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This is an interview with Chris Lu, Co-Founder of Copy.ai. For those interested in our content marketing and blog writing services, please visit:  BlogWritingService.com Hi, this is Ryan and I'm your podcast host today. We'll be having Chris Lu here on from Copy.ai. Welcome to the podcast, Chris. Thanks Ryan for having me. Of course. Well, we've been following you for a while now and wanted to get you on a podcast, discuss where copy.ai is going and where you see it going. We've seen some growth within your different tweets online and just an upward movement, especially with COVID-19 hitting. There's been some significant growth with people doing stuff online being able to grow their businesses because that's where everybody's hanging out is online. So if you could just tell me real quick your background and how you got into orchestrating this, this great software. Yeah, my co-founder and I move on to Paul Jacobian. He's the guy who tweets about our company. And I have worked together for five years now. And we were at an investment firm. However, what constantly fascinated us was entrepreneurship specifically, like how do you start it? How do you find the creativity for it? How do you really push it to the limits? And we realized that's a very strong creative exercise. And when we launched our own thing, we realized how much writing there was to be done. It's unreal, like everything from the mission statement and the landing pages to the initial emails, the launch posts there's just so much writing to be done. And that was one of the hardest parts. And then we realized that, you know, the world needs more entrepreneurship and COVID really helped celebrate that. And at the exact same time, a very powerful AI algorithm was released. And we realized this AI algorithm is the first foray into AI powered creativity. And so we decided, you know, what, this needs to exist. We need to distribute this AI to the entire world to really prove entrepreneurship and our goals to have a billion new entrepreneurs in the next decade. That's great. So with the creating the software, was it an iterative approach? Like, did you create a little tool and then expand upon it or did you have the idea to have it do what it does today and where do you see the growth of that? Yeah. when we started, we were very focused on highly repeatable writing processes. So in our eyes that was like writing ads. So our first version of that tool only had like seven or eight tools and it was around Facebook ads, Google ads, and Instagram ads and captions. And then what we realized is, well, that's actually a pretty small piece of the market. A lot of the small businesses, they don't actually even run it, but instead what they really need help on our product descriptions, blogs, blog, intros. And that's when we started expanding the scope today, we are aiming to build out tools for almost every single use case you can imagine. And the reason is when we build out a new tool, we really want to help empower people for a specific problem that they have. So for us, you know, for example, coming up with ideas to write about, to coming up with that first intro, that book I could really continue to keep so much continued reading. We think that those are really, really hard problems and it would be mentally tired. And so we're kind of build out as many tools as we expand to help facilitate that creativity. That's great. So with, with this technology, I know if it's built off of open.ai and they use a technology called GPT three or GPT four, I think is GTP four is out and you're playing with it right now. What is the difference between the two? Yeah, it's actually deeply two, three for now, and we are fascinated by what GBT four will be. So a little background on the technology it's open AI had this thesis that if they can train a margin of model and a large enough algorithm, it will become smart. And so they launched something called tributary to about a year and a half ago. Now, maybe even almost two years ago now. And it was pretty impressive. But maybe one in a hundred or really mind-blowing results. And then maybe like one in 20 was a passable and the rest are complete crap. So Paul actually spent a lot of time, but keep it to two, really trying to explore the capabilities. And that means wading through a lot of, you know, bad content to look and find the gems. GPD three is a model that's just a hundred times bigger than GPC two. And it's probably one of the largest models that has been commercialized to date. And when open AI released it we saw immediate, it was like, wow, maybe like three and 10 where like really good results. Five out of 10 were probably passable. One in 10, maybe one in 20 were like, mind-blowingly good. And we knew immediately that was much more commercially viable because, you know, with one or two clicks, you get really, really good results. The way we see GPT three and give me a little bit of background. There is it's a model where they just try to predict the next word so where it's not technically a word, but we'll say it as the word here. So if you have like my name, like the next word has a very high probability to be is. And so that might try to predict that but there's also a little bit of randomness thrown in. So there are other words that could go after. Hi, my name. And then, you know, it may choose one of those other ones on separate runs. But what this results in is everyone is trying to set up the context for it to finish running. And so it looks very much like Harry Potter stuff, the better you can set up the context, the better you can prepare the AI to complete what you need it to be the better the results. And so even though it's a lot of companies are being built on JPC three, the way you implement it actually has a very drastic differences in the quality changes radically as well. Got it. So is that kind of your competitive edge, bringing a creativity model to it where you can take this open API that they're providing, but the way you're reverting it to create is a little bit different than what competitors might be doing or what's your competitive edge? Yeah, that's probably one of the strong ones and I think our competitive edge comes down to our mission and vision. It's our North star metric. And while it's not very powerful today has the moat. I think you have to look very different five, 10 years down the line. Yeah, I think the way we approach the market matters a lot. It really tells you which tool to build first, which ones to prioritize, and it also builds out a brand in the process. Got it. So are you limited right now to TP? I gotta get the acronym, right? The GPT three, or are you kinda like really anxious to get the GPT four in your hands? Or are you maxed out at what it can do right now? Or are you able to take a little bit further or where do you stand right now with the technology? Yeah, GPT three is already really, really powerful and I think we've barely scratched the surface. When it first launched, people were showing up all kinds of cool demos, like having it write code having it create designs. Of course, you know, the w the way you implemented is very different than how we're implementing it, probably Revit words. But it is just as impressive those tasks. And as a result, I think that there is a whole world of possibility that we haven't even tapped into all of our tools are basically the most simple building blocks or today but down the line in the future, I think there's going to be a lot, but really, really cool things you can do with it that are much more advanced. That will be much more helpful to users as well for if, and when they launch it, I can only imagine how much better it will be. If it's anything like the jump between Japan two and three, it's going to be mind-blowing. But it's already pretty hard to see how much better it can get that. One thing that is on the plate though, and this is a little tangential is open AI, released a blog post about a Dolly, which is a image generation API that hasn't been released yet, but effectively you'll be able to describe an image and then the AI algorithm will cry. Wow. That's great. So do you, do you, is there like a list that you've created internally of like all these ideas that you could create with it? Because really the sky's the limit in terms of creativity, I can only think of a, you know, five or six use case applications, and then I get inside your application and there's a 30. And do you have another hundred that you've put on a Google doc somewhere or secured in a safe I, I don't expect you to share those with me, but I'm just curious as to where the ideas STEM from, or are you doing some highly classified brainstorming somewhere? Or w what are your, what are your ideas behind that? Yeah, our tools usually fall into two categories. One is business. So it's like anything that requires you to write something, a business, like it could be used for that. And so we talked through it, our product a lot. If we need to write a tweet, if we need to, you know, do anything, we will like test it out. Hey, the GPC three recently we were looking at job descriptions and it's like, Oh, we need to create a tool for that. So that got added to the list. It's not ready yet, but it added to the list. More recently the other side of tools that we have are more first-line more for personal utility where it's like, you know, stuff that's just been painful to her. Right. then it's less, you know, associated with marketing or SEO or anything along those lines. So, for example, for students writing your cover letter, like I remember when I was a student, I had no idea where to start. And, but now we have a tool. So if I were a college student today, I would just type in the job that I want, or the company that I'm looking for, click a button that I have a great starting point for a really, really solid cover letter. One other fun tool that we'd launched recently was for Valentine's day. We had this thing called Valentine's day.ai, where we would help you write Valentine's day cards. We believe that people really want to express their love, but sometimes struggle to find the words for it. And when they struggle to find the West for, you know, it just comes out cheesy and it just doesn't feel right. With AI, you can actually help brainstorm the different words and you can input like inside jokes or, you know, more contextual stuff about your specific relationship and get back words that you could use for your own Valentine. The way we see a copy AI right now is much more like an assistant that helps you brainstorm you take bits and pieces from all the different generations that has, and then you put it together. And that final product is around and you may have, well, you wrote it. AI just helped you brains in different ways, but you're the one who edited it and figured out this is exactly what I'm trying to express. Yup. I hear that. Exactly. It it reminds me of a experience I had in early and then late nineties when I was in an English class. And I literally that's when the internet and more content was coming online. And I literally was reading the great Gatsby and I copy and pasted a section, and I put it into my report and the teacher kept up bringing up plagiarism, and I didn't know what she was talking about. And then eventually I got a little slap on the wrist and my grade dropped a little bit because I had plagiarized not really thinking anything of it, but something like this, you put that paragraph into copy.ai, and it's going to regurgitate a different way of saying it, right. Not to say that we should go off and teach our kids this, but I think it allows them to get more creative in coming up with verbs and adverbs and nouns that would allow them to express what they're trying to say. More effectively they still have to make completed sentences and crafted, you know, make it personal. And I don't think AI will ever get to a point in some industries that will like manufacturing and that sort of stuff. But with the creative realm, I don't think it's going to replace the copywriter. It's just going to empower them, just like these other tools, other manufacturing tools. So with that, are you, are you seeing a big organization here with copy.ai? I see that you're hiring. What are those positions and where do you see a copy.ai going in the, in the, you know, six months, year, two years. Yeah. You touched on a really, really strong point there, which is we are deeply, deeply passionate about AI to empower people, not replace them. As a matter of fact, one of our founding mission statements. So we first left our jobs was there was a narrative out there where it says AI is going to take over, take our jobs. And if that is true, there is a second narrative where it will, AI will make it easier to start Coopers. So we are on a mission to help shift people from losing their jobs to, Oh, no. Now I am part of being that company that gets the benefit from the AI. And that it's a very subtle thing, but I think it's really, really important. And so everything we do has been around, how do we empower to do this? We don't do auto. We do suggest we really, really, we think that ultimately is great at generation, but it's down to the human to churn and bring it back to exactly what you want to express. That being said our long-term vision is to create creative tools that help entrepreneurs start businesses. We believe that very deeply in the passionate economy. I don't know if you've heard of that, but it's basically, you will be able to make living focused on your passionate nature. Content creators are probably the early signs that are living in the future and it's because you can make content about anything. So they're, you know, they're already, it's a very meta but to already do it, you know, it's like, Oh, I am passionate about trains. And so I make a lot of videos about different trains. I get a lot of views. I can run ads on it and there you go. I have a living.  