Podcasts about southern american

Season two of "Global Soul Kitchen" joins chef and best-selling author Deborah VanTrece in the kitchen as she brings more twists to her "global soul food" style of cooking, combining traditional Southern American dishes with influences from across the globe. In each half hour episode, VanTrece brings together bold flavors and unique inspirations to create memorable and delicious one-of-a-kind dishes. With recipes this season from Jamaican beef pot pie and black-eyed pea biryani to adobo ribs and duck schnitzel with sweet potato waffles, VanTrece whips up meals that are both familiar and unique.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Air Date 5/18/2025 The full quote from today's title is from one of the most celebrated writers of Southern American literature, William Faulkner, who said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.” The new film, Sinners, set in the Jim Crow South, attempts to take on some of the subjects that make up that web of history and consequence. The theme of today's episode is an attempt to dig into many of the subjects of the film. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Full Show Notes BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Use our links to shop Bookshop.org and Libro.fm for a non-evil book and audiobook purchasing experience! Join our Discord community! KEY POINTS KP 1: Sinners: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires Part 1 - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-25-25 KP 2: Sinners and the General State of Things - The Morbid Zoo - Air Date 5-10-25 KP 3: Western Christianity and White Supremacy Part 1 - Meant For This - Air Date 3-23-22 KP 4: How Do You Put A Price On America's Original Sin? - Consider This - Air Date 3-27-23 KP 5: Storm and Stress: Jim Crow America Part 1 - History is US - Air Date 6-5-22 KP 6: Trump's first 100 days, but it's just the racism - Garrison Hayes - Air Date 5-2-25 (48:29) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR On how to talk about the interplay between economics and identity politics DEEPER DIVES (57:48) SECTION A: CHRISTIANITY (1:33:29) SECTION B: RACE (2:18:56) SECTION C: CULTURE SHOW IMAGE CREDITS Description: Portion of the 1830s painting “Slave Market” (Brazil) depicting two white men discussing the sale of enslaved, black Brazilian men with a church with steeple and cross in the background and the iconography of the Virgin Mary on the wall above. Credit: “Slave Market” by Johann Moritz Rugendas, New York Public Library Digital Collections | Copyright status undetermined by NYPL | Changes: Cropped with increased contrast and brightness   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere!

In this episode of 'Do I Like It,' Prateek Lidhoo dives into the explosive success of Hanumankind's track 'Big Dawgs,' which has taken the international hip hop community by storm. With a Texas-influenced sound and a video that's a perfect blend of desi and global elements, this Bangalore-based rapper is making waves far beyond India's borders. We analyse what makes this track stand out, from its Southern American flow to its raw video. Tune in to hear why even OGs like Project Pat are sharing this banger and what it means for the future of Desi Hip Hop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wyrd Mountain Gals Show "The Looooongest Hottest Funnest Solstice" Show Airs Sunday, 6-23-24    7pm est Episode Length:  1:06     Byron is in heaven on earth (so to speak).  She's at Wisteria-one of her favorite places.  Alicia is knee-deep in her own hoopla.  Their conversation covers multiple topics. *****TRIGGER WARNING*****  Lots of talk of a dreadful future ruled by robotic ai overlords..   If you are a "nervous" type of person, try this episode instead:   https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kz84f-145123c   Eliza:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA Wisteria:  https://www.wisteria.org/ United Plant Savers:  https://unitedplantsavers.org/ Root Cause Farm:  https://www.rootcausefarm.org/ Here's the AI summary of our conversation.  Oy....     Here's the AI Summary of our conversation.  What do you think? Casual Chat Amidst Challenges Alicia and Byron had a casual conversation while they were working on a task together. Byron shared that she was based in Southern Ohio and was instructing Alicia on how to move some items. They also discussed the challenging Wi-Fi connection due to their locations in valleys. Despite the tough situation, Byron managed to maintain a positive attitude, which Alicia couldn't help but notice. Foraging Experiences and Environmental Concerns Byron and Alicia talked about their experiences with foraging and the impact of human activities on the environment. Alicia shared her childhood memory of using a walking stick to prevent snakes and other animals from attacking her while foraging. They also discussed a recent news article about a couple who moved to the countryside to start a business foraging wild ingredients for cocktails. Alicia expressed her concern about the depletion of natural resources due to over-harvesting and urged people to be more responsible in utilizing these resources. Byron agreed with Alicia's perspective and proposed to discuss it further. Discussing AI, Land Use, and Nature Byron and Alicia discussed various topics including their recent travels, their experiences with AI in customer service, and the importance of responsible land use. Byron shared her belief in the healing power of nature and her admiration for the United Plant Savers' efforts in preserving land for future generations. They both highlighted the negative impacts of overpopulation and the importance of respecting the natural world. Alicia and Byron also discussed some of the challenges they've encountered with AI in customer service, with Alicia expressing frustration about having to navigate AI systems to reach desired services. Future Technology and Society Debate Alicia and Byron discussed their differing views on the future of technology and its impact on society. Alicia expressed her initial enthusiasm for AI and robotics but later voiced concerns over its potential over-reliance and the need for improved integration. She also highlighted the importance of self-sufficiency and producing for use rather than profit. Byron, on the other hand, expressed discomfort with the increasing industrialization and large-scale agriculture, favoring traditional, more sustainable methods. Both agreed on the potential negative impact of technology on children, privacy, and the distraction from important activities. Summer Solstice Celebrations and Family Backgrounds Alicia and Byron discussed their plans for the summer solstice, with both deciding to organize their own celebration. They talked about the importance of this day in their culture and how it was a good opportunity to appreciate nature. Alicia shared her plans to plant seeds and honor her loved ones, while Byron mentioned a group gathering with women. They also discussed their family backgrounds, with Alicia sharing her family's storytelling tradition and Byron talking about her Southern American roots. Both reflected on the impact of technology on their communication and language, and how they have adapted to it. Managing Human Population and Innovative Solutions Byron and Alicia discussed the challenges of managing the growing human population. Alicia proposed mass sterilization and the creation of bio-machines as potential solutions, but both acknowledged the moral and practical difficulties with these ideas. They agreed that finding a solution would require innovative thinking. Alicia also referenced her latest book and a character in it who was similar to a species from the Twilight series, highlighting the topic's sensitivity. Alicia and Byron's Favorite Spots and Experiences Alicia and Byron took a break from their usual discussion topics and shared their fondest locations, including Hickory Grove and Katrina's property by the river. They highlighted the personal and sacred significance of these spots for them. They also discussed their recent experiences, emphasizing the importance of being present and enjoying the company of loved ones. Lastly, Alicia introduced a new feature on YouTube and shared an observation about a video she watched that incorrectly classified Western North Carolina as Tennessee, reflecting the potential for learning through online resources. Alicia and Byron's Tech Talk and Camping Stories Alicia and Byron discussed their experiences with technology, specifically YouTube and Facebook. Alicia expressed her belief that YouTube is becoming more prominent and may eventually surpass other social media platforms. They also discussed the advantages of Google's platform over Facebook, such as its capability to handle various file types and translations. The conversation then shifted to food and camping, with Byron sharing her recent experience of working at a festival with an abundance of pizza. Alicia shared her excitement about an upcoming band show and her recent sighting of a black vulture. Band Updates and Workplace Support Alicia announced the addition of Steve Gomez and Natalie Selby to the band, with Gomez playing keyboards and percussion and Selby on drums. Alicia also shared plans for a "porch jam" event and a family-friendly show she will be hosting. The pair also discussed future collaborations, including with Judy R. #WyrdMountainGals #ByronBallard #Podcast #Appalachia #AI #Pagan #Solstice2024 #DigitalWitchery  

Title by Manfred Yon Bronte Pronto is a strong independent girl from Gippsland who must battle against the growing culture of Southern American manners threatening to ruin her community. Song List: "Her Name is Bronte Pronto", "Follow Me", "Southern Slang", "We Don't Like the South", "The Power of Bronte Pronto" Wanna show Impromptunes some financial love? Check out our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/impromptunes Cast: Isabella Valette, Connor Morel, Emerson Brophy and David Peake on keys Teched by Jackson Eather  Edited by Morgan Phillips

To start today's podcast, host Mike Slater talks about the latest in the Middle East before covering a fascinating documentary (which you can check out on his Twitter page, @SlaterRadio) about the journey that illegal immigrants are taking to come to America. It'll shock and infuriate you. Don't miss the documentary OR Slater's analysis of it.Following that, Breitbart Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris stops by to cover some of the most recent and juicy Biden administration blunders with a particular focus on their ongoing, weird relationship with Ukraine.

