Podcast appearances and mentions of steven robles

In this episode of the Maverick Podcast, DJ Maverick interviews Steven Robles, a video and podcast creator, and co-host of Primary Tech. They discuss topics such as being a jack of all trades, the importance of video in podcasting, finding a co-host, the behind-the-scenes work of podcasting, and the use of AI tools in content creation. Stephen Robles: https://beard.fm https://primarytech.fm https://www.youtube.com/@beardfm https://www.youtube.com/@PrimaryTechShow Maverick Podcast:

Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.   Justin Smulison interviews RIMS Risk Manager of the Year 2024, Steve Robles, Los Angeles County. They discuss how his career progress how he negotiated a position to have a direct report to the County CEO and Board of Supervisors, as an Assistant CEO over Risk Management, and why he feels it was necessary to have a direct report with the strategic decision-maker. Steve tells of the importance of sharing knowledge with a network and how he built his coworkers to be his succession to be ready when he left. Finally, he leaves you with his advice for building your career upon your passion. Listen for wise risk management philosophy. Key Takeaways:y [:01] About RIMS and RIMScast. [:14] RISKWORLD 2024 is the yv w now in San Diego, from May 5th through May 8th. Use the RIMS Events App to organize your sessions, meetings, and other fun and educational experiences at RISKWORLD. [:30] About today's episode of RIMScast. This is a fantastic episode! I will be joined by RIMS Risk Manager of the Year 2024, Steve Robles. There's so much to discuss with him! [:56] There's a good chance that you are listening to this episode while you are with us in sunny San Diego, California during RISKWORLD 2024. Let's start with May 6th. In the morning on the Main Stage at 8:00 a.m., we have an Opening Keynote from Peter Diamandis. [1:14] At noon, PST, we've got the Main Stage Leadership Keynote, An Afternoon with Marlee Matlin, Academy Award-winning actress, director, and activist. The Spencer RIMS Risk Management Challenge Final Round will be held in Ballroom 6A at 1:15 p.m. [1:34] On the morning of Tuesday, May 7th we've got the Spencer 5K Fun Run, sponsored by Sedgwick. That event will be held at 200 Marina Park Way. At 8:00 a.m., we have our Industry Breakfast Keynote from Evan Greenberg, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chubb Limited and Chubb Group. [1:54] On Wednesday, May 8th, at 3:00 p.m., on the Main Stage, our Conference Finale and Closing Keynote will be delivered by entrepreneur, author, TV personality, and Shark, Daymond John. Each day there will be sessions at the DE&I Studio, the Global Studio, the Innovation Hub, the Thought Leader Theater, and the Wellness Center, in addition to the breakout session rooms. [2:21] Check out the full itinerary at RIMS.org/RISKWORLD, and the RIMS Events App. If you have any questions or want to pick up some wonderful RIMS swag, check us out at RIMS HQ. [2:39] The RIMS Risk Manager of the Year program aims to raise the profile of the risk management profession and the outstanding programs the honorees have implemented within their organizations. The program was initiated in 1977 and the Risk Management Honor Roll was added in 1981. [2:56] The 2024 RIMS Risk Manager of the Year is Steven Robles. Steve was recognized for his work as the Assistant CEO for the County of Los Angeles. He's featured in the special Awards Edition of RIMS Risk Management magazine. On Wednesday, May 8th, at 2:10 p.m., Steve and I will be at the Global Studio to extend this dialog. [3:21] Right now, we're going to have a lot of fun! We're going to talk about highlights of the past year and his career and what it means to be Assistant CEO for a major county in the United States of America. RIMS Risk Manager of the Year 2024, Steven Robles, welcome to RIMSCast! [3:56] Steve is excited to be a guest on RIMScast! Steve says it's extremely humbling to be RIMS 2024 Risk Manager of the Year. He has spent his entire career in risk management and to be honored like this is just an amazing feeling. It's wonderful to know all the people who have helped him in his career; Steve shares his award with them. We cannot do our jobs by ourselves. [4:56] The Awards edition of Risk Management magazine has a wonderful article by Justin that details Steve's career, especially the last couple of years and his work at LA County. The article's link is in this episode's show notes. [5:30] Steve was with San Bernardino County for almost 23 years; it was a lot of fun. He started his risk management career as a safety officer there. He worked with the Sheriff's department to ensure they were safe when they raided drug labs. He worked with all kinds of wonderful professionals. That's what got him hooked. [6:41] The department Steve worked in at San Bernardino County was the Risk Management Department. From Safety, Steve progressed to Workers' Comp, Liability, Insurance, Indemnification, Contracts, and Finance. As he built his skill set and supervisory experience, he realized he could run the department. After 10 years, his goal was to head the department. [8:58] Justin points out a great takeaway for the audience: Build your skill set, build your network, and when the time is right, present yourself for promotion. [9:33] Steve's friends told him not to take the job at LA County. Steve likes to organize and he saw there was disorder to organize. In his home, he likes to do tile work. He saw the opportunity to do some good for a place that was a good fit for him. Steve loves LA County. It was a major seven-day-a-week commitment. He got his family to buy into it. Fortunately, his kids were grown. [12:40] RIMS plug time! For RIMS Virtual Workshops, visit RIMS.org/virtualworkshops to see the full calendar. Virtual workshops are in session, beginning in June, starting with Leveraging Data and Analytics for Continuous Risk Management. That's a three-part course that begins on June 6th. We've got Fundamentals of Insurance on June 11th and 12th. [13:03] We've got Fundamentals of Risk Management on June 18th and 19th and we've got Captives as an Alternate Risk Financing Technique on June 26th and 27th. More information about these workshops and others is on the RIMS Virtual Workshops page and a link is in this episode's show notes. [13:20] If you attend RISKWORLD, be sure to download the RIMS Events App. This is different from the RIMS App which is available only to members. The RIMS Events App will help you keep sessions organized, take notes, communicate with other attendees, and a whole lot of other great features because there's so much happening. This is a great way to stay on schedule. [13:58] Back to the interview! Steve describes the extremely extensive interview process for the position at LA