella 0:23:22Anything I could get my hands on.Dwarkesh Patel 0:23:23Yeah, yeah, yeah. How did you get your hands on it? Was there a library nearby?Aella 0:23:28No, well, I would just reread what I had a lot.Dwarkesh Patel 0:23:30Uh-huh.Aella 0:23:31And just, I would get books as gifts for Christmas,Dwarkesh Patel 0:23:36because clearly that was my priority. Right, right, yeah. Do you think that the ratio of submissives and dominance has changed over time? If you went back 50 years, do you think there'd be more dominance than submissives, or even more so, or?Aella 0:23:50Well, my one hypothesis is tied to testosterone, and if testosterone levels have actually been decreasing over time, then this would cause people to get more submissive.Dwarkesh Patel 0:23:59Yeah.Aella 0:24:00So maybe.Dwarkesh Patel 0:24:02Berne Hovart had this interesting theory, where he was pointing out, it's possible that the decline in testosterone we've seen, that's not just the last 50 years, it's been going on for hundreds or thousands of years. So if you went back to the ancient Greeks, they just steroided up men.Aella 0:24:16Like masks. Yeah. That's such a funny idea. But if that were true, would we be seeing a decline in testosterone over the last, I don't know how many decades,Dwarkesh Patel 0:24:28enough to notice? I don't know how you would notice that. You would maybe notice that there's fewer wars, which it is the case, there's fewer wars. I mean.Aella 0:24:38How do we know that testosterone has been decreasing?Dwarkesh Patel 0:24:40Is it just? Oh yeah, we measure the blood concentration, right?Aella 0:24:42Okay, okay, yeah.Dwarkesh Patel 0:24:44I'm assuming. That's what I thought.Aella 0:24:45So it's gotta be over the last few decades, right?Dwarkesh Patel 0:24:47Yeah, yeah, but we don't know. We don't have any data before that.Aella 0:24:50Yeah, but we know the rate of change,Dwarkesh Patel 0:24:52so we could like. Yeah. Well yeah, I mean it wasn't infinite in history,Aella 0:24:57so at some point it's like.Dwarkesh Patel 0:24:58I know.Aella 0:24:59Kind of like, kind of peaked, right?Dwarkesh Patel 0:25:01Yeah.Aella 0:25:02Oh. Yeah, I don't know. I really don't. I should have the data now to look, because I did a survey for people on hormone replacement therapy. To see if people who've started testosterone report. Yeah. And I did find that. But it is a little confusing, because you don't know how much of it is like, narrative or culturally induced. Like, if you're expected to become more masculine when you take testosterone. Like, is this like, psychologically making you believe that you are more interested in being dominant? It's unclear. So I incorporated a question into my survey recently. Like, just the last minute, honestly. Asking just like, are you on HRT? If so, how long?Dwarkesh Patel 0:25:37Yeah.Aella 0:25:38So I should be able to just see if that correlatesDwarkesh Patel 0:25:40with just interest in dominance. Yeah. It would also be interesting to see, another question might be, what age are you? And when you were 20, were you more dominant than submissive?Aella 0:25:53And then- Oh, to see if it changes over time?Dwarkesh Patel 0:25:54Or you would just have, if a 60 year old was really dominant when he was 20, then you'd know that, I don't know, 60 year old. People who were born in 1980 or something. Yeah.Aella 0:26:03Oh, you mean like, if it's correlated with age?Dwarkesh Patel 0:26:05Yeah. Or just like, if people born earlier were more dominant.Aella 0:26:08I found like, a surprisingly lack of correlations with age. Interesting. I mean, yeah, I could put my laptop on my lapDwarkesh Patel 0:26:14and then look at the correlations live here, but. Do you think weird fetishes, like the weirdest stuff, is that a modern thing? Or if you went back 500 years, people would have been into that kind of s**t? Yeah, I think so.Aella 0:26:25It's just like, the really weird stuff is very rare. Like we're talking like 1%, 0.1%. Like, I mean, it's correlated with rarity. Like the weirder it is, the more rare it is.Dwarkesh Patel 0:26:34Kind of necessarily, because if people had it,Aella 0:26:36then everybody would be like, oh, this is normal. But yeah, my guess is that it's like,Dwarkesh Patel 0:26:39has something to do with like a randomAella 0:26:42early childhood neonatal thing. And like, I haven't been able to find any correlates with childhood stuff, which makes me think it's more innate. And if it's more innate, then it's more likely to have existed for a very long time.Dwarkesh Patel 0:26:53Yeah, yeah. And people who just had weirder and more different experiences in the past. Like if you're just in some sort of cult without any sort of internet or any other sort of experience with the outside world. I don't know, the volatility of your kinks might've just been more, I don't know. Is that possible?Aella 0:27:11Well, the data seems to suggest it's not really based on experience.Dwarkesh Patel 0:27:14Yeah.Aella 0:27:15Mostly, I mean, there's like some small exceptions. Interesting. But, so no, also I'm like, I'm not sure that experience was more varied in the past. Like maybe, like the internet is kind of homogenizing, but.Dwarkesh Patel 0:27:29So, since the FTX saga happened, people have discovered Caroline Ellison's blog. I don't know if you've seen this on Twitter. And now she's become, you know, every nerd's crush because of her online writing.Aella 0:27:40Oh, really? I mostly just see people dunking on her.Dwarkesh Patel 0:27:43Oh yeah, well, there's both, there's both. Do people, this probably wasn't in your kinks survey, but in just general, what is your suspicion about, do people find verbal ability and, you know, that kind of ability very attractive based on online writing or, is that a good signal you can send?Aella 0:28:02I mean, yes, like intelligence and competence is pretty attractive across the board.Dwarkesh Patel 0:28:07So if you're signaling that you're smart. You can signal that by just, I don't know, having a college degree from an impressive university, right, but.Aella 0:28:15I mean, it's like kind of better signal.Dwarkesh Patel 0:28:17Yeah, yeah.Aella 0:28:18Like people who have college degrees from impressive universities, I don't think are really that smart.Dwarkesh Patel 0:28:23Yeah.Aella 0:28:24And like probably like actually demonstrating like direct smartness is a lot more convincing.Dwarkesh Patel 0:28:30Yeah, yeah.Aella 0:28:31So it makes sense.Dwarkesh Patel 0:28:32I think her writing is funny and good. You had this really interesting post. I forgot the title of it, but it was a recent one about how the guys who are being authentic are more attractive.Aella 0:28:44Yeah. The thing that like I noticed while I was doing this, that I was attracted to,Dwarkesh Patel 0:28:49was like somebody like,Aella 0:28:50like sort of being independent of my perspective. Like a lot of time in, when I'm like talking to a guy who I can tellDwarkesh Patel 0:28:56is attracted to me and he's like, I don't know.Aella 0:28:59Like there's a way where he's like trying to orient himself to be what I want. Like very subconsciously, I think, or like subtly in body language, like mirroring, for example, like if I like sit one way and then he sits that way, I'm like, okay, this is an example of like trying to orient yourself into like the kind of person that is going to like be, make me attracted to you. Yeah. I was just like a reasonable strategy. You know, I'm not begrudging anybody this, but I think like women in general are kind of, like it's sort of like an arms race between the genders. And I think women are really attuned to this. Like women are like really good at like sussing out how much authenticity is going on. And so in this experience, when the guy was like talking to me, like some part I noticed that I was like meditating on my experience and connection with this person or these people, I noticed that some part of my brain was like, just like checking like really hard. Like, do I think this person is like masking anything at all right now?Dwarkesh Patel 0:29:54Or is he like unashamed about what he is? Sort of thing. I guess I still understand if somebody is attracted to you, they're going to maybe mirror your body language. What is the way they do that in which they're masking? And what is the way they're doing that in which they're being honest about their intentions? Is it, how does their body language change?Aella 0:30:17Like usually what you are is like quiet and flattering to somebody else. Like when I was like doing this workshop, like people were saying things to me that would typically be considered faux pas. And make people not attracted to you. Like somebody's expressing that they wanted to hurt me,Dwarkesh Patel 0:30:33for example.Aella 0:30:38But like I would prefer somebody do that or something.Dwarkesh Patel 0:30:42Say that they want to or? Yeah. Not to it.Aella 0:30:45Well, not actually hurt me. I prefer not to be hurt most of the time. But there's something like, like there's a way when somebody is like attracted to me and like doing a modified thing. It feels like, one, I don't get to actually know what's going on with them. Like I don't get to see them. I'm seeing like a machine designed to make me feel a certain way. And this is like scary because I don't know what's going on. And I don't know who you are. Like I don't know what's going to happen once you finally have like come and no longer want me anymore. And like somebody who, and it also like is like, my cynic side interprets it as like a dominance thing. Like if you actually don't need me, if your self-worth is not dependent on me whatsoever, if this is like truly an equal game, then you aren't going to need to modify yourself at all. You can just like be who you are, alienate me, like be at risk of alienating me and then f*****g alienate me and you're going to be 100% fine. And like, that's hot. That's hot because like when a guy can signal he doesn't need me, this means that he's like a higher rank than me,Dwarkesh Patel 0:31:51like equal or higher. Yeah. No, okay, so that doesn't sound like authenticity then but it sounds just like how badly do you want me? You know what I mean? Like how, yeah, how eager are you?Aella 0:32:03Well, it's like, it's kind of like a loop or something. Like it's hot to not want somebody, but it's hot because you actually have to not want them. Like it's hot to not have somebody like be trying to get something from youDwarkesh Patel 0:32:17for their purposes.Aella 0:32:19Like just don't conceal.Dwarkesh Patel 0:32:20Right.Aella 0:32:21Like, and even if the thing you're not concealing is like a desperate burning desire, if you're like, man, I just like really would want to bang you and I'm like afraid of what you think of me. And, but I'm like, I want you so bad. Like that's hotter than trying to hide the fact that you're doing it.Dwarkesh Patel 0:32:35Yeah.Aella 0:32:36Yeah. I would like, I would consider banging a guy who's just like laid it all out because like by laying it all out, you're like offering up yourself to be rejected. This means that you're like, you're going to be okay even if I reject you.Dwarkesh Patel 0:32:48And like, that's the, so nice. I wonder how universal that is. Like you go to the average girl and you're just like, I really want to just f**k your face or something. What would happen?Aella 0:32:58I mean, it would probably be polarizing. Yeah. The thing is like by being honest, like you might actually make yourself be rejected. Like the point is not like if you're doing it to be accepted, like that's defeating the purpose. Like you just like offer yourself up and they accept you or they reject you. It's like the stupid f*****g annoying Buddhist concept where like by not trying you get the thing, but you have to like actually not try. You have to actually be in touch with the negative outcome and be like, this is real. And which just happened. Like there, like I probably wouldn't f**k a lot of the guys that I talked to despite non-concealing, but like I still, when they were like open and honest, it still like put them into a frame where they could have been sexual. Whereas like before I was like, you're not even in my landscape of like a potential partner. But like by being honest, I was like, now I'm actually doing the evaluation, like actively doing it and considering you in a sexual way, which was like a big leap.Dwarkesh Patel 0:33:51Yeah, yeah. The Buddhist guy to pick up artistry.Aella 0:33:54I'm like, that's a great, that'd be a great book.Dwarkesh Patel 0:33:57What is charisma? When you notice somebody is being charismatic, like what is happening? Is that body language? Is that internal? And I guess more fundamentally, what is it that you're signaling about yourself when you're being charismatic?Aella 0:34:11I mean, like charismatic, charisma can probably refer to a lot of things, but like the concept that I'm mapping it onto is something like when they make me think that they like me in a way that feels like not needy. And you can break it down into like body language signaling or like social moves. But I think like the core of it is like, like you know when you enter a party and like there's somebody who like is like fun to be around and they really like you, or it seems like they're like welcoming or like, ah, hey, you know, they put you on the back, they make a joke and then they like,Dwarkesh Patel 0:34:43you know, flitter off and you're like, ah, that's that person. Yeah. In movies, TV shows, games, what is the most inaccurate, what do they get most wrong about sex and relationships? What is the trope that's most wrong about this?Aella 0:34:58Well, I mean, okay, I'm, I have a personal pedestal, which might be like slightly besides your question, but like the f*****g monogamy thing. Like I get, I'm down if people want to do monogamy, but it's always, it's like 100% monogamy. And cheating is like always like the worst possible thing ever and that bothers me. I just wish there was a little bit of occasionally, once in a while, there's like, you know, we call it monoplot. My, I have a friend who yelled like monoplot every time there's like a plot, lining in a story that is, could be resolved by being just likeDwarkesh Patel 0:35:32slightly less monogamous.Aella 0:35:34And I'm like, every plot's a monoplot, like you don't even have to be full poly, you just have to like have like a slight amount of flexibility, like, oh, well, then just bring me over for a threesome. Like, but that's not even on the table. I'm like, not, well, not only is it not on the table, but like, it feels like it doesn't represent the general population either. Like around 5% of people are polyamorous and probably like 15 to 30% are like, would be like open to some kind of exploration, like a little bit of looseness, which where is that in media? Nowhere, drives me crazy.Dwarkesh Patel 0:36:01But what you're saying is you take Ross's side and they were on a break. Have you seen Friends?Aella 0:36:06No.Dwarkesh Patel 0:36:07Okay, nevermind. It's a joke. The plot basically of the show, Money Seasons, was that one of the main characters thought he was on a break with his girlfriend and cheated on her or not. He had sex with somebody else. And that was just basically the plot for like three seasons.Aella 0:36:22Oh man. So you've engaged in activities,Dwarkesh Patel 0:36:26which are most likely to change a person, you know, psychedelics, you know, stuff relating to sex. How much do you think people can change? Because you're on like the spectrum of the things that are most likely to change you. You think people can fundamentally change?Aella 0:36:43No, I mean, like, it's like a weird question, but like, no. Like if I had to give a simplistic answer, like I think I'm very much the person that I was when I was a child or a teenager. I think it's like innate stuff is like really strong. Like I have a friend who was adopted, but happened to know both of his adoptive and his biological father, fathers. And so I asked like, what, like, who are you more like? Like which one impacted you more? And he says that he just has the temperament of his biological father, but like all of like the weird quirks and hangups of his adopted one. And I think like when it comes like temperament or like your base brain functioning in general, like this is like much more persistent and less open to change than most people think. Like, I think I'm basically the same as I was pre psychedelics,Dwarkesh Patel 0:37:29except with like a lot of maturity over timeAella 0:37:33being added on.Dwarkesh Patel 0:37:35So your mission to experience every single experience out there, is that, that's not geared towards changing your personality anyway. It just.Aella 0:37:43No, yeah.Dwarkesh Patel 0:37:44Yeah, yeah. But you're not, you say you can't remember many of these. So what is motivating it? Like it's not to remember it, it's not to change yourself. What is the-Aella 0:37:53Curiosity? I'm just very curious.Dwarkesh Patel 0:37:56I don't know what it's like. Yeah. But it's weird, right? Because when you're curious about something, you hope to understand it and then internalize it. Like if I'm curious about an idea, it would be weird if I like read the book and I forgot about it. It wouldn't feel satisfying to my curiosity.Aella 0:38:11Yeah, well, there's some, like I think a lot of the way people operate is like sometimes you read a book and you might forget the book, but the book like updates your priors. Like the book like describes some way that the world like history worked in the war. And then you sort of like, kind of update your predictions about like the kinds of things that caused war and the kinds of reactions people have. And you forget the book, but you hold the priors. I think that's still really valuable. And I think like a lot of that has happened to me. Like I may have forgotten the experience themselves specifically, but it updated my model of the world. And also like my model of how I react and what