Hoppin' John is an amazing Southern American dish with an interesting history. I was raised believing eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day was the only way to solidify a year's good luck.  As a kid, I could not end the day without at least a spoonful of black-eyed peas. My family is still very superstitious about this tradition, but no matter, I now enjoy black-eyed peas more than just the yearly spoonfuls.   Historically, Hoppin' John is a culmination of the many worlds that contributed to giving the “Old South” its culinary identity. Born in the rice-rich lands of the Carolinas, this dish incorporates rice, cowpeas, black-eyed peas, or other beans and is flavored with bacon or ham.  My preparation of Hoppin' John follows the traditional preparation as much as I could, except for the addition of the Harvesting Nature Water Fowl Blend.  The resulting meal was remarkably balanced and wholesome. I was very happy to share it with my family, who gave the meal two thumbs up as they solidified their good luck for the next year. There is nothing like cooking magical food that also pleases the diners. Good Luck and Enjoy! Read the written version of this recipe as prepared by Justin Townsend Leave a Review of the Podcast About Hoppin' John Hoppin' John seems to have originated in the Lowcountry regions of South Carolina's coastline, where the Gullah peoples began the tradition.  They likely used Carolina Gold rice and either Geechee red peas or Sea Island red peas to make the dish. Interest in some of these ingredients lately has been resurgent, with several people working hard to save them from extinction. I've had the chance to try them, and they are worth seeking out.  The inspiration for the dish probably came from similar African dishes like the Senegalese thiebou niebe or other similar pea and rice dishes in west Africa. Africans arriving on American soil would have used what was available to them to make dishes as they would have at home.  The earliest mention of Hoppin' John in literature comes from the book Recollections of a Southern Matron, published in 1838. The dish was likely eaten well before that, making this a VERY old food! Although it has been forgotten exactly how the name for the dish came to be, some historians posit that the name came from a bastardization of the Creole-french word for black-eyed peas - pois pigeon - which means pigeon peas.  About Adam Berkelmans: Adam Berkelmans, also known as The Intrepid Eater, is a passionate ambassador for real food and a proponent of nose-to-tail eating. He spends his time between Hull, Quebec, and a cozy lake house north of Kingston, Ontario. When not cooking, he can be found hunting, fishing, foraging, gardening, reading, traveling, and discovering new ways to find and eat food. Follow Adam on Instagram Visit the Intrepid Eater website  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight, we'll read the short story “Ma'ame Pélagie” written by Kate Chopin [Show-Pan]. Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. Her major works were two short story collections (of which this story is found) and two novels. One of those novels, “The Awakening” is what she is best known for today. Snoozecast read an excerpt back in 2019, but it has been much too long since we have read any more from this author. Kate Chopin lived in a variety of locations, based on different economies and societies. These were sources of insights and observations from which she analyzed and expressed her ideas about late 19th-century Southern American society. She based many of her stories and sketches on her life in Louisiana. They expressed her unusual portrayals (for the time) of women as individuals with separate wants and needs. — read by 'V' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey there, rebels and truth-seekers! It's your humble narrator, Rodney Smith, welcoming you to the no-holds-barred world of “Dangerous Misinformation”. Get ready to embark on a journey through the unfiltered chaos of our society, where I unravel the truths others are often too afraid to touch. To view this episode on video, please visit this YouTube Link FInd all my social and product links in one location here https://linktr.ee/rodneywrites In a world where originality is stifled and community guidelines constrict genuine expression, I refuse to conform. Join me as I dissect the madness of social media, question the absurdities of politics, and challenge the norms that bind us. We'll navigate through the broken system, explore the struggles of the rat race, and dive deep into the complexities of modern relationships. Here, no topic is off-limits, no normie logic accepted. I'm here to bring you raw, unfiltered truth, even if it ruffles a few feathers. This podcast is your sanctuary for provocative insights, unapologetic commentary, and rebellious ideas. If you're tired of sugar-coated conversations and crave authenticity, you've found your tribe. So, hit that subscribe button, buckle up, and prepare for a rebellion of ideas. Together, we'll navigate the chaos, one unfiltered truth at a time. Welcome to the Dangerous Misinformation!       Transcription  1 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:10,960 Yes yes  2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:01:10,560 welcome, everybody. Welcome to Dangerous smith's information previous hitch being here. I'm your humble narrator. My name is Rodney Smith. You can find me on all social media platforms at some sort of combination of Lord Petty and some underscores. You might ask why are there underscores? And that'd be a great question and my answer would be because the lizard peoples is out here. Noogan, and if this is your first time tuning into this podcast, this is as I may or may not have mentioned. The only podcast. The World we love everybody we hate on everything. This is where we take the status quo into a complete isn't a conspiracy theory show, but we do not deal with normie logic because you know what normie logic causes. It causes nothing but problems. Look at all the homeless people running around, look at all the crime happening, look at all, the fuckery in general, look at all the social media censorship, look at all the things that really don't matter, but that do matter. If we're gonna live in 1/1 world country we might as well have a dope country.  3 00:01:10,560 --> 00:02:07,360 We might as well optimize our country. So there's no reason for us to live in a oppressive, silenced, homeless ridden, terrible, constantly in war shithole. So if any of that philosophy sounds appealing to you, this is the podcast for you. This is dangerous misinformation. Come into you Monday through Friday, I say every day but you know what even God rests on Sunday and I am far from that. I am a piece of shit anyways. If you want some things that I can't say on the internet, go check out my book, The Petty Principles, Volume One, available on Amazon for 6. 69. You can get it on audiobook through any sort of distribution channel. You get those. Typically you can even go to Barnaze and Nobles and pick it up. So plenty of options for your little dangerous misinformation information beaten hot deep down in my deep dark German hot you know. I'm saying  4 00:02:07,360 --> 00:03:05,480 I find it as almost impossible to blow up on the Internet anymore because to blow up you gotta say some original things. You gotta be pretty forward thinking you gotta bring something new to the table, right? Unless somebody else puts you on. It's kind of like, uh, how most rich guys now their parents put them on or their grandparents put them on you gotta kind of get put on, you know, unless you catch a catch a gold rush. That's why a lot of people like when weed got legal people started marijuana businesses like it's always fun being at the the front of things when their brand new, but social media has been around long enough where the power structures have been established and it's kind of hard to blow up unless you have something very unique to bring to the market. And I'm. Constantly trying to tap into that market, and the only problem I see with that is like whenever I have a good video, whenever I have a video that I put on TikTok or something like that that I just do like thousands and thousands right off the bat right off the bat. It'll get deleted within a day or 2  5 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:52,620 because people start reporting it because people either really resonate with it or some people get really offended about it, you know, and I mean it's harder for me maybe if I was like a good skateboarder or a basketball player, something like that could just make this completely neutral footer. So if you're out there, uh, you know, trying to crate dope shit, they're gonna make it hard because it's basically hard to blow up because having any sort of original thought is a thought crime. You're breaking some community guidelines by having an original thought by not just jumping on whatever the bandwagon thing is, and that's what a lot of people do. They're more worry about. Okay, are the folks around me going to accept my world views instead of creating world views that make sense to them, you know. I mean cause statistically  6 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:53,680 well  7 00:03:53,680 --> 00:04:51,540 I shouldn't act like I know anything about statistics, but um, you know it feels good to virtual signal and talk about how much you care about everything and all these different causes and blah blah blah blah but I wanna. Comes down to it. It's not like any of these people are gonna take in any immigrants or stop driving their cars or stop leaving lights on in the house or stop flying an airplanes or stop doing any of the things where they say. Oh, this is bad for the climate, this is racist, they just wanna push it on other people like look what happened happens in New York, now you know all these New Yorkers like ah them damn racist Texans blah blah closing the border blah blah blah and now they have this huge migrant and flux. They don't know to do with them like shit Texas have been dealing with for ever. People like oh well, Texas is stolen land. Well okay well if it's stolen land then give it back to Mexico and people are just gonna try to creep into fucking Oklahoma. You know what I mean like so what are you talking about? If you just gave Texas back to Mexico, just be  8 00:04:51,600 --> 00:05:50,660 another Mexico and people be fleeing through it up and it wouldn't matter. You know what I'm saying. My fuckers was something about like this stolen land bullshit like dude, that's what people did back in the day you think people like let's just go back to Pangea. Shut the fuck up dude. I don't want any of this New World Order shit. There's the United States and y'all go fuck and deal with it or leave. I don't care dude. I think the craziest argument right? I think the craziest argument right now is voter ID. It's so nuts because you can't think of anything else that you can't do without an ID. You can't drive a car without an' ID, you can't get on a plane without an' ID, you can't buy beer without an' ID, you can't buy cigarettes without an' ID, you can't do anything, you can't get an' apartment without ID, you can't do anything without ID, and then the liberal counterpoint for that is like, well, those aren't constitutional rights. Are you saying it's not a right for people to go and buy  9 00:05:51,360 --> 00:06:36,700 a car? Is it doesn't that fall under the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness doesn't having shelter over your head fall under the pursuit of happiness which is in the constitution? So how's voting? Any difference? Like what same nation would want illegals voting in their elections and that is why they're just opening up the borders so people can just pile through and then vote for the Democrats are going to cause they know they're in trouble cause Biden this fucking garbage so they're just opening up the border so people can flood in here and then you know vote vote in these upcoming elections and because the Democrats are going back, oh well, you came here. We're going to promise you all these stuffs and then these like poor uneducated people who went through hell to get here they're. Just going to get used for votes  10 00:06:38,760 --> 00:07:37,840 and as sad you know there's nothing humane, there's nothing humane and loving by telling these people. Oh no, come here, wander through Southern American, stumble across the border with nothing and then sleep on the streets. Like, what are you doing? Do you know how many people are getting raped on the border and how many drugs are coming across the border and how much child trafficking and all about all this terrible shit is happening because these soft, stupid Americans are going. Oh, we need to keep the borders open because no human is illegal. Dude, there needs to be a process. You're open like you gotta think like a wolf. Sometimes you know what I mean. It's like there's an American sniper. They say there's wolf sheep and there's the sheep dog all right. The wolf just wants to go out and do bad things. And so it's like you have to think like the wolf to avoid the wolf you know, and that's what these fucking lip tars. They don't understand they don't understand that there's bad people like typically they even though a lot of them are just dumb and lack common sense. Uh,  11 00:07:37,840 --> 00:08:36,600 they don't take into consideration that there's bad people and you need to have guard with because if you don't have some sort of guard rails the bad people are gonna exploit situations and people and take advantage of them, you know, and that's. What's happening with the border? You know you get bad, people say oh the fucking and these are all military ale aged males. So if the United States gets in a war right, I'm gonna get drafted and have to go fight some fucked up desert war right? Or whatever it may be unless we just go drop bombs or I gotta go fight these fucking Russians a bunch of dudes I have no problems with cause I'm a military aged male, but then these other countries you got all these conflicts going on and we're like, oh no, just just come here. We'll open up the borders, fuck your country, you just come here and then you can harass our women and steal from people and loot and do a bunch of terrible shit because you're not acclimated to how our culture is. It's wild dude, it's self destructive behavior and we've became we've became pathetic if the West falls,  12 00:08:36,600 --> 00:09:35,480 I won't even feel bad because we deserve it at this time I'm going to be LA. Well, I don't know it might happen in the next like generation or 2, but you know I wonder if they would take any of this Ukraine bomb money and they would just use it to put homeless people and you know we need to do. We need to bring back insane insylums. Stop sending all this war money everywhere, right? We're paying for everybody's military, we' said we're, we have all these. War interests and we have all these fucking mentally ill people just running around the streets doing drugs everywhere. They're like oh, we don't need like there's a middle ground. We've progressed from the 50s. We're not gonna give in the lub, not gonna be given the lubatomies all right, but if we have mental institutions you're creating housing for these people that are running around like shaken invisible hands like Joe Biden, but they're cracked out. You know they got like half their nutsack hanging out and they're just wandering around downtown  13 00:09:35,480 --> 00:10:06,860 like these people are mentally ill and they need help and they need housing and they need to get off these fucking streets. People like oh like these stupid liberals are like oh no no humans illegal. Oh protect the un, the Unhoused or we put them in a fucking mental institution so they can get help and stop sending money to fund the stupid Ukraine wars. And these poor young Ukrainian guys just keep getting money dumped on them to go die against these Russians.  14 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:10,660 Ah, dead!  15 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:25,940 The world is crazy bro. It would create high paying jobs too. You know it would create medical jobs for people and yeah, I don't know. Man, bring back, bring back the insane ancylums dude.  16 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:28,860 Um,  17 00:10:30,080 --> 00:11:29,800 there's a part of me though where one thing I think is great about the border just being wide open is that this country has. We have way too much food right so. If we just let everybody in the United States and we start feeding everybody, then maybe us Americans won't be so fat and we won't eat all the food. You know what I mean. We won't have people on Twitter talking about how the airlines should offer multiple seeds at the same price for their fat asses. That'd be nice, dude, we just have. We got too much food if you really think about it, think about the realities of actually what having fat people means. We have so much food that people eat too much and they're so fat they' can't fit on airplanes. You really do keep building the airplane smaller. I'll give you that much. Okay, I mean, I'm skinny as I'm like frail and I barely fit on an airplane so I can't imagine what these big tubs of shit do and they're on an airplane. But um yeah, anyways  18 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,500 I shouldn't talk shit about fat people because they all have big hearts.  19 00:11:35,960 --> 00:12:34,360 You know what I'm saying, usually when people talk shit to you online like I'm not directly talking shit to somebody, I'm talking shit about the world. That's how I protect myself from any sort of hypocritical thing I might get caught in but I'm saying usually if somebody's talking shit to you online, it's coming from a dark place in their life because think about when you're having fun with your friends, your family, your partner, or something like that the last thing you're gonna be doing is being on your phone talking shit to somebody and nobody ever talked shit from above. You know what I mean. You're never gonna have somebody that's doing way better than you pop up and start trashing what you're doing. If anything, they're probably gonna encourage you or you know, give you some help or whatever it may be. The only people are ever going to talk shit about. You say bad things about. You have something seriously wrong in their own lives and demons that they're battling with, and so it almost brings out a sense of compassion. You know what I mean and I talked about this on, you know, one of the last episodes about these people. They never have profile pictures, they never have you know, they got the pronouns and their bios and shit like that like  20 00:12:34,440 --> 00:13:31,320 these nasty Internet trolls. I just always think like what is your life? Like, you know? I mean like you're too scared to put your face on like it's 2023. Everybody's on the Internet. It's not like when our grandmas used to be like don't get on' my space and it's scary. There's predators. I guess there are predators, but they're sneaking across the southern border, but so somebody's talking to you behind a burner account. Think about that means they're too self conscious to show their face right and think about what that would be like. Think about having so little confidence in yourself that you're scared to put your face behind the things that you say, so that's what these people are dealing with, so they don't like their appearance. They don't really believe in their views, otherwise they would put their face behind it and they look up to you in a way. Otherwise they wouldn't take the time to talk shit to you. So I'd like to try to almost like I said, stay compassionate about these fucking troglodites. Like  21 00:13:32,920 --> 00:14:32,040 I mean I don't feel bad for him like figure it out. You know I was a fucking nerd at one point in my life, like when I moved to the States I did. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know what I was doing. I was fucking weird. I was a weird ass kid for a little bit, uh, but you just gotta figure it out, you know. It's the same way when I hear people bitching about their parents, these grown ass adults still like complain about how their parents screwed them. I was like well, if you're aware of it, then adjust your behaviors, adjust your behaviors that are continuing the cycle of self destruction that's been carried, just been drilled into you by your parents. Like if you know what your parents did wrong, you can correct those behaviors in yourself and love yourself. And then now you know what I mean and we're so resent we get so resentful about our parents. But there's no there's no guidelines for each kid, dude. I I struggle raising a fucking cat so I really like to give my parents a break and cause my parents really fucking sucked in a lot of areas, but I don't like to hold it against them. It's a waste of time  22 00:14:32,040 --> 00:15:29,380 and that's what I would recommend for anybody else out there. Um, just try to forgive your parents cause it feels good, feels good bro. Speaking of not speaking of speaking of feeling good. I haven't been I've been drinking right so I' got really really ill about a month ago and I came back from just traveling for 2 months and I got like really, I have an autoimmune disorder, you know, so I got really really ill and I cut out all the bad food. I've only been eaten organic and I only eaten meats and vegetables basically like paleo diet and I I quit drinking and I've drank when I' said quit drinking just you know. Usually I would have at least a beer to a day, you know and um, I've only drank twice, both of them involved Allen, but I drink 2 days ago and I woke up the next day  23 00:15:29,960 --> 00:16:28,060 and it's like when you haven't had a hangover and over a month like when you haven't had it like you haven't had booze in your system at all and you reintroduce the boost your system. You realize how bad that. Shit is dude, it is straight up flowing poison like you're just literally poisoning yourself and it's making you act silly like that's crazy, but it gets fun, um. Unfortunately that's so many good times of drunk I think I like day drinking. Now I like day drinking so I can go to bed and sober up at night and then wake up the next day. Like if I day drink the next day it won't be as messed up so I didn't drink that late into the night and then wake up still like I'm hoping I' can sleep through the hangover almost if that makes sense. But uh oh, there goes my cat look cat where 16 minutes into the podcast almost done and here you are finely screaming at the door. Thank you, you're becoming an integral part of this show.  24 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:30,780 Can't fucking stand you.  25 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,540 So when I was drinking another night I had old,  26 00:16:41,800 --> 00:17:41,280 how do I say this so when I was drinking the other night I was hanging out with this girl right? And we've known each other for a while and there's been the attraction thing there' and finally kind of like acted on it, you know we we didn't hook up, we like you know, did the first things you do, and then and then she goes. She pulled old Switch Roux on me dude. This is my conspiracy theory, but she pulled old switcheroo on me because I have no desire. To be in a relationship okay. 0. I don't want to be in a relationship. I enjoy being single right now. I don't see it foresee in my near future like I want to be way more independent, wealthy, I wanna just have. I'm too busy, you know. I mean I don't wanna be in a fucking relationship right now and I'm very vocal about that. And then she said she said to me, she's like, you know, we made out and she' goes, I don't wanna hurt you and I was like, no I. I love that you say that I love that you're saying that right now  27 00:17:41,280 --> 00:18:36,840 because I feel the same cause I kept like hinting towards her cause she's younger, you know, and then uh, so I'm like really careful with like daddling with, you know, you know girls under 25, but I don't think they're just not and it's just an age thing. It hasn't. It's not necessarily even like a woman. It's just an age thing, so I don't wanna be that scumbag. That like promises girls a relationship and doesn't. So I'm trying to be honest right off the bat now because it keeps happening where I just kind of say okay. Well, we're on the same page and then it turns out we're not on the same page and they just fucking hate my guts and I don't like that. I don't like hurting them, but so she says I don't want. To hurt you, you know, and I'm like great awesome. I don't want to hurt you either. This is great, this is a great thing and then I just saw she like completely shut down so she must have heard this trick somewhere. This just must be some like female dating trick or something like that. So guys, if a girl says I don't want to hurt you, you just beg,  28 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:37,700 oh well,  29 00:18:37,840 --> 00:19:36,800 I really appreciate that or do something I don't know. Don't do what I do don't lean into it. Don't like light up with joy when she says I don't want to hurt you when you have no intentions of even dating her, she's just feeling you out to see how full of shit you are anyways. Oh my God, cat, can you just give me like one minute Dakota step? I don't even know what she's yelling about. I put on Bernie made off for her dude. I see a lot people talking about. They don't want to be part of the rat race and nobody wants to be a part of the rat race. The whole sitting on the subway is sitting in traffic for hours, going to work, taking shit from a boss, do an unfulfilling work, sitting there for 10 hours, sitting in traffic, coming home, barely having time to hang out with your family and eat and do the things you love. Nobody wants to do that there's not a single person. That wants to do that but you get 3 different types of people. Okay, you get the people that just fucking suck it up and they deal with it and they realize okay, I have to do something to support myself  30 00:19:36,800 --> 00:20:35,320 so I'm gonna have a good attitude about it and they try to make the best out of it. Then you get people who say I'm gonna work so goddamn hard. I'm gonna be so creative I'm gonna believe in myself and I'm gonna create something so I can escape this rat race so I don't have to do this. I don't need to be reliant on' somebody else, cutting me a check and I'm gonna take control over my life and I'm gonna believe in myself and build something. Then the 3rd person is the commie type the people with pronouns in their bio that go. I'm never gonna escape this rat race. We need to vote in people that are going to tax the rich and do all this and I'm lost and I' will never make it and they just want to bring everybody down with them. So don't be that person. Dude, if you try hard enough you can get the fuck out of the rat race and that's why i'mma leave you with okay, be the cool person. That's what we're all trying to be all right. Well, I don't want to hurt you guys so I'm gonna let you go I'm gonna let. You get back to your lives  31 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:47,620 and I appreciate your rock with me. 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In this weeks Travel Flashback Episode, if you've been curious about one of the spookiest cities in America, let this episode be your sign to take a trip to Savannah, GA.  We absolutely loved this city and were blown away by how fun it is! You don't need a lot of time in this town to really see it all. It's rather small and very walkable, so if you're staying in Savannah proper, you don't even need a car. What you do need is your party hat, because open containers are not only allowed, but they are encouraged around Savannah! We went into several places where they asked if we needed drinks to go, or encouraged us to bring our open drinks in. It was amazing! We got into town midday on a Saturday and left on a Monday morning to head up to Charleston and we did a lot! We could have used another day to do more ghost tours and eat more delicious food, but two days was quite enough too if that's all you have. We did a night walking ghost tour around town the first night and loved it! It wasn't so spooky, and actually gave a lot more Savannah history than we were expecting. There is a ton in this city! As one of the only southern cities not to be burned in the civil war, there's a lot of beautiful architecture, war history, and American history in this town from the colonial and civil war eras. It's a very walkable city, and in fact, you WANT to walk it! There's so much to see! Walking around town is one of the best things to do in Savannah. There are many public squares, places to sit and relax, there's even the iconic park where Forrest Gump was filmed! Arguably one of the most iconic things to do in Savannah is the Wormsloe Historic Site and it did not disappoint! Pay the $10 fee to drive in and take all the pictures you can handle because these towering moss covered trees are as beautiful in person as they are in the pictures. We also ate a ton of great food in Savannah, can you say fried green tomatoes?! In this episode we cover where to eat in Savannah GA including a few places we didn't have the stomach space or time for, but would definitely do when we go again. This episode is your Savannah GA travel guide, but if you have any questions for your upcoming trip, do not hesitate to email or DM us on Instagram. This trip extended in Charleston, Congaree, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Asheville, NC so make sure to check out those episodes too if you want to do a week road trip exploring the US south too. Travel Itineraries on Sale Now! Explore our instant download trip itineraries for trips to iconic USA, international, and National Park destinations that plan every detail of the adventure for you. On sale for $30! travelsquadpodcast.com/travelitinerary Shop our favorite travel gear, packing lists, and gifts for travelers on our Amazon Shop https://www.amazon.com/shop/travelsquadpodcast  Connect with us on Social Media: YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram  Jamal: @jamal_marrush Brittanie:@bucketlist_brittanie Kim: @lushdeez  Email us at travelsquadpodcast@gmail.com to discuss: Being a guest on our podcast or having the squad on yours Ask a Question of the Week --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/travel-squad-podcast/support

The Bell Witch is a legendary figure rooted in Southern American folklore, specifically in Adams, Tennessee, where it is said to have haunted the Bell family during the early 19th century. Described as a malevolent, shape-shifting entity, the witch is most famous for tormenting patriarch John Bell until his mysterious death, and baffling even future President Andrew Jackson with its supernatural activities. The tale remains a staple in ghost stories and paranormal discussions, leaving many to ponder the fine line between historical events and eerie myth.

On a recent Harvesting Nature Field to Fork wild pig camp in Texas, butcher extraordinaire Adam Steele and I were driving from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport to Jacksboro where the camp was being held. We were both feeling quite peckish, so I had Adam look up a potential spot to stop for lunch along the way. “How about a Texas roadhouse?” he asked. Bingo. We grabbed a table under the watchful eyes of mounted deer and longhorn cattle heads and looked around at walls festooned with Lone Star flags and Texas memorabilia. We decided to get a Texan kind of meal, so we ordered some sweet teas, a big bowl of queso, and some chicken fried steaks. I intimated to the waitress that I'd never had chicken fried steak before, and she let out a big whoop, drawing the attention of the rest of the staff. The thought of a Canadian who had never even tried the dish before tickled them pink, and they all stood there and watched me take my first bite – delicious! The dish I made here is a nod to that lunch and to Texas as a whole. I combined both parts of our meal, the steak, and the queso, and made it wild-based with elk bottom round steaks. I turned the queso into a gravy, which gets poured over the chicken fried elk, replacing the traditional white gravy usually served with it. Feel free to swap the elk out with any lean red meat. Read the written version of this recipe as prepared by Adam Berkelmans (The Intrepid Eater) Rate this Podcast  Listen to our other podcasts here Buy our Small Batch Wild Food Spice Blends  About Chicken Fried Steak Chicken fried steak is a Southern American dish (not a South American dish!) consisting of a cube steak, dredged in flour, dipped in egg wash, dredged in flour a second time, and then fried in lard or oil, ideally in a cast iron skillet. It is most often served in the aforementioned white gravy, with mashed potatoes on the side.  For those listeners unfamiliar with what a cube steak is, it is generally a thin piece of top round or sirloin that has been pounded and tenderized in a process called cubing - so called due to the square indentations left on the meat. This is usually done by a mechanical tenderizer these days.  Cube steak is also sometimes known as bucket steak, named for the cardboard buckets in which the steaks are sometimes sold, or minute steaks, named for the amount of time needed to cook them. Northerners and Canadians like me might be most familiar with the minute steak moniker.  The reason it is called chicken fried steak is due to the way in which it is prepared and cooked - much like southern fried chicken.  You can actually even find chicken fried chicken in the South as well. What could that possibly be??? Chicken fried chicken points to chicken prepared like chicken fried steak, which in turn points to steak prepared like fried chicken. Confused yet? Where normal fried chicken will usually be bone-in pieces of chicken, chicken fried chicken will be a flattened tenderized piece of boneless chicken that was dredged in flour, dunked in egg wash, dredged again, then fried… just like chicken fried steak. Don't worry, it took a while for me to wrap my head around it too.  About Adam Berkelmans: Adam Berkelmans, also known as The Intrepid Eater, is a passionate ambassador for real food and a proponent of nose-to-tail eating. He spends his time between Ottawa and a cozy lake house north of Kingston, Ontario. When not cooking, he can be found hunting, fishing, foraging, gardening, reading, traveling, and discovering new ways to find and eat food. Follow Adam on Instagram Visit the Intrepid Eater website  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I love a bit of Southern Rock n Roll..slide guitar...Tennesse bourbon and some good old stomp. That's what you get from this great Southern American rock band. I was taken aback by the album cover of Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown's new album Shake the Roots. A grungy cowboy-looking dude with a steel guitar strapped across his shoulder, well that's enough to get my interest. Add to this a great selection of blues, and rock, with distinctive roots from way back, and you have my full attention. Join me this week as we check out this great band Tyler Byrant and the Shakedown. Along with all the usual fun and games and shout out from the head Honcho Adam at easy Rider Tenerife motorcycle rentals and tours in the Canary Islands. There is some real noise going on now also about the new 24/7 Ride Time Radio Station as it's just signed up for its own frequency covering the whole south coast of Tenerife get ready for 102 FM.   Easy Rider Tenerife - Southcoast. Motorcycle Rental Tenerife Edf. Clara Toledo, Local 5/6, Calle Moraditas, Las Chafiras, Tenerife, 38639. We are above Banco Santander!   Easy Rider Tenerife - Westcoast Motorcycle Rental Tenerife Puerto De La Cruz Office, C/ Candias Bajas 29 C.P 38312, La Orotava, Tenerife.   CONTACT US Guides: +34 639 845 346 Office: +34 922 703 793 Emergency: +34 686 017 773 Breakdown Service: +34 900 101 369 Email - ride@easyridertenerife.com Web - easyridertenerife.com Guided Tour Packages https://tenerifemotorcycletours.com     RADIO SHOW:  24/7 Rock non Stop! Ridetimeradio.com  Also… Atlantico FM Santa Cruz • 88.3 FM La Laguna • 91.7 FM Zona sur • 94.7 FM Zona Norte • 88.1 FM Icod de los Vinos • 102.6 FM Every Sunday at 8pm   Socials: Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UC6YnHt4X1b4cI4ChvvFw0ug Instagram - @easyridertenerifeclassicbikes Facebook - Easy Rider Tenerife Twitter - twitter.com/easytenerife Podcast - easyridertenerife.podbean.com Linktree - linktr.ee/Easyridertenerife  Buy Me A Beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/EasyT   As seen on Freddie Dobbs…https://youtu.be/XITU0GMAnWc   You can now download our latest motorcycle tour app online…..   Andriod https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Easy%20rider%20tenerife&c=apps   Apple https://apps.apple.com/es/app/easy-rider-tenerife/id6446490120?l=en   . .⁣ #ridetimeradio #motorbikehiretenerife #harleydavidsontenerife #bikerstenerife #triumphtenerife #motorbikerentaltenerife  #freddie_dobbs #freddiedobbs  #motorbikes #motorcyclesforrenttenerife  #easyridervolcanhunt #cazavolcanestenerife  #motoguzzirentaltenerife   #volcanohunttenerife #rentamotorcycleintenerife  #royalenfieldtenerife  #masquemotos  #moto4funtenerife  #topaciotenerife

Martin Theis stumbled into shamanism by chance when his best friend attended a workshop at the urging of his girlfriend. Intrigued by the concept of finding one's spirit animal through a totem animal journey, Martin embarked on his own spiritual journey. Prior to this, he had no involvement with spirituality and felt disconnected from the world. Martin specializes in drum-based shamanism, without the use of medicinal plants. He recognizes that there are various approaches and traditions within shamanism, such as plant or medicine-based practices. His mentor, who practices Southern American shamanism from the Peruvian Andes, introduced him to a different interpretation of the medicine wheel. Despite the variations, Martin found resonance in the teachings from the Lakota and chose to remain with that lineage. After returning to Germany, Martin continued to learn and grow under the guidance of his original mentor, who he has been with for over ten years. https://www.lighttrails.co/webinar-series/   On this episode of Spiritual Dope, host Brandon Handley welcomes guest Martin Theis to discuss their unique approach to life coaching through shamanic journeys. Martin explains how these journeys connect with the subconscious, higher self, and guidance, allowing clients to receive answers, guidance, and healing. Unlike traditional coaching, Martin emphasizes that they do not give instructions but instead focus on the client's stated intention. They believe strongly in this transformative work, as it helps individuals find their own solutions, tapping into the answers they already possess. Martin shares their own spiritual journey, highlighting the struggles and disconnection they experienced before discovering shamanism. They delve into the different approaches to shamanism, including plant-based or medicine-based journeys and the use of a drum. Martin's specific teachings come from Southern American shamanism from the Peruvian Andes, which incorporates unique power and transformational processes. They also touch on the importance of self-care for empathetic individuals and how to hold space for others without losing energy. Martin discusses the significance of shamanism in reconnecting with nature and spirituality, especially in Western cultures where spirituality has been lost. They emphasize the importance of breathing techniques in dealing with negative events and sensations in the body. Martin also shares their webinar offering, the 16-week system they use to work with individuals on specific intentions and shamanic journeys. Through their personal story of struggle and self-doubt, Martin highlights how shamanic journeys have the potential to help individuals in profound ways. Join Brandon and Martin as they dive deep into the transformative power of shamanic journeys on this episode of Spiritual Dope.  

