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Ben brings on Simon Carless of GameDiscoverCo and Morgan Park of PC Gamer to explain the success of some of the most popular games released this year that haven't previously been discussed on the podcast: surprise Steam sensations ‘R.E.P.O.,' ‘Schedule I,' ‘Peak,' ‘Megabonk,' ‘Escape From Duckov,' and ‘RV There Yet?' They break down how unknown PC games go viral, how long their time in the spotlight usually lasts, and what these huge hits have to teach us about the gaming landscape in 2025. Intro (0:00)Steam sensations speedrun (11:52)Outro (1:17:15) Host: Ben LindberghGuests: Simon Carless and Morgan ParkProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Stroe (@Plus3Happiness) is a phenomenologist and “happiness concierge.” Through a combination of the Buddhist Fetters & somatic practices, he's allegedly reduced his suffering by ~90%. He claims to consistently live at 9/10 life satisfaction and has skillfully guided others into similar transformations. Today we demystify his journey and discuss concrete practices for oneshotting procrastination, reducing reactivity and permanently raising the floor of your happiness (seriously).Watch on YouTube:Transcript — Michael Stroe​[00:00:00] Daniel Kazandjian: Michael Stroe, welcome to the Metagame.Michael Stroe: Well, thank you for having me. How you doing?Daniel Kazandjian: I'm doing great. I'm really excited for this conversation. You famously, through a combination of Buddhist practices and somatic practices reduced your suffering by around 90%, whichMichael Stroe: Even more these days.Daniel Kazandjian: And now you're teaching other people how to do that, which is fantastic. How did you figure that out? Like what, what's the story there?Michael Stroe: As many great things happened by mistake, it's a total mistake. I was on a more or less sabbatical in like 2023 in Barcelona. Uh, not in a great place in life, honestly.Daniel Kazandjian: Hmm.Michael Stroe: and towards the end of the trip, someone actually, someone that, someone being Frank Yang, which you might be familiar with,Daniel Kazandjian: Mm-hmm.[00:01:00] Michael Stroe: Shared, Kevin Schanilec's website, which I've messaged, and he was very succinct as like, “try Liberation Unleashed” being a Liberation Unleashed being this forum for, for these practicesDaniel Kazandjian: Can you say that again? LiberationMichael Stroe: unleashed. Yes,Daniel Kazandjian: Unleashed. Yeah.Michael Stroe: Yes. And very quickly realize that the way they're doing it is one practice at a time and it's months of work. My ADHD Mind, uh, was like, yeah, but what if we do everything all at once? Um, instead of doing one practice at a time, I basically did eight of them daily for a couple of hours.'cause that's how you do it. Uh, in a bunch of days I had a perceptual shift, which was very interesting, and a bit of a honeymoon for like two days. Uh, that was something that I found funny that um, some people speak of these, uh, awakenings or whatever in terms of like, oh, months of bliss. And I just had two days and on the second day I was in an airport delayed for like five hours, which I was chill about.[00:02:00] But that wasn't necessarily like, whoa, I'm so alive. They're like, yeah, that's not happening. It was a bit better than usual. That perception shift coincided with a bit of a, what should I put it? Less? Uh, stress, let's call it initially. ‘cause I didn't know what was happening. Just less stress, less, uh, overthinking, less, chatter.And actually one of the, one of the few things that I found really interesting somehow coincided with great sleep. I don't know how to explain it seconds to sleep.Daniel Kazandjian: Wow.Michael Stroe: I found it very interesting because I used to get like one hour, two hours, three hours to get to sleep. And I just have ideas and sit in bed for just 30 seconds. I was out and I'm like, okay, this is an interesting benefit. Not gonna lie. Uh, I don't even care about all these benefits, I'm sleeping. Like that's, that's enough. And from then on I sort of returned to simply the scene, the, the initial website where I was guided, uh, to Liberation Unleashed.And I've done the practices on attachment and version. Okay.[00:03:00] And I should mention that immediately after stream entry, which would be the first shift that I had where it kind of, you notice that there's just the body mind, there's no little guy driving this, uh, body around. Um, you start to be aware of the fact that you kind of don't like a lot of the things that are happening.You're trying to pull out experience to such an extent. And, I had 10, 15 years of anxiety and other things on and off. Um, when I started looking at them, uh, I sort of noticed that I had a sort of a version towards so many things even after the first shift in like two more weeks had another one where, oh, like I, my, my, like that was the point where anxiety got reduced both in size and intensity and that was a big deal, even more of a big deal than the first one. ‘cause the first one is, like I said, it was nice, I was sleeping better, but also realizing how much you hate your experience,[00:04:00] let's call it, put it into a certain perspective and realize that from whatever anxiety I used to have or whatever intensity, it went down by like 60, 70%, at least in duration.Michael Stroe: One of the things I've noticed is actually, I used to have anxiety for days and weeks at a time about some stupid thing, or in general, like a generalized anxiety. And I realized that I couldn't. Get anxiety going for more than 30 minutes. As in, if someone distracted me, I forgot I had anxiety, and I'm like, huh, don't understand what's happening.Why do you mean like, I forgot I had anxiety. What do you mean? Like that makes no sense. And sort of like this continued, uh, after a bunch, uh, more time, a few other shifts, but this one especially, were like, oh, there's a dare there. Which for me, there were years of trying self-development, failing at meditation, um, or is nothing working actually.You sort of like, you do all these self-development things.[00:05:00] You, you're gonna do your finances and orders, like you're not happy. You're gonna get a great job, not happily encouraged to do these things. It's like, okay, but like what works? Um, and I had a notion that there's a debt there, but I didn't have a notion about what's possible.It's sort of like more of a faith, even though I'm not religious, more of a fate that it's possible. I didn'tDaniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: I feel like maybe some of the people that I was following were somewhat trustworthy in this sense.Daniel Kazandjian: So, you just, so to recap, you had 10, 15 years of suffering with like, maybe above average levels of anxiety, is that what you're saying?Michael Stroe: Yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: Were months at a time where I was to be okay. And the, the moments where I was okay were just the moments where I wasn't doing anything. As you know, I was mostly taking sabbaticals, which is not necessarily a great thing in the sense of like, if you're not active in society, you're feeling great.It's like saying, oh, I'm feeling great on vacation, but I hate my job.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So from that, the practices at On Liberation Unleash, the first thing,[00:06:00] Daniel Kazandjian: the thing that allowed you to sleep fast and stuff was, was that stream entry.Michael Stroe: Yes. That would be stream entry. Yeah. AndDaniel Kazandjian: So just,Michael Stroe: Obvious. Yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: Just to bring people on board with that, what is stream entry?Michael Stroe: Stream Entry, if I am to take away from the woo stuff, it's like realizing there's no self, but the problem with realizing there's no self, it's so, uh, abstract, but we, no one, no one know what it means, but it's provocative.But if I'm to be a very mundane phenomenologist, it's just the sense that I'm no longer the little guy in the behind the eyes. I used to call it behind the eyes or behind the, an experience that sort of looks like a watches experience from afar a bit.Daniel Kazandjian: Mm-hmm.Michael Stroe: So realizing that, oh, I guess there's nothing separate from the body, mind world. There's just the body and mind. And my identity is more so that of a witness, uh, not of the tour, let's call it. And it's very simple. Like it's mundane. One of my, uh, most treasured experiences, right? When someone says, uh.[00:07:00] Is it almost disappointing that there is not more there? Because that's what you kind of know. Like, okay, like yeah, they got it. And it's like, of course, like after enlightenment, it's just, just ordinary experience. Um, and yeah, basically just the sense of no longer identifying as the doer. It'sDaniel Kazandjian: Mm-hmm.Michael Stroe: There's no one moving the body mind, just the body mind moving itself. Uh, it doesn't need a do or it's all conditioning. And so,Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: freeing.Daniel Kazandjian: So, so, uh, we might get into more details on this, but what's interesting to me is what you said after that was when you realized that you had a lot of aversion to things.Michael Stroe: Yes.Daniel Kazandjian: So is it that stream entry kind of brought awareness to the suffering that was already, like, you weren't feeling your suffering fully, and then something shifted in terms ofMichael Stroe: Yeah. Um, what happens prior to stream entry? You take all these things as identity. This is mine. Then through stream entry,[00:08:00] You start seeing them as more of an objective, uh, phenomenon or objective processes. Basically what I used to call, uh, um, what I was seeing afterwards as, oh, you know, like some contractions and so on, it used to be like my anxiety, my social, whatever. And it was, it was getting, uh, caught up as identity. And once I was able to see these processes, just those objective processes that I'm able to watch, uh, there is, uh, a subtle detachment. I don't mean detachment in, uh, sort of like going away, but they're actually going towards them.What I'm able to see them for whatever, which is a bunch of thoughts and sensations and that has a very interesting side effect of actually realizing that these are happening, these are conditions and they've been happening for so long. And if beforehand they used to be like, oh, uh, it's me, it's, I'm, I'm bad like this. I'm bad like that. I'm not good enough for whatever. It's like, oh, there's this process. Of these sensations appearing and this story about not being like this or not being like that?[00:09:00] Daniel Kazandjian: Do you have a personal anecdote about that? really illustrates this point?Michael Stroe: Uh, yes, actually, I can tell you how, uh, we, the weakening of a version happened.Daniel Kazandjian: Hmm.Michael Stroe: Uh, there was this particular day I was in my parents' house in the countryside and for some reason, some of my friends, not just one, were not answering my messages. And I used to have anxiety about this thing for, uh, both relationships and of both kinds of friends and, and anyway, about people not responding.And I used to have three friends and it's like they were not answering my messages and I was kind of going in a loop. What did I do? What did I say? Did I say something? And I was just, I had the moment of watching. I was like, okay, there's this weird process. There are some sensations that are kind of like, not pleasant, but I'm going through all these thoughts.And what happens is that I'm making it worse, but what is this? I was like, there are some sensations I had the moment. The sensations are not that bad. And also, I don't know how I'm making this. Like they're just here.[00:10:00] And that was the moment, like, oh yeah. It's like, why, why am I, what, why am I doing this to myself? And I was moments like, ah, yeah, it's okay. Oh, it's like, I best I'm gonna like if, if this is how bad it feels not to, uh, receive, uh, attention or whatever it was at the time. Like, I don't even remember fully what I was like, it's not that bad. was like, huh. A bit of like, oh, this is no big deal.Yeah. I can just go about my day. Like, I thought it was gonna be worse. The anticipation of this being so bad was what I was amplifying but the sensation themselves was like some amount of contraction in the stomach area. Like, uh, one out of 10. Not a big deal.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah, so it's almost that there, the raw sensation itself is relatively benign, but then there's some sort of mental content, some story at adding to it.Michael Stroe: Yeah. The mental tension. Like a rat, like basically a rat in a cage.[00:11:00] Michael Stroe: Um, and going through all these stories, going through all these machinations in order to, and this is very important in order to seemingly try to change the sensation, like what should I say for this person to respond to me?Michael Stroe: And then it dawned on me that actually I was not trying to have them respond. I didn't think it was gonna sound bad, but also I didn't necessarily care about them responding. I actually cared about me not having the sensations. And this is one thing that I usually show to people, which is like, if this sensation would be the same, but you were happy, you wouldn't care about the sensation.If you were content with how things are. Whatever happens, happens, you can still be pretty, pretty okay with it. But the problem for me was not the situation, which is like all these people not responding to my messages, like the, the, the anxiety or the amplification was just happening. It's like, I just don't like how I feel right now.I hate this and probably this is the reason why. It's like, is this the reason why it's like, not just some conditioning there. But Yeah.[00:12:00] Daniel Kazandjian: And so what were the practices that allowed you to create a little bit of distance with those sensations and stories?Michael Stroe: I think at, at, at the time I didn't necessarily like I had the materials, right, but the materials were something like, oh, notice in this moment that what you're trying is to look for some other reality than the one you have. Basically that moment I had these people that were not responding to my messages, and the thing that I was was like, oh, I don't have a reality where they're responding to my messages.In current practice, I would frame it like, oh, I didn't get a response from my friends. It's like, oh, I'm looking for this reality somehow. It feels differently and things are different. So it's like, not necessarily that I wanted things to be different, I wanted to feel differently. Oh, I don't have friends that respond to my message quickly.So like, sure. I guess.But when, when, when we were seeing that actually the practice was just seeing things and just feeling a bit to it, it's not a big deal.[00:13:00] And definitely, my practice was a bit different from the one I, uh, show to people right now. Uh, at the time I was doing more inside Heavy, which would be staying that mental tension and seeing that it's just a sensation that we can do something about it.Right now. I ask people to do both that, but also like just sitting with a so-called pain and letting it dissipate.For me it was just sitting in that tension. It's like, okay, I'm sitting in that tension. So what? And it's like, okay, it's not that pleasant, but also. There's no other reality available.There's no other Michael. Sometimes I, I, when I see people being stuck in, it's like, what is your quantum duplicate that somehow has some other sensation? They're not. It's like, okay, so I guess this is what you have right now. Is it that bad? And sometimes I make these weird analogies, which is like, imagine you've hit your leg very badly in the furniture.Would you trade these sensations for those sensations? Like, no, you go. Then sit with these ones. Maybe you appreciate them more,[00:14:00] Daniel Kazandjian: Hmm. Um, I wanna get back to your story, but one thing I'll, I'll, highlight is what your practice wasn't. It wasn't trying to understand why you happen to be so sensitive to people texting you and it, and like going into the deeper reasoning for your emotions. It wasn't that at all. It was focusing on the sensations themselves.Michael Stroe: Yeah. And what I found is there are cases where the, let's say the story unbundling, which I would call it, is helpful.For the sake of reducing suffering, there is minimal need for that. You need to see that the story is a story, which is a bunch of thoughts, and the sensations are conditioned, arising and the like.The impression is that, oh, this anxiety, for example, right now for me, it's happening because of what's happening. But the reality, no, it's happening because all the baggage from the back, all my priors that are being, uh, involved in this particular situations, out of which, let's call it this gate out, which, the anxiety comes up is through this situation,[00:15:00] it's actually the baggage that's to blame, let's say for this. One of the things I usually do, um, lately is, uh, to ask people to, okay, has some meaning, whatever story, right? My story, I was like, there's meaning, and my friends are not pointing my messages. Okay, why is there more meaning to that particular thought compared to my body? 70% water?It's like. Uh, somehow one is more meaningful than the other, but they're both, let's say language markers.They're both tokens and somehow one has more meaning than the other. It's like, is it the meaning or they're just both neutral, but the charge is just because of the conditioning and it helps a bit putting on the per circuit. Like you have two stories or you have two sentences. is charged, one is not charged.It's like, how exactly is the story charged experience wise? What exactly is the charge? Oh, some sensations. Yes. So it's not the story. And through just sitting with them, they eventually were like, oh, I guess the story.[00:16:00] It was the sensations that I was resisting.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah. maybe it'd be worth spelling this out a little bit more. It's like there's a storyMichael Stroe: Yes.Daniel Kazandjian: And then there's a sensory experience in the body, like some, some knot in your gut or something like that, or like a buzzing sensation somewhere. And then those two things are very tightly coupled or correlated. And so the story itself feels charged.What's the process of disentangling those two things?Michael Stroe: Well, the first step is usually to take away from the story as in, oh, this thing happened, this thing happened, this thing happens. It's like, okay, all those things happen, but what's happening right now? It's like me, I'm looking for some other reality in the one available. It's like, okay, um, I don't have this reality that I'm looking for where this other thing happened.So it's like, okay, in this moment, right now, what you have, uh, this sensory reality and some thoughts, it's like, okay, that brings you a bit further, into the present, right? So it's like, okay, you make a sentence,[00:17:00] and that sentence is almost like a summary of what happened, but in a very factual way.Right. Like very factual. It's like they didn't say this, okay, so I don't have this experience where I'm looking, I'm looking for them to be different. The next step would be putting the sensations into perspective. And actually that's a very big one.of the things that I notice is if I ask someone, which I have a lot of track questions during my inquiries, I, I need to mention that, uh, I usually ask them, it's like, okay, on a scale of one to 10, how bad are these sensations?And I've gotten some weird responses for some very meaningless situations. Like this email being an eight out of 10, right? Um, it's like, okay, that like an eight out of 10, an email, like he, that torture, that torture level pain, right? So if you ask people, uh, in, in that way, they're gonna, um, compare it with the ideal, how they would prefer to feel in this moment.So it's like, okay, okay, put it in a bit of a perspective, like compared to some actual pain, which is a breaking leg, I think breaking leg is the one I use most often.It's painful enough. And if you try to imagine it's like.[00:18:00] That would be a bad one. It's like compared to breaking a leg, how bad is this pain?It's like, okay, it's one or two. It's like, oh, now we got some perspective. Now we got a foothold to just sit with the sensations. Right? And, and going through these a few steps, uh, you've basically taken away from the story. You've reduced it to something, you are looking for some other reality, and then you have the intensity dropping a bit.Quite a bit actually. And then the last thing is like, okay, I want you to see with the sensation, it's called being called staying in the gap. And what I mean by staying in the gap, it's you tone descendants. I didn't get the response from my friends, right? Some sensations are appearing and being in the gap.It means seeing with those sensations until the thoughts that are happening, the thoughts that are happening somehow it seems. They can, uh, act upon these sensations somehow seem to be about these sensations. And the more you stay in the gap with a sensation, with thoughts,[00:19:00] eventually it's such a, uh, a long time between the sensations appearing and the thoughts that it's like this couldn't be connected.Michael Stroe: It's there's no way that these, there's a way for, for these sensations to be changed by this thought that happened a minute later. Like there's no way of causality in such a way. So it's like,Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: There's two channels. You have the channel of the thoughts, you have the channel of sensation, and it might seem initially that they're glued somehow, but then it becomes, uh, obvious that no, the sensations are conditioned in a certain way.The thoughts are conditioned a certain way, but there is no, uh, uh, glue in between. There is almost one of the metaphors I use lately actually, the, the channel of sensation is the basketball game the channel of, uh, thoughts or stories is the sports commentary. No amount of sports commentary will change the basketball game.Whoever is your favorite basketball player, whether it's LeBron or whatever, it doesn't even matter. It's like he's not gonna suddenly start shooting trees just because the sports come. It's like, oh, you're shooting wrong. It's like, yeah, that's not gonna happen.