County. The panel and questions were pretty standard about Steve's experience and philosophy on building a risk management program. Once he made the first cut, he had to interview with each elected official on the Board of Supervisors and their Chief of Staff. [14:52] There were five Supervisors. He spent about two hours with each of them, over a week. After they approved him, he sat with the CEO. He wanted to have a direct report to the CEO. They met for about two hours. By the time he started his first day, it felt like he had worked a week. [16:06] Steve says the CEO was great. Steve learned from the CEO during the interview that he had worked with Steve's mom in a previous job and she had trained him on a lot of things in personnel! Steve said getting to know the board members and the CEO on a human level helped him a lot. Steve told his mom and she said, “Oh I know him, tell him, Hi!” [17:34] Justin recalls when he got an internship at a major television network because his grandmother knew the mother of the marketing director. Leverage every family connection you can! Steve's wife also has a family connection with one of the Board Supervisors and he name-dropped her as well. [18:13] Steve is easy to get along with. He tells how that helped him to bring people along to where he wanted to go on a program or initiative. He knew he needed other people on board. He started by building a story. Risk managers need to be good storytellers. Use humor to put people at ease and allow them to share their true thoughts. A better idea may come up in discussion. [19:40] Steve calls this conversation controlled chaos. [20:17] Steve made privacy and cyber a top concern. These concerns went hand-in-hand. One of the issues at Los Angeles County was that their technology was extremely disjointed. Seven computer systems housed seven different data sets to administer risk management and the county council program. [20:49] None of the systems communicated with each other but all systems had the same type of personal data and connected through the internet. That made seven different exposures. Steven developed a comprehensive system to consolidate the seven systems. Steven paid attention to the cyber aspects and privacy aspects of managing how the data got out. [21:34] This was in 2013. Offices involved were the CEO, Health System, Jail System, Social Services System, and other county systems, which had the same challenges. Their first milestone was when they had a breach! It helped to have something occur so Steven could build from the chaos. It was a wake-up call. [22:48] The breach springboarded the county departments to collaborate in their efforts to control cyber. Steven tells why the breach didn't threaten his job. He always says, “I don't know what's going to happen but I know we need to be prepared for something happening. And this is how we prepare for these types of things.” [24:13] That means we need to have an emergency communication policy with collaboration on handling disasters. We need to prepare for what we don't know yet. As emerging risks came up, Steve brought them up. He brought up cyber and privacy long before there was a data breach. There was an emphasis on how they would respond to it. Steve also brought up AI years ago. [24:49] Steve doesn't know yet how AI is going to be a risk to us, but it's going to be a risk and we need to prepare for it. [24:58] One more RIMS Plug break! Webinars! Our friends from TÜV SÜD GRC will return on May 23rd with Respond to Emerging Risks with a Winning Property Loss Control Formula. On June 6th, Evident ID makes its RIMS Webinar debut with Uncovering Hidden Risks in Your Third-Party Risk Management Program. [25:32] On June 13th, our friends at Riskonnect return to present Unlocking the Value of Business Continuity and Insurable Risk Management. That's a great line-up for the next couple of months! Register at RIMS.org/Webinars. Registration is complimentary for RIMS members! [25:51] The RIMS ERM Conference 2024 will be held on November 18th and 19th in Boston, Massachusetts. RIMS continues to present the best conference agenda by featuring the most engaged and knowledgeable risk professionals leading the discussions. [26:07] RIMS wants to hear from you. Submit your session today. We've extended the deadline! A link is in this episode's show notes. The best submissions will address current and future issues facing ERM practitioners and provide takeaways for an audience of risk professionals, business leaders, students, governmental officers, legal professionals, and more. [26:29] You must keep it relevant to ERM and Strategic Enterprise Risk Management. Remember, product sales pitches are not acceptable nor appropriate as part of the RIMS ERM Conference Education Program. [26:50] Back to the interview with RIMS Risk Manager of the Year 2024, Steve Robles! Cyber and privacy kind of define the challenges of Los Angeles County because it's so big. The size of the organization is the challenge. There are 100K employees and a county budget of $46 billion. All that money is being spent somewhere. When money is being spent, a risk is associated with it. [27:36] The risk could be where to invest the money without losing it, to the costs of deploying staff. When you see analytics pointing to some future risks, how do you get the channel open to communicate it to the right people and get their buy-in to deploy risk prevention tactics? [28:38] Steve connected to his risk professional counterparts in other counties. He would call his counterparts in Orange County, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernadino, San Francisco, and other counties around. “Have you seen this trend?” or “I think we've got fraud here, what do you guys think and what have you done about it?” They would share information on many topics.  [29:17] If it was in LA County, either other counties saw it first or they were trying to find out how LA County dealt with it. Steve would tap into his network of public sector risk professionals that went back to San Bernadino and the subject matter experts the county employed. He has known them for decades. They learned at the same time with different views of the same experience. [30:19] It broadens you to meet with other risk managers who came up through different paths and have different viewpoints that enrich you if you take in that information so you can make good executive decisions. [31:05] Steve had the greatest of all worlds at LA County because he had a great direct reporting relationship with the CEO and Board of Supervisors. He sees that other public sector entities do not have the same relationship between the risk managers and the CEOs. They report to a lower-level manager or human resources. [31:38] Risk management should be a strategic partnership for the direction of the organization and the person you report to should have a direct influence on how that strategy moves forward. [32:21] Steve's former coworkers were his succession. Every year in LA County, Steve brought his staff together to help put together the strategic initiative. It brought them together as a team and they enriched each others' knowledge base. As time progressed, many of them became qualified in all aspects of risk management. Steve was planning his succession from Day 1. [33:26] Now, LA County has an interim risk manager, Destiny Castro, who was Steve's operations manager. What Steve told Destiny is “You can do this job. What you'll be surprised by is how fast things come at you. They come at you fast and there's not really a day off! You're the decision-maker.” On May 8th, at 2:10 p.m., please go over to the Global Studio and check out RIMScast Live for a special session with RIMS Risk Manager of the Year 2024, Steve Robles. Steve received the award for his fantastic work with LA County. We will discuss his career and we will give all of you a chance to ask him anything that's on your mind. [34:40] Steve has participated in a lot of the events of the RIMS LA Chapter. It's not just public entities there; it's rewarding to see so many perspectives represented by private entities. Steve feels relaxed there with his clan who share his experiences. There are good side discussions that go on with the vendors as well as the members. [35:50] Steve has spoken at some universities that have either established or up-and-coming risk and safety programs they are trying to expand. The students are fantastic and have great questions. Steve explains that risk management is not insurance; it's exciting. Anything bad you see in the news, you're a part of it! [37:28] Steve's advice for the next generation of risk managers: “Have a clear career path. Find your passion; what you're passionate about is where you should go. There are so many different directions you can go in risk management. My passion was organizing the mess; I wanted a position where I could put those pieces together. But there's so much more you can do.” [38:02] “If you like contracts or if you like dealing with the human aspect of it you can go into claims. You take your personality and understand yourself and then find something that fosters that in your risk management career.” [38:41] Steve says to enjoy yourself. Look at challenges as a game, as a chess match. Something is happening on the right side of the board and you need to position yourself to corner that risk, person, or whatever. It calms you down so you can think clearly about the steps that are going to be needed to win that game. [39:28] Steve, I want to congratulate you again on being named RIMS Risk Manager of the Year 2024. Do you have your speech prepared? (Steve is ready!) We're going to see you onstage on the morning of May 6th and spread the love! [39:58] Special thanks again to RIMS Risk Manager of the Year 2024 Steve Robles for joining us. Steve and I will lead a RIMScast Live session on Wednesday, May 8th at 2:10 p.m. in the Global Studio during RISKWORLD. Come and ask the Risk Manager of the Year your burning question! A link to the RIMS Risk Management Magazine Awards Edition is in this episode's show notes. [40:25] Registered attendees for RISKWORLD should use the RIMS Events App. That will get you where you need to go when you're at RISKWORLD. [40:32] RIMS Plug Time again! Go to the App Store and download the RIMS App. This is an exclusive members-only benefit with all sorts of RIMS resources and coverage. It's different from the RIMS Events App. Everybody loves the RIMS App! [41:05] You can sponsor a RIMScast episode for this, our weekly show, or a dedicated episode. Links to sponsored episodes are in our show notes. RIMScast has a global audience of risk and insurance professionals, legal professionals, students, business leaders, C-Suite executives, and more. Let's collaborate! Contact pd@rims.org for more information. [41:48] Become a RIMS member and get access to the tools, thought leadership, and network you need to succeed. Visit RIMS.org/membership or email membershipdept@RIMS.org for more information. [42:06] Risk Knowledge is the RIMS searchable content library that provides relevant information for today's risk professionals. Materials include RIMS executive reports, survey findings, contributed articles, industry research, benchmarking data, and more. [42:22] For the best reporting on the profession of risk management, read Risk Management Magazine at RMMagazine.com. It is written and published by the best minds in risk management. Justin Smulison is the Business Content Manager at RIMS. You can email Justin at Content@RIMS.org. [42:43] Thank you for your continued support and engagement on social media channels! We appreciate all your kind words. Listen every week! Stay safe!   Mentioned in this Episode: RISKWORLD 2024 — San Diego, CA | May 5–8, 2024 — Visit the Global Studio May 8 at 2:10 pm PST for RIMScast Live! with Steven Robles and Justin Smulison RISKWORLD Pre-Conference Workshops RISKWORLD Speakers NEW FOR MEMBERS! RIMS Mobile App RIMS DEI Council Spencer Educational Foundation — Grants Page RIMS-Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP) RIMS-CRMP Virtual Workshops RIMS ERM Conference 2024 — Nov 18-19 — Boston, MA — Call For Session Submissions by May 13. 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RIMS Virtual Workshops On-Demand Webinars RIMS-Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP) RIMS-CRMP Stories — New interview featuring Manny Padilla! Spencer Educational Foundation “Leveraging Insurance and Risk Management to Address Political Risk” — RIMS Executive Report   RIMS Events, Education, and Services: RIMS Risk Maturity Model® RIMS Events App Apple | Google Play   Sponsor RIMScast: Contact sales@rims.org or pd@rims.org for more information.   Want to Learn More? Keep up with the podcast on RIMS.org and listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.   Have a question or suggestion? Email: Content@rims.org.   Join the Conversation! Follow @RIMSorg on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.   About our guest: Steve Robles: Assistant Chief Executive Officer at Los Angeles County Tweetables (Edited For Social Media Use): I have spent my entire career in risk management and to be honored like this is just an amazing feeling. It's wonderful to know all the people who have helped me in my career; I really am sharing this with everybody. — Steve Robles   We cannot do our jobs by ourselves. — Steve Robles   Risk managers need to be good storytellers. — Steve Robles   Risk management should be a strategic partnership for the direction of the organization and the person you report to should have a direct influence on how that strategy moves forward. — Steve Robles