This episode was written as an epic Pride Season gift to our beloved Patreon subscribers, but given recent Supreme Court rulings and the fresh wave of anti-LGBTQ+ mouth diarrhea that SCOTUS fuckery spawned, it seemed an important story to release into the wild. Because while it might sound like a joke, few things are more epic, gayer, AND more prescient in these polarized times than the largely forgotten sliver of wildly queer pro wrestling history called “The Goldust Era,” which officially began on October 15, 1995. There's even a hero in this salacious tale of WWE executives exploiting homophobia for profit: Dustin Runnels, veteran pro wrestling superstar and outspoken advocate for LGBTQ folk. Runnels' arc from a wounded little boy to Southern American hero, to the most hated man in wrestling, to redeemed role model and father of a trans kid is equal parts heartwarming and unhinged and is compelling even if you've never once watched a body slam live on Pay Per View. It's also a major thread in pro wrestling's long history of selling the gayest heat imaginable to audiences that, by and large, see themselves as heterosexual patriots with no ties to the LGBTQ community, despite participating in one of the most homoerotic art forms on the planet. Heads Up: There's hate speech and LGBTQ slurs in this episode, and not because we condone it. (People really said some wildshit on TV in the 90s.)Support the show

This week we soak in the tub with Elena Stonaker, a long-time collaborator and multi-disciplinary artist whose artwork you may recognize from many of our Secular Sabbath environments, such as our giant green snake and larger-than-life mushrooms. Elena is a full-time ethereal artist, living in her whimsical inner landscape. A lot of her art is born out of her bedroom. In this episode, Elena and I reminisce on the earliest moments of our personal friendship through exploring an unconventional way of socializing that has come to define us both, and a live drawing class that would be imbued into the framework of Secular Sabbath.Elena was inspired to host a live drawing class in her home after taking a figure drawing class in art school and painting on (her friend) Sarah Buckley's body. Hosting a loosely-led class in the landscape of her soft sculptures was a way for Elena to hold space for others to be creative, while simultaneously and perhaps unintentionally, creating an unprecedented way for others to relax and hang out in Los Angeles.Art and creativity ooze throughout Elena's life, whether it is in the business or personal realm. Elena shares about the benefits and learning opportunities that exist in being a self-employed full-time artist. An example she describes is a commission from a friend - the opportunity to create a cat couch soft sculpture. She has learned from these experiences how to navigate expressing her own creative impetus, while collaborating with someone else's vision and what they want as an end product. She compares commissions to giving birth to a child. And the metaphor sticks in our minds.Coming from the lineage of creative resourceful parents, Elena was encouraged to explore an artistic life. Elena remembers a distinct adolescent moment when her surprise birthday party became a core memory, where her ethereal homelife clashed with her traditional assimilated school life. This led her into a melting pot of life in the inner and outer world coming together. Through working with beads in her art, Elena creates a meditative process which she describes as sowing prayers which originates from Southern American indigenous cultures. Beads became a staple in her art because she sees them as something small; when in a collective multitude, beads create something magnificent. Elena strives to portray a childlike space to experience feelings. From her “Big Mama” to our Secular Sabbath snake and green mushrooms, Elena creates a place for community to be held. Listen now to take a glance into Elena's ethereal inner landscape! To join Secular Sabbath membership, you can find us at secular-sabbath.com/membership. Joining grants you access to our Inner Circle community of sensory-exploring like-minded people, where you can gather with us locally in LA for monthly meet-up experiences, and pop-up events around the globe, and partake in our exclusive ambient online community. Ready to dive into the dialogue deeper? Join us on our Discord channel.See what we get up to at @secularsabbath.

"Birthdays are participation medals of life." - John Morgan It's always a treat when on your birthday, John Morgan III tells you he wishes you well and respects your work in your business, and that he also doesn't give a sh*t it's your birthday. In this week's episode, Amer shares his experience of visiting Omaha to see Warren Buffet along with his experience of witnessing some fantastical stereotypes of a Southern American (guns and beer guts) Later in the episode, Austin, Amer, and John discuss their relationships with meditation - Austin who has entropied some time away from the practice, John who practices in waves, and Amer who practices meditating on weekdays. John mentions that using Sam Harris' app, "Waking Up", he received a a notification message from Sam Harris that said "I envy your meditation streak", which John found charming because he did actually feel like his consistency had improved from being aware of this streak. However, Sam Harris' message continued to explain that if you're only present to satisfy your streak, we've really missed the mark on what the intentions of mediating should be. There are no participation medals for meditating. There's no credit if you tell others. There's not even a benefit for you if you haven't participated correctly in the practice. Ultimately, you are either able to live your life completely, or you are not. Take this episode as a reminder to audit your intentions in meditation. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's episode of The Weekly Call. Resources Sam Harris' Meditation App - "Waking Up" (www.wakingup.com) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

Jusnah Gadi is a music business educator and founder of Young Music Boss which is a resource hub and network building tool for young music entrepreneurs and creatives. YMB aims to prepare the next generation of music industry professionals as well as build an alliance among young music creatives, entrepreneurs and relevant music associations. At the heart of YMB is the desire to empower young professionals through our online content, events, educational tools and consultancy services. Jusnah is also the Co-founder of Hot N Juicy Shrimp LDN, which brings authentic Southern American flavours to the UK.  Jusnah is fast becoming a formidable and much needed force in the music industry. Jusnah is also passionate about developing the ecosystem of the Tanzanian music industry and consults various artist teams guiding them on how to maximize income and building a solid infrastructure around their artist.  In this episode Alicia and Jusnah discuss: Building credibility by gaining expertise  Her career journey in Law and why Music Law interested her  How to handle a No and building long term relationships Navigating her way throughout the music industry and why she startedYoung Music Boss The successes and failures of running a fast food business - Facing your failures Why Young Music Boss awards is Needed and one of the fastest growing award events Connect with Jusnah Gadi -  https://www.instagram.com/diamondlanelondon/?hl=en Young Music Boss - https://www.instagram.com/youngmusicboss/?hl=en  - https://www.youngmusicboss.com/ TES - https://www.instagram.com/tesentspace/?hl=en  YMG Awards - https://www.instagram.com/ymbawards/?hl=en  Hot n Juicy Shrimp - https://www.hotnjuicyshrimpldn.co.uk/  

Today's episode takes a bit of a detour outside of our typical topics about communities and challenges in rural America.    Scott Beyer joins us again on the Forgotten America Podcast - this time to discuss the Scott Beyer Market Urbanism World Tour, where he is exploring 40 cities across 3 regions for a year and a half, to see how the fast pace of development in the Global South can inform free-market policy and urban issues in a broader context.    Garrett talks with Scott just after he has completed the first segment of his worldwide tour in Latin America. He shares the differences he is seeing between Southern American countries and North America in terms of our cultures, levels of regulation, and the way we build our cities. He also discusses the importance of the rule of law, free-markets, and other freedom values that could help these cities in the Global South become more prosperous. On the flip-side, Scott also shares how at the smallest levels, some of these countries are even freer and less regulated than the United States - there are even some cities that are entirely privately owned!    While our podcast focuses primarily on rural America, the lines between urban and rural can often be a bit blurry, so let's join Garrett & Scott to see what we can learn from Scott's exploration of world-wide urbanism through a free-market lens. Maybe we'll find solutions to the challenges that are facing us in our very own communities.   Resources Large City Rankings Tokyo  Dheli Shanghai Sao Paulo Mexico City Cairo Mumbai Beijing Dhaka Osaka New York Karachi Buenos Aires Chongqing Istanbul Favelas - working class neighborhoods in Brazil (Scott compares these to the homes West Virginians build up into the hills and the ways in which trailer park communities are organized in some rural communities)   How to Follow Scott Beyer's Work Market Urbanism Report The Market Urbanism Podcast Market Urbanism Report Facebook Group Scott's previous episode on Forgotten America: Ep.004: The Jagged Heart of Appalachia  Twitter: @sbcrosscountry or @marketurbanist  Instagram: @market_urbanism_report Follow Scott's World Tour at the Independent Institute: Catalyst   ---------- Garrett Ballengee, Host Executive Director - @gballeng Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy   Amanda Kieffer, Executive Producer Communications Director - @akieffer13  Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy   Tony Reed, Editor & Producer Associate Director of Operations - @treed1134 International Center for Law & Economics   Follow: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram Support: Patreon, Donate, Newsletter

Jamila West is the owner of Rosie's in Miami. Jamila began working in restaurants at the age of 16 as a buster. She attended and graduated from both the C.I.A. and Johnson and Wales. She worked for upscale restaurants in New York, LA, Kuwait, Dubai, and Miami. She and Chef Akino West opened The Copper Door, a bed and breakfast, in Miami, which operated from 2018-2020. They transitioned that business into the currently thriving Rosie's Miami, a full-service Southern-American restaurant. Unstoppables! Please consider taking this survey about our listener demographics so that we can better determine how to best serve our listeners. Less than 10 simple questions. Here is the link: CLICK HERE Show notes… Calls to ACTION!!! Join Restaurant Unstoppable Network and get your first 30 days on me!  Connect with my past guest and a community of superfans. Subscribe to the Restaurant Unstoppable YouTube Channel Join the private Unstoppable Facebook Group Join the email list! (Scroll Down to get the Vendor List!) Favorite success quote/mantra: "Capitalize on things that are easy for you." In this episode with Jamila West we will discuss: Self-awareness Graduating from both the C.I.A. and Johnson and Wales Working Kuwait as a young restaurant professional Restaurant openings Training Being in business with your significant other Mental health in the industry Today's sponsor: For restaurants, large costs can pop up fast, but traditional loans are too slow. That's why you need Zinch – They're a direct lender that can fund up to $250,000 in less than 2 days. Apply online and you can get a response within 24 hours. Right now, my listeners get their application fee waived by going to financingthatworks.com. Loans made or arranged pursuant to a California Finance Lenders Law license. Join the 60-day Restaurant Systems Pro FREE TRAINING. This is something that has never been done before. This 60-day event is at no cost to you, but it is not for everyone. Fred Langley, CEO of Restaurant Systems Pro, will lead a group of restaurateurs through the Restaurant Systems Pro software and set up the systems for your restaurant. During the 60 days, Fred will walk you through the Restaurant Systems Pro Process and help you crush the following goals: Recipe Costing Cards; Guidance in your books for accounting; Cash controls; Sales Forecasting(With Accuracy); Checklists; Budgeting for the entire year; Scheduling for profit; More butts in seats and more… Click Here to learn more. Knowledge bombs Which “it factor” habit, trait, or characteristic you believe most contributes to your success? Sense of people What is your biggest weakness? Organization What's one thing you ask or look for when interviewing/growing your team? Smile What's a current challenge? How are you dealing with it? Evolving the business financially Share one code of conduct or behavior you teach your team. Have pride in what you are doing What is one uncommon standard of service you teach your staff? Uniform choice What's one book we must read to become a better person or restaurant owner? Setting The Table by Danny Meyer GET THIS BOOK FOR FREE AT AUDIBLE.COM  What's one piece of technology you've adopted within your restaurant walls and how has it influence operations? xtraCHEF What is one thing you feel restaurateurs don't do well enough or often enough? Being on the floor and out of the office If you got the news that you'd be leaving this world tomorrow and all memories of you, your work, and your restaurants would be lost with your departure with the exception of 3 pieces of wisdom you could leave behind for the good of humanity, what would they be? Give back to your community Lead by example Have fun Contact: Instagram: @rosiesmia Website: https://www.rosiesmia.com/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining today! Have some feedback you'd like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for the Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. Huge thanks to Jamila West for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time! Restaurant Unstoppable is a free podcast. One of the ways I'm able to make it free is by earning a commission when sharing certain products with you. I've made it a core value to only share tools, resources, and services my guest mentors have recommend, first. If you're finding value in my podcast, please use my links!

Adapt or perish is a famous quote known to many. But how is it applicable to the marketing and growth of a company?In a constantly changing world, companies that are able to adapt to new trends and technologies stand the highest chance of thriving compared to those which fail to adapt. This episode features, Vitor Pecanha, a renowned marketing leader, to discuss the ongoing technological changes in the world and how content companies can best strategize and benefit from the changes. Vitor discusses how he copied ideas from the US, redesigned them to suit the Brazilian market, and started a leading marketing firm in the Southern American region. He also dives into the hot topic of AI and shares his thoughts on how companies can make the best use of the current developing and trending technology. Vitor Peçanha is a renowned marketing leader in Brazil, known for his innovative strategies and entrepreneurial spirit. He is the co-founder and former CMO of Rock Content, a leading content marketing company in Brazil.Vitor is also a sought-after speaker and thought leader, sharing his insights on marketing and entrepreneurship at conferences and events around the world. He is passionate about using technology and creativity to solve complex business problems and drive innovation in the marketing industry.TopicsWeaving Ideas into a CompanyAdopting Ideas in a New MarketSelecting the right Writers for the CompanyMistakes when Communicating with WritersThe Influence of AI Content Writing ToolsData Privacy in digital marketingWhy Should We Kill the Term Content Marketing?Show LinksCheck Out Rock ContentConnect with Vitor Pecanha on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TwitterConnect with Omniscient Digital on LinkedIn or TwitterPast guests on The Long Game podcast include: Morgan Brown (Shopify), Ryan Law (Animalz), Dan Shure (Evolving SEO), Kaleigh Moore (freelancer), Eric Siu (Clickflow), Peep Laja (CXL), Chelsea Castle (Chili Piper), Tracey Wallace (Klaviyo), Tim Soulo (Ahrefs), Ryan McReady (Reforge), and many more.Some interviews you might enjoy and learn from:Actionable Tips and Secrets to SEO Strategy with Dan Shure (Evolving SEO)Building Competitive Marketing Content with Sam Chapman (Aprimo)How to Build the Right Data Workflow with Blake Burch (Shipyard)Data-Driven Thought Leadership with Alicia Johnston (Sprout Social)Purpose-Driven Leadership & Building a Content Team with Ty Magnin (UiPath)Also, check out our Kitchen Side series where we take you behind the scenes to see how the sausage is made at our agency:Blue Ocean vs Red Ocean SEOShould You Hire Writers or Subject Matter Experts?How Do Growth and Content Overlap?Connect with Omniscient Digital on social:Twitter: @beomniscientLinkedin: Be OmniscientListen to more episodes of The Long Game podcast here: https://beomniscient.com/podcast/

Megan and Wendy review Hallmark Channel's newest movie "Welcome to Valentine" starring Kathryn Davis and Marian Tarasiuk. This movie premiered on February 18, 2023 as part of the channel's Loveuary line up. What did you think about this Valentine movie? Email the show at meganandwendy@gmail.com. Girls Gone Hallmark is a weekly Hallmark movie review podcast. This week, Megan and Wendy, review "Welcome to Valentine." Hallmark Channel News Spotify playlists for Loveuary and "The Way Home" About "Welcome to Valentine" Previously titled “Valentine, Nebraska.” This movie was filmed in Kemptville, Ontario in early December.  Valentine, Nebraska is a real place. Actor Markian Tarasiuk describes the movie as “When Harry Met Sally, with a Southern American flair.” Markian Tarasiuk plays George. Recently seen him in "Christmas at the Golden Dragon" and "Our Italian Christmas Memories." Kathryn Davis is from Bath, England. She has 23 acting credits. Baeyen Hoffman plays nephew Mickey. We've also recently seen him as young Danny on “The Way Home.” Written by Jen Bashian and Stefanie Abel Horowitz. Jen Bashian is known for improv and sketch comedy. She has two other writing credits on IMDB including a short called “This Remains” and Tubi Original called “Frankie Meets Jack” starring Joey Lawrence and Anne Heche. Stefanie Abel Horowitz has five writing credits, including two shorts, an episode of a Disney+ show called “Lauchpad” and a movie called “Sometimes I Think About Dying” which has decent IMDB reviews. Stefan Brogren directed. This is his first Hallmark movie. He has 15 directing credits including a series called “Holly Hobbie” as well as several “Degrassi” movies.

