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Guest: Larry Thomas, actor known for playing the “Soup Nazi” in Seinfeld

Guest: Larry Thomas, actor known for playing the “Soup Nazi” in Seinfeld.

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This Morning, TV writer behind the iconic Seinfeld episode, "Soup Nazi," Spike Feresten joins us, and lots of mistakes made in the Niagara Falls Police Blotter this week! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and X. Listen to past episodes on 97Rock. Follow the Show on Apple, Spotify or Amazon MusicSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12/20/24 - Hour 3 Colorado head coach Deion Sanders tells Rich that's NFL teams who don't plan to play Travis Hunter on both offense AND defense shouldn't draft the Heisman Trophy winner, how he responds to speculation that he and son Shedeur Sanders could be a package deal for some NFL team, his advice for Bill Belichick as he embarks on his college coaching career at North Carolina, and more. Writer/comedian Spike Feresten joins Rich in-studio to discuss his ‘Spike's Car Radio' YouTube show, reveals what he said to Jerry Seinfeld the first time they met that he worried would end his career, tells the origin stories behind some of the classic ‘Seinfeld' episodes he wrote including  ‘The Soup Nazi,' Elaine's dancing, muffin tops only, and the ‘Junk Mail' episode featuring Wilford Brimley as the Postmaster General. Rich ranks to the top 5 NFL and CFP games this weekend. Please check out other RES productions: Overreaction Monday: http://apple.co/overreactionmonday  What the Football with Suzy Shuster and Amy Trask: http://apple.co/whatthefootball The Jim Jackson Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jim-jackson-show/id1770609432 No-Contest Wrestling with O'Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-contest-wrestling/id1771450708 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remember that episode of Seinfeld with the Soup Nazi? That character was based on a real guy! Al Yeganeh operated a soup restaurant frequented by one of the Seinfeld writers, and had the strange experience of becoming a template for a cultural icon. This is the first 8 minutes of the weekly dive into the history of culture & psychology. If you would like to hear these weekly full episodes please consider becoming a supporter of the program at www.patreon.com/brokenbrain 

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Cybersecurity company Kaspersky has a list of the most notorious hackers of all time. We look at three of the entries, from the loose confederation of hackers called Anonymous to a hacker responsible for stealing millions of credit and debit card numbers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Dipsy Chips! Hello from the MRI. Lastname is Placebo. The Soup Nazi had more people! Feet Flavored with Brian Dunaway. Sweaty for the first song. There are more Brads. Greek Town Gyro. I'd have won if it weren't for that pesky Weiner! Not everyone is a Kelly Clarkson. Even Kelly Clarkson. The Best & Worst of the JK's. Harry Potter and the Swollen Surgeon. The Heimrich Manoeuver. The Great McDonalds dumpster fire. How hot are your cheeks, with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Dipsy Chips! Hello from the MRI. Lastname is Placebo. The Soup Nazi had more people! Feet Flavored with Brian Dunaway. Sweaty for the first song. There are more Brads. Greek Town Gyro. I'd have won if it weren't for that pesky Weiner! Not everyone is a Kelly Clarkson. Even Kelly Clarkson. The Best & Worst of the JK's. Harry Potter and the Swollen Surgeon. The Heimrich Manoeuver. The Great McDonalds dumpster fire. How hot are your cheeks, with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on The Forbes Factor Podcast, Forbes Riley welcomes two dynamic guests who are shaping their respective industries with innovation and expertise. Join us as we dive into the worlds of entertainment and entrepreneurship with Dora Whitaker and Mariano Padilla. Dora Whitaker brings over two decades of experience in the entertainment industry as a talent manager, agent, casting director, producer, and CEO of Whitaker Entertainment. She has been a pivotal force in the careers of actors and writers, with clients starring in major productions like The Book of Mormon on Broadway and The Outpost on CW. Dora will share her insights on spotting talent, negotiating major deals across major networks and studios, and her unique approach to keeping her clients in the spotlight, such as her innovative marketing strategies including the creation of a soup line for Seinfeld's Soup Nazi. Meanwhile, Mariano Padilla, a former college athlete turned entrepreneur and day trader, will discuss his journey from sports to social media-driven direct sales and eventually to day trading. Mariano's story is one of resilience and adaptability, showcasing how he leveraged his athletic discipline into building a successful business and now impacts lives through public speaking and coaching, helping others navigate the challenges of a volatile economy. Together, these two guests provide a fascinating look at success through different lenses—entertainment and financial markets. Tune in as Forbes explores how passion, perseverance, and a knack for innovation can pave the way for remarkable careers and influence.

Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTubeLandry Ayres: Welcome to Zooming In at The UnPopulist. I'm Landry Ayres.As the 2024 election draws nearer and Donald Trump's second-term plans come into greater focus, critics of his, across the ideological spectrum, are torn as to whether Trump's movement is continuous with historical fascism. Does the dreaded “f”-word apply to him? Or is it an unhelpful exaggeration?On today's episode, The UnPopulist senior editor Berny Belvedere reconnects with his former Arc Digital colleague and international relations professor at the University of Illinois, Nicholas Grossman. The two discuss the propriety of using historically-weighty labels in our public discourse today, where to situate Trump within the not-so-grand tradition of authoritarianism, and break down how the Heritage Foundation-powered Project 2025 would fuel further democratic backsliding. We hope you enjoy.A transcript of today's podcast appears below. It has been edited for flow and clarity.Berny Belvedere: Nick, do you believe terms like “fascism,” “Nazism,” “communism” are overused today? If so, why do you think they are?Nicholas Grossman: So, in a way they're overused and also not. “Nazi” came to be a word that just meant bad, the thing that we all agree on is bad, and can be used in very serious contexts and comedic contexts—like the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld, and all the running jokes and memes of Godwin's law and “everything I don't like on the internet is Hitler” and anything else along those lines. So people do overuse it. But also, with “Nazi” in particular, it can reach a level where people then think that any lesson from Nazi Germany or any lesson from the 20th century more broadly is ipso facto wrong, that there's something inherently wrong about comparing the right-wing nationalist-populist movement that won an election and then lost power and then attempted a putsch and then reconsolidated and ran for power again, to America's right-wing nationalist-populist movement that won an election and then lost power by election and then attempted a putsch and then sought power again. That seems pretty ridiculous that you couldn't connect any of those.As for “fascism,” with thinking of it as this thing nearly everybody agrees was wrong that happened in the 20th century, when people try to apply it more loosely to things that are, say, authoritarian but not necessarily fascist … that could reduce the power of the word. But I think at this point, people using the word like Joe Biden used “semi-fascism,” to describe Trump's authoritarian project … I don't think is unreasonable.Berny: So when Biden used “semi-fascism,” how is it that that qualifier, “semi,” managed to successfully avoid the trap of requiring a perfect historical parallel while at the same time bringing in a term that has enough connotative heft to meet the gravity of Trump and MAGA's offenses? How is it that a word as simple as “semi” is able to successfully get us out of this jam?Nicholas: You know, that's a really good point. I hadn't quite thought about it that way, but it does look like the “semi” modifier has threaded that needle where it's a way of indicating, “Okay, I'm not saying this is literally Hitler and that we are headed for World War III and another Holocaust.” I mean, to pick a kind of obvious example: When Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, there is explicit calls for genocide. In Trump's largely ghostwritten books, you don't see anything like the final solution for the Jews. That runs into the problem of, “No, you're being hyperbolic.” So “semi” makes it where, “I'm not saying it's exactly that. I'm saying it bears enough resemblance to that that we should think of it as serious and bad.” And given that I and many others do think of it as serious and bad, and in particular as anti-democratic and authoritarian, the “semi” adds a way to use a word that connects with a lot of people without running into those, “So you're saying this is literally Hitler” counterarguments.Berny: As an international relations professor who has taught classes on terrorism, you've argued convincingly that misapplications of that word, “terrorism,” can have real consequences and that therefore applying the word well, in a more narrowly defined way, is really important. Is the issue with misapplications of the word “Nazi” or “fascism” on that same level, or not really?Nicholas: You're right that I'm a stickler on the word “terrorism,” that it's something that I teach and have taught for a while, and I take issue with a common usage of it to be basically a synonym of “bad,” a synonym of “thing I don't like.” If you Google “Republican terrorists” or “Democratic terrorists,” you get millions of hits. I think it is important for us to be able to really understand that “terrorism” refers specifically to violent political actions targeted against non-combatants by non-state actors. It's important for conceptual clarity, but in particular for developing counter-strategies and executing them well.I tend not to use “fascism” as well. I stick more to something like “authoritarianism” because the usefulness about it is: Trump's project is clearly authoritarian and there's no ambiguity about it. He's calling for the termination of the Constitution, saying, “I'll be a dictator”—he's quite open about it. You could have judged it from actions, but also now from statements. Whereas with something like the word “fascism,” that leads to debates that are potentially distracting. So I think it's a mistake to really fixate on the word, to be very insistent upon it.My concern with the word “terrorism” is not throwing it around so often and so loosely that it loses its power. And I feel that way about “fascism” as well—as a word that we shouldn't throw around loosely. I'll give you a recent example of this. When some people were reacting to police shutting down various campus protests, some cases seemed, to me and to many others, like an excessive use of force, just the sheer number of manpower and police presence that was being used. I saw comments along the lines of, “Why would you be concerned about fascism? Fascism is clearly already here.” And, no, that's really not it. So, the police arrested a bunch of people and, if any of them are charged with a crime, they'll have a chance to defend themselves in court. And that maybe is bad—certainly somebody can criticize it—but it's also not fascism. There's a danger of a “boy who cried wolf” effect where, if you're constantly calling anything you don't like this maximal bad word, then when something that is actually like that thing comes around, people are less inclined to believe you.Then again, the lesson of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is not that wolves aren't real and you don't need to worry about them.Berny: We're going to focus on more than just the term “fascism” here in this discussion, but I want to stay on the term for just a sec because it is a prominent issue in our discourse that keeps popping up.So, we humans tend to be incorrigibly committed to clarifying our world by describing it, by capturing it linguistically. But there's an inherent limitation to doing that that seems to always rear its head. Calling something a “Nazi” or “neo-Nazi” initiative helps to situate it within a particular historical movement. But the downside to that is historical episodes, by their very nature, are in the minds of many people tethered to particular circumstances, the ones that they temporally existed in. So history gives us these movements that have a fixed shape. And that can somewhat frustrate new applications of those labels.The part that a lot of people are underestimating is just how incredibly powerful institutional authority is. This idea of, it's norms all the way down … the idea that powerful people should follow the law is a norm. It is only a law to the extent that the people in power enforce it. And if the people in power, just enough of the people in power, don't enforce it, then it might as well not be a law. — Nicholas GrossmanSo to continue with the Nazi example, when some form of discourse today, whether it's a meme or a trope, or some rhetoric that a politician uses, gets characterized as “Nazi” or “neo-Nazi,” skeptics who don't detect a full-blown, genocidal antisemitism in that discourse will suggest that the “Nazi” label is overblown or being unfairly applied. I think the same thing happens, though at a lower scale, with “fascism.”My own take is that proponents and skeptics alike of these terms have in mind different aspects of those movements when they apply the labels or when they hear the labels applied. So when Trump gets called a “fascist” or a “neo-fascist,” the idea isn't necessarily that he's literally continuing Mussolini's project or that he's done the same exact things Franco did in Spain or whatever. Sometimes it means that. But sometimes I suspect the term is applied because a commentator or analyst just wants to note that Trump has similar impulses or inclinations or beliefs. The idea isn't that there's a perfect or near perfect match between the concrete actions Trump has taken and the ones past fascists have taken—because those will always be indexed to a particular time horizon. I think the idea, instead, is that Trump's posture toward democracy, toward the nation, the individual's role within the nation, and so on, is meaningfully similar to past fascist leaders and how they viewed things.If institutions exist today that reliably frustrate Trump's ability to carry out a more full-bodied fascistic reign, more so than they ever did for someone like Mussolini, that doesn't suggest, and it shouldn't suggest, that Trump lacks fascistic tendencies. Because, of course, that's just something external. Trump has routinely praised Putin and Kim and the way the societies they rule over are organized around their whims and wishes. The fact that he can't achieve that level of compulsory, fawning admiration here doesn't mean that he doesn't hold those yearnings.Does the fact that at any given time some discourse participants may have in mind tendencies and beliefs, whereas others have in mind concrete actions and historical parallels, and that therefore there's always going to be a talking past each other dynamic, does that suggest that historical terms like “fascism” are more unhelpful than helpful and should be retired?Nicholas: It can. I think that makes a lot of sense. This is also the purpose of those qualifiers like “semi.” One that's especially popular when you talk about things like political ideologies is “neo”—like a new version that's kind of like the one in the past. That tends to be how people thread the needle.But I do think that you're right in the tied-to-historical-circumstances aspect of it. And that also makes it where it is not necessarily the best or clearest form of communication or of persuasion because it can send some people down a rabbit hole of, “Let's compare that circumstance in history to this today,” whereas somebody who is using it might want to say, “These are similar”—or, often in some cases, it's a way of almost saying, “I think this is really bad.” So maybe a word like “authoritarian” doesn't have a real kick; “fascist,” “Nazi,” you know, has more of a kick and maybe is more likely to get people to pay attention—but it also, as you say, can make it more likely for people to shut off or to resist it. That's why I tend to say “anti-democracy” or “authoritarian,” or a more political science term, “democratic backsliding,” because that is unambiguously what is happening and it doesn't carry that same “historical circumstance” baggage.Berny: So, what is fascism, historically?Nicholas: So there's some debate about that, which again is one of the reasons why maybe it is not the most politically useful, or I guess discourse-useful, word. Historically, people place the origins in Italy, with Mussolini as the first real practitioner. When I was studying this, the person that I read the most was an Italian named Alfredo Rocco. He said that there were a couple of central principles: there's a hyper-nationalism, and an ethnic nationalism. Organicism, which is the sense that cell is to body as individual is to state … in other words, you give over everything to the state, as if you don't personally matter. Belief in superiority, then also militarism and foreign aggression. There are a number of other points that people like Umberto Eco have listed.There is a kind of later argument, and one that I find pretty persuasive, that fascism is almost a kind of anti-politics in that it is fixated on the past, often a fictional past, one in which there's not only nostalgia but trying to reclaim past glory and is a rejection in a way of the very idea of politics in the sense of we debate and argue about various pieces of evidence and facts and then come up with things like what might be the best solution or what do we agree would be a better solution rather than a worse solution. Whereas fascism often is much more an appeal to feelings and a fundamental rejection of the value of truth itself.Berny: I want to shift to a description of actions that can be categorized as fascistic, although if you just use a pure description of them, as you were suggesting earlier, you could also analyze them purely on their own merits. You were talking about how you prefer the word “authoritarianism” and “assaults on democracy.” In your latest for Arc Digital, you write that “American institutions are hanging by a thread.” And you argue that a model of instantaneous authoritarianism or revolutionary illiberalism, or as you put it, “a dramatic seizure of power,” is kind of the wrong model to expect America to fall prey to. Instead, you argue that if authoritarianism arrives in the U.S., it will do so via a more incremental process of democratic backsliding. Can you expound on what that is?Nicholas: Sure. That's a term that I think is very valuable in describing what's happening. So a lot of people, when they picture authoritarianism, they think of—and probably a lot of 20th-century takeovers were a big part of this—something like a big dramatic scene, something out of a movie. Think Mussolini or Hitler, the Iranian Revolution in 1979, or the Russian revolution, communist revolution—any of these big dramatic moments in which somebody seizes power and then holds onto it and then executes their authoritarianism and asserts their power throughout the country. What is more likely to happen in the United States, what in fact has been happening decently more to some democracies in the 21st century, is this idea of democratic backsliding, which is the process by which a leader gains power legally, legitimately via election, and then proceeds to abuse power while in office, to erode rule of law, erode checks and balances, try to put themselves above the law, and give themselves unfair advantages in elections.An egregious example of this, one that was backsliding from an already low baseline, is Putin's Russia. That Putin just got reelected—I don't know if you can hear my air quotes through the mic—in what was very clearly not an actual election, and yet they went through the motions and he claimed a popular mandate from it. Earlier, when Russia's laws had required him to step down, he just reworked the offices of president and prime minister, gave himself the prime minister job, gave his flunky, Dmitry Medvedev, the president job and continued running the country until that term was up and then just became president again.In the 21st century, we've seen versions of the sort of democratic backsliding that the U.S. should be afraid of in Turkey, India, Israel, Hungary, Poland, Peru, and a few others. Hungary, in particular, is the model for Trump in that the leader there, Viktor Orbán, won via election and then proceeded to do things like force just about all independent media outlets to go into this new kind of umbrella corporation which he had a flunky run and then change their commentary from sometimes critical of the government to basically government propaganda. An example of what happened in Poland was, they didn't like some of the judicial rulings, so they made a law that said that the maximum age for a Supreme Court justice or their equivalent is set at just right below the people that they wanted to get rid of. Then they got rid of those. And then they said, “Actually, the age can be different,” and then appointed their own people.We can also see that that sort of democratic backsliding has happened in part of the United States: with the failure of reconstruction after the Civil War and the imposition of Jim Crow—that people in those southern states did get power via elections and then you abuse that power to reduce the ability to vote and generally repress black people. So they still had elections, but they weren't free and fair, especially not in the way that the post-Civil War amendments tried to create and which the U.S. didn't really have until the Civil Rights acts.If he manages to get power again, there is zero reason to believe that he wouldn't try to do the thing that he literally did last time that he and his team have been spending over three years planning for, to try to fix the problems of that so they could do it again more successfully. I think there's a lot of naïveté about how somebody would stop it. Well, who? Congress? Why? — Nicholas GrossmanWhere we are hanging by a thread is: Trump has managed to already break through a lot of those institutional barriers that separate democracy from authoritarianism. And one of the things that a lot of people tend to misunderstand about this, and this also goes back to the glorious takeover vision of authoritarianism, is that authoritarians don't actually need to be strategic and good at this for it to work. This was a point that Hannah Arendt made in The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951 that really resonates today, which is that incompetence can be an asset to wannabe authoritarians because it ends up getting competent people to quit and then opens up more spots for loyalists and makes it that they don't have this fundamental hesitancy when it comes to, “But, I'm violating a norm or I'm violating a law.”That can create a lot of the democratic backsliding. The United States saw that with Trump beating both impeachments. Why would he be concerned about Congress? And if he does manage to get reelected after being charged with a number of very serious crimes, including crimes associated with a coup attempt to overthrow the Constitution, if he then gets national power anyway, after all of that, there is no reason to expect that he will be bound or restricted by the law at all because he clearly does not respect it himself. At that point, there will be nobody left to potentially enforce it against him.Berny: In that same Arc piece, you made a list of the battles Trump has waged against our democratic institutions, and you put the number at nine. One of the battles that he's waged includes that he's violated internal rules of the executive branch. Can you give me an example?Nicholas: That was one of the easiest for him to violate because it was within the executive branch and the president is the elected head of the executive branch, so legal authority in the executive branch flows from the president. Just about everything you think of as government, besides the courts and Congress, is executive branch. So there's this immense power. And yet: America has a president, not a king. Presidents are subject to rule of law. As Teddy Roosevelt famously put it: “No man is above the law.”In response to Watergate, there were a number of reforms to try to create some internal restrictions on the power of the presidency—an example of this was to create the position of Inspector General and put it in a variety of executive branch departments. The press tends to refer to these people as the internal watchdog of whatever, and Trump, because he was doing things that was tripping these wires and getting these internal watchdogs to publicize the violations that he was doing, he then removed the inspectors general from Health and Human Services and the Defense Department and the intelligence