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Welcome to the 35th episode of the vastly popular podcast known as Super Awkward Funcast. In this excitingly exhausting episode Elle Latham is joined again by Steven Robles to discuss the dystopia we live in and how much worse it could get. This is the most researched episode of the show and it's not as funny as it should be considering how serious these agendas being shoved down our collective throat are and will be. Strap in for the most awkward episode ever in which we get into it about COVID-19, the aftermath of it, the politics surrounding it, the businesses thriving because of the quarantine, the HR 6666 TRACE Act, the loss of privileges that will continue after the pandemic, the propaganda in the media, the social media censorship and more. NOTE: When asked about the "other purposes" language in the HR 6666-COVID-19 Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act, Rep. Bobby Rush responded with this statement on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RepBobbyRush/status/1261009679288762370 No response on the question concerning non-profit organizations.   Steven's Facebook: World Dominations Designs Steven's Twitter: @WDPDickson   Elle's YouTube: akaElleLatham Elle's Twitter: @ElleLatham     SOURCES:   H.R.6666 - COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act   Update on California Pandemic Roadmap   Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology   WO2020060606 - CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA   Microsoft earnings show strategic pivot has paid off amid COVID-19 pressures   Event 201 Pandemic Exercise: Segment 4, Communications Discussion and Epilogue Video   Virus Outbreak: Taiwan warned WHO, China on virus last year   China knew about risk of human transmission in January   PBS Newshour clip about Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation   Donald H. Rumsfeld Named Chairman of Gilead Sciences   People are racing to buy face masks amid the coronavirus outbreak, but they probably won't protect you from illness   Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab with U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research   Coronavirus Gives a Dangerous Boost to DARPA’s Darkest Agenda   Robot reminds visitors of safe distancing measures in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park   Cherry Health, CBS News Slammed for Adding Staffers to Coronavirus Testing Line     If you’re new to the show, please spare a follow and leave a comment. A new episode is posted once a month now so you’ll never miss the latest big events and our awkward fun takes on them! Subscribe today to keep up to date on the podcast!     As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride..

