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In this episode of the hunting gear podcast, host Dan Johnson speaks with Rick Hall about essential hunting gear for Southern outdoorsmen. They discuss the importance of products like Thermacell for bug control, the necessity of layering clothing for varying temperatures, and the unique challenges faced by hunters in the South. The conversation highlights the blend of hunting and fishing experiences, emphasizing the need for versatile gear that can adapt to the Southern climate. In this episode, the conversation delves into essential gear and techniques for southern hunters, focusing on clothing, calling methods, and the importance of staying hydrated. The speakers share personal experiences and recommendations for hunting gear, emphasizing the significance of comfort and preparedness in the field. Takeaways Thermo cell is essential for bug control in the South. Layering clothing is crucial for managing temperature changes. Merino wool makes an excellent base layer for hunting. A good vest provides flexibility and warmth during hunts. Packable rain jackets are necessary for sudden weather changes. Scent control can be challenging in humid conditions. Southern hunters often face unique environmental challenges. The right gear can enhance the overall hunting experience. Layering helps manage sweat and comfort during hunts. Thermo cell is as important as your weapon for Southern hunting. Comfortable footwear is essential for long hunting days. Light hip waders can be a game changer in flooded areas. Rattling and calling can significantly increase hunting success. Optics are crucial for spotting game in thick terrain. Staying hydrated is vital for maintaining energy during hunts. Turkey hunting offers a unique thrill compared to deer hunting. Investing in quality calls can improve hunting effectiveness. A minimalist approach to gear can enhance mobility and comfort. Don't underestimate the value of binoculars in scouting. Stick with what works for you and avoid chasing trends. ‍ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the hunting gear podcast, host Dan Johnson speaks with Rick Hall about essential hunting gear for Southern outdoorsmen. They discuss the importance of products like Thermacell for bug control, the necessity of layering clothing for varying temperatures, and the unique challenges faced by hunters in the South. The conversation highlights the blend of hunting and fishing experiences, emphasizing the need for versatile gear that can adapt to the Southern climate. In this episode, the conversation delves into essential gear and techniques for southern hunters, focusing on clothing, calling methods, and the importance of staying hydrated. The speakers share personal experiences and recommendations for hunting gear, emphasizing the significance of comfort and preparedness in the field. Takeaways Thermo cell is essential for bug control in the South. Layering clothing is crucial for managing temperature changes. Merino wool makes an excellent base layer for hunting. A good vest provides flexibility and warmth during hunts. Packable rain jackets are necessary for sudden weather changes. Scent control can be challenging in humid conditions. Southern hunters often face unique environmental challenges. The right gear can enhance the overall hunting experience. Layering helps manage sweat and comfort during hunts. Thermo cell is as important as your weapon for Southern hunting. Comfortable footwear is essential for long hunting days. Light hip waders can be a game changer in flooded areas. Rattling and calling can significantly increase hunting success. Optics are crucial for spotting game in thick terrain. Staying hydrated is vital for maintaining energy during hunts. Turkey hunting offers a unique thrill compared to deer hunting. Investing in quality calls can improve hunting effectiveness. A minimalist approach to gear can enhance mobility and comfort. Don't underestimate the value of binoculars in scouting. Stick with what works for you and avoid chasing trends. ‍ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hörspiel nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Daniel Kehlmann, Teil 2 Im Jahre 1799 begibt sich Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859) zusammen mit seinem Gefährten Aimé Bonpland auf eine fünfjährige Forschungsreise nach Mittel- und Südamerika. Mit Hilfe von Sextant, Quadrant, Teleskop, Thermo-, Baro-, Aero-, Hygro- und Cyanometer will er die unbekannte Welt vermessen. Er sammelt Pflanzen, Tiere, exotische Leichen, zählt die Läuse auf den Köpfen Einheimischer, erforscht Vulkane, entdeckt die Verbindung zwischen Orinoko und Amazonas, besteigt den Chimborazo und wird in Washington von Thomas Jefferson, Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, empfangen. Der Mathematiker, Astronom, Geodät und Physiker Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777 - 1855) bleibt zu Hause. In seinem Zimmer beobachtet er Planeten, denkt und rechnet und weist ganz nebenbei nach, dass Kant bei seinen Ausführungen zu Raum und Zeit geschludert hat. Im September 1828 ist Gauß gezwungen, zum ersten al seit Jahren seine Heimatstadt Göttingen zu verlassen, um am Deutschen Naturforscherkongress in Berlin teilzunehmen. Er soll dort Alexander von Humboldt treffen. So kreuzen sich die Lebenswege zweier Genies, die beide die Welt vermessen haben - jeder auf seine Weise: der eine empirisch, der andere kraft seiner Ratio. Autor: Daniel Kehlmann Besetzung: Jens Wawrczeck (Bonpland), Patrick Güldenberg (Eugen), Michael Rotschopf (Humboldt), Udo Schenk (Gauß), Alexander Geringas (Daguerre), Rolf Becker (Kapitän 1), Stephan Schad (Büttner), Lutz Herkenrath (Zimmermann), Werner Rehm (Herzog von Braunschweig), Marco Albrecht (Pilatre), Sandra Borgmann (Inès), Jörg Petzold (Julio), Hans Löw (Gabriel), Nina Weniger (Johanna), Hedi Kriegeskotte (Mutter Humboldt/Minna), Victoria Trauttmansdorff (Gauß' Mutter), Max Schwarz (Humboldt als Kind), Anton Weniger (Gauß als Kind), Konstantin Graudus (Polizist 1), Marie Leuenberger (Erste Dirne), Nadja Kruse (Zweite Dirne), Alexander Schuhmacher (Führer/Bote), Dietmar Mues (Diener Kants), Traugott Buhre (Kant), Hartmut Schories (Curare-Meister), Philipp Baltus (Gendarm), Felix Kramer (Revolutionär), Christoph Bantzer (Goethe), Achim Buch (Kunth), Woody Mues (Der Ältere, Kind), Stephan Schwartz (Pastor), Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger (Gauß' Vater), Hannes Hellmann (Urquijo), Johanna Griebell, Isabell Giebeler, Theresa Rose, Betty Freudenberg, Hendrik Heutmann, Gabriel Rodriguez-Silvero, Birger Frehse, Johannes Fast (Volk) Bearbeitung: Alexander Schuhmacher Komposition: Claudio Puntin Musik: Insa Rudolph (Singstimme), Samuel Rohrer (Schlagzeug; Spielzeuginstrument), Kim Efert (Gitarre; Spielzeuginstrument), Flavio Puntin (Flöten), Claudio Puntin (Spielzeuginstrument; Klarinette) Technische Realisierung: Gerd-Ulrich Poggensee, Christian Alpen Regieassistenz: Katrin Albinus Regie: Alexander Schuhmacher Dramaturgie: Norbert Schaeffer Redaktion: Thilo Guschas Produktion: Norddeutscher Rundfunk 2007

Hörspiel nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Daniel Kehlmann, Teil 1 Im Jahre 1799 begibt sich Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859) zusammen mit seinem Gefährten Aimé Bonpland auf eine fünfjährige Forschungsreise nach Mittel- und Südamerika. Mit Hilfe von Sextant, Quadrant, Teleskop, Thermo-, Baro-, Aero-, Hygro- und Cyanometer will er die unbekannte Welt vermessen. Er sammelt Pflanzen, Tiere, exotische Leichen, zählt die Läuse auf den Köpfen Einheimischer, erforscht Vulkane, entdeckt die Verbindung zwischen Orinoko und Amazonas, besteigt den Chimborazo und wird in Washington von Thomas Jefferson, Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, empfangen. Der Mathematiker, Astronom, Geodät und Physiker Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777 - 1855) bleibt zu Hause. In seinem Zimmer beobachtet er Planeten, denkt und rechnet und weist ganz nebenbei nach, dass Kant bei seinen Ausführungen zu Raum und Zeit geschludert hat. Im September 1828 ist Gauß gezwungen, zum erstenmal seit Jahren seine Heimatstadt Göttingen zu verlassen, um am Deutschen Naturforscherkongress in Berlin teilzunehmen. Er soll dort Alexander von Humboldt treffen. So kreuzen sich die Lebenswege zweier Genies, die beide die Welt vermessen haben - jeder auf seine Weise: der eine empirisch, der andere kraft seiner Ratio. Autor: Daniel Kehlmann Besetzung: Jens Wawrczeck (Bonpland), Patrick Güldenberg (Eugen), Michael Rotschopf (Humboldt), Udo Schenk (Gauß), Alexander Geringas (Daguerre), Rolf Becker (Kapitän 1), Stephan Schad (Büttner), Lutz Herkenrath (Zimmermann), Werner Rehm (Herzog von Braunschweig), Marco Albrecht (Pilatre), Sandra Borgmann (Inès), Jörg Petzold (Julio), Hans Löw (Gabriel), Nina Weniger (Johanna), Hedi Kriegeskotte (Mutter Humboldt/Minna), Victoria Trauttmansdorff (Gauß' Mutter), Max Schwarz (Humboldt als Kind), Anton Weniger (Gauß als Kind), Konstantin Graudus (Polizist 1), Marie Leuenberger (Erste Dirne), Nadja Kruse (Zweite Dirne), Alexander Schuhmacher (Führer/Bote), Dietmar Mues (Diener Kants), Traugott Buhre (Kant), Hartmut Schories (Curare-Meister), Philipp Baltus (Gendarm), Felix Kramer (Revolutionär), Christoph Bantzer (Goethe), Achim Buch (Kunth), Woody Mues (Der Ältere, Kind), Stephan Schwartz (Pastor), Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger (Gauß' Vater), Hannes Hellmann (Urquijo), Johanna Griebell, Isabell Giebeler, Theresa Rose, Betty Freudenberg, Hendrik Heutmann, Gabriel Rodriguez-Silvero, Birger Frehse, Johannes Fast (Volk) Bearbeitung: Alexander Schuhmacher Komposition: Claudio Puntin Musik: Insa Rudolph (Singstimme), Samuel Rohrer (Schlagzeug; Spielzeuginstrument), Kim Efert (Gitarre; Spielzeuginstrument), Flavio Puntin (Flöten), Claudio Puntin (Spielzeuginstrument; Klarinette) Technische Realisierung: Gerd-Ulrich Poggensee, Christian Alpen Regieassistenz: Katrin Albinus Regie: Alexander Schuhmacher Dramaturgie: Norbert Schaeffer Redaktion: Thilo Guschas Produktion: Norddeutscher Rundfunk 2007

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In this episode of Misunderstanding Quality, host Andrew Stotz and Bill Bellows discuss what not to measure when it comes to quality. Bill offers some great examples to show how organizations get it wrong, and how to get it right. TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.4 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today I'm continuing my discussion with Bill Bellows, we're gonna have a lot of fun, who has spent 31 plus years now that it's 2025, helping people apply Dr. Deming's ideas to become aware of how their thinking is holding them back from their biggest opportunities in the episode, today is episode 11, and the title is "To Improve Quality, Don't Measure Quality". Bill, take it away.   0:00:35.6 Bill Bellows: Thank you, Andrew. And, so the title of episode 10, came from chapter 10... Chapter 1 of The New Economics, and I used a quote from Dr. Deming, which was, "Are you in favor of the improvement of quality?" Which Dr. Deming says, "Are you in favor of the improvement of quality? We can have a national referendum, yes or no?" Everyone says yes. Then he says... Then he say, "We could have a secret ballot." And... But I... At the beginning of the podcast, I had said, "Are you in favor of quality?" And it's... No, it's, "Are you in favor of the improvement of quality?" And so today I wanna, in episode 11, share it with our listeners and viewers, more of the profound insights from Genichi Taguchi. But I think, what I was just thinking is saying, "Are you in favor of quality?" And I've used that quote, which now I now realize it's a misquote. It's not, "Are you in favor of quality?" It's "Are you in favor of improvement of quality?" But in seminars, what I've done is used the quote, the misquote, I would say Dr. Deming would ask, "Are you in favor of quality?" And he would say, "We're gonna have a secret ballot. Is everyone in favor of ballot?" In quality, everyone says yes. So I would go through that.   0:02:16.3 Bill Bellows: And then I would go to the next question, and I would say to the audience, I'd say, "Okay. Dr. Deming made reference to secret ballot. So I wanna do a secret ballot. I want you to close your eyes, and I'm gonna ask you a question, and if your answer is yes, raise your hand. But I want you to close your eyes when you raise your hand, 'cause I don't want you to raise your hand 'cause everybody else does. Okay, so close your eyes." And I say, "Are you in favor of teamwork?" And all the hands go up. [laughter] And it's not so much "Are you in favor of improvement of teamwork?" But it's the idea that, acceptability saying this part is acceptable, as we've shared in prior episodes, is the essence of looking at that part, my task, my effort in isolation. And what that has to do with teamwork, I question. Now, with a few of us at Rocketdyne years ago used to talk about, we would say, you give out a term paper assignment, the term paper must be between 10 and 20 pages long. And what happens? They're close to 10 pages. Then I would share, we'd tell Allison, our daughter, I'd say when she was in high school, "Be home by between 8:00 and 10 o'clock," and she shows up around 10 o'clock.   