community, among some others. And the only purpose of those positions is to monitor the executive branch, make sure that everybody's following the law, and if they're not following the law, report it, especially to Congress. So by removing them and either not replacing them or putting some loyalist hack in their place, that meant greater ability to get away with more.The Mueller investigation was another example of this in what finally ended it, at least the potential threat it posed to Trump, was he got a new attorney general, William Barr, and Barr proceeded to mislead the public about what the Mueller report had actually said. And he set a lot of the narratives and then he shut down further investigation of the president. That was an example where the executive branch was investigating itself for some malfeasance by its own leaders, and yet he was able to shut that down in part because it is entirely within the executive branch. So those were the first barriers that he got through. And the third, the one that ended up then bringing in congressional oversight, was when Trump tried to extort Ukraine by secretly withholding military aid and saying to the Ukrainian president Zelenskyy that he would release the aid if Zelenskyy did him a favor by lying and manufacturing an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden, which Trump would then use as a basis for lies for his reelection campaign. That got caught by a whistleblower, someone on the National Security Council, who went through the proper procedures that got that information to Congress. That's what led to the first impeachment.So it was Trump's repeated efforts to break through various internal executive branch controls that eventually got the attention of Congress, which is a bigger barrier, but he burst through that too.Berny: Another battle he waged was against the transfer of power itself—a key presidential tradition within American history. He met that process, that idea, with violence rather than with peaceful acceptance. Do you consider that one to be the most dangerous, or is there one that's worse than that?Nicholas: I don't know if I can pick out an individual worst one because it's cumulative. My first instinct was to say, “No, the worst one is the current one against the legal system.” But a lot of what the legal system is trying to hold them accountable for was the coup attempt, which grew out of a violation of bunch of norms. So if I had to pick one, I'd still say the January 6 coup attempt, where introducing that level of political violence into American politics, making it the first in all of modern U.S. history to not have a peaceful transfer of power—it was literally not peaceful.The one about post-election norms … I think it's easy to underrate that one. Norms, because they're not codified, they're not laws, they're not written down, sometimes it doesn't feel like violating something important, but those are the ways that we do things. And if somebody then does it egregiously differently, violates those norms and gets away with it, or manages to even succeed with it, then what they've done is create a new normal, new expectations.With every previous losing presidential candidate, as soon as the election was called, shortly after they gave a concession speech. Hillary Clinton did it the morning after networks called the election for Trump in 2016. Probably the biggest example of this was Al Gore, who pursued legal means. I'm not criticizing Trump here for doing things like filing lawsuits to try to question some aspects of the election. Some of those were in bad faith, probably all of those were in bad faith, but still it is a legal measure. Others have done it too. But what Gore did was, after the Supreme Court made a ruling about the Florida recounts that resulted in George W. Bush becoming president, Gore publicly accepted the results of the election. And then, because he was vice president, he was in the Mike Pence role of being the presiding officer at the Senate that was officially acknowledging the Electoral College votes. And he gaveled in his own loss. So that was the norm.The other part of that was an outgoing president brings the new president-elect to the White House to peacefully transfer power, to begin the transfer. Obama did that with Trump—invited him to the White House, hosted him as the president-elect shortly after Hillary conceded. Every previous president did this. George H.W. Bush famously lost reelection and wrote a—what is now publicized, what was then private—letter of encouragement to Bill Clinton that basically amounted to, “I didn't want you to be president, but now that you are, I really wish you the best. You're the leader of our country and I love our country and I want you to do really well. Here are some suggestions.”That was just the way we always did things. By Trump incessantly lying about the election and conspiring to overthrow it, and after exhausting legitimate means, turning to illegitimate and illegal ones, and then, of course, after all of this, just hammering the Big Lie, the “up is down” lie, about the election results over and over and over again, and turning it into this kind of loyalty litmus test for Republicans that want to seek office or just want to speak in public about this stuff, has made it now where most Republicans just expect that challenging an election result and insisting that if you lost you actually won is just something you do now and that that is normal. Then a lot of the mainstream press treats it as, “Well, that's just another political strategy” and talks about it in these kind of horse-race sports language type of terms as opposed to, “This was a egregious violation of the most core principle of constitutional democracy and not something that we should treat lightly at all.”Granted, a lot of people didn't. Liz Cheney is a good example of somebody who did not treat it lightly. Nevertheless, it has become more normalized and it's reached a point where just about everybody expects that, if Trump loses the 2024 election, there will be similar claims that it's illegitimate, that it doesn't count, that it should be overthrown, or any other version of that. And that alone is something that is bad for the country, bad for democracy, and I don't really know how we fix.Berny: What is Project 2025?Nicholas: Project 2025 comes out of the Heritage Foundation think tank, and it is essentially a blueprint for democratic backsliding, for an internal authoritarian takeover after winning election. The biggest provision along those lines that is in it is a plan to purge the federal government of people who were hired because of their qualifications, not because of their political loyalty—people who are fundamentally loyal to the Constitution, not to Donald Trump personally. People have to swear to honor the Constitution. You don't swear to the president. The oath is to the Constitution—to protect and defend the Constitution. The plan is to get all those people out of the federal government. We're talking literally thousands of federal employees. That amounts to removing the barriers that thwarted Trump's last coup attempt.Where he ultimately failed was not enough people went along with the lies—Mike Pence being the most prominent one. So, Project 2025 is best understood as a plan to get anybody who followed the Constitution out and replace them with people who think that Donald Trump being in power is the end all, be all and are perfectly fine with breaking the law about that.That goes back to the Hannah Arendt line about you don't really need to be competent to do this. If anything, having competent people, smart people, there makes them less likely to be blind loyalists. So, they don't even need to necessarily be good at it. The first coup attempt failed, because it was haphazard, something that Trump and Co. came up with on the fly. Their plan was to win the election, and if not, lose it by one state, probably Pennsylvania, and then try to throw the count in Pennsylvania into chaos. But they weren't able to do that because Biden won most of the swing states, with Arizona and Georgia being two, plus Michigan and Wisconsin.There's a danger of a “boy who cried wolf” effect where, if you're constantly calling anything you don't like this maximal bad word, then when something that is actually like that thing comes around, people are less inclined to believe you. Then again, the lesson of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is not that wolves aren't real and you don't need to worry about them. — Nicholas GrossmanNow, they've spent the last three-and-a-half years stewing about that failure and trying to figure out ways to make it work next time. Project 2025 is already on the way. So whereas Trump came into office last time—and this is pretty typical of wannabe authoritarians in their first term—and didn't really know what he was doing, didn't really know how the system works, took some time to learn it as is fairly typical of populist leaders, he hired a number of establishment figures that the press called “the adults in the room.”—think, for example, Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Those were ones who were not willing to put Trump above the Constitution. Gradually, over the course of his term, accelerating in his last year after he beat the first impeachment, they started removing a number of these people and replacing them with loyalists. So now you've got people at the Heritage Foundation who have been working on vetting people to make sure that they are loyal to Trump and his authoritarian project rather than to the Constitution and American democracy. They are ready to hit the ground running with a lot of these democratic backsliding plans.Also connected to this are policy ideas like abortion bans and rounding up all the illegal immigrants and deporting them, which is a good one to describe how this would actually go because it's not that they would necessarily succeed at finding 11 million people and removing them from the country. It's that such a project is so massive and, because they are not the most competent people when it comes to policy execution, even trying would be chaotic and would lead to a lot of federal officers, probably state officers, and vigilantes going after people that they think look illegal, meaning just basically Latino, rather than, say, carefully checking everybody's papers and making this more of a rule of law effort. But that project couldn't happen without having enough of the people in place that would carry it out, people who react to it with, “Yes, sir, absolutely,” or in a bloodthirsty nature of being excited to do it.Berny: I want to bring the word “fascist” back in here for a sec. The threat of political violence can sometimes be just as effective as political violence itself. Figures associated with Project 2025 have called on Trump, if he gets reelected, to invoke the Insurrection Act on day one. Can this sort of preemptive reliance on police or military force in order to quell popular demonstrations of dissent be characterized as fascistic or semi-fascistic, in your view? Nicholas: I think so. That's one where I would use the label of authoritarian, because you don't necessarily have those ethno-nationalist aspects to it, though I do think the rounding up of a whole bunch of brown people and putting them in camps, yeah, you can safely call that fascist.Berny: You've written that if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election and becomes president again, American democracy is done. Why are you so definitive about America's prospects if Trump wins again?Nicholas: Because the record of national leaders who attempt a coup, fail, and then get power again is really bad for democracy. And because I think that people are—not everybody, of course, but quite a few Americans—stuck in a “it can't happen here” complacency, or just a natural tendency to think that the future will look like the past, that there isn't going to be any sort of drastic change. Also, they did see him in office and see that America did not turn into a dictatorship—so, you know, why necessarily would that happen in a second term?That gets it backwards in that it's the second term when democratic backsliding tends to go really bad. Turkey and India are both good examples of this, because then you had a leader who is not uncertain at all, who has shown their true colors. And we have in Trump's case very serious, just egregious, violations of the law.To put this in perspective: the trial in New York for fraud, to cover up hush money payments that he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, is the sort of thing that's being treated as trivial. If it were at any other person at any other time in the past, it would be one of the biggest scandals in all of presidential history. It's the sort of thing that you'd have to say is at least on par with something like Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, and yet it pales in comparison to the charges that he's facing for things like stealing, retaining, and exposing very high-level national-security secrets, and of attempting to overthrow the government, conspiring to defraud the United States out of its presidential election, conspiring to defraud Georgia out of its presidential vote.If he manages to get power again, there is zero reason to believe that he wouldn't try to do the thing that he literally did last time that he and his team have been spending over three years planning for, to try to fix the problems of that so they could do it again more successfully. I think there's a lot of naïveté about how somebody would stop it. Well, who? Congress? Why? He got impeached but didn't get kicked out of office because Republicans protected him even when he caused a violent attack on their own building. So, in that case, Congress is toothless. He'll be protected legally from anything. And if he manages to beat the criminal justice system, then anytime somebody says, “That's a violation of the law,” you can just say, “I don't care. What are they going to do about it?”The part that a lot of people are underestimating is just how incredibly powerful institutional authority is. This idea of, it's norms all the way down … the idea that powerful people should follow the law is a norm. It is only a law to the extent that the people in power enforce it. And if the people in power, just enough of the people in power, don't enforce it, then it might as well not be a law. So the inflection point is the 2024 election. If they get power, they are not going to willingly give it up and they're not going to be checked while using it because they have already burst through those barriers, all those checks and balances. They've already beaten them—or, at least, if he gets reelected, would have already beaten them.Some people get into a bit of a fantasy: “Well, it'll be like the past in that we'll work hard in the midterms and then Congress will check him.” But why? Or, some that I've seen, especially from more radical people on the left, that there'll be all these great protests. You mentioned the Insurrection Act—I don't think Americans have really absorbed what it looks like when the government sends the military to fire on protesters. We already saw Trump do a bit of this in his first term in the infamous photo-op at Lafayette Square in DC in which had security services violently clear an area so that Trump could go through to this church and take a photo. Incidentally, he took it with the Bible upside down, but you know, still.There were also these weird paramilitary forces that showed up in Portland, Oregon that were throwing people into vans that were federal officers, but unmarked and turned out to be this force cobbled together from border patrol and others. That was basically a separate, semi-legal force. So having seen this already, and then having that validation of reelection despite fighting the law, despite not following the law and violating the law, there is a decent chance that would do it.This doesn't mean that every single member of the U.S. military is going to go, “Yes, sir. I'm going to violate my oath and shoot people.” But some probably will. Certainly some will out of a sense of, “Look, this is the commander in chief. That's what he's saying.” Some will because they like it and because they agree with him. The two possibilities, then, are either the security forces and the military honor the order and then they violently put down these protests in a way that modern America at least has never seen or that causes some sort of split in the military, which is also devastating and would break the country.This was a point that Hannah Arendt made in The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951 that really resonates today, which is that incompetence can be an asset to wannabe authoritarians because it ends up getting competent people to quit and then opens up more spots for loyalists and makes it that they don't have this fundamental hesitancy when it comes to, ‘But, I'm violating a norm or I'm violating a law.' — Nicholas GrossmanBerny: Imagine that we stripped our vocabulary of labels and just used descriptors. Imagine that historians all formed a pact to no longer use labels and just lay out what each historical movement and figures have done. And so we get to a point where, with historical distance, we read descriptions of what Mussolini and other fascist movements in the 20th century believed and carried out, and we get descriptions of what Trump in the 21st century believed and carried out. What do you think would be the biggest difference in those descriptions? And then what would be the element with the most overlap between them?Nicholas: The most overlap is democratic backsliding: an elected leader abusing power to gain unchecked authority and then use that to violate our various core tenets of democracy up to and including individual rights and future elections.For the least parallel, maybe actually not as sound as it used to be, but the part where it's most different is in the aggressive military force abroad, the desire for conquest. You have a number of these historical cases where the new leader goes to conquer some foreign people, usually some people that they consider lesser, racially or in some other way, where they consider themselves the rightful masters. We talked about the Europeans a lot, but you can see this with Imperial Japan in the 20th century.With Trump and the MAGA movement, something that has caught my attention is increasing discussions of invading Mexico, of using military force against Mexico, usually tied up not in a desire for conquest and domination per se … it's usually more to stop illegal immigration, or to stop drug dealers. But if they had actually thought any of it through, it amounts to a U.S. war with Mexico. The Mexican government already works with the United States in a coordinated fashion on things like dealing with drug traffickers—maybe not as much or as well as some would like, but nevertheless there is a decent amount of coordination. So, if they actually tried to go through with this, Mexico would resist it and that could create really serious problems spiraling from there. But I'd say the main focus of the MAGA movement is a lot more domestic and really want to dominate and repress groups of Americans that they don't like, rather than to be violently dominant and repressive of bordering countries as well. So I would not expect that the U.S. is going to gear up for a military invasion of Canada. That would be lower on my list of worries, whereas something like an authoritarian power within the United States that focus on domestic enemies is decently more likely.Berny: Nick, thank you so much.Nicholas: Thanks, Berny.Landry: Thank you for listening to Zooming In, a project of The UnPopulist. For more like this, make sure to subscribe for free at theunpopulist.net. Until next time.The UnPopulist invites interesting thinkers from across the political spectrum to foster a wide-ranging and thoughtful conversation to advance liberal values, including thinkers it may—or may not—agree with.© The UnPopulist 2024Follow The UnPopulist on: X, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theunpopulist.net

