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This week, Tyler & Megan learn about the 7 Wonders of the Natural World, how they formed and/or why they occur. While learning this week, the two will be sampling a 6 year aged single barrel select rye from Traverse City Whiskey Co. This is the 3rd of the 4 whiskies that were provided by friend John, who is part of an exclusive whiskey club that offers the chance to taste single barrel whiskies that are unavailable for retail purchase. Thanks John!   As always, thank you so much for your support! Don't drink and drive!   Places you can find us: whiskeyandwonder.com Instagram: @whiskeypodcast or @whiskey.tyler or @whiskey.megan YouTube: Whiskey & Wonder Twitter: @whiskyandwonder or @tyler_whiskey Email:  contact@whiskeyandwonder.com tyler@whiskeyandwonder.com megan@whiskeyandwonder.com  Facebook: facebook.com/whiskeyandwonder Paypal: paypal.me/whiskeyandwonder Patreon: patreon.com/whiskeyandwonder   If you have a drinking problem, reach out to the folks at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

This week we sit down with John Wilkinson of Abbotsford BC and chat all things competitive fly fishing, still water and beyond. We talk about what fly fishing brings into John's world, his take-aways from the competitive fly fishing circuit. The BC Fly Fishing League, the North American Loch Style Championships and much more. Lots of tricks and tips to up your fly fishing game in this one. Thanks John for sharing your story!

This week, Tyler & Megan learn about The Beast of Gévaudan, an unknown animal that roamed the French countryside, killing hundreds during the 1700s. While learning this week, the two will be sampling Starlight Distillery's Huber's Rickhouse Select Single Barrel Bourbon. This is the second of four samples sent by Friend John. Thanks John!   As always, thank you so much for your support! Don't drink and drive!   Places you can find us: whiskeyandwonder.com Instagram: @whiskeypodcast or @whiskey.tyler or @whiskey.megan YouTube: Whiskey & Wonder Twitter: @whiskeyandwonde or @tyler_whiskey Email: contact@whiskeyandwonder.com tyler@whiskeyandwonder.com megan@whiskeyandwonder.com  Facebook: facebook.com/whiskeyandwonder Paypal: paypal.me/whiskeyandwonder Patreon: patreon.com/whiskeyandwonder   If you have a drinking problem, reach out to the folks at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

Huw dives deep in super geek level chatting with the very humble John Stocker about his world record at the https://www.challenge-running.co.uk/ Backyard Ultra. Kit questions,how he bends his mind and also his race Mantra. Thanks John it was an absolute pleasure https://www.gofundme.com/f/to-make-it-big-dogs-backyard-ultra-in-tennessee?member=11910611&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=more&utm_source=customer

Get ready to meet the most righteous dudes of movie villians and the most disappearing of protagonists. John Rad gives us one of the biggest and most glorious of trainwrecks in film. Black Pepper is coming your way, buster! What you've got here is one of those "hey we found this movie, does anyone wanna finish it?" Filmed in the mid-80s this wasn't released until 2005 with an assist from Drafthouse. Much along the lines of Miami Connection its a masterpiece in bad filmmaking by a nice person and cost everything for failure. Sadly the director, John Rad (or Jahangir Salehi by his true name) had this movie sit on a shelf for 20 years and not have it released to the right audience until it was far too late. John died before this movie could do so. But what a gift to leave the world. Thanks John! While on surface this may have a fairly cliche revenge/lady Punisher plot but wow does this get off course fast. Mina (who may be our protagonist if she hadn't disappeared for 1/2 the movie) goes on a murder spree of rapey dudes after seeing her fiancé murdered by "The Bikers". Her lady vengeance lasts for only 1/5 of her murders before she shifts gears and starts killing random dudes and trans night walkers. All while, David (her dead fiancé's brother) tries to find her by sitting at another detectives desk. Eventually David decides to stalk "The Bikers" which leads him to the top of "The Bikers" food chain (or just the most popular biker, we just aren't clear). Thus the hunt for Black Pepper begins. Yes we don't even know about the antagonist (or if there even is one) until there is only 30 minutes of film left. Then the worlds greatest 30 minutes in cinema begins. The Hunt for Black Pepper could be its own movie. The decision to cast Bryan Jenkins (who is Head of the Drug Dealers in the credits - despite there no mention of anyone dealing drugs in the movie AND THAT HIS NAME IS BLACK MFING PEPPER!!!) could be its own documentary. We've been told that Black Pepper is a real bad dude. He'll feed you your own balls. He'd cut his own mom's throat if it benefitted him. He's a BAAAAAAAD dude. And then you meet Black Pepper and you're like "THAT'S Black Pepper?!?!?" Without Black Pepper, this would probably still be a do. But with the stunning final sequence this movie is Hall of Fame worthy and is a must see. Its fantastic.

Special Episode – Interview with John DeBella on Peter Gabriel (and Many Other Things) In this special episode we here at the Palaver are deeply honored to speak with Philadelphia radio legend John DeBella. The conversation was originally set up to question John on his unique and close relationship with Peter Gabriel. The interview covers how John and Peter's friendship began, insights John has had over Peter's career and John's central role in making So the commercial monster it became in the US. But one does not talk with the likes of John DeBella and stick to a single topic. The influence of Philly radio, the origins of the prog love in Philadelphia, paying a visit to Roger Waters house. The list goes on. Most importantly, John shared with us his three major passions beyond music; dogs, hunger and veterans. These causes are very close to John and he goes to great lengths to support them including the Veterans Radiothon. Strap in, hold on and enjoy the ride for this most entertaining interview. Thanks John! Twitter: @progpala Email: progpala@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/ProgPala YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCw_Xxit3D8wbv-AcJ_7Z__w/featured Theme music provided by: Dave DeWhitt Veterans Radiothon: https://wmgk.com/2021/06/08/auction-items-2021/

On this week’s episode, friend of the show John (one half of the Stoopkidz Podcast) stops by to discuss some of the latest topics starting off with Megan’s “Savage” impact really earning a Grammy nom, discussing the difference in entertainment vs music, albums no longer being considered as the measure of a good artist, what’s a debut album, the legalization of weed in NY, Mendeeces brutal truth sparks an informative insight and so much more. Thanks John for kicking it with us this week. RIP DMX! 

This week we sit down with John Schneider from FOOD AFIELD PODCAST. John joins us from his Alberta home to talk all about his podcast which focuses on traditional hunting, gathering wild food ingredients, fly fishing and bow hunting. John is living his best life farming and milling his own grain and spending lots of quality time in the great outdoors. This is a very inspirational tale of living off the land, farming, fly fishing and cooking with natural ingredients. Thanks John for sharing your story with us! www.foodafieldmagazine.com

John Falewitch of Falewitch Construction Services!  Thanks John….!   Learn more about Falewitch Construction Services at https://www.falewitch.com/ Email Doug at doug@fletchersafety.com A Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a digital media and commercial video production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network and learn more about our other services today on HurrdatMedia.com.

For episode 10 we sit down with one of our closest friends and discuss some of our successes and our individual definitions of success. Thanks John for hanging out with us for almost two hours!

Very explicit conversations in this show and a few jabs at DeWalt and Milwaukee.Let’s open the show with some Shabba and some reggae from Carlos and this is how as all construction podcasts should open. LOVE IT!! We have a special Co Host to join Manny, John from Craft And Clerk proposed the idea of joining the show and here we are. Manny is interested in doing more Co-Hosting, so anyone interested in filling in the seat, please reach out to Manny.Carlos a little nervous to be on the show opens up as the bottles of wine go down. We get off to a slow start but boy does the conversation ramp up fast.Right out of high school Carlos got into landscaping, choose a hard career path and loved it. A decade and half of working for others Carlos made the move to go out on his own and he chose early 2020 to make the move, right smack at the start of the pandemic. Talk about a challenge? Most of his friends, family and coworkers told him to wait, not to take the risk, Carlos listened but he still moved forward, and he had a great start to his new business.We get talking costs to run a business and what to expect with the crews and even going as far as discussing Uber Eats and all of those fees vs losing a guy to go get coffee and lunch. Things get heated and not from the microwave. Carlos was very lucky out the gate, his first job was in a higher end neighborhood of Toronto and we joke about that area.John takes the show to a side tangent by asking Manny all the behind-the-scenes work involved with The Construction Life podcast and what Manny goes through on a daily basis, on the job site, running the business, producing the podcast and more.We discuss ways to optimize your mind, your brain functions, how to be more mentally aleart and Manny discusses Brain Fog, eating coconut oil, mixing in MCT oil and Ghee Butter into his morning coffee and making his Bulletproof coffee, look it up guys, it will help you mentally and physically.Back to landscaping.We discuss the many ways your new business can and should be profitable, it’s important to have those goals but they need to always be attached to profit. We discuss tools, all kinds of tools, we even get a chance to upset every tool brand in the process and then the conversation turns to electric pick-up trucks and can of worms explodes. We end the show on quite the porta potty story and a brand new iPhone.What a great show and thank you Carlos for sharing your ups and downs and all the best to you and your new business.Give Carlos a follow, contact him for your next landscape project, @cavemen_landscapes and follow John @stonesthrowconstruction doing more tham just landscaping www.stonesthrowconstruction.com and please contact him to organize your business with @craftandclerk and www.craftandclerk.com Thanks John for being my cohost on The Construction life.Thanks for all the support, the kind words, the emails and messages about our little podcast. The word is spreading, tell your friends, family, subtrades, suppliers, tell everyone and anyone about The Construction Life.Want a sticker, contact Manny at info@theconstructionlife.com or info@hardcorerenos.com or DM Manny @hardcorerenos He will mail you a sticker free of charge anywhere in the world.This is The Construction Lifewww.theconstructionlife.com

This week on the podcast, the guys take a deep dive into a psychological horror movie pick from Patreon member John in Take Shelter. Thanks John! Join us as we break down the movie, go deep on Hank the Cowdog, and educate Mark on the history of ZZ Top. Grab some beers and join the fun! And when you're done with escapism, please do what you can to support Black Lives Matter and fight against the systemic racial injustice in this country. A list of ways to help can be found here: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ a-zhorror.com/ Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/AtoZHorror Email us: atozhorror@gmail.com Hangout on facebook: facebook.com/atozhorror/ Find us on Instagram @a_zhorror Music by: Superbare: @superbare