[00:20:00] And it's a bit of a, of a more immediate, um, metaphor that it's helped is like, oh, I'm trying to change the game by just commenting on it.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah, yeah, I love that image. Um, you used the word, uh, conditioning a few times, so like, because of conditioning, there's the glue between the sensations and the thoughts and the stories. How, what do you mean by conditioning here? How does that process work?Michael Stroe: Yeah. By conditioning, I mean all the situations and experiences that have left an imprint on the body mind, they've made a, they made a dent, whether it's in personality, whether it's even in the body. We have a discussion sometimes about VA computation, like.The body does keep the score right. and that conditioning is basically everything you would, uh, actually both, uh, uh, positive and negative. You can have positive conditioning, right? Uh, both, uh, pleasant and negative experiences that make a mark in that condition.[00:21:00] Future experiences based on prior experiences. If you wanna use priors, because we're more in rational spaces, we can use priors, but I'm mostly speaking about the priors at the level of, uh, memories oftentimes and bodily, uh, contractions.Michael Stroe: That's what we use mostly for this.Daniel Kazandjian: So is that like, let's say when I'm younger and I have less awareness,Michael Stroe: Yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: Something happens to me, you know, maybe I feel a sense of social rejection, um, because I don't know, the girl I like didn't text me back or something like that. And then it prompts a really big physiological response that I know.Michael Stroe: Yes.Daniel Kazandjian: Correlate with the story of like, girls not texting me back, and then that's conditioning. That's like the prior.Michael Stroe: Yes. That's basically the pairing of some sensations with some stories.Daniel Kazandjian: Mm-hmm.Michael Stroe: Often, whether the stories can be like a visual memory. Like myself in that situation where I used to feel this way, and it's like, oh, when that happens,[00:22:00] this is, uh, this is the thing. And, and also like when I have that, those pairings, those pairings actually create a certain amount of one unidimensional response.When I feel the sensations, I need to double text them or I need to say, I need to say, I need to say something. I need to say something to them. Right. Um, there is a sense where the degree of freedom is being traded for, uh. A sense of apparent control, right. In that case, uh, the one we mentioned for like, uh, not receiving a message.When I, when this happens, then I do this. But by having, just when a then BI have a degree of conditioning or a degree of conditional, uh, response that actually prevents me from seeing there are maybe 10 other options. And that tends to shrink our personal freedom to such an extent that we often don't realize that we're doing it.[00:23:00] Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah. So let's come back to your story. You got, you got the stream entry. Then you start to recognize the conditioning and all the ways in which you had aversion to your experience. What happened after that?Michael Stroe: Um, I found a guide, a lovely lady in Italy that was recommended to me by some other guide in fairs. She had some availability and we started working together and I started working on the big issues. Right now, when I work with people, I think I work a bit differently.We used to work, we used to work directly with big stuff. One of the big things I had the most directly, which was something like some past relationship thing, and then I started working with a bunch of them. But the reality is, looking back, like I had a certain degree of buy into the processWhen I used to guide the same way with folks that weren't necessarily as bought in or[00:24:00] believing in the process, I can say I had like 25 to 30 people quit after the first month because, um, instead of having more of an upstream, slowly gliding your way to more wellbeing, it's more abrupt. It's like you, you have reactivity that happens in two stages, weakening and breaking.With two big issues, you're gonna have the weakening and then the breaking. But if you don't go with the biggest ones and you just go with. You, you can, you can have more of a smoother path.Okay, what's the biggest thing I can think of? Like, oh, there's this, uh, memory from a relationship. And because I have this memory, I won't have happy relationships in the future. Right.And to work with this, and I can definitely tell you that between getting a weakening of reactivity or a version by myself and dropping, it's been like a month and a half where I cannot necessarily say that was progress.And I, uh, at the level of pedagogy,[00:25:00] I found that actually to be a big issue because I was crazy enough to believe because I got the benefits fast, let's say, and I was on my own. So it's always easy to believe in the process, but I can definitely understand someone being like, I wanna stop.So, and then in another month and a half, um, I kept working with bigger and bigger things. Right now, I, sorry, I separate things and things. Keeping you up at night, which is like immediate short term things that are causing suffering at the moment. And then the next one would be, uh, big goals and desires.The second category. And by starting to work with Maria, I was already working on the big stuff, which is not necessarily ideal if I'm gonna be honest. I don't have the emotional capacity right now. I feel that I end up in a point where I actually help people build the emotional capacity as we're dropping a version.Otherwise it can feel very jarring and that can make people not want to keep the process until finished. Right.[00:26:00] I'd say like a month and a half, beginning of December, 2023, I started noticing that things were kind of like, uh, water of a duck spec. That's what I would call it. Things were smoother. That was kind of where I started noticing. I kinda cannot say, and this is so like a bigger discussion, but. I cannot say I have bad days. A version basically is this mental chaining, uh, of some pain that happened and, and keeping it with you during the entirety of your day, even though it was like two minutes or five minutes of unpleasant sensation.So when that no longer happens, a version by the way, dropping a version is called dropping into non-conceptual. That's basically when you drop the associated between, uh, stories and sensations. And once that, that was dropped, it's like, yeah, you can still feel pain, you can still feel unpleasant sensation, but you're no longer chained as your day goes on into a big feeling that basically colors the entirety of your 24 hours.[00:27:00] And that was the last, so like the, the last days where I've noticed, uh, bad days. So I cannot say that I have had bad days since then. Okay. I hadDaniel Kazandjian: Wow.Michael Stroe: unpleasant situations for a few hours or whatever, but the amount of pain was actually low and there was no suffering. Even once, like, I had someone, like almost lost a friend a bunch of months ago, and there was crying, there was pain. There was no way of me imagining that there are some other sensations available and I fell through it. I cry. Uh, just what seemed natural there was necessarily suffering or resistance and it's, it's also a very point to be, it's not relatable.I cannot explain it for it to make sense. If someone doesn't have it almost seems like I'm trying to sell someone on these. Grant benefit, uh, uh, by now, uh, where it's like, oh, it's so amazing. It's like drugs.[00:28:00] It's like, it is amazing, but also it makes no sense how this could, uh, be experienced. Right?And then when that happened in a few more weeks, I dropped into non duality again. It is a very fast process. I think there is a certain extent to which all these shifts are happening fast when someone really wants it. And I know that the Buddhist say desire is the root of all suffering, but that's a mistranslation.Was the root of suffering. And that's a different, more moment to moment, uh, thing. being open, it's like, yeah, I really want, this has led to very fast progress. And I think actually, um, suffering wise, actually this one actually made the most, uh, difference just dropping a version. I used to have so much of it.It's to color my days to such an extent, days, months, years, whatever you wanna call it, that once it drop, it's like, okay, yeah, I did not expect this was possible.[00:29:00] It's easy to say that it's not possible or there could not be something like this. Okay. It's not perfect, but it's amazing. It's sort of like, that's how I would call it. No, it's amazing. And, and luckily right now, I, I, I feel like I'm not speaking from a standpoint of just me at, with her, there are a bunch of friends, some of them that you already know that have gotten the same experience and they have the same experience or like, no, it's pretty great.Michael Stroe: No,Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah,Michael Stroe: great. Yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: I know you, you also tried to make this a little more legible for people by like mapping it on to commonplace positive experiences.Michael Stroe: Yes.Daniel Kazandjian: You know, and I know it's a totally imperfect process or whatever, but it gives people a sense.Michael Stroe: Yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: maybe you can tell the listeners that, like how different stages mapped onto like the, these commonplace positive experiences.Michael Stroe: I was trying to do this with a friend a bunch of times ago because I was thinking,[00:30:00] what's the marginal value of the next dollar? But actually it was more so what's the marginal value of the next million dollars? It's like, what do you even buy with a bunch of money that gives you happiness? I put my own happiness into, okay, what would I trade this for?And it's for, for as much as it's gonna sound, it's farfetched, I would say, like, I don't know, tens of millions to be like, you have no physical worries for the rest of your life. You would still end up in the place where you're pursuing this.It's already that good. Like there's no convincing. Like I would rather take my pain from years ago just to have it. Yes. So the first, the first steps, treatment three, first one to three. I've humorously, uh, called it getting a free sandwich daily. Um, which is okay. It's nice. Like there are some days when, when a sandwich can, can make you feel a bit better.Uh, it's, it's nice. Um, you got a sandwich, you have a bit of a brighter day, right? There are days where a sandwich does not do anything.[00:31:00] I'm gonna throw that off, right? Uh, and I'll be experimenting, weakening. Um, it's a bit of a, a bit, uh, higher and I would call it almost like having a very relaxing massage daily, right?And it's great. Like you go to have a massage, it's great. You, you are relaxed now, you enjoy your day more. Maybe you are smiling more. It can make most days a bit, uh, sunny, right? also like when, some really bad things are happening and massage probably won't be enough. And there are certain categories of things where.A massage won't do anything like, you know, loss and so on. Um, but the real, the real, uh, thing happens with the dropping of reactivity. And the reason why I call that, um, basically, um, being in a, a, a pretty good vacation all the time is because you no longer want or expect to always feel good.[00:32:00] But that has the interesting side effect of making most days pretty amazing. Dropping reactivity or no longer, like I know, don't want to feel good all the time. And because I don't necessarily want or try to feel good all the time, I'm actually feeling good most of the time.It was the suffering or other, the resistance to those few moments. We were feeling some pain that was coloring all these other moments negatively, let's call it.But when you no longer want that, it does feel pretty, uh, vacay vibes, uh, it's okay. I'm on vacation most days. I don't necessarily need to be somewhere, I don't necessarily need to have a fancy dinner. A lot, a lot of what humans imagine they would feel during a vacation where they're away from work.You can have here and now with work, with life, with all these, uh, trappings of daily life, and it's pretty amazing. And that would be what we spoke so far, which is the trapping already. [00:33:00] And there's a bit of a, there's technically two more steps, but I usually, I only, uh, speak about the first, uh, uh, one, uh, in this, in this, uh, next, uh, in next year row, which is like the fourth, uh, range, I would call it, uh, dropping form and formlessness.And for those that are familiar with Buddhist, uh, terminology, that would be non-duality. And “I-ness”. I-ness probably it's a bit less, uh, common, but no is very obvious. uh, or getting into no. Minus the stories that, uh, were all one and so on. it's a, it's a small, actually a small gain in, in pleasure.You have more of a sense of connection with everything or everyone. You no longer have the sense of things or people being distant from you. You have the sense that you're in one world simulation, which is interesting, but I found it compared to not having a version not as consequential.[00:34:00] I have expected, based on how all the spiritual people are selling nonduality to feel amazing, connected. It's like you do feel connected or actually it's more correctly framed, disconnected. Like, I'm not, we are not all one necessarily, which is like, uh, further inside it's like, okay, we're all in one.It's like we're close by distance is an illusion. Pretty great. Pretty great, right? But in terms of suffering reduction, I would've expected it to be more, but it was like 5%. A cool 5%, right? But not what I expected and this wouldDaniel Kazandjian: You're like, disappointed.Michael Stroe: I'm gonna be honest a bit, a bit.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: I would've expected more people to have sold it to me as this grant thing where everything is amazing. It wasn't necessarily, and this would correspond with the third six, right?And I actually feel that third seven is more impactful, which would be “I-am-ness” consciousness and so on. Uh, the reason why this one actually was, um, profound, I would start with the sense of time.[00:35:00] Sense of time kind of goes away and you realize there were a bunch of sensations and thoughts. When that happens, you have to be a bit more clumsy with your appointments. I'm gonna give people that warning.That's gonna happen, but you no longer have the time pressure. I need you to do this, I need to do that. If you heard people speak about timelessness or the experience of timelessness, this is basically what they were speaking of just now. Just now, just now. And it's pretty amazing. That's just one aspect.The second aspect that I've seen, um, this actually has to do with, um, almost, um, dropping the notion that somehow things are existing in opposites. Where it's like, in this case, it's ugly and beautiful you're dropping the opposites as real categories when, when the opposites seem to be integrated as neither this nor that, neither ugly nor beautiful.I found that everything is more beautiful.[00:36:00] Very few people will be able to relate to this, but there was a joke going around on Twitter a bunch of time ago, which is like, Would you rather get plus three to your own, uh, beauty, or would you give plus three to everyone?And this is in a way giving plus three to everyone's beauty. course, beauty being in the eye of the beholder, uh, but everything from a wall to a flower to whatever you want to tends to become way more, uh, beautiful by, um, via negative, which is no longer saying, saying it's mundane or, uh, boring or whatever you would project upon it.That cancellation of the extremes makes it way more likely that everything is like, has a certain beauty, has a certain vividness to it, that I. I actually wasn't told that it's gonna happen. Uh, but I found it very, very obvious and I'm sometimes, uh, I'm, I'm being caught in, in the metro and[00:37:00] I'm just looking at people with a certain fascination regardless of how they're looking or whatever their gender is, because there is a sense of, wow, look at all these ways that the reality is happening.All these ways that, uh, things have manifested, right.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: And I guess, uh, the last one, which is very interesting and some might relate it, um, is no longer making things out of images. Here's what I mean. You're looking around the room or you're looking around something. You're noticing, let's say, uh, a basket.The mind or the brain is like, oh, that's a basket. It makes a thing almost like the image that you would see it and gives it a thinness, uh, substantiality. When you just take things as they are, it's an image or if you want to interact with it you can go touch it and so on. But when you compulsively make it a thing, the mental chatter drops a lot.[00:38:00] Michael Stroe: I used to have problems where I used to work in advertising, like outdoor advertisements and I was like Coca-Cola, and it's like, oh, I like, like all these, uh, ads I used to see in the brain were automatically naming them. That goes down because okay, I'm seeing an image, but I don't necessarily need to make it a substantial thing.That drops a lot of the mental chat and also like the compulsiveness of interacting with the world. Um, the benefit of this mostly is that life tends to become very movie-like at this point. When you no longer imagine that things have very distinct boundaries and everything becomes more fluid in that sense, you no longer have the image, the, the, the image that somehow you are outside of the world somehow.You, you, it's one big singularity, if you wanna call it. Um, that tends to make things very easy to move around. If you ever heard, and this is a bit of a, I'm not sure I would give it a trigger or warning,[00:39:00] but I would be mindful that sometimes when in Buddhist, a lot of people know this, know that they're actually very dumb ways of giving insight. For example, if you heard that there is no body, that's one of the dumbest ways of framing it.The actual framing would be the body arises together with everything else. And that wouldn't necessarily give people any type of, uh. Scaries. It's like, oh, okay. So the body is just part of the Raja. And the sense of the body as a thing, as a monolith was just the brain taking a bunch of this junk, uh, sensation and constructing a mental model of what the body would look like.With the seven photos, you no longer need to construct a body as a monolith. You just take sensations as different pings. I used to call it the same way that rain drops. That's how you feel. You no need to hold the frame of there is a body in, in a very, um, uh, experiential way or like one big block of stone.[00:40:00] Have this, the sensations, the body's still there, the organ is still there. You no longer hold the concept of it being a monolith and that I've actually found very relaxing and super easy to do, uh, hard things, physical hard things, or go without sleep for a long time because the body seems to be way, uh, way easier.To process. It's like, oh, there is some unpleasant sensation from tiredness. Okay. Like, it's not that the whole body is tired, it's like tiredness, uh, expresses itself as just this one muscle in the back that it's aDaniel Kazandjian: Yeah, yeah.Michael Stroe: You're no longer like, oh, the body is tired. It's like, no, it's just some sensation. It's not pleasant. That's it. So it's easy to bounce back.Daniel Kazandjian: Um, so this reminds me of a meditation prompt. Uh, it's like a direct pointing prompt of just experiencing the body. Just see, see if you can experience the body as a cloud of sensations as opposed to. The, the mental map or like, maybe a simple one that, that I noticed was if someone says, pay attention to your hand, the sensations in your hand,[00:41:00] you might think you're doing that, but then you'll notice that often there's also an image of the hand and like a sense that you're up here and you're looking down at your hand and like there's a bunch of other stuff happening quite habitually that isn't just the raw sensations of the hand and the raw sensations of the hand are something like, like texture and, and heat and tension and like these more, uh, simple constituent elements.And then the same applies for pain. Or I've noticed when I've had issues with chronic pain, if I just do this type of exercise, it just gets deconstructed into a bunch of neutral sensations.Michael Stroe: Yeah. Direct pointers of this nature are very useful because we tend to interact with the word via abstraction or via fabrication.[00:42:00] But once you see, like into the, let's call it, you realize that, oh, it's actually easier to bear. And as you mentioned, there are a lot of these small pointers that you can give someone that make actually a big dent in your experience, uh, especially are of suffering and pain they finally see experience as is not through the conceptual map.And one of the, because you mentioned the one with the conceptual map, one of the things I actually ask people during the stream entry conversation is, uh, can they imagine an actual tactile sensation? Like, okay, let me try to imagine my feet standing on the floor. So it's like, are you really imagining a sensation or are you imagining the mental body map and where it would happen, is like, oh yeah, no, I'm, I'm imagining the mental body map.There's no way for me to. Imagine a sensation the same way. It's like Exactly. So that helps put things into perspective between what's direct sense experience and what's abstract experience. And you can use abstraction.[00:43:00] It's just though you never confuse abstraction, if you want to call it, the abstraction would be context, right? And enlightenment is just untangling more and more of the context of identity or of concepts into the components of, um, what we would call experience, like context and content. Like that's, that's like the more you take, uh, context and make it content, that's the more enlightened you are, if you want.Michael Stroe: Call it like that.Daniel Kazandjian: I wanna see if we can help people on this a little bit. Obviously, you know, reducing your happiness by 90 or reducing your suffering by 90% orMichael Stroe: Yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: Nine outta 10 happiness is like a pretty good sell. But one of the things you've mentioned, and it's also implicit in the stories that you shared, is this idea of freedom. How there's actually just more degrees of freedom around different areas of life.[00:44:00] And so I wonder if you can speak a little bit more about freedom and then some of the other kind of tangible benefits that you've discovered through this journey.Michael Stroe: Yeah. Um, the biggest degree of freedom, I would say, does come from aversion attachment.I used to have this notion that I should make this amount of money by this age, and I would say that's very common for type A. Uh, once I was no longer held by that attachment, I could actually work toward that direction.Well, in the past I used to be very contracted around not having, that would actually mean and turn, uh, into procrastination. And that's a very common experience where it's imagined that procrastination is somehow. An issue of the situation. I don't have this, I don't have that, but most often with the people at work, we end up seeing that procrastination is just an emotional issue.Procrastination being just the resistance to how I'm feeling and most often how I'm feeling is not that bad.Freedom, it turns out, is a very common conversation for me. It's like, if meditation takes away my ambition?[00:45:00] It's like, wouldn't that be bad? It's like, well, let me frame it differently.Uh, if you were to lose some of these things probably you weren't interested in, but you're gonna do way more of the things that you actually want to do. And none of the people that I know have gotten, uh, this far have somehow lost their ambition. They will have families, they're still doing things, they're doing more things.They're no longer imagining that things should look a certain way and they're not looking a certain way. Turns out that the freedom of choice increases and. From the standpoint, like prior to stream, I imagine that I'm, I have agency in this, uh, frame of, uh, I sort, I control the body mind and I'm me, the self controlling the body mind.It's gonna act on the world. It's like integrating, seeing just the body mind, working with the world. I now see that there are more choices by degree of not denying that there are actually some limitations. Like, I cannot[00:46:00] I cannot, uh, suddenly start, uh, in some language. I haven't spoken before.And, but by seeing the limitation, you actually gain the freedom by denying the limitations that are inherent to, to experience. I'm actually not seeing freedom because I keep holding on to my ideas of what I should be able to do instead of seeing what I'm able to do. So without shooting the experience, you can see the things that could be happening and it becomes, uh, pretty easy.Uh, a pretty, pretty obvious experience after you get it, but before it's sort of like cloudy. in, in terms of freedom, I would say the biggest freedom I found was to, to take on projects or, or, uh, do things that I previously seemed to be unapproachable. Uh, it's my identity, like, oh, who's little me?[00:47:00] Like, uh, imposter syndrome. oh, look at all these people. Um, they're, they're from a big, this big, uh, university. How can I work with them? Right? All these notions of, of importance, it's like, who? Little me.That's from a small town in this eastern European country. Uh, so when you drop identity, it's like, okay, whenever I had that, it's like, oh. They're gonna see that I'm an imposter. Can you see how that is just a sensation in this moment right now, that being an imposter is just a sensation that's all there is to, and some thoughts, but what bothers you is not as much the thought level as much the sensation level. How does feeling an imposter or rather being an imposter, because it seems like I'm being an imposter and it's very common for prior to experiment to have the experience of I am this, I am that, versus, this sensation appearing there is this pattern occurring.So when I no longer make this about some me, some, some, uh, constant identity and adjusting as a pattern, I'm able to actually clean it out because I don't feel every time I'm doing healing that I'm somehow, uh, attacking myself.[00:48:00] Almost a lot of people try to do healing and it goes nowhere. And this is my opinion around therapy.The reason why therapy actually doesn't work is because they have this view of this monolith called self Instead of being a bunch of almost decentralized projects, um, when someone gets stream entry, they finally realize that all those were processes and they weren't necessarily constant and they weren't necessarily owned and they weren't necessarily present.Oftentimes, like the memories Hmm.We identify as, or with any memory, if I, I would invite the, the listeners, any memory they have, if they bring it out, I want them to realize that the experience of a memory, it's a bunch of thoughts and sensations happening now and. I hope they see that this means that the past can only be experienced as a bunch of thoughts and sensations happening now.They cannot experience the past in any meaningful way other than sensations and thoughts happening now. So when that happens, you no longer get lost that much into the thoughts, uh, of the past or into memories, or[00:49:00] you keep identifying with this version of you from 10, 15, 20 years ago that is actually not here. So you're able to be with a, with a, you have the, the freedom to be here now and realize that you have some references to some other so-called past experience. But what you have is just, uh, an, a reference to some memory, some thoughts happening now. that brings you to, like, you need, know, the whole power of now, right?You, to do something to be in the power of now. And this is the funniest one, which is I ask them to, okay, try to imagine the, the, the past and it's just a bunch of thoughts and sensations now. And then imagine your favorite meal in a bunch of hours and see that there are a bunch of thoughts and sensations happening now.And then I asked them, is there some other place other than, than now to be like, do you need to do something to be now? It's like, no. You just have the impression that somehow you are not now. And that opens up a lot of, uh, opportunities to clean up. I think that's the most important when I no longer, um, think that somehow I'm the same guy was five years ago in that relationship,[00:50:00] It brings the possibility of me being like, oh, wait, that relationship, it's a bunch of thoughts and sensations happening now.And that's not something I do. It's just when, when a thinking of the memory occurs, sensations come up. It's like, I did not make those sensations. I did not do the sensing somehow, I didn't do the feeling as much as the feeling happened. And there are a few, uh, pointers for these that make it immediately obvious, but at each level as you go to a pad, you realize almost, uh, in a way actually find that the Buddhist path is very consistent with the Keegan stage.Instead of like me, uh, having this experience, you make everything an object and you basically make more and more of your identity on an object that you can work with.Uh, eventually you make all of your identity. Actually, Reen enlightenment would be a bit past even Kegan five because you make everything,[00:51:00] you make everything an object that can be worked with and you no longer see it as a subjective context.Michael Stroe: Um, yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: Let me let, let, no, that was great. I, so we're talking about freedom and then, um, the, the freedom from. You're past in a way, and I, I kind of wanna sharpen up this therapy thing ‘cause you said something very provocative, which is the reason why therapy doesn't work is the way I understood. It's almost like it's reifying the self.Daniel Kazandjian: Right. It's a discursive practice that's assuming the self actually exists.Michael Stroe: Yes, and it's assuming that identity is an experience instead of like, what's experienced is just a bunch of thoughts and sensation.The way I would frame it, it actually, it, it actually applies both to stream entry and work with reactivity. For stream entry is assuming that somehow you, you can have the experience of the memory or your, uh, basically bringing up something from the past and it's like, oh, that's still happening, that's still active, that's still real.The memory of being this age and having this experience instead of seeing the experience for what it is,[00:52:00] it's like, oh, a bunch of thoughts and sensations happening now, and that's the first one. They're making a thing out of something. That's another experience, and that's the first aspect of considering identity a constant.Right? The second aspect of the, the reason why therapy doesn't work is because action therapy always works after the gap. If I want to, if, if I should, uh, remind people what I mean by the gap. The gap being the space of just sensations. No dots have started to try to change your experience. So let's say I go to a therapist and I wanna speak about this thing that happened to me in a relationship.I'm gonna draw on and on and on and on and on about what happened. But I'm already into the experience of trying to justify the sensation or change the sensation. I'm past the gap, and at no point I'm actually feeling my, my feelings. Feeling my feelings does not mean sobbing and going through this, oh, this person did this to me and they, this, this, to me.It's like, that's not what, staying with the sensation, that's not feeling your emotion, feeling your emotions or feeling your sensation is just the act of sitting with the initial sensation.[00:53:00] The one with the, the, this issue just started, the ones that you feel without needing to add the layer of, or conceptually the layer of thoughts or the layer of judgment.And because most therapies working in the space of reactive already, they're past the gap. They're the inner version already. Hmm.Most people don't make meaningful progress. Because they're actually not feeling their emotions. They are more or less feeling the amplified sensation, but not the, the, the, the crux or the core of the issue.They're feeling all the fabrication around the issue.Daniel Kazandjian: Let's see if we could apply this to an example. Like let's say, um. Uh, just totally random example, let's say I had a very critical father who whenever he was in the room, his presence, um, warranted like a hyper vigilance in me and my siblings because, and, and he's a bit volatile.[00:54:00] So we just have to be on edge, you know, whenever he's around. And then, so something at a young age developed to protect myself from, from that mechanism or from the potential of attack or something like that. And then it's still latent in the body. And maybe, maybe it's influencing the way I relate to authorities as an adult.And I come to therapy, I come to you who you're like, therapy doesn't work, but we got this other approach.Daniel Kazandjian: How would you,Michael Stroe: therapy for what is, what is me teaching? not trying to take the clients from the therapist. I'm just saying what works and what doesn't.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah. What, what would work to, to deal with a situation like that?Michael Stroe: First it would be bringing up the memory. And when you bring up the memory, it's immediately coupled with a bunch of sensations, right? Like, it's very obvious that like, you might tell there's something, there might be a lock in, right?Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: So where it's like you have the grand story that they were this, they were there.It's like, okay, but like, that's not happening right now. Me and you, let's say we're in the same room. We're just sitting on a couch, just vibing.[00:55:00] So it's like, oh, what happens right now? It's a bunch of mental phenomena, stories, thoughts, images, and some sensations. It's like, okay, take away the whole, he was this, he was that.He was like, what's happening here at this moment? Oh, a bunch of thoughts. Okay. I want you to notice that. Regardless of what happened in the past, that's not what is happening right now. You might behave as if it was a real, real thing, but if you foresee that your memory of it, it's a bunch of thoughts and some not so pleasant contractions in the body happening right now, you first gain a bit of distance from it.Distance in a good way, not trying to dissociate.There are some sensations in my body right now. I have a mental image of what that happens. And I would ask, okay, you notice that in this moment you're thinking of that story and imagine that reality should be a certain way for you right now.Almost like trying to, um, rewrite the past, which is in a way, making a sentence or what we describe. It's like, oh, I didn't have a father that was,[00:56:00] let's say, uh, warm and I'm just making it up right now. Right? It's like when you tone that, is that the thing that you actually wanted back then?It's like, yeah, I wanted to, it's like. what you have right now, even though you didn't have then, it's just a bunch of sensation. And I ask them, okay, if you feel those sensations, but like, don't go into thoughts that are just chatter now. At this moment. You have those crappy sensations, but are they that bad?That's why I make the framing around like compared to an actual pain, how bad they are, and I ask them to stay with it. And if they get lasting thoughts, I bring them back. It's like, no, no, no, no. You're in this room right now. Your father, whoever it is, it's not here. You're safe. You're with me. Like, or even if they're in their, in their own room, they're safe.What do you have right now? It's a bunch of sensations. Like, do you need to do something about those sensations? Can you just relax a bit into them? Can you give them 1% at a time to just be there and let them dissolve?[00:57:00] And over time that decreases, they're not here, not an experience. Would be the point of imagining, oh, it's this, this created this problem. This problem is this problem. if you wanna untangle, but at the level of suffering, most often. I've seen, uh, I, I'm not gonna give a percentage. Most people end up not having the benefits that I want because they're going like, oh, he was like this and he used to do this.And you, it's like if they, if they lock into the past, they're already not in the room with you. They're basically like lost in thoughts that they're already passed the gap in a space of just fabrication and this, just seeing the difference between what's here right now and what's fabrication or constructionDaniel Kazandjian: You know, the concept of memory reconsolidation and like, uh, therapy literature.Michael Stroe: Yeah.Daniel Kazandjian: Do you wanna do a quick summary of that?Michael Stroe: Uh, yes. I'm not super technical and I can, I best tell you myDaniel Kazandjian: Well, let, let me actually just say how I mean it. ‘cause like, we don't need to get academic about it. It, but it's this idea that like, uh,[00:58:00] There's all these different therapeutic healing modalities, inner work modalities, and to the extent that any of them are effective, they seem to share one thing in common at, at least this is the thesis, which is they allow you to reconsolidate refactor negative memory memories into positive ones by presenting. or neutral ones by presenting disconfirming evidence. So you're having, we're having a conversation in a safe environment about something that happened when it felt unsafe. Maybe we spend time with the sensations instead of the story,And then the system changes. It's a prediction because you're predicting something bad's gonna happen,but it doesn't. And then if you just see that very clearly, then your system updates and then you no longer have activation around that.Michael Stroe: Oh, uh, yeah, definitely. I feel like in a therapeutic sense, they kind of try to change the story as well, if I'm not mistaken.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: like in our approach, it would be mostly just.[00:59:00] Sitting with the sensation and they become neutral and then the story, it's like, okay, he did that. It is probably process wise, we would stay a step, uh, closer to experience. We wouldn't necessarily try to change the story.Daniel Kazandjian: Yeah.Michael Stroe: What it's worth, I want everyone to know that I actually don't think that enlightenment, Buddhism, or fairs have the answer to all the problems. And I think some, uh, therapeutic modalities should be used, especially after stream entry, but stream entry is super fast.But I think if you want to change your patterns, you would first do the feeling and then okay, what would ideally do here? Right. Funnily enough, funnily enough, there is a degree to which feeling your sensation about an issue changes behavior immediately. Even though we are not necessarily doing, uh, a change in the story, uh, this oftentimes actually happens with issues around procrastination.That's the one I actually have seen the most when you no longer have this, oh, this is gonna suck if I'm gonna have to do this. immediately like, oh, I, I feel okay, I'm just gonna do it.[01:00:00] Uh, and we, we in this case with, let's say, let's be less than pleasant with, uh, a parent that happens, but less to a degree. Whereas I would say that, oh, the people that I've worked with necessarily all of a sudden go and all of them repair their relationship. They feel they are if they choose later to work on this and process this and change the relationship. That's almost, um, a side process that it canBut I wouldn't say that this one actually solves it like that.Daniel Kazandjian: Um, I think it'd be nice if we did like a very concise, uh, procrastination protocol, so. Let's say someone listening to this is like, fuck, there's that thing I gotta do, and I keep putting it off step by step. How might they deconstruct it using your method?Michael Stroe: Yeah. So it'll be like this. Oh, I have this thing. Let's say I have, I have this project and there is a deadline on Friday, right? Let's say today is Wednesday. Sorry.The reality is like all those grand stories, like, oh, if this is, if I'm not gonna do this, my boss, my this might be like, okay, okay.[01:01:00] Okay. Right now what you have with this situation, you have some sensation, you have some thoughts, and you're also like some resistance to how the sensations feel. But let's take a step back and all of the, the stories we can sum it up as, I don't know if I finished the project by Friday, that's the, the thing, it can be either, uh, uh, a, a, an uncertainty problem, right?That I usually frame, I usually frame it on two things. Procrastination, especially either something that you feel like it's missing or something that you don't know.It's the first one where you feel like something is uncertain, like I don't know if I have the time to be or if I know if I'll finish the project by Friday.Okay. How does that feel in the body? Oh, it's a sensation in my gut. It's a four out of 10. It's like, whoa, we have a big one. Right. And that's when I asked them, it's like, okay, but compared to breaking, like how bad is that sensation? It's like one. Oh, okay. Yeah. So it's like, oh, it's a one out of 10 for the fact that I don't know if I'm gonna finish the project by Friday, or I don't know if this task will get done.Okay. Or I, or, or the other framing is I haven't done X project.[01:02:00] Maybe the deadline is not there. Especially for personal projects, I work with a bunch of people that are self-employed. It's like, oh, I haven't done this project. And there's no one, there's no boss to tell them to do this. So in those cases, it would be like, oh, I haven't done X project.Okay. How does that feel in the body, that sensation? It's not that, that it doesn't even bother you that you have done or haven't done that situation. What bothers you is this sensation? So give it like 30 seconds. Okay. Oh, I haven't done this project. Does it feel that bad? Oh no. It's like, and it's like so fast, like two minutes.For most people, if it's not a big deal, it's like a two minute thing, like feeling your sensations. Like, okay, are you gonna do the thing? Yeah, I'm gonna do the thing, whatever. That's it.Daniel Kazandjian: Step one, you, you, you notice that you're procrastinating because I think sometimes you don't even realize that you're doing it. You're just like avoiding your life and then you're like, oh shit, I'm procrastinating. It's due tomorrow. Okay. You notice it.[01:03:00] You just sit and feel what's happening in your body, like what's the,Michael Stroe: I would actually, first, the next step would actually be putting things into perspective. It's you looking for some other reality than the one you have available. And it's very because sometimes like, oh, but what you're initially feeli

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Lords * Alexander * Kev Topics: * "Floaty movement" in games * The power to give people clutter that they can't throw away * https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/yorkdoom/palweb/week12/palwk12.htm * https://www.anabuzzalino.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/book-of-kells.jpg * Dunning Kruger got debunked! * https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/ * With or Without Witnesses, by Hasbro, Inc. * https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/457/alloy-myr * Esper says: "A lot of the lore and worldbuilding of Magic is conveyed through flavor text, but there's also about a novel's worth of writing for each set distributed as webfiction and a few dozen novels throughout the game's history. It's good stuff, usually!" * The instinct to not swing a heavy object at someone, even when you're supposed to * Japanese curry Microtopics: * The Humble Screw. * What it might take to be good at hammering nails. * Fingerbashing. * An inclined plane that goes around in a circle. * Metric Rules Football. * Whether a state machine is the same kind of thing as a wedge. * Clockwork Maiden. * Speedrunning, cleaning and dating. * Floaty movement. * The JPEG artifact of physics simulation. * How to Unit Test a video game. * Using MIDI knobs to tune your game's physics. * Game Oriented Assembly Lisp. * Hot Reloading Workflow. * Why Naughty Dog stopped using Lisp. * Just going about your life when suddenly you have to use Perl for something. * Peak Node.JS/SAAS years. * Walk/run/sprint transition speed. * Getting an special drink for your guys. * Medieval style calligraphy. * Gifting someone with a burden for the rest of their lives. * Pouring rocks into your dad's pocket because that's where you keep your rocks. * The kitten going to sleep behind your laptop because it's warm back there. * Here's how someone in the 14th century would've written these words. * How to say "fuck around and find out" in medieval Latin. * Writing a meme in 14th century Blackletter Hand. * Sans-serif calligraphy. * The ancient Greeks trying to invent ASCII art but they couldn't close the deal. * Letters placed inside other letters. * Autocorrelation. * Figures 8 and 9. * Coming out of discussion the topic with a better understanding of the topic. * Using a bird feather to write. * Knowledge that we used to have and now have again. * Learning to Topic Lords while doing home improvement stuff. * Scrapping your fragile human body to merge with the machines. * Rainbows in Space. * Suns going around in circles regardless of whether anyone's looking. * A semi-conscious little robot dude. * Calling the Qualia Function. * A real messed-up looking machine cat. * Communicating the story solely via flavor text on mana dorks. * A squadron of little kids waving wooden swords at each other. * How do you turn sword fighting into something you can do in a video game? * East Bay Rat Motorcycle Club Flight Nights. * Situations where they ask if you want a mouth guard. * Asking the ref at the boxing match what the etiquette is for tapping out. * The crowd roaring when they realize you're a southpaw. * Punching a guy you just met three seconds ago. * Did you end up cutting that girl's head off? * Renaissance MMA. * That Awkward Sparring Feeling. * A simulacrum of kicking each other in the face. * Getting a part-time job at your favorite curry shop so you can learn the recipe. * What part of curry is the curry? * The curry you eat so you don't die. * Emperor Riding a Dragon to the Forbidden Palace. * The advantage of a burger as a fast food staple. * How to make curry convenient. * Rendang. * Dry curry. * Joining a discord and asking "what are all these users for??" * Which user is which lord on which episode?

Tony is back in the Game Lounge with Sonic Speedrunner and Content Creator AFWagers! The Two of them discuss the Nintendo Direct, Mario's 40th Anniversary, The Super mario Galaxy Movie being revealed, Sonic Racing Crossworlds, AFWagers Sonic Extravaganza event and its possible return, and a whole bunch of Speedrunning along with your Bi-weekly gaming news recap, and upcoming game releases!Follow Tony: https://www.twitch.tv/tonysgameloungeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TonysGameLounge--------------------------------------------------------Follow AFWagers: https://www.twitch.tv/afwagersYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AFWagers--------------------------------------------------------This Weeks Episode was Edited by Mike: https://www.instagram.com/heyitsmikeye/Join the Official Tony's Game Lounge Discord: https://discord.gg/xXyvjaCsXp

Sony has announced that the PS5 has sold over 80 million units, which is better than anyone expected. Sony also said that live service games were not going so great, but they are pushing ahead with their plans. Nintendo has denied speedrunning marathon RTA In Japan permission to showcase any Nintendo games. Then we talk to Rob about UFO 50 and Nintendo's survey about why people like physical games (and did not offer my reason as an option!)

In a move straight outta a Black Mirror episode, Chinese scientists are cookin' up the first-ever pregnancy robot—like, fully engineered to carry and possibly give birth to human babies.

The Choking Hazard Podcast - Episode 96 - The Story Behind Meeting Michael, Trevor & FranklinMore Podcast Content: https://broughy.com/podcastSee all podcast episodes as videos in this playlistContributors[Host] Broughy1322: https://broughy.com[Co-Host] Sugar Free Nos: https://twitch.tv/sugar_free_nos[Co-Host] RDT33: https://twitch.tv/rdt33[Co-Host] Joshimuz: https://twitch.tv/joshimuz[Producer] MBHammer: https://twitch.tv/mbhammerTimestamps0:00:00 - Introduction0:02:16 - Broughy Meets GTA 5 Actors0:12:06 - RDT Does Motorsport0:33:42 - Josh Doesn't Do Cycling0:45:37 - Josh Does Work0:57:45 - YouTuber & Streamer Stuff1:09:33 - Gaming News1:22:43 - Racing Corner1:33:06 - Speedrun Corner1:41:19 - Broughy Tried To Win $10kPodcast pre-shows & gaming nights are all on https://youtube.com/ChokingHazardGaming

Neben Streaming auf https://www.twitch.tv/dennsen86, Speedrunning uvm. hat Dennsen86 über sein Gamer-Leben auch eine stattliche Sammlung aufgebaut, inbesondere von Retro-Geräten wie dem NES oder der PlayStation 1. Mit Gregor schnackt er heute gemeinsam über seinen Zock-Werdegang, was beim Sammeln für ihn wichtig ist, wie man diese Spiele heute am Besten spielt und was für Controller er bevorzugt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the 235th episode of The One Podcast To (Eventually) Rule Them All! The boys are back for another great episode of Hot takes, Bad Opinions, and Great banter!ABOUT US: We're a group of longtime friends getting together and just hanging out and talking about things that interest us. We like to talk about video games, pop culture, wrestling, and anything else that might catch our attention. Let us know what you liked/disliked, topics you'd like us to discuss, or any questions you might want answered. New episodes come out every Friday wherever you get your podcasts from and on YouTube at 4pm EST! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME STAMPS: 1:49 Do You Knowuh, TOPTERTA? is our opening segment in which we ask a question for a little discussion and you guys can get to know us a little better. This week we ask the question: What game do you think you could do a speed run?6:50 News of The Week: Devin brings us the latest and best news from the last week from the worlds of gaming, entertainment, wrestling, pop culture, and more. 25:13 We discuss which actors are actually funny and one's that are overrated.29:49 Jake's Power Hour is a segment in which Jake plays a game for at least an hour and gives his review on it along with the rest of the boyz talking about their recent games they've been playing. This week Jake talks about Get To Work and New World: Aeternum. The boys also update us on their time in College Football 26.46:05 The Shadow Knows... is a segment in which Cody covers the latest show he is watching or board game that he's playing at the moment. This week Cody gives his thoughts on The Summer I Turned Pretty. Jake talks about finishing Young Sheldon and Snow talks Squid Games season 2 and Quarterback.49:35 Let's Talk Some Wrestling. This week we recap TNA Slammiversary, discuss whether we think Bubba Ray Dudley is actually as great as he thinks he is, and more.1:11:58 The Undertaker vs Trick Williams discussion. Did The Undertaker buy Trick?1:18:51 Outro/Plugs/Lord Of The Rings Fact/Hail Satan/Bang-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPTERTA Social Media: Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date with the latest from us! https://www.twitter.com/@toptertaSubscribe to us on YouTube where we put out these audio episodes in video form with extra content sprinkled in! https://www.youtube.com/@topterta Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TOPTERTA You can follow/subscribe/rate us on Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/topterta Chongo aka Jake X (FKA Twitter): https://x.com/@_ImJustJake Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jakeplaysgamestvxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TableTopTalksCody X (FKA Twitter): https://x.com/@TGingerbeardManBluesky: @gingerbeardman22.bsky.social Check out the Shrouded Tavern!https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShroudedTSnow X (FKA Twitter): https://x.com/@TheBsnowTikTok: @TheBsnow Devin Bliss X (FKA Twitter): https://x.com/@SexyDevieBTikTok: @DevieB5Check out my amazing art! https://www.deviantart.com/devinblissI don't do anything else Caleb He's on Instagram.Jordi X (FKA Twitter): https://x.com/@WISE_talk_Bluesky: @wise-bun.bsky.socialTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Wise_Bun_

I'm going to be at ATL Comic Convention on Saturday, July 19th, running a panel with the performance actors from Red Dead Redemption 2 at 2PM! Last week, I was at Summer Games Done Quick 2025, reading donations and helping raise over $2.4million for Doctors Without Borders. The SAG-AFTRA strike against video game companies is now officially over, and everyone is back to work with better pay and more AI protections. Subnautica 2 was delayed despite being ready, the founders of the studio outsted, and a $250million bonus not hit because they will not make their revenue targets by the contracted deadline due to the delay. Then we talk to Rob about the news I missed while I was at SGDQ.

[Aaron was very fucked up on ZzzQuil so he sometimes might not make sense.] Gerry's missing! Luckily Aaron is joined by Chris and Will to chat about a certified hood classic: the original Pikmin for GameCube! We also chat about Vegeta being a total cum dumpster and Big Bird on crack. Oh, and Better Call Saul > Breaking Bad. DO NOT @ US. Rated E10+ FOR COP KILLIN'.Click here to view the episode transcript.

Episode 4574: Speedrunning The Iraq War Propaganda Train; Investigate Fox News

It's dangerous to go alone... Take this podcast! But make sure you've got your boomerang, bombs, heart containers, bow and arrow, faeries, map, candle, and sword with you because the Triforce ain't just for listening to... it's for assembling! In 1986, Nintendo released a golden game that altered the very idea of home gaming and cross-over media... FOREVER. We're talking about the original Legend of Zelda, which debuted a 20+ game series with special guest Drew Kebbel. Plus, we're making time for the MouthGarf Report and I See What You Did There.Link: The Faces of Evil (Philips CD-i game): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPn3LIe2e3wTom Hanks in Mazes & Monsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfxXug5ZMdkLackAttack24 - Legend of Zelda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tdjN3I1i2IPlease give us a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts! Want to ask us a question? Talk to us! Email debutbuddies@gmail.comListen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster.Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books.Get down with Michael J. O'Connor's music!Next time: First Roddy Piper Lead Movie Role - Hell Comes to Frogtown

We're fallin' for pollen! This June, Ray prepares to ship (again!); Alex dons his detective hat to play some interactive fiction; Blocko continues to be boffo; an update on Bokura no favorite Canadistralian; even more ways to enjoy Final Fantasy VI, an exploration of horrifically-named controllers; Switch 2 mania grips the world; Alex dips a toe into Linux; more driver talk than the F1 commentator booth; Ray & Truck Hit the Road; pizza logo chaos, and scintillating Phone Phun! Don't read our interview in Reverse Psychology Today! ====MUSIC==== Nobuo Uematsu - Blackjack Reiko Takahashi - Sunset Road

The episode where we sleep through critical scenes with the Doctor. Can we really explore an unused cave enough in 50 paces? In this podcast, Matilda expresses her opinion on Atlantis. The episode was recorded on 5 April 2025. Email us at thedoctorswatcher@gmail.com. Follow us on Tumblr at the-doctors-watcher. I finally made us a Bluesky account. Check out Circuit 23's music at http://soundcloud.com/circuit23 and email him at circuit.23@gmail.com. Listen to his album “Mens Vermis” at https://circuit23.bandcamp.com/album/mens-vermis.

In this episode, Nicholas Grous and Sam Korus are joined by ARK Chief Futurist, Brett Winton, to delve into the Mary Meeker AI Trends Report, discussing the rapid adoption of AI technologies, the evolving role of AI in trust and validation, and the changing landscape of search behavior. They explore the monetization of AI, the investment landscape, and the future of autonomous vehicles, concluding with a positive outlook on AI's trajectory.If you know ARK, then you probably know about our long-term research projections, like estimating where we will be 5-10 years from now! But just because we are long-term investors, doesn't mean we don't have strong views and opinions on breaking news. In fact, we discuss and debate this every day. So now we're sharing some of these internal discussions with you in our new video series, “The Brainstorm”, a co-production from ARK and Public.com. Tune in every week as we react to the latest in innovation. Here and there we'll be joined by special guests, but ultimately this is our chance to join the conversation and share ARK's quick takes on what's going on in tech today.Key Points From This Episode:The rapid pace of AI adoption is unprecedented.AI is reshaping how we validate information and trust sources.Search behavior is evolving with the integration of AI.Monetization strategies for AI are becoming clearer.Investment in AI infrastructure is crucial for growth.Autonomous vehicles are on the brink of mainstream adoption.AI's role in education could revolutionize assessment methods.The competition between the US and China in AI is intensifying.Consumer behavior is shifting towards AI-driven solutions.Optimism about AI's future is warranted despite pessimistic narratives.For more updates on Public.com:Website: https://public.com/YouTube: @publicinvestX: https://twitter.com/public

The Choking Hazard Podcast - Episode 95 - GTA 6 Thoughts, Dad Life, Business Owners & More!More Podcast Content: https://broughy.com/podcastSee all podcast episodes as videos in this playlistContributors[Host] Broughy1322: https://broughy.com[Co-Host] Sugar Free Nos: https://twitch.tv/sugar_free_nos[Co-Host] RDT33: https://twitch.tv/rdt33[Co-Host] Joshimuz: https://twitch.tv/joshimuz[Producer] MBHammer: https://twitch.tv/mbhammerTimestamps0:00:00 - Introduction0:01:49 - GTA VI Trailer 20:11:55 - Broughy's Parenting Report0:20:09 - Nos Owns A Dominos! And A New Car1:00:28 - Josh Hosted A GTAMarathon Event IRL1:24:38 - Twitch Deletes VOD Highlights1:32:42 - Gaming News1:42:49 - Racing Corner1:49:47 - Speedrun CornerPodcast pre-shows & gaming nights are all on https://youtube.com/ChokingHazardGaming

Today we're joined Merseyside's very own, Crawlers, an incredible band that you will no doubt have seen playing sold out shows and festivals all across the world and who's music has captured the hearts and minds of a generation.While you might already know that they're signed to Polydor Records and no strangers to sharing stages with bands like My Chemical Romance and Jane's Addiction, it might come as a surprise as to how much Retro Gaming has played an important part in their lives growing up, and how it continues to provide inspiration both on and off the tour bus.I sat down with Holly, Liv, and Harry to talk about all things Zelda, speedrunning classic resident evil games, taking Pokémon Nuzlocking rules to the next level, how video game music influences the writing process, and much more.

State of the Bay discusses plans to turn San Quentin into Scandinavian-style rehab center, sits down with SFUSD Superintendent Dr. Maria Su and gets tips from BART speedrunners

It's episode 285 and we're one week away from the 0.2.0 Path of Exile 2 reveal! As we wait, this week Tyler and Erin make comparisons to the original game and its sequel, along with their hopes for the upcoming patch. GGG also gave us a few more teasers to geek over. The speculation and hope never ends! Thank you as always for your listens and support. We hope you have a great week and we thank you for making us a part of it.(00:00:00) Welcome and Special Guest Erin(00:00:42) Shoutout to Our Patrons(00:02:00) Celebrating a PS4 PoE Anniversary (Not Justin's!)(00:04:00) Birthday Success and Parenting Wins(00:07:00) Twitch Broadcasting Adventures and Loud House Problems(00:10:01) After Dark Teaser and Podcast Routine Talk(00:11:45) Lawns, Life, and Letting Go of Leveling(00:15:10) PoE Race Recap and Erin's Take on Speedrunning(00:17:30) New Supporter Packs and PoE Concept Art Reactions(00:18:00) New Ascendancy Reveal – Beefy Blacksmith Guy(00:20:30) Dawn of the Hunt Video Teasers and Class Speculation(00:24:15) Erin's Thoughts on PoE1 vs. PoE2(00:27:40) Favorite PoE Bosses and the Struggles of Gregor(00:30:45) Ascendancy Teasers and Druid Hopes(00:34:30) ARPGs, Path of Exile 1 and 2 Opinions(00:39:00) Erin's PoE Journey and Transition to PoE2(00:42:30) Collectibles, Twitch Drops, and Pets(00:47:15) Community Love, Final Thoughts, and GoodbyeEcho Sierran Info:https://www.twitch.tv/echosierranForever Exiled Info:www.foreverexiled.comPatreonTwitter @ForeverExiled82Path of Exile WebsiteWrecker of Days Builds ListDiscord...FE Merch StoreFE Nexus Store

A Vallejo Safeway has closed due to increased crime. Plus, LAHSA scandal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Twitch is going to be destroying a decade of gaming history by limiting all Twitch channels to only 100 hours of highlights on their account, affecting only 0.5% of active channels, which apparently include everyone I know in the speedrunning community. An entire US based team of designers has been laid off by Chinese company NetEase, even though they worked on the hugely successful Marvel Rivals. Limited Run Games has put out a warning regarding some recently released NES cartridges that may damage the cartridge or the console due to faulty voltage regulation. Then we talk with the chat about asset reuse and the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series, now that Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is out.

New executive order vastly expands Trump's power. Republicans urge AG Bondi to go after elected Dems & NGOs. White House scrambling to eschew ‘DOGE' accountability. Trump's revealing statement when asked about rising inflation. MAGA voter appeals to Trump after ‘DOGE' fires them. Support for Ukraine sinks as Trump tells more lies. RFK Jr. going after vaccines, medicines & more. Host: John Iadarola (@johniadarola) Co-Host: Sharon Reed (@SharonReedLive) ***** SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE TIKTOK  ☞           https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport INSTAGRAM  ☞   https://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport TWITTER  ☞         https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport FACEBOOK  ☞     https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT

The Choking Hazard Podcast - Episode 94 - Are GTA Mods Putting Rockstar To Shame?More Podcast Content: https://broughy.com/podcastSee all podcast episodes as videos in this playlistContributors[Host] Broughy1322: https://broughy.com[Co-Host] Sugar Free Nos: https://twitch.tv/sugar_free_nos[Co-Host] RDT33: https://twitch.tv/rdt33[Co-Host] Joshimuz: https://twitch.tv/joshimuz[Producer] MBHammer: https://twitch.tv/mbhammerTimestamps0:00:00 - Introduction0:01:10 - Nos' Big News0:02:44 - Amazing GTA Mods Getting Shut Down0:21:18 - Josh's US Trip0:34:59 - RDT Making Life Changes0:50:48 - Honey Lawsuits Everywhere0:52:01 - Gaming News1:20:15 - Racing Corner1:42:38 - Speedrun CornerPodcast pre-shows & gaming nights are all on https://youtube.com/ChokingHazardGaming

Speedrunning video games is great as an outside viewer, but even more fun as a player. Learn how you can get into speedrunning, in ways that accomodate gaming with a disability.

We're joined by Katie Shesko to talk about speedrunning and Games Done Quick! We discuss her experience in learning to speed run Zelda games, attending GDQ, and how the event has evolved and ways it might continue to. We also review all the gaming and Nintendo news, including Switch 2 leaks and rumors, leaked emails showing Nintendo's thoughts on Virtual Console and NSO, the D.I.C.E. Awards nominees, and more. As always, we close with the games we've all been playing. Listen to Super Switch Headz on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you enjoy podcasts. 0:00:00 Introduction 0:07:04 News and Rumors 0:34:32 Speed Running 1:29:48 Games We're Playing Discord: https://discord.com/invite/CWbF4gb Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/switchheadz Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SuperSwitchHeadz/ Website: http://www.switchheadz.com/

Luigi's Apartment and JHobz join the dudes to talk about speedrunning, how to get into it, the difficulties of it, discovering new ways to do things, and much more!Check our guests show Need For SpeedrunningApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/need-for-speedrunning/id1573919179Spoitfy: https://open.spotify.com/show/1vcOaV3Hfnw5n0hz93Snlt?si=ce5efa8a21224056Their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/possiblybad--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Our sponsor is RetroPop Relics! Check them out to get some awesome giant 3d printed retro game cartridges!retropoprelics.comUse code "genie" to get 10% off!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join our Discord group!https://discord.gg/84T8khT Support the show and order a t-shirt! https://www.teepublic.com/user/secretlevels Join our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/badsecretmediaFollow Secret Levels on all social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretlevelspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/secretlevelspod Facebook Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/285925218891464/Toby's Live Streams on Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/tobyvondoomMORE INFO:https://www.badsecretmedia.comGoobz's other podcast! The DeRailers Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDeRailers Toby's other podcast! Secret Transmission Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/secrettranspod ----------------------------------------------------------- Intro and segment music: https://gregoriofranco.bandcamp.com/musicRage Meter Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuBO6aDLM_4 Super Mario Brothers - Bluegrass Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsrVEbpvU2U Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/badsecretmedia)          Check out RetroPop Relics for some GIANT 3d printed retro game cartridges! Great for decorating a game!www.retropoprelics.com/secretlevelspodUse code "genie" at check out to get 10% off your order! Gameboree 2024! Donate today!https://gamemarkspod.com/donate/Follow them on Twitch toohttps://twitch.tv/gamemarkspod Go to https://retropoprelics.com/ to get awesome 3D printed game replicas and use discount code "genie" for 10% off!Support the show

The Choking Hazard Podcast - Episode 93 - GTA 6 Speculation Is So DumbMore Podcast Content: https://broughy.com/podcastSee all podcast episodes as videos in this playlistContributors[Host] Broughy1322: https://broughy.com[Co-Host] Sugar Free Nos: https://twitch.tv/sugar_free_nos[Co-Host] RDT33: https://twitch.tv/rdt33[Co-Host] Joshimuz: https://twitch.tv/joshimuz[Producer] MBHammer: https://twitch.tv/mbhammerTimestamps0:00:00 - Introduction0:02:47 - Last Month's Absence & Baby13220:07:34 - GTA 6 Trailer 2 Braindead Theories0:16:33 - GTA Online DLC Chat (Current & Future)0:25:06 - RDT Plays Gfred Again0:29:51 - Nos Goes On A Cruise0:54:27 - Josh Crashes A Can1:05:49 - Recent Honey Controversy1:25:38 - Gaming News1:36:03 - Racing Corner1:43:22 - Speedrun CornerPodcast pre-shows & gaming nights are all on https://youtube.com/ChokingHazardGaming

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The Choking Hazard Podcast - Episode 92 - First Time This Happened In 92 Episodes!More Podcast Content: https://broughy.com/podcastSee all podcast episodes as videos in this playlistContributors[Host] Broughy1322: https://broughy.com[Co-Host] Sugar Free Nos: https://twitch.tv/sugar_free_nos[Co-Host] RDT33: https://twitch.tv/rdt33[Co-Host] Joshimuz: https://twitch.tv/joshimuz[Producer] MBHammer: https://twitch.tv/mbhammerTimestamps0:00:00 - Introduction0:03:11 - Broughy Patreon Update0:06:12 - Red Dead Redemption On PC0:26:22 - RDT Updates0:31:43 - GTA E&E On PC0:46:06 - Josh Updates1:26:00 - Gaming News1:35:12 - Racing & Speedrun CornersPodcast pre-shows & gaming nights are all on https://youtube.com/ChokingHazardGaming

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A study has confirmed what we thought was pretty obvious - More players prefer single player games over multiplayer games. Is part of the industry problem that more money seems to be chased in multiplayer games? We discuss this, as well as times when we enjoy multiplayer as much as single player (it happens), as well as when we don't. This headline and much more make up another week of the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!   Also in the News:   * Xbox Asks Devs why they get Skipped * Zelda Speedrunners Already Mastering Echoes of Wisdom * Ubisoft Stock Situation Update * Big Fan Games Label   All this and more on the show where EVERY gamer has a voice-- Orange Lounge Radio! LIVE on the VOG Network, Sunday nights at 6 Pacific, 9 Eastern www.vognetwork.com Mailbag: participate (at) orangeloungeradio dot com

The Choking Hazard Podcast - Episode 91 - Vacation Mistakes, New Vehicles, And Multiple ScandalsMore Podcast Content: https://broughy.com/podcastSee all podcast episodes as videos in this playlistContributors[Host] Broughy1322: https://broughy.com[Co-Host] Sugar Free Nos: https://twitch.tv/sugar_free_nos[Co-Host] RDT33: https://twitch.tv/rdt33[Co-Host] Joshimuz: https://twitch.tv/joshimuz[Producer] MBHammer: https://twitch.tv/mbhammerTimestamps0:00:00 - Introduction0:01:05 - Broughy Makes A Mistake In California0:19:47 - RDT Gets A New Car & Living Arrangements0:28:36 - Bingo Scandal0:36:09 - Josh Attempts To Build A New Bike0:56:25 - Hammer Also Has New Living Arrangements1:03:40 - Nos Has Ups & Downs And A New Voice1:07:59 - Josh's EE Ad Watch Party1:16:37 - Impact Of Twitch Prime Nerfs1:24:42 - Patreon Scandal1:33:22 - Gaming News1:45:51 - Racing Corner1:55:44 - Speedrun Corner2:06:35 - Betting ScandalPodcast pre-shows & gaming nights are all on https://youtube.com/ChokingHazardGaming

#livingsplitscreen #is7eelreigni #pongsoul #gaming #podcast #conversation (Episode: 165) TIMESTAMPS: 16:00 - Intros | What We've Been Playing 1:35:00 - Questions From The Chat 2:29:00 - Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2024 3:10:00 - Playstation State of Play 2024 3:44:00 - Ghost of Yotei 4:03:00 - Ubisoft Problems/Controversy | AC: Shadows 5:20:00 - Wrap Up 5:28:00 - Outros - This is a Gaming Conversationalist Podcast putting the love in what it means to be a GAMER! We discuss topics that cover news, dive deeper into past/present/future ideas within the GAMING industry, and within the gaming communities on a week to week basis. DONT FORGET we have to give you that LIVE, RAW, and UNCUT energy in this "Golden Age of Gaming"! Home of the "RTS" approach, pulling ourselves out of the world, exploring the darker sections of the map, and pulling our resources together to build up the gaming foundation! - ______________________________________________________________ SOURCES: TOPICS NOT COVERED IN ORDER! (1) We're building plans for the 25th anniversary of Halo and Xbox," Microsoft confirms in a new interview. "We have such a rich heritage, you have to celebrate that. - https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/were-building-plans-for-the-25th-anniversary-of-halo-and-xbox-microsoft-confirms-in-a-new-interview-we-have-such-a-rich-heritage-you-have-to-celebrate-that (2) Everything revealed in State of Play September 2024 - https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/24/everything-revealed-in-state-of-play-september-2024/ (3) Nintendo Switch 2 Rumored to Be Ready for March-April 2025 Launch - https://wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-2-rumored-to-be-ready-for-march-april-2025-launch/ (4) Ubisoft pulls out of Tokyo Game Show after mounting Assassin's Creed Shadows controversy - https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100669/ubisoft-pulls-out-of-tokyo-game-show-after-mounting-assassins-creed-shadows-controversy/index.html (5) New California law means digital stores can't imply you're buying a game when you're merely licensing it - https://www.polygon.com/news/457071/new (6) I played the PS5 Pro, and it's clearly better - https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24253649/ps5-pro-preview (7) Blizzard Reportedly Working on a StarCraft Shooter — With Ex-Far Cry Chief Dan Hay at the Helm - https://www.ign.com/articles/blizzard-reportedly-working-on-a-starcraft-shooter-with-ex-far-cry-chief-dan-hay-at-the-helm THIS DAY IN GAMING: - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/games/thisdayingaming FOLLOW: https://twitter.com/Knoebelbroet https://twitter.com/Knoebelbroet/status/1755995502921855209 ____________________________________________________________ Much love to everyone taking their time to check us out and DONT forget to leave a LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW us on all social platforms! @PongSoul, @is7eelreigni ____________________________________________________ https://www.youtube.com/@LivingSplitScreen Living Splitscreen GOES LIVE EVERY SATURDAY MORNING 9AM CT | 10AM ET | 3PM UK! ___________________________________________________________ AUDIO PODCAST SERVICES LSS (NEXT DAY) Anchor : https://anchor.fm/livingsplitscreen Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81MDhmY2IwNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-splitscreen/id1562181988?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2tORrcLMjVMaaoKiXF0Br6 ___________________________________________________________ Gaming Podcast, Game Reviews, Industry News, Future of Gaming, eSports News, Video Game Culture, Gaming Trends, PC Gaming, Console Gaming, Mobile Gaming, Game Development, Game Design, Gaming Technology, VR Gaming, AR Gaming, Retro Gaming, Classic Games, New Game Releases, Gaming Events, Gaming Conferences, Gaming Tips, Game Strategy, Gaming Guides, Gaming Lore, Game Mechanics, Game Analysis, Game Theory, Gaming Interviews, Developer Insights, Gaming History, Video Game Art, Soundtrack Reviews, Gaming Hardware, Gaming Accessories, Streaming Gear, Gamer Lifestyle, Pro Gaming Tips, Indie Games, AAA Games, Gaming Leaks, Game Previews, Game Trailers, User Generated Content, Modding Community, Game Mods, Fighting Games, Strategy Games, Puzzle Games, Board Games, Card Games, Simulation Games, Role Playing Games, Sports Games, Racing Games, Multiplayer Games, Single Player Games, Online Gaming, LAN Parties, Gaming Tournaments, Game Cheats, Speedrunning, Game Collectibles, Nostalgia Gaming, Game Storytelling, Narrative Design, Game Graphics, Game AI, Game Physics, Game Performance, Game Sales, Free to Play, Gaming Community, Game Mods, Esports Tournaments, Game Coaching, Game Streaming, Twitch Gaming, YouTube Gaming, Game Commentary, Gamer News

Cucc-WHO? It's Cucco Attack back at ya with a fresh new coat of paint and loads of games to catch up in talking about. Tune in as we give Fantasy Critic updates, discuss a whopping 50 games played over the course of the past year including the phenomenal Astro Bot, and get hyped for the release of Echoes of Wisdom and Switch 2 rumors.

#gamingpodcast #gamingnews #conversation (Episode: 162) TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - MUSIC START 5:00 - Random Topics (ATTRACTIVE Characters) | Concord | Community FEELS 49:00 - Intros | What We've Been Playing 1:45:00 - 1st Contest for Gundam Breaker 4 1:56:00 - Black Myth Wukong Exclusivity Deal? 2:30:00 - Concord Additional OUTSIDE Thoughts 3:01:00 - Bungie Talk 3:10:00 - PS5 Pro Possibilities 3:44:00 - 2nd Contest for Gift Codes 4:13:00 - Outros - This is a Gaming Conversationalist Podcast putting the love in what it means to be a GAMER! We discuss topics that cover news, dive deeper into past/present/future ideas within the GAMING industry, and within the gaming communities on a week to week basis. DONT FORGET we have to give you that LIVE, RAW, and UNCUT energy in this "Golden Age of Gaming"! Home of the "RTS" approach, pulling ourselves out of the world, exploring the darker sections of the map, and pulling our resources together to build up the gaming foundation! ______________________________________________________________ SOURCES: TOPICS NOT COVERED IN ORDER! THIS DAY IN GAMING: - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/games/thisdayingaming FOLLOW: https://twitter.com/Knoebelbroet https://twitter.com/Knoebelbroet/status/1755995502921855209 ____________________________________________________________ Much love to everyone taking their time to check us out and DONT forget to leave a LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW us on all social platforms! @PongSoul, @is7eelreigni ____________________________________________________ https://www.youtube.com/@LivingSplitScreen Living Splitscreen GOES LIVE EVERY SATURDAY MORNING 9AM CT | 10AM ET | 3PM UK! ___________________________________________________________ AUDIO PODCAST SERVICES LSS (NEXT DAY) Anchor : https://anchor.fm/livingsplitscreen Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81MDhmY2IwNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-splitscreen/id1562181988?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2tORrcLMjVMaaoKiXF0Br6 ___________________________________________________________ Gaming Podcast, Game Reviews, Industry News, Future of Gaming, eSports News, Video Game Culture, Gaming Trends, PC Gaming, Console Gaming, Mobile Gaming, Game Development, Game Design, Gaming Technology, VR Gaming, AR Gaming, Retro Gaming, Classic Games, New Game Releases, Gaming Events, Gaming Conferences, Gaming Tips, Game Strategy, Gaming Guides, Gaming Lore, Game Mechanics, Game Analysis, Game Theory, Gaming Interviews, Developer Insights, Gaming History, Video Game Art, Soundtrack Reviews, Gaming Hardware, Gaming Accessories, Streaming Gear, Gamer Lifestyle, Pro Gaming Tips, Indie Games, AAA Games, Gaming Leaks, Game Previews, Game Trailers, User Generated Content, Modding Community, Game Mods, Fighting Games, Strategy Games, Puzzle Games, Board Games, Card Games, Simulation Games, Role Playing Games, Sports Games, Racing Games, Multiplayer Games, Single Player Games, Online Gaming, LAN Parties, Gaming Tournaments, Game Cheats, Speedrunning, Game Collectibles, Nostalgia Gaming, Game Storytelling, Narrative Design, Game Graphics, Game AI, Game Physics, Game Performance, Game Sales, Free to Play, Gaming Community, Game Mods, Esports Tournaments, Game Coaching, Game Streaming, Twitch Gaming, YouTube Gaming, Game Commentary, Gamer News

#gamingpodcast #gamingnews #conversation (Episode: 162) TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Start 12:00 - Behind the Scenes 36:00 - Intros | What We've Been Playing 50:00 - Indiana Jones | PlayStation Announcement 1:21:00 - Future PlayStation Potential Moves? | Xbox Hardware For The Future 2:04:00 - What We've Been Playing cont... | Shadows of Doubt & Black Myth Wukong 2:45:00 - Gamescom 2024 | Avowed 30fps vs 60fps 3:31:00 - DragonBall Sparking Zero (Budokai Tenkaichi 4) 3:37:00 - Crimson Desert (New 2024 Gameplay) 3:58:00 - Indiana Jones Circle | Dune Awakening MMO | Path of Exile 2 4:00:00 - Borderlands 4 Tease 4:06:00 - Atomfall 4:10:00 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard 4:28:00 - ONL (Opening Night Live 2024) | Gamescom 2024 General Thoughts 4:43:00 - Outros - This is a Gaming Conversationalist Podcast putting the love in what it means to be a GAMER! We discuss topics that cover news, dive deeper into past/present/future ideas within the GAMING industry, and within the gaming communities. DONT FORGET we have to give you that LIVE, RAW, and UNCUT energy in this "Golden Age of Gaming"! Home of the "RTS" approach, pulling ourselves out of the world, exploring the darker sections of the map, and pulling our resources together to build up the gaming foundation! ______________________________________________________________ SOURCES: TOPICS NOT COVERED IN ORDER! THIS DAY IN GAMING: - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/games/thisdayingaming FOLLOW: https://twitter.com/Knoebelbroet https://twitter.com/Knoebelbroet/status/1755995502921855209 ____________________________________________________________ Much love to everyone taking their time to check us out and DONT forget to leave a LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW us on all social platforms! @PongSoul, @is7eelreigni ____________________________________________________ https://www.youtube.com/@LivingSplitScreen Living Splitscreen GOES LIVE EVERY SATURDAY MORNING 9AM CT | 10AM ET | 3PM UK! ___________________________________________________________ AUDIO PODCAST SERVICES LSS (NEXT DAY) Anchor : https://anchor.fm/livingsplitscreen Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81MDhmY2IwNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-splitscreen/id1562181988?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2tORrcLMjVMaaoKiXF0Br6 ___________________________________________________________ Gaming Podcast, Game Reviews, Industry News, Future of Gaming, eSports News, Video Game Culture, Gaming Trends, PC Gaming, Console Gaming, Mobile Gaming, Game Development, Game Design, Gaming Technology, VR Gaming, AR Gaming, Retro Gaming, Classic Games, New Game Releases, Gaming Events, Gaming Conferences, Gaming Tips, Game Strategy, Gaming Guides, Gaming Lore, Game Mechanics, Game Analysis, Game Theory, Gaming Interviews, Developer Insights, Gaming History, Video Game Art, Soundtrack Reviews, Gaming Hardware, Gaming Accessories, Streaming Gear, Gamer Lifestyle, Pro Gaming Tips, Indie Games, AAA Games, Gaming Leaks, Game Previews, Game Trailers, User Generated Content, Modding Community, Game Mods, Fighting Games, Strategy Games, Puzzle Games, Board Games, Card Games, Simulation Games, Role Playing Games, Sports Games, Racing Games, Multiplayer Games, Single Player Games, Online Gaming, LAN Parties, Gaming Tournaments, Game Cheats, Speedrunning, Game Collectibles, Nostalgia Gaming, Game Storytelling, Narrative Design, Game Graphics, Game AI, Game Physics, Game Performance, Game Sales, Free to Play, Gaming Community, Game Mods, Esports Tournaments, Game Coaching, Game Streaming, Twitch Gaming, YouTube Gaming, Game Commentary, Gamer News

In this follow-up to our Speed-running Projects episode, we talk about our ongoing effort to speed-run building a SaaS business from the ground up! We cover what we're building, how we approached it, and what we've learned along the way. We also dive into some of our technical choices and pivots.

It's a busy week here in my house, so while I'm lining up fresh interviews for you, please enjoy this feed drop from my other show, where we interviewed two wonderful video game speedrunners who race through one of the chillest games ever made: "Stardew Valley." - Originally published on January 13, 2023 - Where RUSHING into marriage is a good idea! Speed running Super Mario Bros. is a straightforward endeavor. Whoever saves the princess fastest gets the record. But what about open-ended sims, where you set your own goals? This week, we were so mesmerized by Stardew Valley speedrunners on GDQ that we had to invite them on the show. Lee (@atwentysomethingloser) and Lisa (@lichatton) are Stardew-obsessed Twitch streamers who have dissected the game to find the fastest ways to marry specific villagers, complete Community Center bundles, catch every fish, and other in-game milestones, often achieving these runs in mere hours. Their strategies involve animation canceling, min/maxing gifts, and a lot of sleep! Lee and Lisa share how they got into the wild world of speeding through one of the chillest games of all time, how it has increased their love for it, and share what else they play after thousands of hours of Stardew. Follow and subscribe to Lee and Lisa! https://www.twitch.tv/atwentysomethingloser https://www.twitch.tv/lichatton For more video game community conversations, subscribe to "Colette & Matt Have Entered the Chat," wherever you get podcasts: https://haveenteredthechat.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Dale and Kevin as they talk about What went down in a Red Roof Inn, having a baby in your house for the first time, what the hell a Granblue is, and a man who reviews food without chewing it. They also talk about a bunch of video game topics including speedrunning, steam library shame piles, and Nintendo's supply chain promises about a console that doesn't exist yet. Share your shame pile in the discord: https://discord.gg/B6WD3Gt

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Unfortunately, Andy is out sick this week. So we thought we'd take it easy and discuss some of ZD's latest Daily Debates! And joining Al in place of Andy is The Zelda Cast's podcast producer extraordinaire, Adrielle! Here's what's up for discussion: What is the best final dungeon in the Zelda series? Is Adventure of Link really that bad? What is our favorite item in our personal Zelda collections? And also, what the heck are the snapper turtles saying in Majora's Mask? Absolutely riveting topics up for debate. Join us for those and so much more on this week's episode of The Zelda Cast!   Download!   Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda Cast Top Tens! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok x BlueSky Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM Grab The Zelda Cast Merch! Official Zelda Dungeon Merch store

Yes, that headline can be confusing. Read it slowly. We'll wait. Lindy West is an acclaimed author, podcaster, and all-around funny person. Her best-selling book, Shrill, was adapted into a series for hulu starring Aidy Bryant. Lindy finds it relaxing to surf through YouTube videos of expert gamers performing “speedruns” through popular games, especially games that Lindy herself played as a young person, like the King's Quest series. Maybe you can get to sleep by listening her describe those games, so you're even more safely removed from actual excitement.Learn more about Lindy West, her podcast, Text Me Back!, and her books by visiting her website, www.LindyWest.net. Watch the King's Quest speedrun videos Lindy talks about by following OneShortEye on Youtube.Hey Sleepy Heads, is there anyone whose voice you'd like to drift off to, or do you have suggestions on things we could do to aid your slumber?Email us at:  sleepwithcelebs@maximumfun.org.Follow the Show on:Instagram @sleepwcelebsTwitter @SleepWithCelebsTikTok @SleepWithCelebsJohn is on Twitter @johnmoe.John's acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is now available in paperback.Join | Maximum FunIf you like one or more shows on MaxFun, and you value independent artists being able to do their thing, you're the perfect person to become a MaxFun monthly member.

Episode 562: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) get into the economics of personality tests–including the most famous one which is used by 89% of Fortune 100 companies. Want to talk to Shaan? Text “hi” to 650-334-0790 Want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5 — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:00) Data mining the basketball court (7:00) Origin of Myers-Briggs Test (14:30) Formula for Grit (16:00) Sam takes the Grit Scale Test (23:00) Cognition Labs, a math nerd's wet dream (34:00) Be willing to walk backwards (39:50) Speedrunning: 3 Founders Who Repeated the Playbook (42:00) Don't explore, exploit (49:00) $600M protein bar in 4 years — Links: • Grit - https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-book/ • Gallup - https://www.gallup.com/ • Lunchclub - https://lunchclub.com • Cognition - https://www.cognition-labs.com/ • Gold-Medalist Coders article - https://tinyurl.com/tc65a2vc • David Protein - http://davidprotein.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it's called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More