Diddy's Apology: Diddy apologizes after the release of his domestic violence video from last week. We also got Cam'Ron on CNN and the reaction from It Is What It Is. Star Wars: Only on Jim and Them can a Diddy apology video get sidetracked into yet another Star Wars argument. But seriously, who are these prequel apologists? Soup Nazi Cameo: We check back in with David Moxx one of our favorite TikTok weirdos and we also learn about Dr. Parkinstine and the Titanic on VHS Guy. Which leads us to THE SOUP NAZI'S CAMEO PAGE! FUCK YOU WATCH THIS!, THE BEAR!, MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR!, SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR!, SALTBURN!, HARD WORKING FOLKS!, FOUR LOKOS NEGRA!, BURLESQUE!, DB DEATHLORD!, NAMES EDIT!, EPISODE 812!, DIDDY!, APOLOGY!, SMACK MY BITCH UP!, PRODIGY!, DISGUSTED!, NO SUNGLASSES!, CLONE!, CASSIE!, WEIRD VIDEO!, STAR WARS!, ROGUE ONE!, OBIWAN!, THE RISE OF SKYWALKER!, THE LAST JEDI!, PREQUELS!, SEQUELS!, DARTH VADER SCENE!, THE PHANTOM MENACE TRUTHER!, DUEL OF FATES!, RESTRAINT!, COZY, FUN BAD!, BABU FRIK!, PODRACING!, SEQUEL NUMBERS!, ADAM DRIVER!, KLAUD!, CAM'RON!, CNN!, MASE!, IT IS WHAT IT IS!, PAUSE!, BIGGIE!, DAVIDMOXX!, TIKTOK!, ALGO!, UNHINGED!, SCHIZO!, LORE!, NAMES!, DR PARKINSTINE!, TITANIC ON VHS!, CHARACTER!, ANNOYING!, CRINGE!, CAMEO!, SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS!, COSTCO GUYS!, MR FEENEY!, SAD!?, SEINFELD!, SOUP NAZI!, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!, NO SOUP FOR YOU!, CHEF OUTFIT!, ART THE CLOWN!, LONG WINDED!  You can find the videos from this episode at our Discord RIGHT HERE!