The Bell Witch legend is one of the most recognized examples of the unexplained in Southern American lore. How did the legend take hold of and define a small town in Tennessee?   Want more Southern Mysteries?  Hear the Southern Mysteries show archive and immediately access exclusive content when you become a patron of the show.  Join now at patreon.com/southernmysteries Connect Website: southernmysteries.com Facebook: Southern Mysteries Podcast Twitter: @southernpod_ Instagram: @explorethesouth Email: southernmysteriespodcast@gmail.com  Episode Sources Bell Witch lore spins dark tale, but could science explain it all?. The Tennessean. October 28, 2021 Tennessee Myths and Legends. Tennessee State Library and Archives.  The Year of the Witch. Tennessee Historical Society. October 13, 2017 John William Bell. Findagrave.  The Mark of the Bell Witch (Documentary). Seth Breedlove, Small Town Monsters. 2020 Historian, descendant recount Bell Witch legend. Associated Press. November 4, 2018 Episode Music Industrial Music Box. Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under a Creative Commons. Theme Song “Dark & Troubled” by Pantherburn. Special thanks to Phillip St Ours for permission for use  

Savraya is a singer-songwriter referred to me by a mutual songwriting friend from Louisiana, Tommy Ike Hailey. She's just starting her lyrical life and it's always an honor and privilege to be the first radio or podcast experience for a young artist like this. Living in places like Nashville, Ft. Worth and the Mississippi Gulf Coast near New Orleans gives her a unique perspective on Southern American music with roots, blues, jazz, country, hip hop, pop, and even Cajun in the mix. Gifted with her first guitar at 16, she started writing songs and playing open mics. Dad's job transferred the family back to Nashville and she started playing songwriter rounds and recording with Michael McAdam and great Nashville musicians including Jimmy Lester, and Dave Roe who had worked with Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum and many more. Another transfer back to Mississippi and Savraya started to write new material and gigging all over the Gulf Coast. She claims no specific genre with an open mind to past and present influences. Her second release “Glass Ball” finished first in the 2021 Ozone Songwriting competition. She works with regional videographer Chaz Singleton (Astroclown Productions) who has shot videos for hip hop artists including Juvenile, Choppa, Young Bleu, and the Ying Yang Twins. Savraya is a unique artist with powerful vocals and meaningful lyrics for one so young! Enjoy this early morning conversation and musical performance with Savraya.

Defend It Yourself continues, with She's The Man (2006). Stew from Stew World Hors D'oeuvre (aka Stew World Order). Sean tries to be structured for once. Random Discussion Points: -Sean won't use the S word. -The many, many links to the Final Destination film series. -Sean tries to do an Southern American accent, sorry. -Stew tries a British accent, "football". -Sean's dream is to appear on Final Destination DVD cover art. -Taking the Pith (Everyone's favourite unknown podcast ending word-game) Returns! Random Questions of the episode: -Do you need your parent's permission to leave the United States? -Where is the brother's jet lag? -Why does America have to be different? -What' with Vinnie Jones's accent in this film? -How the hell does Sean manage to equate Final Destination 5 with The Sixth Sense? Random Quotes of the episode: -"Oh not another sh*tty American comedy" -"Mrs Doubtfire meets Mean Girls". -"American football is like rugby without the excitement". -"This episode is so much less my defending She's The Man and more my learning about the Final Destinations and Soccer". -"I'm doing more for UK-US relations than the President or Prime Minister put together". Random Film Recommendation: -Mean Machine (2001) -Final Destination (2000) -Final Destination 2 (2003) -Final Destination 3 (2006) -The Final Destination (2009) -Final Destination 5 (2011) *Bert Trautmann was the German goalkeeper who played a match with a broken neck* Thanks for listening!

The next generation of culinary artisans are changing up the industry. These artisans have a whole new approach to reaching and satisfying the next generation consumer. In this podcast we will explore chefs and artisans from around the world diving into their story and passion. In this episode of Chef AF, I chat with the owners Jamila and Akino West of Rosie's, a Southern-American, NY-style café that has progressed from a simple to-go concept to a full-service restaurant, offering feel-good soul food brunch with subtle Italian nuances and classic techniques. The couple has thirty years experience in the food and beverage industry and were nationally celebrated by Vogue Magazine, The New York Times and Travel + Leisure magazine when they opened the Copper Door Bed and Breakfast in 2017. The West's are utilizing the culinary skills at Rosie's with a chef-driven menu. Chef Akino West's career spans from working for James Beard award winning Chef Michael Schwartz in Miami and three-Michelin starred NOMA, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jamila West graduated from The Culinary Institute of America and has worked for James Beard award winning Chef Jose Andres via the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills and South Beach. West transitioned to the front of house management in the Middle East opening multiple locations of Katsuya, a Japanese concept. I talk to the Wests about being married and being business partners, they talk about the challenges but both as individuals had big dreams. Both being workaholics were very driven by food, hospitality and their professional careers. Jamila says, “ I think that there were just synergies while we were dating so we ended up committing in different ways on a very serious level. We bought our first house together before being married, we opened up our business together before being married, so we had that. We had this growing relationship for about six years.” The couple shares that Rosie's was created out of a pivot when it came to the pandemic. They were operating a twenty-two room bed and breakfast where they were doing fifty covers at a small communal table that turned every thirty minutes out of a residential kitchen. Jamila and Akino always considered themselves restaurant people and have relied on their expertise from a culinary and hospitality perspective. To hear how the Wests went from opening Rosie's in Miami as a simple to-go concept to a full-service restaurant and their commitment to the community plus get their recipe for Lemon Ricotta Pancakes, check out this episode of Chef AF “It's All Food” or you can listen at Spotify!

Dan was on assignment elsewhere to talk wine and barbecue, so he and Paul riff on some thinking about how awesome New York and northeast wines are, particularly with traditional, Southern American barbecue. Then the conversation turns to new and exciting tasting room experiences worth checking out. Hosts: Dan Belmont & Paul Brady Editor: Dan Belmont Publisher: Cork Report Media

XXI. While the sumptuous dinner parties and grand country house weekends of years past may have vanished, the secrets of elegant entertaining and hospitality live on.  Nancy Lancaster and Nancy Astor, two American born women, entered upper class British society in the early 20th century and brought the traditions of great Southern American hospitality to some of England's greatest estates including the renowned Cliveden. In recent years, Emily Astor and Jane Churchill, descendants of Nancy Lancaster and Nancy Astor, have continued the tradition and share its elements with today's hosts and hostesses in Entertaining in Style (Rizzoli), their book of history, memories and recipes.Join the Gilded Gentleman and both Emily and Jane for a look back at the tables of the two Nancys and particularly Nancy Lancaster's vision, which led to what we think of as great English Country House look and style. Visit the Gilded Gentleman website.

**Listen to Podcasts at least speed x1.5.... A short look at the ancient Andean - Pre-Spanish conquest - Southern American civilisations. Includes The Inca but is not limited to them.#Caral-Supe#Valdivia #Chavín #Nazca #Moche #Chachapoyas #Wari #Tiwanaku #Chimú #Inca Empire #History Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John's Old Time Radio Show ZAC SALEM ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK – “BEAUTIFUL OLD MUSIC OF SOUTH AMERICA”. Wonderful early Southern American string band & ensemble records from the collections of Arhoolie Records producer Zac Salem and yours truly … Continue reading →

Episode 45 of the #DesideratumPodcast features Donna Everhart and her new novel #TheSaintsOfSwallowHill The story takes us somewhere I'd never heard of - a Turpentine Camp. Donna's characters suffer - but that's the way she likes it - struggle provides a path to perseverance and growth. Listen as Donna shares how steeped in reality this story's suffering really is. The audiobook was produced by Tantor Audio a division of Recorded Books and narrated by Amy Melissa Bentley who has performed over 200 audiobooks. She has an Audiofile Earphones Award, and she has a real gift for dialects from Russian to New Yorker to the Southern American you hear in this performance. Thanks to Vida at Kensington Books for connecting me to Donna. For Desideratum listeners, Kensington generously provides the discount code DP20 to save 20 percent across their incredible library. Also, please look for The Saints of Swallow Hill on Libro.fm Using this affiliate link supports the podcast and a local book store of your choice at Libro.fm. As always, Thank you for listening. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theresa-bakken/support

Our guest is Whit Johnson who is the co-founder of Horyzon Spirits based in Atlanta, Georgia. Whit founded Hryzon Spirits in April 2021 to produce very unique products that blend Japanese tradition and American terroir. More specifically, he chose to use Japanese koji mold, which is the foundational ingredient of Japanese cuisine, to produce his spirits instead of malts. Also, he uses Carolina Gold rice, which reflects the rich history of American South agriculture. It is very exciting to see how the two cultures are beautifully merged in his products. In this episode, we will discuss how Whit got into the spirit industry after his successful career in an entirely different industry, the difference between koji and malt-based fermentation, how a traditional Southern American rice naturally merges Japanese traditional koji, and much, much more!!!  Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.

Martin X. Henson is an activist and organizer who makes his home currently in Boston, MA. Martin founded and is the executive director of an organization called the BMen Foundation, which helps provide safe spaces and mental health support for Black men. During our chat, Martin talks about what led him to work as an advocate and activist, discusses the occasionally dicey relationship between Black men and mental health, and considers the future of the recent political uprisings in the U.S. He also shares his self-care regimen and ponders the difference between Southern American racism and Northern American racism. 

Episode# 85 The second to last episode of 2021. The guys gather up to talk about the youngest president at 35 in the Southern American country of Chile. Do you think Elon Musk pays taxes? Find out whos singing to ghosts. #45 gets the booster. Kim Jung Un is not messing around in North Korea. Manny and Enzo have a discussion about Christmas.

Audarshia is live at Soho House Chicago with chef Erick Williams for a candid and provocative talk about race as well as the progress of Southern American cuisine.

John Hudson and the mighty Bobby Hazzard return to discuss this late 80's mystical mystery filmed in Miami. Directed by Sergio Martino, AMERICAN RICKSHAW (1989) surely would not be nearly as entertaining or as coherent if it had been handled by someone with less experience behind the camera. Juggling enough disparate elements for two movies Martino somehow makes it all come together in a mad mishmash of sex criminals, televangelists, magical fires, mysterious ladies and the stolen pig idol that starts the whole crazed affair. Along the way we are witness to Donald Pleasence drifting in and out of a Southern American accent which might be worth the price of the Blu-Ray all on its own. Our hero is played by Olympian Mitch Gaylord and, for some reason, his performance gets better the more unshaven and sweatier he becomes. Maybe desperation breeds more believable acting in professional athletes? Our conversation meanders all over the film and its various strange elements as we attempt to come to grips with the way that the plot is both insane and – eventually – straightforward. Of course, it is impossible from the start to realize that this tale of a poor college student working as a rickshaw driver in Miami will transform into the endgame of a decades long mystic war between rival sorcerers so I think it is understandable that we can't maintain a straight-line plot discussion. In fact, it might just be impossible to talk about AMERICAN RICKSHAW in a completely linear fashion. There are simply too many things going on all at the same time! Luckily, I think we only lose track of what we're doing a couple of times with the worst moment being when we are nearly derailed by tales of small-town strip clubs. And Hudson is still obsessed with transparent simians. Of course. If you have any comments or questions thebloodypit@gmail.com is the email address where notes or recordings can be sent. Thank you for listening to the show and please let others know if you enjoy what we do here.

Perhaps no other industry has been hit harder in 2020 than hospitality. For chefs and restaurant industry staff, it’s been a year of pivoting and in many cases, rethinking the current models of food service. Chef Levon Wallace of Nashville, Tennessee took the pandemic as a welcome opportunity to experiment in his home kitchen. Before he knew it, the tasty treats he made for his kids turned into a new fast-casual concept that has found a lot of love (and plenty of mustard) in his city and beyond.  In this episode, we’ll talk about how the industry has had to adapt through the pandemic, the growth of fast-casual, the future of gastronomy, and the lessons we can take from the disruptions of 2020.  You’ll hear why it’s important to source food locally, and how to cultivate symbiotic relationships between chef’s and growers.  What we covered in this episode The concept behind Fat Belly Pretzels (4:28) How a business was born during the pandemic (6:33) Why adapting during the pandemic came naturally (9:59) Rethinking the industry post-pandemic (12:12) The European history of the pretzel (15:14) An outlook on the future of gastronomy (18:51) The differences between working for private or fast casual restaurants and being an entrepreneur (23:26) The connections between food and culture (29:01) Sourcing food responsibly and working with local producers (34:20) Simplicity and location as inspiration (36:37) A creative collaboration of Southern American, African, and Chinese influences (43:26) Nashville foodie hotspots you should add to your list How kitchens have become better with inclusion (51:08) Foraged flavors of the south (53:48) Series of rapid-fire questions Links to other episodes in Nashville Conversation with Chef Matt Bolus from the 404 Kitchen #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Cookie – Fatbelly Pretzel Pretzel by Chef Levon Wallace Chocolate Pretzel Babka – Fatbelly Pretzel Pimento Cheese Pretzel Babka by Chef Levon Wallace Click to tweet I decided to do what I know how to do best, which is doing something for someone else. That usually works nine times out of ten to get me out of any kind of situation. Click To Tweet It's that human connection, and who doesn't love a hot pretzel? It's kind of hard to get bummed out when you get a hot pretzel. Click To Tweet What's important to me in food are things that are handmade, homemade, simple, and good food made from real ingredients. Click To Tweet In the foodservice industry that's all we do is pivot. All we've ever done is adapt. You adapt and you overcome. Click To Tweet We went through a Renaissance period. And after the Renaissance comes the Age of Enlightenment. I'm excited for what the future of gastronomy will be, and I'm willing to accept that it may not be what it used to be, but I know that whatever it is, it will continue to inspire and grow. Click To Tweet Social media Fatbelly Pretzel Instagram Facebook Twitter Social media Chef Levon Wallace Instagram Twitter Facebook Linkedin Links mentioned in this episode Fatbelly Pretzel

Reed Watson, drummer and label manager at Single Lock Records in Florence, Alabama, discusses his experiences as a musician and the label's philosophy. They seek to be a platform for Southeastern musicians whose work, to quote their website "doesn't fit neatly into a specific category. Our goal is to gather and release an interesting and accurate collection of the best of Southern American music." He also talks about a collaboration between Single Lock and the Muscle Shoals Music Association to assist artists in financial need due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hi everybody. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I have an interview with food blogger and cookbook collector Julie Wallace. Julie has been collecting cookbooks since 2007. And her collection is almost 300 books. Her collection spans many authors, genres, and cultures. She grew up in Dallas, TX suburbs then moved to NYC in 2004. She collects lots of books featuring Texas/Tex-Mex recipes, as well as Cajun/Creole. Her mom is from central Louisiana, so I grew up eating lots of Cajun/Creole cuisine, as well as Southern American. Julie made sure she knew how to cook that food, as I discovered the hard way that cooking it yourself is literally the only way to access it in the NYC region. Do you want to get paid to write a cookbook? Before I dive in, I want to let you know that this episode of the podcast is sponsored by my free masterclass How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook. If you’re a food and nutrition expert and you’ve been thinking about writing a cookbook or if you’ve had an idea for a cookbook for a while but you’re not sure just how to get started this free masterclass is definitely for you. Go to www.cookbookwritersacademy.com/free to sign up for the training on demand. Things We Mention In This Episode: Julie Wallace Blog Jalapeno and Anchovies Alon Shaya Cookbook Donald Link Cajun Cookbooks Robb Walsh Tex-Mex Cookbooks John Besh My New Orleans Cookbooks Join Confident Cookbook Writer Facebook GroupLearn more about How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook during this free masterclass 

This is a very casual episode. We talk about southern words & phrases

When Ann's young husband died suddenly of a cardiac arrest, her world was understandably rocked. In today's episode, Ann Austin talks to Taryn Hayes about what she means by a startling statement that she often makes when reflecting on that time.  She talks also of her years as a missionary in Kenya and South Africa, as well as her current journey of caring for her husband, Tom, during a difficult cancer diagnosis and treatment.    EPISODE NOTES: Ann Austin counts herself a homemaker, a Bible study leader, and a women's mentor. But, she has also lived much of her life as a missionary in Kenya and South Africa for 25 years, along with her husband Tom. This included training others in chronological Bible storying workshops in Kenya and South Africa and leading oral inductive Bible studies for women prisoners in South Africa. Ann counts this experience as the most cross-cultural ministry experience of her 25 years on the mission field and one where she has never before felt so reliant on the Holy Spirit. Ann came to faith in Christ while in university through reading the book of Romans. She was struck by her sinfulness and need for a Saviour. Since then, the book of Romans has been a source of comfort and strength in many of her life situations. Ann is the mother of two adult daughters and grandmother to five littlies. NOTE FROM SHOW HOST: Many years ago, when I first met today's guest, she said something that has stuck with me ever since. It was that the emergency room is no place to figure out one's theology. She said this when telling me about the traumatic event of losing her first husband to a sudden cardiac arrest at a very young age. In our chat today, Ann will tell us the story and what she meant when she said that. You will notice a few things in our chat today - one will be Ann's beautiful Southern American accent. The other will be the not so beautiful audio glitches. As with many of our latest interviews, we have used Zoom and this time it was particularly glitchy. But, we've cleaned it up as best as possible and hopefully Ann's stories and wisdom will be what you most remember of this delightful and encouraging conversation.    LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:   A Sacred Sorrow - Michael Card      SHOW SNIPPETS:   “I've seen God heal and I've seen God not heal. I've seen it both ways. But it's the same Lord. And His grace has been there.” “I had nobody telling me that before God I needed to acknowledge my sin and bow before Him.” “That's really the one thing (the story of her husband's death) that I'm always happy to do even though it's very difficult.” “He (her late husband) went to sleep and his heart stopped.” “I remember thinking ‘Has God for a second taken His eyes away from us?'” “I knew that God is sovereign and that He is in control.” “He has an eternal perspective on goodness and I can only see the human side of it.” “The emergency room is no place to figure out your theology.” “If I would peg my Christian walk on my circumstances then I would have a rollercoaster of a life of faith.”   Can't see clickable links? Copy and paste this into your browser: tlpcwcw.podbean.com . . The Lydia Project: Conversations with Christian Women is a podcast co-hosted by Tori Walker and Taryn Hayes. It features informal chats with Christian women around faith, life, ministry and the ways in which God is shaping their thinking and their lives. The views of TLP guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the hosts.  

Tim Truong is the founder of Soulfu - an innovative restaurant combining Southeast Asian and Southern American cuisine. The restaurant is located in the North Loop of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Being 1/2 Vietnamese and 1/2 American, Tim felt like he wanted to create a restaurant that embodied who he was and was different than anything Minneapolis has seen. Tim has been cooking since age 11 in his parents restaurant, and 15 years later, his creation is born. Tim's journey has been filled with self-doubt, question marks, and unknown next steps, yet he never stopped working and never stopped pushing forward. In the interview, he attests to this. To acting despite fear being present. In this interview, we talk about: His relationship with his parents, The roller coaster of life, Action over self-doubt, and Founding Soulfu. Please REACH OUT with any questions you have, any topic you want to discuss, or any support you need! We are here to help make your dream life a reality. Instagram link https://www.instagram.com/dreamersinitiative/. Linkedin link https://www.linkedin.com/company/dreamersinitiative/. Twitter link https://twitter.com/dreamersdaily_. Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/dreamersinitiative1/. If you want to reach out to me - Tim Bishop - personally, hit me up at 612-710-4605 (this is my real number!) Go make those dreams a reality.

This is the 2nd episode of the 30 day podcast challenge and it's all about the movie Django Unchained and the gems it carries. In this I give you some fun facts about the movie and well give you a glimpse of the 0.0005 Southern American in Me

Our new reality is unprecedented. Should we stay positive? Is it okay to feel afraid? Should we prepare? What is happening in counties a little bit ahead of America? How can we help? All of this and more discussed from our personal perspectives in Italy and America in this conversation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/casey-kelley/message

Our guest is Marc Krampe who is the chef and owner of Southern Hospitality Kitchens in Lafayette, Louisiana.Marc has a unique relationship with Japanese cuisine through his wife’s heritage. His interest in Japanese food has developed over time and now he beautifully incorporates Japanese and Southern American elements on his dishes. Marc is also a chef devoted to sustainability. In this episode, we will discuss Marc's unique family background, how he studied Japanese cooking, his efforts to be local, sustainable and global at the same time, and much, much more!Japan Eats!  is powered by Simplecast. 