I'm capable of. Like I went through like a lot of, you know, intense pain and suffering with psychedelics. And I maybe have forgotten that, but like there's some like deep sense of safety I have now around experiencing pain and grief that like I just carry with me all the time. So like it like sort of molded. And I know that I said that people don't really change, but I mean, that was like a little bit offhanded. Like there's obviously ways people grow. Like obviously people, you're very different from yourself, you know, seven years ago or whatever.Dwarkesh Patel 0:39:08Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. I hope that's the case that you're updating your priors. Cause that would mean that all the books I don't remember, should they have like in some sense been useful to me, but I suspect that that might just be co-op on my end and it's like gone forever.Aella 0:39:23I doubt it. I mean, did you have like any sort of like, ah, that sentence when you were reading the books?Dwarkesh Patel 0:39:28Yeah.Aella 0:39:30That's probably still there.Dwarkesh Patel 0:39:32Hopefully, hopefully. You've done a bunch of internet polls, many of them in statistically significant. What advice do you have for political pollsters based on?Aella 0:39:42I don't really follow political pollsters. I don't know. I mean, advice for polls in generalDwarkesh Patel 0:39:48is just have better wording.Aella 0:39:49Like I'm really surprised. I was, I mean, again, I'm taking a side note, but like I went, I want to include some big five questionsDwarkesh Patel 0:39:56in my really big survey.Aella 0:39:58And I understand that the way that they selectDwarkesh Patel 0:40:00big five questions is just,Aella 0:40:02as far as I know, like factor analysis, you just pick the most predictive questions. So it's not like people were like, ah, this is the question, but still like the wording of the questions was terrible. Like it's so much easier to make clearer questions. And I did use the big five questions. I forget exactly what they were, but I'm just like, is this what's going on with surveys in general? Like you don't want to, you want to be careful when you have a question to have it as worded so that people take them as homogenous a meaning from it as possible. But most of the other polls I see in other surveys and other research, it's like people just sort of thought of a good question and kind of slapped it down and never really deeply dug into like studied how people respond to this question, which I think is probably my best comparative advantage is that I've had like a really massive amount of experience over many years and thousands of polls to see exactly how your wording can be misinterpreted in every possible way. And so right now I think probably my best skill is like knowing how to write something to be as like very precise as possible.Dwarkesh Patel 0:41:02Yeah. How do you come up with these polls by the way? You just have an interesting question that comes up in a discussion or?Aella 0:41:07Often it's with discussions with friends. Like we'll be talking about something and somebody brings up like a concept or a what if. And I just have like a module in my brain now that translates everything to potential Twitter polls. So like whenever something like generates a concept,Dwarkesh Patel 0:41:20I'll go put that in a poll. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey guys, I hope you're enjoying the conversation so far. If you are, I would really, really appreciate it if you could share the episode with other people who you think might like it. This is still a pretty small podcast. So it's basically impossible for me to exaggerate how much it helps out when one of you shares the podcast. You know, put the episode in the group chat you have with your friends, post it on Twitter, send it to somebody who you think might like it. All of those things helps out a ton. Anyways, back to the conversation. I found it surprising you've been tweeting about your saga of learning and applying different statistical tools in Python. And I found it surprising, don't you have like a thousand nerdy reply guys who would be happy to help you out? How is this not a soft problem?Aella 0:42:16People are not good at helping you learn Python.Dwarkesh Patel 0:42:18At least not good at helping you.Aella 0:42:20At least not good at helping me learn Python. There are some people who are really good, but sometimes when I'm trying to learn Python, it's like at 3 a.m. and they're all sleeping. So I'm not saying that like everybody, I have some people who are like really excellentDwarkesh Patel 0:42:30at understanding and responding to me.Aella 0:42:31But when I'm tweeting, usually it's like, I don't wanna bother them or they're on break or something. And I have a chat where people help me, but often it's very frustrating. Because I, they just like, they're trying to explain, what I want, the way that I like to learn is, you just give me the code, give me the code that I know works. I do it, I test it, I see it, whether it works. And after that, then I go throughDwarkesh Patel 0:42:51and I try to understand the code.Aella 0:42:52But what people wanna do is they wanna explain to meDwarkesh Patel 0:42:54how it works before they do it.Aella 0:42:55Or, and it's not really their fault, but it's like there's the unfortunate thing where if somebody wants to help you do a problem, usually they have to go do a little bit of research themselves because programming is such a wide, vast landscape. Like people just don't offhandedly know the answer to your question. And so it requires a bit of work on their part. And it requires them being like, oh, maybe it's this. And then they post a bit of code. And, but you don't know, I try it and like it doesn't work. And they're like, ah, well, I'll try this other thing. And then it becomes like a collaborative problem solving process, which is like more annoying to me. I mean, it's necessary. I'm not saying it's their fault at all. It's like my fault for being annoyed. But I just want like, give me the answer. And then we can go through the whole like questions about it.Dwarkesh Patel 0:43:32Have you tried using CoPilot by the way? I haven't.Aella 0:43:34You got it.Dwarkesh Patel 0:43:35Yeah.Aella 0:43:36It's gonna solve all your problems.Dwarkesh Patel 0:43:37That's what people said. Yeah. It's like the ultimate. Okay. Autocompletor. It's like basically what you're asking for.Aella 0:43:42I was like trying to like look into it recently,Dwarkesh Patel 0:43:44but this is like the push that I need to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had heard about it too. And then my friend is just like, I'm gonna watch you install CoPilot right now. Don't say you're gonna install it. And yeah, it's been very valuable.Aella 0:43:57That's good. That's a useful anecdote.Dwarkesh Patel 0:43:59Yeah, yeah. I found your post about hanging out with elites really interesting.Aella 0:44:05Hanging out with elites, yeah. Do you, and I was wondering,Dwarkesh Patel 0:44:08is it possible that all the elites feel the same way about being there that you did? They're all like, this is kind of bizarre and boring. And I guess I'll just try to fit in. You know, is that possible? Or do you think they were actually different?Aella 0:44:22I guess it's probably a little of both. Like I wouldn't be surprised if everybody else felt it more than I thought. But also I would be surprisedDwarkesh Patel 0:44:28if everybody else felt it as much as me.Aella 0:44:30Because like when I do have like, it seems like I do have a like actually very different background than most of the people. And most of the people I asked about their backgrounds and they usually come from like much wealthier familiesDwarkesh Patel 0:44:41than I did.Aella 0:44:42Like went to school. Usually that's a big thing.Dwarkesh Patel 0:44:43They went to college. That's a huge, big, to me,Aella 0:44:47like if you're in my group or not in my group,Dwarkesh Patel 0:44:48is did you go to college? Yeah. And I feel like much more at ease with people who didn't. But when you're talking about these boring conversations, I know you were calling them. Do you think that they also thought it was boring, but that they were supposed to have those conversations? Or do you think they were actually enjoying it?Aella 0:45:01I don't know. Like recently I was at a party and I was like, okay, I'm not, I'm just staying at this party, but like, okay, let's take matters into our own hands. I'm just gonna run up to groups of peopleDwarkesh Patel 0:45:11and ask them like the weirdest question I can think of.Aella 0:45:14And then, and in my mind, I was like, okay, if I'm standing up there, standing at a party and somebody runs up to me with a weird question, I'd be like, f**k yes, let's go. Like, okay, I would like respond with a weirder question. I'd be like, let's dig into this. You know, I would be so f*****g thrilled. And so I was at this party, what I would consider to be like in the crowds of elite. It was like a little bit of a, it was like a party, less like a cocktail thing where people like be smart at each other and more like a get drunk and dance thing. But it was still like a much higher end kind of, so tickets were like really expensive. So I went around, I ran, I asked a whole bunch of people weird questions and just, like people obviously were like down to participate in like somebody trying to initiate conversation with them. But like the resulting conversations were not interesting at all.Dwarkesh Patel 0:45:57I was shocked with like how few conversationsAella 0:46:01were interesting. It was just people,Dwarkesh Patel 0:46:02it was just like, there was nothing there.Aella 0:46:05And I'm like, are you not all desperate to like cling on to something more fascinating than what's currently happening? It seemed like they weren't. I just got that impression.Dwarkesh Patel 0:46:12But do you think they were enjoying what they were doing?Aella 0:46:15That you mean just the normal conversation? Yeah. I think so. If they weren't, they would be searching for something else, right?Dwarkesh Patel 0:46:21That's not obvious to me. Like people can sometimes just be super complacent and they're just like a status quo bias. Or they're just like, I don't wanna do anything too shocking.Aella 0:46:28Yeah, but if I'm handing them shocking on a platter, I run up to them. They didn't even have to do anything. I just like walk into the, I interrupt their conversation. I'm like, here's something.Dwarkesh Patel 0:46:36What is an example?Aella 0:46:38Like, like, like, you know, like what's the most controversial opinion you have?Dwarkesh Patel 0:46:43You just walk in like Peter Thiel.Aella 0:46:44Is that what he does?Dwarkesh Patel 0:46:46Oh, well, he has this, there's a famous Peter Thiel question about what is something you believe that nobody else agrees with you on? Or very people agree with you on.Aella 0:46:53Yeah, okay. I didn't know that, but yeah. My version is like, what's the most controversial? And then usually I say either like in the circle people discussingDwarkesh Patel 0:47:01or like people at this party.Aella 0:47:02And it's shocking how many people are like, I don't have a controversial opinion on. How do you, like out of all culture, like you think that this culture is the one that's 100% right and you don't agree with all of it? Like out of all of history, you think in like 500 years, we're gonna look back and be like, ah, yes, 2022, that was the year.Dwarkesh Patel 0:47:19So in their defense, I think what could be going on is you just have a bunch of beliefs and you just haven't categorized them, indexed them in terms of controversial or not controversial. And so on the spot, it just like you gotta search through every single belief you have. Like, is that controversial? Is that controversial?Aella 0:47:37Yeah, but you can make allowances for it. Like sometimes people are like, ooh, I don't know like which one is the most, you know, I'd have to think like.Dwarkesh Patel 0:47:43I have so many.Aella 0:47:44Right, or like, well, I mean, there's some things I disagree on, but they're not sure they're controversial. Like these count. Like there's like a kind of response people give when you know that the thing, the issue is not that they don't have a controversial opinion, but rather that like it's sorting. But like I've talked to people who are like, oh, I don't really have one. And I was like, you mean you don't have any? And I would like pride, like there's nothing that you believe. And they'd be like, no, not really. And like, maybe they were lying, but like usually people are like,Dwarkesh Patel 0:48:12well, I have one, but I'm afraid to say. And like that's. No.Aella 0:48:17Anyway, I don't know. I don't understand.Dwarkesh Patel 0:48:20I wonder if you were more specific, you would get some more controversial takes.Aella 0:48:24Like what's your most controversial opinionDwarkesh Patel 0:48:25like about this thing? Yeah, yeah. What should the age of consent be? You know what I mean?Aella 0:48:29Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I do questions like that,Dwarkesh Patel 0:48:31but I like the controversial one is a good opener.Aella 0:48:34It's like it gives you a lot of information about the other person. Like it gives you a fresh about what their social group is. But I also like the game. I've started transitioning to a game where I'm like, okay, you have to say a pin you hold. And if anybody in the group disagrees with it, they hold up a hand and you get pointsDwarkesh Patel 0:48:50for the amount of people that hold up a hand. Oh, yeah.Aella 0:48:52And the person who gets the most points wins. Because people have this horrible tendency. Like I'll be like, what's the most controversial opinionDwarkesh Patel 0:48:57that you have in this group?Aella 0:48:59And then they'll say a controversial opinion for the out group. And I'll be like, but does anybody actually disagree with that here? Like, oh, like Trump wasn't as horrible as people say he is.Dwarkesh Patel 0:49:09I'm like. Yeah, no. One interesting twist on that, by the way. Tyler Cowen had a twist on that question in his application for emergent mentors. So everybody's been asking the P.J. Teal question about what do you believe? And nobody else agrees with the most controversial opinion. And so it's kind of priced in at this point. And so Tyler's question on the application was, what is, what do you believe, what is like your most conventional belief? Like what is the thing you hold strongest that most people would agree with you on? And it kind of situates you in terms of what is the, where are you overlapping with the status quo?Aella 0:49:47Like, I feel confused about this. So I would probably say something like gravity is real.Dwarkesh Patel 0:49:52No, exactly. I think he's like looking for. Oh, something like that? You being conventional in a contrarian way. Maybe you just said something weird. Like, I believe that the feeling of the waves on my skin is beautiful and feels great, you know? It just shows you're not answering it in the normal way.Aella 0:50:08Oh, he wants the non-conventional answer.Dwarkesh Patel 0:50:10Yeah, yeah.Aella 0:50:12Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that question though. Like I'm like not sure that question is like, like the best question to test for non-conventionality.Dwarkesh Patel 0:50:18Yeah, yeah. I would have thought by the way, that high-end escorts would be very familiar with elite culture. Because you watch these movies and these, you know, these escorts are going with rich CEOs at fundraiser dinners and stuff like that. I would have thought that actually the high-end escorts would be like very familiar with elite culture. Is that not the case or?Aella 0:50:38I mean, probably some are, but I'm not. I mean, like I've had a few people offer to take me to public events, but never actually happened. I've never appeared, like been hired to be aroundDwarkesh Patel 0:50:51like a man's social circle.Aella 0:50:53Usually people are very private about that.Dwarkesh Patel 0:50:55That's interesting. Because I would have thought one of the things rich men really probably want to do is signal social status. Probably even, potentially even more than have sex, right?Aella 0:51:04Maybe.Dwarkesh Patel 0:51:05To show that they have beautiful women around them.Aella 0:51:07Yeah, I think my guess is they would be seen as high risk. And I've known other escorts who have in fact been brought to events. So it's not that this doesn't happen, but like, I don't think it happens a lot,Dwarkesh Patel 0:51:17at least based on my experience. No, interesting.Aella 0:51:20It's possible that I'm not like pretty enough. It's possible that like a woman is very beautiful that she might get invited more often.Dwarkesh Patel 0:51:25But my guess is like,Aella 0:51:29like they can't trust that I know enough to be able to pass as an elite in those circles. Like I'm a weirdo sex worker who the f**k knows. Like, am I going to be doing drives in the bathroom? Am I going to be ta
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(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer recalls a momentous experience, and Justin acknowledges a personal defeat. (0:10:15) The Break. Results from Case Classic, National Trial League, All Star Bracket Nationals, the Kelly Competition, and -- most importantly -- the 281st Judicial Division in Texas. (0:14:04) Tournament Preview: Georgia State's Daniel Competition, with Paige Boorman. We learn about the tournament's history -- and try to guess the three things you can do to get disqualified. (0:31:08) Question of the Week Championship Round. Baylor's Liz Fraley and Campbell's Tatiana Terry answer a Thanksgiving question ... and are judged by contestants they defeated. (0:46:36) The Scriptie Awards. Who won best trophy? best swag? best banquet? And the other 10 categories? (1:00:58) Here's Some Advice. Justin gives some ... colorful advice.