Jerry Seinfeld used to have a comedy bit about the invention of the Pop-Tart, but when his friend Spike Feresten—who wrote the famous “Soup Nazi” episode of “Seinfeld”—suggested it as a topic for a movie, even Seinfeld said “There's no movie here.” But they workshopped the story, turning the invention of the Pop-Tart into a nutty postwar epic. Seinfeld has written films before, including “Bee Movie,” but this time he's making his début as a director with “Unfrosted.” (The production did not, he says, have permission from Kellogg's.) The comic talks with David Remnick about making a life in comedy, and why he continued to work so hard on his craft after retiring his massively successful sitcom. “This is a writer's game. If you can write, you succeed. If you can't, you will not make it. . . . Any comedian can be funny onstage, but the bullets are the writing.”  And he offers thoughts on old age, as he turns seventy. “God is like, ‘I'm with you up to about thirty-eight,' ” Seinfeld posits. After that, God says, “ ‘if you want to stay, you can stay. But I'm moving on.' ”

  In 1982 I stood in front of a group of employees of the retail company I was running to tell them, "Who would have thought we'd reach a time when saying "please" and "thank you," "sir" and "ma'am" would be a competitive edge?" That was then. This is now. Superior customer service is rare. That means the opportunities are extraordinary! Seize the day. Abel seized the day. Here's his story, as posted on my Facebook profile. Abel with Schlotzsky's in Grapevine, Texas Schlotzsky's Grand Prairie, Texas Is Today's Customer Service HORROR Story (Small Hill Drive location) Rhonda placed an order via the app (something she's done with great frequency). Location: Grapevine, Texas. Problem: during checkout, the app encountered a problem with her saved credit card requiring that it be re-entered. Done. Order placed. Problem #2: during that payment problem evidently the order location changed from Grapevine to Grand Prairie. She didn't notice that until we were in the drive-through of the Grapevine location. She explained the problem and they politely said, "No problem. Just call them to get a refund and we'll make the sandwiches here." So we pulled into a parking spot to call Grand Prairie. She explained the problem and as they seemed to be helping her the connection went dead. I suspect they hung up on her (she was on the speakerphone). She dialed back. Explained it again, but this time it was a different person. "No, we've already made the sandwiches. No refund!" (Do this in the voice/tone of the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld and you'll be dangerously close to the sound of this man on the phone). She asked for the manager. "I am the manager." I took the phone to ply my powers of persuasion but without success. The Sandwich Nazi wasn't going to bend an inch. This $22 transaction was more meaningful than a long-time customer. I entered the Grapevine store to see what I could do. A pleasant gentleman behind the counter was taking orders. I was 3rd in line. Immediately I thought, "This store isn't run by the same folks that operate Grand Prairie." Turns out, I was right. As I explained our quandary, the gentleman said, "Oh yeah, you were just in the drive-through." I told him Grand Prairie refused to issue a refund. He was shocked. I asked what I could do. He asked me what we ordered and I told him. He punched it into his computer and said, "I got you." No, no, no - that wasn't the solution I was looking for and I insisted on paying. "No," he insisted, "I got you." I thanked him and told him I was going to share this story. I gave him my business card, took a quick selfie as he handed me the order, gave him a bro hug, and thanked him asking, "What's your name?" I'm pretty sure he said, "Able." If not, I apologize. It was busy and I didn't want to detain him. Schlotzsky's in Grand Prairie - Small Hill Drive - boos and hisses to your ownership and management for pathetic customer services Schlotzsky's in Grapevine - kudos and salutes to your ownership and management for stepping up to do the right thing. A special shout-out to the gentleman in the picture. He understands how to be excellent! NOTE: Abel is his name! Hours later and I'm still very impressed with this man. Visit Abel and his staff at the Schlotzsky's in Grapevine, Texas and tell them you saw this post. Pursue excellence. Chase consistency in that excellence. Do it in your professional life. Do it in your personal life. There are opportunities everywhere! Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me

Episode 37 combines a look at City Hall with a Crime and Public Safety update, including a clue why carjackers and criminals started targeting the South Kenaston malls. Part 1 - Which were our most popular podcasts during the funding campaign? Those episodes are how we earned your trust - and loyal listeners spurred a last-week surge to surpass the $3800 goal! We want to hear more of your ideas and suggestions how to grow the audience of ActionLine.ca public affairs coverage, and acquire ongoing financial support. Email - martygoldlive@gmail.com 7:09 Part 2 - We've reported, almost alone in the media locally, about how the City of Winnipeg continues to rig bike lane approvals – in violation of their own standards after the FIRST time they got caught cozying up to the bike lobby in 2010. City councilor Russ Wyatt continued his stand against the anti-car agenda of bike lobbyists but after his twist on an iconic TV character nickname, he was begging off from the braying mob. In his apology, Wyatt concurred with our decade+ of fact-finding: "the Bike lanes that has now taken parking away from residents and businesses along Assiniboine, Stradbrook and Goulet. Not to mention the lanes of parking lost in the downtown to bike lanes, that have negatively affected long time small businesses in the area..." "The city plans to take more lanes from vehicles, from more streets... we hear Bike Winnipeg calling for the closure of Assiniboine at Main Street, to vehicles, or removal of a well used Traffic Lane on Osborne at River... We can improve active transportation infrastructure in Winnipeg without causing further traffic congestion." - Unfortunately for Wyatt, he only articulated those points in his apology. If he had done so before, perhaps he wouldn't have had to explain the frustration behind his saying “a bicycle nazi wants to take away all the lanes for the cars." ("The Soup Nazi" is the 116th episode of Seinfeld; Will the 'cancel Russ' crowd will go after Jerry and then Hogan's Heroes?) - A frequent delegate at City Hall, Kelly Ryback explains the Wyatt controversy. Ryback finished 2nd in the St. James ward in the 2022 election and has continued to flag mismanagement, inefficiencies and wasteful spending at 510 Main Street. Listeners may be surprised at what Ryback contends is the underlying issue: the way some councilors treat delegates- and other councilors- during public meetings. Ryback recounts the intra-councilor battles that chew up time meant for public input. It's undermining productive policy dialogue at City Hall. Check out ⁠our Donate page!⁠ 24.40- Ryback exposes why the urban visionary dream of an Osborne and River pedestrian scramble is a potential nightmare- it's a block from a key fire station. This, Ryback says, is another example of how the City pushes thru the pet projects of bike lobbyists with no consultation with emergency services authorities. "On any kind of these infrastructure changes and ideas, police, fire and paramedics are not consulted." To boot, the bike lanes aren't getting used, harm neighborhood business viability, and has resulted in traffic snarls. And those snarls are one of many reasons why the City is finally- years after being told about it- going to try letting first responders switching traffic lights so they can clear intersections on their way to emergency calls. 34:00 Part 3- The Crime report has more proof how public disorder is reflected in transit fare skippers and violent behavior. ATU drivers say it's way higher than the 4 million fares currently guesstimated, and behind 60% of assaults on drivers. Lastly, a double carjacking at Seasons of Tuxedo- with one accused a 15 year old girl - raised a lot of questions. A surprising answer, from a source in the know, explained the migration of dangerous criminals down Route 90 to shopping mall lots near Ikea. More to come with Kelly Ryback about homelessness, safe injection sites, and other civic topics later this week!

In the Seinfeld episode, the soup nazi had a formula how to order soup. Today I went to get a oil changed and learn I gotta start making appointments. Customers arent always right and You gotta lead them. This is what this episode is about. Changing customer behaviors. Listen and subscribe Click Here and Join the Email List

Hopefully, you have seen the Seinfeld episode about the Soup Nazi.  Although the character in the show (modeled after a real person) is exaggerated for comedic effect, you could use a few techniques to influence. Here are some potential strategies you could use from the Soup Nazi character on Seinfeld to persuade and influence. The Anchoring Effect and How it Can Impact Your Negotiation The key is not to offend your prospect, but to adapt these strategies that create value and a positive experience.  Want to learn more about how to have more confidence, create a better customer experience and sell like the Soup Nazi?  Discover techniques that will increase your influence.  Join me for this week's podcast on Offensive Selling Techniques That Work – Soup Nazi Style. CLAIM your deal of the week below! Influence University is the first and only website to combine scientific research, persuasion software, training videos, downloadable audios, and proven exercises. SAVE 65% FOR LIFE HERE    

During the first 30 minutes of today's show Matt and Los (in for Chuck) talk about the passing of legendary sports reporter Chris Mortensen before they played 3 entries for the Cameo contest the show is doing throughout March which included former wrestler Tito Santana, Seinfeld character "The Soup Nazi" and Bert Weiss from "The Bert Show." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode, Adam and Eric interview Vince Melocchi. Vince played the furniture guy who gave Elaine the “nice face discount” in the classic season 7 episode “The Soup Nazi.” If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email us at theplacetobeseinfeld@gmail.com. You can also follow us on Facebook at The Place to Be: A Seinfeld Podcast, Twitter @tptbseinfeld, and Instagram @theplacetobe.podcast.