At the age of 23, Michela had almost completed her degree in psychology, it was at this point when she faced head-on the realisation that she was about to embark on the wrong career path.Inspired by her Grandfather's successful tyre company, and breaking the Southern American mould that women's purpose wasn't to work, Michela chose the route of real estate development in order to support renovating the land which her family's company sat on. Fast forward to 2020, Michela now leads development for some of the most innovative and sought-out projects across the capital and UK.Her knowledge of multifamily projects makes Michela an expert in the build-to-rent space. Earning herself the position as Board Member of British Property Federation Build to Rent Committee and United Kingdom Apartment Association as well as Vice Chairman of Urban Land Institute.There's only one way to discover the key to Michela's success. Listen to the podcast.

In this episode we talk about Fried Chicken from history to now. We discuss how the iconic Southern American dish has transcended many cultures to create some unique fusion within the culture. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/paul-pitts/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paul-pitts/support

One of LinkedIns most influential voices about Electric Vehicles, Roger Atkins has amassed nearly 300,000 followers over 15 years immersed in the accelerating disruption of the passenger vehicle market and all other forms of e-mobility. "From Electric Guitars to Electric Cars," this accomplished solo musician shares a lot in common with one Lithium-ion Rocks co-host including Southern American blues influences to Robert Plant and Mick Jagger. A chance breakfast encounter at Hotel California with Simon Moores at the Benchmark Minerals Cathodes conference planted the seed for this episode. Roger shares his astonishment that the automobile companies he watches pour billions into unproven autonomous technology ventures for the distant future,, but leave themselves “hostile to fortune” in a few years because they have not secured adequate critical mineral lithium supply. Lithium-ion Rocks also previews E24 with The BOSS #KeithPhillips of Nasdaq and ASX-listed #PiedmontLithium following their major milestone federal 404 permit for mine and concentrator. Podcast Index 0-3:15 Introduction of Roger Atkins & His Background 3:15-25 - Q&A with "Great Question" Rodney Hooper & Howard Klein PHEV vs. BEV debate? Will PHEVs be the dominant EV or will BEVs like Tesla be more popular? Sustainability? Climate Consciousness? How important is the battery supply chain carbon footprint to EV buyers in Europe? What is his sense about Europeans willingness to buy an EV if it costs more than ICE? Will they pay a premium to "do the right thing?" How important are EV buyer subsidies? Do OEMs recognize their "hostage to fortune" upstream lithium materials vulnerabilities? Will 2020 be the first year we see Tesla, Volkswagen or other auto OEMs allocate $1-2B checks not just to distant autonomous vehicle venture dreams, but to direct investments in mining and chemical production to address imminent hydroxide shortages? Which countries, projects are best placed to attract such investment/partnerships? 25-45 Interview with Keith Phillips of Piedmont Lithium Keith reflects on his 30 months since becoming The BOSS when Piedmont had only 500 acres and 19 drill holes, and, following a major milestone 404 permit for its mine and concentrator, discuss the path over the next 12 months to definitive feasibility study and full funding/final investment decision toward first battery quality lithium hydroxide production by 2023. Piedmont is listed on #ASX and #Nasdaq, ticker #PLL The company has no debt and a market cap of USD 60M. 100% of its production is available as off-take to prospective customers/partners/investors. PLL in July raised AUD21 M at 14.5 cents with large institutions adding a new 9% blue--chip investor, Fidelity International alongside Australia's largest institutional investor AusSuper Annuation, following their rights to maintain a 13% stake. PLL trades today at 11 cents, despite its lightning speed project advancement/permitting. Growing Up. Pink Cadillac. She's the OneSanta Claus is Coming to Town The BOSS — If you like Lithium-ion Rocks podcast and all other Howard Klein and Rodney Hoopers please consider contributing to our Tip Jar! www.patreon.com/lithiumionrocks Not investment advice. Do Your Own Research.

Doing good in the world doesn't mean you have to quit your job, sell all your possessions, and be a monk. There are simple and easy ways we can give back to our own communities every day. In this episode, I talk to Tara Brown about her experience doing charity work and how she uses her catering business as a vehicle to achieve her own dreams and help others at the same time. About Tara Brown Born and raised in Atlanta, USA but based in Madrid, Spain, Tara Brown is an aspiring chef. After a 3-month sabbatical working in a social kitchen in Israel, Tara Brown was inspired to jumpstart her cooking career and give back to her local community. Through her monthly Chicken and Waffles Brunch Parties, Tara brings Southern American food to Madrid, Spain. You can find Tara on Instagram. Find the show notes and more information about our community on . The jingle, Funny Polka, is from HookSounds.

Jade Edwards is a current undergraduate student at Emerson College. Culturally, she is a quarter Korean. In this episode we discuss the cultures that may have been lost in her family in the older generations and her experienced identity as more Southern American than partially-Korean American. “If you’re trying to interact with other cultures, you need to stop seeing yourself as the norm.” – Jade Edwards Show Notes: 1:35 Introduction 2:45 Jade’s Heritage/Appearance and its Effect on Others 7:20 Other People Lump All Asians into One Category of Asian 8:30 Jade’s Mother and Grandmother’s Journey to Navigating Their Culture vs Jade Herself 14:00 Googling Culture 15:10 Feeling More Southern American than Partially-Korean American 19:25 Boba Story 27:10 Duluthian Culture 30:00 Coworker Story 32:00 Inauthentic Asian Food 36:00 Boston’s Diversity 37:00 Privilege in Human Nature 38:45 Guilt When Participating in Culture IG: @jadesoylentgreen Contact: mxasianamerican@gmail.com Support: patreon.com/mxasianamerican

This week on the Pop Life Podcast: Robbie Robertson says his “personal big bang” came with the discovery of rock and roll. An even bigger bang came when the teenaged Robertson saw Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins, a flamboyant, ex-pat Southern American rock-a-billy musician playing in Toronto. The music, a frenetic blend of rock and roll and hopped-up country music, expertly played by a band that included drummer Levon Helm, spoke to Robertson, revealing an aural passageway to a world he had only ever read about. Eventually, at age sixteen, he joined the band, a move that set on the path to helping to shake things up musically by taking Bob Dylan electric, and form a band that melded Hank Williams, Muddy Waters with roots music into something that had never been heard before. When The Band played together, fan Bruce Springsteen says, “something happened that couldn’t happen on their own. Something miraculous.” Then the “Pop Life” panel, Kelsey Miller, author of “I’ll Be There For You: The One About Friends,” Steve Jordan, founder and Executive Director of the Polaris Music Prize and Wesley Williams (aka Maestro Fresh Wes), the “godfather of Canadian hip hop,” got together to discuss how to define a disruptor in the arts and what it is like to be a game changer.

On the latest episode of Inside Julia’s Kitchen, host Todd Schulkin speaks with award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and expert on Latin American foodways, Sandra Gutierrez. Todd and Sandra discuss Southern American regional cooking, including the New Southern-Latino Movement, and as always, Sandra shares a Julia Moment. It's HRN's annual summer fund drive, this is when we turn to our listeners and ask that you make a donation to help ensure a bright future for food radio. Help us keep broadcasting the most thought provoking, entertaining, and educational conversations happening in the world of food and beverage. Become a member today! To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we have brand new member gifts available. So snag your favorite new pizza - themed tee shirt or enamel pin today and show the world how much you love HRN, just go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate Inside Julia's Kitchen is powered by Simplecast. Image courtesy of Sandra Gutierrez.

David Boyd, Jr. is a Georgia-based artist who is compelled to paint Southern Impressionism. Boyd lives in the small rural town of Newnan, Georgia–located several miles south-east of Atlanta. Not only is Boyd a fine art painter, he helps run his family-owned and operated art gallery located in the beautiful, old downtown square of Newnan. A very young David Boyd decided early on that he wanted to be a hired assassin, and if that did not work out–a race car driver. Fortunately, Boyd came from a family who provided him a rich, nurturing environment that steered him towards the visual arts rather than become the next James Bond. His father–David Boyd-is a renowned illustrator known for his work for comedian Jeff Foxworthy. His mother, a school teacher, has a love for music and dance. With their loving influence, his life of crime was averted and now Boyd is one of the finest painters in the South. He’s a signature member of Oil Painters of America as well as the American Impressionist Society. Boyd paints outdoors and is also an avid photographer. He uses plein air painting to capture a feeling, and he uses photography to capture a moment. He then takes his plein air paintings and photos to his studio and combines these into larger works. Boyd says: “I was fortunate to spend many weekends with my grandparents in rural Georgia, where the woods and old rusty cars and tractors were my playground. Today, when I see the rusting memorabilia of the rural south, I feel a deep sense of nostalgia.” Boyd is compelled to paint the remnants of a different time that has long since given way to the modern world. Old cars, decaying buildings, old store front and road signs, rusting trucks and tractors become the focus of his beautiful paintings. Boyd seeks to preserve Southern American life in its current state of decay–in what he characterizes as “landscapes of rust.” I want to acknowledge the role that the Booth Museum had in introducing me to David Boyd, Jr. and his art. In previous episodes of the Artful Painter you’ve heard me gush about the Booth Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. I’ve enjoyed many of the exhibits there, and attended workshops, demonstrations and lectures. While doing so I’ve gotten to know the Booth Art Academy Manager - Kent Mullinax. A few weeks ago he reached out to me and asked: “Do you know David Boyd, Jr.? He would be a good guest for your podcast… he’s the best in the business… you will love David. He’s a great artist and even better person." Well, how could I possibly pass that recommendation up? And so, in this episode of the Artful Painter, I’m happy to share with you this delightful conversation with David Boyd, Jr. Links: David Boyd, Jr. Website: https://davidboydjr.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/compelledtopaint/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidboydjrfineart/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theboydgallery/ Searching Goodwill for art book deals: https://youtu.be/9yelWldYRZ8 Amazing art book from 1839: https://youtu.be/fuRwv9WgzC0 About the Artful Painter: Artful Painter website: https://theartfulpainter.com Subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIo1YmQXnMm21b-Slkr69Tg Send me an email: https://carlolson.tv/contact My Artful Painter Sketchbooks: https://carlolson.tv/artful-painter-sketchbooks Carl Olson on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artful.creative/  

The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern American folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee. John Bell Sr., who made his living as a farmer, resided with his family along the Red River in an area currently near the town of Adams. According to legend, from 1817-1821, his family and the local area came under attack by a mostly invisible entity that was able to speak, affect the physical environment, and shapeshift. Some accounts record the spirit also to have been clairvoyant and capable of crossing long distances with superhuman speed (and/or of being in more than one place at a time. This is that story. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hauntedhorror/support

Mike and Jess kick of the episode with a tip for your reading life: using "lead measures" to meet your reading goals. Then they dive into one of their favorite categories of this year's reading challenge: novels by Southern American authors! _____________________________ Books, authors & resources mentioned on this episode: Deep Work, by Cal Newport Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole The Women on the Porch, by Caroline Gordon The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming, The Thanatos Syndrome, by Walker Percy Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Conner William Faulkner Mark Twain To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee The Road, by Cormac McCarthy The Best Southern Novels of All Time

There's no failure to communicate here! Today we're breaking down the 1967 prison classic, Cool Hand Luke. Listen along as Daniel wonders about a hot box glory hole, Dean lets us know his skills in eating a special kind of whole egg, and we both give our best attempts at Southern American accents.   As well as the breakdown, we give our 'Top 5 prison films' and find out the results of Pod v Pod IX in our 'MCU films without Iron Man' draft. We also start up our new tournament series of best movies per decade, starting with the 1940's, and find out what movie we'll be watching next!   So come on in and join our journey!   If you enjoy our show, please support the podcast by becoming a patron! For as little as a dollar a month, there's plenty of rewards and benefits we have lined up for you along the way, including a weekly patron only podcast where we breakdown movies not on the Top 250 list, and the ability to shape the podcast the way you would like it! So please go and check out the page, see if anything interests you, and we hope you can join our little community and help make this podcast grow!   https://www.patreon.com/themoviejourney   FOLLOW US: Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoviejourney Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themoviejourney/   SHOWNOTES   Introduction (0:00) IMDB Top 250 Update (5:03) Promos: Karaok Big E, For Better Or Worse (7:14) Cool Hand Luke Breakdown (SPOILERS) (8:58) Final Thoughts (55:15) Our Rankings (57:18) Promos: Go Postal, The Contrarians (58:12) Listener Reviews (1:01:57) Listener Question (1:03:20) Our Top 5 Prison Films (1:07:17) Pod v Pod IX Results (1:10:28) 1940's Films Tournament (1:13:11) Next Week's Movie (1:13:57)     This episodes promos are from the Karaok Big E Podcast! (@KaraokBIGE ) The best (one of the only?) karaoke podcast around! https://karaokbige.com/   As well as the For Better Or Worse Podcast! (@fbowpod ) A podcast where a married couple with opposite tastes force each other to experience their movies and hobbies, then they talk about it! https://followthis.media/fbow   As well as the Go Postal Podcast! (@GoPostalPodcast) Karla and Michael read crazy ramblings and anecdotes peppered with history and fun facts from around the world! Tell them yours! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/go-postal-podcast/id1355561435?mt=2   And finally former Pod v Pod contenders The Contrarians! (@ContrarianPrime) Alex & Julio challenge popular opinion by praising the movies you hate and trashing the movies you love. A great listen! http://www.wearethecontrarians.com/   Check out all these awesome podcasts!