Welcome to the #Coronapocalypse where we have no jobs or work from home, corporations just got trillions of dollars from the government out of thin air, there’s never any toilet paper, no touching is allowed and almost all our civil liberties are gone. In this episode, Steven Robles and Elle Latham talk about this as well as what they’re watching during the quarantine and also manage to discuss how bad Joe Biden is at running for President. Enjoy and share!      Steven's Facebook: World Dominations Designs Steven's Twitter: @WDPDickson   Elle's YouTube: akaElleLatham Elle's Twitter: @ElleLatham     SOURCES:   Event 201 Pandemic Exercise: Segment 1, Intro and Medical Countermeasures (MCM) Discussion   NYPD’S AGGRESSIVE POLICING RISKS SPREADING THE CORONAVIRUS     RELATED:   YouTube will remove videos falsely linking COVID-19 to 5G     If you’re new to the show, please spare a follow and leave a comment. A new episode is posted once a month now so you’ll never miss the latest big events and our awkward fun takes on them! Subscribe today to keep up to date on the podcast!     As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride..

In this brand new episode, Steven Robles and Elle Latham discuss the LA transit again, Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, the status of the Democratic primaries, the #Oscars, Joe Biden’s weird behavior and COVID-19 (the virus that will kill us all).   Steven's Facebook: World Dominations Designs Steven's Twitter: @WDPDickson   Elle's YouTube: akaElleLatham Elle's Twitter: @ElleLatham     If you’re new to the show, please spare a follow and leave a comment. A new episode is posted once a month now so you’ll never miss the latest big events and our awkward fun takes on them! Subscribe today to keep up to date on the podcast!     As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...