Dave, an award winning film and television writer, cartoonist, author, musician and voice actor, has had his writing compared to the likes of Ray Bradbury and David Lynch and his cartoon work to that of Charles Schulz, one of Dave's idols. As senior writer and head of cartoons at National Lampoon, he put out two best-selling cartoon collections while handling writing and cartooning for the flagship magazine. He was also involved with Comic Relief. His early work includes art for Tim Allen and Robert Wuhl's HBO specials and, as cartoonist and writer for Tiger Beat's Superteen Magazine he created the popular cartoon Toon Groupies©. Dave's character Snuggy Bear© was licensed for multiple brands including children's eyewear by Crystal Clear Vision Group, selling out worldwide after a highly successful premiere in NYC at the International Vision Expo. Dave is also the creator of the popular Hackidu characters for Everybody Loves Raymond. Dave has illustrated several popular children's books including Bellaboo, the Purple Princess written by General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn and The Lemming Shepherds, distributed throughout China and Taiwan and is being adapted into a feature film. He illustrated and helped edit the book Full Frontal Tenudity from famed comedienne Judy Tenuta. Dave's own book, Brain Explosion (Bear Manor Media Publishing), a collection of his cartoons and writings from his National Lampoon days has become a best-seller and is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Dave's kids show, Professor Creepy's Scream Party(c) had huge premieres at the 2013 Phoenix Comic Con and Son of Monsterpalooza convention in Burbank, CA. It has been receiving rave reviews and was written up in iconic Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine (April, 2013). Professor Creepy won the Bronze trophy at the 2014 International Independent Film Awards and was an official selection in the 2014 R.I.P. Horror Film Festival. The pilot was picked up for airing on the Monster Channel, August, 2017 and in 2018 was the top show on Roku's Around the World in 80 Screams, airing on 28 networks on Halloween. Dave's documentary, From Cheesecake to Cheesecake: The Joy Harmon Story (WGAw), about the life of 1960's film/TV icon Joy Harmon, won the 2013 Hollywood & Vine Film Festival and was a top five finalist in the prestigious 2014 Taste Awards and won the Silver trophy at the 2014 International Independent Film Awards. Dave's sitcom pilot Against Type, starring Roland Kickinger (Terminator Salvation), Stephen Furst (Animal House) and ICarly's Jennette McCurdy, aired domestically in over forty US markets and was picked up for international distribution by the Global Broadcasting Company in Spring, 2010, CETV (Chinese Entertainment Television) and The Dish Network's Simply Kids channel in 2011. It was also a finalist in the 2015 Taste Awards. Dave is a successful infomercial writer/director in China and his voice work can be heard on the SyFy Channel films Path of Destruction and Lake Placid vs. Anaconda and in the animated series Alien House, co-starring Kim Possible's Christy Carlson Romano and the new series Cozmo's.  Dave was also a celebrity judge on ICN TV China's top rated talent competition show, American Stars. He is in the classic rock documentary What is Classic Rock (2018) and entered his documentary Ask Me if I C.A.R.E. into festivals. In October, 2016, Dave's song, I am A Zombie, charted on kids syndicated radio network JenniRadio. In June, 2018, Dave's script for the short film, Selfie, was selected for the 2018 AT&T Create-A-Thon, beating out over 500 scripts to get into the finals. The film was shot at Warner Bros. In 2019, Dave played guitar on the single, Running, by actor Larry Thomas (Seinfeld's The Soup Nazi). Dave's weekly national horror radio show, Cemetery GoGo, began airing on WRSG 91.5 FM December 14th, 2019. In December, 2020, and was picked up in June, 2021 by WAKI FM radio. Dave's children's book, Bag Boy and Sweet Slob(c) was released by Headline Books Inc publishers and is now available worldwide on Amazon and wherever books are sold. In February, 2021, Bag Boy and Sweet Slob won the Reader's Favorite 5 Star Award and honorable mention at the 2021 San Francisco Book Festival in June. Against Type and Professor Creepy's Scream Party were picked up by Amazon Prime TV in December, 2020. In September, 2021, Bag Boy and Sweet Slob won the Bronze Medal at the 2021 International Book Awards sponsored by Readers' Favorite. UPDATE: Dave's syndicated hit radio show, Cemetery GoGo(c), airs on radio stations around the country including WAKI Radio out of Anapolis, Maryland, Classic WJEG in West Virginia, WBNY 91.3 FM out of Buffalo, NY and WCMO 98.5 FM out of Marietta, Ohio. His hit Spotify podcast, Bitching with Bitchy the Clown(c), is on multiple platforms and is being adapted into a TV talk show. Brain Explosion is being adapted into a TV sketch comedy show. Dave's original songs, The Visitor and Elementary in the Cemetery (recorded by Bitchy the Clown) are included in the soundtrack of the indie horror movie, Slice, which premiered at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood November 16, 2022. Other credits: Wrote theme song for Special Olympics, which named several of their teams after Snuggy Bear©. His cartoon work is part of the Charles M. Schulz (Snoopy) museum in Santa Rosa, CA and the Haig Museum of Cartoons in New York. Former song writing partner of the late Albert Hague (Fame, How the Grinch Stole Christmas). A direct descendent of Vlad the Impaler (inspiration for Dracula). An avid golfer, Dave has been sponsored by Roger Dunn Golf Shops. On the board of the prestigious Environment of People Foundation. Coached basketball with legendary UCLA coach Jim Harrick and former LA Lakers and Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy. website and more info: https://psychedelia1.wixsite.com/snuggybear

from its humble beginnings as the Seinfeld Chronicles to its meteoric rise as a ratings juggernaut. Listen in as we reminisce about memorable episodes like The Contest, The Soup Nazi, The Marine Biologist, The Yada Yada, and The Junior Mint, and appreciate the show's timeless humor and relatable characters that have made it a beloved staple in pop culture. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the unique style and distinct humor that defined Seinfeld. Join us as we applaud the unforgettable cast, including Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer, and their undeniable chemistry that contributed to the show's immense success. Explore Seinfeld's lasting legacy, from its iconic catchphrases to its profound influence on modern sitcoms.Pull up a chair, grab some Junior Mints, and let's take a hilarious trip back to the '90s!

Happy Friday fellow Regulars. On an RGF-lite edition of Regular Guy Friday (same great RGF with a third less takeaways). Who are Politically Adverse Persons? Becoming a #Dadfluencer. When Dad acts as a night nurse and how dog parenting is good prep for baby parenting. How the hidden effects of mold can take a heavy toll on you. How changing your personality will change your reality - and how if you don't, your reality will remain the same. How the brain is plastic and how it can continue to be shaped into evolving new personalities throughout your life. How to enact (and etch) the brain-shaping process. The real lesson from Seinfeld's The Soup Nazi episode and what the character of Newman can teach all of us about getting along. The effects of Adderall and why someone would accuse you of being on it. RGF Bonus: Charles Manson's near hit song and sending Lawyer's Guns and Money. HEAL SQUAD SOCIALS IG: https://www.instagram.com/healsquad/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@healsquadxmaria HEAL SQUAD RESOURCES: Website: https://www.mariamenounos.com Curated Macy's Page: https://www.macys.com/healsquad Rosetta Stone: https://www.rosettastone.com/healsquad 40% off Noom: https://www.noom.com Just Thrive: https://justthrivehealth.com and use promo code: HEALSQUAD 20% off your first 90-day bottle of Just Calm and Just Thrive Probiotic ABOUT MARIA MENOUNOS: Emmy Award-winning journalist, TV personality, actress, 2x NYT best-selling author, former pro-wrestler and brain tumor survivor, Maria Menounos' passion is to see others heal and to get better in all areas of life. ABOUT HEAL SQUAD x MARIA MENOUNOS: A daily digital talk-show that brings you the world's leading healers, experts, and celebrities to share groundbreaking secrets and tips to getting better in all areas of life. DISCLAIMER: This Podcast and all related content [published or distributed by or on behalf of Maria Menounos or Mariamenounos.com] is for informational purposes only and may include information that is general in nature and that is not specific to you. Any information or opinions provided by guest experts or hosts featured within website or on Company's Podcast are their own; not those of Maria Menounos or the Company. Accordingly, Maria Menounos and the Company cannot be responsible for any results or consequences or actions you may take based on such information or opinions. If you have, or suspect you may have, a health-care emergency, please contact a qualified health care professional for treatment.

Elaine falls in love with an antique armoire on the way to get some soup, but unfortunately it gets stolen by street toughs despite Kramer trying to guard it. Luckily she scores another beautiful armoire which was accidentally gifted to her by a jerkface soup chef who banned her from his shop. Karma takes over as the armoire contains the secret soup recipes and unleashes Vengeful Elaine! This is easily one of the strongest episodes of the series and definitley one of the strongest JLD episodes. I'm totally satisfied with the amount of Elaine! 

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Phil & David enjoy a lively TV Lunch with famed TV writer, TV host and film screenwriter Spike Feresten. But even though Spike is the comic genius who wrote the classic "The Soup Nazi" episode of "Seinfeld," there was No Soup For Spike here, but rather a delicious cheesesteak from https://www.southphillyexperience.com. Spike, Phil & David discuss Spike's fascinating career including great stories about writing for David Letterman, "Saturday Night Live," "Seinfeld," and his time hosting "Talkshow with Spike Feresten" on Fox. Jerry Seinfeld fans, DON'T miss Spike serving up a few tasty morsels about "Unfrosted: The Pop Tart Story," an upcoming collaboration. Follow Spike's popular podcast, "Spike's Car Radio" here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spikes-car-radio/id1247694648. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com.

In which we bullshit about how it's actually not. Audio technical difficulties so, in the words of the Soup Nazi, NO TIMESTAMPS FOR YOU!

Alex Prud'homme's new book, Dinner with the President, is a history of American food, politics, and 26 presidents, from George Washington starving at Valley Forge in 1777 to Donald Trump's burger banquets. It was such a good time having Alex on the show to talk about how food has been used as a diplomatic tool since the founding of the United States, as well as some underrated cooks living in the White House. Finally, Grace Coolidge gets the respect she deserves. We also talk with Alex about his journalism, how he wrote a New Yorker article that would go on to inspire the Soup Nazi character on Seinfeld, and the book he wrote with his great-aunt Julia Child that would inspire many movies and TV shows. Alex is such a great guest, and I hope you enjoy our talk.Also on the show, Aliza and Matt talk about their recent trips to Miami and Tel Aviv, while discussing the value of fresh-cut tropical fruit and raspberry yogurt.MORE FROM ALEX PRUD'HOMME:The Man Behind the Soups [The New Yorker] Alex Prud'homme Wishes He Was in the Room Where It Happened [NYT]Jacques Pépin and Alex Prud'homme on entertaining Julia Child-style [GBH]The Israel Issue [TASTE]FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW:instagram.com/alex.prudhommeinstagram.com/mattrodbardinstagram.com/taste

We break down the highs, the lows, and all the action that happened at WONDERCON 2023, from the Walking Dead universe, Wolfpack on Paramount Plus, Power Rangers 30th Anniversary, comic book goodness, a Funko funhouse, and so much more... oh, and we can't forget #LobbyCon--and the Soup Nazi! Join us for a complete roundup of San Diego Comic-Con's little (but growing!) sister convention.