So we, we really do believe in This. And one of the hardest parts though, of starting a business is getting all of the words, right, getting the messaging, right, connecting with the customer. And so our tooling wants, they want to create these creative tools that help them get there. One other point that you touched upon is we're not going to replace copywriters. As a matter of fact, copywriters will actually be empowered in a, in a much more powerful way than everyone else. And the reason for that is the point I mentioned before, where every single word you use to input into the AI matters and a good choppier, your writer will have better words to input, which means that AI will understand your intentions in a much better way. So if you use a word like, you know, I, I like, you know, she, or something like that and then you change it to like, I like this specific type of sheets. You know, it, it, it really changes the output. And the better you are with words, the better you are with telling and describing at this, when you were looking for the better, the results. So CA good copywriters of good storytellers will find this as a super tool. Yeah, that's what we see it as well Internally. We are not just our copywriters are creating content for our clients, but we're actually paying them to create content for us internally. Right? So we practice what we preach in terms of, we were curating a whole bunch of content because when people type in those long tail keywords, we want them to find us in order to do that. We need to rank high on Google and that you bring up a good, interesting topic that we could probably talk an hour about, but essentially this, this, the passion I guess influence of today you know, people that like, I want to do what I'm passionate about. They have the ability to take content. That's already been created, put it into this tool, whether they have to do several copy and paste to generate it, but they can spend like a half an hour a day doing a blog post that was curated, you know, 10 years ago. And they can repurpose it as their own because they changed it up and up where it's not plagiarism, where they can do that. And when they start doing that, if they're consistent with it and they put in the keywords that they're looking for to be ranked for, they can rise in the Google rankings with the ability to get to those people that are interested in that specific niche. So I think the empowerment that we're allowing people that even aren't copywriters, that they will have the ability to say, I'm passionate about XYZ. And this is a tool over here that I have to spend. What, $40 a month, $50 a month. I'm not, you might raise the price to a hundred dollars a month. I'm not sure, but essentially what you want them to do is say here, here's another tool in your tool belt that allows you to start a business. Not just that you're not a copywriter take copy that's over on this site and bring it to this site. So are you seeing yourself using copy.ai as you expand the options? You know, the, the passionate person say there's a hundred different niches. Are they going to be able to go in there and say I want to do it for this specific niche, or it's already to that point, or, you know, when you get so many options, are you going after the small group over here, or are you going after a huge group over here, you see yourself branching out into different, you know, making an umbrella over coffee.ai, where do you see it going? That's a great question. And we are still debating it internally. There's just so many ways to go. But what is our North star is helping empower more and more entrepreneurs. So we definitely will want to launch more tools for beginner entrepreneurs to really be able to ramp up quickly. And it's very much like Shopify is arm the rebels in a motto where it's like, we are trying to arm the rebels. You know, that AI taking the jobs thing. It's like, we do think that's going to potentially happen. But you know, we're going to arm the rebels. So not only are they going to, I thought they're not going to get replaced, no employees, we're going to empower employees to quit their jobs first, and then start these other things. The result's going to be the same, but the employee the everyday person is going to be far better off on your other point about the different niches and whatnot. One of our favorite tools is actually changed tone, and we need to rename it. It's a horrible name for the tool, but basically you can type in like, you know, a product description or something from a different, you know, competitor website. And they choose the tone that you want, click the button and get the same thing and rewritten in a different tone. So for example, if you have a candle brand and you want it to have this more playful, witty sort of feel to it, you can literally take a competitor's, you know, candle description, you know, and then put it through and then click witty, pressed the button and get back with your channel descriptions that will have a lot more personality. And you can build an entire plan around that around being like a witty camel grant. And you know, you can already imagine what that would look like. And you can do this across everything. And so as long as you can find something that you're passionate about and you're willing to spend the time to, you know, really make it happen, really define the brand, the voice, you know, what you really want from it. You can start a business today in less time than ever. As a matter of fact, you could probably start that business within a day, you know, get it up and running on Shopify, find the manufacturers that are going to drop ship these candles, for example, you know, and then you can probably launch it by the end of the day. Before it might've taken a lot more time, because it would take a lot of times, or right, the top of the, you sort of really define the brand, but these days it's a lot easier. And that's one of the big motivating factors. It's Paul and I think about this a lot. If every single one of your business ideas has a 10% chance of success, how many times do you have to do it before overall? All of our projects has like a net. At least one of them has like a 95%. And the answer right now is 30. You have to do it 30 times and you'll have over a 95% chance of one of them succeed. What we want to do is not only decrease the number of times, but also we want it in garden and make it easier to do more projects, but we also want to improve the potential champions Fest. We can push that up. You know, it's a 20%, you know, the number of tries to find a successful business actually drops significantly. And we believe that this will happen across everyone, you know, talk to any entrepreneur. They've had multiple, multiple failures. Me, myself, personally. I made it take, talk about it. I have like 10 failures underneath my belt. And you know, this one just seems like an overnight success, but it was many, many years. Yeah. And you make a good point. I think that there's various reasons why a business would fail execution, but this essentially is giving them a tool to say, Hey, we'll take care of you over here. Yeah. You got to do the marketing aspect. You got to pay for ads, you got to curate content, or you gotta take it to your audience. But this is just another way that we're empowering the marketplace to, to bring it to the percentages that you're talking about. If they have one thing fixed on their plate of to-dos, then there'll be able to, you know, take a breather and say, Oh, I can focus my energy or my time on this over here. But if, if they're not able to grasp writing or, or able to create creative writing that penetrates or excites their audience, then they're really, they're not going to get anywhere. Right. They can have a website with a nice picture, but if it's not explaining it properly, then they're not going anywhere. So it really, I think it levels the playing field, like you said before, I think copywriters, it's not going to replace them, but it's going to make copywriters out of non copywriters as well. Exactly good copywriters, you know, and the experienced ones are probably the best storytellers on the planet. And that is a skill that just won't be easily replaceable. They'll have a very good sense of how do you tell this story? How do you make it exude through all the websites? So if I were starting a company today and we did I would use copy AI to potentially run through the first version, right. Get some traction and validate the problem. If we can validate it, then the next step is to probably bring on someone who's a really good storyteller, some more experienced copywriter to really help refine the story and make it feel and flow a lot better. Now, that being said, you know, these days there's so much content that needs to happen. You don't need a full-time copywriter on every single Instagram post. Yet you do want the Instagram posts to have high quality. So copying, I can fill in that gap. So there's just, I think there's going to be so much more that needs to be written. There's probably not enough copywriters out there, Right. So I'm just curious in respect to the creative element and not any boundaries. So if I were to take some content from a website that is written like a sales page, and it has a story and has a hook, and I regurgitate that into copy.ai, is it going to change it enough that would allow the person? Or is it because that story or that it's written a specific way that you can't repurpose it with copy.ai and you don't want to deal with the legalities there, or I don't know, have you looked into that or what that looks like? Not yet. We are focused very much on a shorter form, like maximum 400 characters or so. And the reason is when you start looking at full landing pages and the rewriting entire landing page, it does get pretty complicated. But what I can tell you though, is most managers do tell a story in a pretty similar way. It was like a lot of those, you know, very common copywriting, formulas, I pain agitate solution, ADA, whatnot. And we can help you brainstorm boats, which sort of thing if you saw a sales page and it's like, wow, they did an it solution really, really well for this product. Could I do that for my product? You can run it through, copy AI, get it back, and you could find other pain points or other ways to excite them. One of the early users we had was so excited because they'd been thinking about this topic for 20 years. It wasn't about AI or anything, but just thinking about a topic for 20 years, he ran it through copier. They gave him four or five new angles that he hasn't even considered before. And he's like, wow, like I've been focusing so much on trying to understand this topic yet with one click of a button in 10 seconds, I was able to get new ideas and that just blew his mind. And that was what we think the power of this AI can be. It's a really, really good at lateral thinking. It's really, really good at pattern recognition is really, really good at trying to find similar things. And it also has a huge knowledge base. I should have explained earlier, but this model is trained on about 10% of the internet as of October, 2019. So it knows a lot of contexts. And as a matter of fact, one of my favorite tools is a startup ideas where you can go in there type in you completely unrelated topics. And it will try to create business ideas for you out of these, out of the intersection, this topics. But there was one where I did like, you know, a dinosaur as you know, and then like amusement parks. And then like, you know, something I know is giving me incredible, like BR dinosaur experience, you know, apart, or like, you know, and it was mind blowing. And so we believe with these tools and if you put in your passion, you will find something that you back intersect all of your passion, that you would the right person to pursue this idea, just because this is who you are, what you believe in and what you're really, really tasked with. Well, that's great, Chris. I appreciate your time today. I just, I think that's a good stopping point for us because I want the, our audience to understand your tool, its capabilities in a trajectory in which it's going in the future. So please what, what's a good way that our audience and your audience can reach out to you if they can reach out to you personally. Great. If you just want them to go to the site, but how, how can we get in contact with you? Yeah, we live and breathe on Twitter. I highly suggest following my co-founder today, his Twitter is twitter.com/all your Coovian. And my Twitter is Twitter at optoms slash Chris underbar. Underbar leu, there's 200 bars in there. Paul actually made a joke the other day that our Twitter is our Slack channel. And it feels like that many times. Well, it sounds like it's your revenue channel as well, especially with the posts and the, what the traction you've been able to get from it. So congratulations, you've grown significantly. How many users do you have right now that are paying, if you don't mind? Yeah, we have about 1,200 now. It might be a little higher than that grows a little bit every day, and we're very, very fortunate. But we're really excited. Every single user, you know, read to us represents, you know, a entrepreneur or someone who started growing their own business. And these are the people that we want to support. Wonderful. Well, thanks for your time. Once again, Chris, and I appreciate it and we'll, we'll see, continue to grow and we'll keep following you so Perfect. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And look forward to it. All right. Take care. Thanks. Have a good one. Connect with us:  SEO.co // DEV.co // PPC.co // Link.Build  