John's Amazing Transformation with John Kovaleski Hello! My name is John Kovaleski. I am a Type 2 Diabetic and a Certified Nutrition Specialist. My health and fitness journey began the summer of 2007 when I found myself waking up from a coma brought on by extremely elevated blood glucose levels. I had been leading a life where I put no thought into what I ate or how I took care of my body. At 40 years old, 6’2, 405 lbs, I should have known better, especially with a family history that is riddled with all kinds of red flags. I simply thought those things couldn’t happen to me. In 2008 my mother passed away from Diabetes complications. The last few years of her life she struggled through losing a leg, going partially blind, and kidney failure. In 2010 I lost my father to a stroke, which was no surprise due to years of heart related issues. In between my parent’s deaths, I also lost two dear friends who were close to my age. These reminders of my own mortality would become the catalyst that formed my mission, to reverse my Type 2 Diabetes and to help others do the same. It has become my obsession to inspire people to be better, make educated choices, develop habits that will lead to a healthier lifestyle, and to do so with a holistic approach. T2 Nutrition, while having been inspired by one of the world’s biggest health problems, Type 2 Diabetes, is about creating lasting change in people from all walks of life with a variety of disordered eating scenarios. Our approach focuses on finding the why, as much as the how, when it comes to an individual’s eating habits. In doing so we shine a light on behaviors that can be changed to improve the fundamental quality of our client’s lives through proper nutrition. www.t2nutritionandwellness.com www.feedingfatty.com Full Transcript Below Roy - Feeding Fatty (00:02): Hello, and welcome to another episode of feeding fatty. This is Roy I'm Terry. So, you know, we, our show that, uh, we want to bring you our journey, my journey, uh, through, uh, you know, weight loss, getting healthy, getting diabetes under control, high blood pressure, you know, all of those things that affect us. Once we start the aging process a little bit, as well as, uh, maybe not paying as close attention to our, uh, diet and exercise routine or activity, not necessarily exercise, but just being moving. So we also have guests on from time to time. And, uh, uh, the gentleman we have today is got an awesome story to tell it is John Coleville Leschi. He is with, uh, T to nutrition and wellness. And John, thanks for taking time out of your day and welcome to the show. John (00:58): Well, thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here. Roy - Feeding Fatty (01:01): You bet. And, uh, you know, usually I do a little bit longer of an introduction, but I think your story it's, uh, it's very profound and, uh, you know, we've talked a little bit pre-show, I would rather you tell it and, you know, make it more personal than me. Just kind of reading it off of a piece of paper. So with that, we'll just turn it over to you and say, um, you know, tell us a little bit about your story, how you found yourself here and we'll go from there. John (01:28): Absolutely. Well, um, my story is like a lot of people that I work with on a daily basis, um, started back in the summer of 2007. At that point in time, I worked as an automotive mechanic and my day started just like any other. I was just your normal average, although a little bit bigger. Um, American husband, you know, I went to work every day, got done work. I came home was so sliced with family, played. The kids did all that kind of stuff. But on this particular day, I went to work in my pickup truck, but I wound up leaving work in an ambulance. Um, I had just come back from lunch and I was doing an alignment on a vehicle and I was underneath the vehicle making adjustments and whatnot. And I fell into a diabetic coma about a half hour later. Um, my coworkers came back, found me laying back there, rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. John (02:26): Um, but I got there. My blood sugar was well over 500, which very easily could have killed me. Wow. Um, and I had no idea what I weighed or anything at that point in time. Um, you know, I just was one of those people that I, what I want to eat. I didn't exercise. I didn't, you know, didn't much care. And I figured, well, you know, when it's my time, it's my time. And I should have been smarter. Um, my family history is riddled with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, all these different things. And you would think that I would have been smarter, but I wasn't. It was just like a lot of people just kind of going about day-to-day life, being oblivious as to, you know, what we're putting in our bodies. And, um, I woke up from my bad, bad coma and the doctor looked at me and he said, you know, you are at the very least the type two diabetic, it's possible that you are type one. John (03:19): We're not sure yet. Um, but one thing I do know is if you continue down the path that you're going down, you're probably going to be dead within a year. Wow. At that point in time, it was like, um, yeah, big wake up call. And I was like, okay, well, uh, yeah, well, that's not happening. So playtime's over it's time to go to work. And immediately the next day when I got into the hospital, it was like, I started checking into going to see doctors getting on medication. But the best thing that happened to me was when I went to see an endocrinologist and I spent like 45 minutes working with a dietician in his office when she started to explain to me how different nutrients work within the body and how manipulating those macro and micro nutrients can affect our blood sugar levels. It lit a fire on me and I was absolutely fascinated. John (04:17): So now back in 2007, the internet, wasn't the resource that it is today. Um, you know, I had to spend a lot of time in a library, reading books and things of that nature. Whereas if it would have been fast forward to now, I would have been able to just get on the internet on YouTube and learn everything I need to learn. Right. Um, so it was a long process, but over the course of the next, well, I'm going to say six years, I changed a lot of eating habits. Um, we're still on diabetic medicine, but I had lost a fair amount of weight. I had, I had lost about 60 to 80 pounds somewhere in that area. Um, but I still wasn't as healthy as I wanted to be. I still smoke at that point in time, I smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for 30 years. John (05:04): Wow. Um, and I decided when I quit smoking that I was going to make a change and I was driving by a gym one day and I was like, you know what, I'm going to stop. Ms. Stopped. And I checked out the gym and I wound up joining and everything just kind of blossomed from there. I fell in love with fitness, with lifting weights. And then once I got myself to the point where I was off all my diabetic medicine and didn't need to go see a doctor on a regular basis anymore, I was like, you know what? I want to help other people do this. And I want to make things easier for them. I don't want people to have to struggle. Like I did going into all that. When once I found out I was type two diabetic. So that's pretty much the story in another nutshell, as far as my main issue. Terry - Feeding Fatty (05:54): So prior to you, um, being carted off by the ambulance, you hadn't been diagnosed with diabetes? John (06:02): No. Nope. Hadn't been diagnosed. I didn't go see the doctor. Um, you know, I just, I, to me, I felt normal. I did everything that, you know, all my friends around me did, you know, I was, I went, I worked 60, 70 hours a week. Um, you know, I had an active family life. I had an active social life. Um, I got out of doors and did things and everything else. So I didn't think there was anything wrong. Terry - Feeding Fatty (06:28): Wow. So that was just like a machine gun, wake up call right there. I mean, bam. Now you got it. John (06:34): Oh yeah, absolutely. And, and, you know, when I tell people that story, it it's, they try to connect the dots and, and try to figure out how this process happened. And what I've actually done is I've actually put together this picture that I'm going to show you guys, which actually kind of visually documents the journey. Now on the left, immediate left, I was, that was me at 405 pounds. Um, the picture in the middle was the day I joined that gym. I was like, okay, I'm going to take a before picture. And then at my leanest, uh, was that picture there in 2019, where 249 pounds. And I was running about 11% body fat at that point in time. Roy - Feeding Fatty (07:16): Wow. That is amazing. Well, yeah. And I think your story is not unlike so many of ours. Uh, you know, I don't know if we learn it in our teenage years or early twenties, but we have this eating pattern. And then, uh, as our activity level slows down, it's like our eating levels don't or maybe they even pick up a little bit and then, you know, um, I am very much and have walked the same path is that one day you just wake up and, uh, you know, I found myself heavy, even though looking in a mirror, it's like, well, you know, you're heavy, but you don't feel like it. But then you wake up with, uh, you know, it's a little harder to move and then you go to the doctor and, you know, you get that, uh, diabetic, diabetic diagnosis and wonder, you know, what to do, where to start. And so, um, I guess that's kinda the next question is, uh, you know, you started doing this research and, uh, where did, where did you start? John (08:17): The first thing I did was I, the very first thing was I cut out the glutton. I knew that it was, it didn't take a rocket scientist to see that I was just eating way too much. Once I took the time to actually examine what it is that I was eating. You know, I looked at, um, like two days after I got out of the hospital, I, I wrote down everything that I ate. Um, I started my morning stopping off at the store and I got a, a quart of chocolate milk, a little six or eight pack of chocolate donuts. Um, in six big slams of mountain dude, the one liter bottles of mountain Dew. Now I got all that and hopped in my truck, driving to work. By the time I got to work, the chocolate milk and the donuts were gone. And by lunch time, all of that mountain dude was going to wow. John (09:06): Then for lunch, my typical lunch was a large pizza, two big Macs and alerts, vanilla milkshake. That's what I would eat every day for lunch. Oh my gosh. And then dinner was whatever, take out my wife and I, both my wife at the time, her and I both lead, lead really hectic lifestyles. So it was like, we were never cooking. It was always take out this, that or the other. So whoever grabbed takeout, that's what we ate that night. And once I wrote it down and then I started looking at the macro and micro nutrient content, it was, it was like, okay, this is one of the biggest problems right here. I'm just eating entirely too much. I don't need to eat. So cutting out the gluttony was the first big step that I took in order to start to get my situation under control. John (10:00): And then it was just fine tuning things from there. Um, I cut out a lot of stuff right from the beginning, which is something that a lot of people do when they start a weight loss journey. They're like, okay, we're going to take all of this stuff out. Um, you know, and I'm just going to eat way less than I should. It's just one of the biggest problems that people have today. Um, and then I started putting things back in slowly but surely until finally I, I dialed in something that worked for me for a while up until like the, the, that middle picture there in 2013, I had had a relatively significant weight loss, but I still was not in shape. Um, I read an article that was explaining how the more lean muscle tissue you have, the better your body is situated to metabolize the nutrients that you take in. And I was already a big guy anyway, I'd always had been. So I was like, you know what? That was what that was, what prompted me to join the gym, joined the gym immediately started seeing results. At that point in time, I was, I don't know, mid forties, early to mid forties. And it's like, I could, I was seeing results that guys in their twenties and thirties seen, I was losing body fat. I was picking up muscle mass. So that became my new addiction rather than food. And I just it's been nonstop ever since. Roy - Feeding Fatty (11:29): Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. You know, that's important to that building that muscle mass because it's, you know, I like to walk, but when we do a little bit of weightlifting and you can speak more to that, it's like we, uh, we build that muscle mass and then we, uh, those muscles are able to help us burn fat, you know, all through the day, not just when we're actually pumping the weight. John (11:54): Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, there's a process in the body called the adaptive thermal Genesis and long story short. The, the more muscle costs much more to maintain in fact, does that doesn't cost you a thing. You don't burn a single calorie to maintain fat. That's just thing. Yeah. But to maintain muscle mass, you have to make sure that you're getting adequate protein. You have to make sure that you're doing all these things, because if you're, if you're not getting proper nutrients, your body is actually going to break down that muscle tissue, because it is easier to break down and utilize for energy than what fat is. That's why muscle burns faster than that. Roy - Feeding Fatty (12:41): So you said that, you know, when you got to the hospital, they S they, your glucose was over 500. So what, how, what was the, uh, I guess the path, or how long did it take you to get that down to a manageable level? I mean, I'm still feel like, you know, there's medication involved to a certain point, John (13:02): Right? Right. Absolutely. I, it took me about four months to get it to where it was manageable. It still wasn't where it needed to be, but it's like I had an A1C test done, um, roughly about two weeks after I got out of the hospital. And I think that A1C came back at like 11.6, which is super hot. Right. Um, inside of four or five months, I had it down to like 8.4 and then it was just slowly but surely working, working its way down. The, the biggest catalyst to be quite honest with you was when I joined the gym, I mean, I had done well up until that point, but then it was like when I joined a gym, what it was doing to my body, the exercise that I was doing, and I didn't start off going in there and lifting a bunch of heavy weight at all. I went in there just doing machines, doing range of motion exercises and, and focusing on cardio. And the transformation that I saw happened from that point in time, it was just phenomenal. It was like, it was like dumping gasoline on that fire. Roy - Feeding Fatty (14:15): Oh, wow. Yeah. You know, that's kinda what our plan is. We, uh, you know, we go to the gym, we like to walk and do, uh, you know, the cardio there, but we also do the weights, not, uh, you know, on a heavy scale, but more like you said, for range of motion, it just makes me feel better to have a little resistance. And then also some of them, you know, kind of stretch me out. So it's a twofold, but it, you know, one thing I see in my struggle and, you know, I'm kind of up and down the scale with the, uh, you know, on the blood sugar, but that, uh, not only does the, just the carrying the weight, because I'm still overweight, I can eat right. Watch my carbs in my sugar and still have a high glucose reading. I just, you know, there's sometimes it's just hard to manage that, but then that little exercise component of getting out and walk in, uh, the different side it makes from before and after it's significant. Terry - Feeding Fatty (15:15): I can tell a huge difference whenever after you do that. I mean, if you go out and have a walk, you know, you're watching everything you eat, but if you go out and have a walk and come back, there's a huge difference. Yeah. John (15:27): Yeah. Let's see something else that you'll notice a lot too, is, um, people that have problems regulating their blood sugar. Um, like when they go to the gym, I still do this today. I checked my sugar a couple of times a day and my blood sugars are under control, but I still check it because I want to know as I get older, I mean, I'm two weeks from my 54th birthday right now. And, you know, as I get older, I want to monitor and pay attention to how my body's changing. So it's like I can shake, I can check my blood sugar, um, a half hour before I go to the gym and it might be one Oh eight or one Oh nine. But once I get done working out, I can check my blood sugar in the locker room. And my blood sugar is one 41 60 C. John (16:12): What people don't realize is when you're expending energy, when you're doing exercise, your body is breaking down glucose, breaking down glucose to get the ATP, which is the energy currency that the body uses in the muscles and everywhere else. So basically what winds up happening is all of this stored glucose, which is the storage form of glucose in your muscles is called glycogen. When it's released into the bloodstream to be used for energy, it runs your blood sugar levels. So people have a tendency to Mister through that, as it being a bad thing. And it's really not. Yeah. Um, glucose when it's broken down acts much, much differently than what fat does. And then that's what people, you know, when you're, when you're on your journey and you get to the point where you're really doing any sort of strenuous exercise in the gym and whatnot, these are all things that you need to make sure that you're clear on. Um, when you're losing body fat for every gram of stored fat, you have in your body, you store three grams of water. So if you're losing fat, it's very, very easy to become dehydrated. That's why hydration is so important. All of these little idiosyncrasies that go into the process when people are expanding on their journey. Roy - Feeding Fatty (17:29): Yeah. And that's interesting. I've never, um, I've never taken it before I went to the gym and after, uh, you know, a good workout, but I'm going to definitely give that a try and, and see, see what that is. That's, uh, uh, I mean, I guess when you think about it, it's a pretty intuitive, but again, you don't really, uh, put the two and two together about how it releases that glucose into your system like that. John (17:56): Exactly. Roy - Feeding Fatty (17:57): So, um, you, you know, once you've kind of, uh, dialed yourself in, or you focus in a little on reducing the carbs or, uh, I guess, you know, now that you're, you know, you've lost a lot of way you're working out a lot. It's probably not as important as it was, but let's go back in time to, um, you know, those first four or five months after you're losing, where you limiting carbs to a certain amount or kind of what was your diet like then? John (18:31): Um, I was, I was limiting carbs at that point in time. I was not aware of the difference between simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates. That part I didn't get to, to, uh, later on in my journey. So I was limiting carbs and sugar overall. Um, then actually I ran across a ketogenic protocol and I have run that off and on for a number of years, I don't do it all the time. Like some people do, um, I'll do it for maybe three months and then I'll go back to eating regularly. And the reason I do that is, um, I don't want to restrict my carbohydrates so much that as I get older, my body doesn't realize how to handle them anymore. Right. Right. So I'll run a protocol for, you know, 12 weeks of eating ketogenic, and then I'll shift gears and I'll go back to eating more of a metabolic style where I'm eating three or 400 grams of carbs a day, depending on my training load. But that's spread out over six minutes. I don't eat large amounts of carbs at any one setting. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (19:45): Yeah. That's another thing that I've noticed, uh, you know, with myself is it doesn't matter what the number is, but whatever your carbs, if you, you can have those over a day. But if you, if you tend to pile them all up into one meal, you know, I still get the big, uh, the big spike. Whereas if I tried to limit them and spread those out over the day, much better in managing the, uh, you know, my glucose levels, but I was going to get you to drop back for just a minute. You mentioned the simple versus the complex. Can you just give us a quick explanation of the difference? John (20:21): Okay. In layman's terms, think of carbohydrates as stacks of bricks. Okay. Um, if you've got it, if you're, let's say you're a karate student and you're trying to break stacks of bricks, a simple carbohydrate is like two bricks. A complex carbohydrates is like four bucks. So it takes a lot more to break apart and distribute those four bricks than it does to take the two. Okay. So what winds up happening is, and this is where a lot of people make their mistake. When they're dealing with carbohydrates and fat loss, when you spike your blood sugar, when you spike your insulin, when your insulin spikes that burning stops will not burn any sort of body fat whatsoever when your insulin has spiked. And when your carb load is high, here's the double-edged sword about that. If you have more carbohydrates floating through your body than what you need, if there's too much in your bloodstream, if your muscles can't store anymore, and then your body only has one option, it sends it to the liver. John (21:33): The liver puts it through a process called lipogenesis and it turns it to body fat. So not only do you have the spike of insulin, which cuts off that burden, you're actually storing more fat by spike in your cars. So that's where you have to be very, very careful about using the simple carbohydrates, that two bricks scenario versus the complex, which is more, it takes much longer to digest them. It takes longer to burn them down. And most of your complex carbohydrates are things that also come with some sort of fiber sweet potatoes, Brown rice, King wall, things like that. Those are complex carbohydrates. You still get the carbohydrate content that you need, but it doesn't have the effect on your insulin and your blood sugar overall. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (22:22): And that's the other thing I don't think that he, people, um, really understand in depth is just all the body functions that are affected when you have the higher glucose levels. And, you know, you mentioned the liver, but you know, people, and I, you know, I'm very surprised that, um, the recovery that you've had, especially being such a heavy smoker, because I've heard, uh, you know, I've just heard horror stories about people who had the high blood sugar and were smokers on top of that. Like, uh, you know, losing toes and all kinds of things like that. So I think just, uh, you know, it's a good reminder to everybody out there that, uh, high blood sugar is not it's, it's a very, very, uh, deadly, deadly thing. And because it affects so many parts of our body. John (23:17): Absolutely. You need, when you sit back and you look, yeah. I tell people all the time and the ketogenic craze and the, and the carnivores phase and all that different stuff, it has got people to the point that they're villainizing carbohydrates, carbohydrates are not bad, right? Carbohydrates are not evil. What they are is dangerous. If you don't pay attention to them, if you eat too many of them, they, they can cause you issues. If you eat too much protein, if you eat too much fat, you can eliminate that. You're going to eliminate that in store. You're going to eliminate that in urine. You cannot eliminate carbohydrates. It either gets burned for energy, or it gets stored as fat. Those are the only two options the body has. So it is the one that you need to pay the most attention to. Right. Roy - Feeding Fatty (24:07): Yeah. And I think it's like, anything else just, uh, coming in and saying, you know, well, let me just say our approach that we have taken has been more that balanced. And so you kind of have to be careful, as you saying about living a life where you just cut something completely out, because there can be other ramifications as Terry - Feeding Fatty (24:25): Well. Yeah. That doesn't work so well, if you just John (24:27): Try that and it Roy - Feeding Fatty (24:30): Makes it harder when you say you can't have any of, any of anything, all of a sudden, Terry - Feeding Fatty (24:34): Yeah. Just forget it. You want all of that. John (24:37): Yeah, exactly. As soon as you are told that you can't have something, you want it, but now here's the, here's the funny thing, 85%. And this is an accurate number because I literally just went through all my client records for the last 18 months. Okay. 85% of everybody that I work with, I've had to increase the amount of food baby when I start working with right. Because most people cut their intake so much that they slow down that adaptive thermal Genesis. And they're not even taking in enough to sustain what they're doing on a daily basis, let alone any exercise or anything. Right. Most people, I have to increase their calories anywhere from 500 to a thousand calories a day before they start burning fat. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (25:23): And that just goes to a great point of why we need to seek out professional help on these things, because, you know, just like, uh, you know, a lot of people get on the internet and say, Oh, carbs are bad. So we're cutting all of them out or, uh, reduce the calories, which, you know, it is calories in calories out, but we've got to have enough calories to function. I mean, brain function, body function. And then if you add some exercise in, on top of that, you know, we've got to have, and then, like you said, it's the it, and you'll have to call the name, but it like Stokes that metal metal your metabolism fire as well, whenever we do eat. John (26:01): Yes. Yep. And so Terry - Feeding Fatty (26:04): You're a nutritionist, is that correct? John (26:08): Yes. Yes. Yup. Terry - Feeding Fatty (26:11): And, and then you have a certification in fitness as well, or John (26:17): Yes, I have certification I'm certified in fitness and I'm a certified nutrition expert through the international sports sciences association, the ISS, Roy - Feeding Fatty (26:28): Another big thing that's kind of come up on the radar a lot more, um, is fasting. What's your take on intermittent fasting? John (26:38): The best thing about intermittent fasting is learning to your hunger. That's it? As far as the actual fasting, part of it, most people that that fast tend to fast for 24 hours or more. And there are certain benefits that you can get from that there's autophagy, which is basically new cells, eating old dead cells. And they almost becoming like super salts. Okay. Um, that effect happens when you fast it 24 hours or longer the intermittent fasting. The main thing it does in my view is it teaches discipline because you have to be disciplined to say, okay, I'm only going to eat from, from noon to eight o'clock at night or from noon to six o'clock at night. So I have to make sure if I'm eating 2,500 calories, I've gotta be able to get 2,500 calories in that window. And I have to do it in a way where I'm not eating one huge large meal and then having to deal with digestive discomfort. John (27:41): Yeah. Not to mention the fact of nutrient overload, you know, can you absorb 200 grams of protein on a one meal? Right. You know, there are those that say, you can, there are those that say you can't the end. The science is unclear. But one thing I know is this intermittent fasting is very good. If you are someone that is not disciplined, not good at portion control and someone who doesn't want to take the initiative, especially up front to be okay, I need to weigh out my food and I need to plan out I'm going to have six meals a day and I need to weigh everything out and portion it all out. So I'm prepared. So that's my take on intermittent fasting. Roy - Feeding Fatty (28:25): Yeah. And the other interesting part about that is really what is considered fasting because I've seen somewhere, you know, they talk about the 24 hours and you know, you do that every once a week or once every two or three weeks, something like that. But then I've also read information that, you know, they talk about more like a 12 hour fast, which, you know, to me is basically just kind of that old school thinking of, we just don't need to eat too much after about six o'clock at night. And then we wake up in the morning, you know, we can eat, you know, start with our breakfast and eat normal, but is a 12 hours really actually considered fasting. John (29:08): It is. But let me, let me back up to your point that you just said, the worst possible thing that you can do is not eat before you go to bank. And let me explain why when you're sleeping, your body is still burning calories. So let's say you go to bed at nine o'clock and you have your last meal at six by seven 30 odds are, unless you had a huge meal, that food is digested and already being processed throughout your body. Okay? Which means you have no reserves going into six to eight hours of sleep and then another six hours of fasting. Does that make sense? If you eat? I tell all my clients, make sure you eat at the very least eat a snack, something that contains protein and healthy fats about an hour or two before you go to bed. Okay. Because what happens is when you don't have any food in your system and you're sleeping, your body goes into, what's known as a catabolic state. John (30:09): At that point in time, your body is looking for substances to break down for energy, especially if you don't have any food in your digestive tract. And the first thing it goes to, like I said before is muscle because muscles much easier to break down for that energy. It takes the amino acids, them to the liver creates ATP and glucose from it. And then you have your energy just to sustain you throughout the night. So that's the downside of fasting. Okay. Um, it's, you're doing a, let's say, for example, you're doing a 16, eight window intermittent fasting, which is the most popular protocol that people use. Okay. And typically how they do it is they'll have their last meal about three hours before they go to bed. And then they sleep for six to eight hours. So if they're sleeping for eight hours, then they wind up getting their 11 hours from the time they get up that they've already fasted. So then all they have to do is skip breakfast late to lunch, and they're good to go. They've got their 16 hours and it wasn't that difficult because they were sleeping for the bulk of your time. Right. But your body was still breaking down muscle. Your body was still needing to find energy. And that's why that's the downside of intermittent. Okay. Roy - Feeding Fatty (31:27): Mm. Yeah. That's good to know. I've just, um, you know, I know it's been around for a while, but it seems like we've just heard much more about it, you know, in the last month or so. Yeah. Friends, I mean, we've been talking, we've kind of talked about it. Not specifically about what, which fast we win, think about doing, but just kind of getting into it. Um, John (31:52): Yeah. Well, like I say, it, it can be, it can be a useful tool. Things like intermittent fasting, he degenerate protocols, carnivores protocols, um, all these different things. They're all tools that we can bring out and we can use at different points in time. Um, you know, there are people in the fitness world that say you can't be a bodybuilder, especially a professional bodybuilder and run a ketogenic lifestyle. You have to eat four or five, 600 grams of carbs a day. And I can show you a man right now that is in his fifties and has won his last two masters competitions in bodybuilding. And he's been ketogenic for 10 years. Wow. So it can be done. You just have to be aware of what you're putting in your body. You have to be very aware of what you're doing in the gym, you know, and you need help, stuff like that, you know? John (32:48): And back to your point that you said earlier, right? When, when the average person doesn't have a clue, what macronutrients doing the boundary, right? The average person doesn't know how much food they should be eating in the course of the day. Shoot. Most of us in our generation, we grew up Saturday mornings was all about eating sugary cereal in front of the TV, watching cartoon. You know what I mean? And the card and the cartoons were sponsored by the cereal companies. And it was all a big thing that got to see the ton of sugar and made us all overweight. Roy - Feeding Fatty (33:22): It's all their fault. Gotta have somebody to blame. Yeah. John (33:29): So let's talk about it. Roy - Feeding Fatty (33:31): The other components of, uh, you know, of not only losing weight, but, you know, we just want to be healthy. Some of us need to lose weight to be healthy. And I'm sure there are people that are at the right weight that need to add more activity, exercise to, you know, help them be healthier. But the other components, uh, you know, I used to have a sign that hung over my desk. That's, you know, said get my eight hours sleep every night, drink my, um, you know, six to eight hours, six to eight bottles of water or glasses of water. Uh, and then, you know, move, do something, uh, you know, try to sweat a little bit every day. But no, you know, I think the, the water and the sleep are, how do you feel that those are, you know, big components of helping us to not only lose that way, but be healthy in general? John (34:26): Absolutely. Um, you know, water is King, our bodies are 80% made up of it. You know what I mean? So it's in one way in one form or another. So iteration is incredibly important. Sleep recovery is also very important. Um, if you need an active lifestyle, whether you just have an active job, or if you spend a lot of time in the gym, um, recovery is keen. Anybody will tell you that knows what they're talking about. They will tell you that, um, you know, building muscle, burning fat, all of that stuff, none of it, none of that happens in the gym. It all happens outside the gym. Okay. We go in the gym, we apply metabolic stress through our bodies, by engaging in activity. We apply, you know, micro tears and muscle tissue by, by lifting weights. Okay. That's, that's the catalyst that starts at all, but then everything that happens, happens outside, it happens in the kitchen. John (35:27): It happens in the bedroom sleeping. Um, so yes, hydration incredibly important. You should be aiming to get a minimum of six hours of good quality sleep at night. If you can get eight. Great. If you can get 10, even better. Yeah. But you don't want to be getting less than six because then that starts to mess with your circadian rhythms. And that throws off all kinds of metabolic processes within the body. So yeah, those components are incredibly important, but the biggest, and this is the biggest and most underrated component of anybody's health and fitness journey right here. Right now, mindset is count. Mindset is absolute key and getting all the bad knowledge, all the noise out of people's heads and getting to the truth. Yeah. Because I mean, come on, you can pick up any social media platform today and there's some fitness influencer on there and you know, you'll see these guys in there, they're like 6% body fat. John (36:29): And they're trying to make people think that that they're, that they're that way, year round was, they're not, they look like they literally live in the parking lot of a gym and never seen a Twinkie or a ho-ho they're like, but, but it, but they're, but they're selling, they're selling a fantasy. Okay. Yeah. These guys, you know, and girls, for that matter, most people don't realize that when they get ready for their photo shoots, they are restricting carbohydrates. They're restricting water for two or three days beforehand. And then just before they step in front of the camera, they eat a bunch of sugary stuff. So it causes cellular swelling in the muscles. So it makes them look bigger than what they actually are. They're all kind of tips and tricks that these guys use to make themselves look good. And the general public tries to buy into that. John (37:16): Wow. You can, you can't. No, nobody can look like that year round. Right? So find somebody that can educate you in the proper ways to do what it is that you need to do for you. But then that person has to make sure that they're helping you address your mindset issues too. Because if you're not ready to make a change, you're not going to, it doesn't matter how many coaches you hire. It doesn't matter how many, how many fitness plans you buy online? How many supplements you take? It doesn't matter if you're not mentally ready to make a change. You won't. Roy - Feeding Fatty (37:49): Yeah. And you know, I've had, uh, you know, people ask me before, like, have you ever thought about having the surgery? And, and usually that's why I always say no, because if you don't get it fixed between your ears, it doesn't matter what you do like that because I've known people that have had different procedures, but then they fell back off into the bad eating or drinking habits. And then all of a sudden, not only are they heavy again, but they got complications from whatever surgery that they had. So definitely write about, you know, getting yeah. John (38:21): Yeah. And it takes something different for everybody. Yeah, go ahead. Yup. It is. If my, my, one of the, one of the things that, that I tell a lot of people, I talked to a little background, I'm a, I'm a resident coach in a huge Facebook group called the dad Bob transformation group. We currently have over 60,000 members, which it's a huge, huge group. And I go live in there a couple of different times a week and whatnot. And, and one of the things that, um, I'm real famous for telling these guys is that if you're working with a coach and the first thing he does is takes your money. And then he says, okay, well, this is the workout plan that I have all my clients do. And this is the nutrition plan that I have. All my clients do. It works amazing for them. And it's going to work amazing for you. You're going to have good results. Let's go. If that's the pep talk, he gives you after he takes your money, get your money back and run. Right. Number one, you could use the exercise and number two, you don't need to spend that money. Right. You know, because it there's so many misconceptions in the fitness industry today. It's, it's insane. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (39:29): Yeah. And I think you're right. You have to find somebody, uh, you know, everybody's a little different, so everybody's going to need a little bit different plan depending on where they are, where they need to go. So if you don't get that individual attention, definitely, uh, right. That is a huge red flag to begin with. So tell us about T2, nutrition and wellness. What's that all about John (39:53): G2, nutrition and wellness. It's actually kind of funny how that came about. Um, in the spring of 2019, I wound up finding out that my right knee had gone bone on bone and I was going to need a full knee replacement. So I spent a significant amount of downtime that year. Um, I had to wait like three months from the surgery. Cause my insurance company wanted me to jump through all these hoops and get six injections and all this other stuff. So I was sitting around the house with nothing to do. So me being me, I'm always trying to learn something. So I was listening to a podcast with Tom bill, you who was one of the founders of quest nutrition. And he had, I believe the guests he had on the show with his name was Mark Sisson, who was the guy that started primal kitchen and the primal blueprint, which was all about ketogenic foods and all that type of stuff. John (40:50): And he was sitting there and he was talking to Tom and he said, you know what? He said, people have to look at it like this, you know? Cause he, cause Tom was asking him how, why he started primal kitchen at, I think he was 53 when he started that business. Okay. And it turned into a multi-million dollar business that he's since sold the crap, but, and Tom was asking him why. And he said, look, instead, it's real simple. I believe that if you find the world's biggest problem, not only are you going to find the world's biggest opportunity to help people, but you're going to find one of the best business opportunities that there is. And I immediately, because that hit me like a brick, I picked up my phone and I was like, Google. How many in the world today have type two diabetes, 280 million people. John (41:37): Wow. 70 million of them are undiagnosed 17 million. And mind you, this was two years ago. So these stats may not be correct now. 17 million of those 280 children. Oh, okay. So I was like, okay, that's, that's what I need to, you know, I I've, I reversed my type two diabetes. So these are the people that I need to work with. So I went to my laptop and go daddy.com and I'm like T2 nutrition. The domain was available. So I bought the domain, I built the website and started everything. And then I kind of rebranded everything about eight months in, because I realized that it was more than just nutrition and exercise, fitness wellness is everything. It's the mind, it's the mindset. It's the body, it's the spirit. It's the way you look at life. Um, so that's why I rebranded it to T2 nutrition and wellness. And I deal with people's mindsets just as much as I do what they're going to eat and how many reps they're going to do in the gym. No. Roy - Feeding Fatty (42:47): So how do you start? I mean, how, how do you find out where they are? How do you assess them to find out where they are in their journey and if they're ready to do what they need to do, John (43:01): How, how I typically start is if somebody contacts me and wants to work with me, the first thing I do is I send them intake forms. Um, the two forms combined total about nine pages and they give me a ton of information about them. I asked them questions like, um, you know, does their family support their journey as far as getting fit or do they find resistance? Um, how do you feel about counting calories, measuring food, preparing food ahead of time, stuff like that. How do you feel when you are in a situation and you find a shirt in the gym that, or find a shirt in the store that you want, but you can't find one of your size because you're too big, all these different questions that I asked them. And then after I get that information, I sit and I give them a free consultation online, over zoom or something like that. And I discuss it with them and I try to find out where they're at physically, where they're at mentally and emotionally, and then I try to address all those teachers. Roy - Feeding Fatty (44:10): Okay, great. Well, John, thanks so much for taking time out of your day to be with us. Uh, before we let you go. A couple of questions first off is, um, what is a tool that you use and it could be in your wellness journey and just something that adds value to your day, a tool, a habit, some kind of a ritual it business or personal professional, either one, John (44:37): Um, on a personal level. It is, I always take some time to be mindful and how my ritual for being mindful is I will take at least 30 minutes out of my day. And it's typically in the morning, um, I'll let an incense, I'll find a playlist that has some sort of music, preferably like binaural beats, which are very, very good. They have a very calming effect. And I just, I meditate in a and I, um, I meditate on how grateful I am to be here. I remember where I was and everything that I had to do to get to where I am now and why I want to continue to improve where I am, because I want to be around for my kids and my grandkids and my great-grandkids for many, many years to come. So that's the, that's the biggest tool that I use personally is I'm trying to be mindful every day. Roy - Feeding Fatty (45:37): Yeah, no, that's awesome. That is good practice. Yeah. All right. Well, uh, so tell everybody again, how they can reach out and get ahold of you if they would like to, um, you know, talk to you about working with you. John (45:51): Sure. Well, my website is T2nutritionandwellness.com and I'm on Facebook teaching nutrition, wellness, same thing with Instagram on Twitter. They decided my name was too long. So they redid it for me, I'm wellness, T2. Um, but other than that, I'm pretty much everywhere. I'm not hard to find. I have a podcast on YouTube and all the audio platforms called the jacked up podcast where I interview people like yourself. Um, fitness professionals. It's pretty, it, the podcast has a pretty wide berth. I talk about a lot of subjects because I believe, like I said, wellness is all encompassing. So I talked to people from all sorts of things. Roy - Feeding Fatty (46:32): Okay, awesome. Well, y'all check out John's podcast and reach out, take a look at the website, see how he can help you and, um, put him to work for you. You've done a fabulous transformation of yourself. I mean, it's simply amazing. And I, you know, I've, I've had some blood sugar readings in the 200 and kinda gas when that happens. So I, I just can't even imagine getting a 500. It that's, uh, congratulations. Oh my goodness. Congratulations. I know it's a lot of hard work. It takes, doesn't come easy and takes a lot of time, but it's awesome that you're going to put all that knowledge that you've gained and, uh, to work, to help others. John (47:15): Nope. That's my goal. Roy - Feeding Fatty (47:16): All right. Well, great, John, thanks so much. That's going to do it for another episode of, uh, the feeding fatty podcast. Uh, we appreciate you taking time out of your day to listen to us again, if you're a professional, if you have a great transformation story, like John's, we would certainly love to hear from you so you can reach out to either myself or Terry at, uh, I'm at Roy at, uh, I'd say it's information info@feedingfatty.com. And of course you can pick us up on, uh, www.feedingfatty.com, uh, the, uh, podcast, or put up there with the player. You can also catch this, uh, over on YouTube, also Instagram, Twitter, Facebook we're on all of them. So until next time, take care of yourself and be sure and take care of each other. Um, Roy Speaker 4 (48:07): I'm Terry. Thank you. Thanks John. Appreciate it. Thank you. www.feedingfatty.com                

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Welcome to episode 78, where today we explore an important element of a fulfilling relationship. If you’re a new listener to this podcast, you will soon realize that we’re all about relationships here. We’re all about finding the joy God intends for us in our relationships because that is what He made us for. Our relationship with people, with the world around us, with ourselves, and most importantly, with God himself. Each episode is designed to share some nugget of truth we can act on to make our relationships fulfilling and joyful. Fulfilling relationships don't just don't happen on their own, they require effort on our part. Today, for example, we’ll be looking at one key principle of a healthy and fulfilling relationship each of us can work on to make our relationships the best they can be. We find this important relationship principle at work in the realm of leadership. Donald Miller Business Made Simple daily video recently talked about There are leaders who have no vision are successful if they have this one quality Some leaders who lack creativity can be successful if they have this one quality Other leaders who are intelligent can be successful if they have this one quality And even Leaders who lack people skills can be successful if they have this one quality They have a bias toward action. They get things done. A link to the 3:05 video will be in the show notes. Miller talks about this principle as it relates to business, but my experience is that it applies to relationships as well. And who can define what a “successful” relationship means? I prefer “fulfilling” to successful, To illustrate this principle, ’ll share several recent listener responses to episode #74 - Relationships During Elections, and episode #75 Getting a Letter Helps People Who Feel Isolated. They show that fulfilling relationships just don’t happen - they require action. Take Action in Your Relationships During Elections I’m recording this right before the US presidential election, and hopefully by the time this episode airs we’ll know the winner. But in episode 74 what we talked about how fulfilling relationships don't just don't happen when we're in an election season. The actions I suggested in this episode resonated with a listener from South Carolina who wrote to say they were “dead on the money.” In this episode I said: "If your guy wins, don’t gloat. Don’t rejoice. It’s not going to be nearly as good as you think. Be kind. Extend grace. Be gentle. Your relationship with the person who backed the loser is more important than any election. "If your guy loses, it’s not the end of the world. Don’t sulk, whine or otherwise complain. The sun will come up tomorrow. Acknowledge your sadness and fear. But it’s not going to be as bad as you think. Your relationship with the person who backed the winner is more important than any election. "We’ve had really bad leaders in the past and we’ll survive this one, too should the other guy have won. "Our Relationship Quote of the Week Also offered up another action we can take to put our relationship to the election in proper perspective. "From the Bible, Philippians 4:8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Election season never falls into any of these categories. Keep politics out of the church Another listener named Judy from Florida responded to my email reminder about the relationships during election season. She described an action she took when she visited a church. Judy said, “…during his sermon the pastor said that Barack Obama was the anti-Christ. I never went back.” I replied, “Good Choice, Judy.” Sometimes the best action we can take in a relationship is to walk away from it. Then we have Kim from Wisconsin who responded to the election episode with: “THANKS JOHN , THIS WAS GREAT. I AGREE WITH YOU. ONE THING THAT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US WHEN WE LOOKED FOR A NEW CHURCH WAS THAT POLITICS WERE MOT PREACHED FROM THE PULPIT. I DO NOT HAVE FACEBOOK AND THE WHOLE POLITICAL TOPIC IS ONE OF THE REASONS I DON’T HAVE AN ACCOUNT. I BELIEVE ULTIMATELY GOD IS IN CONTROL. AND AS I AM CURRENTLY STUDYING EZRA, I AM AGAIN REMINDED THAT GOD CAN USE ANY LEADER FOR HIS GOOD AND HIS GLORY!" Kim and her husband took a wise action in their relationship with the church. They declared for themselves what was unacceptable, based on their values and understanding of God. And they chose a church home accordingly. And the final response to episode 74 on our relationships during elections really stings for me personally, because it comes from a guy at our church. I’ll call him Willie to protect his confidentiality. Willie writes: "As an Independent, I have not usually had an issue with politics until this year. There have been several people at our church that can call Democrats all sorts of names (socialist, queer lovers...)  Yes worse... "When I have responded in a joking manner about Republicans, wow it is like  I have insulted God, YHWH. "I have learned my lesson, but I find it deeply disturbing for the Church (followers of Jesus) I cannot imagine what non-Christians think???" Ouch! The action Willie took was to use a little humor to difuse the situation. But it was not received well. But at least he tried. Not all wise action leads to positive results, but we should still try anyway. Do the right thing, regardless of the results. These relationship stories involving churches confirm my suspicion that sometimes we Christians just get bored with Jesus so we fill our lives with junk food for the mind and soul. For Someone to Receive a Letter Means We Have to Write One Then we come to episode #75, Getting a Letter Helps People Who Feel Isolated. Here we touched upon the research that shows the therapeutic benefit of receiving a letter when we are disconnected from relationships and feeling lonely. I then read a letter I wrote to my Aunt Lucille who recently turned 100 years old. This was an action I took to maintain my relationship with my aunt because I know fulfilling relationships don't just don't happen on their own. This episode generated a number of responses from listeners about the value of taking action to write a note or letter to someone. Randy from Pittsburgh forwarded an article he saw from Inc. Magazine Flight attendants on a Delta flight who wrote handwritten notes to each passenger thanking them for flying Delta. This was about taking action to enhance business relationships. Karla from Wisconsin sent an article from the New York Times It's about a man in NY sitting next to a US mailbox on the street with a manual typewriter offering to write a letter for anyone who came by and then mails it for them. It was an action he took to help other people act to bless someone else. Finally, Marylin from Minnesota wrote the following email to me I DID IT! I LISTENED TO YOUR PODCAST FIRST THING THIS MORNING AND THOUGHT OF A FRIEND WHO TURNED 98 YEARS OLD LAST SATURDAY. HANDWRITTEN LETTER IS DONE! THANKS FOR THIS GREAT IDEA! I HAVE A FRIEND WHO DECIDED TO WRITE 70 LETTERS TO 70 DIFFERENT FRIENDS DURING HER 70TH BIRTH YEAR. THEY WERE ALL HANDWRITTEN. I HAVE TREASURED THAT LETTER. If you forget everything else, here’s the one thing I hope you remember from today’s episode. Fulfilling relationships don’t just happen. To get the most out of them we have to take action, wise action, to make them the best they can be. Here’s what we can all do in response to today’s program. Ask God to show us what action we need to take to make our relationships fulfilling and satisfying. Is there something we need to do that requires something of us, like writing a handwritten letter or note to someone? Could there be a there a relationship God wants us to avoid or end, like our relationship with a church that talks more about politics than it does about Jesus? Is there an action we can take to bless someone, like the guy with the typewriter at the mailbox in New York City, that in turn will cause that someone to bless someone else? As always, another thing you could do is let me and your fellow listeners know what resonated with you about today’s episode. Just like the listeners did in today’s show. You can share your thoughts in the “Leave a Reply” box at the bottom of the show notes. Or you can send them to me in an email to john@caringforothers.org. Closing I hope your thinking was stimulated by today’s show, to both reflect and to take wise action in your relationships. For when you do so, you will find the joy God intends for you in your relationships. Because after all, You Were Made for This. Our Relationship Quote of the Week Successful people do what unsuccessful people don’t do, when they don’t want to do it. ~ source unknown That’s all for today. See you next week. Goodbye for now. You Were Made for This is sponsored by Caring for Others, a missionary care ministry. We depend upon the generosity of donors to pay our bills.  If you'd like to support what we do with a secure tax-deductible donation, please click here. We'd be so grateful if you did. Resources mentioned in today’s show Donald Miller video on successful people share a bias toward action Episode 74   Relationships During Elections Episode 75   Getting a Letter Helps People Who Feel Isolated

On this episode John Hammond (Executive Sales Manager - Tally Energy Services) joins us to dive into his background and how he went from almost pursuing an astronomy degree to a mechanical engineering degree and into the oil and gas industry. His first several years in the oil industry consisted of international roles in the North Sea then Brazil and eventually landing in Houston and how he landed at Tally Energy Services. We discuss how he has changed and adapted in this market as well as we dive into the deep end discussing things such as: space, simulation theory, virtual reality, aliens, bitcoin to BBQ's... Great random topics and enjoyed this conversation immensely! Thanks John!

In this report: How to get out of a (relatively minor) traffic fine (in Australia). I deal with interacting with the cops at the roadside, as well as getting legal advice, and maybe even making an application under Section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999. (Section 10 essentially gives the court the power to record a conviction without penalty if the circumstances of the offence warrant it.) AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely via PayPal This report was inspired by the following question from Richie Shearer: I’ve owned a 2016 St np300 for just over 4 yrs. A few months ago I was pulled over and booked for the towbar obstructing my numberplate. It is a genuine fitted Nissan towbar. It was fitted to the vehicle when I bought it brand-new. The police did not care that it was a genuine fitted object. I have not paid the fine. I’ve had to go to court where it has been put off to 15 January because I pleaded not guilty. I believe that it is Nissan’s responsibility to notify their customers if the vehicle doesn’t completely meet Australian design rules. I have emailed Nissan on this issue and they are pretty much just fob me off. Is it not the responsibility of companies selling products or vehicles to notify their customers or is it up to the individuals to make sure a brand-new vehicle is ADR compliant. Any advice would be much appreciated. The fine was $457 and three demerit points. I’m representing myself In the matter to save money. Thanks John - massive fan of the YouTube channel.” - Richie Shearer

Derek gives an update on the Lloyd.  We start to talk about modifying rare classic cars, touch on clunker laws. Johns discusses Fix-it-tickets, what mufflers don't do, offensive driving. We got a lot in on this one!

Day 3!! Okay, I'll start by answering the burning question. Even though it's an audio-only podcast (for your own good) John did an excellent John Belushi eyebrow-raise-thing. After he said he auditioned for the part, I really could imagine him doing it. So now, I'm mad at that other guy who got it (unless he comes on the show, of course...) I thought he had an interesting perspective on movie-making and how movie trailers can tell you if a movie is worth it or not...sometimes. I'm sure if you check his podcast out, you'll enjoy his perspectives, too! Thanks John. I wish I had interviewed you before seeing the classic holiday comedy, "The Family Stone." John's info: Website: bwpodcast.com Instagram: @realjohntmaye John's faves: The Joe Rogan Experience; Life is Short, with Justin Long; How Did This Get Made? Last Podcast on the Left; The History of Jaws, Disgraceland Sherpa Suggestions (Movie-Related podcasts): The Binge-Watchers Podcast Cain and Tal at the Movies (Previous guest) NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour Filmspotting Now Playing Mad About Movies Dead Meat Podcast Lights Camera Barstool Classic Movie Musts The Plot Thickens Who Shot Ya? Raiders of the Lost Podcast Follow the show on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @Sherpalution, and check out my website, sherpalution.com , for older episodes, Sherpa Sheets, and Spotify playlists. You'll also find the link to The Sherpa Shop. Online shopping for a cause! Email me at jimthepodcastsherpa@gmail.com. #VivaLaSherpalution! Publicist Extraordinaire: Steven Joiner Music Credits/Voiceovers: Bruce Goldberg ( aka Mr. Bruce): https://thevoiceoverguy.com.au/ Other Voices: The Sherpalu Studio Players --- This episode is sponsored by · Charity Promotion: BallotReady: The goal of this initiative is to increase voter education and encourage your listeners to get the vote out during the 2020 General Election this November. https://www.ballotready.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-the-podcast-sherpa/message

This episode's guest: John Caglia of Construction Development Management. Mike and Brian are joined by John Caglia, Founder and Co-Investor of Construction Development Management. Starting at 7 years old working for his dad building custom homes in Newport Beach, John learned ALL the trades from a very young age. After college, he went to work for some huge corporate brands including Disney and Rite-Aid running construction projects and jobs. Eventually starting CDM, he moved to the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) field and was able to differentiate his company through transparency, work ethic, and excellence. Tune in to hear why John is affectionately known as Diaper Boy! Thanks John for joining us!