It's Election Week in America -- the perfect time for our first no-holds-barred debate...(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer goes door to door in Reno. Justin stumps for the Scripties. Click here to vote! Voting closes Sunday at midnight, and the winners will be announced next week. (0:05:44) The Break. Results from Quinnipiac's Criminal Competition and Loyola's National Civil Trial Competition. Can Spencer get Justin to take some truth serum? (0:10:11) Preview - All Star Finals. Liz Boals tells us when she first felt at home at Stetson, what she has planned for EATS, and why she has so many jumper cables in her office. (0:24:59) Preview - Case Classic with Lauren Tuttle. Did you know Case Western finished 5th in the 2022 Gavel Rankings? That they just did their first Fall external tournament? Or that they enter five teams in their competition? (0:33:34) The Debate. Whose rankings are better, Fordham's TCPR or Hofstra 's Gavel Rankings? We let Adam Shlahet and Jared Rosenblatt settle this in the only appropriate format: a trial. (1:12:19) Here's Some Advice. Spencer goes below the belt.
(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer goes trick-or-treating. Justin recruits some celebrity judges for Tournament of Champions. (0:07:58) The Break. Results from St. John's, Georgetown White Collar, and Tournament of Champions. Spencer asks Justin about the UCLA threepeat -- and whether they will be hosting for the next two years. (0:13:51) National Civil Trial Competition with Loyola's Susan Poehls. Susan explains how she obtained the same courthouse that Justin couldn't -- and how she's had to be creative in hosting this year's tournament. We then cold-call the professor, asking her to resolve hypothetical protests. (0:43:08) Question of the Week. The semifinal round between Baylor's Liz Fraley and Loyola's John Henry. (1:07:53) The Big Interview: Northwestern's Josh Jones. Josh talks about growing up in -- and now returning to -- Chicago, how he excelled in the courtroom despite being "shy," what he learned from Judge Erickson, his career as a public defender, what it's like following in the footsteps of a legend at Northwestern, and his side gig as a singer. Come for the interview, stay for the music. (1:56:00) Here's Some Advice. Justin shares some practical advice, and Spencer announces his plan to ignore it.
(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer and Justin set the table. (0:02:30) The Break. Results from three tournaments and a controversy at one. (0:06:52) Preview: Tournament of Champions. Spencer offers a sharp critique. Justin explains why UCLA decided to enter a team while hosting. And we preview the Fall's most difficult competition. (0:36:01) Question of the Week. In our first semifinal, Cumberland's Spenser Templeton faces Campbell's Tatiana Terry. We ask them to brag. (0:51:08) Big Interview: Suffolk's Tim Wilton. Tim tells us about 50 years of practicing law and 47 years of teaching it. He survives an interruption from uninvited guests. And he denies working as animal lawyer even though it's on his bio. (1:45:41) Here's Some Advice. Spencer is feeling inspired.
(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer announces a bonus episode. Justin has a big date. We provide updates on a cheating scandal. And we introduce the "Scripties." (0:07:07) The Break. Three sets of tournament results: Buffalo, MLF Davis, and California Association of Criminal Justice. (0:09:03) El Presidente. NALAE's new president, A.J. Bellido de Luna, answers the tough questions about the organization's past and chats about his hopes for its future. (0:41:09) Question of the Week. Chicago-Kent's Ana Montelongo v. Cumberland's Spenser Templeton. (0:51:43) Main Interview with Jared Rosenblatt. Was he always blunt, even as a child? Did it ever get him into trouble? Why did Justin give him the nickname "Clarice"? What did Jared say in his first meeting with the first team he ever coached? What can Jared tell us about his year at Drexel? How does he respond to the allegation that he once made an AAJ representative cry? (1:40:40) Here's Some Advice. Justin has a suggestion for all the teachers out there.
(00:01) Introduction. (02:50) The Break. Results from Stetson's National Pretrial Competition, All Star Bracket, and All Star National. We also announce the winner of Mock Madness! (07:48) Tournament Spotlight. We chat with Buffalo's Jennifer Scharf about surfing, wine, and whether the wings in Buffalo really are better (we also ask her a few questions about the Buffalo Niagara tournament). (24:35) Question of the Week. Stetson's new phenom coach Kate Donoghue v. Baylor's returning champion Liz Fraley. We talk about mega-millions. (45:55) Debate Update. We provide an update on the Adam-Jared rankings debate. (47:20) Here's Some Advice. Spencer introduces a brand new expression that isn't at all a cliche.
(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer gets to a reunion. Justin gets COVID. (0:06:40) The Break. Results from Denver's Summit Cup. (0:08:07) Tournament Spotlight. A preview of the country's largest invitational competitions. (0:11:46) Question of the Week. Campbell's Tatiania Terry v. Wake Forest's Ashley DiMuzio. These two have history! Their schools are in-state rivals, and they competed against each other repeatedly in law school. We talk about a dog named Nike, dirt on Mark Boynton, QOTW scouting, and coaching advice. (0:28:21) 12 Angry Minutes. He's baaaaaack. Hofstra's Jared Rosenblatt rants and raves about weaknesses in U.S News rankings and the Fordham rankings ... before announcing his own set of national rankings! Jared explains his Gavel Rankings on the show, with plans to release them tomorrow. (0:59:41) Here's Some Advice. Justin doubles down on certain travel advice.
On this week's episode:(0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer has a powerful class session, Justin misses a tournament, and TYLA announces that 2023 regional hosts have a choice: in person or online. (0:12:45) The Break. Results from Battle of the Experts! And some interesting phrasing from Spencer... (0:15:49) Tournament Spotlight: Denver's Kevin Keyes previews Summit Cup '22 -- and dishes about his career as a professional actor. (0:39:47) Question of the Week. Our first quarterfinal! It's Loyola's John Henry v. St. Mary's Jason Goss. We talk about FBI raids, the New York Mets, and annoying judges. (1:03:13) The Big Interview with Kellie Casey. Georgia's advocacy director talks about why she left criminal practice, having her parents as clients, coaching her classmates' children, her favorite icebreakers, repeatedly beating UCLA, and a potential career as a matchmaker. (1:48:47) Here's Some Advice. Justin gets competitive, and Spencer gets philosophical.
On this week's episode: (0:00:01) Introduction. The new list of "Top 45 Law School Podcasts" is out. Plus, good suggestions from listener Ashley Menage of South Texas. (00:09:37) Tournament Spotlight. Drexel's Phil Pasquarello tells us about all the changes to this year's Battle of the Experts, shares a new wrinkle to the Drexel-Temple rivalry, and explains what it's like being one of two Kline Schools of Law. (00:36:25) Question of the Week (updated bracket here). In our final play-in round, It's Bear versus Bear, as Baylor's Liz Fraley and Stephen Rispoli answer an absurd question about the movies. (01:02:03) NTC Update! TYLA's Ashley Hymel and Tim Adams get specific about the new NTC rules, announce one new rule that wasn't in Bree Trevino's update ... and share their thought on Draper Memo proposals. (01:47:38) Here's Some Advice. If you're planning to commit a crime -- and we hope you're not -- Justin has some advice about what not to do.
Flash Trial results. Clash between Campbell faculty. Backlash from the now-infamous Draper Memo. On this week's episode: (0:00:01) Introduction. Spencer recaps a successful weekend hosting the National Flash Trial Competition, as teams show what they can do with just 60 minutes to prepare a case. Justin recaps a whirlwind weekend where he got to say "May it Please the Court" -- and where his mother called him "expendable." (0:18:48) Question of the Week. It's an all-Campbell play-in round, featuring competition director Tatiana Terry versus visiting professor Kaelyn Romey. We ask a crucial question: what makes for the best tournament swag? (0:30:30) Much Ado About Something. The Federalist Papers. The Communist Manifesto. And, now, the Draper Memo. We invite Baylor's Robert Little to help us dissect the geopolitical impact of the most controversial document ever shared on a 300-person list-serve. (1:33:37) Here's Some Advice. Spencer offers advice for everyone -- while taking a shot at his co-host.
The trial competition season begins this week! And so does our Question of the Week competition.In this episode: (00:36) Season Storylines: Spencer and Justin preview six big storylines for the new competition season. (13:24) Question of the Week: It's teammate v. teammate. Cumberland's Matt Woodham v. Spenser Templeton. We interrogate Matt about his celebrity doppelganger and Spenser about a certain shrine in her room -- before turning to the single elimination Question of the Week. (29:40) National Flash Trial Competition: Berkeley kicks off the season with its time-pressured competition. An inside look at what makes this tournament (very, very) different. (48:16) Here's Some Advice.
Welcome to Season 3! (0:00:38) Wins, Weddings, and What's Next. Spencer and Justin catch up on their summer exploits -- and preview their plans for this season of the podcast. Spoiler: Question of the Week is back, but with a twist. (0:14:24) New Faces, New Places. We publicize some directors and coaches in new roles and chat with three of them: McGeorge's Annie Deets, Texas's Mike Golden, and South Texas's Brandon Draper. (0:49:51) The Big Interview: Cumberland's Judge Jim Roberts calls his mom a "jerk" (in a good way, we promise), identifies who he would like to "spank," talks about whether he is a "unicorn," admits to a "nerdy" hobby, explains what he might have "hypothetically" thrown at students, and more. (1:44:37) Here's Some Advice. We finish with words of wisdom from Spencer.