Today we sit down for an in-depth chat with friend of the show Ryan Ermet. Ryan has a knack for catching big bows and brookies in Alberta and British Columbia. He is a Pro Tyer with Canadian Llama. We talk about his involvement with the movie "Still" from Brent Gill at Wait 4 it Films, we chat the Stillwaters FB page, the Stillwaters Fly fishing app, the Winnipeg Jets, leaning on fishing buddies in tough times, killer chironomid patterns for still water, methods and applications for challenging still waters, dream days and much more. Thanks Ryan for sharing your fly fishing story with us! #stillwaterflyfishingab

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Psychology plays an important part in business no matter what business you’re in or how you’re getting sales. The best tactics to convince us to spend money are the ones we’re not aware of. Retail stores have been using music, scents, and merchandising to get us to spend more money for decades if not centuries. Those tactics online now have a name and its Dark Patterns. Jon explain just what Dark Patterns are and why your brand should avoid using them. Read more about Dark Patterns: https://thegood.com/insights/dark-pattern-ecommerce-ux-design/ Transcription: Ryan: Jon, psychology plays an important part in business, no matter what business you're in and how you're getting the sales. Now, the best tactics to convince us to spend money are the ones we're not really aware of. And retail has been doing this probably for hundreds of years, even though I haven't been involved in it, using music's sense merchandising of how they put products on the shelves to get us to spend more money. And all of that research and data is out there for the taking, but I would venture a guess that most of the public is unaware of actually what's happening in those retail environments to commit us to spend money. When it comes to e-Commerce though, and the way our economy is moving to transacting online, I'm finding a lot of these "psychology tactics" are much more in your face, or at least I'm more aware of them. And maybe it's because I'm spending too much time in front of my computer talking to e-Commerce business owners and looking at e-Commerce sites. But I see it all the time, and a lot of times it just bugs me and you have a term for it called dark patterns. And that's a new term to me, but probably not to you because you work in the CRO world, but you recently mentioned it on LinkedIn. And I wanted to learn more about it because it fascinates me, the intricacies of psychology because studying sales my whole life and now having a retail store with my wife, it's just always there. And I think most of them I see online are garbage, some plugins on Shopify sites that maybe should never have been put on in the first place, but I want to learn about dark patterns. And I learned from one of the best in the world, who should be you. Jon: Awesome. Ryan: It sounds evil, but I just want to know more. How do we use our powers for good? Jon: I'm looking forward to it. Ryan: Jon, why don't you just take a moment and give me a high level of what do you mean when you say dark patterns when it comes to e-Commerce and e-Commerce sites? Jon: So when I talk about dark patterns, what I'm talking about is similar to, if you think about hacking and in a way that there's white hat and black hat, right. And black hat hacking is when you're doing something intentionally for a negative outcome, it might be a benefit to somebody like it's going to be benefits to the hacker, but you're hurting somebody in that process or you're creating a problem in that process. Where a white hat hacker is really just trying to help. They're trying to do things for positive. Maybe they're looking for bugs, but they're going to report them to the software maker before they do anything to exploit it. So you think about that. Exploitation is really what comes in here to my head when I think about this more than anything else. So, what we're talking about here today is really when an e-Commerce store makes something difficult because they want to influence the outcome that they're trying to do. So whether that's something through psychology, you talked about in a retail environment, the type of music they play in the background that calms people down, or how they price, where they make things $2 and 99 cents instead of $3, right? You start thinking about all these psychology tricks that come at play well in e-Commerce there's all those psychology tricks. Plus there are ways to actually increase barriers intentionally on a website so that the consumer can't take the action that they're trying to take, instead, you've made it more difficult. Some examples of this really easy one, an email pop-up pops up when you come to the site to sign up for email lists and there's no way to close it. So the only way you can get back to what you were trying to do is to give them your email address, or I like to call this negative intent shaming. So where the button in that pop-up says something like, no, I don't like discounts or I don't like saving money, right? There's all these types of dark patterns. And it can go even more, really sinister and you make it just impossible to unsubscribe without calling, right? So for years, and it may still be this way, but Skype was an amazing case study of this, where they would claim massive retention rates, but their user rate was super low and usage. And the only reason they had retention rates that were so impressive is because the only way to actually cancel and delete your Skype account was to call a phone number in the U.S. So, if you're an international user where Skype was way more prevalent than in the States, you had to call international, talk to somebody in English only, and say, I need to cancel my Skype account. Please delete it from your servers. Why won't you just do that when a click of a button? So this is a good example of a dark pattern where the brand really valued retention, so they made it near impossible, right up, maybe to that legal limit. And one of the things you saw on LinkedIn was I had posted to an article it had run in what's called The Hustle, which is a great entrepreneur email. If you're no signed up for a free email, it comes out every morning, just around entrepreneurship and the tech industry and whatnot. And they were saying that there's new legislation coming in that is all about making these dark patterns illegal. And that most things need to be self-service, and it shouldn't be a challenge. So that's really where I was going with this was not only is this just bad to do and lead to a horrible brand image in the longterm, but it's also going to become illegal fairly soon. And I hope it's sooner than later, I have my doubts that would happen anytime in the near future, but I hope it's sooner than later. Ryan: So could you also bundle in to that broad, I guess I would probably try to broaden dark patterns a little bit and say it also includes what people think is helping from a psychological perspective, but it's actually just stupid. Well, one of my, I guess, favorite, least favorite was the one that I noticed the most is there's a plug-in on a lot of sites that says, Oh, little Jimmy just bought the pink t-shirt and Oh, look over here, Susie just bought this vase. And Oh, people are buying all over on the site and I can go to some sites and I've seen maybe the analytics behind the scenes and maybe some of my audit. And I know for a fact, there's no way that five people just bought something in the 30 seconds I was on their site. Jon: That's exactly it. Fake social proof is a great example of this, right? So it's having a random number of view, people are viewing this product right now, having X number of people who just bought this product from wherever in the world. And consumers always distrust that now, because it's been abused. Right. But it's a dark pattern because what are they trying to do? They're trying to influence your psychology around social proof and having fear of missing out. And you want what everyone else wants and, Oh, well, if so-and-so just bought that product, then it's probably legit and I should buy it too. And we see this more and more, a really good example is well, and we're getting through a lot of good examples. I could go on for days for examples, but another great example is a fake countdown timer, right? They're introducing scarcity, but it's false scarcity. What I mean by that is sign up within the next five minutes and we'll give you something or okay, we've talked about this in other shows, we did a discounting episode, not too long ago. And you were talking about how your wife just leaves products in the cart, abandons the cart, waits 24 hours and knows there's the discount email coming. You know that that clock is no good. Okay. Reminds me of the old TV commercials call within the next five minutes and you get this free bonus. They have no idea when that commercial is going to run, down to the minute, they don't know. And if you think about it, especially when you see these on news stations, right? News stations have somewhat of a cadence for ad timing, but it's never down to the second, to down to the minute. So there's no way you could start a clock and say in five minutes, right? I guarantee you, if you called them in a week, they'd give you that same price. And it's the exact same thing happening here where there's a whole bunch of these dark patterns that are playing on people's psychology or making it really complicated for them to actually take an action they want to do in order to benefit the brand. Ryan: So what we're not talking about though, is actually having your inventory show on the siting. I actually only have three of these left because Amazon, I see doing that. And based on some of my experience in Amazon, on my brands, I feel the trust that at this point they might change, but that's not what I'm talking about as far as scarcity. Jon: No. Ryan: Okay. It's the manipulation of faking scarcity or faking a countdown timer. Jon: Yes, exactly. Now, if you're just always going to say that there's only three of these left, in order to have scarcity when none exists, then that's a dark pattern. But if you're actually trying to help the consumer, get the product they want and know that, Hey, if you don't buy it, now you're going to have to wait for the next batch to come in. And that could be six weeks or whatever. Right. Then I would put that under the white hat, right. You're really trying to help people and you're giving them more information to make a decision. And that's why this is such an interesting topic. How do you prove what's dark and what's not? Right. If you look at a brand, you mentioned, well, I've had experiences with Amazon. I trust that based on my experiences there. But if you just saw that on some random new e-Comm site that you've never been to before, how do you trust that for sure. How do you know for sure that, that's the reality? Ryan: I personally would have trouble with that. Just knowing as much as I do about e-Comm. Jon: Yeah. You've been burned before, right. There was a great Twitter thread, a few weeks back. It was what is one thing about industry that you work in that the general public doesn't know? And this falls under for e-Commerce that I saw somebody posted, well, I run an e-Commerce brand. And we tell people our products are selling out, when they're not. I was like, okay, well, there you go. That's a dark pattern, right? Ryan: Yeah. Happens often. Ryan: Obviously we don't like them. And I would believe they're hurting brands to a degree, but I bet you probably have some data about how