An interview with Freek Van der Herten, lead developer at Spatie. @freekmurze Spatie ColecoVision HyperCard BASIC Krautrock Antwerp Browsershot package Spatie Postcard Page Oh Dear! Transcription sponsored by Larajobs Editing sponsored by Tighten Matt Stauffer: Welcome back to the Laravel podcast, season three. Today we're going to be talking with Freek Van der Herten, (pronounced) something like that. He works with Spatie, and they make packages and do all sorts of great things. Stay tuned, you'll learn more. Matt Stauffer: All right, real quick note going into this episode. I just moved offices, and I only noticed after moving that the movers bumped the gain knob on my audio. So it's not going to sound great. I apologize ahead of time. But don't blame Michael, it's not his fault. It's my fault. Sort of the movers, but mainly just me. All right, let's get on with the episode. Matt Stauffer: All right, welcome back to the Laravel podcast, season three. This is a season where we learn about all sorts of amazing people. You may have heard of them before, you may not have heard of them before, but they're all absolutely incredible, and if their name is not English, then I also mangle it terribly and they fix it up for me. Matt Stauffer: Today we're talking to ... okay, Freek Van der Herten, (pronounced) something like that, who is one of the leads ... [crosstalk] Oh, no, you're going to do it for me in a second, and then you can grade me on how well I did. And you're also going to have to grade me on how well I do the name of your company, because I have been told that I say it wrong. So, Spatie, which apparently is close but not quite right. So that's a company. They make packages, they do open source Laravel stuff, all this kind of stuff. You've seen their open source packages, used those packages, you've seen his blog, you've seen him on Twitter, all that kind of stuff. Matt Stauffer: So the first thing that I'm going to ask him to do is first say his name and his company's name right. Second, grade my pronunciation and see if he can make me do it any better. And third, ask the first question we always ask, which is, when you meet people in the grocery store, how do you tell people what it is that you do? Freek Van der Herten: Okay. Let me pronounce it just right. My name is Freek Van der Herten. I work for a company called Spatie. And I would rate your pronunciation an 8 out of 10 or a 9 out of 10, so it's pretty good. You did it pretty well. Matt Stauffer: All right, for an American, that's a pretty good number, so I'll take it. Freek Van der Herten: So at the grocery store, if somebody asks what I do, I simply say that I make websites, I'm a programmer. So I try to make it really easy, because I am mostly on the back end stuff, and for people that are not into back end, that's all a little bit fuzzy. And with websites, they immediately know, oh yeah, he creates those. Yeah. Freek Van der Herten: And I always say, I'm not going to install printers. That's not my job. I program stuff. Matt Stauffer: That's perfect, because if you say I work with computers, that leaves that open. You might be a networking person or something like that. So I can hear in your pronunciation a little bit of the ways that I'm off. So I'll go back, listen to this 10,000 times, and see if I can get it right. But an 8 out of 10 or a 9 out of 10 for a Southern American, I'm going to take that as a win. Freek Van der Herten: It's pretty good, man. Matt Stauffer: Right. So I mentioned this real quick, but Spatie, Spatie, whatever it is, they have 10,000 packages. Some of our questions are going to be about all of the Laravel packages you have, a little bit about your tweeting and your sharing of content. But of course, if anybody doesn't know who he is, just check him out. So I also don't know ... I know that I asked you personally, and I know where your Twitter handle comes from, but not everybody else does, and I don't actually know how you pronounce it. So tell us your Twitter handle, where it comes from, and how you actually say it in your mind. Freek Van der Herten: Well, my Twitter handle is @freekmurze, and it's actually a very good question, where it comes from. Freek is just my first name, but I have actually three names, and that's not that uncommon in Belgium. Most people have multiple first names, and mine are Frederick, because Freek is just a nickname, actually. My second name is [inaudible 00:03:59]. And the third name, which is a very special name, I don't think anybody has it now, it's Murzephelus. And Murzephelus is a name given by my parents, and it's an emperor, it's a Byzantium emperor, because both my parents are lawyers, and when they had me, there was this law in Belgium that you had to pick the name of your child from this big list of names that were approved, and they wanted to see what the city clerk would do if they just picked a name out of history that is not on that list. So they picked Murzephelus- Matt Stauffer: Rebels. I love it. Freek Van der Herten: And the clerk didn't say anything, they just wrote it down. Matt Stauffer: Nice. Very cool. It's funny, because- Freek Van der Herten: And I've also passed it down to my kids. So they also have Byzantium emperor names. Matt Stauffer: I love it, that's awesome. It's funny, 'cause when I first looked it up, I was like, oh, Mur-zeph-el-us. But it sounds a lot more regal when you say Murz-e-phlus. Matt Stauffer: All right, so that's your Twitter handle. So go follow him on Twitter if you don't know, he's got a newsletter and a blog. And one of the things that Freek does a lot is collect together the best stuff from other people, and so Spatie creates an incredible number of packages. Quite a few of them are original content, but one of the things they also do is they take stuff that other people are doing and they package it up together in a normalized way. So if somebody says, here's a thing on Laracasts or here's an idea or something like that, they will often make a package around it. And Freek both writes his own articles, and the people at Spatie write their own articles, and then they also collect together links to articles from other people around the community. So they're both creators and curators, and that's something kind of they're known for. So if you haven't seen them, go check out that stuff that they're doing. Matt Stauffer: Okay, that's fun. Moving on, when did you first get access to a computer? In what context, and what was your interaction with that computer like? Freek Van der Herten: I started using computers at a very early age. It was actually, also, my dad had bought a ColecoVision. I don't know if you know that console. Matt Stauffer: I've never heard of it. Freek Van der Herten: It was very big in the '80s, I think around '82 or '83. So I must have been three or four when my dad had a console and he let me play on it, and that was the first time I interacted with this on a screen. Matt Stauffer: What kind of operating system was it on? Freek Van der Herten: I don't know, it's a game console, so it's only- Matt Stauffer: Oh, a gaming console. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, yeah, it only had games on it, and that was the first time I interacted with something and saw something moving on a screen. Matt Stauffer: Got it. Freek Van der Herten: Now shortly after that, I think two years after, we got our first computer in the house, which was, I think ... It was definitely a Macintosh, and I think it was an SE model. It's one of the first models. So my dad was a little bit of a computer freak, and he wanted, he had to buy this new stuff. So I started out with a System 6, I think it was, on Mac OS. And, yeah, I started ... yeah, there was a program on there called, maybe some people know it, called HyperCard, which was- Matt Stauffer: I've heard of it. Freek Van der Herten: It's a very simple application, which makes it very great. It's just a stack of cards which you can programmatically do stuff with. You can say, if somebody clicks here, go to card number three. If somebody clicks here, go to card number five. So I started to ... And if you click here, play a sound or display this image. So I made my first ... I don't know if I can call it computer programs, but I made my first projects with that little ... little games like that. So that was- Matt Stauffer: That's funny how different Mac and PC are, because I know about HyperCard, I saw it in school, but I never worked with it. But my first one was BASIC, and it's probably around the same time period. I was six or something, so it was around late '80s, early '90s. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. Matt Stauffer: And it was such a different experience. I was learning syntax and code and able to do almost nothing, whereas with the Mac, it's giving you this visual, interactive system, and it's such a difference even back then of what you're getting from each of them. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, 'cause at the school, we had a Windows computer. Yeah, a Windows 3.1 computer. But the Windows subsystem, that was just a shell. You had also MS-DOS behind it, and when I saw that, I thought, what is this? I'm going back in time, we have something way better at home. We have this thing like a mouse on there. Matt Stauffer: Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. Freek Van der Herten: So that was fun. So I've always been busy with computers and creating my own little things on it. Matt Stauffer: Did your interests keep up through school? Did you always think of yourself as a computer person? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, I always knew I wanted to do something with computers. I studied IT as well, so I'm one of the lucky ones. At a very age, I knew I wanted to do this. But IT is very big, so I did a lot of things on my computer as well. At one point, I also did some sound technology, some songs, because that's another passion of mine. I'm also busy with music, I have my own band, and- Matt Stauffer: Okay, you're going to tell us more about that in a second. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. So way before Laravel was there, when I still had time to do other stuff, I created music as well. But that helps a little bit with all the background, right, the background right now. Matt Stauffer: Okay. You know what, I actually am going to pause there. What musical instruments do you play, and it sounds like you were also recording. Were you doing mixing and mastering and production and everything? Freek Van der Herten: Just recording stuff, and a little bit of mastering, but then I'm not really good at it. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: My musical taste is a little bit lo-fi, so what I recorded was lo-fi as well. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: So I started ... My first instrument was, I think, the saxophone, when I was 10 years old. I had to do that for my parents. Yeah, you have to do musical school. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: But I didn't like it that much. I think the first two years were great but then I wasn't interested in the saxophone anymore. I tried to pick up the piano, and did a year of piano. And then I learned guitar myself, and that's an instrument where ... I stick a little bit by. So in all the bands that I- Matt Stauffer: Do you play acoustic or electric more? Sorry. Freek Van der Herten: It's more electric these days, 'cause, yeah, I play in a band and I have my electric guitar installed there. So I do that more. I do a little finger picking at home. I have the acoustic guitar here. But it's not as much as I used to. Matt Stauffer: What style of music do you play? Freek Van der Herten: It's a style called krautrock. I don't know if you know that. Matt Stauffer: I don't. You're going to have to send me the link later so I can put it in the show notes. Freek Van der Herten: Well, it's like this ... It's my favorite kind of music. It's like ... house music, like dance music. Very repetitive. But with guitars instead of electronic instruments. Matt Stauffer: Okay, all right. Freek Van der Herten: So there's some good bands that you should check out from the territory. It's very big in the '90s, there are bands like Can and Neu! And the ideas behind those bands revolve around ... with how, how do you say it in English, how can we keep things interesting with the least amount of notes? With three notes, what can we do. Just by repeating them, we'll make it interesting again. Matt Stauffer: Very interesting, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: And that's an aesthetic that I really like, just the simple things. The fertile things. Not too many whistles and bells with it, but just fertile, pure, straight to the point. Matt Stauffer: It's funny, 'cause when you said repetitive, the first thing I thought of was jam bands. And a lot of jam bands are a lot of noise. You've got 20 people on stage, but they're very repetitive and they're not interesting to me, because everybody's playing the same noisy notes over and over and over again, so it seems almost the opposite, at least in my very judgmental perspective, where you're trying to have very little noise, but actually keep it interesting. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. I'll send you some interesting pieces to you. I have- Matt Stauffer: Yeah, I'll put it on the show notes, everybody. Freek Van der Herten: I've recently listened again to a few versions of a piece called In C. I don't know if you know it. It's a musical piece, I can't remember the author right now. It's probably going to go in my mind in a few seconds. And it's like 18 melodies of music, and it's 20 people playing them, and there are a few rules around it. When somebody plays the fourth tune, everybody still on the first tune should skip to the second. There can only be a gap of two. And then you go slowly to the end, and it lasts about an hour. And it's very simple melodies, but they interlock very, very well together. And it's not written on paper, how much times you have to repeat each melodic phrase. So every version is a little bit different. Matt Stauffer: Interesting, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: And that's interesting music to me. Matt Stauffer: So you could theoretically have one musician who's just really antsy to move on, and the whole thing would be done in 20 minutes? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, yeah. Matt Stauffer: Oh, very interesting. Freek Van der Herten: That could be the case, yeah. Matt Stauffer: Everyone's glaring at that one guy. Freek Van der Herten: There are hundreds of versions of that, but they're all amazing. Matt Stauffer: Very interesting, okay. Like I said, I'm going to get him to write all this down for us. Links in the show notes later. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, sure. Matt Stauffer: I'm super interested to learn about that. So you said you don't do as much music now, is that true? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, that's true. Matt Stauffer: I hear you right? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. So when I was a little bit younger, I think when I was around 20s, then I had a little studio in my own apartment, and I recorded lots of songs. That was my main hobby then. Nowadays, it's programming, but then it was every moment of free time that I had, I have to record stuff, I have to experiment with stuff, which is ... Yeah, sometimes I listen back to those recordings, like every five years or something, and I am still a little bit proud that there's something that I accomplished. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, I spent that much time, I got that good, even if I couldn't do that right now, that's still something I did. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Matt Stauffer: All right, well, I want to ask you more questions about that, but I also want to get to the end as well. All right, so when you first got into that, you said you had access to those Windows computers in school. So what did your school education look like? At what point did you start getting more than just typing lessons? Freek Van der Herten: I think when I was 14 or 15, we had lessons in a thing called Isolab. I don't know if that is a well-known program or not, but it's something we teach at school, and it's basically this grid, and there's a car in it and there are certain obstacles, and you have to write an algorithm to let the car reach a special end spot. Matt Stauffer: I want to do that now. Freek Van der Herten: And it's something to exercise things like loops, like memory, like and or not kind of stuff. And that are the first things that I learned to do. We also had a little bit of Visual Basic if you were ... I went into higher education, so we programmed things in Access. Access is this Microsoft database, where we had to program the streams and special reports and stuff like that, and I only got into programming, into real programming with computer languages, in higher education, where I got to learn C++ and COBOL. Things like that. Yeah, I learned COBOL. Matt Stauffer: Now, were you doing IT? Was it IT then, or were you specializing more in computer science? Freek Van der Herten: It was ... I don't know how you say it, how you translate that thing that I said it in English, but it's focused on practical IT. But it was in 1989 that I studied higher education, and yeah, internet wasn't as big like it is now. And we didn't have any lessons on HTML or the web. It was all on this enterprisey kind of stuff that we had to learn, like Java, like C++. Things like that. Matt Stauffer: Yeah. Huh. So when you say secondary education, do you mean when you were 18 years old, or when you were 14 years old? Freek Van der Herten: Secondary education, that's from 12 years old to 18 years old. Matt Stauffer: Oh, got it. Okay. Freek Van der Herten: And when you're 18 years old, you go to higher education. Some people go to ... Most people. Matt Stauffer: So even in 12-18 years old, you were able to specialize, 'cause in the US, in 12-18, you just do whatever they tell you to do. There's no specialization like that. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, there are. Matt Stauffer: So you were able to focus on a certain track. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, yeah. From 12 years old, or I think from 13, you can really pick your direction if you want to ... a language kind of education, a mathematical based education, an IT kind of education. So you can make a choice there a little bit. Matt Stauffer: Okay. And also did you ... Oh, go ahead. Freek Van der Herten: And of course, when you're 18, then you have much more choices, so they get you basically anything that you want. Matt Stauffer: Okay. So where did you go after secondary education, then? Freek Van der Herten: So, I did my secondary education in my hometown, which is a small town in the northern part of Belgium. But I always knew that when I'm going to higher education, I don't want to live at home anymore. I want to live by myself. All my friends were in that mindset. We're 18, we're going to move, we're going to get away from our parents, even though we all love our parents, it's not [crosstalk]- Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: We're now grownups. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Freek Van der Herten: So I moved to the biggest city in the vicinity of my hometown, which is a city called Antwerp. Matt Stauffer: Okay, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: Where I've lived for a long time, and Spatie is still based here. And I went to school there, and I left home. My student life in the city of Antwerp. Matt Stauffer: Okay. That's actually one of the only cities I know there, so that's a good win for me. I'm nodding, I actually heard of that before, that's good. Go me. Freek Van der Herten: You should come to Antwerp, it's a beautiful city. You would enjoy it. Matt Stauffer: Oh, I would love to. Yeah. Freek Van der Herten: It's not that far from Amsterdam. Matt Stauffer: I said in the last podcast, once you get Americans over to Europe, we don't want to leave, because it's so expensive to get over there, which is why it was so crazy. I was there for Laravel Live UK for five days and then came home. But the next ... I'm trying to get my kids to the age where I can take them over, because once I have the whole family over there, I'll just work from there. It doesn't matter. So I'm hoping someday in the next couple years, we'll get a whole month and just go see everybody in the whole Laravel world, and just stay in everybody's town for a couple days. So Antwerp's on the list. Freek Van der Herten: Well, you're certainly welcome here. So do that. Matt Stauffer: All right. I won't get booted out of town, that's good. Matt Stauffer: Okay, so you went out ... So what did you study? Was it continued practical IT, or was it something different when you went into higher education? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, that was practical IT that I studied. So that was more enterprise stuff, things that I learned there. Things like C++, like some math was still there. Things like analysis, how do you cope with a big, big project. And looking back at it, I really like what I was taught there, but a lot of the things that I learned there, after the years, I thought, yeah, what they taught me was a little bit wrong. Matt Stauffer: I was going to ask how you reflected on your education. Is there more you can say about that? Is there broad strokes you can make about what was good and what was bad? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, so something that has really stuck with me is in one of the first lessons, I was taught, and I did it for years ... It's a very practical thing. A function can only have one return statement. And that fucked my career up so bad. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, I believe it. Freek Van der Herten: Enlightenment came only 10 years after. Hey, it's actually better to have early returns. But things like object calisthenics, I don't know when those ideas came, but they certainly weren't taught in school. So I'm skipping ahead 10 years now, but there was a time that I thought, man, I really wish that there were a few teachers back then that knew about the stuff that I'm learning now, because there is much more than the stuff that they taught me. Freek Van der Herten: It's not all bad. It's not all bad. They taught some good stuff as well. With the things I learned there, I landed my first job, which was something I didn't expect. I was a COBOL programmer for seven years or something like that, and I still remember when I was at the job interview, and they asked me, "So, what do you want to do?" And I said, "Anything except COBOL." And they gave me COBOL, and I did it for seven years. Freek Van der Herten: But it was kind of fun to do it. It was ... I worked for a major bank, maybe you know it. It's called ING. I think you have- Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. I have, I used to have, or maybe still do. I don't know. For sure. Freek Van der Herten: I think they're operating in America as well, and yeah, I programmed COBOL there for the mainframe. Matt Stauffer: Okay, wow. Freek Van der Herten: So we did the financial stuff. So it was kind of important, what we did there. And I still look back very fondly to that period, because I had very good colleagues there, and we could do amazing stuff. Even with an old language like COBOL, we could really do some ... We really could program some nice solutions. And sometimes I miss the scale a little bit of programming in that way, because it's like, one-fifth of the country has an account on ING. Matt Stauffer: Yeah. Freek Van der Herten: And that's kind of fun to work on. Matt Stauffer: I know we're getting ahead of ourselves just a bit, but I asked this of J.T. as well. Programming in COBOL, and the programmers who have been in COBOL for years, and the patterns and practices you have are a little different, I imagine, than working with Laravel. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. Matt Stauffer: Is there something, one or two things, that you experienced or learned during your time there that you think a lot of us that haven't had that sort of experience could benefit from hearing about? Any practices or any maxims or any sayings, or testing patterns or anything that you experienced there that you wish more people knew about? Freek Van der Herten: Let me think. One of the things that I already did at the time is testing a lot, but it was in an old way, so I can't recommend that. I think what sticks with me most from the time is not a technical programming thing that we did, but the team we did it with. The client communication between the team, and we were ... within the firm, we were one of the first groups that wrote standards for ourselves. We were going to name variables like this, we are indenting our code a little bit like that. We're going to use prefixes for that. We're going to use suffixes for that, which was really beneficial. And that's something we do at our company, at Spatie now as well. And that's something I think a lot of people could learn a little bit from, just some guidelines and be very, how do you say that in English, I can't remember, just where everything is always the same- Matt Stauffer: Consistent. Freek Van der Herten: Consistence. Keep consistence. Things like a dash or an underscore or when you case things. They seem like, hey, it's not important, but it's actually very important when you work in a team. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, I totally agree. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, and that's something I picked up with working in a good team at ING. Matt Stauffer: Very cool. All right, so you got a job at ING right out of higher education, right? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, yeah. Matt Stauffer: Okay. So what made you move, and where'd you move to? Freek Van der Herten: Well, that's a good question. So when I was working at ING for a couple of years, there were plans to split up the branch I was working in. So I worked in the insurance branch, and ING sold it off to another company. So it became apparent that our team had to split and had to move to different cities, and at the time, I didn't want to move cities. So I went for another job in Antwerp, another company that also does COBOL. But I was a little bit shellshocked there, at ING, because I had worked there for so long. I had this network of people, and I could get things done. I didn't have to follow the rules. I could cut some red tape. But at the new company, I didn't have a network, and it was so, so very frustrating for me that I couldn't get any things done. Freek Van der Herten: Now, at the time, I also had a friend of mine called Willem, and Willem, he just started this little company called Spatie- Matt Stauffer: I was going to say, I've heard that name before. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, and he was doing everything by himself, and everything by himself. He programmed a little, he designed a little, he did all the client work by himself. And I'm sure it came up at a band rehearsal that we have, I really hate my job now. And then he said, "Yeah, would you want to program for the web?" Because I felt that he couldn't do everything by his own anymore. He was good in design but he didn't like programming as much, so he looked for somebody that wanted to program a little bit. Freek Van der Herten: But I wasn't certain at the time. So I did a couple of stuff for Willem first. But there's no way to sugarcoat this, because I was so bored at my job, I started just creating websites at my job itself, because I had basically ... This is the honest truth. They didn't give me enough work. So they gave me an assignment. Yeah, this is your assignment for a week, and after two hours it was done. So I reported to management, give me more work. And they didn't give me more work. So I started programming for the web and learning stuff for the web. Freek Van der Herten: And after half a year or something, I said, yeah, this is silly. I'm just working for myself at this job, so I just quit. And then I started working for Spatie. Matt Stauffer: What's your official role there right now? Freek Van der Herten: I'm, I guess, the lead developer there, although I don't like the term a little bit. That's what we tell people that we meet. Freek is our lead developer. So I still do a lot of programming day to day myself, but I also help my colleagues getting things done. I don't like thinking about the lead, with the term lead programmer. The thing that I don't like is this is the one that makes all the decisions and does all the code stuff, but I don't see that as my role. I have to help the other people getting their job done, so that's an important factor of the things I do day to day. Freek Van der Herten: And there's also a little bit leading the company a little bit, because I'm a partner there, so there's a lot of corporate stuff I need to do there as well. But the best thing is- Matt Stauffer: How many people are- Freek Van der Herten: The best days are the days that I can program myself. Matt Stauffer: Yeah. I totally feel you. How many people are on your team? Freek Van der Herten: Right now, it's seven people. Matt Stauffer: Okay. So the two of you. Is that five programmers, or are there any non-programmers on the team? Freek Van der Herten: There are now two non-programmers. Actually, we're at eight. We had a new hire two weeks ago. We're at eight now. Matt Stauffer: Congrats. Freek Van der Herten: We're with five programmers, one designer, and there is a project manager. So they handle client stuff. Matt Stauffer: Right, right. Freek Van der Herten: But our focus is in programming bigger Laravel applications now. So we started with smaller CMS kind of sites. But we moved on a little bit to the bigger things. That's also a story in itself, really. Matt Stauffer: Cool, yeah. Yeah, I don't know if we're going to have time for it, but I'm actually very curious about that story. But I have to pause this one time. Is there a sound at the end of the name of your company or not? Is it purely just Spatie? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. Matt Stauffer: Cause sometimes I hear a little T, and sometimes I don't. Freek Van der Herten: No, it's Spatie. It's like, your pronunciation for Spatie is 10 out of 10. It's perfect, it's good. Yeah. Just Spatie. Matt Stauffer: Okay. Yeah. Spatie, okay. See, I was saying Spat-zie for a while, with a T. So Spatie (Spa sea). Freek Van der Herten: Spatie. Matt Stauffer: That's it. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, yeah. That's perfect. Matt Stauffer: Okay. Now it's 10 out of 10. I got an 8 out of 10 the first time, you didn't even notice. Okay. All right, so I do want to talk about your relationship with the company, what kind of stuff you're all doing, 'cause I think that there's a lot of companies that do Laravel, and there's not a lot of companies that have public presence that are creating a lot of content and stuff like that. Matt Stauffer: And so I think what I want to know is, let's not even talk about the company yet. Let's talk about you. When did you go from being a programmer to a programmer who had garnered a reputation as someone who created packages and taught stuff? How intentional was it, what did that transition look like? What was Freek being a programmer who did web stuff to being Freek being a well-known teacher? What'd the shift between those look like? Freek Van der Herten: Well, it certainly wasn't intentional. I think now, six or seven years ago, we were still ... This was the time before we did Laravel. We were creating sites with Zend Framework 1. CMS kind of sites. And I remember getting a little bit bored with it, because at the time, the B2B world was becoming a little bit stale, I thought. This was also free composer. There was another ecosystem that attracted my attention, and it's really no surprise. That's Ruby, Ruby on Rails. Matt Stauffer: Rails, yeah. Yeah. Freek Van der Herten: That's a story I share with a lot of people in our community, I think. So I created a few Rails sites, and I thought, yeah, we're ready to jump ship off PHP. PHP is done. But then Composer happened and Laravel happened. So we started doing Laravel sites, and in Zend Framework, we had this whole CMS, a homegrown CMS build up, and I wanted to have that in Laravel. Freek Van der Herten: Now, I wanted to do it a piece at a time, and at the time, there was this guy called Jeffrey Way. He started Laracasts. Matt Stauffer: This little site. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, this little site. Very small. And he put out a video of how to use Travis and GitHub together. And my mind was a little bit blown that you could just run your tests and see in the interface of GitHub if your tests were passing or not. And the lesson of Jeffrey was also around package development, and I thought, yeah, I want to do that as well. So I'm going to try to write a package. Freek Van der Herten: And I think one of the first ones was ... I think the Geocoder one, which was a wrap around the Geocoder service of Google. Or it was a Browsershot, maybe, which was a package that used PhantomJS to create screenshots of a web page. And I put that out, and some people liked it, which was mind-blowing to me. There's somebody here that did a pull request to fix a typo? Wow. This is really awesome. Freek Van der Herten: So I thought, yeah. I have to write another package. And when I took a look again at the Zend Framework 1 CMS, I saw, yeah, there's MailChimp in here. There's Google Analytics. There's something called the media library to handle assets. And I thought, yeah, these are all packages. Maybe I should package them all up for Laravel, so it wasn't planned, but I spent the next two or three years just doing that, putting that out. Matt Stauffer: Just repackaging, yeah, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: Just repackaging the old Zend Framework in code, Zend Framework 1 code, to modern packages with all the stuff I learned on Laracast. Freek Van der Herten: Now, at the same time, I was still the only programmer at Spatie, so we were only a three-man company. And we had an internal platform, something Microsofty, I can't remember the name, where we put interesting links on. And I was discovering so much interesting good content on the internet, and I'd post it there. But my two colleagues, the project manager and the designer, would say, "We're not interested in the deep programming stuff that you're putting there. We're interested in the ideas, but not in the nitty gritty details." Freek Van der Herten: So then I thought, hey, I'll just start a blog and I'll just put those things publicly on there. This is the stuff that interests me, maybe other programmers are interested as well. And with that combination, with starting a blog and writing about those packages, I guess, yeah. It picked up a little bit from there. People just liked the contents that was there, both my own stuff as the links that I shared. And yeah, it totally grew from there. Freek Van der Herten: But it certainly wasn't planned, like we were going to be well-known with this, that was the plan from the get-go. Matt Stauffer: Yeah. I noticed this initial commit on Browsershot is May 2, 2014. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. Matt Stauffer: So four short years ago. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I did a lot in the past few years. Matt Stauffer: Yeah. I think that it really helps to have some kind of structure to work along. The structure you're saying is, hey, you know what, I'm going to take this list of packages and I'm just going to work through them. And those sorts of structures that just give you something to work on next means you're never stuck asking the question, "Oh no, what do I do next?" You've always got something, you've just gotta make the time and put the effort in. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, sure. And nowadays, actually the couple of past years, the most packages get born in client projects. So if there's a client project that's API-heavy, that we create some packages to make API development a little bit more easy in Laravel. And I also want to mention, because I'm talking about me here a lot, but now it sounds like that I'm the only one creating packages, but my colleagues do a tremendous amount of work on that as well. I want to emphasize that the open source efforts are a team effort, so it's not me alone. Although I'm the most known one, my colleagues, Brent, Alex, Seb, and Willem, do also incredible stuff out there. Matt Stauffer: Yeah. And actually, that's one of the things I was going to ask, because we're always figuring things out at Tighten ... We give everybody 20% time, so quite a bit of the work that's done at Tighten is done on those Fridays, but not all of it. Sometimes people are doing stuff on their own personal time. And you and I have talked a little bit in the past about what that looks like for you all, especially because you put out just such a prolific number of packages as a company. Are you able to make that much time available, or are people doing work at night? Matt Stauffer: So you and I have talked about it, but again, let's imagine that we have not. What does it look like for you, and what does it look like for the other people on the team, and how much of this stuff are you doing during the day job, and how many hours are you and the other folks working in the evenings, or nights and weekends, I guess? Freek Van der Herten: Well, for the company, we always plan the stuff that we need to do on Monday. We sit together and we say, "Hey, you're doing this this week. You're doing that this week." And we only plan four days. So for the fifth day, you can do whatever you want, but that fifth day, that isn't a separate day. It's like, the time in between. It's when you're bored with this project, yeah, go do something open source, write a blog post or write a package or whatever. Freek Van der Herten: So we have one day a week for everybody that can work on this open source stuff. Now, that's the theory, but yeah, in practice, packages get made in project time a little as well, because they're made for the project. Matt Stauffer: Right. Freek Van der Herten: So it's a little bit hazy, where to draw the line, a little bit. Matt Stauffer: Sure, sure. Freek Van der Herten: And I know that I spend a lot of time also open sourcing a little bit after the hours, because I like it. And sometimes, colleagues, when they have this good idea or a good vibe, I notice that they too do stuff in the evening, even though that's really not required to do so, it's really because they personally like-- Matt Stauffer: Yeah, just kind of excited about it, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: --just like doing this. And I think we've made so many packages now, it's really not such a big effort for us now to work on a package, because we know what the good things, the basic guidelines are for a good package. We know that have to have tests, we know that we need to have good documentation, we know how things like a service provider works. We have empathy enough now to imagine how people are going to use our stuff. So because we've done it a lot, it gets a little bit easier for us as well to do too. So people sometimes ask, isn't that difficult to invest so much knowledge and time in that? But I think for a company, it's kind of easy, because it has grown a little bit in our DNA. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: And if in a project, a colleague of mine says, "Hey Freek, should I package this up?" My default answer is, yeah, if you can do it, just do it. Take a couple of hours. Or if it's a bigger package, a couple of days extra, and just do it, 'cause we will benefit from it anyways. Maybe not because we are going to attract clients with it, but the programmer who made the package will become a better programmer. For Spatie it's good, because we have something in our package tool developed a little bit more. I always, when somebody takes an effort of making the package, I make sure that I mention the principal author of that package, which is not always me, also, on things. So everybody benefits with this. Freek Van der Herten: And I wish more companies would do this, 'cause if you take some time to do this, it isn't hard anymore. It just becomes part of your workflow to do this. Matt Stauffer: It's interesting, because at Tighten, we have a little bit of an inverse culture. People say, "Oh, we should make a package out of that." I'm like, "Are you sure that you want to maintain that for the next four years, 'cause if you don't, then don't make a package out of it." And I've actually talked people out of making packages, because I know that they don't yet understand what the cost of being an open source author looks like. Matt Stauffer: And it's not that I'm ever going to tell anybody no, but I am going to tell them, make sure that you know the burden that comes on. The moment people have this package in there, in their three years out of date app, what kind of customer support you're asking. And so I'm actually talking people out of it frequently, and what I'm more likely doing is when somebody says something interesting, I'm like, "Have you written a blog post about it? Have you written a blog post about it?" And quite a few people are like, "Yeah, Matt, I just put it on the list of 40 blog posts you're telling me I'm supposed to write. You have to start giving me more than one day a week to do these things." Matt Stauffer: But, no, I love your attitude towards packages. And one of the things that we've talked about in the past is we need all kinds of types. And for example, the packages we have at Tighten, there's only a few of them, and we maintain them back to Laravel 5.1. And one of the things you mentioned, is you say, look, we keep up to the most modern versions. And if somebody else wants to fork it and make an older version, then they're welcome to do so. Matt Stauffer: And so each group, each company, each author, has different things to contribute and to offer. And so I love the more people that are willing to make those packages, the more of a broad spectrum we have of people who are willing to participate in some way, shape, or form. There might be some company or some person who comes along, and their goal in life is to maintain all of Spatie's packages back to Laravel 5.1 or something like that, who knows. So each person is contributing a different thing to the community. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, sure. Yeah, the cost of being a maintainer, it's a high cost sometimes. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: It's good that you make people aware of that. For us, we carry the load as a team, so everybody does a little bit of maintenance, and we have the pleasure of having a lot of people in the community helping us out as well. For every package there are a lot of contributors there, so, yah, I'm pretty happy where we stand right now. And I've also learned to sometimes just let it go, you know? Two or three or years ago I wanted to have the issue count as low as possible, and now I've learned that that really isn't important, if there's some more stuff to do, just leave it open. I'm not obliged at all to do this kind of work unless I'm very happy to do it myself, you know? Matt Stauffer: Yeah, for sure. Freek Van der Herten: And this idea that you should be happy with this kind of work—that's also where that idea comes from, that we only do the latest Laravel version, that we do the latest PHP version. Because this is what we use on our own project, and these are the versions we like working with. Nobody on our team liked working with the older Laravel versions. I'm not saying the older Laravel versions are bad or something, but we take the most joy from working with the latest stuff. So it makes sense for us only to do support for the later stuff in our packages as well. Unless it's very easy to support older things, then we do that as well, but we're also not afraid to just abandon an old package if we just don't like it anymore. No? It's not like anyone is going to sue us. Matt Stauffer: Yeah it comes down to the question of what do you feel obligated to do? And I think there's often a perception, right or wrong, that once you put that code out there, you're obligated to maintain it. And interestingly I see both sides of the issue. On the one hand, I don't think that you could be forced to do anything. On the other hand, I could imagine somebody saying, "Well, I can't." Matt Stauffer: We have a lot of clients who can't upgrade to the latest Laravel or the latest PHP, because they're stuck on whatever Red Hat releases and they're several versions behind, and they're saying, "Man I'd really like to use that new Spatie package but I can't." But at the same time, what's the inverse? You have to do something? No, nobody can force you to do anything. I have bounced back and forth a lot of times. And I think where I've ended up is just saying, nobody can be forced to do anything. Matt Stauffer: Each person needs to be honest about what they're planning to do, and also the world needs to allow them to change what their plans are if they change what their plans are. And as long as your not manipulating or tricking people. Then you're an open source contributor, who's putting work out there in the world. People can consume it, and if they're not happy with it, they can take the responsibility to fix it up. If they're not willing to take that responsibility to fix it up then it's kind of like well, you're getting free stuff. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, is an American saying. Matt Stauffer: So I'm very sad because I have to go home to take care of my kids, but I can't leave just on that note because as always I ask people in Tighten what questions they have for you. I can't ask all of them because of my timeline. But I am going to at least ask you a few of them. So especially the ones that are the most esoteric. Number one, how many post cards do you get per month? Freek Van der Herten: We should get more. It's about, between 15 or 35. Something like that. Matt Stauffer: Your packages are postcard-ware. Which means basically, what you ask people to do is, if they use the package, consider sending you a postcard from where ever they're from. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. Matt Stauffer: I assume that most people don't feel the pressure to send you 5,000 postcards if they use your package, but you probably should at least get one postcard from each user. So listeners, if you've ever used a Spatie package somewhere, consider going and buying a postcard from your local and going sending it. They've got a thing on their website about it, I'll link it in the show notes. But it sounds like that number should be a little bit higher, so let's all go chip in there to thanks them. Freek Van der Herten: Thank, Matt. Matt Stauffer: The next random question, I don't even know how to pronounce this, so I'm just going to read the words in front of my face. Did Romelu Lukaku deserve the golden boot? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah. I think he does. Or even Hazard. Matt Stauffer: Okay. Freek Van der Herten: Those are two football players if you don't know. Matt Stauffer: I have no idea at all. There's a lot of people taking care about this but I don't, so. Freek Van der Herten: I'm not that big into football, but I did watch for the world cup. That's when I'm interested in the Belgium team. Looking at Belgium matches this time, was really amazed what our player Eden Hazard could do. Did some amazing stuff. So that's your answer. Matt Stauffer: Several people asked this, but I feel like you're not going to have this list ready. So if you don't have this list ready, just say, "I don't have this list ready." Some people asked, what packages have you made that have been adopted into the Laravel core. Freek Van der Herten: I think none. Matt Stauffer: Oh really. Okay well that's a no list. Freek Van der Herten: Wait, there are none in the dependencies but there are that few were totally- Matt Stauffer: Absorbed, yeah. Freek Van der Herten: Inter locked with I think migrate fresh is one of ours. That Dale picked up on because we made it. And I think there is another one, where if you, in Tinker, use a class name that it can fetch the fully qualified class name. We packaged that up. Matt Stauffer: Yeah that was Caleb right? Freek Van der Herten: That was from Caleb. Matt Stauffer: Very cool. Alright, I didn't realize that got pulled into the core. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, and that's in the core now, if you open begin session, and do one of the classes there, then it will try to get the fully qualified class name. Matt Stauffer: I like that, it's a joint Tighten Spatie effort. Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, cool. Matt Stauffer: Jose asks, which Artisan commands do you use the most? Freek Van der Herten: I think Tinker all day. All day I use Tinker. Matt Stauffer: Interesting. Freek Van der Herten: I have this package called Laravel Tail which can tail a log file. Matt Stauffer: That's the one that was pulled out of the old from the old Laravel right? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, it was pulled out of Laravel, I don't know why. Because it was such a help. And I used it all day long. Matt Stauffer: I love it. Freek Van der Herten: Tailing stuff. Various make commands as well. So nothing too special there. Matt Stauffer: Alright, one last one. Marje asks, what was your most interesting challenge as a new developer? Freek Van der Herten: I think, getting to know the best practices in communities. It's so easy to adjust, to program a little thing, like a little PHP script, but how to do it well and how to structure it really well, that was really hard as a newcomer. To find good sources of information. And for PHP I know my way around. I know where I can find good stuff. I know where the people are. But if I want to get the feeling again, I know I can try to do some Elixir stuff or maybe even some JavaScript stuff and it's like I'm a newcomer all over again. Matt Stauffer: It's the difference between knowing how to do the thing and the best way to do the thing, right? Freek Van der Herten: Yeah, exactly. And it's comforting that in PHP, I have the feeling that I can be happy with the stuff that I write. I'm always learning of course. But it's difficult to have to in another language, because you're so familiar and it feels so warm doing PHP. But I have to force myself to do some other stuff as well. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, I hear that. Well, as always, I can tell, I can talk for hours on several of our subjects, but is there anything you wanted to cover that we haven't gotten to today? Freek Van der Herten: If I can make a shameless plug? Matt Stauffer: Go ahead. Freek Van der Herten: I launched my first software service project, a half year ago. It's called Oh Dear. It's like the best uptime tool out there. It can also detect mixed content, when your certificates will expire. Things like broken things, you will get notifications from that. It's something, I'm really proud of and you should check it out. It's ohdear.app. Matt Stauffer: Yep. And we will link all this in the show notes. I will make sure that is all available there. The pricing of Oh Dear, it's based on the number or sites right? Freek Van der Herten: It's based on the number of sites and nothing else. Matt Stauffer: Yeah, so your site can be massive. It can have 10's of thousands of pages and you're not going to pay extra for it. So, definitely check it out. OhDear.app we'll put this on the show notes, we're always down for the shameless plugs. You took your time to talk to us so, we got to show you some love. Freek Van der Herten: Alright, thanks man. Matt Stauffer: Alright, so if someone wants to follow you, where's the best place for them to go to do that? Freek Van der Herten: I think it's twitter, is a good way. So by having this @freekmurze it will be in the show notes as well I presume. Matt Stauffer: Yep. Freek Van der Herten: Or by murze.be where I talk about the package developments that my team and I are doing. And where I link amazing articles of others as well. So my blog and my twitter account, that are the best ways. Matt Stauffer: Love it. Thank you so much for everything you do for our community. Thank you for your time, I'm sorry I'm cutting us short, we can keep going but, look forward to seeing you soon and thank you so much for joining us today. Freek Van der Herten: My pleasure Matt, thanks. Matt Stauffer: Thank you. Bye bye.