The Major Glamour Boy has one prayer in life, to do a lot of soft work and get paid pretty well for it. And Honestly, we love it! From his Days of dreaming of stardom in Warri, to moving to Lagos and being a runway model, the star has had such and eventful journey and we had so many laughs listening to him. He even gave us Some Advice on how to become the number 1 Podcast in Nigeria seeing as his Tea With Tay Has been there many times before! Go and Have a listen. Be nice, say hi! img@ink-blot.tv Inkblot Productions Watch On Youtube ; https://youtube.com/c/InkblotProducti... Follow Naz: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nazonuzo/?h... Twitter: https://twitter.com/IamSnazz?ref_src=... Follow Zulu: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zvlv/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/zvlv_o Follow Damola: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damola555/?... Twitter: https://twitter.com/damola5 Follow Inkblot productions: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inkblotpres... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InkblotPrese... Twitter: https://twitter.com/InkblotPresents?r... @inkblotpresents Please rate and leave us a review on Apple ; https://podcasts.apple.com/ng/podcast...Tay
On Independence Day, Some Advice from the Declaration on Fighting Absolute Despotism Today's Links:National Archives: Declaration of Independence: A Transcription (full text is also below)You're listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.We can't read the entire Declaration of Independence in 90 seconds, but here's a portion for Independence Day: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Read the Declaration in full at AmericanDemocracyMinute.orgGranny D said, “Democracy is not something we have, it's something we DO.” For the American Democracy Minute, I'm Brian Beihl.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Declaration of Independence: A TranscriptionIn Congress, July 4, 1776The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offencesFor abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.GeorgiaButton GwinnettLyman HallGeorge Walton North CarolinaWilliam HooperJoseph HewesJohn Penn South CarolinaEdward RutledgeThomas Heyward, Jr.Thomas Lynch, Jr.Arthur Middleton MassachusettsJohn HancockMarylandSamuel ChaseWilliam PacaThomas StoneCharles Carroll of Carrollton VirginiaGeorge WytheRichard Henry LeeThomas JeffersonBenjamin HarrisonThomas Nelson, Jr.Francis Lightfoot LeeCarter Braxton PennsylvaniaRobert MorrisBenjamin RushBenjamin FranklinJohn MortonGeorge ClymerJames SmithGeorge TaylorJames WilsonGeorge RossDelawareCaesar RodneyGeorge ReadThomas McKean New YorkWilliam FloydPhilip LivingstonFrancis LewisLewis Morris New JerseyRichard StocktonJohn WitherspoonFrancis HopkinsonJohn HartAbraham Clark New HampshireJosiah BartlettWilliam Whipple MassachusettsSamuel AdamsJohn AdamsRobert Treat PaineElbridge Gerry Rhode IslandStephen HopkinsWilliam Ellery ConnecticutRoger ShermanSamuel HuntingtonWilliam WilliamsOliver Wolcott New HampshireMatthew Thornton
Our mind can play tricks on us. Compound that with trauma and abuse can be a deadly combination. And, it almost was for today's guest. Had it not been for a walk to contemplate suicide, we might never have known how to get healed from the inside out. Guest: Paula Bohland is an award-winning motivational speaker, author, and master business and mindset coach. She is known as the ‘Million Dollar Maker' coach since she regularly coaches women entrepreneurs to build their business to one million dollars and beyond in a year's time. Paula is on a mission to help others co-create the business, income, lifestyle, and joy they dream about with the message, “you are never too old and it's never too late.” She overcame severe childhood abuse and poverty, depression, and suicidal ideation. Paula paid off more than $500,000 in debt as a single mom, rebuilding her life from the inside out in her late 40's. She reconnected with God, her inner power, and has attracted a phenomenal life, financial freedom, and lives her calling of helping others reach their highest potential. Discussion Points/Time Stamps: Who is Paula Bohland 3:27 That Transformational Moment 5:42 Coaching Begins 10:24 Beyond Broke and Broken 12:11 A Mindset Change 17:25 Some Advice 25:54 Contact Information: Website: www.com 5 Days on the Money Frequency https://www.paulabcoaching.com/page/240820 E-book: 3 Easy Decisions that Can Make You $10,000 A Month https://www.paulabcoaching.com/page/247570-e-book-giveaway-list-signup Questions: Email: www.newhorizencoaching.com/contact OR shillcplc@gmail.com Tags: #self-coaching #Healed #inside out #podcast #growyourvoice
In this episode, Michael interviews his classmate, Dr. Kym Yves Sirilan who just took his USMLE Step 1. Dr. Kym gives a quick glance on how it feels like to take the arguably one of the hardest exams in medicine.--Dr. Kym is a Filipino IMG who hailed from the humble city of Zamboanga. He is an advocate of Gender Equality. His interests include marine life, and world history. On his spare time he enjoys cooking and solving Sudoku puzzles.--Adrian Teves is a young Filipino doctor. While in medical school, Adrian served as a peer mentor, helping freshmen and sophomores adjust smoothly to the rigors of med school life. Adrian is also a passionate mental health advocate, having suffered from anxiety. It is his objective to have a community that can freely talk about mental health without reservations. He devotes his leisure time reading, working out, or playing golf.--Michael Sibulo is both a pharmacist and a physician. After struggling throughout his four-year stay in medical school, he started advocating the use of Anki, a spaced repetition software for time-efficient active learning. Other interests include playing the piano, jogging, learning Mandarin, and promoting eye health.--Chapter Markers:00:00 Introduction00:34 Introduction of Guest01:15 How are you post-Step 1?02:03 Interactions with fellow USMLE takers at test site02:34 How would you compare Step 1 format vs PLE format?04:54 Which was harder: Step 1 or PLE?06:40 Some Advice for USMLE takers—You can reach us at:Email: thebetterpillpodcast@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebetterpillpodcast–Links:https://www.ecfmg.org/https://usmle.org/https://medical.uworld.com/usmle/usmle-step-1/Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3zLESDJGoogle Podcast: https://bit.ly/3qaj2pfApple Podcast: https://apple.co/3ADpl9x YouTube Mirror: https://youtu.be/_tfEGzPJrfo
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In this Episode, Some Advice on How to Avoid Sadness and Grief is Given. #islam #quran #hadith #prophet #muslim #patience #gratitude #Education #Arabic #podcast #learn #muhammad #goodcharacter #Allah #sunnah
In this Episode, Some Advice is Given on How to Keep Worldly Things in Ones Hand Instead of Being in Ones Heart. #islam #quran #hadith #prophet #muslim #patience #gratitude #Education #Arabic #podcast #learn #muhammad #goodcharacter #Allah #sunnah
In this Episode, Some Advice on How to Build True Trust and Hope in Allah (SWT) is Discussed. #islam #quran #hadith #prophet #muslim #patience #gratitude #Education #Arabic #podcast #learn #muhammad #goodcharacter #Allah #sunnah
In this Episode, Some Advice is Given on How to Be More Patient When Losing Something or Someone. #islam #quran #hadith #prophet #muslim #patience #gratitude #Education #Arabic #podcast #learn #muhammad #goodcharacter #Allah #sunnah
In this Episode, Some Advice is Given on How to Deal Correctly with Trials and Tests. #islam #quran #hadith #prophet #muslim #patience #gratitude #Education #Arabic #podcast #learn #muhammad #goodcharacter #Allah #sunnah
Our guest this week was once told there were no Algerian crime novels. She begs to differ. We discuss the many examples of the genre and its evolution in Algeria, Morocco and Egypt. Show Notes: Nadia Ghanem regularly covers Algerian and Moroccan literature -- particularly crime fiction -- for ArabLit. She has a wonderful crime-lit overview, "The Story of 50 Years of Algerian Crime Fiction in 60+ Books," and also a short translation of a work by Chawki Amari, ‘Murder at Algiers' Book Fair'. A few of Nadia's favorite Algerian crime novels: Adel s'emmele by Salim Aissa (ENAL editions, 1988), Kharidj el-Saytara (خارج السيطرة) by Abdelatif Ould Abdellah (El-Ikhtilef editions, 2016), Sakarat Nedjma (سكرات نجمة) by Amel Bouchareb (Chihab editions, 2015), 1994 by Adlene Meddi (Barzakh editions, Algeria, also released in France by Rivage editions in 2018), La prière du Maure by Adlene Meddi (Barzakh editions, 2008), Le casse-tête turc by Adlene Meddi (Barzakh editions, 2002). Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of Algerian writer Mohammed Moulessehoul. He has written many books, including a series of brilliant detective novels, which have also been translated into English. The Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi's Inspector Ali is the hero of his acclaimed detective novels. The 2017 Egyptian noir film The Nile Hilton Incident take place just before the outbreak of the Arab Spring in Cairo. Nael Eltoukhy, author ofWomen of Karantina (tr. Robin Moger), wrote "Some Advice on Avoiding Censorship" for the Summer 2020 crime-themed issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Ahmed Mourad'sVertigo, also tr. Moger, follows a story of crime and corruption through a photographer-sleuth's lens. Elias Khoury'sWhite Masks is his only murder-mystery; it has been translated by Maia Tabet. Several of Abdelilah Hamdouchi's crime novels have been translated and published by Hoopoe.
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Our guest this week was once told there were no Algerian crime novels. She begs to differ. We discuss the many examples of the genre and its evolution in Algeria, Morocco and Egypt. Show Notes: Nadia Ghanem regularly covers Algerian and Moroccan literature -- particularly crime fiction -- for ArabLit. She has a wonderful crime-lit overview, "The Story of 50 Years of Algerian Crime Fiction in 60+ Books," and also a short translation of a work by Chawki Amari, ‘Murder at Algiers' Book Fair'. A few of Nadia's favorite Algerian crime novels: Adel s'emmele by Salim Aissa (ENAL editions, 1988), Kharidj el-Saytara (خارج السيطرة) by Abdelatif Ould Abdellah (El-Ikhtilef editions, 2016), Sakarat Nedjma (سكرات نجمة) by Amel Bouchareb (Chihab editions, 2015), 1994 by Adlene Meddi (Barzakh editions, Algeria, also released in France by Rivage editions in 2018), La prière du Maure by Adlene Meddi (Barzakh editions, 2008), Le casse-tête turc by Adlene Meddi (Barzakh editions, 2002). Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of Algerian writer Mohammed Moulessehoul. He has written many books, including a series of brilliant detective novels, which have also been translated into English. The Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi's Inspector Ali is the hero of his acclaimed detective novels. The 2017 Egyptian noir film The Nile Hilton Incident take place just before the outbreak of the Arab Spring in Cairo. Nael Eltoukhy, author ofWomen of Karantina (tr. Robin Moger), wrote "Some Advice on Avoiding Censorship" for the Summer 2020 crime-themed issue of ArabLit Quarterly. Ahmed Mourad'sVertigo, also tr. Moger, follows a story of crime and corruption through a photographer-sleuth's lens. Elias Khoury'sWhite Masks is his only murder-mystery; it has been translated by Maia Tabet. Several of Abdelilah Hamdouchi's crime novels have been translated and published by Hoopoe.
Nuevas canciones, nuevos aires, aire fresco. Nuevos discos. De Alanis Morissette, Paul Weller, Norah Jones, Lisandro Aristimuño, Sarah Jarosz, Westerman, John Legend… La belleza no muere. El productor, Dj y multiinstrumentista Flevans nos envía su último disco. Y santero y Los Muchachos nos han enviado una ola que merece escucharse repetidamente porque inspira esperanza y muy buen rollito. Y hoy estrenamos junto con la BBC lo novísimo de Katie Melúa, avance del disco que sacará en octubre. DISCO 1 FLEVANS Moving On DISCO 2 ALANIS MORISSETTE Reasons I Drink (Such Pretty Forks in the Road) DISCO 3 NEIL YOUNG Vacancy DISCO 4 LISANDRO ARISTIMUÑO Levitar DISCO 5 NORAH JONES Hurts To Be Alone DISCO 6 SANTERO Y LOS MUCHACHOS Tu sombra al Sol DISCO 7 SANTERO Y LOS MUCHACHOS Tu sombra al Sol Bis DISCO 8 WESTERMAN Think I'll Stay DISCO 9 SARAH HARMER Just Get Here (ARE YOU GONE) DISCO 10 GARY OLSON Some Advice DISCO 11 JOHN LEGEND I Do (BIGGER LOVE) DISCO 12 SARAH JAROSZ Orange And Blue DISCO 13 MIGUEL RÍOS & The Black Betty Trio Blues de la tercera edad DISCO 14 PAUL WELLER More Escuchar audio
En Casa Limón… David Broza graba su disco instrumental. El gallego Ale se presenta en solitario un temazo. En Tokio… Silvia Pérez Cruz graba su disco en concierto con Marco Mezquida. Surfaces recurren a Elton John para dar el pepinazo y Shinova graba dúo con Ele. Gary Olson y Westerman componen dos álbumes de pop magistral. Más nuevo de Keith Urban, Norah Jones, Patrick Doyle, ¡Andrew Gold!, Y Lucky Brown y su banda nos muestran su new blues. DISCO 1 DAVID BROZA Something New DISCO 2 NORAH JONES I'm Alive DISCO 3 ALE Como un lince DISCO 4 SILVIA PÉREZ CRUZ & MARCO MEZQUIDA Sound Of Silence DISCO 5 ANDREW GOLD Come Down To Me DISCO 6 SHINOVA & ELE Palabras DISCO 7 WESTERMAN The Line DISCO 8 SURFACES & Elton John Learn to Fly DISCO 9 KORA Paciencia DISCO 10 KEITH URBAN Polaroid DISCO 11 EL COMETA ERRANTE Bossanova Errante DISCO 12 GARY OLSON Some Advice DISCO 13 PATRICK DOYLE Father & Son (Artemis Fowl OST) DISCO 14 LUCKY BROWN & S.G.’s Pecan Trees Escuchar audio
In this Episode, Some Advice on How to Avoid Sadness and Grief is Given.
In this Episode, Some Advice is Given on How to Keep Worldly Things in Ones Hand Instead of Being in Ones Heart.
In this Episode, Some Advice is Given on How to Be More Patient When Losing Something or Someone.
In this Episode, Some Advice on How to Build True Trust and Hope in Allah (SWT) is Discussed.
In this Episode, Some Advice is Given on How to Deal Correctly with Trials and Tests.
Halloween in Paris. Supper at Bluebird London. Drinking in Joe Lovano in the magical Appel Room. Rivalries, Ironman Competitors, Focus, focus, focus. Elaine Stritch. John Stuart Mill. Some Advice. Metropolitan Cartwheel. Credits: Talent: Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Ellie Suttmeier Art: Zeke Abuhoff
I Have A Friend Going Through A Rough Patch. Here’s Some Advice, And More Advice If You Don’t Believe That You Are Worth It.