0:03:51.6 Bill Bellows: And I would show a distribution over there. Then I would say, "What about a machinist? The machinist is given a hole to machine. And what does machinist do is machine the hole on the low side, and then a machinist is machining the outer diameter of a shaft or a tube. And what does machinist do? Machines to the high side." And so I would show those four distributions either on the low side or the high side, and say, "What do they all have in common?" And people would say, "Each of those people's looking out for themself. They're focusing on their work in isolation." Then I would say, "So what do you call that in a non-Deming company or in a... " In the first podcast there is a, called it a Red Pen Company or a ME organization, or a Last Straw companies... What do you call that behavior where people look at the requirements and say, "What's best for me?" What do you call that? What do you call, people scratch their head? We say... You ready? "Teamwork."   [laughter]   0:05:00.6 Bill Bellows: And everybody laughs. And then I turn to somebody in class and I say, "So Andrew, are you a team player?" And Andrew says, "Yes." And I say, "Andrew, if you machine the holes to the low side, are you a team player?" And you might say, "I'm not sure." And I would say, "Say yes." And you'd say, "Okay. I say yes." And I say, "Okay, Andrew, who's on your team?" And you say, "Me." "So, oh, you are a team player, man."   0:05:24.2 Andrew Stotz: I'm a team player. Team Andrew always wins.   0:05:28.2 Bill Bellows: Yeah. And I would say, so I say, "In a non-Deming company, everyone's a team player. All right. But who's on the team?" So I would say to people, "You'd be a fool not to be on your own team. The only question is, who else is on your team?" All right. Back to Dr. Taguchi to improve quality, don't measure quality. And I was, got into this in an explanation with some others recently, and somebody was showing me a bunch of defect rate data involving some process. And the question was, how to apply this occurrence of defect rate data to Dr. Taguchi's loss function. And so, again, reminder to our listeners, acceptability is everything that meets requirements is okay. Either I am unaware of differences or the differences don't matter, any parking spot, any professor any Thermo 2, any doctor and desirability is "I want this doctor, this parking spot, this, this, this, this, this." And so not just anything that meets requirements.   0:06:50.3 Bill Bellows: And Dr. Taguchi's work has a lot to do with that thinking. And Andrew, yeah, I'm on a month, on a regular basis, meeting more and more people that are listening to the podcast and reaching out to me on LinkedIn. And one shared with me recently then, and he started to listen to this series, and he said, he never thought about desirability. He says everything he knows, everything he sees every day, is acceptability. And he's like, "You mean, there's more than that?" And it's like, "Hello. That's what our series is trying to do." So...   0:07:26.6 Andrew Stotz: And let me introduce you to door number three, which opens you up into this whole 'nother world of...   0:07:35.6 Bill Bellows: Yes.   0:07:35.7 Andrew Stotz: The interconnectedness and understanding quality from the impact on all the different parts of the organization, not just the one thing and the one area. Yep.   0:07:46.6 Bill Bellows: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.   0:07:48.9 Andrew Stotz: But that's door number three. Now, we don't wanna go through that right off the bat, but when you go through it, unfortunately door number three disappears as you walk through it, and it's a wall...   [laughter]   0:08:00.4 Andrew Stotz: And you can't go back because now you understand that what is a system, what is the interconnectedness of everything, and once you see that, you can't unsee it.   0:08:09.6 Bill Bellows: That's right. Now, it's like, it's a holistic view in which... And a from a holistic perspective, parts don't exist, parts of exist, but everything is connected.   0:08:27.4 Andrew Stotz: Right.   0:08:28.2 Bill Bellows: And what does that mean? So anyway...   0:08:30.1 Andrew Stotz: And just to put that into context, let's just take a car. A customer never buys a part. And they don't buy a jumble of parts, they buy the car. So to the customer's perspective, it's even more meaningless, the independent parts of that.   0:08:50.3 Bill Bellows: When I would go to Seattle and do training when Rocketdyne was owned by Boeing, and I'd be doing training for people working on commercial airplanes or 737s, 47s and whatnot. And one of the jokes I would use is that, "Hey, 747... " People went, "What's a 747?" How about 787? If I was today, I'd say "a 787 is not a bunch of parts that fly in close formation." But that is, the mindset is that... But anyway, so acceptability is looking at the parts in isolation, looking at things in isolation, it's assigning a grade to a student, it's performance appraisals, that's all about isolation, it's thinking, "I won the game, I get an award. I lost the game." All of that thinking, from engineering to, how we look at human resources, the idea that the savings add additional only works when the activities are independent. So that's all acceptability, looking at things in isolation. Desirability in this idea of a preferred value, I don't know that anyone contributed to that, besides Dr. Taguchi. In fact, this morning, I was talking with some friends overseas about Joseph Juran's work. And, do you remember last time you and I worked, I was sharing with them that our last podcast followed the last meeting I had with these friends in Europe. And I said that conversation led to our podcast conversation about Quality 4.0, and it's all acceptability, acceptability, acceptability, meet, meet, meet requirements.   0:10:35.6 Bill Bellows: This very conversation. And I said, I went back and did some research on what Joseph Juran... How Juran defined quality. 'Cause I looked at the ASQs definition of quality and it gave two definitions of quality, one attributed to Juran talking about quality as fitness for use, and then Philip Crosby's definition is, meeting requirements. But you may recall, I said, there is no explanation of how Dr. Deming defined quality. Yeah, maybe that will come. But, so I was sharing that with them, and also shared with them a model I've used. And it might have come up in our first series, but I think the classic model within organizations is, I work, I follow a bunch of steps to make a part, a thing, a module, something. And if all the requirements are met, I hand off to you, you're downstream. And then likewise, there's others in parallel with me that hand off good parts, good things to you. Because they're good, we can hand off to you. And then the model is you take the parts that are good and put them together, and because they are good, they fit. And then you pass that integrated component downstream where other integrated components come together. And we progressively go from, it could be that we're putting together the fuselage, somebody else is putting together the wings, and it's all coming together. And at the other end, it's an airplane.   0:12:22.5 Bill Bellows: And on every handoff we hand off what is, so the parts that are good fit, the components that are good fit together with other, then we turn the whole thing on, it works. And I show this flow to people and I say, "So what do you see going on in there?" And what eventually they start to see is that all the thinking is black and white, because they're good, they fit, because they fit, they fit, and when you turn it on, it works. There's nothing relative about that. And so I was sharing that with these folks this morning, and I said, after you and I spoke last time, went back and looked, and Juran talks about fitness for use, and the question was, is Juran's definition of fitness, absolute fitness or relative fitness? Meaning that there's a degree of good in the parts associated with desirability thinking, and if we've got degrees of good in the parts, then there's degrees of fit. And, well, it turns out there's plenty of reason to believe that Juran had a model of acceptability that the parts are good, then they fit. All to come back to what Dr. Taguchi is talking about in terms of improving quality, is improving quality from a variable perspective that there's degrees of good. And so now we go back to, to improve quality, don't measure quality. And I remember when he said that and we were dumbfounded, "Well, what do you mean by that?"   0:13:52.5 Bill Bellows: And then he would go on to explain, that traditionally, we look at the quality... The lack of quality of something. An inspector says, "There's a scratch on the door. There's a ding here. There's a crack there. There's a, the weld has a drop in it. The weld has porosity." You know what that means is that's not a... The quality inspector is looking for the absence of a crack, the absence of porosity and things like that. And it also parallels with what I learned from Ackoff, Russ would say, [chuckle] "Getting less of what you want doesn't get you what you want." So you could say, "I want less waste, less defects." Well, what is it you want? Again, the clarification is, Russ would say, "Getting less of what you don't want doesn't get you what you want." And likewise, Dr. Taguchi talked about, what is the function of the process? So if you're talking about, imagine on a washing machine, when you have a... Or a dryer, and you have a motor that's spinning, and around the motor is a belt that's spinning the drum. Well, the quality problem, classic quality problem could be that the belt slips, or the belt cracks, or the belt is vibrating.   0:15:28.3 Bill Bellows: Well, then you say, "Well, okay, what's the function of the belt?" Well, it's not about cracking. The function of the belt is to transmit energy from the motor to the drum. And if it does that really well over sustained periods of time, then that suggests there's probably less cracking going on and less slipping going on. But if you don't look at it from a function perspective and ask, "What's the function of the belt?" And move away from, "Well, I don't want it to crack and I don't want it to slip." Well, then tell me what you want it to do. What is it you want it to do? Now, let's get into more of what we do want. And then, and this is what's neat listening to Dr. Taguchi as an engineer, you say, "Well, okay, so what is the belt trying to do? It's trying to transmit energy." So if I can design the belt, and by changing the materials of the belt to transmit energy, under wide-ranging temperatures, wide-ranging usage conditions, if I do a good job of that, then I should see less cracking problems. Absent that, if I try to reduce the number of cracks, I may end up with a belt slipping more often. So then what happens is you end up trading one problem for another, which is not uncommon.   0:16:57.7 Bill Bellows: You go from, the cookies being undercooked to overcooked as opposed to saying, "What's the role of the baking process?" And he would say, "To transmit energy to the cookie in the precise amount. And if we have the precise amount and distribution, then that should work out." Now, relative to welding. Welding, there is, there may be a dozen different weld anomalies that inspectors are looking for, with X-rays, they see porosity, they see, what's called drop-through with the material and the weld, drops a little bit, which could result in a fatigue problem leading to cracking. Well, here Dr. Taguchi would say, "Well, what's the function of a weld?" Say, well, to join two pieces of material together with a given strength. And so you join them together. And then once they're joined together, now you run tests and you say, "I wanna... " It could be, "I wanna heat and cool the weld to see how it does with that. I wanna introduce vibration to the weld." And if you can show that under vibration, under wide-ranging changes in the environment, that the strength holds up, then by focusing on the strength, which is what you want, you end up with fewer quality problems. But it's turning things around and saying, "Not what I don't want, what do I want?"   0:18:35.3 Andrew Stotz: And...   0:18:36.4 Bill Bellows: And that's what... Go ahead. Go ahead. Andrew.   