does some of these products that you've seen actually do opposite of what this business owner probably intended for it to do, this countdown timer or, Hey, everybody's buying this all over the world. You need to buy now. Jon: Right. Ryan: Do you see it actually hurting the conversion rate? Jon: Well, I will tell you this, first of all, does it work for the initial conversion? Sometimes, perhaps, right? It might, probably not as well as people think, because if you have to get to that level to get people to buy, you probably have other systemic issues that you need to solve. A product issue, a pricing issue, a brand trust issue, right? There's a lot of other things that you should work on solving instead of trying to take the shortcut. So let's say you get that original purchase, right. Then the person comes back to buy again and they notice that, okay, well now I've got another countdown timer, or maybe it happens where like your wife, you wait that timer out every time. And you know, it's not happy now you trust that brand a little less, right? So I would say that on the first purchase, it might work, but for the longer term customer lifetime value growth, and maybe a brand perception angle, no, it's not going to work. I argue that it's going to hurt you more in the longterm. Ryan: Yeah, I guess an argument could be made based on that. But if you only get one sale ever you're selling mattresses, you don't care if they ever come back. Jon: Boom. That's a great example, right? A mattress store, you go to any mattress store. They're always having the best sale ever, always. And you walk into a mattress store, I guarantee you, you're not going to pay the price that's listed there. You can talk them down because they're going to give you a price that is just a random price. And you're going to be able to go in and just say, okay, well, last week it was this other price or, Hey, well, what if I give you a $100 less? And they're probably be like, okay. Yeah, that's true. If the goal is to get that first sale and that's it at all costs, and you're never going to sell to them again. And you just don't care about your brand over the longer term of, with that customer or even your reputation perhaps. Then I would argue sure. Have at it. Still, not ethical or moral in my point of view. But if you don't want to grow a sustainable brand and revenue, then have at it. Ryan: Yeah. And I would argue though, that even if that is unethical, not great, your business won't be around anyway, because people are going to see through it more and more, I think. And then the marketing costs of getting traffic to your site, necessitates at this point, a lifetime value on a customer. Jon: Right. Ryan: If you're not playing the lifetime value game in e-Commerce, I don't think you're going to be hearing from me and Jon in a couple of years. Because you won't be in commerce at the end of the day. You've got to have that. No matter if you're a retailer or if you're a brand that's selling through retailers and on your own site, you have to have a plan for selling to that customer multiple times in the future. Jon: Right, right. Ryan: Building trust, obviously we focus on that on both of our ends of marketing constantly and dark patterns can interrupt that even if it's short-term creates commercial rate increase, but are there some areas in this that you say are valuable on both of those counts? Like increases conversion rates and while some people might think this is maybe in that space, it actually does good as far as building the lifetime value as well. Jon: Well, I would say that if your intent is to put up a barrier for the consumer, that there's no positive, they can come of that in my point of view, right? People are at your site because they're there to complete a task, right. They think that your product or service can help them complete that task. And now if you are trying to actively prevent them from completing the task, they want to complete only because you want them to complete the tasks you want them to do. There's no positive that's going to come out of that. Right. For instance, you're in a checkout and the default check is yes, subscribe email list, right. How many times do people just leave that checked, right. Or you use confusing language check here to not receive our emails lists each week. Ryan: I love that example of yours. Like, wait, what do I... Is it checked? Jon: Exactly. Yeah. All of that stuff is where I end up getting really, really frustrated. And when I see that stuff often, quite honestly, I choose not to work with that brand. I just say we're not a good fit because our mission to remove all of these bad online experiences is not going to be further long by working with them because they don't really want to help the consumer. Right. Maybe it's a mistake if there's one of them or maybe they got some bad advice at some point, if it's just one thing that's happening, or they using an app that makes it too easy to do that. Like one of those purchase apps you were talking about that come up out of the corner and telling you that somebody purchased recently, but they didn't. But I would say, at that point there's really not anything I can do to change the ethics of that company. And that's, I think what this really comes down to. And there's too many brands out there that want to help consumers and do the right thing that they don't... We don't need to work with the brands who are only just trying to use psychology to trick people into purchasing. Ryan: Yeah. I think both of us have been as long enough. We know there's a lot of people in our industry that loves selling some snake oil and there are a lot of them giving bad advice and I come across constantly. So that's why my mission's probably not as holistic or maybe pretty as yours. I'll say mine is like, I just want to put all my competitors out of business that are selling snake oil and then sell [crosstalk 00:17:04] behind me. Jon: Exactly. Ryan: Save e-Comm brands from stupid advice. Jon: Hey, that's a good moral lesson in that though. Right? Just making it happen. Right. And I think the reality is, is you guys have won it Logical Position, and you've gotten as big as you have because of the way you treat people and handle these accounts. Right. You would never be serving 6,000 clients if you tried all these tricks because there would be a handful of people out there who would be okay with it. But the vast majority of brands are good. And I wholeheartedly believe that, but unfortunately, what do they say? That one bad Apple spoils the whole bunch. Is that the phrase? Ryan: Yeah. At least it does on my phone. Jon: Yeah. I've been apple picking once when I was a kid maybe, but I can't claim to have much farm experience. Ryan: So, just as in most things in business, as long as you filter through some type of lens that says, is this something I would be comfortable with my mom getting or being presented with like, Hey, if I'm lying that somebody is checking out and there's an app for that. Why on earth would it make sense for me to put it on there? If I know that, Hey, this might convince my mom to buy something she doesn't need and be a good human at the end of the day. If you do that as a business owner with an e-Comm site, you're not going to be putting these things on there to do this. And hopefully we're going to help you put your competitors out of business who are trying to do those things. Jon: Well, I think that's a great lens to put this through the mom test, right. Be thinking about this. If you are doing something that you wouldn't want done to your mom. Then don't do it. Right. And I think that, that's a really good way to look at this. If it would trick your mom into doing something that she really didn't want to do, then just get rid of it. Would you want your mom automatically opting into this privacy statement or would you want your mom to automatically get these emails? And you know she'd be frustrated if she just wants to purchase a product. And all of a sudden was getting marketing emails every day. Or if she got tricked into doing an upsell on a product, because it was default added to the cart, the highest, most expensive shipping option was chosen when there were way cheaper options. There's a lot of things like that that happen all the time. And the problem is, it's really something that would frustrate most people. But I think I see it more than probably the casual online shopper, but I also have [inaudible 00:19:40] and obligation to resolve those problems when I see them as much as possible. Ryan: Yeah. And if you do convert optimization, right, you don't need them. Jon: Right. Ryan: And that's the crazy thing. You don't need gimmicks, if you've got a solid business, good products, and you've worked with Jon, or if you're not quite to Jon's level, you're doing just good things at the end of the day. And I think the example of shipping is a phenomenal one that I didn't even think about until you said it that as a business owner, you're like, Hey, shipping, we make margin on this shipping or not this shipping. And we have free shipping here or not, but you can just check this one because it just makes sense maybe from a business perspective where is, we need more margin here because we're giving it up here. But at the end of the day, if you just do what is right, that you would want done to you, you've got that potential for customer lifetime value. Jon: Right. Ryan: And that's where your profit can come from. Jon: Yeah. I really like your approach of, if you've wouldn't do it to your mom, don't do it on your set. I think that's great. I wholeheartedly believe in that. And I think all of these things would fall under that. Right. Would you really want to do face fake scarcity and make your mom believe there's only one item left when there's not? Ryan: I'll tell you your mom, she's an idiot that she doesn't want to save money. I know my mom wants to save money, believe me. I'm not going to call her an idiot for not- Jon: Exactly. She doesn't want your emails. That's why she's clicking no. But... Ryan: Yep. Jon: Yeah. Well, I think this has been great conversation though. Ryan: Yeah. Me too. So is there anything anybody needs to know that we haven't touched on when it comes to dark patterns or things you can or might do to your site even by accident that you just want to be aware of? Jon: Yeah. I would think the first thing you should do when you add any app from the Shopify app store or any of those is give it a good look. Don't just use it because you see a competitor using it. Don't just assume they have positive intent here, go install it and then really dig in. Do some user testing on it, get understanding from consumers. Is it really being helpful for them or is it causing a another barrier in their road to conversion? And if it is ask yourself, am I putting up that barrier because it's better for me, or am I putting up that barrier unnecessarily? And it's actually making it hard for them to complete the purchase, which is what you ultimately want. And I have yet to hear an example that fits into both of those. Again, it's either black or white, it's either white hat or black hat, and there's really nothing in between that I can find. And if somebody listening to this has a great example of that. Please let me know. I would love to have some good examples of that. Ryan: Put it on LinkedIn, share it with Jon, so we can all see. Jon: Yeah. Tag Ryan and I. Ryan: Well, thanks Jon. I appreciate you giving me an education and anybody else's listening for that because it's very helpful. Jon: Awesome. Thanks Ryan. Appreciate the conversation. Ryan: Thank you.