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today conclude the series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. Today we conclude with one story - " Newspaper ads in Tampa." We begin a new series titled Cancer! Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today continue the series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. We continue the series with two new stories! Today we have two stories! They are: Ever Read Your Zodiac and A Birthday Gift! Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today continue the series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. We continue the series with two new stories! Today we have Advice and On The First Day Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today continue the series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. This series has five installments made up of nine stories. Today we have a special story - Vietnam Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today continue the series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. This series has five installments made up of nine stories. Today we have two stories which are: Vacation 1973 and Hef Died in Sept 2017 Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today continue the series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. This series has five installments made up of nine stories. The stories are: Cutting Horses, Years Ago and Faraway, and The Great Flood MS Flood of 1927 -- It is time for the stories Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today continue the series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. This series has five installments made up of nine stories. Today we have two stories which are: Night and Fog and Weight and Balance Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
Some Advice for When You’re Losing Motivation for Your Financial Plans
Welcome to Tales by Tom. The short story stylings of Tom Cagley Sr. These stories will educate, entertain and move you! Today begin a new series of stories titled “History Lessons and Some Advice”. This series has five (or maybe eight) installments made up of nine stories. Today we have two stories which are: Harper Lee and We Got Booed Tom Cagley Sr published a new book titled, Even the Day of My Wedding: A Love Story Born of the Holocaust." This story, a love story, is the story of Meyer Lasker, a 19-year-old Polish Jew, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Meyer loses track of his love when she comes to the States. The story tells how they reconnect . . . First love, last chance? Buy a copy now! http://amzn.to/2cWv02y Remember Tom Cagley Sr's previous book, "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" is still available on Amazon. Buy a copy of "I Was Your Son: A Troubled Journey" on Amazon http://ow.ly/ug4ru I encourage you to provide feedback on these stories or any of the earlier shorts by email at talesbytom@gmail.com Check out the podcast at http://www.talesbytom.com and/or download the cast on Apple Podcasts at http://bit.ly/yk9BC
(Full Transcript Below) Welcome to TechAbilities, the AccessAbility podcast from the Blind Abilities Network With Serina, Jeff and Andy. On this episode we are speculating about the upcoming Sept. 12 Apple event. We may be way off or right on but the excitement is always high when Apple announces the new toys and Christmas comes early to all and to all a good buy. :) You can find TechAbilities on the Blind Abilities Network. Thanks for Listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store. Get the Free blind Abilities App on the Google Play Store Full Transcript: TechAbilities Is Here With Apple Speculation Hype and Some Advice on the Upcoming Big Apple Event Sept 12 Serena Gilbert: There's not even a blue iPhone, but there might be. Jeff Thompson: It's got a white case on it. Serena Gilbert: Oh my goodness, you guys. Jeff Thompson: I don't get it. I don't get what the colors really mean. Serena Gilbert: Stop it, Jeff. Jeff Thompson: Oh, do you have the rose gold? Serena Gilbert: There's no rose gold 10. God, get with it. Jeff Thompson: I like these people and they say, "I just got the 10." It's like, "What do you mean, just?" Serena Gilbert: Yeah. This is the worst time of the year to buy a phone. Wait until after the announcement, and if you still want the 10, they have 100 bucks. Andy, you know that, right? Andy Munoz: Oh, yeah, unless you're new to this game. This is what Apple people live for. Jeff Thompson: It's the most wonderful time- Andy Munoz: Of the year. Serena Gilbert: I need you guys to make sure that's in our intro when we start talking about it. Andy Munoz: We're waiting for you to kick it in. Serena Gilbert: I can't know. You knew I wasn't going to. All right. Let's try this again. Welcome to the Blind Abilities Network. I'm Serena Gilbert. Guess what guys? We have a brand new tech show that we're bringing to the Blind Abilities Network and I'm super excited to introduce it to you. The title is ... Drum roll please. Drum roll please. Welcome to the Access Abilities Podcast. I have with me two, very special co-hosts. I have Jeff Thompson and Andy Munoz. How are you doing, Jeff? Jeff Thompson: I'm doing great, Serena. Serena Gilbert: Andy is brand-new to Blind Abilities Network. How are you Andy? Andy Munoz: Doing well, thank you. Serena Gilbert: Do you want to share a little bit with our audience about your background and why you love tech so much? Andy Munoz: Certainly. I'll try to be as brief as I can with this. I've got roughly 20 years of tech experience and most recently I actually worked for Apple in their accessibility cue, and then now I work for the division of rehab in the state of Colorado. My passion at this point is certainly working with folks who have disabilities, primarily blind and low vision, and that's a little bit about me. Serena Gilbert: Andy, I have a question for you. Andy Munoz: Certainly. Serena Gilbert: You are literally one of the Apple geniuses. Andy Munoz: I wouldn't say I'm an Apple genius. That's actually a store term. Jeff Thompson: But can we call you the Apple genius? Serena Gilbert: Yeah. We'll call you that. Andy Munoz: I guess you can call me whatever you want. I feel pretty confident in my knowledge of the Apple product so- Jeff Thompson: We'll just stick with AG. Serena Gilbert: Apple Genius. Unless you've been living under a rock, certainly you know that September 12 is going to be a big huge day for us Apple nerds out there. Jeff, do you know what September 12 is? Jeff Thompson: The most wonderful time of the year. Serena Gilbert: No backup from Andy. Jeff Thompson: It's the most wonderful of the year. Andy Munoz: Most wonderful time of the year. Jeff Thompson: Oh, you're going for the last chorus? It is the most wonderful time of the year. I'm excited about it. Serena Gilbert: It is the best time of year. I look forward to this day even more than Christmas because I'm just the biggest Apple nerd there is probably and hopefully we haven't lost you with our super fun and amazing singing that we had there. But next we'd like to talk a little bit about what the rumors are and maybe make some predictions and- Jeff Thompson: It's all speculation anyways. Serena Gilbert: But it's fun to talk about it. Although I will say a few years ago before there were leaks left and right, it was a little bit more fun because you really didn't know what was coming and you had to really pay attention and now we're like, "Oh, there might be this and that and let's see if they were right." 90% of the time they're completely on point with it. Traditionally in this temporary event Apple announces new iPhone models and this year they're rumored to not only announce new iPhone models, but also Apple Watch and I believe their new wireless charging pad. Serena Gilbert: Let's start with the iPhones. According to nine to five Mac, there's at least two versions of the new iPhone 10S coming out which are rumored to be called the 10 S. There will be two different sizes, a 6.5 inch and the traditional 5.1 inch which is what the 10 is right now. What do you guys think of those? Are you looking forward to an even bigger iPhone 10? Jeff Thompson: I kind of am. I've seen the pluses before. I never owned a plus so I was thinking about it. I thought it was going to be called XS. Serena Gilbert: We have had this argument so many times, Jeff. Jeff Thompson: It just sounds excessive, doesn't it? Andy Munoz: You can go either way with it. Even being a former Apple employee, I think we even referred to it in both ways, either the iPhone 10 or the iPhone X. I think it goes either way. Jeff Thompson: I'm excited. I am excited because my phone's two years old. It works fine. It works fine, so I don't have to make a decision. But if I'm going to pull the trigger on something, I think I'm going to go with a plus. Serena Gilbert: Well, it seems like there's not going to be a plus. It's just going to be the 10 S and just come in two different sizes. It looks like they're going to completely take away the models that have the home button. Andy Munoz: I think the one thing I saw too is I think the smaller of the two is actually going to be an LCD display as opposed to what it is now. Pardon me, I don't have the terminology on it off the top of my head. But I think the smaller one is going to be an LCD display, so that's going to be a little bit different. Serena Gilbert: Are you referring to the rumored SE? The new [inaudible] SE? Andy Munoz: No. I was seeing something where they were talking about the two models and I thought they said that the smaller of the two iPhone 10S was going to be an LCD. I was trying to find that source right off the top and I can't. One of my former colleagues, Zach, I shared an article in a group text that we have and- Serena Gilbert: That would be really odd if they did that because the smaller version is going to have the same form factor of the 10, which has the OLED screen so that Coast-to-Coast screen with no bezels. If they did decide to do that, that could be a way to cut the price down to maybe get more people to upgrade who aren't willing to pay the 900 to $1,200 dollars for a new phone. Andy Munoz: I'm thinking that's kind of what they're going for. Jeff Thompson: They're looking around that 699, 799. Someone even said the lowest 600. The speculation ... That's what makes it fun though. We're anticipating what's in Santa's sack, right? Serena Gilbert: It's also rumored to have some new colors the silver and the traditional space gray, but this time they're also going to have the rose gold. Either one of you looking forward to a nice pink phone. I know you guys are super comfortable on your masculinity to be able to have a pink phone. Andy Munoz: I know my oldest son. He was wanting me to let him upgrade to the 10 initially, but I'm sure come September 12th if he sees the 10X or XS if I can learn how to talk, would be in rose gold. I'm sure he'll be hitting me up that, "Hey, can I upgrade to that?" We'll address that I guess as it comes near. Jeff Thompson: I really don't have a preference for color, really doesn't do much for me because first thing I do is I put a case on it and that's it. Serena Gilbert: Funny story about cases. This is totally like me having a squirrel moment, but I think you guys will find this humorous. Every once in a while, I'm like, "I'm tired of my case." I'm going to try to take it off and I have an iPhone 10. I try to take it off, guess what happens as I'm taking the case off? Jeff Thompson: You drop it. Serena Gilbert: It goes flying across the laundry room and hits the wall. It mostly survived. There is a crack on the back of it right above the camera though now. That'll show me. Jeff Thompson: Wow. Serena Gilbert: The case was just on there that good. Jeff Thompson: Well, that's the thing. I have two cases. I have a leather case and that comes from Apple and you can get that for I believe 50 bucks or something of that nature and I really like it. I've had it for three, four years. The leather style works fine for me, but Lori bought me a charging case and that's where I have to take the leather one off and slide it in so it charges while I have it. I like that but it is always a moment when I take it apart and pull it apart because it's naked. When you pull that out, that's when the vulnerability happens. Andy Munoz: Phones are so slick. Jeff Thompson: Oh, yeah, especially the rose gold ones. Serena Gilbert: Well, and when the whole entire phone is literally made of glass. That's what cause it to go flying across the room. Jeff Thompson: Now, what kind of backing is on the 10? That is glass, isn't it? Serena Gilbert: It's glass, which is why it's cracked above the camera right now. Jeff Thompson: But once you put the case back on? Serena Gilbert: Oh, you can't even tell. Jeff Thompson: Right. And it still works? Serena Gilbert: Yeah, but I'm afraid I won't be able to upgrade this year because I'm on that upgrade every year plan with Apple and I don't know how it works when you have damage to the phone if you want to upgrade. But I'm not usually one that wants to upgrade on the S cycle of everything because it's usually the same form factor. I usually like to wait till every other year to get like a new form factor. Jeff Thompson: That's what I'm doing. I'm on the two years. When my one year came up and the eight came out, I was not in the mood to do it. It's just cost. I didn't want to be stuck with the eight for two years knowing that 10 is lurking or it was out but the next iteration of wherever it's going on. Andy Munoz: Really the eight was really no different than the seven other than the fact that it had the capability of wireless charging. Serena Gilbert: It's so true. It was basically this- Andy Munoz: Honestly, if they hadn't come out with the 10, I think last year Apple would have shot themselves in the foot by just coming out with the eight because it wasn't anything exciting. That was just kinda one of those throw ins I guess. I mean, they would have been better off just calling it the 7Sis my thought process on that. Serena Gilbert: I do understand it had quite the speed boost. I will tell you that because I had some people upgrade from the seven to the eight for whatever reason, I don't know. But they said it was massively fast. Jeff Thompson: Oh, yeah. They got a bigger chip in there and processor in there. I heard the speakers are better. Everything has a little bit better. The cameras are better especially on the 10. Have you noticed anything about OCR? Is the 10 better using Seeing AI than a seven? Serena Gilbert: I never had a seven because when I ... I had a six. Andy Munoz: Wow. Serena Gilbert: The dinosaurs- Andy Munoz: The big leap. Serena Gilbert: I'm not sure that as far as OCR goes, it's any better, but it is faster. If I'm using ... Because my work phone is still an iPhone 6 and then I have my iPhone 10. That's my personal phone. If I use Seeing AI on my work phone, it takes way longer. Not like it's minutes longer, but it's definitely longer before it starts by humanizing things. Andy Munoz: Obviously, that's going to be just because of the chip that's in that six as opposed to what's in the 10. But honestly, my work phone is an eight and then I have the seven. I honestly don't see any difference between the two. I mean, like I said, the only thing really significant to me it'd be the wireless charging. Other than that, even the sound quality and whatnot, I've not noticed anything that really would have made me jump out and spring for that. Now the 10 obviously, the camera aspect of it because I do take pictures and take videos. For me, that would certainly be a seller. Just wasn't sure that I wanted to spring for the 900 or 1,200 bucks depending upon the amount of storage I wanted, just wasn't sure I wanted to pull that trigger. Serena Gilbert: Well, and that brings up a really sort of related point to what I was thinking about. If you recall last year, the eight and the eight plus released, Gosh, I don't know, third or fourth of September, but then the iPhone tends didn't release until November. I wonder if that's going to impact people's even ability to upgrade this round because of the fact that you didn't get your phone until November or December this time as opposed to September or October. Jeff Thompson: Well, I think one of the things too to think about is again, coming up if they're going to release more phones. Let's say they're going to release the iPhone 10S or XS whatever we want to call it, and then let's say they decide they're going to throw in maybe an updated version of the SE. It's going to be dependent I think on how they decide to release it because I think purposely they did the 10 last year because they wanted that holiday push. I think on that part they knew what they were going to get more sales closer to the holidays. Are they going to release it in October or are they going to hold out till November? Andy Munoz: Well, it seems like there'd been holding out on the charging pad that they talk about. I think