0:18:37.6 Andrew Stotz: There's two things. The more I think about this quote that you're talking about, to improve quality, don't measure quality, sometimes I think I got it, but sometimes I don't. I just wanna think about a couple of parallels. One of them is sometimes we say in the field of sales and marketing, we may say, "Fill your pipeline and your sales will happen." So focus on the beginning of the process. If you don't have a pipeline of people coming in to your company, into your sales team, there's nobody to sell. So that's an example. We also say sometimes, focus on the inputs and the outputs will take care of themselves. That's another way that we would use something similar. But I'm just curious, what does it mean by "Don't measure quality"?   0:19:25.0 Bill Bellows: Yeah. And that's a good question. I'd say, Taguchi's used to quality being the absence of defects. And quality is what the customer's complaining about. So he's saying, quality problems in terms of don't measure quality, he's saying, "So what are the quality problems?" "Oh, let me tell you, we've got porosity, we've got cracks, we've got drop-through, we've got cracking, cracking of the belt and slipping and the... " This is what people are complaining about. And what he's saying is, the customer's not articulating, "Hey, Andrew, improve the function." They're complaining about the... You just have to interpret that what they're saying is, you have to take where they are. They don't want it to crack. They want it to last longer. They want all these things and say... And the idea is, don't get sucked into what they don't want. Turn it around to, well then, I'm the engineer, and this is what Dr. Taguchi would say, "As an engineer, don't be dumbed down into the complaint world. Turn it around and say, what could you improve? What is the function of that thing you're selling?" And if you improve the function, because again, the beauty of talking about function, if you focus on problems, you eliminate one problem, create another problem, then another problem. Now you're just... And what...   0:21:00.8 Andrew Stotz: So it's whack-a-mole...   0:21:02.3 Bill Bellows: Exactly.   0:21:03.6 Andrew Stotz: It's whack-a-mole in the back end of the process without the awareness of, "What are the customer's needs and how do we understand whether we're hitting the mark?" And...   0:21:12.7 Bill Bellows: Oh, and this is what Dr. Taguchi used to call as whack-a-mole engineering. It's what Ackoff would say, "Today's problems come from yesterday's solutions."   0:21:24.6 Andrew Stotz: So just just to visualize that, can imagine going into a factory and saying, "Look at all these charts and how we reduce the defects of this and that. And this is... " We've reduced all these defects, but in fact, that could be out of touch with what the customer really needs at the end of that production.   0:21:44.1 Bill Bellows: Yes, it is... The beauty is, it is saying... And he would get really angry with people who got sucked into the rabbit hole of eliminating defects, scrap and rework and things like that. And just say... What he's trying to say is, "I want you to be smarter than that. I want you to start to think about what is the function of the machining process? What is the function of the welding process? What is the... " And what was neat was, I spent... On three different occasions, I spent a week with him, watching him engage every day with four teams. A team would come in for two hours, and he would discuss with them whatever the hardware was. I'm not at liberty to say what company it was. [laughter] But it was a really cool company.   0:22:56.9 Bill Bellows: And the people there invited me in because I learned at Dr. Deming's... I attended Dr. Deming's very last four-day seminar, and there met some people that were very close to him. And one of them shared that, there were people for many years, traveled with Dr. Deming. They found out where he was gonna be a given week, maybe called up his secretary Ceilia Kilian and, once he became, bonded when... And somehow Dr. Deming liked you. And then you would say, "Dr. Deming, I'm gonna take a week's vacation next summer. Where are you gonna be in June?" And he'd say, "Well, I'm gonna be at GM corporate headquarters." And what these people told me is that, they would be with him that week, whether he is doing a four-day seminar in Ohio. Now, I don't know who paid for it.   0:23:50.8 Andrew Stotz: No.   0:23:50.9 Bill Bellows: But he gave them access to be with him wherever he was. And one guy told me he was at some high-level GM meetings that week, and he said, "Dr. Deming is there and he and some others." And I think they may have been called "Deming Scholars". I know that term was used. But anyway, this guy was telling me they were there, and this GM executive comes over to him and it says to him, "So, who are you again?" And you say, "Andrew Stotz." And he says something like, "So what might I ask are your qualifications for being here?" And he says, "If Deming overheard that, Deming would turn to the executive, snap at him and say, 'These are my people. What are your qualifications?'" So anyway, inspired by that, I walked out of Dr. Deming's four-day seminar, called up a friend of mine who worked for Dr. Taguchi's company and said, "Deming had people travel with him. I wanna travel with Dr. Taguchi. I don't wanna go to a seminar. I wanna see him in action."   0:24:56.1 Andrew Stotz: Yep.   0:24:56.4 Bill Bellows: And I said, "Can we make that happen?" And it happened, and I got to go inside a company. The lawyers didn't know I was there. And I asked him, I said, to the lawyer, "Do I have to sign anything?" He said, "No. If we let the lawyers know you were here, you wouldn't be here. So, here are the rules. You can't tell anybody what happened, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." So I get to be a fly on the wall watching him. So, a team would come in and say, "Here's this stuff we're working on." And he would... And they had an approach, which would be, reducing defects or scrap rework. And then he would turn it around for the next hour and a half and get them thinking about function. And after the first week of doing this four times a day for five days, I walked out of there thinking, "There's five basic functions." I started to notice the patterns. And then the second time I did this, a team would come in and I'm thinking, "I know what he's gonna do. He's gonna... He has in mind a function model. And all these things relative to how things come together." And so I did that three times. But, it was neat to get my brain adapted to, "Okay, what's the function? Where's he gonna come? Where's he gonna come?"   0:26:16.0 Bill Bellows: And then I would... The people would present it, and I'm thinking, "I think it's gonna go for function five. Yep. Bingo." So that's what I just wanted to share with the audience tonight. Again, there's a lot of depth. I taught two 40-hour courses at Rocketdyne in Taguchi Methods. So, a 40-hour intro and a 40-hour more advanced. So all I wanted to cover tonight, is that wisdom of not being defect-focused, but for our audience to start thinking about, start to think about the function. In fact, when I was having this conversation with a colleague recently and, 'cause he's talking about turning defect rate, he was thinking turning defect rate data into a loss function. I said, "No, defect rate thinking is acceptability thinking, the loss function is desirability thinking. They don't go together." I said, "What I wanna know is what's causing the defects." And we start diving into what's causing the defects, we can turn it into a variable data as opposed to a discontinuous data. Anyway. And I just wanted to throw out... Go ahead, Andrew.   0:27:34.4 Andrew Stotz: To wrap this up, I'm thinking about, I like what you just said, "Stop being defect-focused." Replace that with...   0:27:44.5 Bill Bellows: What is it we're trying to accomplish?   0:27:47.8 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:27:48.2 Bill Bellows: If you say, "Well, we don't want defects." I know we don't want defects. But what do we want?   0:27:52.9 Andrew Stotz: Do we say replace it with outcome focus, customer focus? What would you say?   0:27:58.1 Bill Bellows: Yeah, well, absolutely it's customer focus. The idea is that, now you start to think in terms of, is what is the greater system in which this is used.   0:28:11.0 Andrew Stotz: Okay. So...   0:28:11.1 Bill Bellows: The defect thinking is just saying it doesn't fit, it doesn't meet requirements. But that doesn't tell me what you're trying to do.   0:28:17.0 Andrew Stotz: Okay. So I think I know what you're saying. Stop being defect-focused, and please walk through door number three.   0:28:25.3 Bill Bellows: Yes! Stop...   0:28:27.7 Andrew Stotz: And in door number three, you're gonna be aware of the customer, the next process, the next flow, the customer of your area and the ultimate customer, and start focusing on the needs and the desires of them, and bring that back in the chain of your process. And you'll be improving, you'll stop being focused on "Fix this, stop this. Don't do that." Let's not have any more of that, and you'll be more into, "Let's do this because this is going to drive a much better outcome, or the exact outcome that our customer wants."   0:29:05.2 Bill Bellows: Yeah, it is, which changes the hat. That may not be the purview of people in the quality organization. So, they're out there counting defects. This is not to say it's their job. Not that they're not in the loop, but it's turning to the people that are more aware... That are more in tune with functionality, which is likely gonna be that people designing the thing, thinking about what's the role of the windshield wiper? Is it to skip across the windshield? Is it to, which is, that chatter. No, we don't want the chatter. So what is it we do want? We want the windshield wiper to move smoothly. And what does that mean? It means at a given second, we want it to be... And this is where the smoothness functionality comes in that I saw Dr. Taguchi many times is, is saying at a given interval of seconds, it should be here, here, here, here, here. And if it does match those positions, then what have we done? We have improved the smoothness of the flow of the wiper blade, or whatever it is that thing.   0:30:21.5 Bill Bellows: And that's the type of thing I'm trying to introduce, in this short episode, people thinking about function, not the lack of quality, but what is it we're trying to achieve? Now, otherwise, we can also say, Ackoff would say, and Dr. Deming would agree with him, is that organizations aren't in business to make a profit. They're in business to do something really well. That's the function of the organization. And then profit is the result of that. As opposed to being profit focus, in which case you start to... You run it as a finance company and misunderstand the focus and you start believing in addition and you end up with a mess.   0:31:04.2 Andrew Stotz: So, let's end it with a cartoon that I saw in The Wall Street Journal. And in that cartoon, it was a couple of guys, young guys wearing suits, and they were talking to each other, and they were either, it was either in an MBA class or they were in a factory or something, and it said, "Things? I don't wanna make things. I wanna make money." [laughter] And the whole point is, money is the result of making great things.   0:31:38.3 Bill Bellows: Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why... And this is why I so enjoyed about listening to Ackoff, conversations with Russ... Conversations with Dr. Taguchi. And then reading Deming. I don't have any conversation with Dr. Deming and thinking of that there. They, each were astute enough to see the process, the means leading to the result. Tom Johnson would say, "The means are the ends in the making." So you have organizations that are either means-focused, which is process focus, versus, "Did you deliver the report? Did you deliver the thing?" And Dr. Deming's big thing is, by what method? Tom would say, "By what means?" So...   0:32:25.2 Andrew Stotz: All right. Well...   0:32:25.2 Bill Bellows: Anyway, that's what I wanted to expose our audience to tonight.   0:32:29.4 Andrew Stotz: There it is. They've been exposed. Ladies and gentlemen, the exposure has happened. Bill, on behalf of everyone at The Deming Institute, I wanna thank you again for this discussion. And for listeners, remember to go to deming.org to continue your journey. And if you wanna keep in touch with Bill, just find him on LinkedIn. And this is your host, Andrew Stotz. And I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming. And you know this one, you can say it along with me 'cause I say it all the time. People are entitled to joy in work.