Here’s the annual Super Awkward Funcast Radio Play of “My Dinner With Andre” by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory This is a transcript of the film from 1981. It’s about two old friends catching up at a dinner and exploring what living means to them.   CAST OF CHARACTERS   Elle Latham as Wallace Shawn and Bartender Elle's Twitter Elle's YouTube   and   Steven Robles as Andre Gregory and Waiter Steven's Facebook   *This copyrighted work is merely being broadcasted for educational purposes **There were a few mistakes in the reading but that's what happens when you do one full take. It's called awkward for a reason.Special thanks to Steven Robles and a final shout out to YOU, our wonderful listeners. We appreciate you so much! Now, go SUBSCRIBE already. What are you waiting for? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and enjoy the show! And again, as always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...  

In this exciting new episode, Steven Robles and Elle Latham present a very professional and rehearsed reading of the Impeachment-worthy transcript of the phone conversation between President Donald Trump (voiced by Steven) and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (voiced by Elle). In addition, we cover the Emmys and give our thoughts on the controversy surrounding the new #Joker movie.    Stick around until the end for a sneak preview of the interviews Elle conducted with several people on Wall Street in New York early September. It’s an update of a viral video from YouTube by David Hoffman (original video below) in which Elle uses more up to date questions to get to the root of what is now the (too much) information society.   **Please turn down the volume for the loud clips at 1:04-1:05 in this episode.    Steven's Facebook: World Dominations Designs Steven's Twitter: @WDPDickson   Elle's YouTube: akaElleLatham Elle's Twitter: @ElleLatham       SOURCES:   Joe Biden Admits to Getting Ukrainian Prosecutor who Investigated Son Fired   Full Transcript of Trump/Zelenskyy Phone Call   1979 Wall Street Interviews - Are They Any Different From Now?   First Responders Urge 9/11 Investigation — Sept. 11, 2019 Press Conference   9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-on-waste/       As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...  

In this uncut episode, Elle Latham, Your Humble Hostess (@ElleLatham), and Steven Robles, Returning Guest (@WDPDickson and World Domination Designs) discuss the “suicide” of #JeffreyEpstein, the conspiracy behind the pedophile ring he took the fall for running, the #2020Election and how the Democrats are doing, #Billboard Hot 100 and how it’s evolved, our favorite shows right now, the comments sections on #Twitter and #YouTube & more.   If you’re new to the show, please spare a follow and leave a comment. A new episode is posted once a month now so you’ll never miss the latest big events and our awkward fun takes on them! Subscribe today to keep up to date on the podcast!       SOURCES:   Hillary Clinton on immigration   Bill Clinton on immigration   Barack Obama on immigration   Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers full book online   Mind Control Victim Awarded $1 Million   Franklin Cover Up Scandal   Too Big To Fail Jeffrey Epstein Series-MintPressNews       As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...

In this episode Elle Latham welcomes returning guest Steven Robles and new special guest Daniel Rosales to the show so we can discuss the #Emmys nominations of #LeavingNeverland (

In this exciting June episode (barely) of the podcast, we celebrate the 6th Anniversary of the show with Steve Kaufmann and Steven Robles. We discussed everything from popular Moon landing conspiracy theories that have somehow thrived online to the latest episode of “Who Wants To Be The Next President of the United States ft. #JoeBiden, #ElizabethWarren, #BernieSanders and #KamalaHarris” otherwise known as the first 2020 #DemDebate Nights 1 and 2. Come for the awkward, stay for the fun!       Starring: Elle Latham as Your Humble Hostess (@ElleLatham)   with   Special Guest: Steve Kaufmann, a wrestling pundit (and the 2nd guest from the 1st episode!) who runs multiple YouTube channels (@SteveKaufmann)   Check out his YouTube channel here: Steve Kaufmann's Channel   Special Guest: Steven Robles (World Domination Designs)       If you’re new to the show, please spare a follow and leave a comment. A new episode is posted once a month now so you’ll never miss the latest big events and our awkward fun takes on them! Subscribe today to keep up to date on the podcast!    Big thanks to my special guests for joining the Anniversary episode today! I couldn’t keep the show going without my awesome guests over the years! It means so much to me that you have all put your faith in me to share our wild and interesting debates about various topics!          As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...    