We break down the highs, the lows, and all the action that happened at WONDERCON 2023, from the Walking Dead universe, Wolfpack on Paramount Plus, Power Rangers 30th Anniversary, comic book goodness, a Funko funhouse, and so much more… oh, and we can’t forget #LobbyCon–and the Soup Nazi! Join us for a complete roundup of San … THE CON GUY’s WONDERCON 2023 AFTERSHOW! Read More » The post THE CON GUY’s WONDERCON 2023 AFTERSHOW! appeared first on The ESO Network.

Meg walks in Dan Rather's shoes during his time of "courage." Jessica goes Nazi hunting after Kurt Waldheim.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

Milo (@milo_edwards) and Phoebe (@prhroy) are flying solo this week to discuss one of the all time classics and, of course, their favourite Jeromes... Full episode on Patreon for $3+ subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/79514445 Follow us on twitter @mastersofpod!

Rob Anspach, owner of Anspach media and author of the wildly popular Rob Versus series sits down with Brad Szollose on Awakened Nation to discuss how he launched his career as an author, how to deal with scammers, the Soup Nazi, what triggers people these days, and much, much more. This is a funny episode. About Rob Anspach: Rob Anspach is a highly sarcastic marketer, podcaster and serial author. His upcoming new book is called “Rob Versus The Entitled: Defeating The Aggressive, Offended, and Easily Triggered With A Little Common Sense & A Lot Of Sarcasm." About your Host, Brad Szollose: Fueled by the passion to ignite game-changing conversations, award-winning author Brad Szollose created Awakened Nation®—a podcast dedicated to deeper conversations with today's cutting edge entrepreneurs, idea makers and disruptors, bestselling authors, activists, healers, spiritual leaders, professional athletes, celebrities, politicians and rock stars...conversations that take a deep dive into the extraordinary. This podcast will challenge your beliefs. Think Art Bell meets Joe Rogan. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/awakenednation/support

Spike Feresten is a writer, comedian, FOX Talkshow host and talks about his first writing job, "The Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld. Howie Mandel Does Stuff available on YouTube Visit https://www.howiemandel.com for more! Spike's Car Radio - https://audioboom.com/channels/5028669 Social Media @SpikeFeresten @howiemandel @jackelynshultz #SpikeFeresten #SoupNazi #HowieMandelDoesStuffSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of the BOOMCAST, we have LARRY THOMAS, who played the iconic role of THE SOUP NAZI on the classic television sitcom SEINFELD, along with many other roles.  Larry discusses his career and opens the door a bit on the inner workings of Hollywood, working the convention circuit, and MORE! I think you will enjoy our far ranging conversation. Also, I discuss the SCOVILLE SCALE which is a measurement of heat in hot peppers. Interesting? I think so! So buckle up, and turn it up!Also, please subscribe to my company newsletter, The Boomstick Bulletin!THE BOOMSTICK BULLETINTo contact the show CLICK HERE!

It's starting to approach fall...did you ever find yourself sitting...enjoying a bowl of ramen and notice that it has a very different flavor...or depth of flavor than regular soup? What goes into making that? Can we make it at home? It seems so easy with what's available...but what do the actual chefs do to make it way more special for their customers? I will take you through the process, so you can have a real deep appreciation of the love, patience and passion and get the recipe from Sano San.....aka, the Soup Nazi of Japan! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/laura-martinetti/support

Ali Wentworth (Go Ask Ali, Seinfeld) and Justin have a very bantery conversation about her iconic role in the “Soup Nazi” episode of Seinfeld, how she met her husband George Stephanopoulos on a “blind date,” and that time she got gift card scammed.Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/lifeisshort.Please support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On your path to connection and service, what metrics really matter? Should you aim to go viral, or allow yourself to move slowly and deliberately? And what's more important in podcasting and content creation - quality or consistency? This week, Annie P. is joined by the fabulous Jason Cercone, a brand strategist and podcasting expert. After years in the business, Jason knows a thing or two about hype, pattern recognition, content hacks, and when to push and when to rest. He shares all this and more before deep diving into what we can learn from Jerry, Elaine, George, Kramer, Newman, The Soup Nazi, and more! It's a must-listen for folks with Costanza sized-dreams, but who unlike George are actually working to build their Vandelay. What's Inside: 0:00 - Intro & Theme 02:10 - Main Interview with Jason 31:24 - Seinfeld tie-in 56:40 - Final Thought & Homework *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Connect with Jason through his website, Instagram and LinkedIn! Don't forget to check out his podcast, Evolution of Brand. Craving connection, co-working, and a way to enjoy your time on LinkedIn? Join our free community, The Legitimati, and do your weekly homework with us! It's also the perfect way to rub elbows with our fabulous guests. For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com

I hear complaints form estheticians all the time about how their clients disrespect them.  From showing up late, canceling at the last minute or telling the esthetician how they want their facial step by step. Well, I am here to tell you that there are NO Bad clients, ONLY untrained ones. Just like children have to learn the rules of raising their hand to ask a question in school to teenagers learning to clean up their dishes after dinner, clients aren't any different.  They too need to be taught the Ground Rules of your business. Clients come into your business impulsive and undisciplined. They need to be taught spa and socially acceptable behavior. They need "behavior training" to learn good from bad spa behavior. They need universal rules and limit-setting to keep them from becoming a "spoiled" client. It's the entire staffs job to set limits. It's the clients job to object to and test them. Here are 14 Ground Rules to train your clients well. 1. START EACH SERVICE WHEN THE CLIENT IS ON THE BED WITH THIS SIMPLE STATEMENT.  Mrs. Smith, we are starting the service at 10:00 and we will be ending at 11:00. If your client arrived at 9:15 for a 9:00 appointment the statement would be Mrs. Smith we are starting the service at 9:15 and we will be ending at 10:00. She will get the hint that she will not be getting her full hour treatment. Your front desk should have been the front line in addressing this lateness with a phone call prior to her arrival and an explanation giving her a choice of rescheduling or having an express 30 min facial. If you are a solo-preneur then this will help train your clients to be on time. NEVER make any exceptions. Don't be “thirsty” over your rules. This client will not be a money maker if you allow her any wiggle room, she will just cause you anguish and end up costing you money by making you late for your next appointments. Even if you don't have any appointments after her, DON'T give in. Train her. 2. STATE EACH UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR AS A CLEAR AND BRIEF RULE: The more arrogant the client, the more concrete the rule must be. Examples of clear rules are: “Please turn your phone off before the service begins. Thank you” When possible, give a brief reason for the rule: “You only have 60 minutes to relax." or “We do not want to disrupt services going on in adjoining suites”. 3. SOCIAL REINFORCERS FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR: There are two kinds of positive reinforcers; social and material. Social reinforcers, such as praise, are used to encourage desired behavior. Praise the behavior, not the person. Preface your praise with “Thank you for …and then praise the behavior,  Something like this. “Thank you for  being on time for your appointment so I don't have to shorten it.”  Examples of good behavior are; being on time, calling if running late, understanding an hour may be shortened to a half hour depending on lateness, making an appointment in advanced or before they leave the current appointment, giving constructive feedback allowing you to fix errors, not yelling at staff, checking phone at the end of the service outside of the service suite, or tipping staff.  Try to "catch your client being good". 4.WRITE HOUSE RULES FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT KINDS OF MISBEHAVIOR: Choose your rules (limits) carefully. They should be important and non-negotiable. 5. STATE THE ACCEPTABLE AND DESIRED BEHAVIOR: Your client needs to know what is expected of him or her.  Examples are: “Please arrive 15 minutes before your appointment time,” or “Please take off all your jewelry and place it in your bag etc.,” or “I'm booked solid so can you please make your next appointments for the series we discussed today so we can achieve the results you are desiring.” When praising any good behavior, make it specific.  6. MATERIAL REINFORCERS FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR: Material reinforcers (incentives) can be offers or product, they may sound like this: book early and get 10% off your service, or complete 6 consecutive visits without a reschedule to receive 25% off you 7th visit or when you tip your provider 20% or more, you get a deluxe sample. Incentives often need to be added to overcome client resistance  7. DECIDE WHAT CONSEQUENCE YOU WILL USE FOR EACH RULE IF BROKEN: All behavior, good and bad, is mainly changed (or shaped) by consequences. If the consequence is pleasant (getting what they want or a reward), the client is more likely to repeat that behavior. If the consequence is unpleasant (negative feedback or a punishment), the client is less likely to do the same thing again. Clients do not respond to lectures or reminders. Actions speak louder than words. The most effective actions are ignoring harmless misbehavior, redirecting the client to appropriate behavior, or firing your client . Yes, you heard me say it! You can fire your clients. After the second infraction, sit her down and nicely let her know what she did, why it can not continue and that if it happens a third time, she will not be invited back to your spa for services. Here's what it might sound like. Mrs. Smith, this is the second time a row you have been late for your appointments despite our  reminder efforts, we appreciate your business and as you can understand being late creates scheduling issue for the business. If it happens a next month, we just want to let you know that we will not be able to book you for future appointments. We value you as a customer, how can we make this work for you? 8. IGNORE HARMLESS MISBEHAVIOR: The more rules you have, the less likely your client will obey them. Constant criticism doesn't work. 9. STOP ANY ARGUMENTS: Yelling teaches your client to yell back. Yelling matches also can escalate into a verbal battle (called playing "uproar"). We know the emotional brain turns on fast and the thinking brain takes a bit longer. So if you start to yell, try to stop until you gain control of your emotions. Your client will respond better to a calm voice. 10. AVOID TRYING TO CHANGE "NO-WIN" POWER STRUGGLES THROUGH MORE PRESSURE: The client is aways right, and you are able to stop an argumentative client right in their tracks and redirect their anger and attention with these simple questions, “Is everything alright?''  or “What resolution would make you happy to resolve this situation?” 11. TRY TO TAKE DAILY BREAKS FROM YOUR CLIENTS: Tell your team when you need a break from your clients.  12. APPLY YOUR RULES CONSISTENTLY: You or your company has agreed on a set of  rules, it's helpful to write them down. Then post them in a conspicuous place in the spa to remind you of your game plan. EVERYONE on the team must follow and implement the rules to clients. Otherwise, you get the bad cop, good cop deal going and just like children the client finds who they can manipulate, making the team members that apply the rules look bad or incompetent. 13. GIVE YOUR CLIENT MORE POSITIVE FEEDBACK: It comes back to setting priorities. Have less rules, less criticism and more praise. Many experts feel that it takes 10 positive interactions to counter one negative interaction. 14. PROTECT YOUR CLIENTS SELF-ESTEEM: Remember that you are trying to change a bad behavior, but in a good person. Your client needs to know that she's a "great person and that you appreciate them dearly. Don't discuss your client's behavior problems with other team members . Correct your client in a kind way. Sometimes begin your correction with "I'm sorry I can't let you..." Setting Ground Rules for clients is easy, implementing the rule is the hard part. However,  if you don't consistently maintain your spa rules, clients will continue to walk all over you.  For an extreme and  humorous take on having ground rules watch Jerry Seinfeld's “Soup Nazi  on YouTube Link: “ clip https://youtu.be/euLQOQNVzgY I find it outrageous as well as histerical. Hope you are able to start incorporating some of these ground rules in your practice today. Drop me a note @stroudskinstitute on Instagram and let me know what has worked for you.