it's been so long. I've forgotten the name of it. Jeff Thompson: Because I'm pretty sure they talked about it at the keynote last year. Andy Munoz: Well, it's going to be here this year because they've talked about the case coming out for the Air Pods that's going to be waterproof and be able to just set it right down to charge it right on the flat pad. That's why I believe everything's coming out this year and I heard a rumor that next year, you're going to get the next iteration of the Air Pods in 2019. Serena Gilbert: Maybe this is just me being ignorant to what people do with it, but are the Air Pods going to be waterproof or just the case? Andy Munoz: I believe it's the case because that's the new form factor that they're coming out with is the case. Jeff Thompson: I guess the question I'm going to ask on that too, because there's two different terms, waterproof and then water resistant. The newer phones are water resistant, they're not waterproof. I was kinda thinking the same thing. I mean, what would be the point? I mean, I guess maybe have like your Apple Watch and then you have your Air Pods so that you could listen to music while you're swimming. That certainly could be a use for it, but I was kinda thinking that same thing. What would be the point? Andy Munoz: I think if you have it in your pocket and it goes through a wash or it goes to something that it adds another layer of defense for that or if you just drop the case. Some people drop things into the toilet or into the sink or whatever that could happen. It's supposed to prevent just that instantaneous dunking of something. I've heard Air Pods go through the washer and dryer and they still work fine. I wouldn't recommend trying that or testing it and emailing me and saying, "Hey, it didn't work." Serena Gilbert: Insert disclaimer here. Andy Munoz: I think the idea that they're doing is just for those instantaneous things that ... not instantaneous, just those- Jeff Thompson: Just those accidents, those freak accidents that happen. That makes sense. Serena Gilbert: I guess I'm just the oddball that I've never ... I mean, I say this now and then I'll probably be like on the next show I'll be like, "So yeah, I dropped my iPhone in the toilet." But I've just never had that happen to me. I know that it happens, I know people who've dropped in bodies of water and things like that, but with the Air Pods in particular, I guess I could see how it could happen, but it's like- Jeff Thompson: I think it really happens to people who put the phone into their back pocket. I don't want to go through any description here, but that's my guess. I don't know. Serena Gilbert: Jeff, this has happened to you then? Jeff Thompson: No. I'm with you. I've never done it, but I don't want to jinx myself, Andy Munoz: For me personally, I've always been, "No way. I'm not putting the phone in my back pocket," because I worked through the time when band gate happened, we got a lot of those calls. I put it in my back pocket and it bent well. Serena Gilbert: Or you sat on it. Andy Munoz: I see people do it and I cringe. I'm just like, "No, don't do that." Jeff Thompson: I don't do that and I don't put my wallet in my back pocket. It's just something that I have never done it and I usually don't carry anything in my back pockets. Serena Gilbert: For those of you who want to pick pocket Jeff, don't waste your time. Jeff Thompson: It's really interesting in the fashion and everything. They talk about wearables and everything and how we use their device. I don't even put my phone in my front pockets because when you pull it out, anything else can come out with it. I like having it in my shirt pocket. A lot of my shirts now have pockets in them, so I like that. Andy Munoz: I put mine in my pocket but I usually it's dedicated so nothing else actually goes in that pocket but my phone. Of course now trying to juggle two phones, that's a trick. But anyway, another story. Serena Gilbert: You can get your man bag. Andy Munoz: No, thanks. Serena Gilbert: Jeff has a man bag. Jeff Thompson: Yes I do. I actually call it like a recording bag or a man. Yeah, it's a man bag. I don't care. It's a purse. Serena Gilbert: Just embrace it. It's a purse. Jeff Thompson: It's a purse. I got it in England and I'm going back there so I get to bring it back. It's like going home. My man bag is going home. Serena Gilbert: Now that you say you put your phone in your pocket because the 10 is surprisingly heavy. Jeff Thompson: Oh, really. Serena Gilbert: It's the difference between ... Do you guys remember the four to the 4S and how the 4S just felt like a really nice expensive phone and how it was a little bit heavier. That's how the 10 is compared to when you hold an eight. Just feels BNC Jeff Thompson: I'm always scared to like put it in my front pocket, like in my shirt pocket because I just, I'm always doing something. For me, I feel like it's safer in my front pocket. Like I said, I just dedicate, that'll put nothing else in there. To each their own whatever you're comfortable with, but at least for me it's ... Serena, how do you carry your phone? Serena Gilbert: Well, I'm a girl so I have these little teeny tiny pockets in all my pants. I don't have like the two feet pockets that you guys have. It's usually in my purse. Andy Munoz: They should come up with something and they should come up with something. It's- Serena Gilbert: Well, they have like the belt clips and stuff like that but they're not convenient. Andy Munoz: I hate anything attached. When iPhones were really brand new, had that leather thing, you put it on your belt, so I went and got one. I thought that was really cool until you go through a doorway and it takes it right off and just kaboom. It's like- Jeff Thompson: For whatever reason my hip always catches a corner. Give you an example. My son busted a screen on his iPhone 7, ended up going and didn't have the Apple Care, which I told him to buy, didn't do it anyway. Ended up having to pay like 180 bucks to get its screen fixed, Serena Gilbert: Which is about how much Apple Care costs because it's usually like 200? Jeff Thompson: it is for the 10 or for the X, whatever we want to call it. For the older models it's roughly 100 was 129 after taxes, something like that wasn't too bad. I mean, for what you got for it, you get the two accidental damage claims and then of course then you get the screen replacement or repair at a lesser cost. I mean, certainly can't beat that. Andy Munoz: I brought my seven end because in the Betas they had a battery Beta where you can go in there and we'll say how much juice it's still has that's worn down to its potential. Mine was at like 82% possibility and so I brought it in there and I said, "I think I just want to get a brand new battery." They looked at it and they said, "Okay. Yeah." Because when it gets to 80, that's when they like to replace them. They said, "What we'll do, we'll just waive it, we'll just do it for you. I thought that was really cool because I had Apple Care and it was nice. Jeff Thompson: Of course, some of that store dependent from other stores might want to charge you because I've worked with folks that actually did time in different stores and so you got different feel for it. But either way I'm glad it worked out. Andy Munoz: If you're looking for a new phone and these phones that they're going to spring upon us. I heard there's going to be three of them that when you do go for your purchase plans, that's a big thing to consider. Do you want to do it through your phone company or do you want to do it on a yearly basis where you pay? I don't know, anywhere from 40 to $50 depending on tens or little higher, right Serena? Serena Gilbert: Yeah, I pay like 49. The extra cost is actually just because you're paying for Apple Care. Then I have the option to upgrade this year if I want to and trade in the old one or if I keep paying on it Then I just own the phone after the two years. Andy Munoz: It just continues on another two years, right? Serena Gilbert: Well, yeah, I'll just own it outright after the two years. Andy Munoz: That's what I did. I actually paid mine off early just for that. I was just getting tired of mine was like $36 or something because of the seven. It's a different feeling because this is the first time actually outright own my phone actually outright paid for it. It's always been on those plans. Like with Verizon a two year plan every two years you get a new phone. Serena Gilbert: I miss those plans. I miss being able to pay 199 99 or 299 99 because I've been at the same phone carrier for ever. The fact that I'm on a two year agreement doesn't bother me, I'd rather save the $800. Andy Munoz: Exactly. Exactly. Apple's got a racket, but I still got to pay my phone company. Wait a second. There's that $800 you're talking about, right? Serena Gilbert: It was when I bought my six, was the last year that they did that. You paid 199 or 299 depending on the model you got. The phone company subsidize the rest of it, so Apple was still getting all their money, but since you signed a two year agreement with let's say AT&T or Verizon, then that phone company thought it was worth it to them. Then all of a sudden, one company decided that they weren't going to do it anymore. All of the others followed suit. Andy Munoz: Lori is still on that plan. Serena Gilbert: She's lucky. If she ever needs a new phone, she's going to pay out right now. That's part of why I didn't upgrade because I used to upgrade like clockwork every other year and one year AT&T messed up my upgrades. I got to upgrade two years in a row. I was like, "Sweet." If they still had that plan where your phone was essentially subsidized, I probably would have gotten the seven and then the 10 I guess. But instead, I waited years and years to get a new one. I think a lot of people are doing that now. I think I've seen some people that still have 5Ss want to pay for the upgrades. Jeff Thompson: I think part of it ... I mean, even for me, I just finished up a lease. I'm still kind of in that limbo motive, what am I going to do? I'm actually on an extended lease, but it's like I can do one or two things. I can either pay 200 bucks now and have my phone own it outright or I can upgrade and continue paying X amount of dollars on a phone bill. It's like, "Okay, do I want to lessen my phone bill and maybe have that for a while and then kind of decide where am going to go?" Now obviously part of this is now that we have these new models coming out, once I see what those features look like, is it going to be something that's going to sell me that says, "Hey, go ahead and pull the trigger on the upgrade." Or, am I going to hold off again? Will pay that by year, but I think that's part of it. Obviously, if you can save a couple bucks on your phone bill, why not? Serena Gilbert: See? That's where those leases really almost irritate me because then when you get to the end of the lease, you're going to pay $200 for a felon that came out like three years ago. That just seems ridiculous. Jeff Thompson: The lease was 18 months, so I got it. The phone had only been out maybe two months. It wasn't a big deal. When you do the math, you're spending a little extra. It's like 32 a month, which basically came out to like 576. They're making a little bit extra money just based on the fact, you pay that extra 175 or 200 bucks, whatever it is to pay it off outright because you could actually buy that phone for I think ... What was it? 649 plus tax. They're making a little bit but not too bad. Andy Munoz: I think you know how you go about it, you're going to be paying at least anywhere from $40 to $50, 55 nowadays probably. And or you're going to be paying it straight up. There is no really wiggle room around it. It's just something that for the rest of our lives, we're going to be paying 50 bucks a month to have a phone. Serena Gilbert: As much as it costs us and it's super irritating, I can never imagine not having this device. Not because I'm spoiled and obsessed with technology, but because it is an accessibility tool now where even if you say, "Okay, this is $1,000 dollars." Well, even five years ago $1,000 would have maybe bought a portable magnifier, maybe. I remember my first KNFB reader, the portable one that was like the PTA and the digital camera attached to each other. Jeff Thompson: They give that care? Serena Gilbert: Yeah. That thing was $2,200 and that device served one purpose. As much as we like to be like, "Oh my God, it's so expensive." If you really put your perspective, given what we use it for, the accessibility factor, it's actually a bargain. Andy Munoz: They got to stop calling it a phone. I think it's more of a personal. It's more of a PDA than PDAs were. Serena Gilbert: Jeff, remember when you were trying to make a phone call to me and you ... so funny. I called Jeff and the call wouldn't go through and it kept dropping. Then he finally just ... What is it? WhatsApped me, I don't know. We finally used WhatsApp and he goes, "Well, how did you call me?" I was like, "I used the phone." Jeff Thompson: By the way. It is a phone. Andy Munoz: Oh, the thing is these devices are seriously game changers and it really didn't occur to me until two and a half years ago when I jumped into the accessibility role. I started learning how folks were using their devices and I was just completely blown away. Then obviously now that I use them on a daily basis, it's like, "Yeah, I use it for so much." Technology, it's never going to be cheating. Jeff Thompson: No. Andy Munoz: That's just the nature of the beast with it. It doesn't matter what it is, it's never going to be cheap and we just have to realize that, "Hey, we want to continue having our sense of independence and whatnot," and even for those that don't use it for the accessibility features, I mean those that use it for just everyday stuff, we've all become super dependent on technology in some form of fashion. Jeff Thompson: Well, it's access to information that you're readily on the go. You can't carry a wall calendar around with you. So many gidgets and gadgets that you would have to load up your backpack with that, you can do pretty much all of this on the phone. We're talking about putting it in pockets. I think this year I'm going to do the extra costs and have it surgically embedded so I don't have to lose it, dropped it. Serena Gilbert: Maybe sometime. Jeff Thompson: We've been talking about the phone and the plants and all that, but there's some other devices that they've been real bring up out. I heard something about it could be the 13 inch air coming out or it could be an iteration of the 13 inch MacBook. Serena Gilbert: So they're finally maybe going to refresh that? Jeff Thompson: Yeah. What has been 2014. Serena Gilbert: I don't know because I have a MacBook Air and I got it like three years ago and it said it was like from the year before. I don't know if that just means that's when it was manufactured or the last time that it was refreshed. Jeff Thompson: Probably 2014, but don't believe me. This is just speculation. I've heard a lot of people talk about the Air and some people has claimed that it's the best Mac that they've made. Serena Gilbert: Oh, it's my favorite, for sure. So fun. Jeff Thompson: Is it really? Serena Gilbert: Yeah, because it's thinner than the pros or even the regular MacBook, the one that's the 12 inches. I can fit it into my purse, believe it or not. Jeff Thompson: Oh yeah, that's really convenient and that's why I have a new iPad just because I do a lot of meetings and a lot of council stuff. It's so easy to carry that and just open it up and I got the Filo case where the keyboard is right there and I can take notes on a plane. I don't use it at home as much because I got my computer but when I'm out and about, I can just throw it in my backpack or throw it in my man purse, if I may. Serena Gilbert: I don't know why you're calling it a backpack. Jeff Thompson: Good one. Serena Gilbert: Well, we talked a little bit about the wireless charging pad too. We barely touched on that, but if they actually come out with that, which gosh, I'd probably be like a couple hundred dollars because nothing an Apple of sheet. But would that be something you would consider, especially if you updated your phone too? Jeff Thompson: If I got the phone then I would have to consider that when you pull that trigger and you go in and buy one. I don't know if you do it online or if you ordered it online and I'll send you realize you need that. You get off the phone, you went into it thinking it's going to be 899, then it's going to be $900. Then you get off the phone and you're sitting there at $1,499 because, "Okay, I wanted 256 gig, I wanted the pad, and I wanted the case and I wanted the Apple Care. So beware, buyer beware. Andy Munoz: Oh, I know personally for me, I'm one of those that I won't just buy a bare bones model. I've never felt good about like with Microsoft and stuff when they've done that where they just give you a bare bones, "Oh yeah, your machine will run just fine