How he became the luckiest dude on campus. By DragonLairReads. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. (4pm, February 14, 2018; at Texas A&M) (Or two years before My Crazy Girlfriend Series starts) My name is Liv, and this is the story about how the worst day of my life changed everything for me. It all started when I got a series of very bad scores back. See, I'm a Chemical Engineering major and to stay in that program you have to keep a really high GPA, and well, Thermo 1 and Fluid Mechanics had both kicked me back low exam scores just the day before. That wasn't even the worst thing though. Well, it probably was, but it didn't feel like it. I'd spent a significant amount of money getting ready for a major party. A major party taking place on Valentine's Day. I had bought this precious slinky green dress. It hugged my figure perfectly and had a plunging neckline. I had made an appointment to get my hair done in loose curls and everything. For a girl so skinny you can see her ribs, I was going to be pretty hot, at least for one night.And it shouldn't have mattered anyway because I was going to the party with my high school boyfriend. We had come to college together and been dating for three and a half years. But come that afternoon when we were supposed to go to dinner together, he shows up at my dorm room in his coat and pants, tie undone, and his shirt not even completely buttoned. “Why aren't you ready yet?” I asked, “Come in and finish its almost time to go.” He didn't move, scratching the back of his head and looking at the ground. “Listen, Liv. I really hate to do this now, but, I think we need to stop seeing each other.” “What are you talking about?” I asked, not processing what he had said. “Get in here and get ready; everyone's going to be waiting.” “I'm sorry Liv; when we came to college together, I thought it would be fun but honestly the relationship has just felt like work. I don't know how to have fun with you anymore.” “What the hell are you talking about?” I almost screamed, “Don't know how to have fun with me? I've been nothing but available to you since we got here! All you do is drink and hangout with your stupid fucking frat buddies!” Now I was screaming. I poked him in the chest. “My grades dropped because of it.” “It's not working for me anymore, Liv.” He said sheepishly “Yeah, dicks usually don't when you're that fucking drunk.” I snapped, tears falling freely off my face. “I'm sorry.” He said again. “Get fucked!” I screamed and slammed the door on him. I couldn't see what happened, but I like to think it almost hit him. I spent the next two hours sobbing until my eyes were puffy and I had blown my nose red. The dress I had gone to all that trouble to get on was practically ruined by tears and snot, at least for the night. The party wasn't happening, the hair appointment wasn't either. I never changed out of the dress, I just waited to stop crying and walked in an expensive cocktail dress and Chucks to the liquor store just off campus. I picked up a bottle of Jack Daniels and walked back to the sorority house, sitting out on the curb (yes in my new dress), taking swigs straight from the bottle. It was pushing seven in the evening by then. People were ignoring me walking from place to place. Girls and guys together for dates, dances, or parties. I hated all of them. The whiskey was dampening my heartache and it wasn't as difficult to keep from sobbing in public. I was almost ready to go up to my room and dispose of all of his crap, probably by setting it on fire, when I heard someone talking. “Damn, are you as bad off as you look?” I looked up. It was a boy. Well ok, a young man. He was about my age, and maybe it was the whiskey, but I thought he was kind of cute. The fact that he was cute did not help. “Fuck you dude, I look like a million bucks.” He was holding a pizza box which he raised in agreement. “No contest on that one. The green dress really sets off your hair. But I meant the fact that you're clearly in some kind of emotional crisis.” He smirked at me and pointed, “It's the bloodshot eyes and whiskey bottle that gives it away.” I glared at him and took a big swig. Too big, I coughed uncontrollably for several seconds. “Look here, either hand over a slice or keep moving. I'm trying to wallow.” “How dedicated are you to wallowing on the curb?” “What's that mean?” “It means I'll split it with you if you fill in for my roommate. We were supposed to have retro game night and he bailed to get laid… or he seems to think he is anyway. My mom just sent up Goldeneye and everything.” I stared at him for several long moments doing mental calculus through the fog of liquor. The curb hurt my butt, and the pizza actually smelled amazing. On top of that, he was cute, and being alone in a dorm seemed perfect for me to rope him into a rebound. You know if he sucked at Goldeneye. “No Oddjob?” I asked. “Who asks for that when they first meet?” He asked with a quizzical look. “What?” I said confused, “What are you talking about?” “You said no blow jobs. But who would even ask for that when they met someone?” I rolled my eyes and stood up at great effort dusting off my britches. “I said NO ODDJOB.” I put emphasis on the syllables, “He's shorter than other characters which is unfair in versus mode.” I handed him my whiskey bottle and he took it. I snatched the pizza box from him and opened it. “What's your name?” He asked. “I'm Liv.” I answered, “Lead the way.” He looked me over nervously and gestured toward the dorms and started walking. “I'm in Dunn.” “We'll see how I feel about the blowjob after Goldeneye.” I pulled a stringing slice out of the box and took an unceremonious bite out of it. He stared at me as I started walking and I smiled at him with a mouth full. His dorm was like any other college boy's dorm. A nightmare. Nothing had been cleaned. Old food sat on a shelf, upon which sat a toaster oven and microwave, neither bed had been made, or washed, in ages, there was trash strung across desks and piled up in the trash can and two piles of clothes. One at the foot of the bed, and one on the ground next to it. I traded him back for my bottle hoping to drink the mess away. But ultimately none of it mattered to me anyway. The large TV had two chairs in front of it. One was a folding chair from a lawn furniture set, the other clearly a family hand-me-down deep cushioned swiveling chair. Graciously I was offered the swivel chair. This kid got spanked. We polished off the pizza and by the end he was stealing sips from my whiskey too. I had grown up on Goldeneye, even though it was pretty old by the time I was old enough. I tossed my controller into his lap and laughed at him. “Suck it, eight out of ten wins man, you're done.” “I don't get it!” He yelled, “I used to kill at this game.” “Ha-ha!” I laughed, pointing at him. He crossed his arms and sulked, “Man, you're really good at this. I've never blown at a game this badly.” “Oh, good idea.” I said pulling my thick red hair from my face before leaning over and kissing him, my hands on his cheeks. He was surprised and it took him a few seconds to kiss me back but when he did it was very fun. His tongue played with mine excitedly and I started to breathe heavily. Without realizing it I reached down and felt his jeans. He was rock hard and the heat from it was radiating into my hand. He seemed nervous as I rubbed him. I pulled out of the kiss, “Is this ok?” “It feels great, I just don't usually do it when I first meet someone.” He said, sounding even more nervous than he seemed. “I don't either, it's just nice to feel a guy this hard for me.” He gave me a puzzled look, “You're a fit redhead who wouldn't be this hard for you?” I rolled my eyes and let my fingers try and grab his shaft through the tight fabric. “Ask me another time, I'm having fun.” I leaned in and kissed him again. He kissed me back enthusiastically. His hand slid down my exposed shoulder and his thumb played at my collarbone. I knew what he wanted to do but he was trying to be a nice guy. What a sweetheart. What a chicken. I smiled into our kiss and put my hand over his pulling it inward across my chest. His hand came to rest over my breast, which wasn't as pronounced as I'd like, but it fit snugly in his palm. “It's ok, I love having them played with.” I whispered before kissing him again. His hand closed around it and he gave it several gentle squeezes moving his palm across and letting his thumb find my nipple. The feeling of being groped set my body on fire. I was starting to ache between my legs and could feel myself getting wet. Each pass of his thumb sent edges across my body and I felt my breath catch. I whimpered into the kiss and dragged my nails across his stubble. “How about that blowjob?” I asked leaning out of the kiss and smirking. “We just met, are you sure?” He asked, his voice unsteady. I nodded, “I've never been more sure.” I slid my hand off his jeans and pulled my hair back smiling at him. “I wore my sluttiest underwear today because I was planning on giving it to someone else and um- those plans fell through.” “So you're going to give me, a guy you just met, one.” “You're not just some guy I just met. You're the guy who made me laugh on one of the worst days I can remember.” I stood up and patted the cushioned chair I'd been sitting in. “Come on.” “You're really, totally, completely sure?” He insisted. I laughed at him, “Will you get over here! Yes.” He stood up and sat in the chair I'd been sitting in. I pulled his knees apart and knelt between them shaking my head to be sure all of my messy, unkempt, unbrushed hair fell behind my shoulders before pushing on his stomach so he was reclined and running my whole hand over his shaft. I unbuckled his belt and unbuttoned the jeans sliding the zipper down. I tugged on the pants but got nowhere. He lifted his hips and I tugged the pants down to his ankles where he kicked them off. He had started to pull down his boxers but I wagged a finger. “I want to do the unwrapping.” I said playfully, sticking my fingers into the elastic and pulling it back. His cock slapped him as I pulled the elastic back and he lifted up so I could pull the shorts down the rest of the way. It reached up his torso and I took it in my hand feeling how firm and hot it was, stroking slowly. I watched his face as I leaned over and dragged my tongue along the underside feeling it flex against me. I wrapped my lips around it, lowering my mouth so that the soft tip grazed the roof and started to suck, using my mouth to tug up and down while my tongue stroked the soft underside. I bobbed steadily, pleasuring his cock and listening to him make noises of enjoyment. He put his hand on my head, his fingers in my hair as I worked his shaft and tip, loving how it felt it my mouth. The pulsing cock against my tongue was making me ache and I could feel my underwear saturating. I pulled my mouth off and dragged my tongue across him again before stroking with my hand. “Mm, giving head always makes me so wet.” “You're really good.” He said in a foggy voice. I kissed under his tip for several seconds before licking across the top. A faint, salty flavor spread across my tongue and I smiled, putting him back in my mouth and sucking again until I tasted it again, pulling my mouth away and letting fluid string off. I ran my finger over the tip and played in the precum before tasting it. “You're something else.” “Head just gets me all excited.” I said dutifully lapping at his shaft. “You could cum in my mouth… if you want, or on my face…” I said in a panting voice, “Or…” I hesitated, “You could lie down in whichever pile of clothes in clean and I could ride the rest out of you.” He blushed and looked at me, “I want to be a gentleman and wait but…” I let a strap of my dress fall off my shoulder and bit my lip. “I don't want you to be a gentleman, I want you to fuck me in this gritty, wasted dress.” He sat up, “I'm not going to argue with that. But I kind of want to see these.” He said pulling on the other strap. I giggled and stood up pulling one strap over my arm and then the other and tugging the dress down so the top hung below my breasts. Underneath was my lace bra that pushed up my b cups. I always try and it never helps. I went to unhook the bra and looked at him. “I'm going to take this off but you can't laugh.” I said firmly. He gave me a puzzled look. “I may do a lot of things, but laughing won't be one of them.” I said seriously. I watched him with a side eye as I unhooked the bra and slowly pulled it off. I stared at him for several minutes before finally removing it and setting it on the floor. He stared at them for several seconds and got up. He came over to me and crouched down putting his lip around one of my nipples and gently playing with it, sucking, and licking. I couldn't keep from moaning, my mouth hung open and each pass of his tongue caused hot pulsing between my legs. I struggled to stay standing holding his shoulders. I patted his head and he stood up straight. I panted for breath and lifted my dress to pull my panties off. He put his finger under my chin before I could, looking at me. “You have awesome tits. These,” He said pointing, “Are the most fun I've had on campus yet.” It was my turn to blush. “Lay down, Romeo.” I said through a weak laugh. “Why not on the bed though?” He asked hooking his thumb. “Because I want to fuck on something clean.” I said flatly. “Oh,” He said awkwardly. “That's fair.” He kicked the pile of clothes along side the bed and sat down on the flat spread until he was laid on his back. I lifted my dress and hooked my fingers into the thong and slid it down letting it fall to my ankles and stepping out. A clear string of fluid snapped off the inside and stuck to my leg. I'd hoped he hadn't seen but he did. “Are you really that wet?” He asked sitting up. “Yeah, I get wet like I've sprung a leak. I can wipe it up.” I said not making eye contact. “No way, show me what it feels like!” He insisted. I felt my ears get hot. “Well, if you insist.” I climbed over him, and knelt down straddling his hips. My lips touched his warm shaft, and I made a small noise. The noises quickly became difficult to control as I slid back and forth stroking his cock with my messy pussy lips. “Fuck…” I whimpered. The feeling of his shaft grazing my clit made my insides feel tight, the aching in my pussy was unbearable. His shaft coated with me quickly as my pussy continued to drain thick, hot, fluid and I couldn't wait anymore. I lifted up and flared my hips, reaching back to put his tip at my opening and rocked onto it. I felt him sink into me, my pussy being pushed open as he slid in. I lowered as slowly as I could stand, feeling him protrude into me filling me with cock. I was crying and moaning at the sensation and as soon as my ass hit his legs I started to fuck. I stroked his cock, bucking my hips back and forth, moaning loudly. My eyes were closed and I held his shoulders as my slick clit brushed his pelvis and the thick meat inside me slid against my walls. “Oh fuck…” I moaned. My hair was tenting around my face and I could feel my whole body tensing. His face was red with focus like he was lost in the feeling of my body and trying to hold onto the sight of me. I felt his hand pull the hem of my dress up so he could feel my bare ass. I gritted my teeth through groans and gasps as he gripped it. “Fuck that's so good.” He said frantically. “Fuck… your cock is so hard…” I was losing control, gripping his shirt in my fists as I fucked him wildly. “Fuck I'm so close already.” I panted through gritted teeth. I was starting to sweat and the burning tension sent jolts of pleasure across my torso. “Oh fuck I'm cumming!” I screamed into his face. My stomach seized and my hips shook as my whole body shuddered with the violent climax that burst across it. I moaned loudly pulling on his shirt until it started to fade. The neck of his shirt was stretched, and I could feel how much slicker he was under me now. I leaned over and kissed him eagerly. He held my face behind the ears and kissed me back. I whimpered and moaned; his cock still buried in me. “You came pretty hard,” He said. “I did, thank you.” I said kissing his neck and rocking my hips again. “You can cum in me if you want. I like it, and I'm risk free.” I panted into his ear, working my hips to stroke his cock. I hoped the clenching and throbbing of my pussy would help him along. I could have fucked him all day but what he had just put me through I wanted him to have as much fun as possible. “Are, are you-” He started to ask. I put a finger to his mouth and giggled. “I'm not sure, I'm begging for it. It's ok, let me empty you into me.” I stroked him rhythmically, moaning from how sensitive I still was. I rode him, watching his lost face slowly twist into desperation, feeling his cock start to swell in me and his grip on my ass tighten. “I'm really close,” He gasped one hand on my hip, “If you want me to pull out do it… please.” I shook my head, “No way, I want it too bad. Fill me…” I panted. He grabbed my neck suddenly and his nails dug into my ass. He groaned loudly and started to buck and squirm under me. I felt his cock burst and a hot sensation filled my abdomen into my pussy. I continued stroking his cock waiting for it to soften and the heat to fade but it pulsed for several more seconds and I felt cum start to leak out of me. I started to laugh weakly as I sat up letting his spent cock fall out. My pussy drained cum onto his pelvis, legs, stomach, and clothes in a thick, white, stream that slowed to a dribble. I laughed again at the sight and feeling, running my fingers through it. “Wow, you really came in me.” I said, relishing the heat that I felt from it all. He sat quickly, “Was I not supposed to!” He asked in a panic. I laughed at him again, “Oh no, you definitely were. Um there's so much.” “Please tell me this is fine.” He asked again. I pushed him back down and laid on top of him, the fabric of the dress feeling wet as it dropped into one of the streams of cum that was falling out of me. “Would you shut up? Yes, it's fine, Mr. Post-nut clarity. Now stop ruining the afterglow.” I laid on him for several minutes and worried he'd fallen asleep. His chest was warm against my cheek. Suddenly we both jumped as the dorm door opened and a guy stepped in. He stared at us, blinked twice, and then left. “My roommate.” “I figured.” “This was fun.” I said tapping his chest, “We should do it again.” “There's nothing I'd like to do more.” He said happily. “How about, more Goldeneye, then you fuck me this time.” I asked looking up at him. “Deal, but if I win, I get to nut on your face.” He said touching my nose. “You're on!” I paused, “what was your name again?” By DragonLairReads for Literotica

How he became the luckiest dude on campus. By DragonLairReads. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. (4pm, February 14, 2018; at Texas A&M) (Or two years before My Crazy Girlfriend Series starts) My name is Liv, and this is the story about how the worst day of my life changed everything for me. It all started when I got a series of very bad scores back. See, I'm a Chemical Engineering major and to stay in that program you have to keep a really high GPA, and well, Thermo 1 and Fluid Mechanics had both kicked me back low exam scores just the day before. That wasn't even the worst thing though. Well, it probably was, but it didn't feel like it. I'd spent a significant amount of money getting ready for a major party. A major party taking place on Valentine's Day. I had bought this precious slinky green dress. It hugged my figure perfectly and had a plunging neckline. I had made an appointment to get my hair done in loose curls and everything. For a girl so skinny you can see her ribs, I was going to be pretty hot, at least for one night.And it shouldn't have mattered anyway because I was going to the party with my high school boyfriend. We had come to college together and been dating for three and a half years. But come that afternoon when we were supposed to go to dinner together, he shows up at my dorm room in his coat and pants, tie undone, and his shirt not even completely buttoned. “Why aren't you ready yet?” I asked, “Come in and finish its almost time to go.” He didn't move, scratching the back of his head and looking at the ground. “Listen, Liv. I really hate to do this now, but, I think we need to stop seeing each other.” “What are you talking about?” I asked, not processing what he had said. “Get in here and get ready; everyone's going to be waiting.” “I'm sorry Liv; when we came to college together, I thought it would be fun but honestly the relationship has just felt like work. I don't know how to have fun with you anymore.” “What the hell are you talking about?” I almost screamed, “Don't know how to have fun with me? I've been nothing but available to you since we got here! All you do is drink and hangout with your stupid fucking frat buddies!” Now I was screaming. I poked him in the chest. “My grades dropped because of it.” “It's not working for me anymore, Liv.” He said sheepishly “Yeah, dicks usually don't when you're that fucking drunk.” I snapped, tears falling freely off my face. “I'm sorry.” He said again. “Get fucked!” I screamed and slammed the door on him. I couldn't see what happened, but I like to think it almost hit him. I spent the next two hours sobbing until my eyes were puffy and I had blown my nose red. The dress I had gone to all that trouble to get on was practically ruined by tears and snot, at least for the night. The party wasn't happening, the hair appointment wasn't either. I never changed out of the dress, I just waited to stop crying and walked in an expensive cocktail dress and Chucks to the liquor store just off campus. I picked up a bottle of Jack Daniels and walked back to the sorority house, sitting out on the curb (yes in my new dress), taking swigs straight from the bottle. It was pushing seven in the evening by then. People were ignoring me walking from place to place. Girls and guys together for dates, dances, or parties. I hated all of them. The whiskey was dampening my heartache and it wasn't as difficult to keep from sobbing in public. I was almost ready to go up to my room and dispose of all of his crap, probably by setting it on fire, when I heard someone talking. “Damn, are you as bad off as you look?” I looked up. It was a boy. Well ok, a young man. He was about my age, and maybe it was the whiskey, but I thought he was kind of cute. The fact that he was cute did not help. “Fuck you dude, I look like a million bucks.” He was holding a pizza box which he raised in agreement. “No contest on that one. The green dress really sets off your hair. But I meant the fact that you're clearly in some kind of emotional crisis.” He smirked at me and pointed, “It's the bloodshot eyes and whiskey bottle that gives it away.” I glared at him and took a big swig. Too big, I coughed uncontrollably for several seconds. “Look here, either hand over a slice or keep moving. I'm trying to wallow.” “How dedicated are you to wallowing on the curb?” “What's that mean?” “It means I'll split it with you if you fill in for my roommate. We were supposed to have retro game night and he bailed to get laid… or he seems to think he is anyway. My mom just sent up Goldeneye and everything.” I stared at him for several long moments doing mental calculus through the fog of liquor. The curb hurt my butt, and the pizza actually smelled amazing. On top of that, he was cute, and being alone in a dorm seemed perfect for me to rope him into a rebound. You know if he sucked at Goldeneye. “No Oddjob?” I asked. “Who asks for that when they first meet?” He asked with a quizzical look. “What?” I said confused, “What are you talking about?” “You said no blow jobs. But who would even ask for that when they met someone?” I rolled my eyes and stood up at great effort dusting off my britches. “I said NO ODDJOB.” I put emphasis on the syllables, “He's shorter than other characters which is unfair in versus mode.” I handed him my whiskey bottle and he took it. I snatched the pizza box from him and opened it. “What's your name?” He asked. “I'm Liv.” I answered, “Lead the way.” He looked me over nervously and gestured toward the dorms and started walking. “I'm in Dunn.” “We'll see how I feel about the blowjob after Goldeneye.” I pulled a stringing slice out of the box and took an unceremonious bite out of it. He stared at me as I started walking and I smiled at him with a mouth full. His dorm was like any other college boy's dorm. A nightmare. Nothing had been cleaned. Old food sat on a shelf, upon which sat a toaster oven and microwave, neither bed had been made, or washed, in ages, there was trash strung across desks and piled up in the trash can and two piles of clothes. One at the foot of the bed, and one on the ground next to it. I traded him back for my bottle hoping to drink the mess away. But ultimately none of it mattered to me anyway. The large TV had two chairs in front of it. One was a folding chair from a lawn furniture set, the other clearly a family hand-me-down deep cushioned swiveling chair. Graciously I was offered the swivel chair. This kid got spanked. We polished off the pizza and by the end he was stealing sips from my whiskey too. I had grown up on Goldeneye, even though it was pretty old by the time I was old enough. I tossed my controller into his lap and laughed at him. “Suck it, eight out of ten wins man, you're done.” “I don't get it!” He yelled, “I used to kill at this game.” “Ha-ha!” I laughed, pointing at him. He crossed his arms and sulked, “Man, you're really good at this. I've never blown at a game this badly.” “Oh, good idea.” I said pulling my thick red hair from my face before leaning over and kissing him, my hands on his cheeks. He was surprised and it took him a few seconds to kiss me back but when he did it was very fun. His tongue played with mine excitedly and I started to breathe heavily. Without realizing it I reached down and felt his jeans. He was rock hard and the heat from it was radiating into my hand. He seemed nervous as I rubbed him. I pulled out of the kiss, “Is this ok?” “It feels great, I just