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In this episode of the Suite Spot, we continue sharing helpful insights and tips to help hoteliers combat the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Host Ryan Embree is joined by Travel Media Group’s Director of Marketing, Anne Sandoval, to discuss 5 Strategies of Crisis Response. Anne, who studied crisis management and has a graduate certificate in corporate communication, talks us through each component of crisis response. Ryan and Anne then apply these crisis response strategies to the hotel industry. They share insightful statistics surrounding these strategies and give some specific examples of how they can be implemented at a property level. These 5 crisis response components – responsiveness, transparency, accountability, consistency, and action – build the foundation of an effective game plan for managing this global emergency. If you are looking for more information on the hotel industry and coronavirus visit Travel Media Group’s COVID-19 hotel marketing resource center online or reach out to us by phone or text at 407-984-7455. Episode Transcript Our podcast is produced as an audio resource. Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and human editing and may contain errors. Before republishing quotes, we ask that you reference the audio. Ryan Embree: Welcome to Suite Spot where hoteliers check-in and we check out what's trending in hotel marketing. I'm your host, Ryan Embree. Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Suite Spot. This is your host Ryan Embree recording remotely again during this COVID-19 crisis. And with me today we have another frequent guest of the Suite Spot, also recording remotely for the first time, Anne Sandoval. So Anne, I know you've been with us a couple times, definitely a different location than when we are usually recording, but want to welcome you to the Suite Spot. Anne Sandoval: Hey Ryan, thanks for having me. I definitely prefer when we are able to record face to face, but I'm glad this is working out. It's awesome. I'm so happy to be here, once again. Ryan Embree: Absolutely, feeling very thankful that we're able to give all of our listeners content, insights, and education on the current ongoing COVID-19 crisis today. We've got a really great episode that I think is going to be very relevant to what's going on and best practices and tips on how hoteliers can implement ways to handle this COVID -19 crisis that really we've never been through before. So Anne, is not only our Director of Marketing at Travel Media Group, but has studied at the University of Central Florida with a master's in mass communication and a certificate of corporate communication and has studied crisis management. So I thought no better person to bring on with us today to talk about some of the components and strategies of crisis response than Anne. And what we're going to do today, in this episode, is we're actually going to go through the five components or strategies of crisis response. We're going to go through each one, we're going to talk to them from a high level of how these tips and strategies would work just overall, and then we're really gonna drill down into the hotel industry and how we can apply that to the hotel that you may be managing during this crisis today. So let's go ahead and get started with the first tip. Anne Sandoval: Of course, yeah. Thanks Ryan for that introduction. So the first component of crisis response that's important to talk about is responsiveness. And the reason I'm going to mention it first is because it's so time sensitive. Some industry experts say that you have just 15 minutes to respond when a crisis occurs. And you might be thinking, "Why is that, 15 minutes sounds almost unreasonably fast?" But the reason is because now information is shared 24/7/365 and consumer expectations are higher than ever. If it's a small crisis, like a negative tweet about your business, it might seem a little more reasonable to respond...