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TRUSTING THE CURRENTS, CHANNELING & SPIRITUALITY W/ LYNNDA POLLIO | SOC PODCAST EPISODE #18 Welcome to the Spoon of Consciousness Podcast - this channel is dedicated to helping you along your journey of spiritual awakening and personal development! Lynnda is the author of the multi-award winning book Trusting The Currents which she wrote by channeling the voice of a Southern-American woman who lived in the 1930s. We talked about her journey with spirituality, channeling and writing Trusting The Currents. 00:50 - Lynnda explains how she wrote her book: Trusting The Currents - it was channeled to her by an African-American lady from the South of America. Trusting The Currents is embedded with energetic frequencies which brings the reader into their heart as they're reading it and helps them to look into themselves. 04:00 - Lynnda explains how the writing has energetic frequencies embedded in it - this relates to the cadence and rhythm of the sentences. 05:31 - How do you begin your spiritual path? As with many guests this started when Lynnda was very young - communicating with nature from a young age. 07:30 - Lynnda explains the initiation she went through whilst in Sedona, Arizona where she met shamans who introduced her to other concepts in spirituality that helped her to come to realisations in her own life. 09:00 - What are shamans and what do they do? Lynnda worked with native American shamans who introduced her to spirituality concepts with scorpions - she was stung by one! 12:22 - We talk about a common concept in spirituality which is called the dark night of the soul - where many of us experience a deep darkness and come out the other side with more light and learnings. 17:50 - Why do you think people are experiencing their dark nights of the soul now more so than ever? This could be part of a very large cycle that is connected to the higher consciousness. 22:20 - How quantum mechanics relates to spirituality and concepts within. Everything is energy - science and spirituality are beginning to merge because they recognise the significance of energy. 25:35 - How can we use our intuition? Disconnecting from technology is a great way to start. 30:00 - How to deal with fear - remove yourself from the emotional charge associated with the situation. You may not be fearful of the current situation - it may be a reflection of something that happened to you when you were younger. 33:30 - What is so difficult about confronting the decisions we've made? This comes from a lack of knowledge of self and using the masks we've created for ourselves to masquerade as the characters we want to be seen as. 36:10 - How vulnerability creates strength - honesty is the key to breaking the societal construct that tells us that vulnerability is a weakness. 40:00 - How can we choose the right people to reach out to during our time of vulnerability? We need to reach out to those who are generous, open and non-judgemental, but even if we do reach out to those who are not we need to acknowledge that they are not yet ready to confront themselves. Lynnda's socials: Website - http://lynndapollio.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LynndaPollioAuthor Twitter - https://twitter.com/lynndapollio Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/Lynnda Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lynndapollio/ Thank you for tuning in and be sure to like, share and subscribe! New episodes every Wednesday and Saturday. Follow me on social media for updates: https://www.twitter.com/OneSpoonAtATime https://www.facebook.com/Spoonofconsciousness/ https://www.instagram.com/spoonofconsciousness/ https://www.spoonofconsciousness.com Peace & positive vibes.