on this negative." I've never had good success with that. Because of that, I've always bought extra. You definitely come out of there spending more than you initially intended. Jeff Thompson: 16 gigabyte in a small phone was really impressive back in the day. Serena Gilbert: Oh, man. I did buy the entry level model of the 10 because the bare bones model was still 64 gigs, which is plenty of space for me. Andy Munoz: Well, in that case. I mean, even I did go 32 gig on my seven. That for me has been good. I mean, I still have about 18 gigs of space available. Jeff Thompson: You got very short videos. Andy Munoz: I mean, I don't take a whole ... My videos are super long. If I'm not using an app, I get rid of it. I'm always a space saver and even like my text messages. I have my text messages set to delete after 30 days. 32 was fine on that, but I was more or less talking from the computer side of things. I mean, they'll do all right, but eventually they're going to slow down the more you start using them and things like that. Let's face it, most folks don't do the maintenance that they're supposed to, so you're going to end up putting stuff on there that you didn't want. It's just going to slow it down. For me personally, it says minimum requirement for gigs. I'm going at least go six or eight as far as RAM is concerned. If I can get a faster processor in it, I'm going faster processor. Jeff Thompson: I think that's what people are looking at today. I heard someone that had 64 gigabyte RAM. I was thinking to myself, "Wow." Serena Gilbert: That was a new MacBook that just came out. The one that was like, will we price it out at like $6,000 or something? Jeff Thompson: Yeah. Yeah. You can build that sucker up to ... Oh, can I say sucker? You can build those things up very high and it's just fun. Once you get into that page, you start clicking on this stuff and the surface book two. I went in and checked it out and I started clicking on the 13 inch and bang I was up to $3,000 and that was for a 16 gigabyte I7 processor and a terabyte $3,000 Boom. Serena Gilbert: For a windows computer. Jeff Thompson: That's one thing that I'm really concerned about and we're talking about Apple stuff here, but Apple products, they say they're expensive. You saw the price tags on some of those things that we're just talking about. But even the surface pros, the surface stuff that's coming out, it's not cheap, Serena Gilbert: I get that the Apple computers are expensive, but I have a PC downstairs in our office and I have my MacBook Air The PC gives me way more trouble. My MacBook has never had one thing ever wrong with it. It's never slowed down. It still works like it's brand new and I've had it for like five years almost. Jeff Thompson: You want to know what the biggest seller for me was when it comes to Mac and PC? The fact that Mac has far superior accessibility built into it because obviously you have voiceover. Of course, that's nice because if you have a track pad, you can use some of the same voiceover gestures that you use with your iPhone or your iPad. Then of course, it has screen magnification. You have the ability to do dictation. You have all of these things already prebuilt in. The counterpart, Microsoft, has some of those things. They're just not to the same quality at least in my opinion, but then of course then if you don't use those then you're having to go out and you're having to spend ... What is it? $1,400 or something for jaws or $500 for zoom text. If you use a screen magnification and then of course whatever it is for fusion, if you decide to go with both. Andy Munoz: Well, you can get those third party stuff, but the thing that sold me on the Apple is when my PC fried. This is back when seven was coming out in the windows jaws and all that stuff. Jeff Thompson: It was seven. It was right after XP second edition. But anyways, when it fried I decided to go Mac and I really liked the part that they make the equipment. They make the software, it's one house, one company making everything. It just works fit for so many years. Today, I don't know if they use that as much, it just works, but I do like that. It's neat to see that Microsoft is coming out with their own surface line of computers and it just like ... I had to cock my head to turn and look. I had to give them some attention because that was interesting. When I priced it out, they're no cheaper than an Apple product. Serena Gilbert: There's some other rumors of what might come out as well. Do either one of you have an Apple Watch? Jeff Thompson: Yes, I do. I have the two. Serena Gilbert: I believe mine is a two as well. Do you have one, Andy? Andy Munoz: I do not. I've toyed with the idea. I was wanting the three, but- Jeff Thompson: Serena, he doesn't have a watch and you brought them on the show? Serena Gilbert: Hey. Andy Munoz: She- Serena Gilbert: Who did the screening? Andy Munoz: She noticed I really do want the watch. I'm actually curious as to the new series four that's coming out because what I was reading on that, especially as it's supposed to give more screen surface- Serena Gilbert: I was going to say you might really Andy Munoz: ... small bezels yeah. Serena Gilbert: The way that they displayed it, I think it had next year, like three complications on it, which normally there's four I believe. Maybe it was next year four, but either way there was one- Andy Munoz: I think next four because the analog face said it could hold up to eight complications. Serena Gilbert: That's double. Jeff Thompson: Complicated. Serena Gilbert: Somebody said that on the picture that got leaked of the series four not that this is a useful feature, but whatever. Because we don't live in places like this. It's called the UV Index. It could read if it was safe to go out in the sun. Andy Munoz: Oh, really? Serena Gilbert: Yeah. There's that trademark. Andy Munoz: It makes you wonder this stuff that it's capable of doing. Serena Gilbert: I wonder because I haven't seen the series three, so I don't know. Is it thinner than the two do we know or is this the same form factor? Andy Munoz: I believe it's the same. They didn't change the size. There's 42 and 38. Serena Gilbert: I'd like to see it get a little bit thinner, honestly. Andy Munoz: I have to agree with that. I remember bulky watches especially on a girl's wrist. I see the problem right there, bang. It's like, "Hello." I was really wondering because the 38 is not really a compromise. There's still both big. Serena, you want a thinner? Serena Gilbert: Yeah. I want the actual form factor to be a little bit thinner to make it just look a little sleeker. Andy Munoz: Any of you ever done archery or something? They use those wrist pads that cover so the string doesn't. I wonder if there's ever going to switch to the phone or to the watch, be more oblong. Give you more surface. Why can't you have a come up here? It's a little bit further. Serena Gilbert: I'm sure that they've done some weird Apple study and found that people would just turn like that. You know how Apple is? Andy Munoz: That's so 2024. Serena Gilbert: We are already in 2052. Jeff Thompson: We're just not there yet. But I'm really excited. I've heard rumors about the Mac Mini getting a refresh, but these are just people. They got to put so much ink on the paper, so we don't know what's really coming out. I've heard the Mac Mini. I've also heard Apple TV that they're going to do something. If you get on Google long enough you'll find everything. Serena Gilbert: What they haven't ... Or at least, I haven't read anything about any sort of rumor about. I know they're not going to refresh this, but I have a HomePod and I know that I have to refresh the actual form factor or anything. But there has been absolutely no talk about what IOS 12 will bring to the HomePod at all. Andy Munoz: Didn't you just get your AirPlay 2? Serena Gilbert: Yeah, but that's weird. I don't have two HomePods. I don't really care. It is nice that from my phone I can tell it to play on the HomePod that's kind of convenient. But as far as actual features and Siri actually being smart on the HomePod, it's super disappointing. Andy Munoz: You can tell your phone to play music while Siri is built into the HomePod and you could just tell Siri. Serena Gilbert: If you're upstairs doing laundry or picking up your phone from the floor. Andy Munoz: Is that where you kept all the time doing laundry? Your phone breaks same day, you're playing music from the laundry? Serena Gilbert: That's usually where I listened to the Blind Abilities Podcasts. Andy Munoz: Serena- Jeff Thompson: Then you got to hope Siri understands what you're saying? Andy Munoz: Yeah. That's always- Serena Gilbert: I just don't understand why Siri is so lacking. They need to show her some love this year. Andy Munoz: They have. They've been trying to create shortcuts. If you look into the Betas or on your phone right now ... I believe if you're running the Beta, which I am, you can see the shortcuts and it's just redundant to things that you've already done. Serena Gilbert: I am looking forward to the series shortcuts being able to be more integrated with third party apps. It would be really nice for me to be able to tell Siri to play a specific station on Pandora. That is something that I don't understand never could do that in the first place, but it will be nice for those things to be able to open up a little bit. But I also feel like this is almost like a lazy way the Apple took of making Siri smarter by just opening it up a little bit differently to third party developers and then being make it do all these things that it should have already been able to do. Jeff Thompson: It's a workflow. Serena Gilbert: Which is what they purchased a couple of years ago. Jeff Thompson: I mean, I've gone into the workflow and I sat there for a little bit and it's like, "Okay." After about 15 minutes, I just closed it up and go, Andy Munoz: I don't know. To me there's just no excuse. I mean, when you've got a counterpart in Alexa who's fairly useful, at least from the things that I've done and heard from other folks, you would think that that would be something that Apple would bump up. Serena Gilbert: Especially since they were the first ones to even have the digital assistant. That's what makes it even more ... And I get when you're the first, somebody always makes it better, but I feel like they always say every year when they release the new IOS, Siri can do all these other things. Every time that they say all the things that Siri can do now I find myself thinking, "Oh my gosh, you already could do that. So okay, awesome." I have no faith in it now. I'm like, "Yeah." Jeff Thompson: Well, it was something that I've always thought about. It's like okay, you come out with a new phone every year or you come out with maybe a new model iPad, you're adding Siri to the Mac. But at some point, these products just become products. You've got to do something else that makes them stand out even more so than your competition. You give that an upgrade and you make it comparable to an Alexa. It's definitely going to make it a bigger seller. You're already one of the largest companies in the world as it is, but still as in anything, there's always room for improvement and I think even in the accessibility side of it, I mean, granted it's great. I'm not going to knock it, but really there are still some things I think even with some dictation on the Mac side of things, make it somewhat similar to dragon where you can create a voice file because it definitely has some nice things built in. Jeff Thompson: I mean, you can certainly do some text editing and do some different things like that, but there's certain things that it still can't do. If you start focusing on those areas, you're just going to enhance your product that much more. Andy Munoz: Well, with all of the voiceover stuff that we have, we got it on the watch. We have three heads Siri on the watch. We have all these ... It can tell your heartbeat, it can tell you, "Jeff breath, Jeff stand," and all that stuff. I want it to get to the point where I pick up a piece of fried chicken, it says, "Jeff, hey dude, dude, dude let's talk. Let's talk." I want that type of interaction where ... I'm serious. I mean, I want something that's smart. They're talking about artificial intelligence. To me, it's just database driven information. You go to the Amazon devices and stuff and they got 10,000 different skills that you can do. Give me 20,000, I'll use it just as less. Their stuff is games. Andy Munoz: There's other things, informational stuff, but I want the thing to actually be smart. Not just a resource, a dictionary or encyclopedia or a Google search, I want it to be intuitive, smart. I see the shortcuts, it sees that it's remembering things that I've done. I wonder if that's going to build a database so it will be able to predict my tendencies, but, "Hey, let's talk Siri. Let's talk." Serena Gilbert: I just want something incredibly simple that they released in IOS 11 with voiceover. I just want it to actually recognize pictures. We've got this great feature that you released last year and I find it completely useless, honestly. I find it easier to take a screenshot and send it through Seeing AI than to even attempt even just the simple gesture because it's just so unreliable in my opinion. Andy Munoz: Well, that new feature in Seeing AI where it will actually label the pictures? Serena Gilbert: Yes. That is ingenious. Why couldn't Apple have built that in? Andy Munoz: That's amazing because you can't even go into your camera or your photos and you can actually label the photo. But as soon as you take the next pitcher and it moves. So I don't even know if it can do that. But it was a silly thing because I spent about two hours, one time labeling like 30 pictures and also I took a picture and it all shifted and it all went away. Serena Gilbert: You can still label them and that shifting must have gone away because I labeled a ton when I first got my new iPhone and I was like, "I'm going to label every picture that I take," because I was naive and so I started labeling them as I took them and they did keep the labels, but it's just so tedious. It's easier ... Even what I want to share a picture now I just go into Seeing AI because they do have that share button in there where you can push it out to whatever you want when you know for sure that's really the picture that I wanted to just send out. Jeff Thompson: It's coming a long ways and I think what they're announcing I'm going to be riveted to this. I'll be in England at the time, so it'll be 6:00 PM for me and Central Time I believe it's 12 because it comes on it what time? Ten o'clock in California? Andy Munoz: 10:00 Pacific. Jeff Thompson: 11:00 Time Mountain we got to get Colorado in there and- Serena Gilbert: [inaudible]. Jeff Thompson: I don't want to lack this- Serena Gilbert: At 2,000 podcasts here, Jeff. Jeff Thompson: I know. Hey, I'm looking up to you guys, my Ohio, right? Serena Gilbert: Goodness. All of the jokes. Jeff Thompson: I just think they put on a great show. I mean, they come out and it's the same old, same old. Now we're going to call out and the guy comes out or the girls over there and she's flicking on the phone and doing all this stuff. It's exciting. What do you guys predict is going to be the thing that we're overlooking? Do you think there's going to be a surprise? Serena Gilbert: You mean the ... But wait, there's more moment like there always is. Every year. Jeff Thompson: Drum roll. Serena Gilbert: I think that ... But wait, there's more. It's going to be the refreshed I see. Jeff Thompson: Really? Serena Gilbert: Because people still like the smaller form factors and there's still a niche for that. Andy Munoz: Well- Jeff Thompson: 6.1 is not the small form factor? Serena Gilbert: No, a lot of people don't like that, Andy Munoz: In speaking with a lot of ... Obviously being in that support role for the last several years, I've found that a lot of our blind and visually impaired customers did like that smaller phone. I personally, I could go either way. I'm not so much a big fan of the plus just because it just doesn't feel right in my hand even using an iPad. If I'm going to use it, it's got to either be on a flat surface or it's got to have a case that's got a stand where I can use a keyboard and navigate it that way because for me it just feels awkward. I guess it's all in who you are and what you feel comfortable with. Andy Munoz: But I've found that a lot of folks that have the SE or have a 5S and would like to get an SE but just didn't want to get the current one because again, as we all know, their lifespan is only so long and they'll only take so many updates. That was a question I got all the time is, do you know if they're going to make a new SE? I was like, "Well, you just never can tell." I mean, if Apple holds true to form at some point, yeah. I thought it was going to be this last year and it wasn't. We'll have to wait and see what turns up. Jeff Thompson: I'm excited for