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Mark Ellis (@MarkEllisLive) joins me in the Cantina for a very special Q & A show led by all of you. We’ll be going heavy on your special questions through Patreon, streamlabs and superchat, to maximize the Ellis-experience while discussing our favorite moments in the sequel movies (The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker). What are your favorite moments from the sequel trilogy? What are some fun questions you want us to answer from the Star Wars Universe. The show today is all about you so we’re going heavy to answer all your questions! You can send them now to https://streamlabs.com/markreilly Today’s beverage is donated to us by Ryan Jarvis! Thanks Ryan for handling the booze to welcome in Ellis and if you’d like to buy the wine for Cantina or the booze for The Reilly Roundtable, send your $20 donation to streamlabs for a chance to be mentioned on the show! Enjoy today’s show and remember, May the Force Be With You… Always…

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Episode 326 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Storm chaser, photographer and filmmaker, Ryan Shepard 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. Show Opener:Storm chaser, photographer and filmmaker, Ryan Shepard.  Thanks Ryan! Sponsors: - Build Your Legacy with Fujifilm - Get 20% off at Tenba.com with offer code PetaPixel20- Get 10% off at XRitePhoto.com with offer code PetaPixel10 - More at LensShark.com/deals. Stories: Nikon rumored to working on APS-C mirrorless Z bodies and lenses. (#) AI-powered sky replacement in Skylum Luminar 4. (#) Nikon announces the NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8 S. (#) Instagram photographers risk all doing it for the 'gram. (#) Canon's camera sales slide. (#) U.S. drone pilots have something to be happy about. (#) 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!”