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from The Elon Musk of STEAM Centers to The Art of the White Lie.   Join Stan, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: Our upcoming Cyberlight review; The futrure of High School Theatre training; What comes next after LED fixtures in the concert world; The "Sit a Spell Focus Tool";  IP68 movers in foggy conditions; and Horrific lighting boom disasters.   Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense.

If you've ever wanted your American fashion-giallos with an exclamation mark, check out Night Ripper! Writer-director Jeff Hathcock is better known for "Victims!" - also adorned with an exclamation point - but isn't quite as overtly misogynistic in this one; though, he does channel some eye-rolling prejudice through star Larry Thomas (Seinfeld's the Soup Nazi). Shot-on-video, and apparently without talent, Night Ripper! nevertheless manages to be oddly charming. On this episode: ubiquitous infidelity, questionable photography sessions, short-cut knife murders, repeated reading of newspaper articles, labored mannequin metaphors, some surprisingly creepy literal mannequins, flood-lamp fatigue, and long-groovy driving scenes.

This week we are joined by fellow @OddPods Media members Jami and Shannon from @MarriedwTV. Aaron hosts three games as Shannon Joins Augie to take on Jami and Stevie. We also listen to voice messages from @drlecter1976 and @retoddl8rGame 1 - Pop Culture Fight ClubThis time, we're looking for the Best TV Series Finale Episode. Each player from both teams will pick their favorite and explain why it is the best - whichever one I pick to be the best one will win the first game for their team and one point.Game 2 - Tinfoil HatOur players are going to have to weave a conspiracy theory connecting the following three things:Amanda BynesSeinfeld (the show, not the man)The war in UkraineEach player will submit their own theory - best theory linking these three things without losing me wins the game and earns their team two points.Game 3 - The Speed RunCheers VS Central Perk - which would I rather have as a regular hangout with my friends? (important for Jami and Shanon - I do not drink alcohol)Kat Dennings VS Zooey Deschanel - who's more likely to compose their own music?Tim "The Toolman" Taylor VS Fonzie - who wins a drag contest?Tom Ellis VS Jon Hamm - whose biography would I rather write?Star Trek: The Next Generation VS Buffy the Vampire Slayer - which show do I think I would've been a better villain on?Promos @500_sectionFounding Members of @OddPodsMediaShow Music by @KeroseneLetter Our Merch Store https://www.teepublic.com/user/bfytw-podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJG-PDn6su32Et_eSiC6RQwww.BFYTWpodcast.com

Keith Korneluk, Award Winning Podcast Producer and Creator of Modem Mischief, joins me on the show to discuss the beginnings of the Hacking Subculture, Infamous Hackers, Internet Innovators, and Cyber Criminals. we discussed well known figures like Soupnazi, Kevin Poulson, Ross Ulbricht, Edward Snowden, Gary McKinnon and hacker groups such as The 414, The Lizard Squad, Legion Of Doom, and Anonymous. All of these stories can be hear on his very compelling podcast Modem Mischief.MFTIC Merch is Here for 2022!https://mftic-podcast.creator-spring.comShare This Episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c26adc68 Join us on TelegramLeave me a message On Telegram!For Exclusive My Family Thinks I'm Crazy Content: Only 3$ get 50+ Bonus Episodes, Sign up on our Patreon For Exclusive Episodes. Check out the S.E.E.E.N.or on Rokfin@MFTICPodcast on Twitter@myfamilythinksimcrazy on Instagram, Follow, Subscribe, Rate, and Review we appreciate you!https://www.myfamilythinksimcrazy.comhttps://altmediaunited.com/my-family-thinks-im-crazy/Listen to Every AMU with this link. https://lnns.co/pI5xHeyFdfgGET A NEW PODCASTING APP! https://podcastindex.org/appsOur Sponsors!Crystal Infused Essential Oils by One Thumb ElTruth Smacks Trail MixMUSICAL CREDITSIntro Song by Destiny Lab IntroMusic: Cloud CityBy Neon CityOutroMusic: The Last OnesMusic: PauseBy JazzharReleased under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License Thanks To Soundstripe★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Lots of talk today, mostly about the continuing implosion of the Republican party. We also talk a little music, and make fun of Margie three letter. It's a banger, check it out.

He masterminded one of the largest cases of credit card fraud in history. He hacked and partied his way into cybercrime lore. This is the story of Albert Gonzalez aka SoupNazi. Support us on Patreon Created, Produced & Hosted by Keith Korneluk Written & Researched by Lauren Minkoff Edited, Mixed & Mastered by Greg Bernhard Theme Song “You Are Digital” by Computerbandit

For the tenth episode, we're diving into the man that played TJX, Dave & Busters, and even the Secret Service for fools. We're talking about...the soup nazi.   Follow me on twitter and Instagram @shell_pod , email me at shellpod@protonmail.com , and check out the new site at https://whattheshellpod.com 

Many consider “Seinfeld” to be the all-time greatest American sitcom in television history. It is our #1 favorite show and in our opinions nothing else comes close. It's the “show about nothing” which was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. Nine-seasons of 180 episodes filled with hysterical humor originally aired on NBC from 1989 to 1998 and has since become one of the highest grossing television series in TV history with record-setting streaming deals on Hulu and Netflix, and re-run royalties on basic cable stations that are proving to last forever now several decades later. On the sixth episode of the seventh season titled the “The Soup Nazi” the character Yev Kassem, played by actor Larry Thomas had the acting performance of a lifetime and the perfectly-uttered, world-renown, strict-command “NO SOUP FOR YOU!” when yelling at his soup-stand-patrons. This four-word-phrase “No Soup For You” is one of the most popular known comedic sayings in show-business and around the world. People all over, who have never seen a single episode of the show Seinfeld can be heard jokingly saying Larry Thomas' famous four words to friends. That's how legendary Larry Thomas' character “The Soup Nazi” was in one single episode in 1995. In fact, his performance as “The Soup Nazi” was so incredible he was nominated in 1996 for a Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Larry has been in Super Bowl commercials, guest appeared in Arrested Development and Scrubs, He's been acting for over thirty-five years and has utilized his famous soup role to promote soup kitchens for the homeless. This legendary actor, Larry Thomas graces us with his presence on this fun-filled podcast interview where we talk about soup (of course haha), Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Larry Tomas' early years growing up in Brooklyn, New York, his acting career, what led him to this iconic role, and how these famous four words have changed his life forever. Enjoy this classic, comedic-conversation with one of our all-time Hollywood acting favorites, The Soup Nazi, himself!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebrothersbrandt/support

GUEST: Notorious J-A-Y. We talk Lamar, poop, Fraud Cowherd, Big Ben, Foxworth on Josh Allen fans, Fat Harden, FTG and more! Soup Nazi sez: keep your mind off MY money!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy