Podcast appearances and mentions of steve barnett

Warm up those singing voices as today I'm looking at what it takes to produce the musical genre in the film industry. To do that I'm joined by Steve Barnett to talk about his producer journey, what attracted him to making musicals and what it was like producing his first musical A Week Away.Tell us your thoughts about today's episode: micah.theproducerpodcast@gmail.comHost: Micah VersemannGuest: Steve Barnett⁠Save 20% on your copy of The Producer's Life today!⁠

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An interview with Alan Powell and Steve Barnett about their film VALIANT ONE

A fun BEHIND THE LENS show for you this week as we take a look at two very different action films – one in present day and another in the medieval era – thanks to my exclusive interviews with writer/director STEVE BARNETT talking VALIANT ONE and writer/director/editor MATTHEW NINABER talking A KNIGHT'S WAR. First up is my exclusive interview with writer/director STEVE BARNETT discussing VALIANT ONE, an often nail-biting edge-of-your-seat action flick based on a true story and the premise of "What If?" – what if the leaders or special ops members of a military mission that lands in enemy territory die, and it's left to the surviving lower ranking team members and civilian specialists to figure out how to get out of enemy territory and survive, and maybe even complete the mission? Here, the "what if" involves a US military team intending to land in South Korea but crashes on the North Korean side leaving survivors to work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way out without the help of US military support. Then we keep the action going with writer/director/editor MATTHEW NINABER and his wonderful medieval tale A KNIGHT'S WAR. I love a good action piece as do many of you, especially an action piece that's steeped in lore, armor, some horror, and lots of broad sword battles and that's just what Matt gives us here starting with the story and the love of medieval since childhood by Matt and his brother Jeremy, who is co-writer and star of the film as our knight in shining armor Bhodie. http://eliasentertainmentnetwork.com

In the heart-pounding military thriller Valiant One, a routine mission spirals into a fight for survival when a US Army helicopter crashes deep within North Korean territory. With their communications equipment destroyed, Captain Edward Brockman (Chase Stokes) and Specialist Selby (Lana Condor) must lead the team through hostile terrain, cut off from US military support as they attempt a daring escape across the treacherous Demilitarized ZoneBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

In the heart-pounding military thriller Valiant One, a routine mission spirals into a fight for survival when a US Army helicopter crashes deep within North Korean territory. With their communications equipment destroyed, Captain Edward Brockman (Chase Stokes) and Specialist Selby (Lana Condor) must lead the team through hostile terrain, cut off from US military support as they attempt a daring escape across the treacherous Demilitarized Zone. Valiant One arrives exclusively in theaters nationwide on Friday, January 31.Chase Stokes is best known for his leading performance in Netflix's global phenomenon series Outer Banks as John B., a teenager who enlists his best friends to hunt for a legendary treasure linked to his father's disappearance. The fourth season debuted in October 2024 and took over the Netflix Top Ten charts, garnering 1.4 billion minutes streamed. Chase won the People's Choice Awards for Best Drama TV Star of 2021. He also starred opposite Joey King in Netflix's dystopian fantasy Uglies from director McG based on Scott Westerfeld's international bestseller of the same name. Chase will next be seen in Nick Cassavetes' Marked Men, the YA romance adapted from the New York Timesbestseller “Rule,” which arrives in select theaters in January and will be released digitally in February 2025.Valiant One was directed by Hollywood veteran Steve Barnett. As a film producer and studio executive for over 25 years, Barnett has built an impressive track record of financially and creatively successful films that generated global box office revenues topping $1 billion. Barnett has produced, developed or supervised over 25 feature films covering all genre and budget ranges including the box office smash 300, Paramount's family film The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Frank Darabont/Stephen King horror film, The Mist and the fantasy film Come Away starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo to name just a few.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

January 30th - Steve Barnett, Oliver Goldstick

Filmmakers Steve Barnett and Bernie Goldman share the incredible story of honor and courage on display in the new film Valiant One. In Theaters Friday. Tickets at: www.valiantonemovie.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we sit down with director Steve Barnett and producer Alan Powell to discuss their new film Valiant One releasing January 31st, 2025 in theaters across the country! Steve and Alan are owners of Monarch Media and have had their hands on multiple films from 300, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Mist and many more! These remarkable filmmakers break down some key points about filmmaking and what helped them create a successful production company! They also explain their approach to filmmaking and on a Valiant One, dive into the origins of the film and how important their message is to tell! It was a true honor to chat with these knowledgable creatives and learn about their process and their love for filmmaking. Ladies and gents... enjoy our conversation with Steve Barnett and Alan Powell. https://www.valiantonemovie.com/ Valiant One A U.S. helicopter goes down in North Korea and a group of reserve soldiers must find a way out before starting a war. Release date: January 31, 2025 (USA) Director: Steve Barnett Story by: Steve Barnett; Daniel Myrick Distributed by: Briarcliff Entertainment Music by: Benjamin Backus Produced by: Bernie Goldmann; Steve Barnett; Alan Powell In Theaters January 31st, 2025

On today's episode of Walk in Faith, our host, Craig Syracusa, is joined by Director Steve Barnett, who is making his directorial debut, and Producer Alan Powell to discuss their latest film, Valiant One.Set against the backdrop of tensions between North and South Korea, Valiant One follows the aftermath of a U.S. helicopter crash on the North Korean side. The survivors must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way out.https://www.valiantonemovie.com/

6/12/24 - Host and American Family Farmer, Doug Stephan www.eastleighfarm.com introduces us to Stephanie Shepard Barnett and Steve Barnett of The Strawberry Patch at Shepard Farms, a family farm known for their delicious strawberries.Recently, The Strawberry Patch at Shepard Farms partnered with Robertson County Schools (near Nashville) to provide local produce to students. The Robertson County Schools Nutrition Department and the local family farm began a partnership with Shepard Farms supplying strawberries to area schools as part of a new produce partnership between local farms and the district's nutrition department.While the program, which began on April 29, has come to an end for this school year, they look forward to begin again with a new school year. Strawberries are still available to the general public at the Shepard's Strawberry patch. For hours of operation, pre-picked and you-pick availability and pricing, visit their Facebook Page - just search “The Strawberry Patch at Shepard Farms.Find them on Facebook @ The Strawberry Patch at Shepard Farms, or visit the farm in Cedar Hill, TN - 1336 Walter Head Road, Cedar Hill, TN, United States, Tennessee.Website: AmericanFamilyFarmerShow.com Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks

In today's episode, Dr. Steve Barnett, Director of Schools for Johnson City Schools, Kathy Hall, Chair of the Johnson City Board of Education, and Dr. Greg Wallace, Supervisor of Safety and Mental Health discuss Johnson City Schools' Heroes Program – a comprehensive set of services designed to meet a wide range of student mental health and safety needs – and how it has benefitted their students. Listen today to learn how to create a similar program in your school district. https://www.jcschools.org/school-safety 

How does SD-WAN really work in the real world? The Zen team are joined by special guest and Zen customer Steve Barnett from SIG , where they discuss SD-WAN in practice.

An all new Appreciation Month is upon us here at Cinema Degeneration and this time we are heading out into the Dystopian fueled nightmares of the Apocalypse with 'Wasteland Appreciation Month.' It's a month long celebration of all things Post-Apocalyptic so you can expect marauders, scavengers, mutants and mayhem, cool car chases, fights over water and fuel, and battles of epic proportions. Our 2nd episode is on a very obscure science fiction yarn with 1991's"MINDWARP" from director Steve Barnett. Starring genre heavyweights Bruce Campbell and Angus Scrimm and featuring impressive special effects by KNB Efx. It's an odd tale of the post-apocalyptic world of 2037 where our main character Judy rebels against an AI ruled utopia and is exiled to the wasteland for her efforts and is forced to battle with drifters, mutated cannibals and an evil overlord named The Seer. Do you dare to travel into a world where Ash from the Evil Dead and The Tall Man from Phantasm face off in a swordfight??? If that doesn't sound intriguing to you, then you've got to check your pulse because you may already be dead. Our deep dive discussion on this Fangoria produced film from the 90's is headed off by the Three Stooges of Cinema Degeneration... Eric Phillips (Sequel Too, Deja Vu), Korey Dawson (Without Warning) and Cameron Scott. You can expect digressions and rants on everything from the Evil Dead franchise, the late great and incomparable Danny Hicks, and the Lawnmower Man franchise to name but a few. Buckle in because it's going to be a wild ride!   "Stupidity, chaos, cruelty, pain. Reality, a failure worse than any nightmare. There was no fixing it."

With former prime minister Boris Johnson soon joining Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lee Anderson and Nigel Farage as a presenter on GB News, there appears to be little attempt by the channel to provide balance to its roster of right-wing voices and even current Conservative politicians. Should the media regulator insist that it provides that balance, or should broadcasters be allowed to present just one side of a political argument?On Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel hear from media professor Steve Barnett, a critic of Ofcom, and veteran commentator and TV executive David Elstein, who views the growth of GB News far more favourably.Enjoy one-month's free trial to Prospect's digital content, and get full access to rigorously fact-checked, truly independent analysis and perspectives. No commitment - you can cancel at any time. Unlock your free digital trial today at https://subscription.prospectmagazine.co.uk/1mfd/prospect-magazine/mctex1mfWe'd love your feedback! Tell us more at: https://f9ce3vpjrw3.typeform.com/to/bxJBPxN2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster, discusses developments after Huw Edwards is named as presenter at centre of BBC scandal.

Steve Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster.

Welcome to the FuturePerfect Podcast where we talk with compelling people breaking new ground in art, media, and entertainment. This podcast is produced by FuturePerfect Studio, an extended reality studio creating immersive experiences for global audiences. Visit our website futureperfect.studio for more details.The text version of this interview has been edited for length and clarity. Find the full audio version above or in your favorite podcast app.For episode 006, Wayne Ashley interviews Andrew Keller, founder of We Few Group, a post-media company that manages singers and songwriters, and develops brand partnerships and ventures with internationally known visual and musical artists. Making innovative use of blockchain technologies and NFTs, Andrew has been building compelling projects with such noted organizations as the David Bowie Estate and singer-songwriter Stefan Storm.Early career at Columbia RecordsLet me start right off by saying how excited I am to be speaking to someone who's been part of the music industry for over 20 years. As much as I love music, I've had very little access to the inside workings of the business. You've had these long relationships with labels like Columbia and Capitol Records. What are some of the most important insights you've gained over the last two decades?Andrew Keller: One of the biggest insights I've gained is that change is necessary and hard. When you're dealing with global major labels it's really hard to make noticeable changes. There's a lot of people working at major labels who are innovative and want to do good. It's just really hard to turn a gigantic ship around. You're dealing with all sorts of policies and god knows how many different types of contracts that were written over the years.How did you get started at Columbia Records and what were your major focuses were when you were there?AK: I started at Columbia as a 17 year old and was a total music-head. I grew up in New York City so I had access to absolutely everything, and thankfully, I had parents who were simultaneously really supportive and also slightly oblivious. From the time I was 13 or 14 I was going out to places I probably shouldn't have been and exploring all sorts of different scenes from nightclubs to hardcore and punk shows to mainstream pop shows. I was really giving myself a crazy education in different subcultures and figuring out little scenes and pockets that had their own worlds, archetypes, and systems in place. And they're probably all relatively similar, it's just people wearing different clothes and different hair. But the whole concept of having these scenes and worlds always excited me. It kind of all played into ideas of identity—sonic identity and visual identity.I was going to lots of shows around 2002 when there was this giant emergence of bands in the tri-state area who were coming out of the punk scene. And it became kind of this pop-punk, emo, screamo post-hardcore thing. I refer to it lovingly as the Warped Tour-scene, which was this festival that traveled around the US for years. There was a ton of attention on bands that I was friends with and bands that I had built relationships with as a fan.One thing kind of led to another and I ended up getting hired as a junior A&R scout / assistant at Columbia and got to work for some amazing people. One of whom is kind of this incredibly legendary small bald man named Matt Pinfield, who was a DJ and then VJ on MTV. A lot of the time we kind of ended up having a deal where he would get booked to DJ and then I would basically cover his set and he'd split the money with me if he had to leave.So I started DJing and it was just this awesome moment in time where I was really young and exposed to so many people. It became clear to me at that point that I just loved being around creative people. I was never in a band. I don't sing. I don't consider myself an artist in any way, shape or form. I do consider myself a creative person and a professional fan. I realized early on that for me it was gonna be about being the conduit and the kind of middle man between the artist and the rest of the world.That period of time was really incredible. I got to work on MGMT's first two albums as a coordinator then started to sign bands on my own like Cults and St. Lucia and doing stuff in the dance space with Krewella and Dillon Francis. And then one of the last things I got to do at Columbia was Bring Me the Horizon, which as a metal kid was unreal. And that was all under a guy named Ashley Newton, who is still one of my closest friends and mentors. He was responsible for signing Spice Girls, Massive Attack, Daft Punk, and Pharrell. Ultimately I went with him and Steve Barnett, who had been the chairman of Columbia, over to Capitol Records when Steve was relaunching Capitol.Streaming music, shifts in the industry, and joining Capitol RecordsI'm very interested in the sort of crises that upend one's assumptions about the world and motivate people to do something radically different than what they've been doing. You mentioned inertia in the music industry when we talked earlier. What happened that caused you to leave Columbia, join Capitol and eventually start your own company?AK: There were a few things. I was 30 and had started at Columbia when I was 17 and I really wanted a change. I loved my artists and everyone I worked with. It really was a family, but I was too comfortable. If you do A&R at a label your real challenge at the end of the day is to sell records. Your goal is to find artists, help them make the best record possible and have as much success as you can. There's a million ways to do it, and I'm not even saying I was great at it, but it's a very linear goal. You go from point A to point B, and that's fine, but it had just done so much and I needed a change.So Steve Barnett called me and said what would you want to do if you were going to stay at a label? And my answer was that streaming was starting to become really dominant. And the thing that streaming changed was access to global music. Before streaming if you were a British band you would sign to a label in the UK for the world. But unless something really took off, you might not even get a US release. When Spotify started putting out music, for the most part, nothing was geo-locked. Everything was coming out day and date, but labels were still working territorially.So I said to Steve, I think there's gonna be a really big shift in the way music is consumed from an international standpoint and I wanted to create “international A&R 2.0” for streaming. So off I went to Capitol Records where I started figuring out this whole system. And also taking systems that were already in place and trying to break them because there were things that didn't make sense to me and that I thought needed to be changed. Part of that was really just being the ambassador and being the person who could go and have some difficult conversations. But also go and represent Capitol around the world. It was a lot of time on airplanes.I had a ton of fun at Capitol. I got to partner with Lewis Capaldi who is on his arena tour right now and is a fantastic artist. I introduced Capitol to SM Entertainment, one of the biggest K-pop labels in the world, and they have an amazing and fruitful partnership. When I reached the end of my deal at Capitol I was in my thirties and my brand had always been owned by a major corporation. There were things I wanted to do that I'd never be able to do in those situations. For example I wouldn't be able to music supervise a movie, I wouldn't be able to launch my own projects or do certain things.An open-ended post-media companyFrom here you started your own company We Few Group. I like to call it an “open-ended post-media company”. You take on so many roles—an artist manager, a mixing engineer, an NFT project producer, an entertainment strategy consultant, you're also working closely with visual artists to produce a graphic novel and even knitwear. This kind of post-media practice that you engage in is so exciting to me and it's exactly what FuturePerfect is doing. How are these different worlds and practices connected for you?AK: When I went off to start We Few Group everyone was like what is it, what are you going to do? And I just said I'm going to do things that excite me with people I like. And that was it, that's the entire thing.For example, you mentioned the knitwear. A couple of years ago, there was a painter that I was obsessed with and I wanted to buy his paintings. I ended up getting on a Zoom call with him for over two hours talking about what he was doing. At the end of the call he asked—if I manage artists could I also manage a painter? He's in the kind of traditional art world, but makes these 30-second horror films around each of his pieces on TikTok. It's all kind of neo-gothic stuff.He has all of these kids as fans, everyone from artists and influencers and just regular teenagers and 20-somethings, the typical TikTok audience. And they all wanted merch. They weren't necessarily buying fine art, but they wanted merch. And he and I started having conversations about it. He wasn't really interested in making merch because he is an artist, but he was like, I'll start a clothing company. Next thing you know, I'm learning about knitwear.This connects back to your earlier question of why I was leaving. The answer is I wasn't learning stuff. There was no time in my life at a label that I would ever be learning about making knitwear, or consulting for Arizona Iced Tea and helping them with their entertainment strategy for two years. I now know more about consumer packaged goods and beverage production and can wrapping. Is that the world's most useful thing to know [laughs]? No but I love learning that kind of stuff and being around it.Crypto and transforming artistic engagementThis brings me now to your fascination with the crypto space. That's another expansive world. What about crypto most excites you and your efforts to transform both artistic and business practices? How did you get into it?AK: I got into crypto early. I'll preface this with saying it's not because I bought millions of Bitcoin at $2 and am now sitting here just pounding money. I wish that were the case, but it's not. I started buying little fragments of Bitcoin in like 2010. Growing up things like business and banking and the stock market were like the devil to me. For better or worse, I kind of vilified it in my mind. But with crypto it felt almost like punk rock banking. I was completely intrigued by it as a kind of rebellion. For years friends heard me talking about crypto, and when the pandemic started and touring was shut down there was suddenly a bull market mentality in the crypto space. And NFTs, which had been around for a few years prior, started to be something that artists, managers and agents were paying attention to. People started calling me saying you probably know about this stuff, right?I gave pretty much everyone the exact same conversation. I said please don't do this, it is really early. This is a real world and kind of culture. You do not care about them. They do not really care about you. Your fans do not care. You know, this is bad for everyone. I guess not a lot of people were voicing that at the time. A lot of people were saying we should do this and people made a bunch of money, but I think a lot of them also looked a little dumb. A lot of the projects were pretty empty. Most of them don't get talked about anymore.But as this world kept growing I started getting calls again. I realized that I could help be a middle man and tour guide. I could help bring the right people with the right intentions in and help shape what adoption to Web3 looked like and help introduce people to the real crypto-native world and to the people who really care about this. A lot of what I do now with Web3 is try to find interesting projects and people who I think will love and enjoy this space and help them either dip their toe in the water or jump in the right way surrounded by the right people.Working with the David Bowie EstateTalk about the David Bowie project, because clearly this is something that you have a lot of passion for, and through it we can better understand what you mean by NFT, crypto space or blockchain.AK: It was without a doubt, one of the most incredible and surreal things I have and probably will ever get to be a part of. Let's put it this way, when my son came home from the hospital in his nursery at home over the changing table is a caricature of David Bowie. My dog's name is Bowie. I'm not a casual Bowie Fan. I revere Daivd Bowie.I couldn't write it better. I'm sitting on the computer one night buying something on the NFT marketplace OpenSea with my dog Bowie sitting next to me and I get a text that says “I can't really say much, but can I introduce you to the Bowie estate, they want to talk about NFTs.” We end up starting this dialogue with the executor of the Bowie estate, who is just an incredible man. He had heard a lot about crypto and what was going on in this space and was very cautious, but had a kind of bullishness. As someone who knew Bowie well, he knew Bowie would've been really excited by this. For me, there had to be a very specific why. That question of why are we doing this? What is our north star for this?What was the vision that emerged for the project?AK: I basically spent the weekend thinking about Bowie and everything I knew about him and digging into his art collection because he was a huge art collector. I happened to have the catalog of the Sotheby's auction when they auctioned off his collection. So I started going into it and asking what did his collection look like? What kind of art did he collect? Then you start thinking about him as a technologist and a lover of new technology. And you're like okay you had BowieWorld before Metaverse was even a thing we talked about. You had BowieNet, which was his own ISP and kind of fan club site. You had BowieArt, which ultimately became a showcase of art that he liked and art made by his community. And then you start thinking about Bowie Bonds and the idea of him having commodified his work and well, that sounds a lot like a bunch of NFT projects. And I just went, okay, this is a guy who kind of had the ethos of the crypto artist before that was a thing. If the blockchain is the permanent immutable ledger, then let's go put this on the blockchain. Let's go put his legacy there.So what does that mean to put his collections on the blockchain?AK: Well, it wasn't his collections, it was, let's do a project that puts on-chain—something that is on the ledger and can never be deleted—that he was here. And let's create something to honor his legacy. I kept going back to the fact that he was a huge supporter of new artists. He was a digital artist himself. I got access to the Bowie archives through my partner Joaquin and I would literally get screenshots on my phone of anything from the archive whether it was an outfit he wore or a ticket to one of his shows or art he had done or a photograph. Everything is meticulously databased. And so Joaquin and I basically started narrowing down this idea.The project became, let's get a handful of the best artists in the crypto art space, from super established to new and up-and-coming and give them free rein to create anything they want to contribute to Bowie. They also had the added bonus of incorporating anything from the archives, which no one has ever been able to do. From there I started to ask who do we want, who makes sense here?I did things like going through Bowie's personal art collection and basically tagging a bunch of stuff like “landscape”, “British artist”, “contemporary African artist”, “sculptor”. And then I did the same with crypto-native artists and tried to find what the connections were. It wasn't about finding a one to one match with everyone, but there were certainly people where I could say okay, this guy's work kind of reminds me of this guy's work. Or I think what this guy does with his art is kind of interesting in relation to this part of Bowie's archive. And also people who were fans of Bowie and people whose art represents certain things that I thought were key to Bowie's legacy. So we came up with a dream list and started approaching them. Almost everyone said yes.What makes this specifically crypto art? How do you differentiate the art that emerges within the blockchain? What is unique about it?AK: What makes this special? Well it is a new medium for art, a new way to distribute art. Artists are able to do things they couldn't do with prior art forms. For example, there are some works that are coded to literally change the time of day; there are pieces that morph over time; some of the artists built mechanisms into the work that would change the work automatically at a future time…at the end of the day it's just art. There's a community aspect to this art. All of the artists in the project interact directly with their community, their fans, and collectors. There is no middleman. There are no traditional rules. There needs to be collaboration, direct connection, dynamic movement, and that's what makes it special to me. Being on the blockchain is a means for it to exist. And then there is the “smart contract.” That's a huge part of what an NFT is, the actual code you are gaining access to in this token. This contract protects not only Bowie, but artists and the NFT community from being exploited. Everything was a 50/50 partnership between the artists and the estate, and 100% of the profits went to charity. Launching a new transmedia art projectTell me about Kids of the Apocalypse, another far reaching transmedia project that spans across music, NFTs, music videos, a comic book, and film. Here is a quote from the Kids of the Apocalypse Discord channel that sums up the project really well: In the aftermath of a cataclysmic bio-explosion, a social movement of revolutionaries is born to break the chains of the tyrannical rule of Horizon Corp in the wake of the apocalypse. A multimedia art project born from the music, Kids of the Apocalypse (KOTA) aspires to highlight the themes represented on the journey of our - awakening, unity, and deposition of unjust power. Positioned as a multimedia IP with strong experience and connections in the music industry alongside a world-class design team, KOTA is a love letter to those who dare to speak out and be themselves - delivered in the form of a suspenseful, emotional, and immersive sci-fi adventure.AK: Kids of the Apocalypse was a concept and story that was conceived about 10 years ago. There was a Swedish production group called The Sound of Arrows, and Stefan Storm from the group had started this kind of side project idea Kids of the Apocalypse. Imagine a dark comedy version of—I'm gonna say X-Men because it involves mutants—that is alt and internet leaning and kind of self-referential which also has a music component. There's this whole story and a really immaculately created lore and universe. And now imagine 10 years ago saying let's make this happen. Where the do you begin? So this idea sat there for a long time.So cut to 10 years later and I'm reconnecting with my friend Derek Davies, who was the founder of Neon Gold, which was a label that I had actually done a label deal with when I was at Columbia and who had signed Sound of Arrows and put out their first EP. He was still in touch with Stefan, and Derek is also doing a lot of stuff in the Web3 space. He has an incredible company called Medallion. I think we have put together a pretty incredible team—we've got Derek and the Medallion crew, we have Stefan and his crew, we've got an incredible creative agency who have been working on all of this alongside Stefan. And we've got the guys at Bench Mob who are some of the best digital architects out there from a social media strategy perspective. We've got an incredible community manager, we've got a advisory board of people who really are some of the best and brightest in the space from Cooper Turley on the music NFT side to John Roger, who's one of the advisors and was marketing for Star Wars for Lucasfilm and then became the first head of franchise development at Disney.We have released a few songs and one video, which I think might be the number one (I hate data points because they get outdated quickly so I might be wrong here) most traded piece on Glass which is a music video NFT protocol. We've also created something that I think has never been done before, which was creating a mechanism that integrates traditional streaming with NFT minting. Where in order to gain access to the allow list you actually had to interact with and log yourself into your Spotify or Apple account. This is a very blockchain-native project, but I also want everyone to be able to hear the music, even if you don't know what an NFT is, because the music is fantastic. The first drop is a PFP (profile picture) project. It's season one and includes the eight main characters, which you're randomly assigned to and each of them has its own unique theme music and properties, and it's all happening on the Blockchain. We're doing all this on Solana, which is a chain that I think allows for very quick movement. And part of what we want to do is really involve our community in the storytelling and really let them into all of the bits and pieces of the lore. And to me, a lot of that will come from surprise and delight and from airdrops and from opening up your wallet one day and seeing things you didn't know were going to be in there.For those of us who are still new to this space, what is a wallet? AK: The wallet is the digital space through which everything is integrated and enters into your possession. Your wallet is where you hold your cryptocurrency, where you hold your NFTs. So you may log into your wallet one day and if you're a holder of Kids of the Apocalypse NFT, you may find something new that has been added to your wallet. We've also created an amazing community in Discord, and the fan art alone is pretty incredible. I encourage people to check it out because we really are trying to build something unique. I think the website is one of the coolest websites I have seen, it is fully immersive, and we're going to play with it.So how will the comic book and full film emerge? How is that all going to be integrated?AK: The full-length film is a dream. It could be a short film too, we don't know. The plan is for this to be a story told in a moving visual media. We're still having discussions about how and what that will look like.Before we stop, were there any other current projects that we should be aware of?AK: Yeah there are two things. After the Bowie project I felt that it was important for me to put myself out there more. I felt that there was an opportunity to experience what artists and creators in this space go through, their step-by-step process. My father was a photo journalist, and I've always loved photography. I had this idea going back to the idea of the blockchain as a permanent immutable ledger; and thinking of photographs, particularly snapshots, as as memory objects; and what if you minted those memories to the blockchain, and then they're there forever. Now what happens if you then renounce your ownership of them? If you're using the snapshot as a representation of a memory, what if I minted it, and sent it to you and now it's yours? What does it mean for someone else to have my memory? It was an idea that I kept coming back to and I finally felt the need to bite the bullet and just put this out there. It's called Memory Loss. I spoke to a few artists in the crypto space to see if the idea offended anyone. I got their support and encouragement. I minted some of the snapshots and made them available on the Tezos blockchain, which is a space that is more experimental, low key, less pressure. It's on the marketplace Objkt. I do have ideas for future ways for this to evolve.The other project, equally experimental, gives support to visual artists who want to start playing in the music NFT space. There are some artists making really amazing music and building a fan base and building patrons and building their own worlds with their own rules in this space. I wanted to create a way for visual artists, who are curious, to safely and with integrity and respect, integrate themselves into that world. The short of it is I am launching an NFT-based singles label. The name is, W3 F3W like my company, except that the ees are 3s. It's going to be a place for great new music and great visual art to collide and hopefully again, just bring people into a world that I'm pretty excited about. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit futureperfect.substack.com

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Steve Barnett, COO at QuadReal Property Group, a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. We hear more about Steve's humble begins, his journey to the C-Suite, his views on Politics as well as getting to personally know more about the man behind the infectious charm and big smile.Check out Steve Barnett's book recommendations:"Dune" by Frank Herbert"Atlas Shrugged" by Ain RandBWB is powered by Oury Clark

Meet Steve Barnett, Chief Operating Officer at QuadReal Property Group, a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Steve has been of the company since the start in 2016 and is on the Board of Directors.Our chat is part about Steve's work with QuadReal and (the best) part about the charming man himself.Kick back, press play and smile.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Angelica Allen-McMillan, Ed.D., Acting Commissioner, NJ Dept. of Education, joins Steve Adubato to address public education in New Jersey and the challenges facing teachers, parents, and students in these difficult times.; W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D., Co-Director, National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, provides his perspective on universal preschool and investing in our […]

On this episode of Lights, Camera, Exploitation we examine and discuss Steve Barnett's 1995 sci-fi thriller Scanner Cop 2: The Showdown. This story follows the valiant Sam Staziak as he tracks down Karl Volkin, an escaped mental patient who has been draining the life-force from weaker scanners. Join us as we try yet again to survive another brain bursting entry in the Scanners franchise.

Rural hospital leaders are more than just administrators keeping their own hospitals and healthcare services running—many of them are using their voices to be rural health advocates, speaking out on issues that affect all of us in rural healthcare. We're speaking with someone who has worked hard in his position as a rural hospital CEO to promote the needs of rural healthcare, to the benefit of all of us. Our guest this week is Steve Barnett, President & CEO of McKenzie Health System in Sandusky, Michigan.

This is the 100th Full Show of this podcast, and to celebrate, I talk to Comics, Friends, Old Employees, and other regular Listeners. We discuss shows they liked, what aspects they enjoy most, and the future of the podcast as I go into my 3rd season. For all the regular listeners, "THANK-YOU!"This Special Features:Andy Gross, John Pate, Bob Stobener, Stan Sellers, Steve Bruner, Ken Garr, Lynn Stobener, Bentoni, Larry Wilson, Steve Barnett, and Larry Wilson!Hosted by : R. Scott EdwardsDynamic content for shows mentioning "Buying a Cup of Coffee" as a new feature Book Promo 3 "20 Questions answered about Being a Standup Comic"Quick promo for launch of new book.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/yourhostandmc)

The British Government says the BBC license fee, paid by millions of households, to finance its global broadcasting service, will be frozen for two years and wants a debate about future funding. So what are the options for the Corporation? Rob Young explores the way public service broadcasters are funded around the world and talks to Ismo Silvo, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Finnish public broadcaster YLE and Chris Turpin, NPR's Chief of Staff. We get some analysis of the advantages and limitations of each model and discuss the impact on other broadcasters with Steve Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster and Gill Hind from Enders Analysis. (Image: BBC Studio, Credit: BBC)

During the decades when Indianapolis and its downtown were far from vibrant, Naptown was frequently used - along with "India-NO-Place" - as a derisive nickname for the lackluster Hoosier capital. But the actual origin of the Naptown nickname is much different than the negative connotation it later came to have, and the original intent was not to insult or disrespect the city, according to Steve Barnett, Marion County Historian.  Steve says the nickname was coined during the 1920s by African-American jazz musicians and performers who visited Indianapolis. As a creative and even affectionate way to refer to the city, they began stressing the fourth syllable in the city's name, and that usage of "Naptown" was picked up by GIs stationed in the city during World War II.  In addition to serving as a board member of the Marion County Historical Society, Steve is the executive director of the Irvington Historical Society, and will be Nelson's guest to discuss the history and evolution of nicknames for the Hoosier capital. They have included Indy (by far the most popular in the 21st century), Circle City, Crossroads of America, Amateur Sports Capital and, during the 19th century, Railroad City. Steve also will share insights about historic nicknames for neighborhoods in the Hoosier capital. These monikers - some of them discarded decades ago - have included Stringtown, Vinegar Hill, Cottontown, Irish Hill, the Levee and Brickville. Stringtown continues to be used to describe a neighborhood across the White River just west of downtown. With the coming of the National Road (now U.S. 40) to Indianapolis during the 1830s and the building of a bridge across the river, many houses were "strung" along both sides of the roadway, according to Steve's research.  As Indianapolis grew during the 19th century, neighborhoods often were given nicknames by the police "for easy identification," Steve says. Some nicknames for the city benefited from a push by civic and business leaders. In 1926, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce adopted "Crossroads of America" as the organization's promotional nickname for the Hoosier capital, according to a column Steve recently wrote for the Weekly View, a newspaper that covers the eastside. During the early 1970s, when "Naptown" had become widely used as a disparaging term, civic leader Frank McKinney Jr. announced an advertising campaign intended to promote "Indy," according to Steve's column. By that point, "Indy" already had been adopted by race drivers, mechanics and other auto enthusiasts. McKinney, a bank president, expressed the hope that broader usage of the nickname would "polish the image of the city."

Steve Barnett Technical specialist (Ph.D.) with extensive sales and marketing experience in a broad array of optical sensor technologies. Experienced with applications in pharmaceutical/biotech, aerospace, homeland security, materials science, forensic science, polymer, and petrochemical industries. Managed global relationship with multinational corporation - formed sales and support structure for operations in 35 countries. Chair of Northern California Section, Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Member of Society for Applied Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Society for the Advancement of Materials Processing and Engineering. Specialties: Optical sensors from the UV to the far-IR. FTIR spectroscopy, microscopy, and imaging; Raman spectroscopy and imaging; near-IR, UV-Vis, and fluorescence spectroscopies.     On today Show we Talk about: If a startup was looking to get government contracts, or sell their product to the public sector, what is the best way to go about that? How does one decide on what problem or challenge to tackle next? What is currently happening with the capital of California and their Tech scene?     Connect with Steve Email steve.barnett@barnett-technical.com Linkedin linkedin.com/in/stevenmbarnett1 Website https://barnett-technical.com/     CONNECT WITH SHAWN https://linktr.ee/ShawnflynnSV Shawn Flynn's LinkedInAccount Silicon Valley LinkedInGroup Account Shawn Flynn's FacebookAccount Email Shawn@thesiliconvalleypodcast.com  

Steve Barnett from Specific Relocations, joins us for an insightful chat today. We cover a wide range of topics from stepping up as a step dad, to losing his first wife in a tragic accident, then finding his way back in life, and in love, to ending up in a position today where he loves to get out of bed and go to work. I think you'll take a lot out of this one and make you thankful for what you have, especially in these times. Finally, if you'd like to be featured on an episode of Small Business Dads for season 2, or know someone who'd make a great chat, please email daniel@dpmtransformation.com and tell me a little bit about your family, your story and of course, your business. You can find out more about this and other episodes featured by visiting our website - Small Business Dads. It also has a small feature on each of our featured guests. Finally, if you like what you hear, please follow, rate, review and share to help these stories get in front of more dads like yourself.

Permanently revoking users' access to social media platforms— a practice known as “deplatforming “— isn't a new concept, but the high-profile ban of President Donald Trump has raised new questions about censorship and free speech in the internet age. For years Twitter famously clung to its identity as “the free speech wing of the free-speech party.” Meanwhile, Facebook employed a policy that mostly excluded politicians from content moderation rules that applied to other users. Yet, within days of the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms suspended the accounts of the president of the United States. First Amendment lawyers point out that the Constitution protects against government censorship of speech. However, social media platforms are businesses run by companies. They have terms of service and aren't obligated to provide a platform to anyone. Still, whether one views the deplatforming of a U.S. president as necessary or not, many say the more important question is whether tech companies should be the ones deciding where to set the boundaries for online speech. In this episode of [Un]Common Law we speak with: Katie Fallow, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Steve Barnett, professor of communications at the University of Westminster in London. Lyrissa Lidsky, Dean of University of Missouri Law School. Jessica Melugin, director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

On the seventh episode of Health Care by the Numbers, our host Greg Paris is joined by Amy McDaniel, Chief Executive Officer at Iowa Specialty Hospitals & Clinics and Steve Barnett, President & CEO at McKenzie Health System. Two experts who have deep insight in rural value-based care. Their discussion focuses on their valuable experiences, including lessons learned with the highly successful ACO Investment Model, or AIM, a program for small rural accountable care organizations. The speakers share best practices and lessons learned on their path to rural success in accountable care, and what’s next for delivery system payment reform. twitter.com/hashtag/HCBTNPod twitter.com/SearlsT twitter.com/MaraMcDermott Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

This week Gary and Jess review and discuss, Mindwarp (1991) by Director, Steve Barnett. Starring, Marta Martin, Bruce Campbell and Angus Scrimm. For more Off The Shelf Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWxkAz-n2-5Nae-IDpxBZQ/join Podcasts: https://offtheshelfreviews.podbean.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/@OTSReviews Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OffTheShelfReviews Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OffTheShelfReviews Support us: http://www.patreon.com/offtheshelfreviews Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/offtheshelfreviews Discord: https://discord.gg/Dyw8ctf

In this instalment, Justin speaks with Steve Barnett, co-founder and CEO of GreaseBoss. The Queensland based start up was founded by three engineers and has already signed a contract with mining giant Glencore. Additionally, it was also accepted into the world-renowned Y-Combinator accelerator program in the United States.

Steve Barnett and Jim Cooley review the upcoming fight card for the June 22 2019 BAC 5 show at the Napa Valley Expo

Jim Cooley and Steve Barnett review the fight card for the upcoming Bay Area Combat 5 event on 2/23/19.

Diego Bigelow will be at the table with Jim Cooley and Steve Barnett. He will be discussing his fight last night at Panda Cup (5/4/19) and his upcoming title fight at Bay Area Combat (6/22/19).

Jim Cooley and Steve Barnett sit down with Michael Bueno & Jon Santos to review the fight card results from June 22, 2019 BAC show. We will also be discussing his big win and future plans.

Steve Barnett sits down with Edwin De Los Santos & Ashanti Altovese Griffin to discuss Edwin's big win from June 22, 2019 BAC show. We will also be discussing his big win and future plans.

Steve Barnett sit down with Mikyo Riggs & Papa Midnight to discuss the Northern California MMA Scene. It is all on the table the past scene, the future scene and upcoming events.

Welcome to Channeling Johnson County, with Brandon and Emily. Channeling Johnson County is a bi-weekly round table discussion with Johnson Counties most notable. This week, Brandon and Emily introduce their frequent guests: Franklin Mayor, Steve Barnett; Johnson County Commissioner, Brian Baird; and Recreation Director with Franklin Parks and Recreation, Holly Johnston. Tune in and join the conversation using the hashtag #ChannelingJoCo! -- GET YOUR MERCH! -- Listen wherever you podcast! Find us on all things media: @brandonandemilypodcast brandonandemilypodcast.com Facebook / Instagram / Twitter Interested in advertising? Email Us: brandonandemilypodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-and-emily/support

On this weeks program Chris does a recap of riding for transport issues, public health and public space after massive impact of COVID19 upon how we live and move about our streets and cities.Interviews included Phil Barton, Warwick Duncan from Railtrails Australia, Dr Fiona Gray, Simon Howell, Cr Susanne Newton, Renee Dikeni, Dr Ben Beck, Megan Sharkley on Space For Health campaign, Sam Hibbins, Cr Jackie Fristacky, Dan Kneipp, Philip Mallis, Philip Mallis (2), Zoë McMaster, Luke Poland, Alice Prior, Alice Prior (2), David Blom, Steve Barnett, Cr Rohan Leppart, Cr Rohan Leppart (2), Juliet Hall, Helen McDonald, Toby from The Cherry Tree Hotel, Tim Goldby from Moonee BUG, Matthew Townsend and Roland Postma from Planners Declare.News and events include pop up bicycle lanes and active transport news from Darebin Council South Crescent pop up lanes, Moreland Council: Making walking and cycling safer in Moreland, VicRoads Heidelberg Road pop up lanes, Yarra Council Making Space and Lloyds of London rapidly exiting fossil fuel projects insurance.This weeks guest is Dr Craig Fry, cycling historian and writer, who organised a 125th year anniversary ride of the first Melbourne to Warrnambool cycling race, we discuss the Warnys rich history, Craigs long family history with the race and fundraising for Oz Cycling Futures. Read more: The long and winding road of an Australian cycling race older than Tour de France, Fundraising Melbourne to Warrnambool pays tribute to legendary race and Riders complete anniversary ride of Melbourne to Warrnambool Cycling Classic.

As pandemic times encourage Kiwis to rediscover domestic travel and road trips, we talk to writer and auto enthusiast Steve Barnett about his new book Life with Cars: New Zealanders' motoring memories 1950s-1980s.

  This week we are discussing two must read books before Memorial  or Labor Day.  We begin the show with Danny Lyon, author of  The Colour of My Underwear is Blue.  With over 60 marathons and 20 years of business experience,Danny Lyon shares why people create such varying levels of business and personal success. Lyon reveals the secrets of the success "high-flyers", the "turnaround artists", the "comfort zone dwellers", and the "give-ups". No matter where you are in your life right now, Lyon sheds light on how you may be holding yourself back and what it takes to get out of your own way.  Next, we meet with Steve Barnett, author of Gumption - Taking Bubba Gump from Movie to Restaurant.  Written in a cinematic style, this book is about the creation, growth, and sale of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. The concept began when Paramount Pictures reached out to see if there was interest in creating a restaurant based on the movie Forrest Gump. It is also the personal story of the author’s growth as a CEO and creator of restaurant concepts. A host of situations are described such as restaurant concept creation, high stakes boardroom confrontations, and escaping corrupt officials in foreign lands. The narrative is partly an unvarnished peak behind the everyday scenes of restaurants, movie studios, and Wall Street. There is also an almost step-by-step recounting of how the Bubba Gump concept and others were created and operated. Lessons can be learned on unorthodox methods used in moving from traditional approaches to untried ways of doing business.  

Story: Das Jahr 2037: In einer Welt, in der auserwählte Menschen von einer künstlichen Intelligenz gesteuert werden und ihre Erfahrungen und Gefühle direkt aus einem Kabel beziehen, lehnt sich die junge Frau Judy gegen die herrschende Ordnung auf. Mit Folgen, die sie sich nicht hätte vorstellen können. Ins Exil verbannt, trifft sie auf die „Brain-Slasher“, nach Blut gierende mutierte Kannibalen unter der Führung von Seer sowie den Einzelgänger Stover, einen der letzten Überlebenden. Werden sie gemeinsam der post-apokalyptischen Hölle entfiehen können? Oder im monströsen Fleischwolf des Mutanten-Klans letztlich zerfetzt?

Story: Das Jahr 2037: In einer Welt, in der auserwählte Menschen von einer künstlichen Intelligenz gesteuert werden und ihre Erfahrungen und Gefühle direkt aus einem Kabel beziehen, lehnt sich die junge Frau Judy gegen die herrschende Ordnung auf. Mit Folgen, die sie sich nicht hätte vorstellen können. Ins Exil verbannt, trifft sie auf die „Brain-Slasher“, nach Blut gierende mutierte Kannibalen unter der Führung von Seer sowie den Einzelgänger Stover, einen der letzten Überlebenden. Werden sie gemeinsam der post-apokalyptischen Hölle entfiehen können? Oder im monströsen Fleischwolf des Mutanten-Klans letztlich zerfetzt?

Dr. Mark E. Shaw introduces Steve Barnett, who gives his testimony of what the Lord Jesus did in his life. A powerful picture of how Jesus Christ offers the eternal "Hope of the Gospel for the Heart of Addiction." Steve currently serves as an elder at Grace Fellowship Church in Florence, Kentucky (GFC), a church he actually helped to start. If you'd like to hear more sessions from GFC's Counseling and Discipleship Training conference archives, visit this site:You don't want to miss this testimony (around 35 minutes) of the transformational power of God in the heart of the addicted, which was given to the attendees at the 2019 Counseling and Discipleship Training at GFC. Find out more about 2020 Counseling and Discepleship Training when it becomes available here. The audience who heard this testimony live consists of people who are eager to learn about "how to help real people with real problems by using their Bible." (quote from Pastor Brad Bigney- watch the video that explains GFC's passion for biblical counseling here. Life in high school in the 1960's for Steve consisted of his use of amphetamines, weed, drinking alcohol, LSD, barbituates, cocaine, percocet, demerol, opioids, selling drugs, and selling to those who would sell drugs to others. He covers some of the very vivid visual memories of the first four months of his time in the Kentucky State Penitentiary as an 18 year old, his subsequent time when he was transferred to a minimum security institution, and his subsequent meeting of a guidance counselor there, who asked him, "Do you have a Bible?" and then, "Read the red," as God began to soften his heart. A preacher visited the prison one day and Steve received God's forgiveness in Christ. He then began aggressively pursuing Jesus through the devouring of God's Word daily while still in prison. Four points Mr. Barnett makes to this audience of biblical counselors: 1. If you have a choice in who you will be assigned to counsel, be sure to think, pray, and be sensitive to God's Spirit in how He is leading your desires on whom to counsel. AND, if someone is in charge of assigning you the people whom you will counsel, then TRUST that God is IN that process. 2. Listen carefully. Ask questions of those whom you counsel and listen intently and ask more questions... to try to discern what's been going on in that person's life. 3. Steer those whom you counsel toward God's Word. Use God's Word. 4. Pray, pray, pray like crazy. Pray like your life depends on it because it does. Listen to the entire testimony on the TAC Podcast here. To find Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselors all over the country visit The Addiction Connection. https://www.graceky.org/sermons/series/cdt/

This week on Rural Health Leadership Radio, we’re talking about investing in pulmonary rehabilitation at critical access hospitals. We’re having that conversation with Dr. Steve Barnett, CEO of McKenzie Health System in Sandusky, Michigan. “We have an obligation to try and manage this population and do a better job than we’ve historically done.” ~Dr. Steve Barnett Dr. Barnett has served as hospital Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officers for the past 18 years, currently serving as the President and CEO of McKenzie Health System. He began his healthcare career as a Respiratory Therapist, attending Oakland University where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. Dr. Barnett would go on to receive his Master’s degree in Nursing from Southern Connecticut State University as well as his Doctorate in Healthcare Administration from Central Michigan University. “Improving the health of your community often requires investment in services that may not have a significant payback financially, but the payback in terms of the health of the individuals that benefit from those services is enormous.” ~Dr. Steve Barnett Dr. Barnett is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and is a member of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services and serves as a member of the National Rural Health Resource Center’s Technical Assistance and Services Center Advisory Committee. He also serves on numerous healthcare-related boards and is an Assistant Professor of Central Michigan University’s College of Medicine.

In our effort to cover the issue of opioid use in rural Michigan, we took to the hospitals, providers, and persons who are trying to have an impact on opioid use and overuse in our state.  This Rural Mission is a podcast brought to you by Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. The podcast is produced with funds from the Herbert H and Grace A Dow Foundation and the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Family Medicine Department. Welcome to season two. I'm your host, Julia Terhune, and I hope you enjoy this episode. I'm sure none of you listening are surprised that we did an episode this season on the opioid crisis. The issue of opioid use, overdose and related deaths has been in the news media for several years now and at this point it seems to be synonymous with rural. But that is because this is a tremendous issue concerning rural populations. It affects every facet of life for many rural communities, from the healthcare system to schools to industries. Rural healthcare facilities are dealing with people addicted to opioids and the legislative policies tied to combating drug-seeking behavior every day. School systems are seeing younger and younger students either becoming addicted to opioids, dying from overdose, or living in homes where families have been impacted by drug addiction. US census data shows that unemployment rates are highest in rural areas and the opioid crisis has done nothing to help. Poverty is a contributor to drug use, and yet if you can't stay clean, you can't get a job. But this episode is not about these distressing realities. Instead, we're talking about the people who are doing something to combat this crisis. I'm going to spoil the theme of this podcast and let you know in a word what we are hoping you get out of this. People. We hope you understand that people need people, meaning if we are to make an impact in these communities concerning opioid use and overuse, we have to put people first. Today our stories are going to have a tiered effect. We're going to start at the top and talk about community impact, then we're going to take it down to the practice level, talking about what individual doctor's offices are doing. We're then going to get personal. So starting off our conversations, we're going to talk about system policies that have made an impact on getting access to opioids. I spoke to Steve Barnett, the CEO of the McKenzie Health System in Sandusky, Michigan, a rural hospital in the thumb. In 2012, his hospital started an Oxy-free ED policy that stopped providing opioids for non-acute medical concerns. You have people that are accessing the emergency department for real, acute reasons, and yet there's also people accessing the ED because they've run out of whatever substance they prefer and this is an easy way to come in and probably get a couple days worth or maybe even a month's worth of prescription to get them in and out of there. Rather than wasting resources in the ED and being part of the problem, we decided we wanted to try and at least provide some solution. It's just one door of multiple doors, you know, but it's at least taking a position that we're not going to be that place that pushes drugs. Were you concerned about any unintended consequences of making this change in your ER? Sure, we were. Our primary concern was that once they figured out, those patients that are seeking drugs through the emergency department, that we're not going to support that, then they'll simply move to other emergency departments locally and then we won't be viewed very kindly by those other hospitals who have an uptick in volume, but it's really drug-seeking volume. So we presumed, we assumed that that would happen and we talked to everybody, let them know that we were implementing this Oxy-free ED and they may see an uptick and we'd like to hear about it if that in fact occurs. The other things that we were concerned about is how the patients would react that are seeking drugs when they come in, realize you have a policy and a process that doesn't provide them with what they're looking for, because they could become combative or unruly. So we want to make sure that we have support locally from police and community mental health. Being a County seat, all those services are right nearby anyway, so it was a good way to inform the community and try to get them on board and be supportive of this process that we're going to start implementing, policy implementation, and the way in which we're going to proceed. And all of those concerns did not actually come to fruition. In fact, the policy positively impacted drug-seeking behavior and did reduce the number of people gaining access to opioids through the emergency room. In the five years this policy has been in place, the McKenzie Health System has seen a 90% reduction in the number of prescription opioids provided to patients. But more importantly, staff and physicians found their jobs less stressful, that patients were easier to discharge, and that their interactions with patients were of higher quality than in previous years. And can I just say that this was a dynamic way to build community. What gave you this idea? I mean, obviously, you're the leader of this hospital. It was not my idea. It wasn't your idea? No. It was the medical director for our emergency department, Dr Hamed. He was reading an article about policies in the state of Washington where they were moving EDs into an Oxy-free environment in order to reduce traffic. He had an interest in doing that locally, so he came in and talked to me about those unintended consequences and would we support it as a hospital? And I said, yeah. And so it just began to roll out from that point in that way. Part of the program that we implemented, which is fairly common today, was if there was a legitimate acute pain problem and the physician had accessed the MAPS software and could tell that this particular patient wasn't moving around and hadn't acquired multiple prescriptions, then they have the option of administering some narcotics for that patient, for that problem. But it would be a limited supply, maybe two or three days. And the more important part is that they had to follow up with a primary care provider and so there was a contract established that required that to happen, and if it didn't happen and they showed up again, then they weren't going to see the same kind of prescription being administered. They either have to move on or they have to get help or something has to happen that's different than what they were doing before. Now let's narrow down our discussion. Reducing access to opioids is one way to combat the crisis, but even without access through the emergency room, there are still people living with chronic pain and addiction. Dr Klee is a physician in Northern Michigan and the residency director at the Munson Family Practice Residency Program. He and his team have developed a better way of managing patients who have chronic pain or who use opioids. But when you hear what it is, I'm sure you'll agree it's the common sense approach that has not been very common. You know, this is a big problem nationwide and Michigan for sure is one of the areas that is involved significantly. You know, in 2016 we had 11 million prescriptions for opioids in Michigan, which is more than the amount of people we have in Michigan. Here at our residency we decided we wanted to try to address, how are we managing our patients with prescriptions? So what we did is we developed an algorithm to help all our providers and to figure out how we were going to manage our opioids. That starts with seeing our patients in the office and talking about non-opioid pain relievers. So we started with that, asked people to make sure that we maximize these non-opioids and then if we are considering going on to opioids to use a validated risk assessment such as the Opioid Risk Score that looks at people's personal family history of addiction issues to see if they're someone that's more likely to become addicted and if opioids are really a good idea for them. And we combine that with a functional assessment saying, all right, what can you not do right now because of your pain that we want to try to improve with opioids? Because a lot of times it may be we gave opioids for this issue, their pain's still not controlled and we haven't improved their function and so really we haven't added benefit with opioids. We just added potential complications. And then if we are considering we want to progress to using opioids, then we're running a MAPS report, which is the Michigan Automated Prescription System report that's now mandated by Michigan law and also getting urine drug screens. Have you noticed that it's an increase in workload to do this with patients? Yeah, it is, but it takes a little bit more time with this to be able to do a good job with it. But I think we're doing a better service to our patients when we have these discussions and we do a little more regimented assessment of their risk and benefits. One of the things that we do when we decide that we're going to be using opioids is we have a contract that we sign with the patient and we renew that every year and it is kind of the rules of engagement on using the narcotics. That includes doing annual, at least annual, urine drug screens on patients coming in to see us every three months, you know, not selling their medications and things. With that agreement, when we do our urine drug screens or we have these visits, if we're seeing that the patient has broken the contract or they're positive on a urine drug screen for other issues, then it's a form where we can then say, all right, we can't continue to prescribe you opioids, but it does appear that you have an opioid disorder, use disorder. And so what can we do to help you with that? How can we help you combat that addiction? You know, we care for people and these people have addictions and so if they fall out on the contract that they're not able to use the medication because they didn't comply appropriately by not using other medicines, we don't fire the patient. We just say, okay, we can't use these controlled substances, they're too risky for you, but we'll still be your physician. We'll still take care of you and we need to help manage all your medical problems including helping you have access to addiction services. What comes to fruition as you're graduating from medical school is that now you're actually taking care of patients. You're not taking care of the heroin in room three. You're taking care of Johnny in room three that overdosed with heroin. I think that's an important part, is that we realize that these are people and learning about how to manage their blood pressure's important, but also learning about how to manage people's pain and how to address addictions and not to bring the biases that a lot of times that we do with that and not to internalize those biases. But it can be a challenging group of people to work with, but it can be very rewarding too in being able to help some of these people and be the providers that are there that aren't turning their back. Our final story takes us all the way down to the individual level. In preparation for this podcast, I spoke to a number of persons who are in recovery from drug addiction, but there was one story that struck me. To protect the identity of our next interviewee, I'm going to call him Ray. Ray is now more than four years clean and owes much of his recovery to a recovery program called drug court, an alternative program that instead of putting people with substance abuse issues in jail, they are provided with opportunities to get clean, stay clean, and avoid charges that could keep them in a loop of drug abuse and poverty for the rest of their lives. Here's Ray's story. I grew up in a loving home. Issues just like anybody. Just normal, you know? My dad wasn't real affectionate but he also wasn't abusive. But I grew up not understanding the feelings that I felt inside. I grew up not understanding why I felt so different, despite all the love and all the good qualities of my family. Excuse me. But then I just, I just couldn't be okay, so I started out acting out at school. Finally, my parents are trying to figure out what to do with me because they don't understand, because I don't understand. Really, nobody understands why I'm acting the way I am. And just as they were like, really trying to help, I was sexually abused by an uncle, you know, and it changed my world. I felt like everybody could see me, see it. So I was like, okay, how can I be a man if I was sexually abused by a man? I remember having these thoughts. And it was just, it happened once. How old were you? 10. I was 10. And I couldn't remember the pain, the physical pain, but like, it was instant humiliation, you know? And then, man, my dad was sick all the time, so I begged my parents to let me go hunting with some other uncles. And they introduced me. You know, I remember drinking one night and I just, I can remember it like it was yesterday. Alcohol never became my drug of choice, except for if I didn't have any other drugs. But the feeling of being outside of myself and not having to care about what anybody thought, was the first time I ever drank. Nobody knew I was sexually abused. Nobody knew I was scared. So I was Superman. After the years of drug abuse, failed relationships, minor offenses, and a spiral of depression and hopelessness, Ray was charged with running a meth lab and larger drug possession. But strangely enough, this is where the story takes a better turn. 21 year old kid walks up to me, he says, hey, you look like you want to die. And I said, you have no idea. Because that's what I was doing. I was literally trying to figure out a way to kill myself in jail. So I'm in jail, I'm cleaning up, and everything that I had done during those drug induced hazes became a reality. Real hard. He says, hey, let's go to this meeting with me tonight. I'm like, what's your name? Like, why are you ... He says, my name's Tucker. He's a good kid. He said, you look like you're in a lot of pain. He takes me to this meeting and it ends up being an NA meeting. This guy across the table's telling me he's been, he was a drug addict and he hasn't done drugs in 20 years, and he's smiling. And I said, you lying son of a bitch. Nobody smiles about drugs. Maybe you weren't a drug addict like I was a drug addict. And then this guy started telling my story. He started talking and I'm like, how could you know that? What is this? What is this? What is recovery? And I was sitting in jail and every Tuesday I was holding this NA book and every Tuesday I'd be there, just waiting for this guy to come in. How did I not know about this? You know, I've been on felony probation for seven years and I'm not trying to say that in a [inaudible 00:19:58] way, you know? I know it was my choice to pick up the first time. I also know that after the first time I picked up, I didn't have a whole lot of choice. But I'm looking at three to five in prison with a 40 year tail. [inaudible 00:20:18]. They sent some guy in there and he's supposed to interview me and I lock up because all those old feelings come back. He talks to me and he says, tell me why I should let you on my program? How do I deserve that program, you know? I've been sexually abused, abusive father, like I got all these thoughts rolling through my head. Like, I don't deserve that. At that time, nobody in my life had known I was sexually abused. I probably told the counselor like, three days after that because I finally broke and told someone. It was like, it was like the whole world helped open up to me. Drug court accepted me. The guy came back and interviewed me again. Drug court let me on. I didn't know the world of recovery existed. I didn't know people cared whether or not we lived or died, as addicts. In our world and I know it's a sad thing, but in our world where we live, in here in our heads or in the streets, nobody cares. We're the enemy. We're dirty. We're all these things. When I hit drug court, that was the first time I really thought there was help out there and that the world wasn't against me. It was also the first time I didn't, the first time I remember feeling like God didn't hate me, if there was a God. I was convinced that He hated me, you know? Then I got a taste of recovery. They sent me to a treatment center. I didn't know for a second. It's a treatment center. I didn't even know they existed. And then you get to love life. It was like, almost overnight. It was like a whole new world I didn't know. How do I feel about myself? I feel I'm helping change lives. I don't feel like that would be an option if it wasn't for programs like that. Let's go backwards now. Ray is a person. A person with real trauma that led him down a spiraling path of drug abuse. It wasn't until someone saw him for who he really is that he was able to start getting help for the hurt that drug abuse and addiction was masking. Dr Klee and his residents are intervening in the lives of their patients to not just manage their pain but their needs. Treating the person and not the symptom. The McKenzie Health System is taking a look at the issue of opioid use at the community level and trying to help people when they need it most, but also helping the larger system by keeping more drugs out of circulation. The point of all of this is that people are helping people. This is how we're going to combat this crisis, by taking it one system at a time, one practice at a time, and one person at a time. You know, we're all Michiganders here and we have to understand that we have our differences, but we also have a lot of similarities. One patient may have, a person may have an opioid addiction, but other people may have their own crosses to bear and so we have to work with each other and take care of each other. Thank you all for listening today. As always, I want to thank Dr Andrea Wendling for making this podcast a key priority of our program and for allowing me the flexibility to interview all of these different individuals. There were many others that I interviewed for this particular podcast that you didn't hear today and I want to thank all of them. I want to thank Steve Barnett and Sandusky for taking time away from being a CEO to talk to me. It's always a pleasure to meet with him and this was no exception. I want to thank Dr Klee for also taking his lunch hour to give me a call and talk to me about his program. I also want to thank Ray. Ray and I spoke for hours and hours and it was one of the most powerful conversations I've had to date. It was such a privilege to hear his story and for him to share his story with all of you and be so vulnerable. Ray, we thank you for all that you've done and are continuing to do in your sobriety and all the people that you've impacted with your story, your life, and your care. Thank you to all of you. The opioid crisis doesn't seem to have an end in sight and every year the results and the statistics seem to be staggering as to the level of need and the level of care that is needed to combat this issue. With that, if you are considering a career in healthcare or you're considering a career in criminal justice, then I have one simple thing to say to you. Please consider making rural your mission. Music today was provided by Bryan Eggers. Find Bryan's music on Spotify, Facebook, and Youtube. 

In this episode, Dr. Barnett discusses their new cardiac rehab program, how it relates to pulmonary rehab programs, the financial risk, innovation, and resources necessary for this new program, and the future of COPD care McKenzie Health System is a critical access hospital in Sandusky, Michigan. Dr. Steve Barnett, President and CEO of McKenzie Health System, began his career in health care as a respiratory therapist before receiving a bachelor’s in nursing from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Dr. Barnett received a master’s degree in anesthesia and practiced that for many years before getting more involved in administrative work. Dr. Barnett eventually transitioned to the CEO role of a critical access hospital and went back and received his doctorate in health care administration.

Pump5’s Steve Barnett comes all the way fro California to talk to Bill, oh and the other podcasts too.

This week we are discussing two must read books before Labor Day.  We begin the show with Danny Lyon, author of  The Colour of My Underwear is Blue.  With over 60 marathons and 20 years of business experience,Danny Lyon shares why people create such varying levels of business and personal success. Lyon reveals the secrets of the success "high-flyers", the "turnaround artists", the "comfort zone dwellers", and the "give-ups". No matter where you are in your life right now, Lyon sheds light on how you may be holding yourself back and what it takes to get out of your own way.  Next, we meet with Steve Barnett, author of Gumption - Taking Bubba Gump from Movie to Restaurant.  Written in a cinematic style, this book is about the creation, growth, and sale of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. The concept began when Paramount Pictures reached out to see if there was interest in creating a restaurant based on the movie Forrest Gump. It is also the personal story of the author’s growth as a CEO and creator of restaurant concepts. A host of situations are described such as restaurant concept creation, high stakes boardroom confrontations, and escaping corrupt officials in foreign lands. The narrative is partly an unvarnished peak behind the everyday scenes of restaurants, movie studios, and Wall Street. There is also an almost step-by-step recounting of how the Bubba Gump concept and others were created and operated. Lessons can be learned on unorthodox methods used in moving from traditional approaches to untried ways of doing business.    

On this weeks program Chris talks to fellow YarraBUG Radio presenter Steve Barnett about bike packing 300km+ from home to North East Victoria and then riding the 200km Alpine Classic. He discusses his inspiration starting with the short film, From the Doorstep, using Maprogress for personal rides, using a spot tracker, becoming your own dot watcher, building confidence, Curve Cycling flash packing, using rail trails to base a adventure on, basic equipment like frame bags, handle bar rolls, planning a itinerary vs. wandering, riding to conditions and letting people know where you're going & duration. Useful apps include MapOut (apple), Strava and Ride With GPSLocal news includes City of Yarra announcing Wellington Street Bike Lanes Stage 2, 2019 Bike Rave and World Naked Bike Ride returning to Melbourne on 16 March 2019.

This week we are celebrating Rural Health Leadership Radio™’s 2-year anniversary!  Yes!  Rural Health Leadership Radio™ is two years old! To celebrate, we are going to review the “Top 10” most listened to episodes, with a “Top 10 Count Down.” We also have a few special announcements! Announcement #1:  Rural Health Leadership Radio™’s mission is to engage rural health leaders in conversations, learning and research.  To achieve our mission, Rural Health Leadership Radio™ has become a non-profit organization, and just recently, achieved 501(c) (3) status!  A great accomplishment that will greatly assist us in achieving our mission! Announcement #2:  Rural Health Leadership Radio™ has just published a book!  What Rural Health Leaders are Saying is a summary of the inaugural year of Rural Health Leadership Radio™, filled with a collection of ideas and best practices from exceptional rural health leaders FOR rural health leaders.  Guests include Alan Morgan, R.D. Williams, Brock Slabach, Kris Allen, Steve Barnett and many, many more!  Proceeds from book sales will all go directly to Rural Health Leadership Radio™ to help us fulfill our mission. Announcement #3:  Rural Health Leadership Radio™ is headed to Australia! Will you come join us?  In Episode # 97, we had a conversation with Mark Diamond, the CEO of the National Rural Health Alliance of Australia, and he invited all Rural Health Leadership Radio™ listeners to come join them for their bi-annual conference in March 2019.  So, we’re going!  In fact, with Mark’s assistance, we are putting together Rural Health Leadership Study Tour AUSRALIA.  This 2-week trip to the land down under includes several visits to rural hospitals and clinics, two conferences, and along the way, we’ll do some sight-seeing.  If you are at all interested, please send me an email today to bill@billauxier.com.  The trip is the last half of March, and space is limited, so be one of the first to confirm so you won’t be left out.