Talking gravel tires this week with Jan Heine of Rene Herse Cycles. Drawing on decades of experience and very specific testing, Jan walk us through all the tire considerations from size to pressure to knob patterns. This episode is a must-listen for any gravel cyclist.  Episode sponsor:  PNW Components (use code 'thegravelride' for 15% off) Support the podcast Rene Herse Cycles Website Rene Herse Cycles Instagram Rene Herse Cycles - Jan Heine takes us on a gravel tire deep dive 00:00:00 - 00:05:00 Hello and welcome to another edition of the gravel ride podcast. I'm your host Craig. Dalton. This week's episode is brought to you our friends at P. N. W. Components. I got to sit down with Erin Kershaw and one of the CO founders of peon w a couple episodes ago, and it was great to learn the back story of the company I've always been impressed as a customer from way back when as. To their customer service and I've been even more impressed by their products. I spoke a little bit more about the coast handlebar. I've been riding a few episodes ago but I wanted to add on the coast dropper post the suspended version. That's right. Not only am I in the dropper camp but I'm writing suspended post and I've been really excited about how it's been performing. I've had a bit of a bad. And while I keep the pressure quite high because I don't want a lot of movement in it when it does move I realized that I've probably taken a pretty substantial hit on the back of my bike, and this is really saving my body. I'm a big advocate of configuring your bike to support you for longer and longer journeys and I think taking the edge off really. Falls into that camp. So I've been super jazzed by the coast dropper suspended post. So head on over to pin W components, dot com, and check out the product line that they're offering and see if anything they're offering helps you get where you need to go with your current bike set-up gravel ride listeners can use the code the gravel ride for fifteen percent off their order. So guys you to click in and grab those handlebars because we're on for an awesome ride today. got. Yon. Haina from Rene air cycles coming to talk to us about tires. I don't think there's a single episode IV recorded that I've learned more than in this conversation with John It. All kicked off in episode for of in the dirt where we discussed an article yon had posted on the Rene our website blog entitled wise seven hundred c wheels don't roll faster Randall and I, both had our own takes on the article but suffice it to say it was extremely thought provoking I got a ton of emails and a ton. Of comments on facebook about our conclusions and it was a natural place for me to go to talk to Yon and say, Hey, why don't you come on the podcast and talk us through all the different things that went into that blog post and all the different things you've kind of accumulated in terms of tire knowledge over the last decade, we touch on rim sizes we talk about tire casings we talk about tire tread patterns, and we talk about tire inflation I'm going to warn you. I think this is one of those. Ads that you might need to listen to more than once in order to take it all in I know for me tires of been this journey of understanding and nailing down my tire pressure numbers has been something I've played around a ton with to try to get the personality of the bike that I'm looking for as Yon Concludes the conversation he highlights something I believe as well that the. Tire and wheel combination is very unique and important area of any gravel rig and it can dramatically change the performance personality and characteristics of your ride. So it's something don't be afraid to play around with try things that are radically different, try higher and lower tire pressures to figure out what the sweet spot is. Well, that's probably enough preamble. Let's dive right into this week's episode. Welcome to the show. Hi. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to talk to you too. DAD LOVES TO START OFF BY JUST getting a little bit about your background as a cyclist before we jump into learning a little bit more about your. Company. G. Yeah. Since liking on my life pretty much I grew up in Germany and there were eye I lived on the very popular route for for braces to train. So every weekend, there were these groups of five, six, seven people on the beautiful bikes you know flying by the House and it just seems so so we're learning. Mountain racing inside the racing, but they'll also. Always was thinking about what sort of behind the horizon always wanted to explore for the so Back in Germany I rode to visit friends all over Germany on weekends sort of taking off You know after after Joshua's in college and writing all day and You know exploring new places and that. So from that became yeah. The the long distance is just so appealing to see how far you could go and what you could see. 00:05:02 - 00:10:03 Amazing and that eventually transition to you becoming professional in the bike industry. How did that come about and? Rene was not your first company. I know the brand predates all of us. Yeah so What happened? Here in in in Washington we We have only limited on the roads because it's the mountains and valleys. We have some really really beautiful roads, but there's more and more traffic and we started wondering about the lines on the map that we had seen that Nobody was overwriting on we found these gravel roads and we. Started, exploring them and part of it was the bikes that we had back. Then we're not so useful for that. I started out with a touring bike with specialized try cross knobby tires thirty five millimeter seems huge at the time when we were racing on nineteen on the road. But. It wasn't quite the same feeling as writing on the road. The bike didn't perform the same tires to perform the same. It's we didn't have that. Feeling of almost effortless. You know gliding along that. They enjoyed so much. So the where if you fall starts starts and we finally realize that we need to. Basically racing bike for gravel. And the touring bike nothing bike and renita racing tires for gravel. And that was a consequence through the interest in long distance cycling random during I had done pears pairs. Famous, right. In France, one of the oldest bike races that became an amateur events at seven hundred, fifty miles. And has a long history and all the old riders and racers and Randall nurse. Telling me about these wonderful handmade made tires that they had the nineteen forty that rolled so fast and there were you know thirty five or even forty two movies as wide and. And nothing like that anymore and what a shame. So we started looking into making stuff like that. Again, I imported some very obscure tires from Japan called Mitsubushi Trim lines that We're very good start but we realized that could be improved and we started testing different tires figured out. What makes it? Realize that high pressure weren't necessary to roll past this time when we all wrote that like one, hundred, twenty, five years AJana twenty millimeter tires and we something realize that that's actually was slower than eighty PSI and the twenty millimeters what's lower than twenty five and that sort of set in motion. The whole revolution we publish the findings we talked to some guys were advising professional teams, and then suddenly you saw Servando and others experimenting with Wider Tyres, they went from twenty three to twenty five pressure's lower that was on the road side but we really want to do the gravel, and so you know twenty five didn't do it back. Then even the we called gravel grinders where twenty eight millimeter tires which is. We laugh about it. Now that we were riding other people were writing eighty PSI twenty, twenty, eight millimeter tires on gravel and. So we were you know we looked into the forty two we looked into the smaller wheeled sixty and all that. and. All those roads sort of led to to the trench spikes because back then in the mountains of the Alps. In France of course, most roads were gravel. So they didn't think of gravel writing. There was this writing and if she wants to do go up the DA or something like that you went on Garoppolo growth. And so the bikes without existed and there were quite sophisticated because. The, how to say the technology hasn't changed that much apart from carbon titanium but otherwise. Human bodies. Sort of are still the same now where fifty eight years ago. and the technology was really well developed by nineteen thirty. And filter pretty quickly down to bicycles like and that's where renting come in who was an airplane builder who worked on prototype aircraft. including the first thing to fly across the Atlantic compares to New York which. A few years after Charles. Lindbergh. But was against the win. So it was a lot harder. They took thirty six hours of non of flying and. Anyway the reindeer started making bikes because he was an avid cyclist and Vice. Where sort of the gravel bikes that we need with the big tires very lightweight basically racing bikes for gravel road, racing bikes, fenders, and racks for bringing a few things lights who riding at night. But still high-performance bikes touring bikes ranks. That's sort of opened our eyes of what was audible. 00:10:04 - 00:15:02 That's an amazing origin story. Can I ask you to describe sort of random nearing as a aspect of the sport because I think some of my listeners imagine many of them aren't familiar with what that term actually refers to. Well. Originally, it's a French term that basically just made heike and it was. Transferred, to bicycle. As going long distances on the bike Really you know high pay and the light load. So not carrying a tent and you know your kitchen sink but carrying a small bag and. Yeah. Pushing the boundaries software you could go there was Oregon the Nineties magazine Sevilla's you put all the challenge for hours. How far can you get in forty hours and all these reader it's and said, I went to the mall to from Leon back and all kinds of adventures. So it's sort of took off from there. It's really interesting to me looking at it because I clearly, it's the same. Spirit as what we associate with growl riding today and in many ways even more. So with these multi-day, super long events that Renner's tend towards. Yeah I mean it's really you know now we have a lot of them gravel tour divide. So mountain race things like that are are sort of going back to the roots of cycling of exploring places that we usually don't go and so on. So, and rendering became a little more established. They organize these events two, hundred, three, hundred, four, hundred, six, hundred, and one, thousand, two, hundred kilometer they called pervades, which means basically you get the diploma you have passed the test or something and how it works is the you check in at certain points to show that you've completed the whole course you get your card stamped and often it's a convenience stores you just you know get the receipt or something. And at the end, you can get the medal So that's the institutional part of the sport and it's also great fun. But more often we just had thousand miles is because we wanted to see where we can go. Once we set ourselves a challenge going from Seattle to the highest roads on Mount Saint Helen then to the highest roads on Mount Rainier and back in twenty four hours. So that was really fun project we finished with twelve minutes to spare and But one of the greatest memories. Of Riding Bikes in the cascade that I think there's a lot of stories out there for people who are interested in understanding Randy nearing a little bit more. It's it's seems like an amazing side of the sport and just a unique way of challenging yourself that doesn't involve necessarily pinning a number on it. It's from listening to you. It seems like it's really about. The adventure and setting a challenge to lower what your world around you. Yeah. Absolutely I mean the one thing that I really enjoy about random dorien. It's much more about teamwork because. I recorded, but it's not there's no winner. So first of all, just the fastest if you're the fastest, but you aren't any better than the others, but taking the for group of people comes in together the times the only report it to the minutes. So there's no sprint. Yeah. You know when I was racing was always you in the breakaway with three other guys and you're working well together and just sort of this feeling of almost loved like everybody's doing their part you're. Does Well oiled machine of of a baseline rotating, and then suddenly they signed a two one kilometer and you turn into end, you need to think about how can I out smart the other guys how can out sprint them and deep down I was always feeling like well, the other guys deserve to win just as much as I do but that's not how you racist. So rendering sort of allows that where you all across the finish line together and you know you like. Related and you did yeah and one of the four that I won other three say I'll shoot you know I should have. Stars in my sprint a little sooner or puts a little more into it or not taking that many pools earlier or stuff like that. You know they're no regret. Yeah and. That's the way I know I feel in the middle of pack of a gravel racism I'm happy to have completed the event and I really love that whether it's the first person in line or the last person at the end of the race. We all had that similar experience. We can enjoy ourselves talking about the roads we just conquered in the trails we just concord. That's really why grabble rating has taken off so much I mean gravel itself I find fascinating because the bike has a little more freedom to move around. So you can play with the bike into the more vs on the roads where if you break traction usually you go down. 00:15:02 - 00:20:11 So it's it's more prescriptive on the broke whereas on gravel. If you go to fast, you get the big slide and he said, well, I should call them slower next time And but I think the main thing is the competition is this but it's much more friendly. It's much more. You know nobody said, well, I can eighty nine I'm better than you because you came only ninety. Yeah absolutely. My brief foray into the sport of triathlon I distinctly remember sort of people wanting to race me for four hundred place at Ironman not even that probably way back of the pack, but you know what? I don't in a gravel race I don't look at the guy next to me on a climate and think, oh, I need to beat you up this climb i. kind of look at him or her and say to myself. We're in a beautiful place we're exploring. We're having an adventure sure and much like mountain biking when you have those skit out moments in a gravel event and your heart races, it's just fun. It's part of the overall experience you kind of pushing the bike and your body to its limits. Absolutely, so let's talk a little bit about tires for the listener. Tie creating tire is a difficult and expensive process. Can you just give us the high notes because I know between like creating a mold and selecting the rubber compound? There's a lot of. Design decisions that go into and expense to get to the tires we see in the market today. Yeah I mean there definitely is I think the biggest revolution was realizing that high pressure aren't necessarily because before you had A. Big Tradeoff and this more now, just about the about the basics of tires. where you could either make a wide tire that was supple and you know how to say like a racing tire, but it hasn't really pressures because as the title gets wider the. The case gets a lot more stress. So you can have a narrow high pressure tires. You can have wide tires that either has low pressure or had to be really stiff to withstand the high pressure. Since we all thought that low pressure were slow high-pressure passed. It was really no way of making a high performance tire because. In with an tired, you make a really supple tire like hand May. And you can still inflate the two hundred and thirty PSI because it's so narrow the forces on. So small. But it was the why has the choice of either the touring Kinda tire that was reinforced everywhere, and you could run that say hundred PSI or you could make a hypothetical racing tire forty, two, million whiz but with only take sixty I or something like that and then sixty. PSI. That's GONNA be so slow and sluggish. So nobody even tried. I think the the revolution came when we realized that the higher precious make the bike vibrate faster. So it's fueled faster to lot of writers. Because you know vibration frequency either changes because of the tire pressure or because of you speed if you're going twice the speed, your bike hits all these little capitals on the road twice as quickly, and so the vibration has also doubled. So there's a sort of Prosieben you pump up your tires harder and faster, but it actually isn't it's we measured that on real roads with real right or power meters, roll down all kinds of different. Methods to make sure that that are results really weren't just flukes. statistical analysis all that stuff I want to into that too much. We realized that it's really not true. You can let out as much air as you want almost until the tire so that it becomes almost undrivable and only roughly at that point, it does get slow. Tell you flat tires really slow but there's no need for a hundred and thirty. Even with Racing Geyer and you know now we all say, well, of course, we know that but that was quite revolutionary. What's fifteen years ago or so and so that's realize those tires I mentioned earlier that the old French guys we're talking about really it works you make a racing tire that forty two millimeters wide you only inflate the to. Forty, or fifty PSI, and do all the stuff that you do on the twenty three millimeter racing i. Yes definitely it's definitely one of those things I tell you time and time again, I, speak to you athletes who are coming from the road side of the world and they are absolutely gobsmack. Them, you know I'm running on my six fifty be forty-sevens you know under thirty Psi they they absolutely cannot believe it. Yeah, and you know what's happening is actually physically it's quite interesting and easy to understand There's two ways the tire causes resistance. Wonder if the tire flexes, it's sort of like when you squeeze a tennis ball, how you hand gets tired because you know at the bottom, of course, the tire deforms and the more it deforms the more energy is absorbed, but also the harder it is the more energy as a source else squishing marsh mental doesn't take much for swishing tennis balls much harder because sensible, it's sorta hard. 00:20:14 - 00:25:02 And from that perspective, it would make sense to run higher pressures because less defamation means that energy absorption do one however the tire that's as supple as possible because again, for the same deformation he wants to use as. Possible. What people had overlooked in the past was that there's another way of absorbing energy and does sport. We called the suspension losses one week what is called the suspension losses? It was the US Army's that secret this way back in the sixties when they test the tanks used for some really lightweight for top secrets vehicle and they found that if the vibe the too much the rider's body absorb a lot of energy. It's sort of like you drop a beanbag on the ground and it doesn't bounce up because all the energy. Of the of the drop has been absorbed by friction between the that'll beans inside. And the human body is very good that absorbing energy to so she by vibrates. You slow down just because energy is lost it's sort of the discomfort that you feel you can. Even if you're rising really rough roads, you can feel your body gets warm So it's a huge amount of energy loss the. Two Thousand Watts know you and I know there's no professional sprinter who can put up two thousand watts. So in theory, you could absorb all your peddling energy on through those suspension losses and you can feel that if you go from the smooth wrote to a restaurant, how much you slow down? Even though. You know it's still a flat road there. There's no more wintry this than the tired deforms a little more but of that goes into the suspension bosses. And so of course. The Nest of vibrates? Let's ascension office you have. Which means? You're gaining again what you lost because the tire more with lower pressures. So with high pressures, tire states colds there's no energy loss, the tire, but your body gets warm. You're uncomfortable you lose all the energy there with low pressure. You don't do any energy in your body. You'll lose a little more tire, but the net result is the same so you know if I play my tires to the Max pressure or to. Something much more reasonable as. Really. No. Bearing on how fast the world on the smooth wrote. It's such an interesting equation and it comes up. So often in gravel cycling I, find because you definitely have to balance what your body is receiving as an input along with the efficiency of the bicycle that you're on. So. Yeah. What's interesting on gravel is that actually equation turns in favor of the low pressures. Because there's so much regulation that running lower prices just simply more Christians I think that well, we did this we ran on rumble strips that you have on the sides of highway because gravel it sort of not uniform were for scientific experiments you want something that's more replicable. So, we wrote on the smooth pavements. Nixed to the rumble strip on the brand new roads, and then we rolled over the rumble strip where the power meter and it was quite interesting. First of all, of course, how much harder I I was the experiment because everybody else refuse to write twenty miles rumble strips. I can tell you it eats up especially back then because we're on twenty eight goonies attire but on the rumble strips lower pressure was so much faster as you can imagine I mean. So you know running a forty two millimeter and thirty PSI versus sixty PSI on the rumble strips. The sixty PSI was waste law yet. That's so interesting. I also noted on your site, which is unique for tire manufacturer. The you've got four different casing options. Can you talk through kind of what those translate to for the writer? Yeah. I mean really what testing found and I guess what pro reads known forever is the only thing that really matters and making attire fast is the case thing how much energy is absorbed the marshmallow versus the tennis ball versus I don't know what maybe even something even harder and so It's always of course, the tradeoff you can make a super super fast casing. But but it's very fragile because it's paper send it. Doesn't you know doesn't withstand the rigors of real rose then also gets quite expensive. We talked about Kiai the finer the threads are the the more suppled vacationing gets the fastest. It's also the easier it becomes to cut unfortunately because you know fine threads, you can't cut one by. 00:25:03 - 00:30:10 Did. You ever think thread. Resist that there. So Really, the logical way of thinking about tires casings. So the trade pattern especially when gravel, it doesn't make that big of a difference because you're sliding rocks US sliding on rocks anyway. You're just pushing stuff around. So it's not really how much traction you have on the playoff gravel. It's more how much rocks have months each other so what you really you? Sing on my microphone. Became talk here got what you really want in the in to think about your tires, which cases you want to run. And in our case, we have four one this the extra light, which is sort of the. Top embracing casing that the. Is Actually not as fragile as love. The people think because one of the advantage with the white tires we have is that they run at such low precious they become a charter to cut. as you come out I mean you ever tired two hundred twenty Psi you right over something the only place that has to go into the tire and the tire can't before him around it. Whereas if you're right over, you know glass with a bike five PSI. Nothing's GonNa cut that tie. It's like PSI accept a really big nail or something because I just deforms around around the the obstacles. So you know even with a forty eight millimeter tire. At say twenty, five pm you have a lot fewer flats than you would with a narrow tire even with the same casing the same about the sidewalk cuts again, if the sidewall can can deflect than get cut you know it's much less fragile. but still you know you are in the gravel race, you're the Peleton you don't see where you're going I will ride the extra vacation. Okay. So for that, we also have a standard casing, which is mostly a more economical option. The threads are a little wider thicker. It's a little stronger. Of course, it's a little slower. It's a little less comfortable. but that's sort of the the he was called the standard case and that's the one we started out with before. We really pushed the envelope with the extra night. We have reinforced casing, which is the fine threads of the extra light, but with a picture and cuts proof layer underneath both the side walls and the tread. So that sort of our goto gravel, a racing tire because it's just a lot more punter country this and. Then, we have the endurance plus which is for. It King. Thirty can you know where basically just the rocks are really rough. Speeds are really high it's stuff. The people don't see where they're going. They just hit stuff right next and. It's sort of yeah. Let's say carnage but but you know that's that's sort of even stronger tire with a stronger puncture resistant layer. It's still remarkably fast because we say high end materials but it's it's definitely pushing toward. Toward the durability is the I would say outside the down the mountain bike world is one of the strongest is you can find your I think when anybody talks about the dirty cans, of course, they always talk about sidewall cuts as being the you never one risk factor. The and you know especially in the race I mean if I'm renting for example where my absolute time is the goal. If I have a tire that saved me hour over say two hundred ride and I have one slack. I can fix that in less than an hour. There's sort of by trade off. The race and I mean the front group. If I'm ten seconds duck, I'm already dropped I'm never gonna see those guys again. And so the calculation becomes quite different. It's orpheum game theory sort of analysis where in racing. The how to say the risk of getting draft is made concern but not your absolute time. Yeah and I think that calculation is something that a lot of athletes tend to make some errors in in thinking that they are in the front end of the race meaning they are the King Group. Versus. You know being realistic and saying, where where am I going to better serve myself going back to are taking care of your body part of the equation. You're much better to take care of your body and go faster than set up really hard bike and hard tire setup that's not going to serve your body well. The funny thing is it's not koster either you know the the idea from road racing in the old days. Especially, if I can suffer I'll be faster because I run narrow tires run higher pressures been drawn and you seen pro racing. You know now the Tour de France was going on, you don't see anybody on twenty million tires anymore even twenty three don't exist anymore it's all twenty five people run twenty, eight nobody's at one hundred thirty PSI anymore because what we found is because of those vibration losses, the suspension losses. 00:30:11 - 00:35:08 Suffering doesn't make you faster actually comfort is faster because if you look vibrating, you are not losing energy it's sort of the same as you look at the off road racing truck for the Baja raised or something they have huge tires that have suspension and it's not because they want to be comfortable for the driver. It's they wanted to get the speed you know and. It's the same thing for us. Oh, you know people always say this too much higher for that event and really. That question doesn't exist. You Never GonNa be South on the twenty eighth than on the thirty five even on pavement but much less on gravel and a forty two is going to be faster than the thirty five and forty eight will be even. Yeah. You're. GonNa say I was interviewing Ted King think of his last year or maybe even the year before he had made a comment saying he's never regretted going wider on his tire. Although it took some convincing him when we came out with with white tires. Yeah, because you know I mean there is of course, one of the equation and that is as a racer if you are the strongest race or And you have the same equipment that everybody else you're GONNA win. and. So as long as you feel that you're stronger than the other guy's using different equipment from the other guys carries the risk because we sometimes don't know everything like you know the current signed says the current sites signs ten years ago said or fifteen years ago. So that should run twenty millimeter tires the hundred and thirty five, and I can tell you those things are way slower than twenty five. I mean it's like completely easy to measure. We don't have to do a huge amount of of of of measuring. And so if but if everybody's on the twenty, one, hundred, thirty PSI is. The stronger guy wins and every race or of course at the field they're stronger otherwise they wouldn't show at the start line. So it's very rare. You know the fake fame Greg Lemond Arab our story where he was so far behind he had nothing to lose and no the only hope of winning what to get some sort of equipment advantage but that's extremely rare usually. You know you don't want to make a mistake and so if you do what everybody else does. It sort of the same thing to do and it makes perfect sense for racer. Yeah. That's an interesting. That's an interesting comment. I think it's at the conclusion of your article Wi- seven hundred don't roll faster that. Ted has been exploring and using six fifty and a lot of his adventure ridings but he's still racing on seven hundred C and it sounded like at the end of that article and you you had just said this that you know it's the safe choice for him. Yeah and you know it's just like. How to say signs always changes so. how to say it's sort of like even medical science. You don't take medication I miss you are you're sick you know because then you say, well, what do I have to lose? Greg Lemond or even the guy like me you know, I need every advantage I can get. So I'M GONNA run the white tires and the casing and all those things. I mean, I'm not gonNA stay with Ted King I can tell you that. But at least you know I can I can maybe stay with the group that otherwise couldn't stay with. But if you're the guy who wins anyway. By Gosh look on the run any risks? Yup. So one of the things that is a constant source of debate around the gravel community is obviously seven hundred versus six, fifty be and I don't think it. So much as a debate, it's more around what tire with your bike can accommodate. Right. So as as option in the article. Go Ahead I think that's actually the biggest constraint with tires is not that wide slower. At some point, you get to the point where you can build a performance bike anymore. Right and you know you look at the mountain bike on is slower than the gravel bike because it goes wider cranes because there's all kinds of constraints and then you look at the path bike that's really slow and the main reason it's slow is just you can't peddle it efficiently because the cranks are too wide and it's all about bio mechanics. and. So from that perspective, your the real problem is, what can we fit into a bike and still make it? Be a racing bike. Right. Yeah, I think I'm guilty for sort of leaning into the six fifty versus seven hundred. But as I analyze my thoughts, it's really about the width of the tire more. So than a care, one way or the other about seven, hundred, sixty, six, fifty b because as you've you've said in the article like the, it's very small differences in size at the end of the day particularly, it's often made up by the tire volume itself. 00:35:09 - 00:40:05 Yeah I mean definitely, yours interested about forty eight has the same outer diameter as a seven, hundred, twenty eight. So you know it's not and if big O. Tires really role better than you should put the tires or bigger wheels, you should put the biggest hires on because you know you can gain you get another few million. But it's always it was A. Rate, the bicycles thinker and scientists Jim Popadopoulos who said sites always very good at identifying potentially important variables and then arguing over meaningless differences. Just, like we talk about a pardon bracket high side millimeters lower makes the bike handle better, and then you look at where you sent gravity is it's about three feet off the ground and you know lowering that by five millimeters if you can't feel that. I want to see it. You know, and so I think we the tendency clearly i. mean it makes sense if you run a twelve inch wheel or something like that, it's going to be slower no doubt about it. But like you're saying between six, sixty, seven, hundred teeth, the difference is small and the other thing people. Think about either is that the tire isn't brown it stopped at the Boston. So most of the vibration gets absorbed into the bike doesn't have to get lifted over all these little box like you know like an old carriage did and don't care when you look at the stage coach from the rest of that huge wheels. Of course, the roads were really rough but The main reason is that if you need to lift the whole the whole vehicle, you know the whole bike, the whole carrots over those bumps speaker, we'll do work better. But ONCE YOU HAVE AIR YOU'RE TIRED You're sort of. Say. It's almost like the cat ATTRAC- where the Boston slopped, right? Yeah. It's interesting and you've got some great hand-drawn they look. Diagrams in that article on your blog. So I encourage listeners to go over to the site and I can link to it and our our show notes. I wanted to go back to a comment. You made about the tread patterns because I've been exploring. It seems like less and less tread on my gravel tires even though I tend to ride pretty aggressive terrain in. Marin. County can you go back to your comment about tread patterns and how you guys think about it? Yeah I mean we started out with road tires because that's all we have and You know we rewrote the some Nabis and song really found that there was very little difference on gravel because as said what happens is you're pushing around gravel sliding you're not. You know on the road what happens is they asshole doesn't move your tire slips on the asphalt. So kids even more drips you can get between asphalt entire the less likely you're gonNA slipped but on gravel that's not really a problem you're sort of tires digging into the ground anyway, and then just push. The gravel because usually the gravel is news and easy to to move so. That's what's happening and so tired I can't really help you there because you're balk sliding on box and the tired doesn't even touch the parts that. That, the sliding. So are your are. It looks like you're knob pattern is quite similar between like Juniper Ridge and a Pumpkin Ridge. So you've got that in one category and then you essentially have a slick tire as the other category of of tire that you offer. Yeah. Well, basically, what we found is there's to use. The two scenarios. One is where you can make a print footprint in the in the soil, but say it's news. Loose soil usually my I mean I'm coming from the sites across background and they of course, you need because because the just slips on the on the top layer of the deep you can dig in the mud, the better the the attraction you get. And So basically, I would say the the simple rule that if you can new tire tracks really making making little holes in the ground. Then then tread does make a difference. unless it's really new sand where really again uses pushing around San. You know there's there's not much that helps when you look at the Dune Buggy doesn't have a very aggressive tread. It's just the biggest tires they can fit on the on the Volkswagen Beetle Chassis or whatever they're using these right so. Yeah, they think there's two ways of thinking about about our tire treads. One is is basically a row tire which is optimized fast. Fox and you owned one to real slick tire for the assault because there needs to be a little bit Off Linking between the road surface ends the tire. 00:40:05 - 00:45:12 That's also why roads are never totally smooth when you talk to role billed as they say, yeah, we could make perfectly smooth asphalt, but the braking distances would just be too great. So they they always have some some roughness building and the tire that can interlock with a brusqueness gives you attraction especially in the wet I mean when you think about it the Coefficient of friction is about how when the roses wet but you and I know that we can go faster than the speed on the wet road than the driver then this it's already or something but. and that's because they that interlocking between higher and you always get some of it's because the rubber is is, is of course flexible. But if you have little ribs like traditional racing tires you get more of it and I think the traditional racing tires had because the rubber compounds way back where not very good and especially in the wet day they didn't drip. So they need to get every help. They could they got these these trips hazards but even with today's rubber compounds which are much better it's surprising. How much more group you get with a really really good tread on asphalt in the West especially. Smelling gravel I would say on loose gravel it doesn't that you can write anything because you're pushing around rocks and gravel and and that's it. It's a little different on dirt and so it depends on what you gravel looks like I think you're and by gravel look somewhat similar in Seattle in the cascades in Marin County, it's pretty new stuff. I would say Thai attract doesn't help you a lot in most cases unless it gets muddy or snowy or something I think going east like Vermont and so it's a little different there. It's more more soil and dirt on those roads and there you can get better traction with the Nabis and so we developed the knobby at first of all that I took cross but you know all so. for for for those conditions And then of course was always frustrating to me. Is I run these wonderful you know handmaid's be Nabis. Tiny knobs that spread really widely and on mud. It's amazing how well they grip but each across rates has a little bit of pavement an unjust like the knobs are folding over and I can be pedaling just waiting until I get back on the mud. So I can put down power again I thought this is ridiculous. I. Should make speed on the on the pavements and so the question we had was, can you make a Nabi that? Works well. and well in the mud. The past we've had these sort of center ridge kind of knobby tires that really too many dogs to work in the mud because they you know to roll smoothly they put more and more knobs on the. But then clogs up with mud and doesn't care itself as it rotates So you just basically started writing on the budget brother than then digging into the surface you have sleep tired that made out of. interesting folks from from my be cross raises I? Mean there's some some peanut butter mother where you can't do anything anyway. But you know sort of that compromise our question was, could we make the not so big that they don't squirm on the pavement But still have enough space in between. That they kill themselves and still make them small enough that they dig into. The answers yet? it took a lot of experimentation or we started with calculations because as you mentioned earlier the time over very expensive, you can't just make a prototype. You basically commit to to more or less production run. but anyway, and we found you can I mean you can make a knobby tire the the coroner's really well, the rights almost like a slick tire on the road. And that still drifts extremely well in the modern smell and so on. So that's the second pair we offer, which is basically you know A. A mutt tire that works really well on the road versus the other tire that the road tire that works really well on gravel and gravel the intersection where I would say. He can run either I mean tha king ran the Nabis endured cancer in In the mid south ran the slicks and. You know he says there's there's not much in between between them on those courses. Yeah I think it's really interesting and sort of mind blowing the first time you ride a slick tire off road and. It's surprising how well they do perform. A. Mean. Realistically you look at you know you drive your car on the gravel road you don't have huge op speaking out of those tires either if it's not to say it's not necessarily. Well like a lot. About the I mean you know if you're in snow and you know that your car to drive on snow it's super easy to spin the wheel even though with even though you might have four wheel drive because just they don't drip and if you have real like rally snow tires on your car, you know it's it's different than the same with the bike. 00:45:12 - 00:48:45 I mean that's where you know if if I expect any snow or mud on the right definitely puts the NABIS. On one hundred, zero saved in between right and that's the beauty of. Of the tires we were able to develop his role. So well, payment actually better than the month of racing slicks in our testing. That you don't have to compromise so much anymore you can. You know we did one right where we traverse the cascades. In January not the super hypothesis because you know ten feet of snow, it's not like you want to do but we went at the foot of months in Helen on roads that are close to car so. Wonderful writing. But we had like a hundred miles of. What we call transport states just roads riding to get that because we took the train to the you know to the jumping off point. Then we rose across the the mountains and took a train back. And Really It wasn't a chore to write all that Pavement on the on the in fact, we forgot about the now time Britain that course many times wasn't any slower than usual would be right. Interesting. Will Jana I appreciate all the time today it's given a great background to your company and your history and a love getting the insight into these tires because I think there's a lot of thought that goes into it in. It's worth my listeners understanding the different variables that you need to be considering when purchasing attire. Thanks a lot and yeah, I mean definitely. Yeah. I. Think the tires are probably part of your bike that makes the biggest difference in how the bike fields and performs and Maybe, we made those tires because we wanted tires to ride ourselves, and that's always been sort of driving or development. is where and how and what we want to ride. So. Thanks a lot for having me. Big. Thanks John for coming on the show and I hope you learned a ton about tires, tire pressure and tire treads during the conversation I. Know I did there was a lot to that conversation. So don't be afraid to rewind and hit play again and take some notes. I think we can all learn a lot from yawn and the great news is a lot of the things he said can be applied to your existing wheel, set your existing tires to test and learn and see if some. Of the things that he's discovered in his writing and testing match with your own personal tests on the road and trail. Big. 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Hello, everybody, I’m your host Julia Doherty and a very warm welcome to the last episode 13 in this season of the Adventure Geek Walking Podcast.  As many of you know, we started this podcast as a way of giving something back to our walking club members who decided to continue to support our club through this very difficult time.  Twelve weeks on and we are now out walking again which is brilliant, albeit in smaller groups. As mentioned, this is the last episode for this season of the podcast.  I am setting off to walk the 89 miles of the Jurassic Way on Saturday 4th July, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, through Northants and ending up in Banbury.  Then our next long-distance hike is along Hadrians Wall in September, followed by the Camino de Santiago through the Pyrenees mountains in Spain in October.  As you can imagine, with planning and training for these adventures, along with running a busy walking club, my time is quite limited.  If we decide to launch season two, then this will be when I return from the Camino.  Watch this space.   Onto the show! This is a show for those who love everything to do with the outdoors, backpacking, hiking and of course walking. Hopefully, we have something for everyone in each episode. So without further ado, let me explain the contents of this week's show.   We always start the podcast with a bit of a quiz in the form of “guess the sound” - sorry, but it is a weird one again this week!   Segment two continues with the adventures of Janet & John’s latest antics.  As one adventure comes to an end, another adventure is about to begin!   We have no interview this week, so segment three is the education slot.  This week I will share with you my top tips to lighten your load when on a long distance backpacking trip.   We then end the show with Derek & Doreen.  This week Doreen is feeling fruity and discovers the joy of swinging, much to Dereks delight.   So, without further ado, let’s get this show on the road, and see if you can guess this week’s soundbite.  I did promise a bit of a clue.  So, Google told me that these animals have four stomachs!   PLAY SOUND   I am not sure how many people will get that one?  Well, you might if you live in North America or Eatern Asia!  As always, the answer to the soundbite will be revealed at the end of the podcast along with some facts about this creature.  Right, now over to shiny shoes for the last episode of this season of Janet & John.  Over to you John!   SWOOSH   PLAY JANET & JOHN’S EPISODE   I feel a bit sad knowing that we won’t be hearing from Janet and John for a little while.  John Pettinger is the author and narrator of this series and he has been an absolute pleasure to work with.   Thanks John, for everything that you have put into this show.  I hope that you continue to get more content ideas as you join us on our walks so that we can revisit the brother and sister duo in the future.     PING   Right, time for this week’s education slot.   As I am heading off to backpack the Jurassic Way on Saturday, I thought I would share with you some of my top tips for lightning your load when on a long distance hike.   I will never forget seeing a little Korean lady on the Camino last year who carried the biggest rucksack you have ever seen!  As a golden rule, for a non-camping style hike then you really want to keep to under 10% of your body weight on your back.  If you rucksack is too heavy then with a matter of days your will start to have problems with your lower back, hips and shoulders.  In addition to this, you will also increase the risk of painful blisters and shin splints, which are pure evil when you are on an adventure.   My top tips:-   #1 - Wash & go.  Yep, only carry one set of clothing, and wear one set of clothing.  Then wash your clothes as you go.  Because you are going away for a 2 week walking holiday, you only need two pairs of undies, not 14!   #2- If you are looking at camping along the way, then look for a tent that uses walking poles as the frame rather than taking an additional set of poles.  I use the Lanshan 2 person tent and it weighs less than 2lbs in weight.   #3 - Water is probably the heaviest thing you will carry on a hike.  If you know that you will be passing streams, lakes and rivers, then pack a water filter such as the Sawyer Squeeze or Be Free water filter and fill up as you go.   #4 - If you are on the Camino or a similar sort of trip then take something like a Lush Shampoo Bar.  This will wash your clothes, body and hair and one bar will last about a month.  This saves weight rather than packing separate containers.   #5 - Think about your backpack.  I started off with an Osprey 65L pack, and I filled a 65L pack.  I now walk with a much lighter rucksack, the Salomon Out Week 38L, which means I don’t have as much room to put stuff.  A smaller and lighter pack forces you to think about what you are going to take with you.   In all honesty, I could easily talk about this topic for a good hour or so as I have learnt so much over the last few year.  If you have any questions about how to lighten your pack, then simply message me on the Facebook page, or email julia@adventuregeek.co.uk - i’m happy to help.   PING    Before we go into our finale with “Derek & Doreen” I would like to reveal the soundbite answer from the beginning of the show.  For those of you who guessed an Elk, you would be right!   Elk live 20 years or more in captivity but average 10 to 13 years in the wild.   Only the males have antlers, which start growing in the spring and are shed each winter. The largest antlers may be 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) long and weigh 18 kilograms (40 pounds).   Elk are social animals who live in same-sex herds of 10 to 20 individuals         PING   We are going to end the podcast Derek and Doreen’s latest adventure as venture off to once again see Michael at Cotswold Outdoors…    PLAY DEREK & DOREEN EPISODE 1   Thanks Nigel, how did you do that without laughing?  I was in fits!  By the way, I popped into Cotswold Outdoors last weekend and bumped into Michael, but I didn’t have the heart to tell him that he was a superstar on our podcast!  Nigel, I think everyone is in love with Derek & Doreen.  Those of you who are listeners and part of the AG club will recognise some of the traits of these two individuals - I will say no more!  Nigel, I know how much work has been put into these episodes each week and I can’t thank you enough.  It was also your idea to do the podcast in the first place and what a brilliant idea it was.  Cheers mate!   As I draw the podcast to a close, I would like to leave you with this final thought.   Remember that you don’t need to take any notes as we do all that for you. Links to anything that has been mentioned in today’s show can be found at www.adventuregeek.co.uk/podcastEP13     All that leaves me to say is Get Outside, Get Inspired, Now Go Take A Hike when you can.  In the meantime, be safe.       See you next week!