the SE for people if it does come up because I understand the real SE and you're right about the iPad. I don't like using it just as an iPad, I use it as a keyboard input type of device in meetings. It's portability, everything like that. There's a reason to have certain pieces of equipment. I'm just excited to ... I keep saying the plus but is it the 10S? I said you guys's style, the XS. Isn't that going to be as big as a plus though. Serena Gilbert: What they're saying is that the ... because you know how they just call the iPad, the iPod now. They don't call it ... Because I do know that they have the iPad Pro but they have two sizes of the iPad Pro, but they don't call them something different. They're saying they're just going to bring the whole iPhone 10 under one name and then you're just either getting the 10S 5.1 inch or whatever it is or the 10S inch. I forget what the measurements are. That's the- Jeff Thompson: XS, 6.5. Serena Gilbert: Then the first one is what the original form factor is and then there's going to be one that I guess will have the same screen real SE as the pluses currently have, but it will actually be a smaller form factor because of the Bezel being gone. Jeff Thompson: That makes sense. We're all going to be surprised maybe what's coming out and if you're in line for a certain product, hopefully, this is your time to pull the trigger. I know I always get tempted, but lately you said, Andy, when the eight came out and I'm sitting there on a seven, there was no reason to make any big changes, so the thing that I will be moving into is probably something that I'll be charging on a flat surface, hopefully, if that ever comes out. Serena Gilbert: Jeff, if you get the 10, I can send you Me-mojis. Jeff Thompson: Oh, that's right. Awesome. Serena Gilbert: I haven't seen it that's accessible yet. Andy Munoz: But isn't that the one where you can take the different emojis like an animal or something and you can actually do the recording? Serena Gilbert: That's like the Animoji but then IOS 12 you can actually make a Memoji. Andy Munoz: Oh, okay. Serena Gilbert: This is a very important feature you guys, seriously. It can tell if you stick your tongue out or if you wink. Andy Munoz: Oh, wow. Serena Gilbert: It's very important because you want to be as expressive as possible, right? Jeff Thompson: Of course, yeah. I mean, hey. It's all about being expressive. Serena Gilbert: This is why you should upgrade to the 10, but you're completely forgetting about a piece though too, is if you're not impressed with the 10S or whatever they're going to call it, you can always just get the 10 and save a little bit of money but have a really solid phone. Andy Munoz: I think they should call it the XSF. That way, it would be totally excessive. Serena Gilbert: Oh. Jeff Thompson: I always like when you do that because it saves me a sound effect. Andy Munoz: One last thing, I can't remember where I saw this. I almost want to say that I saw something that even the iPads are going to soon be ... the home buttons are going to soon be gone. Serena Gilbert: I totally forgot about that. I have read that too. They traditionally have an event in October. Usually, they refresh the Mac Books and stuff in October. But they already did that, so I bet it'd be refreshing some brand new iPad. Jeff Thompson: I heard that the new phone is not going to be equipped for the pencil either. Serena Gilbert: Does anybody use the pencil? Andy Munoz: With me, no. I mean- Serena Gilbert: I mean, I know that in certain education environments and things like that and obviously maybe graphic design and stuff like that. But I wonder if the everyday person uses that. What is it a $200 add on? Jeff Thompson: It's $100 add on, isn't it? I have no use for it. It's just one of those things that are out there just like the color of the new phones. Serena Gilbert: Oh my goodness, you guys. I have one final question for you guys and we'll check back to see how, if we're right or not. How many times do you think that Tim Cook or ... What was the other guy's name? Phil, whatever his name is [crosstalk 00:47:07] all the Apple nerds, how many times do you think they're going to say, "No, isn't that fantastic?" What is the word they like the most and- Jeff Thompson: If you can actually count that and be accurate ... I know I'm not going to try it but if you could come up with that number, I'd be impressed. Serena Gilbert: If one of our listeners can count how many times they say, "Fantastic," or, "Innovative," Blind Abilities' T-shirt. Jeff Thompson: There you go. There you go. We got to come up with a number. Serena Gilbert: I mean, if you played a drinking game to that, you would just be absolutely on the floor. Jeff Thompson: How is your Gatorade by the way? Serena Gilbert: It's all gone. Jeff Thompson: We guess it was a Gatorade? Serena Gilbert: It was definitely Gatorade. Jeff Thompson: Well, I'll be watching from England. I'll be tuning into it 6:00 PM in England. Andy Munoz: By the way, I was off on my price of the Apple Pencil. It's 99 bucks. Jeff Thompson: Jeff, you were right. Andy Munoz: Jeff is on the money with it. Serena Gilbert: Add that to your two times that you can write. Jeff Thompson: Well, three times is right is the left, isn't it? Serena Gilbert: I confused. You just made my head hurt. Well, I've enjoyed chatting with you guys and I can't wait for us to do a recap of this special event next week. We will somehow catch Jeff in the middle of the night, I hope so. We shall figure out the logistics, but we will definitely be back to recap everything that you hear from the special [inaudible] and thanks for listening to you the brand new Access Abilities Podcast on the Blind Abilities Network. We look forward to hearing from you and we will talk to you next time. [Music] [Transition noise] -When we share -What we see -Through each other's eyes... [Multiple voices overlapping, in unison, to form a single sentence] ...We can then begin to bridge the gap between the limited expectations, and the realities of Blind Abilities. Jeff Thompson: For more podcasts with the blindness perspective, check us out on the web at www.blindabilities.com, on Twitter at Blind Abilities. Download our app from the App Store, Blind Abilities. That's two words. Or send us an email at info@blindabilities.com. Thanks for listening.
When you Fast The discipline of fasting should be held in the same regard as the disciplines of giving and prayer. Why the Vacuum 1. Past Custom on Jesus Day 2. Shhh! It's supposed to be a secret 3. It hurts (my flesh) Why Fast - Simple 3 rule 1. Did Jesus Fast? Yes for 40 days and nights Matthew 4:1-2 2. Did Jesus teach fasting? Yes Luke 5:35 3. Did Jesus' followers fast? Yes Acts 13:2-3 Fastings is NOT 1. to be impressive - not attention seeking 2. To be Coercive - not strong arming God Matt 7:11 3. To be Self improvement - it's not a diet 4. To be a burden Matt 11:29 5. To be reserved - everyday discipline for all Some Advice 1. Seek God's Guidance - Let God call you to fast - pray and listen 2. Research/Study it 3. Try it Practical Steps 1. Plan - be serious - start time to end time, Pray read Bible 2. Purpose - what do you want to accomplish - visit people - prayer 3. Progress patiently - source of worship to God 4. Place your trust in God - He will be faithful to you. Father will reward you.
In this episode you will find out why you should work hard, what it means to work hard, and how it can help you!Some Tips and Some Advice!
In this episode you will find out why you should work hard, what it means to work hard, and how it can help you!Some Tips and Some Advice!
Watch the video of this podcast here. Kim’s Business Transitions Kim started her own business in 2008 and it has evolved so much over years. She started out thinking that she would be a millionaire from being an Information Marketer but that didn’t work out. That’s when she discovered WordPress and got sidetracked. She named her company “WordPress Chick” which she says was a ballsy name to claim but she stuck with it and figured it out as she went along! At first, she was bartering for websites and got a couple of people to help her and one thing led to another and it wasn’t long until she had built up an agency and an outsourcing company. She started podcasting and realised she was much more of a content creator and connector. She loved being able to connect with people and use her voice. She says “I’d rather be the star than the producer” She was having fun and saw the validation that she was getting just from using her voice and being herself. Kim explains that it got to a point where she was tired of building everyone else’s businesses and so now she has now made the scary leap of faith to wrap up all service work with the WordPress Chick and go all in with a web app with her business partner - Gordon Orlick (Spelling? Cant find anything on him on the internet) I talk to Kim about starting out and how you never know where you’re going to end up. Kim says she has reinvented herself so many times. She gets inspiration from motivational speakers everywhere she goes and is passionate about audio. “I always have stuff in my ears” and she says she loves it because it is the easiest type of content to listen to and it can be anywhere you go. So podcasting is something she will definitely keep going with, but now it is to build her own business. Kim's App Kim talks about how she got her inspiration for her app. She was about to buy a product online and as she was filling in the data about herself, she realised how much this person would then know about her and it was all very valuable data. This got her thinking… creating quizzes is hard work. It has to be engaging, draw in right audience and yet be valuable data that you are collecting. She asked her partner Gordon to hop on board and they hired a developer. They are creating an app called “Lead Surveys” to help people gain valuable data and leads for their business. She is nurturing the culture of “Lead Surveys” and making the voice be fun and playful. She also says that she is taking her audience on the journey with them into development. Kim’s Advice on Changing the Direction of Your Business Find a Partner That You Connect With. She says that Gordon and her connect, so they work well together. He knows the technical side and she knows the marketing. Build Your Audience First. Before Kim transitioned, she already had an audience and relationships with this audience who trust her. She says that nothing compares to the relationships that you build when it comes to marketing. Become a Student of Marketing. Kim observed people who were getting right and learned from what they were doing. Build a Solid Foundation. Paid ads don’t do anything unless you have a solid foundation for your business.Focus on the fundamentals and get them set up right. Document and share the journey and show up as yourself. Love this! Be authentic - People will feel it! Course Correct. If you haven’t got the right formula, change it and move on! Put Useful Content Out There. Make value deposits. By doing this, she was able to build trust with her audience that she knows what she is doing. Once you have the audience you can monetize this. “You have to give without expectations.” Don’t worry about being judged. Just be a decent human being and show up genuinely! When you are vulnerable, people will like you. This is more important than the technical stuff. Running a Business and Dealing With Personal Tragedy I also talk to Kim about what happens when you experience an unexpected crises in your life and how this impacts your career. Kim lost her husband 14 years ago when he was in a car accident. At the time she was working in retail management whilst raising her two children who were ages six and two. She talks openly about her grief and how it was surreal for such a long time. She kept working full time despite being in shock for a good year. She then became quite angry and she didn’t know how she wanted her life to be. So she took a leave of absence and found a grief counsellor to work through it. This started her on her journey to reinventing herself as well as her career. She eventually got herself fired from her retail job and tried different things but got to a point where she knew she “couldn’t keep doing things the same and expecting a different result.” She wanted to move gently through her life and be in the moment. She had listened to so many motivational speakers for years but it took her a long time to put all the things she knew about how to live a peaceful life into practice. Everyone is going through a challenge of their own so being vulnerable with our stories also helps us connect to people. Recently Kim wrote a blog post about her husband’s death and her journey since then. She said that this is one of her most shared blog posts and within an hour she had received 30 emails. All because this was a connection piece. But she also says to baby step your way into the sharing. Some Advice on Dealing with Grief and Work Prepare financially so that you have peace of mind, such as life insurance. You never want to be ready for devastation and you can’t prepare for it emotionally. But she says you must always put yourself first. There are times when you’re thinking “I’ve just got to survive”. In those times, just let go of your business - it isn’t the priority. You have to take care of yourself. So focus on that personal foundation spiritually and physically. Make sure you have proper support around you and a network of friends and family. Kim’s therapist asked her to meditate for five minutes a day for 30 days. After one week she noticed the difference. Her weekend was relaxed and she was able to come back to Monday knowing she can deal with it. Very good tip! Especially for those who think that they don’t have enough time for anything! Prioritise a little bit of time to make sure you are filling up your cup. Take baby steps with this too and find what works for you. As for me, I find it hard to meditate so I listen to the “Slo-mo” podcast. ?? (gin- cant find a link for this). Try it if meditation isn’t your cup of tea! So there you have it. Kim is awesome right? There was so much more in this podcast, so listen in and let us know what you think. Have you been through crises whilst trying to run your business? How did you get through? We would love to hear your comments below.
HJRP1815 Your hosts: Stu, JiB, Kimi, Stork Show Notes: Desiree in South Carolina needs help with a very argumentative player. Dave from South Chicago writes in Regarding Romance in Games and Some Advice for a Teen GM. JimTo sends us some feedback .. and shit. Zoomfarg wants to know how to adult. Lee sends us a horror story, entitled “The Prisoner Dilemma.” Drayle88 writes in with a horror story -- or is it a success story?
Today on Sacred Sunday, Bible Study with Char... You Little Thief So just when will all this end of the world stuff be going down? We'd like to mark our calendars…and try to finish up the movies in our Netflix queue. Sorry, everyone. Paul's not telling. The only clue he does give is the say that this big day will come "like a thief in the night." In other words, you probably won't be expecting it. When everyone around you starts saying, Hey, things are pretty going good, right? That's when all heck will break loose. Of course, since Christians are always watching the return of the king (that is, Jesus) they're not gonna be fast asleep when that thief breaks open their window and tries to creep into their bedroom. They'll be sitting in the corner with their trusty baseball bat ready to give him a good whack…Nope. When that day comes, Christians are gonna be wide awake and dressed in faith, hope, and love. Paul believes that God has destined all of them for salvation. Other folks, not so much. Some Advice for the Road Paul tells the Thessalonians that they need to remember all this when they're feeling down or they've got a case of the Mondays. He also gives them some practical advice. Be respectful to the leaders in the community. Don't fight with each other. Do point out when other Christians are doing the wrong thing. But don't "repay evil for evil." Be happy. Pray. Be thankful. Listen to the prophets among them who are filled with the Holy Sprit. In short, be excellent to each other. Paul ends the letter with a little prayer for his friends in Thessalonica. He hopes that God will make them holy and awesome and that they'll be in good shape when Jesus comes again. He also asks them to pray for him (and presumably Silvanus and Timothy, too). Grace and peace and the Force be with you. www.smoop.com
Episode 72 - "How To Teach in Japan"[Right click and "Save As" to download file directly]Show Notes:1. JET2. ALT at a dispatch company3. Eikaiwa4. What to bring5. Some Advice about teaching in Japan.
THE POX and PUSS PODCAST : An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker Experience
Trail Names: Misleading, Bad, & Some Advice. Snakes on a Trail! Naming your gear, driving post-snow, plus some other stuff.