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Last Saturday September 29th, I had an exhibit on board the MS Norgoma but I did not want to miss the opportunity to speak with Ryan Amadore before he left with his amazing work for Kapuskasing where he lives with his wife Sophie and son. For the past month, I worked in my studio space, right beside the gallery where Ryan’s work was exhibited. I kept catching a glance at his water or his ducky, the two paintings I could see while painting. His loose yet controlled brushstrokes were a reminder to keep exploring and staying fresh and loose. Not to overwork my work. I am indebted to Ryan for this et merci aussi à Sophie!!I was so fortunate that Ryan was happy to share his thoughts with me. It’s a shorter than usual recording but such a wonderful one. Thanks Ryan and happy trails in the middle of no(some)where.Visit http://picbear.xyz/ryanamadore to know more about Ryan!Photo: Ryan Amadore 2018Music: Neil Young, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, 1969

In episode 11, we bring the Covina Tech Squad onto our show for a different perspective on how to support teachers with technology. Thanks Ryan, Daisy, Gabe, and Joey and good luck with everything. Also a shout out to David Platt, @herrplatt, for his awesomeness! You can find their podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/covina-high-tech-tips-with-tech-squad/id1287697441?mt=2

The wind blew environmental expert and founder of Essence Vapor, Ryan Douglass into the studio this week!  They dug deep into all things organic (especially his new all-natural organic e-liquid company, Essence Vapor), his baby on the way, and the world's desperate need for a real-life Pootie Tang.  If you're going to Desert Hearts be sure to stop by the Essence Vapor booth and show him some love. He also wanted to give something out to our listeners so if you check out EssenceVapor.com and enter the promo code LETITBLEED25 you'll get 25% off at check out!  Thanks Ryan!

Nothing sexier than a serial killer prostitute! Before there was Wonder Woman, there was Aileen Wuornos! Played by the Atomic Blonde! And the Casper girl plays her girlfriend! Thanks Ryan! Dir. Patty Jenkins, 2003. Starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci.

As Artie Abrams announces "BLOODY MARYS Y'ALL", he launches Raina (@itsrainaingmen) and returning guest Gavin Gronenthal (@ghgronenthal) into the longest episode of this podcast yet. In the episode that made teenage Gavin give up on glee, these kids are getting bad and boozy and Ryan Murphy teaches us that bisexual people are not real!!! Thanks Ryan!! Follow @glee_podcast if you think bisexuals are real

Episode 183 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Arsenal AI photography assistant creator, Ryan Stout 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. Arsenal AI photography assistant creator, Ryan Stout opens the show. Thanks Ryan! Sponsors: - Get 10% off your order at MeFOTO.com, Tenba.com, KupoGrip.com and StellaProLights.com using code PetaPixel. - First time customers in the US get $25 off rentals of $50 or more through June 29, 2017 with code PP25 at BorrowLenses.com. Reports that the Japanese governments wants Fujifilm to help Nikon. (#) Samyang announces a smaller, lighter 35mm f/2.8 for Sony F-mount. (#) Affinity Photo comes to the iPad with a full-featured offering. (#) Apple announces new iMacs...and in an un-Apple move, an iMac Pro 6 months before delivery. (#) New iPads, a new OS and an update to Apple's Photos app is announced at WWDC. (#) 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!”

Less Than 12 Parsecs - The Fastest Star Wars Podcast In The Galaxy! - #0108 - Action Figure Number 13 It's that time of the month right open up a brand-new (to me) classic Kenner Star Wars action figure! This months figure comes from friend of the show Ryan Dassing! Thanks Ryan! To recap, here are the figures I already have... Lobot Logray Hoth Luke Hoth Rebel Soldier Hoth Rebel Commander Snowtrooper AT-AT Driver 2-1B C-3PO Walrus Man Hammerhead Imperial Royal Guard If you have a figure to sell me, or send me (I won't say no to freebies!), please let me know! I'm looking for loose, clean, near-mintish figures, preferably with their accessories! You can now purchase LT12P t-shirts on TeePublic! - www.teepublic.com/user/lt12p Video Edition - https://youtu.be/9IoN4aeX4LY ---------- www.TwelveParsecsPodcast.com TwelveParsecsPodcast@gmail.com www.TheExpandedFandomverse.com You can now purchase LT12P t-shirts on TeePublic! - www.teepublic.com/user/lt12p ---------- All Star Wars sounds, music, images, logos, designs, characters and elements are registered trademarks and copyright of Disney, Lucasfilm Limited, their subsidiaries and respected rights holders, and used by The Less Than 12 Parsecs Podcast under fair use doctrine. All original content is copyright Tim McMahon and The Less Than 12 Parsecs Podcast, released under the No Derivative Works Creative Commons License. A proud member of the Expanded Fandomverse network of shows. Utinni!