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John Kelley who is the face of the JK is Hiking YouTube channel joins me for an informal conversation that's totally unscripted. We discuss everything from running a YouTube channel to camping with kids and training to hike in high elevations. Thanks John for hanging out and having a fun conversation! Be sure to check out JK's podcast, The Backpacking Podcast.  Check out JK is Hiking on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChLmIlR2b8Bl0-F7u1vLYUQ This episode is sponsored by Art Of The Trek. Check them out for a slick mapping and trip planning tool: http://www.artofthetrek.com The Backpacking Experience is supported by the Backcountry Exposure YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/backcountryexposure Got questions about backpacking? Shoot me and email and let's chat! Backcountryexposure@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebackpackingexperience/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebackpackingexperience/support

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 52 where today we hear how listeners are applying the content from this podcast in their daily lives. At the end of most podcast episodes I often mention that it would be helpful to hear reactions from listeners to the content of that day’s episode. I am especially interested in how listeners are using what we talk about to transform their relationships into the best they can be. Because when we hear how someone else is putting into practice the ideas and principles we discuss on the show, it can stimulate the rest of us to apply those same ideas and principles - so we can find more joy in our relationships. Today I have 6 brief stories from listeners that will hopefully do just that for you. Help you to find more joy in your relationships. So listen in. The first listener response comes from a missionary who commented on my blog post of January 15, Kindness Before Dawn. In it I tell a brief story that showed how we can encourage people simply by telling them something we remember about them. I asked our readers to think of someone they could encourage by doing the same thing. This particular missionary responded with the simple words, “Thanks John, I got a couple in mind.” Wonderful! Imagine if we all had a “couple in mind” we could encourage. By the way, the blog posts I wrote are what I do in-between podcast seasons. They are sent out through my “Every Wednesday” emails. If you’d like to get on my private email list to receive these, go to johncertalic.com/blog and fill out the form you’ll see there. You can also read all my blog posts there. The 2nd response I want to share with you is from a retired missionary. All caught up on season 2. “Caught up? You’re never behind” Response to episode 48, 1st one in season 3, “Worship Without Words” Recently moved to another part of the country, 1 of more than 30 moves Quote from her email “The Lord continues to be my hope and strength.” We can’t do any of this without Him. Next response is from a young mom with 3 young kids, also writing in about episode 48, "Worship Without Words.” Where I talk about how we worship God through our relationships, not just our singing. Like me, she can’t sing either. “I have the worst singing voice of all time.” Self-conscious about it Quote from her email about how freeing it is to worship with our relationships A 4th response comes from a seasoned missionary in response to episode 49, “"Sacrifice in Relationships.” It’s a beautiful illustration of the 3 relationships Paul describes in Romans 12, our relationship with God, with our self, and with other people. The Kleenex stuck to the freshly washed clothes Interrupts her plans Asks God “so what’s the lesson?” Quote the rest of her email. Her agenda for the day is interrupted by this nuisance with the Kleenex. It’s irritating, so she asks God, “What’s the lesson here” She recognizes the self-gratification she’s seeking in being compassionate to her neighbor She calls upon the Lord to help her set aside this motive, for the greater good of making the Lord the one who shines in this story, not her. What great self-awareness! Next up is from another missionary about the same episode 49, we’ll call her “Tina.” She writes, I love what you said, “A relationship without sacrifice isn’t really a relationship.” Then she goes on to say, Seems it’s usually the people who are doing the sacrificing that are the ones investing in the relationship. And too many times the receiver (the one not sacrificing) doesn’t think there’s anything “wrong” with the relationship. Know what I mean.” This could be a whole podcast episode in itself. I can feel where Tina’s coming from. These one-sided relationships are worse than no relationship at all. We hope one day the person not sacrificing will realize they are all about taking, with no interest in giving, and then change. But sadly, that rarely happens. And when you as the one who sacrifices sees things for what they are, it can be terribly lonely. Then the question becomes, what do we do with our loneliness? How does God want us to deal with this? How are we to live with the “takers” in our life? We’ll deal with this in a future episode. Well on that happy note, here’s the last response I want to share from one of our listeners. It comes to us from Brad, about my January 8th blog post, “Trying to Stop this in 2020.” Specifically about my desire to stop answering the “Hi, how are you doing?” question with “Fine.” You remember what “F.I. N.E.” stands for don’t you? Feelings Inside Not Expressed. Brad is a recently retired carpet distributor, and wrote this: [Read his email , Shaw-mazing, Shaw-some, Shaw-tastic] Some on our staff are adapting this when people ask how we are doing: Me: “I’m John-top of the world! How about you?” Fran, our receptionist: “Fran-tastic” Sean, our men’s locker room attendant: “Sean-some” Terry, Carol’s husband and our sound engineer: “I’m Terri-ific!” Rex, our doorman: “Rex-cellent!” As Brad said. “I would usually get a smile or a laugh.” Humor has a way of breaking down barriers and bringing in a little relational sunshine into our lives. In my headhunting days, when I was trying to recruit someone for a particular search assignment I was working on, I would often hear, “Nah, I’m not interested in that job. I’m pretty happy where I’m at.” I would then sometimes respond with, “Would you like to be happier?” People would sometimes chuckle, and no one ever changed their mind, but that was okay. It added a little levity to both of our days. Here’s what I learned today. Here’s what struck me The relationship principles we’re dealing with in this podcast have all different kinds of applications, some I never would have thought of. It encourages and motivates me to try what others are doing to find joy in their relationships. If you forget everything else, here’s the one thing I hope you remember from today’s episode. Our show in a sentence It’s encouraging to hear what other people are doing to transform their relationships into the best they can be. When I pay attention to how other people work at transforming their relationships, it gives me hope that maybe I can improve mine. Here are a few ideas for what you can do in response to today’s show. I say this just about every week, but I would love to hear how you’re using the content of the podcast in your relationships. Our other listeners would too, because we can learn from each other - as I hope you have today in hearing from other listeners. You can share your thoughts in the “Leave a Reply” box at the bottom of the show notes. Or you can send them to me in an email to john@caringforothers.org. Closing I hope your thinking was stimulated by today’s show, to both reflect and to act. So that you will find the joy God intends for you through your relationships. Because after all, You Were Made for This. Now for Our Relationship Quote of the Week Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage: anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. — Augustine of Hippo (theologian for parts of the 4th and 5th centuries) That’s all for today. See you next week. Bye for now.

Host of ‘At the Checkpoint’ Huw Williams chats with the Mighty John Hammond about his attempt at this years MONTANE SPINE RACE. John also chats about the fact that he couldn’t swim when he signed up for his first Ironman! His matter of fact approach is great to listen and he also chats training and Kit (he was actually warm for all of the race,link to Buffalo Systems below) Thanks John from us all here ‘At the Checkpoint’. https://www.montane.co.uk/ John was fundraising for uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Hammo7 His Toasty kit is http://www.buffalosystems.co.uk/. SUBSCRIBE TO AT THE CHECKPOINT PODCAST HERE TO MAKE SURE YOU CATCH ALL EPISODES You can also check out and Subscribe to the ‘At the Checkpoint’ YouTube Channel here:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHOP7xJu3-rkl8lGLJ0DnXg Each month on the ‘At the Checkpoint’ YouTube Channel we will be giving away one lucky viewer a At the Checkpoint Truckers Hat ☘️✅

This is episode #37 with Dr. John Dunlosky, a Professor of Psychology at Kent State University, who has contributed empirical and theoretical work on memory and metacognition, including theories of self-regulated learning and metacomprehension. You can watch this interview on Youtube for the visuals.Welcome to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, my name is Andrea Samadi, I’m a former educator whose been fascinated with understanding the science behind high performance strategies in schools, sports and the workplace for the past 20 years. Each week we bring you an expert who has risen to the top in their industry with specific strategies that you can implement immediately to take your results to the next level.I’m so excited to introduce you to Dr. John Dunlosky. John’s research has focused on understanding three inter-related components of self-regulated learning: (1) the monitoring of learning, (2) control of study time, and (3) the application of strategies during learning.  These three components of learning fall under the rubric of metacognition, which is about people's cognition (the mental processes like thinking, knowing, remembering, judging and problem-solving, all involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension).[i] By studying metacognition in students across the life span, a major goal of his research involves developing techniques to improve student learning and achievement.Welcome John! Thank you so much for taking the time away from your important work to be here to share your research and thoughts for improving student learning.Question 1: I first heard you back in 2016 on an Edweek Webinar, speaking about “deliberate practice” being one of the most effective learning strategies, vs cramming, and I wrote that down and that concept has ended up in all my presentations for the K-12 school market ever since. I recently watched your presentation from the McMaster Symposium on Cognition, Learning and Education[ii] where you dive deep into your research. Can you give an overview of what launched your research with learning strategies and do you think that we can learn ANYTHING with enough deliberate practice over time?Question 2: When you were doing your research to find which learning strategies work the best, what surprised you the most, and what feedback did you hear about your discoveries?Question 3: Knowing what strategies scored the highest in your research (distributed practice—spacing study sessions out over time vs cramming) and retrieval practice or practice test taking using multiple choice, fill in the blanks, or essay type recall) do you see that these methods are used more frequently now by students? What have you seen with the application of your research?Question 4: What happens next? Once a student uses distributed practice and retrieval practice, what is successive relearning?Question 5: It caught my attention that a major aim of your research is to develop techniques to improve the effectiveness of people’s self-regulated learning because self-regulation is the most requested topic I see when working with schools, especially with older students (middle school and high school) and it seems to be the skill that challenges most adults (thinking where we are at the start of the year setting new goals for ourselves and many goal-setter fall off their plan before January is complete).  Why did you choose self-regulation opposed to let’s say growth mindset or something, and what are your current goals with your Metacognition and Education Lab?[iii] Note- Self-Regulation is one of the six social and emotional competencies that we dive deep into here on the podcast (episode 14).[iv] Question 6: I was reading your book on the weekend, the first textbook to be written on metacognition, can you share what metacognition is, and why it’s so important for the learning process?Question 7: Is there anything else that’s important that you have uncovered to help improve student learning and achievement that I might have missed? Thank you very much John, for taking the time to be here today to share your knowledge and wisdom on these evidence-based learning strategies. If someone wants to learn more about your work is the best place through Kent State’s website? [v] I’ve also included your full study from Sage Journals[vi] in the show-notes. Thanks John. REFERENCES: [i] The Basics of Cognition and Mental Processes by Kendra Cherry June 16, 2019  https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cognition-2794982[ii] Dr. John Dunlosky McMaster Symposium on Cognition, Learning and Education (YouTube Published Dec. 12, 2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KsC9CktCno&t=2102s[iii] https://www.kent.edu/psychology/metacognition-education-lab [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #14 “Self-Regulation: The foundational Learning Skill for Future Success” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/self-regulation-foundational-learning-skill-for-future/id1469683141?i=1000447299318[v] https://www.kent.edu/psychology/profile/john-dunlosky[vi] https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z10jaVH/60XQM/full 

In our first episode we speak to John Patroulis, Global Chief Creative Officer of Grey.We discuss the billboards that John has been passionate about, from his first to his most awarded and personally rewarding.Before joining Grey, John spent six years at BBH New York, rising to become the first-ever Creative Chairman in 2015. Under his leadership, BBH New York featured in Advertising Age's Creativity A-List and John was named in the Adweek 50. With integrated campaigns for Playstation, Axe, Google and Cole Haan, BBH New York became one of the most awarded agencies in the city, winning multiple Lions across Film, Cyber, and Integrated categories, as well as scooping the Integrated Grand Prix for Netflix "House of Cards."Earlier in his career, John helped co-found both McCann Worldgroup's agencytwofifteen and T.A.G. in San Francisco. There he helped globally lead the Xbox Halo 3 "Believe" campaign, which became the most creatively awarded campaign of the decade, winning multiple Lions and two Grand Prix and at the time became the biggest launch in entertainment history - thanks to its innovative approach to integrated storytelling.A globally recognised creative innovator and leader, John was named Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of Grey in August 2017. In 2019 he was Cannes Lions Jury President for Outdoor Lions where he presided over an international jury focussed on the best-in-class outdoor advertising from the previous year.John travelled to London in December 2019 and found time to sit down with Hugh and Dan to chat about his favourite billboard work.John was super charming, smart, funny, witty, polite, handsome…all things Dan and Hugh desperately aspire to.He talked about his first billboard campaign for Continental Airlines, often spotting his work in the Manhattan night sky on the way home after working late, giving him the confidence he was doing the right thing, a crucial moment in any creative’s career.A few years later the billboard campaign that properly made him famous came from a fairly humbling story. After surviving skin cancer, he was determined to warn others of the perils of the sun. By using a clever printing technique, he created an incredibly impactful campaign for SkinCancer.org, reminding people to wear sunblock on the beach.Finally we talked about the multi-award winning campaign for Halo, the most successful gaming launch ever, which featured numerous ground-breaking ideas, including fake outdoor statues and plaques commemorating the fallen players and characters from the game.John was also was the voiceover for the Halo case study videos, which made us realise there isn’t much he can’t do.Thanks John for getting us up and running!We hope you all enjoy episode 1.Read more about it at: www.getbehindthebillboard.comFollow us on Twitter or Instagram

Mindfulness meditation by way of breath and sound and oh, what sounds you will hear! Thanks John and Yoko! Merry New Year. Mandolin, this is the way, I have spoken, Mandalorian, Lennon, Ono, breath awareness, vipassana, insight, synphonia, Metta, Goodwill, Lovingkindness, clarity, ssimc, buddha

Recorded on November 25, 2019 FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights & Heaven on Earth… Can we fix capitalism without first tearing it down? On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President and Founder, Rinaldo Brutoco, discuss why capitalism must be reformed in order to avoid a future of chaos and violence. The show begins with a conversation about Bernie Sanders provoked by a listener question (Thanks John!) and expands into a broader discussion about the candidate field, including the billionaires and other new additions to the Democratic presidential primary. The show then pivots to the topic of reforming capitalism, centering around articles written by the co-CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, on the excess and greed in the current economic system.  Rinaldo compares the problems outlined by Benioff to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights and the World Business Academy’s idea, Heaven on Earth.  The show concludes with the realization that if we treat each other like Ohana, the Hawaiian word for family, the world would be a much better place than it currently is. Articles: Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism (NY Times from October 14, 2019) Tech’s woke CEO takes the stage (Politico from November 20, 2019 How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip (Time Magazine from November 21, 2019)

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John asked how he could work more effectively with his shamanic intentions. Thanks John, great question!

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 38, where today I’ll be sharing responses from several listeners to a question I posed in my September 19, 2019 weekly email. The question was about the Bible verse from Hebrews 10:24, where the writer of the Book Hebrews says, Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. My question was HOW do you do this? HOW does anyone motivate another person to acts of love and good works? I was thinking if we could hear some real-life examples of this it would give us some practical ideas of what we could do. So listen in to the answers I got to this important question. So here’s the first response. It comes from a missionary couple living in the Mideast who focus on evangelizing Jewish people all over the world. Here’s how they answered my question of how do you motivate others to acts of love and good works. “To be with people who are doing these acts of love. The way we do this is by taking teams and demonstrating as they watch and observe - and then encouraging them to do the same. It’s taking the time to make disciples. Jesus did this and we follow His example.Thanks John. Great question.” I love their intentionality. Modeling. Showing is far more powerful than telling. Here’s another response, this one from Dick, a missions leader: “If I see something positive that a person has done I try to thank them and be specific about what I am talking about so that they can continue to keep doing what they have just done that is not natural for me I have to work hard on it.” Because it’s not natural for him, because it’s hard, it’s an example of that transcendent quality of relating that goes beyond what we find comfortable to do. The “T” in T.H.I.S. It’s also sacrificial for Dick, because it would so much easier to not look for the positive, to not extend himself. It’s the “S” in T.H.I.S. Way to go, Dick. The next response is from Cindy, who writes: “When I hear spur onto good works it makes me feel like I haven’t done enough. But as I read it, I think it has more to do with me walking in faith and encouraging others to do the same. Mostly other believers. How?  Read the scriptures and point to that as we go through difficulties, but also joys. My word and actions has no power to spur anyone on. “I think when I’m together with two particular girlfriends we bring out scripture that is appropriate for a circumstance in our lives, or talk about it, or talk about Jesus. That is spurring on. I love that.” Well I love that phrase, “My word and actions has no power to spur anyone on.” Another email comes from a not-quite-typicval listener: "Well John,

...the DARKNESS OF DENIAL into the Light of ACCEPTANCE and ULTIMATELY RECOVERY! Yes - I'd like to Thank tonights Call-in Guest John, who brought up many topics that were timely / appropriate and informative. THANKS JOHN!  I/we encourage ALL callers to join us every week to share their own personal experience / strength and hopes, to ask questions, to make comments about they may hear on our LIVE SHOW that airs each and every week. (We are in our 8th year of Broadcasting)  John brought up some very good points and identified various topics we have discussed in the past or may want to address on a future show. And thats the Beauty of you - the Listener/s calling in to my show. I welcome your call and your comments / stories or information that may bring other ideas to light. The number is still the same 323-580-5755 and our show airs ever Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM CST (Chicago Time)  The information I provide, the stories I share are real and usually things that have happened during the previous week. But like tonight - one never knows where the topic may lead and what ESH may be share...TUNE IN and find out! I hope to hear from YOU on my Next Show/Broadcast!    

One of the best audio editors out there, John Bukenas, joins us to talk about how he got into podcasting, common editing mistakes and the importance of high quality audio. You can find his site at Audio Editing Solutions. Thanks John!

Mississippi State Extension specialists, Dr. John Long and Cobie Rutherford, introduce themselves and talk about the roles each play in 4-H. Transcript: Announcer: This is 4-H-4-U-2, a podcast from the Mississippi State University Extension Service promoting 4-H programs and positive youth development. Here now your host, Dr. John Long and Cobie Rutherford. John Long: All right, well good morning to you Cobie. How are you doing today? Cobie Rutherford: Hey, good. Dr Long. You okay? John Long: Oh, I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. Oh, so this is going to be our kind of, I guess our maybe flagship podcast. I don't know if that's the right term to use, but our initial first one. How do you feel about that? Cobie Rutherford: Number one. I don't know. It's kind of daunting sitting here looking at all this technology and hearing ourselves on these microphones and stuff. John Long: Yes. This is what I've always wanted to do, so I feel great about it. Cobie Rutherford: Me too. You've got a great radio voice. John Long: Oh well thanks. I've got a cold. So that's probably why. Because I normally don't like my voice, you know? You know how that is. Cobie Rutherford: Yes, exactly. John Long: Recording yourself you sound terrible. So I thought that this podcast, we could just start out by kind of just introducing ourselves and tell a little bit about ourselves and where we come from and basically how we got to this point where we are right now. So I'm going to yield to the younger Cobie Rutherford. Cobie Rutherford: All right, well that sounds good. Thanks John. So I am Cobie Rutherford, I'm in the 4-H youth department as a new faculty member, relatively. Started on staff back in September of 2018. My background and training is in animal sciences, so the youth development is kind of a different world for me, but I grew up as a 4-Her in a small town in North Alabama and participated in every 4-H event. From 4-H cookie cook-off to public speaking to livestock shows. So 4-H has been a big part of my development as a person. So it's kind of neat to come back full circle and be one of the people that helps develop other youth from around the state now. John Long: Well that's cool. I guess I come from a little bit of a different background. I was born and raised, well, I was born in Ackerman and raised in Sturgis and wound up in Starkville. So I'm probably going to retire in Columbus. I'm just trying to keep going to the East apparently. But started out as basically had no 4-H background whatsoever. I do remember a specific conversation that I had with my mother when I was a child and I don't even know how it came up, and she said that she was a member of 4-H when she was in school. And I said, "What is 4-H?" And she says, "Well I can tell you the plage or what the 4-Hs stands for", which she of course told me. She still remembered that and she was older then. John Long: And so that was really the only thing I knew about 4-H and then I got into agriculture and I worked in agriculture for several years and worked in the Delta and then worked over here at the entomology department and one of the professors over there had a trap machine in the back of his truck. And I said, "What in the world are you doing?" Because he knew I loved to shoot and he said, "I'm actually going to 4-H shooting sports shotgun practice." So I kind of got a little introduction there, but a really big focus of really wanting to change towards youth development was working through the entomology graduate club. We had an entomology club and we would often go to schools and talk to young people and we would have them come to the entomology department, and I just absolutely loved that part. It was just awesome. And that's where I really decided, that's when I wanted to start trying to teach youth, trying to make a difference. John Long: So that led me down a different career path and I've been in 4-H now for... Yeah, that long. So 12 years now and been with the university 23 so it's been a big part of my career here. Cobie Rutherford: How about that? I guess my first 4-H experience I grew up on a farm, a beef cattle farm, and I was looking for something that I was good at. So I was terrible at all athletics. I couldn't shoot a basketball, couldn't hit a baseball. So I was kind of looking for my niche and with the cattle on the farm, we found that there was a venue to show cattle through 4-H. So my dad started off, he bought me a a $400 sorriest steer you've ever seen in your life. But I went to the 4-H contest with that steer and I got some ribbon that was probably some shade of orange or brown. Nothing really significant but that steer taught me a lot about responsibility and how what you put into something you can get out of. So I learned, with that steer particularly, how to lose and that's something that I had never done before. I still got my trophy my little brown ribbon, but it was kind of cool to see how I progressed over from a nine year old with a sorry steer to as a senior in high school having some really nice cattle on my farm. John Long: Yeah, that is cool. Cobie Rutherford: But that steer got me into different projects in 4-H like public speaking and different visual presentations and kind of set the whole mode for my career forward. John Long: And I think that's one thing about 4-H that I've really learned is the fact of yes, you can do a specific... Well in the 4-H safety program, you can do a discipline. For instance, you can do shotgun, but shotgun takes you other places. It takes you into other things and you can really expand on that and that's what 4-H is so much a part of now is the fact that we can actually branch out and we've got so much more to offer these days than what we've had in the past. And I think it continues to grow since we've seen the growth of the robotics program and things like that. That was nonexistent probably in my career. Cobie Rutherford: Yeah. It wasn't existent when I was in 4-H and that was almost 20 years ago. But yeah, nothing about that. John Long: One thing that I've learned, and of course as you said, you've been in 4-H and one thing that I could say is, I wish I'd have been in 4-H. The opportunities that young people have now, I mean, if I'd have known about these programs, I'd have been in it for sure, but I just didn't know about it. All of my instruction, if it was a firearm or archery, it came from my parents or relatives. I mean we're reaching, I'm not just saying the 4-H safety program, but all programs are reaching out to these different veins of youth in the community. Cobie Rutherford: Yeah. And I think that that's something that we have had a hard time capitalizing on is all these children who go through the 4-H program, how they go back into their communities and be community leaders one day or even state elected officials or even on a national level. A lot of our national leaders were 4-H members and we still kind of need to remember that it's the largest youth organization in the United States and there's people on this campus at Mississippi State that don't know anything about 4-H. So I think that's one good thing about this podcast is how maybe you and I can help spread the message of 4-H and try to expand our audience some. John Long: Right. I totally agree. I know that even working at the state fair and we have our 4-H day at the state fair and we draw some people into that event that are not even remotely in 4-H, don't even really know anything about it. In fact, I stopped a lady... Or I didn't stop her, but we got into a conversation at the state fair last year and I got to telling her about 4-H and she'd picked up a brochure and then I got to telling her about it. She says, "I had no idea." She says, "Why do more people not know about this?" And I think that's true. I think we have a a great audience. We have a great message and we just need to get it out there. Cobie Rutherford: Yeah, that's right. So I think moving forward with the podcast, there's so much we can talk about and have a lot of different episodes. We can talk about your programs with the 4-H safety programs. We can talk about youth livestock programs and then all those different programs in between those two spectrums that are not reaching a huge audience that are so beneficial. John Long: That's true. That's very true. I love of course when, I guess when we found out that we were going to be able to start doing podcasts, I think you and I almost bumped into each other running from our offices because we thought that this is a great opportunity. And just thinking about the things that we're going to be talking about in the future and developing those topic areas, I think that's really going to be an exciting thing. It's going to be a breath of fresh air for sure and one of the things that you and I were brainstorming on was just like talking about those smaller aspects of little known facts, I guess of 4-H and that we can hopefully educate people on. And hopefully y'all will get something out of this. Cobie Rutherford: Yeah, I think so, and regardless if you have someone that's in 4-H or not, I think we can bring on some guest speakers and some guest panel members that can talk about different things like social media or maybe even some personal development skills that are geared towards youth that can be applied towards adults such as resume building, interview skills, things like that. That's important for anybody of any age. John Long: Yeah, I think that that's very true. I think sometimes we may get a little wrapped up in on the competitive side or a certain activity side and we forget that the main focus is youth development. That's what we do. You can't say that enough. It's youth development. It's not just youth doing something, you know? So what we do as volunteers, or as parents, or as agents, anybody involved in 4-H we're teaching those kids life skills that they're going to use from now on. I made a comment the other day about, this is not even 4-H related, but the girl that taught me how to tie my shoes she taught me a life skill that I use everyday. Not today, but I got slip ons today. But it is something and the very fact of if sometimes we get to thinking that we're not making a difference and it's not worth the effort and these hardheaded kids don't want to listen, you do not know what kind of impact you're making in a young person's life right now. But on down the road, I've had people come up to me after and say, "I remember what you told me." You know, and I thought, man, and I remember people that have made an effect in my life. So we're making a difference. There's no doubt about it. Cobie Rutherford: Exactly. I think back to my experiences of 4-H and think about again that sorry steer what I learned from that thing and most of all, it was perseverance. After the first two or three outings with that calf, I knew he wasn't very good and I learned what kind of the standard was for a good show calf, but I also learned not to give up on that project. I wanted that calf to go to the county show, district show, state show and kind of stick out that project. It would've been real easy to give up on him and learning perseverance, hard work, responsibility, meeting another animal everyday is kind of pretty neat. And then at the end of it, the big idea of it was I learned where my food came from. I learned that that steer was going to produce X amount of pounds of hamburger meat, steaks and things that could feed my family for an entire year. John Long: A lot of people don't know that and I think that's getting lost for sure. Do not know where their food comes from for sure and I think that when we go to talking about through these topics that we're going to be having on the podcast, I think the audience will begin to see just how large 4-H is, how diverse 4-H is and how it's just continually making an impact in young people's lives for sure. Cobie Rutherford: And even how much 4-H has evolved. John Long: Oh yes. Cobie Rutherford: During our lifetimes, I mean, wow. It's went from corn clubs to STEM that you mentioned earlier and robotics. The future is limitless for what all 4-H can offer. John Long: You know, you talk about, and may I give a little snippet of improvement? Cobie Rutherford: Yeah, sure. Go ahead. John Long: This is a little FYI, I guess, but 4-H was started as Cobie mentioned as a corn club. Well, do you know the story about why they did that? Cobie Rutherford: I've heard it, but I'd like to hear it again. John Long: Okay. So I'm going to tell you. Cobie Rutherford: Yeah, let's go ahead. John Long: All right. So the deal is, is that the extension service was trying to get the farmers to take on these new agricultural practices that were coming out of the university. Well they were hardheaded, some of us are. Cobie Rutherford: Yes. John Long: And they would not take up those practices. Well they said, "Let's try to get the practices in through the youth. We'll teach the youth and they'll see the results and then they'll want to do it." So When little Johnny's corn patch or tomatoes were growing larger than dads, little Johnny was doing something right because he was taking that information that the agent was trying to get out. So that is what we're trying to do. We're trying to expand, go out into our community and make our young people better so they can be an example for other people to follow. So I don't think any of us would disagree. That's a bad thing for sure. Cobie Rutherford: Right. And I've also heard stories about how some of the early 4-H livestock projects started with record books and we think record books, they're pretty simple, but it's almost the same concept. 4-H agents taught those dairy kids in the Midwest how to keep records on their dairy cows, how much milk they were giving, how many pounds of milk and then in turn they were able to make genetic improvement in their cows and figure out which cows were continuously the better producers and they taught their parents to start keeping records. So youth are a powerful tool. John Long: Yeah. Absolutely. Cobie Rutherford: Especially in a teaching environment. John Long: Very, valuable. They're our future, so let's just face it. Cobie Rutherford: And when we think about how many children there are in this generation and how they're talking about this generation will be bigger than the boomer generation and have more spending power than millennials and be probably more frivolous with their money, we've got a huge consumer base that we need to make sure that they have good life skills. John Long: Absolutely. Cobie Rutherford: Make good choices. John Long: Absolutely. Because there's a lot of things out there in that world that are right the opposite of that. For sure. Cobie Rutherford: Right, exactly. John Long: Yep. Well, all right. I guess we're going to go ahead and wrap this podcast up. I enjoyed talking with you, Colbi. Just learned a little bit more about you. Cobie's just starting out, I guess. Came in in September? Cobie Rutherford: That's right. John Long: Yeah. Yeah. So I look forward to doing this again. I think this will be great. Cobie Rutherford: Yeah, it's kind of fun. Maybe it's a little shaky today, but I think we did okay for our first go about John. John Long: I think we did pretty good. Cobie Rutherford: Good deal. John Long: All right, well With that we're going to go ahead and we'll see you next time. We're not going to see you. You'll hear us and we see each other. All right. Cobie Rutherford: Good deal. Have a good one. John Long: All right, take it easy. Cobie Rutherford: Bye. Announcer: Thanks for joining us for 4-H-4-U-2. For more information please visit extension.msstate.edu and be sure to subscribe to our podcast. 4-H-4-U-2 is produced by the Mississippi State University Extension Service Office of Agricultural Communications.

Today we talk with producer/director John Fornoff about what God is up to in Hollywood! You won't want to miss this episode! God is on the move! Thanks John for coming on the Remnant Godcast! 

Former UNH catcher, John Gleason, joins us for the third installment of his journey through life. Former owner of Coastal Athletics and proud parent of three kids, John is one of the nicest, most easy-going guys around. Great interview with a fascinating person. Thanks John!

Welcome to Finance & Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ edition where every week we answer questions from you guys.   Today’s question is from John;   “Thanks for the podcast and the content you provide. I thought a useful podcast topic could be the legislative changes Labour are proposing if they win the next election. Such as changes to franking credits, negative gearing and taxation of family trusts. I thought this could be an interesting topic considering these changes will possibly affect a lot of your listeners, especially small business owners who are operating as a trust etc - John”   Thanks John, that’s a good question, and great timing with the election between 33 days from now (if called on the day listening – min time rules) and May 2019 To start, here is a quick list of the policy changes, not including the bigger ones everyone is talking about; CGT Discount: Going from 50% to 25% (on new investments after 1/7/17). This applies to business as well. Superannuation: SG increase to 12% On one hand it’s good for people when they actually retire down the track…but not so good along the way Plus, open to legislation risk and provides tax surplus/infrastructure funds for the Government Non-concessional cap to be reduced to $75,000 No more borrowing inside Super anymore (SMSF) 30% contribution tax for those earning over $200k p.a. in total income (including super contributions) The Three Big Changes Removal of Negative Gearing According to the ABS, 21% of households owns a second home as an Investment property 35% of dwellings are investment properties (rental properties) Property may become less valuable in investors eyes Check out episode Furious Friday ep 27 https://financeandfury.com.au/furious-fridays-dissecting-labors-plans-for-housing-affordability/ and Say What Wednesday ep 33 https://financeandfury.com.au/say-what-wednesdays-housing-market-history-and-lowering-property-prices-sustainably-in-the-future/ Family Trusts – changes to distribution laws Implement a thirty percent (30%) floor on the taxation that applies to distributions made by discretionary trusts ‘Distributions cost $3.5bn to government in lost tax revenue’ How it works – You have investments (or Business) inside of a family trust Assets earn income (profits) which is distributed to the adult members who have the lowest MTR Under 18 years of age get TFT of $416 – then 66% and down to 45% Can’t retain earnings The Income splitting example that Labour gives: Sam is a surgeon and is married to Melissa who doesn’t work. They have two adult children who attend university and who also don’t work. Sam earns $500,000 a year from his work (pays tax PAYG) They have a discretionary trust with investments which generates $54,000 in income from their investments. They attribute $18,000 to Melissa and $18,000 to each of their two children, so no tax is paid on the $54,000 distribution as Melissa and the two children are each under the tax-free threshold. This represents a tax saving of $14,460 compared to if the investment income been attributed to just Sam and Melissa Total tax Sam pays on his earned income - $208,097 They only get to save $14,460 on investments If the new rules are bought in, then $224,297 will need to be paid in tax (40.5% compared to 37.6% tax on all income under the current arrangement) … They are paying a lot in tax! What people forget is this; “Sam” spent $200k-300k on becoming a surgeon, and delayed his earnings until his late 30s to early 40s. Also, being able to distribute to kids is very short lived $54k to Melissa = $9460 tax ($5k tax saved) Example 2 – A similar scenario with different earnings, and one I see more commonly; Sam earns $120k, Melissa earns $60k. They have 2 adult children earning $15k each while at uni. They split the $54k distribution between the kids. This results in $9,391 tax saved, compared to parents splitting the distribution 50/50 Total income = $264k, of which the family pays $56,468 tax to redistribute under the current agreement (rather than $65,859) Under new system the total tax will be $62,034 Some Issues Shorten admitted 200 thousand small businesses will be impacted – these are the people he is supposedly representing Tradies, and others, who use these structures for asset protection at no benefit to income in most cases Now they will pay a minimum 30% tax on their earned income rather than MTR Testamentary, disability and charitable trusts, deceased estates and other good will trusts will be impacted     The removal of Franking Credits   How Franking Credits work You own shares in a company, and as owner you are entitled to Profits (Dividend payments) Gross Profits come from Revenues – Costs (interest, expenses), Net profits = Gross Profits minus Taxes Profits are paid out to shareholders (minus what is kept by company) The dividend is received by individuals. The ATO assesses the Dividend + the Franking Credit ($1.425 instead of $1) If over 30% MTR, you get nothing back, under 30% MRT get something back The objective of the dividend imputation system is to eliminate double taxation of company profits - once at the corporate level and again on distribution as dividend to shareholders. More specifically, it is intended to create a "level playing field" by taxing the same activity in the same way, irrespective of the business structure being used, namely a company or trust, sole trader or partnership. This is equality.   Removal of Franking Credits will really only affect those in the tax bracket less than 30%, that is, low income individuals and Self-Funded retirees (Super) Pensioner exemption People on Benefit Payments from the Government will be exempt (back dated to May 2018) The plan is for equity but you’ll have people receive lower incomes overall if they aren’t receiving the pensioner exemption Labour Claims; “Distributional analysis has shown that for people of retirement age more than 80 per cent of the benefit of imputation refundability goes to the wealthiest 20 per cent of households” But how many retirees do you think own shares? It’s actually 22% of people over the age of 65. So, 80% of the benefits go to these people … because they’re not on the Aged Pension 70-77% of over 65 are on support payments (Aged Pension) It’s this “wealthy” 20% that are funding their own retirement. The rest are on government benefits. Current demographics - approximately 16% of Australia’s population is over 65. This is going to increase to more than 25% in less than 30 years. This new agreement degrades individuals’ ability to have a self-funded retirement and generate their own income… which puts them into the government support system instead. Self-funded retirees If the Franking Credit Rebate goes, the income from Australian Shares can drop by 30% (gross) Remember, we’re talking not just about SMSF, individual super accounts also benefit from franking credits Here’s an example; a husband and wife have saved hard, and have investments of $800k in shares (inside or outside super is irrelevant). This generates (based on a 5% dividend yield) $57,142 of income off Fully Franked shares and credits This drops to $40k if the changes get passed – loss of 30% of income This also applies if individual don’t have this in super – a lot of older Australians who are self-funded don’t have superannuation Reduces people’s ability to be self-funded in retirement, which is going to be an issue if the Government can’t keep up increased payments required – the $5bn to $10bn forward estimates on extra tax wont cover this increase in AP payments Long term – opens the door for removal of Franking Credits all together. There are only 3 countries left with them (Australia, Malta, NZ). Others removed them over the years. Soon it won’t be fair for someone earning $100k in dividends only to pay only a few hundred in tax ($42k paid by company already). If Franking Credits are removed an individual pays $27k of tax on top of the $42k paid by company Change of company behaviour – what if investors no longer value dividends? Or if companies prefer to reinvest income and pay less tax? American model – Reinvestment of funds better than double taxation of income = Capital gains > Dividends Biggest companies in USA have very small profits as they don’t need to pay investors income Alphabet (Google) = 0% at $785bn market cap, Amazon = 0% at $805bn MC – Second year $0 tax paid Facebook, Microsoft, Berkshire - Warren Buffett, believes it is more beneficial to allocate the company's earnings in other ways Reinvestment = CAPEX cost to business – more you spend less you pay in tax – especially if you fund it off debt – don’t need to make money to pay dividends Typically, companies not paying tax = no dividends Capital gains are fine – but you will pay more tax when you sell under 25% CGT discount Australian Market - unfranked 6.5% dividend yield on bank stocks – gross us 8% 9% yield they can get on US equities – Our index is 4.4% EU and Asia – about 3% average – Partial franking   What these policies will really hurt (Franking Credits and Trusts) – What’s not spoken about Small – medium businesses – 200k+ businesses trying to make it on their own (and employ others) Small businesses are set up in trusts – tradies pay themselves drawings out of the trust at MTRs Increase to 30% tax will means they now have to pay themselves super Increases to 12% in SG payments = Drop in what you can draw Disabled, Charity trusts – All payments will be 30% rather than 0% due to nature of structures Low income earners – Not on Income Support – no cash back Self-funded retirees Who this helps Large construction/trades companies Less competition long term – lower wages – limited to start something of your own effectively Industry Super Funds – Less competition in alternative choices More money flowing into super funds from SG increase No benefits from SMSF or   Love going through election budget promises – This budget is ‘fair go’ – going for equity (equalise outcomes) Not taking you is portrayed as a ‘cost’ – ironic – Costs in government language is not charging you tax beyond that they already do Not taking all income earned is a Trillion-dollar cost to them Everything is saying the budget is in deficit – true – so stop spending – Every year more taxes – to cover spending – ill cover this point in the future – but spending to GDP over 100 years is confronting   All of this is just another carve out for more money based around the argument of making things equitable (one rule for me and one rule for thee)   I don’t think it will just stop with this. – further complexity = more money needed to run ATO – Billions more in costs to collect tax – almost like debt collectors who take a large clip of what they get back   Thanks for the question John. If you have any other questions head to www.financeandfurycom.au and head to the contact page       Links https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/member-services/technical/tax/tax-in-focus/Australian-Labor-Party-Policies-for-2019-Federal-Election https://www.alp.org.au/campaigns/ https://www.alp.org.au/media/1276/2018_alp_national_platform_-_consultation_draft.pdf Share ownership stats https://www.asx.com.au/documents/resources/australian-share-ownership-study-2014.pdf  

Fun awaits as our couples are headed north to the Gold Coast sans Lizzy. You will be pleased to know we have an APB out for our MIA cast member. We are at the beach, Movie World and the bowling alley as the couples relationships are tested in the pressure cooker of a group holiday, explains John the “expert” and just...no. Thanks John-boy we’ve been on holidays that have gone to hell in a hand basket...I think we can do this without your help. #surfsup

A run on frozen pavement down to see my friend in the Jubilee Hospital.He was allowed out for twenty min utes so we went for a run together and I recorded this episode.Thanks John!

John is the only person to have coached two Footlocker Champions (Lukas Verzbicus and Dylan Jacobs). He’s also had tremendous success coaching 800m runners: 26 boys have run under 1:58 and 9 under 1:54 under his guidance. This interview with John O’Malley was recorded in November of 2018, soon after a disappointing cross country season for his team. John talked about elements in the program he’ll be working on in 2019. John’s candor during this first part of the interview is really special. We then talk about winter training, specifically what he does to improve speed, to improve, as he likes to say, “wiring.” If you’re in San Diego or Houston in the winter, the track is clear and you can do this work, but if you’re in a suburb of Chicago, the track can be covered with snow and ice. The end of the interview was a lot of fun: “If you could shadow one athlete between now and Tokyo, who would it be?” and “What is your favorite non-distance event in the Olympics.” Loved his answers. Thanks John for your time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This episode of the Coaching Runners podcast is brought to you by the Fundamentals Education Course and the Boulder Running Clinics. Two great resources for coaches who are looking to take their program to the next level. If you have questions or comments about the show, please email me - Jay@CoachJayJohnson.com

Wicked King John has been backed into a corner by his barons. There's only one way out and that is to agree to their demands. John will now give birth to a new industry - constitutional lawyers. Thanks John.

In this episode Dave(@withsobersenses) and Jon (@jonpiccini) chat with Padraic Gibson (@paddygibson) about his research into the Communist Party of Australia and its early, or lack there of, engagement with Indigenous struggles in the 1920s and 30s. Not only is the history fascinating but Paddy also really digs into what was wrong with socialist and communist thought at the time, and the inheritance of Marx and Engel’s work, that made it hard for the CPA to connect with these struggles. How and why did this change? And how do these concerns play out today? Sadly Jon’s internet dropped out 15 or 20 minutes into the conversation Paddy is a member of Solidarity and his work can be found there. Paddy would like to acknowledge that the history about the links between the Garvyist movement and Aboriginal activists in Australia in the 1920s he talks about comes from John Maynard’s book Fight for Liberty and Freedom Paddy was nominated as an interviewee by John Passant when John donated to Living the Dream. Thanks John!

In this episode of the Pursuit of the Perfect Race I talk with John Hatala about his recent race experience at IRONMAN© 70.3 Santa Rosa. The swim was canceled here due to fog. We talk a lot about his pre-race training and what he did to have confidence going into this race prepared. There are plenty of things to learn from this episode as we talk about what it’s like to prepare for a 70.3 but not race the distance of the race. Thanks John for coming on the show and I look forward to following you in the future.Enjoy the show. To see pictures from his race, go to https://www.coachterrywilson.com/perfectrace/106 -Weather that day: 52 - 87Water: N/a-Age Group: M 45-49 Swim – N/aT1 – N/aBike – 2:22:44T2 – 2:20Run – 1:33:26Total Race Time: 3:58:29 -Gender Rank: 70Division Rank: 4Overall Rank: 76-Follow John Hatala,Facebook: John Hatala-Follow Coach Terry:Instagram: @CoachTerryWilsonInstagram: @PerfectRacePodcastFacebook: www.facebook.com/CoachTerryWilsonWebsite: www.CoachTerryWilson.com

In this episode of the Pursuit of the Perfect Race I talk with John Hatala about his recent race experience at IRONMAN© 70.3 Santa Rosa. The swim was canceled here due to fog. We talk a lot about his pre-race training and what he did to have confidence going into this race prepared. There are plenty of things to learn from this episode as we talk about what it’s like to prepare for a 70.3 but not race the distance of the race. Thanks John for coming on the show and I look forward to following you in the future.Enjoy the show. To see pictures from his race, go to https://www.coachterrywilson.com/perfectrace/106 -Weather that day: 52 - 87Water: N/a-Age Group: M 45-49 Swim – N/aT1 – N/aBike – 2:22:44T2 – 2:20Run – 1:33:26Total Race Time: 3:58:29 -Gender Rank: 70Division Rank: 4Overall Rank: 76-Follow John Hatala,Facebook: John Hatala-Follow Coach Terry:Instagram: @CoachTerryWilsonInstagram: @PerfectRacePodcastFacebook: www.facebook.com/CoachTerryWilsonWebsite: www.CoachTerryWilson.com

Episode 36 - "Ishtar: 30 Years Hot Fudge Love" THE EPISODE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!   WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!  The episode that may make you change your name to Carol. (Ishtar reference) We've been teasing you on IG and Twitter with #bringbackishtar for months now. (Go ahead, google that hashtag.)  Not only are Chuck and I talking about this too hip for the room comedy; we got to interview a big shot filmmaker!  "Waiting For Ishtar" is a new documentary (available December 15, 2017 on VIMEO On Demand). It was created by filmmakers John Mitchell and Jonathan Crombie. Chuck and I were lucky to interview John Mitchell about our mutual love of the misunderstood film "Ishtar".  John's documentary is about a quest; a quest to find a sole video cassette copy of Ishtar, and to uncover why there was a waiting list of 47 people to see it.  While making the movie, John and Jonathan got a lot more than they dreamed.  They were the "Rogers and Clark" (Ishtar reference) of documentaries.  They were the dreamers that didn't give up until they achieved their goal.  Their simple documentary became an adventure.  Oh, and they got to interview, Charles Grodin, Carol Kane, and Paul Williams.   Enough about John and Jonathon... Chuck and I got to talk ISHTAR!  With a kindred soul, another wise human being that "gets" the humor, loves the songs, and has always wondered why Ishtar got so maligned?  Ishtar is 30 years old, and it's overdue for a sequel. Step aside Star Wars! We hope you enjoy this interview with John Mitchell.  It was a pleasure having him on the show.   Instructions: 1) Listen to this podcast.  2) Order "Waiting for Ishtar" using Vimeo On Demand. 3) Buy the blu-ray of Ishtar.  4) Learn all the songs. AND PLEASE -- review our show on iTunes!  It means so much to us. Thanks John for coming on our show!  It was great laughing about Ishtar again. Your Buddy, Steve John's twitter: @waitingforishtar Find us on the Facebook, the Twitter, The Tumblr, and ummmm.... I think that's it for now. @geeklifesteve @geeklifechuck @geeklifecrisis geeklifesteve@gmail.com #bringbackishtar #ishtarcon #waitingforishtar Thanks Ashley from Kentucky!  @ashe976 on Instagram Telling the truth can be dangerous business.    

Last month when we were wrapping up Episode 8 with David Glass Carlos turned to me and asked if I have ever met John Lux from Film Florida. He went on to tell me that John and I were kindred spirits and he too shared the same passions and ideals. Carlos made the introductions and thankfully John agreed to come down and meet me here at The Gamespace to talk about his work with Film Florida. Carlos was correct. Not only did I hear John echo back to me many of my own thoughts but I learned a lot about his involvement in our community and the fact that we are all in this together. John's primary focus as Executive Director is to support his constituents while evangelizing the benefits of our community. He networks tirelessly to help companies find the connections and manpower to successfully complete projects and support the infrastructure of our Central Florida community. It's interesting to find that our industry divides no longer exist. Film and TV productions now require the talents of our technical community. Opportunities are everywhere for programmers, artists and VR/AR enthusiasts too. John take a very positive and proactive approach. Rather than focus on what isn't he focuses on what is. He spends is days supporting the community through social networking and his involvement in many legislative and community organizations. There are many ways for you to get involved. Start bu heading to the Film Florida web page for more details on meetups and events happening frequently throughout the state. Thanks John for taking the time to sit down with me and thanks always to Carlos for making it happen.

Episode 156 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer, author and educator, John Harrington In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Photographer, author and educator, John Harrington opens the show. Thanks John! Sponsors: - Get 10% off your order at MeFOTO.com using code PetaPixel. - First time customers in the US get 25% off rentals through March 31, 2017 with code SHARKY25 at BorrowLenses.com. Canon execs speak out out the views on mirrorless and more at the CP+ show in Japan. (#) CIPA data charted shows the amazing rise of the smartphone and thus, photography. (#) Gameface Media raises funds, vows to pay its photographers and will be profitable in 2017. (#) An insider's look at the fate of brick and mortar camera stores...and a very good reason to visit them while they're still around. (#) The US Copyright Office wants input from photographers and the changes could have ramifications worldwide. (#) A listener wants to know which camera I'd choose between the two he proposed for a remote body. A legendary photographer passes away at 92. (#) Outtake Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

Join us for another episode of Once Around the Block, this time with John Filson. John is in the process of relocating from DC to Los Angeles and has a got a lot to talk about. We cover everything from his new youtube series about an Iraqi family trying to make it happen in the US to getting married to the love of his life. Also, we travel through extreme weather conditions, mostly wind. I wanted to keep it as real as possible so I left the wind in there! Thanks John and safe travels! Interesting links: fatewemake.com onceatb.com

Episode 148 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer John Steele In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Photographer John Steele opens the show. Thanks John! A celebrity jacks two photos from a fashion photographer for use on her Instagram account of nearly 5 million followers without compensation nor credit. (#) DxO Optics Pro 9 free for a limited time. (#) Adobe hikes Creative Cloud prices in the UK and Sweden. (#) Italian film maker Ferrania makes a classic film stock available again. (#) A fancy new barrel-style lens bag is introduced. (#) Snap, Inc. warns of continued unprofitability and stiff competition from much more useful Instagram. (#) Lexar introduces an ultra fast 512GB card. (#) GoPro posts $373 million dollars in losses and reintroduces the Karma drone post-recall along with a plan for 2017. (#) Outtake Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

Up this week, its the second half of our season finale discussion! We're continuing to work our way through "Requiem for a Slut" in depth and talking about how this episode could have functioned as a series finale. And we're taking suggestions for what we should cover over hiatus!

Pamela Wasley:           Hi, I’m Pamela Wasley. CEO of Cerius Executives. Cerius is one of the largest North American providers of contract executives of part-time, temporary, interim and consulting assignments. Cerius has a network of thousands of executives form operations, finance, sales, marketing, IT, engineering and human resources. These executives are available to step in the companies on short notice to fill a sudden gap, leadership, to run a key initiative or to provide specialized skills or knowledge for a temporary period of time. Cerius deals with thousands of CEO’s and over the past few years, more and more CEO’s have been telling us that they’re ready to sell the company. However, most don’t realize that they have to get a company ready for sale, and that they have many options when it comes to selling their businesses. Selling a company takes time and lots of preparation, as well as, picking the right partner to sell to. But today, we’ll be talking to four experts: an investment banker, a private equity partner, a CEO who sold his company to his employee- through an employee stock option program also known as an ESOP- and a strategic acquirer. All who can give advice to business owners considering selling their businesses in the next 1-3 years. So let’s meet the talent. Our first guest today is John Hammett, an investment banker with Corporate Finance Associates. As a former company owner himself, John understands the unique situation a private company owner who decides to sell. John maximizes their value by finding high-value buyers and negotiating the best price and terms for the clients. Our next guest is Murray Rudin, managing director for Riordan, Lewis & Haden, a private equity firm. Prior to joining RLH, Murray was Chief Financial Officer and Director of business development of Voxel, a medical imaging company. Previous to that, he was the principal of Valley National Investors, a private equity fund based in Phoenix. Murray also practiced law at Riordan & McKinzie, specializing in private equity funds and their portfolio company. Our next guest is Steve LaRue, Vice-Chairman of Rico Solution. His work with strategic buyers and private equity firms over the years to sell and buy companies. His many stories propel when it comes to MNA. Our last guest is Cal Lai, President and CEO of Recom Technologies, a software development shop that builds quality solutions for government and business. Established in 1980, the ownership of Recom sold its business to 600 employees through an ESOP in 2000. Do you have any last minute advice you’d give to business owners thinking of selling their companies? Murray let’s start with you. Murray Rudin:            Sure I would say, your question highlights one of the interesting aspects of our business which is that when we make the investment, that’s not the end of the road. That transaction is the beginning of the road. And where is, as for example, somebody in John’s position does a transaction he gets a seat and moves on to the next client. We, when we’re doing a transaction we’re just beginning a 5-7 year business marriage, you might call it, with the entrepreneur. So I might say the measure of our success is not when we do the investment transaction, it’s when we exit. And there is a real satisfaction. We sell companies, you know, every year. Probably something in our portfolio turns over one or two transactions depending on the maturity of the company in the light. But there is a real satisfaction after you work with a business and a management team for those many years to see a couple of things happen. Most importantly the entrepreneur realizes their dreams, they get a second bit of the apple, a windfall that allows them to do whatever they want for the rest of their lives. Which is wonderful. You see the opportunity that has been provided for the management team to have the experience of building a great business. And then typically to remain in place with the new owner. And then, you know, we try to make sure that we sell our business to typically strategic buyers where there’s a really good cultural fit and so we want to make sure there’s opportunity for everybody in the company to continue to blow their careers and make a good living. So when you have something like that, there’s a real satisfaction. And that’s probably what gets us up in the morning every day. Pamela Wasley:           Murray, can you give an example of that? A recent transaction? Murray Rudin:            Well sure. We just, in the last 12 months or so we have a sold a portfolio company called Secure Mission Solutions that provides federal agencies with cyber security services. Basically helping IT services to help protect federal agencies data and networks against hackers from places like China, North Korea, Iran and everywhere else. And we sold that company to a very large multi-billion dollar privately held engineering services company. Actually based here in Southern California called Parsons Engineering. Prior to that we had a portfolio company called Cybercoders which was an extraordinarily successful replacement recruitment business that was acquired on by assignment, a publicly held staffing and recruiting business and that’s proven to be a wonderful transaction for both us and for the, all the members of the Cybercoders team that are doing really well with their new owner. Pamela Wasley:           Thanks Murray. Cal? Cal Lai:           I don’t have any recent transactions other than the one that I did, the one that I described. I still here working on it, on the company. The advice I would give is really think about what you want to do. Surround yourself by good outside advices. I think we’ve heard that a lot today, and I think that advisors are key. One thing I heard a lot is that, “You sold your company to employees that must have been a really quick transaction.” It took a year and a half. When you have to go through the due diligence and all the legal aide work needs to be done and the creating of the trust and the refs and warrants, and the passage of liability from ownership to the company itself, it’s a very arduous process and I think the one thing is that it’s easy, easy to believe these transactions are very simple and easy to pull off but they’re complex, they take a lot of time and I think that invariably throughout the process you reach a point of exhaustion where you’re like, God this is taking a lot of effort why am I doing this? And the risk there is that you spend so much time in the transaction, and as said earlier you lose sight of operating the business. So something the key takeaway for me was we were fortunate in that we were able to pull off a complex transaction or deal and at the same time grow our business and not take our eyes off the ball. But that took a lot of thought and effort and planning ahead of time. So we had actually a team of people who did nothing but operate the business while we had an outside team primarily of people who helped advice and pull us through the ESOP transaction.  So I think creating two separate teams in that example really helped us to continue to grow the business at the same time and execute the transaction. Pamela Wasley:           Great advice Cal. Thank. John, can you give me a transaction? I recent transaction? And then any last minute advice you’d give companies? John Hammett:            Sure, let me give you the advice first. Because I’m going to give you a story that sort of relates to that. My biggest piece of advice is to be realistic about what the value of the company is and to be thoughtful in the final valuation. It’s so tempting to try to get the last half a million bucks out of a purchased price out of the last million dollars of the deal. And it does, the competitive juice get flowing, but I’ve seen two circumstances. One we negotiated a high price and the buyer couldn’t close it because he couldn’t get financing. The price was too high for financing. And in another case where we sold the company and negotiated a strong price and then went through 5 times of due diligence to buy or retrade the price. And I think they agreed to the price thinking that they can get it back again. We did a pretty good job of holding the line for our clients. But the story I want to tell you just came up about 2 weeks ago. Actually we sold a company 2 years ago and for our client who was 36 years old, and we often times most of our clients are in their 50’s or 60’s retiring. This was a young man who was 36 and his company was 20 years old. And if you do the math which isn’t tough, he started it when he was 16. It was an ennui based company started in his bedroom. And he built it up over time and took it through a number of different iterations. He was in the internet security business, a hot sector. And we sold the company for him 2 years ago. He ended up with a very interesting structure because of who he was and what his interest were. And the deal was about one-third in cash, one-third in a seller’s noted – a lot of sellers don’t like that but in this case it was good- and one-third in stock of the buyer. And it was a pre-IPO company. And he thought that stock, well I’m willing to take the risk, I like the people a lot, I like the company. So it was structured that way. Two weeks ago the company that bought him was sold to a Singaporean company. So the shares that he took, he’s probably going to get an extra 50% valuation on that second bite of the apple in this case. So that was a wonderful success form and the seller note when we negotiated that, the buyer was going to pay 4% and then we went back and said please don’t insult us to tell our client you’re only going to pay 4%. It should at least be 6. And they agreed to that. So I asked the client here, they’re going to pay the seller note. He said I don’t want them to. I got a good interest rate at 6%, I’m going to keep at another year until it matures. I couldn’t get that kind of rate anywhere else, so all the different components that he took of this thing meant something to him and solved a different need. He’s now a CEO of a company owned by his father and I’m hopeful in a couple of years we’ll sell that company for him again. But it was probably my favourite transaction with this young guy. Pamela Wasley:           Thanks John. Steve? Steve LaRue:  Yeah, like John I’d like to start with the advice. You know most entrepreneurs and founders of the company spend most time nurturing their company than they probably do their own biological children at home. So the companies become their babies. And during the selling process, especially during the due diligence process, it is a process where the buyers are looking for weaknesses in the business. And as a result it can get to be very challenging from an ego perspective for the sellers, so my advice is don’t bring your ego into sale and don’t take the process personally. There’s going to be moments during time, whether it’s negotiating the letter of intent or the process of due diligence where it’s going to get potentially adversarial. But at the end of the day, as many of the folks pointed out here on during this session, at the end of the day as the process comes to fruition it’s really about two parties coming together and putting together a deal that creates a win-win scenario for everybody. In terms of the example of a business I recently acquired, at Rico we acquired 6 companies. One of them was a company in Canada, which two brothers owned the business. They were ready to exit the business. They had run it for 30+ years and they were looking to profiticize their investment in that business. And we saw an opportunity for us to come in and acquire that company and take their product line which was very, very complementary to our own. And rapidly grow the business by leveraging our sales and distribution channel. So at the confirmation of the deal, one of the things the founder was really concerned about was not only getting a fair valuation but making sure that the employees, were really, really like extended family members for the, were taken care of. They were pleased to see that over the course of next 2 years after acquiring the business that the business grew substantially. We increased the employment up in Canada, and the manufacturing operations by over 50%. And it turned out to be a very favorable transaction for us as the buyer, for the seller’s in terms of the valuation they get. Perhaps, most importantly they got a terrific deal for the employees as well as the customers and suppliers relying on that company.  

In honor of Thanksgiving and in honor of 30 episodes shared, I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to my friend, the actor John Slattery. John was the first actor to join us in the podcast booth and sit down for an interview when this was just a kernel of an idea. His enthusiasm and his confidence in me was a huge part of what became the "Little Known Facts" podcast. When we finished he told me he thought I was like a female Howard Stern. He meant it as a compliment, I think. So as a thank you to John, here's the first ever episode of "Little Known Facts." 

Chapter 83: "Sky Beats Gold" ...as read by Marty Lunn of Zao and Young Fox Marty Lunn has been heavily involved in the greater Pittsburgh scene for his entire life. He goes into a lot of detail back in March on the Urban Achiever podcast, but I wanted to hit on a few different things than what he rolled out with Bill. I became friends with Marty because of my relationship with Scott and Zao and we got to spend some quality time in the van between Canada and NY. Marty and I try to cover some of the in-between stuff that he hasn't discussed before...including a lil' hockey. I'm happy to help his band Young Fox with their full length coming "Sky Beats Gold" on Spartan Records in Mid-January! Check out a clip of the song "Sometimes The Monsters Win" at the end of this chapter. Thank you Marty and thank John from Spartan. Marty on Urban Achiever: http://www.urbanachievershow.com/episodes/40335-episode-60-marty-lunn Young Fox Bandcamp: https://youngfoxband.bandcamp.com Young Fox on Spartan Records: http://www.spartanrecords.com/artists/youngfox Chapter 83 Music: Young Fox: "The Answer" Zao: "March" Young Fox: "Gather Up The Flowers" Young Fox: "Sometimes The Monsters Win" (Thanks John from Spartan for the tune!) As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon Follow on Twitter See what we're doing at Lavirra Productions ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Leave some feedback at iTunes ATSG YouTube Channel Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: asthestorygrows@gmail.com This chapter was edited by the amazingly helpful Bryan Patton. Thanks Bryan! https://twitter.com/bryanpatton84

I talk with Coach John Garrish from North Broward Prep in Florida. Coach Garrish has a movement based approach program which means movement precedes strength. He really wants to make sure that strength is not loaded on top of mobility deficiencies as you will hear him talk about. He really has a passion for coaching and having a huge impact on the athletes he coaches to succeed later in college sports or in life. We talk about Hockey in Florida, the new facility coming, athletic development, training the mulitsport athlete, the APRE system, coaching cues, and the HS Roundtable with featured coaches. We had a great talk, here is more about Coach Garrish.   John Garrish is serving in his third year as the Director of Athletic Development & Performance. A graduate of Wagner College and the University of North Texas, he is certified through the NSCA as a CSCS and through USAW as a Level-1 Sports Performance Coach. In addition to his role at North Broward, John serves as the Director of Athletic Performance with the Florida Rugby Union’s High Performance Program 7’s team and as a volunteer coach with Delray Beach Sports’ Exhibitors. Coach Garrish has spoken at several state and national events and has just been elected to the the National high school strength coach association board of directors for region 1. So many great things in this episode! Thanks John for coming on! High School Coaches' Roundtable with Greg Vandermade, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Ca. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMx352cstB8   Contact Coach Garrish facebook: John Garrish email: GarrishJ@nbps.org instagram: coach_garrish   My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching.  Thanks for checking out the website.  It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes.  This is why I created this podcast. I hope  you find it useful and valuable!  Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com  Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/strengthcoachHS Thank you so much for listening and I would appreciate it greatly if you could leave a 5 star review in iTunes and Google Play as well as this really helps boost the show rankings and spread the word about the High School Strength Coach Podcast. That way other Strength Coaches like yourself can find the show and benefit from it too.  Thank you very much if you have already left a rating and feedback, I appreciate it greatly!

DANGER! This is only a podcast! DANGER! In Episode 11 we "DO" an interview with John Hale about his upcoming movie "The Conduit". We talk about his Kickstarter project UP NOW. Check it out. We also talk about The Junji Ito experience. The man himself, his work and the live action movies that were made about his Manga. We do a NEW #horrorshot called "The Upward Spiral (Uzumaki)". We also talk about Clive Barkers Birthday. Choke out photos. "Death Race 2050" trailer, "Blade Runner 2049", Jordan Peeles "Get Out" Trailer and The Vacuum Incident. Plus we go over The Tomie live action series and Manga. "The Long Dream" and "Uzumaki". Mike also talks about "The greatest movie ever made" "Zombie: Toilet Of The Dead". YOU DECIDE! Let us know what you think! *** FIND US ON Podcast Addict, Stitch and iTUNES! SUPPORT "THE CONDUIT" on Kickstarter! Even $5 goes a long way! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/889413100/the-conduit-an-80s-inspired-creature-short-film/description **** Want to hear our bands? **** Mikes Band "HARDWIRE" - https://www.facebook.com/hardwirehardcore Alexs Band "BlakOPz" - https://www.facebook.com/BlakOPzBAND !!_-_-_-HORROR SHOT Recipe-_-_-_!!! "Upward Spiral (Uzumaki)" 1/2 Sake 1/2 99 Watermelons splash Midori Japanese Melon Liquor DRINK! ************************************************************************************************ Want to save $3 on your Subscription of Horror Packs Blu Rays or Dvds???? You save money and WE save money. GO HERE! ----- http://go.referralcandy.com/share/N44XK26 ********************************************************************************************** _____________________________________________________________________ STUFF WE TALK ABOUT IN THE SHOW! _______________________________________________________________________________________ "Death Race 2050" Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMkeGPbBS18 "Blade Runner 2049" Title and release annouced - http://arstechnica.com/the- multiverse/2016/10/blade-runner-2049-release-date-oculus-vr-2/ "Get Out" Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfnevzM9kQ "Tomie" Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=decNIcBXCqM "Uzumaki" Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1_ZoQmqxM "The Long Dream" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR1O4Jn7Pdc "Zombie Toilet of The Dead" Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-KLTELNzLA --------------------------------------------------------- NEW RELEASES for Oct 4th! ---------------------------------------------------------- We did the interview with John Hale instead this week!! Thanks John! MOVIES WE TALK ABOUT IN TOPIC ------------------------------------------------------ Tomie (1999) Tomie: Another Face (1999) TV Movie Tomie: Replay (2000) Tomie: Re-Birth (2001) Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002) Tomie: Beginning (2005) Tomie: Revenge (2005) Tomie Vs Tomie (2007) Tomie: Unlimited (2011) Long Dream (2000) Uzumaki (2000) Zombie: Toilet Of The Dead (2011) FOLLOW US! OR ELSE! I MEAN IT! NO REALLY! *** Twitter https://twitter.com/BTVcast *** FB page https://www.facebook.com/beyondtheveilcast *** SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-628061386 *** Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/AlexTheDarkUnicorn *** FIND US ON Podcast Addict, Tune in, Stitcher and iTUNES! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-veil-horror-podcast/id1151149558?mt=2

Helping prospective Indoor Cycling studio owners with their business planning is part of my Instructor Employment Initiative – encouraging the formation of new studios… which creates more places for Instructors to teach and will (at least I'm hearing) create upwards pressure on class pay rates! ICI/PRO member Rowan Platel contacted me recently with questions about a future cycling studio he is planning. Thanks John. I am looking for as much  Continue Reading... The post ICI Podcast 359 – Future Studio Owner Consultation Call appeared first on Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO Premium Education.

Wow the second episode. We are still working out the bugs. Today we covered things going on at the resort. News stories are from wdwmagic.com. Thanks John for Marvel Moment. We covered Epcot, The Magic Kingdom and Hollywood studios. Any question or suggestion please drop us a note. info@piratesof mk.com

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Terrence is the parent side of EarzUp!  In addition to having two kids under the age of 5, he has navigated Disney with children in tow, and is the best to take us through ... What to do with kids 5 and under at Disneyland This was a pretty crazy show, by our standards.  Terrence pulls us around to tell us what there is to do with kids 5 and under at Disneyland and DCA, and has some really cool tips to give.  Beverly was on hand to give us her own tips for new mothers at Disneyland, and to give us some much-needed comic relief. Also in the studio were Taren's parents who were kind enough to share an embarrassing memory from Taren's Disneyland past.  It was both sad and amazing ... trust us. Listener and friend-of-the-show John sent us our first ever bit of snail mail, which included some pretty neat old-school Disney flyers, that he just happened to find on the street.  Thanks John ... we didn't catch anything after all! We do some Disney News, Taren comes up with our new tag line, and our Fact of the show will have you dancing a little jig! Our new obsession    

(Psalm 100) In response to God and his gracious works for us, we respond in a way that is fitting and pleasing to God, which includes energetic joy and praise along with service in his name and blessing him wherever we go by giving him the credit, honor, and glory for our redemption and reconciliation.

Vincent and Dick discuss influenza virus-like particle vaccines produced in insect and plant cells, rapid sharing of influenza research, and answer listener questions about cytomegalovirus, viral evolution and symbiosis and much more. Links for this episode: A Farm on Every Floor Influenza virus-like particles in insect and plant cells PLoS Currents: Influenza Transmission of 2009 H1N1 influenza virus to turkeys [Thanks Debbie!] Baxter produces Vero cell H1N1 vaccine [Thanks Peter!] Boundaries of Darwinism podcast [Thanks David!] Phages in human intestine: papers one, two, three [Thanks Terry!] Post-exposure varicella vaccine [Thanks Patricia!] Open science movement here, here, here, and here [Thanks Jim!] Graduate programs in virology [Thanks Greggory and Blake!] Post-exposure Marburg and Ebola vaccines [Thanks John!] Vaccinia infection in the laboratory [Thanks Russ!] Animations of bacteriophage T4 life cycle [Thanks Jim!] Weekly Science Picks Vincent BionumbersDick Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas by Sylvia A. Earle, Linda K. Glover