In the realm of music and international arts relations, Claudia Norman is a legend. Period. Sweet as pie and as serious as any true diplomat out there Claudia is a risk taker and a champion of culture. Some of her fierce credits including working with the legendary Sheldon Soffer, serving as Artistic Director of the Latino Cultural Festival at Queens Theater in the Park, Public Programming Producer for Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Midsummer Night Swing festivals, and La Casita, a festival celebrating oral traditions, poetry, hip-hop and global sounds. She’s served on many panels, worked with hundreds of artists from across the Northern and Southern American continent including the late and beloved Chabela Vargas. But goes beyond the region and one can say she has come across artists from all over the world. Her Celebrate Mexico Now Festival will be 17 this fall. Art funding will be as hard today as it has always been, she says, and she’s optimistic. Me, not so much, at least not today. Notwithstanding, we agree, that art is the way. #CelebrateMexicoNowFestival #Mexico #ArtsAndCulture #Women #Leaders #ArtsAdministration #Music #Dance #LivePerformacne #Love #Latino #LatinAmerican #Muslim

This week’s guests: Leah Cohen & Janine Booth New York native Leah Cohen is no stranger to good food. Growing up as a half Filipina and half Russian-Romanian Jew, her childhood culinary background was eclectic to say the least. Cohen draws inspiration from this worldly knowledge and translates it on the plate at Lower East Side restaurant, Pig and Khao, her first solo venture and the new and exciting center of Southeast Asian food in New York City. “Culinary school is great for the resume but it depends what you take from it.” [11:00] — Leah Cohen on Radio Cherry Bombe Growing up in Australia, Janine was surrounded by unique flavors from all over the world which inspired her to embark on a culinary journey throughout Europe, Asia and beyond. Janine’s travels lead her to Miami, Florida, where she studied Culinary Arts at Le Cordon Bleu and worked in restaurants alongside former Top Chef alum Chef Jeff McInnis, exploring Southern American, Thai, Vietnamese, and Modern American cuisines. Janine is currently living in New York City and has partnered up with Top Chef alum Jeffrey McInnis to open up their own restaurant Root & Bone, which is set to open early 2014 in the East Village, NYC. Root & Bone is excited to bring a little bit of the South to the big city; a Southern revival of the farm and garden to table experience. “Southern food can be thought of as starchy and heavy and fatty but I love to cook in a lighter way with fresh vegetables and fruits.” [37:00] –Janine Booth on Radio Cherry Bombe

To mark the centenary of the start of World War I, we'll hear how the British are remembering the Great War, and what's afoot in London this year, where WWI sites, events, and memorials make good on the British promise to "never forget." Then we'll visit the areas of the former Yugoslavia, where the war started, to hear what it's like today. We'll also get a taste of the best regional foods you can enjoy on a road trip across the Southern US, from "Road Food" specialists Jane and Michael Stern. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

There were always and will always be orphans. The question is what to do with them. In his terrific new book The Charleston Orphan House: Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America (University of Chicago Press, 2013), economic historian John E. Murray tells us how one Southern American city did it in the 18th and 19th centuries. Charleston was a city divided between free whites and enslaved African Americans. The whites felt insecure and, according to Murray, this is one of the reasons they founded and funded America’s first public orphanage. The white-only institution not only helped indigent parents and their children, but it also brought the city’s white population together in a way no other body did. It was an expression of civic humanity, but it was also an expression of white unity against the black masses. Listen to John tell the tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There were always and will always be orphans. The question is what to do with them. In his terrific new book The Charleston Orphan House: Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America (University of Chicago Press, 2013), economic historian John E. Murray tells us how one Southern American city did it in the 18th and 19th centuries. Charleston was a city divided between free whites and enslaved African Americans. The whites felt insecure and, according to Murray, this is one of the reasons they founded and funded America’s first public orphanage. The white-only institution not only helped indigent parents and their children, but it also brought the city’s white population together in a way no other body did. It was an expression of civic humanity, but it was also an expression of white unity against the black masses. Listen to John tell the tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There were always and will always be orphans. The question is what to do with them. In his terrific new book The Charleston Orphan House: Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America (University of Chicago Press, 2013), economic historian John E. Murray tells us how one Southern American city did it in the 18th and 19th centuries. Charleston was a city divided between free whites and enslaved African Americans. The whites felt insecure and, according to Murray, this is one of the reasons they founded and funded America’s first public orphanage. The white-only institution not only helped indigent parents and their children, but it also brought the city’s white population together in a way no other body did. It was an expression of civic humanity, but it was also an expression of white unity against the black masses. Listen to John tell the tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There were always and will always be orphans. The question is what to do with them. In his terrific new book The Charleston Orphan House: Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America (University of Chicago Press, 2013), economic historian John E. Murray tells us how one Southern American city did it in the 18th and 19th centuries. Charleston was a city divided between free whites and enslaved African Americans. The whites felt insecure and, according to Murray, this is one of the reasons they founded and funded America’s first public orphanage. The white-only institution not only helped indigent parents and their children, but it also brought the city’s white population together in a way no other body did. It was an expression of civic humanity, but it was also an expression of white unity against the black masses. Listen to John tell the tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. Have you ever wondered what the aftermath of some of your favorite films would be like? For example, what would the personality of the final girl in the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre be like? What would the victims’ families do or feel after the crime? What made the villains tick? How did their family structure come about? Just released in trade paperback after being a successful hardcover and e-book, Kealan Patrick Burke's newest novel, Kin, takes a fresh approach to Southern American horror. When a bleeding naked girl walks out of a forest near the farmlands of Alabama, a chain of events occur that brings about both death and deliverance to a large ensemble cast. After the horrendous crimes by a sadistic and morally twisted family, Kealan Patrick Burke focuses on the lone survivor and the families of those who have lost loved ones. Kin is a tale that brings the elements of films and novels of such prominent talents as Tobe Hooper and Jack Ketchum. Yet Kealan Patrick Burke's unique approach takes a well traveled tale and makes it innovative and original. If you are a fan of horror, here's a novel that brings classic grind house to the page in a well written and heart wrenching tale. Dark Discussions discusses the novel and why it is a modern masterpiece. To conclude this week's episode, Kealan Patrick Burke joins your hosts to talk writing and the inspiration of Kin. As always we welcome your comments: darkdiscussions@aol.com (written email or attached mp3 files) WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM

In our silver anniversary episode, Phil and Eric talk about the lexical set dress, and all the various vowels that are associated with it. That includes [e] or is it [ɛ]? The guys try to uncover the history behind the choice to use [e], and advocate pretty hard for their preference, [ɛ]. Show Notes:We referred to these as we chatted, but wandered all over the place, so we probably don’t get to most of them...DRESSOpen-mid front unrounded vowelNotice that it isn’t mid. We don’t have a symbol there at mid. It’s front , though we can feel how much more front /i/ is. The chart reflects thisIt’s unrounded, but that doesn’t necessarily mean spread.It’s a short vowelIt’s a checked vowelCardinal vowel #3 – Daniel Jones /ɛ/Cardinal vowel #2 – Daniel Jones /e/“Cardinal vowels (2), (3), and (4) are defined as front vowels that form a series of auditorily equidistant steps between cardinal vowels (1) and (5)” -Ladefoged Jones also makes a tense/lax distinctionIn The Pronunciation of English:We distinguish two intermediate positions, half-closed and half-open, in which the tongue is lowered from the closed position to about one-third, and two-thirds, of the total distance from the closed position to the open position Examples of …, halfclosed, half-open, … vowels aree (pen, pen), ɛ (pair, pɛə),e: the half-closed front tense unrounded vowelɛ: a lengthened ɛe Half-closed front lax unrounded. Examples: pen, pen, head, hed. 
In L this vowel is often replaced by i, e.g. git, indʒin for get (get), endʒin (engine). In many dialects it is replaced by the opener ɛ , thus, pɛn, hɛd.

Besides occurring independently, the sound e occurs in StP as the first element of the diphthong ei, e.g. day, dei. With many speakers, especially in N.Eng. this diphthong is tense, i.e. the two elements are the tense vowels corresponding to the lax e, i. In Sc the diphthong is not generally used, a pure tense vowel (phonetic symbol e:) being substituted (de:). In L the first element of the diphthong ei is much opener than in StP, becoming ɛ, æ, a, or even ɑ, thus dɛi, dæi, dai, dɑi. In L e sometimes occurs instead of ʌ 

Note the faulty pronunciation of aerate (StP eiəreit or eəreit) as ɛəreit or iəreit. The words again, always are often pronounced agen, ɔ:lwiz, ɔ:lwəz, but the forms agein, ɔ:lweiz are preferable.

Half-open front unrounded. This sound only occurs in StP in the diphthong ɛə. Examples there, their, ðɛə. See also the previous section. In the pronunciation of many S.Eng. speakers, the first element of this diphthong is more open than ɛ, being in fact practically æ (ðæə). The form ɛə is preferable. In L the first element of this diphthong is the half-closed tense vowel e: (ðeə)“The standard lexical set DRESS is defined as comprising those words whose citation form in RP has the stressed vowel /e/ and in GenAm /ɛ/” -Wellsstep, bet, neck, fetch, Jeff, mess, mesh, ebb, bed, egg, edge, rev, fez, hem, pen, bell, shelf, hemp, tent, theft, best, sex, next, effort, method, terror, tenor, jelly, centre/center, pester, threat, sweat, deaf, death, bread, dead, head, health, realm, meant, breast, ready, jealous, pleasant, weather, treacherous, any, many, Thames, friend, says, said, Leicester, bury.These words are mostly spelled with “e” or “ea”. These two spellings represent two sources in Middle English: “short e” and “long ɛ” Those spelled with “e” have stayed somewhere close to [ɛ] while those spelled “ea” were originally pronounced [e]. – Falstaff, for example, rhymes “raisins” with “reasons”.
This pronunciation remains in some accents.

Breaking and shading effects are possible with DRESS as they are with KIT. In some accents the vowel is raised toward /ɪ/ in environments where it is followed by a nasal, making the words “pin” and “pen” homophones.Breaking is the diphthongization of monophthongs. Shading is the development of different allophones conditioned by the place of articulation of the following consonant. With DRESS in the South, shading seems to occur in Southern American accents when /ɛ/ is followed by /d/, /m/, /l/ or /ʤ/. When followed by /ɡ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, or /ʒ/, the effect can be so strong as to shift the vowel all the way to the diphthong /eɪ /.SQUARE and MERRY/MARRY/MARY in a future show!Swedish makes a distinction between monophthongal /eː/ /ɛː/ and /ɛ/but when I listen to the samples there is more of a difference in quality than quantityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Vowels French contrasts /eː/ /ɛː/ /ɛ/  and /ɛ̃/                So saith Wikipedia. Is that really true? Sort of...                 German seems to exhibit a 4 way contrast of /eː/ /e/  /ɛː/ and /ɛ/But the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_phonology also expresses some doubts about the factuality of this distinction.Further Notes from various blogs etc.
Jack Windsor Lewis: 'When it comes to a snappy name for [ɛ] I shd prefer 'Greek e' to epsilon (whether as /ep`saɪlən/ or /`epsɪlən/). 'ɛə becominɡ monophthonɡal ɛː— JWL: All three of the GB centring diphthongs are very commonly he·rd with monophthongal allophones. Traditionally these wd not be used before breaks ie at the ends of rhythm units. However, the case of /ɛə/ is different. The use of a strest unit-final [ɛː] wd indicate that the speaker must be categorised as possessing a phoneme /ɛː/ replacing the traditional /ɛə/. This was at one time distinctly a minority usage: Daniel Jones in 1958 only sed "[o]ccasionally one hears [it]". However, it's now for sev·ral decades become less and less so. John Wells: A Red Dress -- Northern Cities Shift, DRESS is mid-centralizing ɛ → ɐIn Canada, it's just becoming more open: DRESS is shifting ɛ → æJohn Wells: Antipodean (i.e. Australian vs. New Zealand) "While both Australians and New Zealanders — but particularly the latter — can give the rest of us the impression that they are pronouncing DRESS words with the KIT vowel (Rebekah → Ribikah) and TRAP words with the DRESS vowel (shag → sheg), it is only New Zealanders whose KIT vowel is so centralized as to lead us to perceive it as the STRUT vowel. Australians, on the other hand, make it closer and fronter than in many other accents, nearer to [i]. "Wells, in response to Upton's changes for OED:Bet. In some languages, notably French and German, one needs to distinguish two e-type vowels, a closer one (IPA [e]) and an opener one (IPA [ɛ]). The English bet vowel lies between them, but is more similar to [ɛ], which is why Upton prefers that symbol. However, from the point of view of an EFL learner whose native language is, say, Japanese or Greek -- languages that have no such distinction -- it is quite unnecessary to distinguish the "[e]" at the starting point of the face diphthong from the "[ɛ]" of bet. And following IPA principles, if we are to choose just one of the two symbols we should prefer the simpler one.http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/e-and.html1. Although I usually use e for the English vowel of DRESS, there is nothing incorrect or unscientific about using ɛ instead. This is the symbol used in the Kenyon-Knott system, still in use among American dialectologists and speech people (who just call this notation “IPA”), and also for EFL in Taiwan (but as far as I know, virtually only in Taiwan). Ladefoged used it in earlier editions of his Course in Phonetics, before switching to e.2. An important principle of good phonetic transcription is simplicity. As Ladefoged formulates it,"A simple phonemic transcription uses the smallest possible number of different letters." [D. Abercrombie, 1964, English Phonetic Texts, London: Faber & Faber, page 19.]Since the DRESS vowel can be unambiguously written e, an English transcription with the symbol e is simpler than one with ɛ. The same applies in those languages that have just five vowels (or just five peripheral vowels), e.g. Modern Greek, Serbian, Polish, Czech, Japanese. In these languages the mid front vowel is best, and most simply, written e. Whether its quality is closer to that of cardinal 2 [e] or cardinal 3 [ɛ] is irrelevant. On the other hand, in languages that have a close-mid front vowel in contrast to an open-mid one (e.g. French, German, a Scottish accent of English), the two symbols e and ɛ must both be used; and that means ɛ for French même, German Bett, and Scottish dress.http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-about-e-and.html3. The vowel of English DRESS varies considerably. A former RP quality, now obsolete, was very close to cardinal 2 [e]: a similarly close-mid quality is to be heard in Australian English, and in New Zealand it is often even closer. The current British average quality is somewhere between cardinal 2 [e] and cardinal 3 [ɛ]. There are also local varieties in which it is fully open-mid. In American English it can be open-mid and considerably centred. If we want to symbolize all of these possibilities in a single symbol, the phonetic case for [e] is not much different from the case for [ɛ]. 4. The choice of symbol for DRESS is bound up with the question of the choice of symbol for FACE. In accents where the FACE vowel is monophthongal and not distinctively long (e.g. Scottish English, perhaps some northern AmE) we must write face as fes and dress as drɛs. In all other varieties of English, where FACE is either a long monophthong or a diphthong, there will be no confusion in writing DRESS with e as long as FACE is written correspondingly as eː or eɪ (or, with Trager and Smith, as ey, or with Chomsky and Halle as ēy). 5. Furthermore, there are many accents in which the diphthong of FACE starts more open than the height of DRESS: for example, popular London and SE England (“Estuary English”) and Australian and New Zealand speech. (It was phonetically perverse of the Macquarie dictionary of Australian English to write FACE as eɪ and DRESS as ɛ.) 6. Consider now the position, say, of Japanese learners of English. In their own language they have just a single mid front vowel, ェ e. It is (in my view) entirely satisfactory for them to use this sound for the English DRESS vowel, and as the first part of an eɪ diphthong for English FACE. If we were to write DRESS as drɛs we would be implying that they need to learn to use a special (non-Japanese) quality for DRESS, different from the starting point of FACE feɪs. And instead of occasional emails from Europe asking why I don’t use ɛ, I would be faced with hundreds of emails from Japan asking me to explain why I use a funny symbol ɛ. (My readers will correct me if I am wrong, but — as far as I know — Japanese, Korean and Chinese dictionaries of English, except in Taiwan, all transcribe the DRESS vowel as e.)7. Lastly, the tradition in English pronouncing dictionaries ever since they first appearance of EPD nearly a century ago has been to write DRESS as e. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.Wells' "Lexical Sets" [http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/lexical-sets.html] The choice of the keyword DRESS has proved awkward for people dealing with New Zealand English, where the upward shifting of the vowel in question has led them to have to refer to DRESS Raising.Newfoundland English by Sandra Clark from A Handbook of Varieties of English: Phonology vol 1 ed Edgar W. Schneider, DRESSFor most speakers, the DRESS vowel is realized as standard lax low-mid [ɛ]. On the Irish Avalon, conservative rural speakers display variable and conditioned raising of this vowel to [ɪ] in the environment of a following stop or affricate, e.g. pension, get, connected. As noted above, the same phenomenon may be observed among conservative speakers in rural English-settled areas of the province, where raising to [ɪ] occurs before a following non-velar stop or affricate, as in head, hedge, engine, bench. Before /l/ or a voiceless velar, however (e.g. yellow, wreak, breakfast), lowering to an [æ]-like articulation may occur in English-settled areas. In addition, [ɛ] before a voiced velar may be tensed and diphthongized in a stressed syllable, as in keg pronounced [kʰeiɡ] (e.g. Noseworthy 1971.) A similar lowered and somewhat retracted pronunciation of [ɛ] for words in the DRESS set is beginning to make inroads, in a broad set of phonetic environments, in the speech of upwardly mobile young urban Newfoundlanders. This reflects the influence of the innovative CanE tendency described as the "Canadian Shift" by Clarke, Elms and Youssef (1995), in which lax front vowels are lowered and retracted. CAMEROON English by Augustin Simo Bobda from A Handbook of Varieties of English: Phonology vol 1 ed Edgar W. Schneider, paintEd with [ɛ] , with words in -ess (actress, princess), -less, -ness, -men. and villAge, with [e], with words in -ace, -ain, -ate, -ein sets in Cameroon EnglishThe regular realizations of the DRESS vowel are /ɛ/ and /e/, which are in complementary distribution in some cases; /ɛ/ occurs in final syllables as in pen, rest, breast, while /e/ occurs before one and only one medial consonant, and before Cj, Cw, and Cr sequences as in element, medical, special, educate, equity, equalize, metric, retrograde. The tensing of /ɛ/ to /e/ in this context is known in the literature as the E-Tensing Rule. /e/ frther occurs frequently before the sequences of mC and nC as in embassy, emperor, member, centre, mention. /e/ finally occurs with the common word says, as a result of the local restructuring of the FACE vowel induced by the analogy with say and other words in orthographic ay.***new stuff added today***NZE by Laurie Bower and Paul Warren in A Handbook of Varieties of English: Phonology vol 1 ed Edgar W. Schneider, The DRESS vowel is close in New Zealand, even by Australian standards, and may overlap with the FLEECE vowel in terms of its formant structure, although more central variants are also common. There is neutralization with SQUARE before /r/ (making ferry and fairy homophonous) and neutralization with TRAP before /l/ (as in Ellen and Alan). If vowels are to be paired in terms of length/tension, then in NZE the DRESS vowel should be paired with the FLEECE vowel, as being the closest long vowel in terms of quality.FIJI EnglishDRESS and TRAP are, essentially, merged. So words like paddle/peddle, lag/leg, tampered/tempered are homophonous.