Today we talk about Thankskilling! With one of the stars of the film Ryan Francis! I can't sum up in words what a great time it was to talk about such a fun flick! Thanks Ryan for accommodating, and thank you all for listening and telling a friend!@GITpodcastgetittogetherpod@gmail.com

DJ / PRODUCER / RECORDING ARTIST - INDUCE I'm always down for buying records, and especially when I don't have to overly prepare myself to dig deep, play tetris, sneeze 8,000 times, and get super dirty and dusty all in the process. One day my friend Justin invited me to go to this private record sale in Atwater Village. This sale, I like to now refer to as the "farmers market of records" was right up my alley. I literally rolled out of bed on a Sunday AM and rushed over to the sale. I knew if I slept on it I'd run the risk of all the boogie-disco records being gone. I pulled up and found myself at Ryan's house. We had these carefree discussions about music and records in general. I shared with him my feelings of never loving any kind of "new" music, and sometimes feeling like this nostalgic girl that's stuck somewhere I can never return to. Later upon leaving, Ryan's stopped me and said "Hey give this a try. It's something new, and maybe you'll like it" and I did. I really did. He handed me his album The Wonderful Sound of Induce, Halfway Between Me And You. I went home and searched it on Spotify (I didn't want to break the packaging), and immediately started listening. I was blown away, A) I loved it and B) I was overjoyed that I was listening to a white man's voice that sounded beautiful. As you all know, I am huge, a huge pushover for any soulful white-man that can sing well. I almost died when I heard his take on Oliver Cheatham's Get Down Saturday Night. I immediately reached out to him and asked that he come be a guest on my show, and the rest is history. We spent all day Sunday together, talking and working. I later went to his gig at Eighty-Two in the Arts District, and learn that he dominates on Ms. Pac Man. He even beat the high score by over 100,000 points. Dude is serious. We also spoke in our best Sol Rosenberg voices all night long. I related to everything we talked about and shared. Thanks Ryan for a truly, reallygreat day. -Seeps Ryan Smith, known by Induce, is a Los Angeles based DJ, Music Producer, Recording Artist, Record Collector/Seller. Induce is from Miami, Florida, and started deejaying in clubs as a teen. Later in the early 2000's, Induce co-founded Miami based independent record label, Counterflow Recordings, and went on to own and operate his own label, The Wonderful Sound, also known as WonderSound. He served as editor-in-chief and contributing writer for issues 1 & 2 of the turntablism magazine, Tablist Magazine founded by DJ Infamous. In 2008 he was voted Best Club DJ in Miami by the Miami New Times. In more recent years he's received recognition for his work as a singer; his 2012 album Halfway Between Me And You received praised as one of the best indie-soul releases of that year by MTV Hive, and won him Artist of the Year in the Miami-area hip-hop website The 305. In 2013 he started directing videos, such as "Get Down Saturday Night" from his Halfway Between Me And You album and "Ride Around" and "Alina" from Sunset Summer. Induce has collaborated with Danny Daze on a DJ mix consisting of Italo disco style music, Disco For Abruzzo Vol. 1, and has toured with Kid Sister as her DJ. He has worked with a number of prominent producers and DJs, notably Gigamesh, being featured on the song "When You’re Dancing" and with DJ Kon, being featured on the song "Love Shine", and on the On My Way with Jack Splash. He currently has a radio show on dublab called Dancing, Thinking, Loving, Listening, which airs on Thursdays at 8pm on dublab.com and DJ's all over Los Angeles, but can regularly be found at Bar Marmont, LIttle Joy and the 143 Parties at the Echoplex. You can follow him on all social media @INDUCE1.

See detailed #strain #brand #reviews #nugporn #retailer #producerprocessor Thanks Ryan! http://www.agingent.com/2016/02/marijuana-encyclopedia-7-ryan-galford.html

Yes we are! Well, Adam is. Amul is gone trying to take over Europe and Greg is possibly still hungover from his birthday on Friday. No need to fear, Adam called in a guest co-host! Drunk Inc welcomes Ryan, co-host of Implied Oral Consent podcast, to help field the questions about expectations regarding the gridiron. We hit all divisions hard, with no concussion like symptoms! Thanks Ryan! Any questions or topic ideas email: drunkincpodcast@gmail.com Listen to more of Ryan at Implied Oral Consent podcast (found on itunes)

00:00:00 - According to 'science' frogs are growing too many legs. However, as Carl Zimmer points out, sussing out the cause of the excess is a tricky matter indeed. You may have heard it was pollution, but what about the parasites? Kelly explains. 00:22:03 - Drinks can contain both pollution and parasites. A good way to defend against the former is to make sure your drink includes ethanol. Patrick accomplishes this with an Elliot Ness from the Great Lakes Brewing Company. Kelly goes a step further contaminating her beer with coffee in the form of  a Thunderstruck Coffee Porter from Highland Brewing Company. And Ryan sips a concoction of his own creation in the form of a Tequila Sazerac inspired by some awesome antarctic glassware care of Abe and Bev! 00:27:55 - Next the gang is off to a more colorful land as they discuss the myth and the tech behind the upcoming spectacle Oz the Great and Powerful in Trailer Trash Talk! 00:42:19 - Patrick then tells us about the all too real marine super'crocs' of death that used to roam the seas. What were they? Where do they fit? And what is Patrick's favorite Crocodylmorph? 00:57:37 - PaleoPOWs are lot like crocodiles, their classification continues to prove difficult and confusing. Kelly has an e-mail from Summer in Seattle letting us know that she saw a video of an anaconda vomiting up an entire cow and that it reminded her of us. Thanks? Ryan has a glowing iTunes review from ViTuanPeterPhan, who like any good reviewer, tells us how far along in the back catalog he is (ep 79 as of this posting). Lastly, Patrick has a very generous donation from a Bryan A., whom Patrick is convinced is a celebrity. Regardless, thanks Bryan!   Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!   Music for this week's show provided by: Jump Around - House of Pain Oh Catherine, My Catherine - WIDOWER (Available on Bandcamp) We're off to see the Wizard - Harold Arlen Swamp Fang - Rolla Olak

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