don't usually do it when I first meet someone.” He said, sounding even more nervous than he seemed. “I don't either, it's just nice to feel a guy this hard for me.” He gave me a puzzled look, “You're a fit redhead who wouldn't be this hard for you?” I rolled my eyes and let my fingers try and grab his shaft through the tight fabric. “Ask me another time, I'm having fun.” I leaned in and kissed him again. He kissed me back enthusiastically. His hand slid down my exposed shoulder and his thumb played at my collarbone. I knew what he wanted to do but he was trying to be a nice guy. What a sweetheart. What a chicken. I smiled into our kiss and put my hand over his pulling it inward across my chest. His hand came to rest over my breast, which wasn't as pronounced as I'd like, but it fit snugly in his palm. “It's ok, I love having them played with.” I whispered before kissing him again. His hand closed around it and he gave it several gentle squeezes moving his palm across and letting his thumb find my nipple. The feeling of being groped set my body on fire. I was starting to ache between my legs and could feel myself getting wet. Each pass of his thumb sent edges across my body and I felt my breath catch. I whimpered into the kiss and dragged my nails across his stubble. “How about that blowjob?” I asked leaning out of the kiss and smirking. “We just met, are you sure?” He asked, his voice unsteady. I nodded, “I've never been more sure.” I slid my hand off his jeans and pulled my hair back smiling at him. “I wore my sluttiest underwear today because I was planning on giving it to someone else and um- those plans fell through.” “So you're going to give me, a guy you just met, one.” “You're not just some guy I just met. You're the guy who made me laugh on one of the worst days I can remember.” I stood up and patted the cushioned chair I'd been sitting in. “Come on.” “You're really, totally, completely sure?” He insisted. I laughed at him, “Will you get over here! Yes.” He stood up and sat in the chair I'd been sitting in. I pulled his knees apart and knelt between them shaking my head to be sure all of my messy, unkempt, unbrushed hair fell behind my shoulders before pushing on his stomach so he was reclined and running my whole hand over his shaft. I unbuckled his belt and unbuttoned the jeans sliding the zipper down. I tugged on the pants but got nowhere. He lifted his hips and I tugged the pants down to his ankles where he kicked them off. He had started to pull down his boxers but I wagged a finger. “I want to do the unwrapping.” I said playfully, sticking my fingers into the elastic and pulling it back. His cock slapped him as I pulled the elastic back and he lifted up so I could pull the shorts down the rest of the way. It reached up his torso and I took it in my hand feeling how firm and hot it was, stroking slowly. I watched his face as I leaned over and dragged my tongue along the underside feeling it flex against me. I wrapped my lips around it, lowering my mouth so that the soft tip grazed the roof and started to suck, using my mouth to tug up and down while my tongue stroked the soft underside. I bobbed steadily, pleasuring his cock and listening to him make noises of enjoyment. He put his hand on my head, his fingers in my hair as I worked his shaft and tip, loving how it felt it my mouth. The pulsing cock against my tongue was making me ache and I could feel my underwear saturating. I pulled my mouth off and dragged my tongue across him again before stroking with my hand. “Mm, giving head always makes me so wet.” “You're really good.” He said in a foggy voice. I kissed under his tip for several seconds before licking across the top. A faint, salty flavor spread across my tongue and I smiled, putting him back in my mouth and sucking again until I tasted it again, pulling my mouth away and letting fluid string off. I ran my finger over the tip and played in the precum before tasting it. “You're something else.” “Head just gets me all excited.” I said dutifully lapping at his shaft. “You could cum in my mouth… if you want, or on my face…” I said in a panting voice, “Or…” I hesitated, “You could lie down in whichever pile of clothes in clean and I could ride the rest out of you.” He blushed and looked at me, “I want to be a gentleman and wait but…” I let a strap of my dress fall off my shoulder and bit my lip. “I don't want you to be a gentleman, I want you to fuck me in this gritty, wasted dress.” He sat up, “I'm not going to argue with that. But I kind of want to see these.” He said pulling on the other strap. I giggled and stood up pulling one strap over my arm and then the other and tugging the dress down so the top hung below my breasts. Underneath was my lace bra that pushed up my b cups. I always try and it never helps. I went to unhook the bra and looked at him. “I'm going to take this off but you can't laugh.” I said firmly. He gave me a puzzled look. “I may do a lot of things, but laughing won't be one of them.” I said seriously. I watched him with a side eye as I unhooked the bra and slowly pulled it off. I stared at him for several minutes before finally removing it and setting it on the floor. He stared at them for several seconds and got up. He came over to me and crouched down putting his lip around one of my nipples and gently playing with it, sucking, and licking. I couldn't keep from moaning, my mouth hung open and each pass of his tongue caused hot pulsing between my legs. I struggled to stay standing holding his shoulders. I patted his head and he stood up straight. I panted for breath and lifted my dress to pull my panties off. He put his finger under my chin before I could, looking at me. “You have awesome tits. These,” He said pointing, “Are the most fun I've had on campus yet.” It was my turn to blush. “Lay down, Romeo.” I said through a weak laugh. “Why not on the bed though?” He asked hooking his thumb. “Because I want to fuck on something clean.” I said flatly. “Oh,” He said awkwardly. “That's fair.” He kicked the pile of clothes along side the bed and sat down on the flat spread until he was laid on his back. I lifted my dress and hooked my fingers into the thong and slid it down letting it fall to my ankles and stepping out. A clear string of fluid snapped off the inside and stuck to my leg. I'd hoped he hadn't seen but he did. “Are you really that wet?” He asked sitting up. “Yeah, I get wet like I've sprung a leak. I can wipe it up.” I said not making eye contact. “No way, show me what it feels like!” He insisted. I felt my ears get hot. “Well, if you insist.” I climbed over him, and knelt down straddling his hips. My lips touched his warm shaft, and I made a small noise. The noises quickly became difficult to control as I slid back and forth stroking his cock with my messy pussy lips. “Fuck…” I whimpered. The feeling of his shaft grazing my clit made my insides feel tight, the aching in my pussy was unbearable. His shaft coated with me quickly as my pussy continued to drain thick, hot, fluid and I couldn't wait anymore. I lifted up and flared my hips, reaching back to put his tip at my opening and rocked onto it. I felt him sink into me, my pussy being pushed open as he slid in. I lowered as slowly as I could stand, feeling him protrude into me filling me with cock. I was crying and moaning at the sensation and as soon as my ass hit his legs I started to fuck. I stroked his cock, bucking my hips back and forth, moaning loudly. My eyes were closed and I held his shoulders as my slick clit brushed his pelvis and the thick meat inside me slid against my walls. “Oh fuck…” I moaned. My hair was tenting around my face and I could feel my whole body tensing. His face was red with focus like he was lost in the feeling of my body and trying to hold onto the sight of me. I felt his hand pull the hem of my dress up so he could feel my bare ass. I gritted my teeth through groans and gasps as he gripped it. “Fuck that's so good.” He said frantically. “Fuck… your cock is so hard…” I was losing control, gripping his shirt in my fists as I fucked him wildly. “Fuck I'm so close already.” I panted through gritted teeth. I was starting to sweat and the burning tension sent jolts of pleasure across my torso. “Oh fuck I'm cumming!” I screamed into his face. My stomach seized and my hips shook as my whole body shuddered with the violent climax that burst across it. I moaned loudly pulling on his shirt until it started to fade. The neck of his shirt was stretched, and I could feel how much slicker he was under me now. I leaned over and kissed him eagerly. He held my face behind the ears and kissed me back. I whimpered and moaned; his cock still buried in me. “You came pretty hard,” He said. “I did, thank you.” I said kissing his neck and rocking my hips again. “You can cum in me if you want. I like it, and I'm risk free.” I panted into his ear, working my hips to stroke his cock. I hoped the clenching and throbbing of my pussy would help him along. I could have fucked him all day but what he had just put me through I wanted him to have as much fun as possible. “Are, are you-” He started to ask. I put a finger to his mouth and giggled. “I'm not sure, I'm begging for it. It's ok, let me empty you into me.” I stroked him rhythmically, moaning from how sensitive I still was. I rode him, watching his lost face slowly twist into desperation, feeling his cock start to swell in me and his grip on my ass tighten. “I'm really close,” He gasped one hand on my hip, “If you want me to pull out do it… please.” I shook my head, “No way, I want it too bad. Fill me…” I panted. He grabbed my neck suddenly and his nails dug into my ass. He groaned loudly and started to buck and squirm under me. I felt his cock burst and a hot sensation filled my abdomen into my pussy. I continued stroking his cock waiting for it to soften and the heat to fade but it pulsed for several more seconds and I felt cum start to leak out of me. I started to laugh weakly as I sat up letting his spent cock fall out. My pussy drained cum onto his pelvis, legs, stomach, and clothes in a thick, white, stream that slowed to a dribble. I laughed again at the sight and feeling, running my fingers through it. “Wow, you really came in me.” I said, relishing the heat that I felt from it all. He sat quickly, “Was I not supposed to!” He asked in a panic. I laughed at him again, “Oh no, you definitely were. Um there's so much.” “Please tell me this is fine.” He asked again. I pushed him back down and laid on top of him, the fabric of the dress feeling wet as it dropped into one of the streams of cum that was falling out of me. “Would you shut up? Yes, it's fine, Mr. Post-nut clarity. Now stop ruining the afterglow.” I laid on him for several minutes and worried he'd fallen asleep. His chest was warm against my cheek. Suddenly we both jumped as the dorm door opened and a guy stepped in. He stared at us, blinked twice, and then left. “My roommate.” “I figured.” “This was fun.” I said tapping his chest, “We should do it again.” “There's nothing I'd like to do more.” He said happily. “How about, more Goldeneye, then you fuck me this time.” I asked looking up at him. “Deal, but if I win, I get to nut on your face.” He said touching my nose. “You're on!” I paused, “what was your name again?” By DragonLairReads for Literotica

This week, Dr. Joy Hussain shares new insights from her sauna therapy research and its transformative potential for health. Think of heat/cold exposure as training on par with exercise or brain training. Learn how sweating impacts metabolic health, the connection between hormones and thermoregulation, and how sauna use could alleviate menopause symptoms. Dr. Hussain discusses gender differences in heat tolerance, emerging research on sweat composition, and practical ways to enhance resilience to stress. This episode challenges long-held beliefs about sweating and offers actionable tips to integrate thermal therapy into daily life.How Long Will You Live? Take our quiz today and find out! Visit: ageist.com/longevity-quizThanks To Our SponsorsTimeline Nutrition — our number one supplement for cell support and mitochondrial function. Listeners receive 10% off your first order of Mitopure with code AGEIST at TimelineNutrition.com/ageist. Our Place – our top cookware brand for non-toxic, PFA-free pots and brands. Use code “AGEIST” for 10% off at fromourplace.com LMNT Electrolytes — our favorite electrolytes for optimal hydration. Listeners receive a free 8-serving sample pack with their purchase at DrinkLMNT.com/AGEIST. Key Quotes“The act of sweating and its content is unexpectedly rich in metabolic information—we've only scratched the surface of its potential.”“Regular sauna use could help menopausal women better manage hot flashes by training the thermoregulatory system.”“Stress reduction was the number one motivation for sauna use globally—it's a remarkable tool for mental and physical resilience.”Connect with Our GuestWebsite: https://healthwithjoy.com.au/aboutDr. Joy's researchFull Interview TranscriptConnect with AGEISTNewsletterInstagramWebsiteSay hi to the AGEIST team!

20 años después, "Arde en mí" sigue siendo un referente en el rock mexicano. Thermo nos cuenta cómo ha sido traerlo de vuelta con una nueva versión y cómo se preparan para recorrer México con una gira que promete ser inolvidable. Suscríbete, comenta, deja tu like, TQM! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/audifono/support

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Después de años de espera para recuperar las regalías y volver a grabar sus primeros éxitos para ser dueños de sus másters, Roy Cañedo nos acompaña en este increíble capítulo de Sell Out para hablar sobre su experiencia en Thermo, la banda tapatía que comenzó como un pasatiempo entre amigos y se convirtió en un gran referente en la escena nacional.Visita las redes de Roy Cañedo:FB e IG: @roycanedoVisita las redes de Thermo:FB e IG: @thermobandmxCorre a nuestra tienda en línea: www.negropasion.com Síguenos en nuestras redes: FB e IG: @negropasionshopAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Después de años de espera para recuperar las regalías y volver a grabar sus primeros éxitos para ser dueños de sus másters, Roy Cañedo nos acompaña en este increíble capítulo de Sell Out para hablar sobre su experiencia en Thermo, la banda tapatía que comenzó como un pasatiempo entre amigos y se convirtió en un gran referente en la escena nacional.Visita las redes de Roy Cañedo:FB e IG: @roycanedoVisita las redes de Thermo:FB e IG: @thermobandmxCorre a nuestra tienda en línea: www.negropasion.com Síguenos en nuestras redes: FB e IG: @negropasionshopAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The end of the season is within range and for some, it's not coming soon enough.. Ahem, Ash!

Fallen out of love with your FPL team? Don't worry.. We've got just the thing you need; The return of Aaron & Aimee from the now nostalgic FPL Plonker Podcast!  We'll be tracing our steps to see how things went last week and gearing up for 33 and even further ahead to that double in 34  We've got plenty to cover in the Social as well as some more juicy difs in the Thermo (there may also be some curveballs this week!)  More fun shenanigans in Room 101, Guess The Player (we hope) and a little game to test our couples knowledge.. Yes, Ash & Nick are also a couple    SiGNED FOOTBALL SHiRTS  https://www.instagram.com/signedfshirts/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D     BECOME CHANNEL MEMBER  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3OZ_37l-WOMjW_K6I0ZbTw/join   MERCHANDiSE  | ALL SOCiALS  https://linktr.ee/thefpljuiceshow 

 She's Too Proud of Me: Part 1The luckiest dude ever.In 8 parts, By Dragon Lair Reads. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.My name is Dunn. A few years ago, I was an absolute nerdy geek. A Chemical Engineering major at Texas A & M. Then I met a girl who changed the trajectory of my social life. That  well, every other part of my life!Liv; that's short for Olivia; is my wife and inspiration. I'll tell you how she got me out of my nerdy shell, but I'd rather let her tell you the first part, when we first met. Liv, tell us that story, again. (February 14, 2018;  at Texas A&M)An unexpected Valentine Rescue.My name is Liv, and this is the story about how the worst day of my life changed everything for me. It all started when I got a series of very bad scores back. See, I'm a Chemical Engineering major and to stay in that program you have to keep a really high GPA, and well, Thermo 1 and Fluid Mechanics had both kicked me back low exam scores just the day before.That wasn't even the worst thing though. Well, it probably was, but it didn't feel like it. I'd spent a significant amount of money getting ready for a major party. A major party taking place on Valentine's Day. I had bought this precious slinky green dress. It hugged my figure perfectly and had a plunging neckline. I had made an appointment to get my hair done in loose curls and everything. For a girl so skinny you can see her ribs, I was going to be pretty hot, at least for one night.And it shouldn't have mattered anyway because I was going to the party with my high school boyfriend. We had come to college together and been dating for three and a half years. But come that afternoon when we were supposed to go to dinner together, he shows up at my dorm room in his coat and pants, tie undone, and his shirt not even completely buttoned."Why aren't you ready yet?" I asked, "Come in and finish its almost time to go." He didn't move, scratching the back of his head and looking at the ground."Listen, Liv. I really hate to do this now, but, I think we need to stop seeing each other.""What are you talking about?" I asked, not processing what he had said. "Get in here and get ready;  everyone's going to be waiting.""I'm sorry Liv;  when we came to college together, I thought it would be fun but honestly the relationship has just felt like work. I don't know how to have fun with you anymore.""What the hell are you talking about?" I almost screamed, "Don't know how to have fun with me? I've been nothing but available to you since we got here! All you do is drink and hangout with your stupid fucking frat buddies!" Now I was screaming. I poked him in the chest. "My grades dropped because of it.""It's not working for me anymore, Liv." He said sheepishly"Yeah, cocks usually don't when you're that fucking drunk." I snapped, tears falling freely off my face."I'm sorry." He said again."Get fucked!" I screamed and slammed the door on him. I couldn't see what happened, but I like to think it almost hit him.I spent the next two hours sobbing until my eyes were puffy and I had blown my nose red. The dress I had gone to all that trouble to get on was practically ruined by tears and snot, at least for the night. The party wasn't happening, the hair appointment wasn't either. I never changed out of the dress, I just waited to stop crying and walked in an expensive cocktail dress and Chucks to the liquor store just off campus. I picked up a bottle of Jack Daniels and walked back to the sorority house, sitting out on the curb (yes in my new dress), taking swigs straight from the bottle.It was pushing seven in the evening by then. People were ignoring me walking from place to place. Girls and guys together for dates, dances, or parties. I hated all of them. The whiskey was dampening my heartache and it wasn't as difficult to keep from sobbing in public. I was almost ready to go up to my room and dispose of all of his crap, probably by setting it on fire, when I heard someone talking."Damn, are you as bad off as you look?"I looked up. It was a boy. Well ok, a young man. He was about my age, and maybe it was the whiskey, but I thought he was kind of cute. The fact that he was cute did not help. "Fuck you dude, I look like a million bucks."He was holding a pizza box which he raised in agreement. "No contest on that one. The green dress really sets off your hair. But I meant the fact that you're clearly in some kind of emotional crisis." He smirked at me and pointed, "It's the bloodshot eyes and whiskey bottle that gives it away."I glared at him and took a big swig. Too big, I coughed uncontrollably for several seconds. "Look here, either hand over a slice or keep moving. I'm trying to wallow.""How dedicated are you to wallowing on the curb?""What's that mean?""It means I'll split it with you if you fill in for my roommate. We were supposed to have retro game night and he bailed to get laid;  or he seems to think he is anyway. My mom just sent up Goldeneye and everything."I stared at him for several long moments doing mental calculus through the fog of liquor. The curb hurt my ass, and the pizza actually smelled amazing. On top of that, he was cute, and being alone in a dorm seemed perfect for me to rope him into a rebound. You know if he sucked at Goldeneye."No Odd-job?" I asked."Who asks for that when they first meet?" He asked with a quizzical look."What?" I said confused, "What are you talking about?""You said no blow jobs. But who would even ask for that when they met someone?"I rolled my eyes and stood up at great effort dusting off my britches. "I said No, odd job." I put emphasis on the syllables, "He's shorter than other characters which is unfair in versus mode." I handed him my whiskey bottle and he took it. I snatched the pizza box from him and opened it."What's your name?" He asked."I'm Liv." I answered, "Lead the way."He looked me over nervously and gestured toward the dorms and started walking. "I'm in Dunn.""We'll see how I feel about the blowjob after Goldeneye." I pulled a stringing slice out of the box and took an unceremonious bite out of it. He stared at me as I started walking and I smiled at him with a mouth full.His dorm was like any other college boy's dorm. A nightmare. Nothing had been cleaned. Old food sat on a shelf, upon which sat a toaster oven and microwave, neither bed had been made, or washed, in ages, there was trash strung across desks and piled up in the trash can and two piles of clothes. One at the foot of the bed, and one on the ground next to it.I traded him back for my bottle hoping to drink the mess away. But ultimately none of it mattered to me anyway. The large TV had two chairs in front of it. One was a folding chair from a lawn furniture set, the other clearly a family hand-me-down deep cushioned swiveling chair. Graciously I was offered the swivel chair.This kid got spanked. We polished off the pizza and by the end he was stealing sips from my whiskey too. I had grown up on Goldeneye, even though it was pretty old by the time I was old enough.I tossed my controller into his lap and laughed at him. "Suck it, eight out of ten wins man, you're done.""I don't get it!" He yelled, "I used to kill at this game.""Ha-ha!" I laughed, pointing at him.He crossed his arms and sulked, "Man, you're really good at this. I've never blown at a game this badly.""Oh, good idea." I said pulling my thick red hair from my face before leaning over and kissing him, my hands on his cheeks.He was surprised and it took him a few seconds to kiss me back but when he did it was very fun. His tongue played with mine excitedly and I started to breathe heavily. Without realizing it I reached down and felt his jeans. He was rock hard and the heat from it was radiating into my hand. He seemed nervous as I rubbed him.I pulled out of the kiss, "Is this ok?""It feels great, I just don't usually do it when I first meet someone." He said, sounding even more nervous than he seemed."I don't either, it's just nice to feel a guy this hard for me."He gave me a puzzled look, "You're a fit redhead who wouldn't be this hard for you?"I rolled my eyes and let my fingers try and grab his shaft through the tight fabric. "Ask me another time, I'm having fun." I leaned in and kissed him again. He kissed me back enthusiastically. His hand slid down my exposed shoulder and his thumb played at my collarbone. I knew what he wanted to do but he was trying to be a nice guy. What a sweetheart. What a chicken.I smiled into our kiss and put my hand over his pulling it inward across my chest. His hand came to rest over my breast, which wasn't as pronounced as I'd like, but it fit snugly in his palm. "It's ok, I love having them played with." I whispered before kissing him again.His hand closed around it and he gave it several gentle squeezes moving his palm across and letting his thumb find my nipple. The feeling of being groped set my body on fire. I was starting to ache between my legs and could feel myself getting wet. Each pass of his thumb sent edges across my body and I felt my breath catch. I whimpered into the kiss and dragged my nails across his stubble."How about that blowjob?" I asked leaning out of the kiss and smirking."We just met, are you sure?" He asked, his voice unsteady.I nodded, "I've never been more sure." I slid my hand off his jeans and pulled my hair back smiling at him. "I wore my sluttiest underwear today because I was planning on giving it to someone else and um, those plans fell through.""So you're going to give me, a guy you just met, one.""You're not just some guy I just met. You're the guy who made me laugh on one of the worst days I can remember." I stood