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In this all new jam-packed episode, Elle Latham is joined by returning guest Steven Robles for a spirited debate about #JulianAssange’s arrest and what it means for the 1st Amendment, #JussieSmollett’s get out of jail free card and what will happen next in his ongoing case, the new streaming competition from Disney + and what it will mean for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu et al. and the shit show that is the ongoing #2020Presidential race as well as many other political and pop culture topics.   Starring: Elle Latham as Your Humble Hostess (@ElleLatham) with Special Guest: Steven Robles World Domination Designs   Strap in for a very extended episode that has a lot of topics new and old to cover. Come for the political debate and stay for the extensive discussion on #BuffytheVampireSlayer.   *Quick note that the CNN interview with Osama bin Laden was in 1997 not 1999.   SOURCES: Collateral Murder video Julian Assange's arrest Julian Assange indictment charges CNN 1997 Osama bin Laden interview 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory 1MDB scandal explained   Thanks to Steven Robles for coming on the show.   And a final shout out to YOU, our wonderful listeners. We appreciate you so much! Now, go SUBSCRIBE already. What are you waiting for?   As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...  

In this brand new episode, the podcast welcomes back Steven Robles and Edwin A. Santos and they discuss the latest news from the Oscars to the #MichaelJackson controversy that came from HBO's #LeavingNeverland to #JussieSmollett’s hate crime hoax and possible jail time to the #GreenNewDeal to the #VenezuelaCoup to #transhumanism. Starring: Elle Latham as Your Humble Hostess (@ElleLatham) with Special Guest: Steven Robles World Domination Designs Special Guest: Edwin A. Santos Edwin's Twitter Edwin's Facebook Edwin's Instagram Mad Cowgirl (2006) Full Movie   SOURCES: WarnerMedia’s handling of Kevin Tsujihara scandal under the microscope Boeing 737 crashes in Ethiopia with 157 people on board Exclusive: Grand jury returns 16 felony counts against Jussie Smollett Oprah Celebrated Her 65th Birthday With a St. Barths Getaway on David Geffen’s Yacht Hate lines? You could speed through the stadium or airport Now Apocalypse Episodes *which airs on Starz, not Showtime   Thanks to Steven Robles and Edwin A. Santos for joining me in this action-packed unedited episode.   And a final shout out to YOU, our wonderful listeners. We appreciate you so much! Now, go SUBSCRIBE already. What are you waiting for?   As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...

Welcome to the latest episode of the show where your hostess Elle Latham sits down for a chat with returning guest Steven Robles. In this episode, we discuss the Oscars intermittently along with a range of other topics from DC movies to the crowded 2020 Democratic Presidential race to the ridiculous reaction to the Gillette short film to the #CovingtonCatholic story and how the media intentionally got it wrong to the state of social media and how it’s making our lives worse. Come for the Oscars talk and stay for the soothing rain in the background.   Starring: Elle Latham as Your Humble Hostess (@ElleLatham) with Special Guest: Steven Robles World Domination Designs   SOURCES: Remember When a Dead Intern Was Found in Joe Scarborough's Office? George Carlin - advertising and bull shit Thug Cat knocks glass off table   Thanks to Steven Robles for joining me in this action-packed unedited episode.   And a final shout out to YOU, our wonderful listeners. We appreciate you so much! Now, go SUBSCRIBE already. What are you waiting for?   As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...

Here are some choice outtakes from the latest radio play, Super Awkward Staged Reading of “When Harry Met Sally” written by Nora Ephron. Steven Robles, Edwin A. Santos, Betsi Freeman and I power through the chaos. Enjoy!   And as always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...    

In the latest episode, I chat with Steven Robles about the most recent news items such as Elizabeth Warren’s “heritage”, the ongoing wars and why they won’t end, Kanye West’s appearance at the White House overshadowing the reason he was there, the Kavanaugh circus, Khashoggi’s Trump connection, the divide and conquer scheme that is identity politics, how Trump’s changing the political landscape by being a bully and more.    Starring: Elle Latham as Your Humble Hostess (@ElleLatham) with Special Guest: Steven Robles   World Domination Designs     Here’s links to the documents about Trump’s connection to Adnan Khashoggi.    The Vanity Fair article mentioned in this episode: Khashoggi's Fall   The Trump/Letterman clip played and mentioned in the episode: 1988 - Donald Trump on buying a yacht that he didnt want   The article from The Daily Pennsylvanian regarding Whartonscam: The Daily Pennsylvanian Whartonscam   Thanks to Steven Robles for joining me in a fact-based debate on the issues. Always great to have him on.    And a final shout out to YOU, our wonderful listeners. We appreciate you so much! Now, go SUBSCRIBE already. What are you waiting for?   As always, enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole and make some snacks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride...      