Entramos de lleno en los 90 y seguimos en la onda post apocalíptica. Víctor nos habla hoy de esta curiosa cinta -una de las tres producidas por la revista de género Fangoria- en la que los supervivientes de un desastre atómico viven bajo tierra conectados a una realidad virtual que recrea sus sueños preferidos. Mientras tanto, en la superficie un grupo de mutantes caníbales liderados por un misterioso vidente capturan a mujeres para reproducirse. Es ahí donde acaba nuestra protagonista, que huye de su cómoda vida virtual para acompañar a un forajido interpretado por Bruce Campbell. Violencia, maquillajes de la KNB y Angus Scrimm como villano en el podcast pertinente.

Welcome to The Shaun Tabatt Show! In this episode I speak with For King & Country's Joel Smallbone about his powerful new movie PRICELESS. About the Film:  Inspired by true events, PRICELESS is a powerful drama/thriller about James Stevens who was, at one time, a good man with a great life -- but that was then and this is now. After the tragic death of his wife and losing custody of his little girl, James is at the darkest crossroad of his life. Angry, desperate, and unable to hold down a steady job, he agrees to drive a box truck on a shady, one-time trip cross country for cash -- no questions asked. But when he discovers what he is delivering is actually who, he is compelled to save two beautiful and frightened sisters who are unaware of the danger that awaits them. Can love, strength, and faith redefine his past and change the course of his future? This unlikely hero risks it all to save these women, confront the forces that oppose him and ultimately discover the life he was meant to live. From the creative minds behind the two-time Grammy Award-winning band for KING & COUNTRY, PRICELESS stars Joel Smallbone (for KING & COUNTRY), Bianca Santos (THE DUFF), Amber Midthunder (“Longmire”) with Jim Parrack (SUICIDE SQUAD, “True Blood”) and David Koechner (ANCHORMAN, “The Goldbergs”). PRICELESS is the first film from the Smallbone Brothers. Ben Smallbone directs from the script by Chris Dowling & Tyler Poelle. The film was produced by Steve Barnett (300). David Smallbone and Luke Smallbone serve as executive producers, and Jacob “Cubbie” Fink is co-producer. Roadside Attractions will release the film in theatres nationwide on October 14. About Joel Smallbone:  Joel is part of the Christian pop duo, For King & Country. He has appeared in PRICELESS (2016) and Like a Country Song (2014). Connect with Joel: PricelessTheMovie.com ForKingAndCountry.com Facebook Twitter (@JoelSmallbone) Instagram For additional show notes, visit ShaunTabatt.com/083.  

Taking a hard look at accessibility and learning about the principles of inclusive design. Kenneth & Len are joined by Steve Barnett and Justin Slack to talk about building accessible frontends. We quickly learn that building an accessible website doesn't always mean catering for people with permanent disabilities. We learn about inclusive design as well, thinking about temporary impedances to using websites, color blindness and even catering for slow internet connections and HTML email. Steve & Justin both have considerable experience building websites and they share a goal of promoting and standardizing the practice of building accessible frontends, just like we've defaulted to building responsive interfaces. They recently hosted the only Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the continent in Cape Town where they helped the participants get to grip with what it takes to make an accessible website. Best of all, it is significantly less work than anyone thought. Hope you enjoy the show! Follow Steve online: - https://twitter.com/maxbarners - http://naga.co.za Follow Justin online: - https://twitter.com/justin_r_slack - http://www.justinslack.com Here are some resources mentioned during the show: * Global Accessibility Awareness Day - http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/ * The GAAD Workshop - http://ctfeds.github.io/Global-Accessibility-Awareness-Day-2016/ * The resources page on the GAAD site - http://ctfeds.github.io/Global-Accessibility-Awareness-Day-2016/resources/ * CTFEDs Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/ctfeds/ * Styling broken images - https://bitsofco.de/styling-broken-images/ * Ultimate guide to styled alt text in email - https://litmus.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-styled-alt-text-in-email * Design for Real Life - https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-real-life * PixelUp! 2016 - https://pixelup.co.za/ * Data Visualization with Jeff Fletcher - https://soundcloud.com/zadevchat/episode-37-data-visualization * VoiceOver for OS X - http://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/voiceover/ * VoiceOver for iOS - http://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/voiceover/ * Get started with Talkback on Android - https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6283677?hl=en * Accessibility Developer Tools (for Chrome) - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/accessibility-developer-t/fpkknkljclfencbdbgkenhalefipecmb * WAVE Evaluation Tool (for Chrome) - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wave-evaluation-tool/jbbplnpkjmmeebjpijfedlgcdilocofh And finally our picks Kenneth: * GAAD in the Ember Community - http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/05/17/global-accessibility-awareness-day.html * ember-a11y - https://github.com/ember-a11y/ember-a11y * f.lux - https://justgetflux.com/ * Night shift on iOS - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202613 Len: * Datomic - http://www.datomic.com/ Steve: * Tenon - https://tenon.io/ Justin: * NVDA Screen Reader - http://www.nvaccess.org/ * HTML5 Outliner - https://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/ Thanks for listening! Stay in touch: * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes

Want to sell your Rochester Area Home? Get a FREE home value report.Want to buy a Rochester Area Home? Search all homes for sale.It takes many different moving parts for a team to be successful like ours has been. We want to introduce you to our team today and give you a little bit of information about each of these people who work together to make our team successful. Let’s start with Brad Saarela, our team leader at Andrews Realty Group and Somerset Lending. Over the last 15 years, he has helped over 1,000 families and is looking to help even more in the future. He enjoys spending time with his wife and children, listening to music, and reading about economics.Travis Keck is a buyer’s agent and listing specialist, as well as a licensed mortgage banker. He is from Piatkowski, Michigan and brings a small-town mentality to the big suburbs. In his free time, he likes to hang out with his wife and play catch with his son.Ryan Dillon is a listing and buyer specialist, as well as a licensed home builder. Ryan brings a unique perspective to the home buying and selling process. In his free time, he likes to kayak and bike in and around the Rochester area. Jason Patrick is a buyer and listing specialist, as well as the recipient of the customer service award for three years running. He has a wife and three kids, and likes to write music in his spare time.Miranda Kelle is a buyer’s agent and inside sales rep. With her passion and integrity, your home transaction will be an enjoyable experience. In her spare time, Miranda raises show pigs.Nick Valitutti is a buyer’s agent and inside sales rep. Nick is a highly-dedicated team member that places emphasis on your goals. On the weekends, he likes to ride dirt bikes and compete in motocross competitions.Ben Schomer is a buyer’s agent, inside sales rep, and mortgage banker. He can personally answer all of your questions from A to Z. In his spare time, he enjoys running on the trails in Rochester and coaching basketball.Steve Barnett is our team banker at Somerset Lending. His pledge to you is to give you a quick and precise pre-approval. In his spare time, you can find him listening to music or out on the golf course.That’s just an introduction to the great members of our team, who rank in the top 5% in Oakland County. If you have questions for any of us or need help with anything, give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you!

Welcome to our November show. Tinsel, lights and mulled wine ...  CHRISTMAS!!! To round off 2014, we have a short show for you but in it we say "farewell" to The Signal podcast and we have an update from Steve Barnett about his wonderful carved items and his future plans - we think you'll be as excited as us!   Until January 2015; we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Odile and Wendy

Welcome to our November show. Tinsel, lights and mulled wine ...  CHRISTMAS!!! To round off 2014, we have a short show for you but in it we say "farewell" to The Signal podcast and we have an update from Steve Barnett about his wonderful carved items and his future plans - we think you'll be as excited as us!   Until January 2015; we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Odile and Wendy

http://www.stayroasted.com/bgmt Facebook.com/badguymuaythai youtube.com/officialBGMT https://www.facebook.com/steven.barnett.9https://www.facebook.com/InfernoTPC https://www.youtube.com/user/infernotpc Steve Barnett is a black belt in brazilian jiu jitsu under the tutelage of kurt pellegrino and marcelo garcia. Steve talks about the pura vida foundating, traveling, training, and competing in the up coming IBJJF Pan Am's. Steve is the head coach and trainer at the Inferno Training and performance center in marlboro New jersey.

Welcome to our March show! This month Wendy speaks with Steve Barnett about how he is helping keeping The 'Verse alive through his hip flasks available via his store on Etsy and also to Natalie Jones, one of the organisers for CSTS Wales who are kicking off 2014's Can't Stop The Serenity season with their event in Blackwood on 14 April. Enjoy!

Welcome to our March show! This month Wendy speaks with Steve Barnett about how he is helping keeping The 'Verse alive through his hip flasks available via his store on Etsy and also to Natalie Jones, one of the organisers for CSTS Wales who are kicking off 2014's Can't Stop The Serenity season with their event in Blackwood on 14 April. Enjoy!