Premio Paulo Coelho: 1. Steven Robles, por darle gracias a dios por salvarlo de un ataque de tiburón, después que dios no lo protegió del ataque. (Noticia aquí) 2. El Rep. Brandon Smith (R-KY) por decir que el "calentamiento global" no es real porque la Tierra y Marte tienen la misma temperatura. (Noticia aquí) 3. El periódico Mail Online por reportar noticias sensacionalistas (e imprecisas) sobre "persecución cristiana". (Noticia aquí) 4. Todd Starnes y Tony Perkins por decir que el plan de Obama es meter pastores a la cárcel. (Noticia aquí) Antimorón de la semana: Paul Tjaden Noticias: http://bornagainpagan.com/other/052-national-geographic.jpg http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/08/tyler-perry-manages-to-trademark-what-would-jesus-do http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/08/in-response-to-supreme-court-democrats-introduce-bill-to-help-women-who-work-at-companies-like-hobby-lobby http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/10/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey-receives-12-emmy-nominations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4lsFLcQiHg Al Carajo: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/05/vatican-tells-australian-commission-that-it-wont-provide-all-documents-in-child-sexual-abuse-investigations http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/07/fake-buddhist-monks-have-become-a-times-square-staple http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/09/christian-pastor-who-tortured-a-child-will-spend-no-more-than-two-years-in-prison http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/10/sex-offender-pastor-supposedly-forgiven-by-god-rapes-another-child http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/10/rep-louie-gohmert-who-thinks-climate-change-is-a-hoax-explains-why-atheists-are-intellectual-inferior http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/11/after-rejecting-wiccan-huntsville-city-council-promotes-diversity-by-inviting-methodist-to-give-invocation-prayer Cita de Cierre: "A menudo se argumenta que la religión es valiosa, ya que hace que los hombres sean buenos, pero incluso si esto fuese cierto, no sería una prueba de que la religión es verdadera.[...] Santa Claus hace que los niños sean buenos precisamente de la misma manera, y sin embargo nadie se atrevería a afirmar seriamente que el hecho prueba su existencia. La defensa de la religión está llena de este tipo de imbecilidades lógicas. Los teólogos [...] de vez en cuando tienen que recurrir a sofisterías tan obvias que todo su argumentación adquiere un aire de ridículo. Incluso la religión más lógica comienza con falsas suposiciones evidentes. A menudo se argumenta a favor de esto que los hombres son tan devotos que están dispuestos a morir por la religión. Eso, por supuesto, es tan tonto como la prueba de Santa Claus. Otros hombres son tan dedicados a falsas religiones evidentes, y están igual de dispuestos a morir por ellas. Los teólogos pasan una gran parte de su tiempo y energía tratando de demostrar que las religiones por las que multitudes de hombres honestos han luchado y muerto son falsas, malas, y están en contra Dios". - Henry L. Mencken, Minority Report Participan en la discusión: @bandarrita, @angelarnal y @ManoloMatos. Puedes bajar el podcast o subscribirte en iVoox, iTunes y RSS. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ateorizar/message

Steve Robles hails from the Inland Empire east of the 15. After jobs running a record label, being a music reporter and booking some of the biggest names in music and comedy, he seeked change. He took a corporate job and after getting laid off started working with comedians and performers making posters and working at shows. Steve has an Internet radio show, The World Domination Party. He's been hosting that show for over a decade. Steve has interviewed hundreds of celebrities and also toured with a band as a road manager for 5 years. He's worked as a monster at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights for the past three years. That job is starting up again. It's all about character development and improv skills! Plus making people puke and pee is much more fun than one would think. -- Also see Steve in FaceBook