up and patted the cushioned chair I'd been sitting in. "Come on.""You're really, totally, completely sure?" He insisted.I laughed at him, "Will you get over here! Yes." He stood up and sat in the chair I'd been sitting in. I pulled his knees apart and knelt between them shaking my head to be sure all of my messy, unkempt, unbrushed hair fell behind my shoulders before pushing on his stomach so he was reclined and running my whole hand over his shaft.I unbuckled his belt and unbuttoned the jeans sliding the zipper down. I tugged on the pants but got nowhere. He lifted his hips and I tugged the pants down to his ankles where he kicked them off. He had started to pull down his boxers but I wagged a finger. "I want to do the unwrapping." I said playfully, sticking my fingers into the elastic and pulling it back.His cock slapped him as I pulled the elastic back and he lifted up so I could pull the shorts down the rest of the way. It reached up his torso and I took it in my hand feeling how firm and hot it was, stroking slowly. I watched his face as I leaned over and dragged my tongue along the underside feeling it flex against me.I wrapped my lips around it, lowering my mouth so that the soft tip grazed the roof and started to suck, using my mouth to tug up and down while my tongue stroked the soft underside. I bobbed steadily, pleasuring his cock and listening to him make noises of enjoyment.He put his hand on my head, his fingers in my hair as I worked his shaft and tip, loving how it felt it my mouth. The pulsing cock against my tongue was making me ache and I could feel my underwear saturating.I pulled my mouth off and dragged my tongue across him again before stroking with my hand. "Mm, giving head always makes me so wet.""You're really good." He said in a foggy voice.I kissed under his tip for several seconds before licking across the top. A faint, salty flavor spread across my tongue and I smiled, putting him back in my mouth and sucking again until I tasted it again, pulling my mouth away and letting fluid string off. I ran my finger over the tip and played in the precum before tasting it."You're something else.""Head just gets me all excited." I said dutifully lapping at his shaft. "You could cum in my mouth;  if you want, or on my face; " I said in a panting voice, "Or; " I hesitated, "You could lie down in whichever pile of clothes in clean and I could ride the rest out of you."He blushed and looked at me, "I want to be a gentleman and wait but; "I let a strap of my dress fall off my shoulder and bit my lip. "I don't want you to be a gentleman, I want you to fuck me in this gritty, wasted dress."He sat up, "I'm not going to argue with that. But I kind of want to see these." He said pulling on the other strap.I giggled and stood up pulling one strap over my arm and then the other and tugging the dress down so the top hung below my breasts. Underneath was my lace bra that pushed up my b-cups. I always try and it never helps. I went to unhook the bra and looked at him."I'm going to take this off but you can't laugh." I said firmly. He gave me a puzzled look."I may do a lot of things, but laughing won't be one of them." I said seriously.I watched him with a side eye as I unhooked the bra and slowly pulled it off. I stared at him for several minutes before finally removing it and setting it on the floor. He stared at them for several seconds and got up.He came over to me and crouched down putting his lip around one of my nipples and gently playing with it, sucking, and licking. I couldn't keep from moaning, my mouth hung open and each pass of his tongue caused hot pulsing between my legs. I struggled to stay standing holding his shoulders.I patted his head and he stood up straight. I panted for breath and lifted my dress to pull my panties off. He put his finger under my chin before I could, looking at me."You have awesome tits. These," He said pointing, "Are the most fun I've had on campus yet."It was my turn to blush. "Lay down, Romeo." I said through a weak laugh."Why not on the bed though?" He asked hooking his thumb."Because I want to fuck on something clean." I said flatly."Oh," He said awkwardly. "That's fair." He kicked the pile of clothes along side the bed and sat down on the flat spread until he was laid on his back. I lifted my dress and hooked my fingers into the thong and slid it down letting it fall to my ankles and stepping out. A clear string of fluid snapped off the inside and stuck to my leg. I'd hoped he hadn't seen but he did."Are you really that wet?" He asked sitting up."Yeah, I get wet like I've sprung a leak. I can wipe it up." I said not making eye contact."No way, show me what it feels like!" He insisted.I felt my ears get hot. "Well, if you insist." I climbed over him, and knelt down straddling his hips. My lips touched his warm shaft, and I made a small noise. The noises quickly became difficult to control as I slid back and forth stroking his cock with my messy cunt lips. "Fuck; " I whimpered. The feeling of his shaft grazing my clit made my insides feel tight, the aching in my cunt was unbearable. His shaft coated with me quickly as my cunt continued to drain thick, hot, fluid and I couldn't wait anymore.I lifted up and flared my hips, reaching back to put his tip at my opening and rocked onto it. I felt him sink into me, my cunt being pushed open as he slid in. I lowered as slowly as I could stand, feeling him protrude into me filling me with cock. I was crying and moaning at the sensation and as soon as my ass hit his legs I started to fuck.I stroked his cock, bucking my hips back and forth, moaning loudly. My eyes were closed and I held his shoulders as my slick clit brushed his pelvis and the thick meat inside me slid against my walls."Oh fuck; " I moaned. My hair was tenting around my face and I could feel my whole body tensing. His face was red with focus like he was lost in the feeling of my body and trying to hold onto the sight of me. I felt his hand pull the hem of my dress up so he could feel my bare ass. I gritted my teeth through groans and gasps as he gripped it."Fuck that's so good." He said frantically."Fuck;  your cock is so hard; " I was losing control, gripping his shirt in my fists as I fucked him wildly. "Fuck I'm so close already." I panted through gritted teeth. I was starting to sweat and the burning tension sent jolts of pleasure across my torso."Oh fuck I'm cumming!" I screamed into his face. My stomach seized and my hips shook as my whole body shuddered with the violent climax that burst across it. I moaned loudly pulling on his shirt until it started to fade.The neck of his shirt was stretched, and I could feel how much slicker he was under me now. I leaned over and kissed him eagerly. He held my face behind the ears and kissed me back. I whimpered and moaned;  his cock still buried in me."You came pretty hard," He said."I did, thank you." I said kissing his neck and rocking my hips again. "You can cum in me if you want. I like it, and I'm risk free." I panted into his ear, working my hips to stroke his cock. I hoped the clenching and throbbing of my cunt would help him along. I could have fucked him all day but what he had just put me through I wanted him to have as much fun as possible."Are, are you-" He started to ask. I put a finger to his mouth and giggled."I'm not sure, I'm begging for it. It's ok, let me empty you into me." I stroked him rhythmically, moaning from how sensitive I still was. I rode him, watching his lost face slowly twist into desperation, feeling his cock start to swell in me and his grip on my ass tighten."I'm really close," He gasped one hand on my hip, "If you want me to pull out do it;  please."I shook my head, "No way, I want it too bad. Fill me; " I panted.He grabbed my neck suddenly and his nails dug into my ass. He groaned loudly and started to buck and squirm under me. I felt his cock burst and a hot sensation filled my abdomen into my cunt. I continued stroking his cock waiting for it to soften and the heat to fade but it pulsed for several more seconds and I felt cum start to leak out of me.I started to laugh weakly as I sat up letting his spent cock fall out. My cunt drained cum onto his pelvis, legs, stomach, and clothes in a thick, white, stream that slowed to a dribble. I laughed again at the sight and feeling, running my fingers through it."Wow, you really came in me." I said, relishing the heat that I felt from it all.He sat quickly, "Was I not supposed to!" He asked in a panic.I laughed at him again, "Oh no, you definitely were. Umm there's so much.""Please tell me this is fine." He asked again.I pushed him back down and laid on top of him, the fabric of the dress feeling wet as it dropped into one of the streams of cum that was falling out of me. "Would you shut up? Yes, it's fine, Mr. Post-nut clarity. Now stop ruining the afterglow."I laid on him for several minutes and worried he'd fallen asleep. His chest was warm against my cheek. Suddenly we both jumped as the dorm door opened and a guy stepped in. He stared at us, blinked twice, and then left."My roommate.""I figured.""This was fun." I said tapping his chest, "We should do it again.""There's nothing I'd like to do more." He said happily."How about, more Goldeneye, then you fuck me this time." I asked looking up at him."Deal, but if I win, I get to nut on your face." He said touching my nose."You're on!" I paused, "what was your name again?"Yeah, I really asked her to repeat her name. But in my defense, my brain was momentarily deprived of blood flow.  And Liv needs to take some responsibility for where my blood was amassed.Anyway, let's move on to the first time Liv brought me to meet her family.Visiting her family.Liv and I went upstairs into the guest room after dinner with her family. She was wearing what she always wore, a colorful sundress. She was tall, nearly five-ten and very lean. I teased her by describing her as 'all elbows'. But teasing aside I love her slender profile, b cups and tight ass. She was the cutest. Despite her cute appearance and playful personality, she was insatiable. So badly that she almost never returned to her dorm at school, filling her time out of class with me.We were free with our sexuality, we didn't use safe words, or bother with boundaries. Neither of us had ever crossed a line with the other and we felt close enough that we would know if we had.She walked to the bathroom, but I put fingers into her thick, long, copper mane and grabbed. She laughed through the wince and turned around. "I have to pee." She said."I know," I replied, "I want to watch you dance.""You're so weird," She said with a smile and kissed me. "But I need to discuss something with you, and I don't want to wait.""Oh," I said confused, "Alright."She went into the bathroom and was gone for several moments and then came back out. I had sat on the bed and she climbed into my lap."So," she said, I looked into her big brown eyes. "I may have volunteered you for a weird tradition.""If I have to wear a bad sweater in a photo you're going to pay."She shook her head. "I have a fetish you don't know about, and I want you to help.""Name it." I said. She took a deep breath like she was nervous and ran fingers through her hair."You know I'm down for anything, what's up?"She sighed. "I want you to fuck my sister."I laughed uncomfortably, "No you don't."She pushed my shoulders laying me back on the bed. "We call it the pass-back game, she's going to spend all weekend trying to seduce you, all you have to do is resist as long as possible. When you can't take it anymore, fuck her brains out.""You're serious." I said, she leaned over me."I've wanted to do this since you came last year but was afraid it'd freak you out." She gave me a soft kiss, "You think she's hot, I know you do because you've told me. Plus, you totally checked her out at dinner.""I did " She put a finger over my lips."You're supposed to, it's part of the game." She said, "I know you love me, and are totally faithful, but I'm begging you. This is a bucket-list fantasy for me.""Fuck your sister." I repeated.She nodded with a straight face."This isn't some weird test, you actually want this to happen?" She nodded again."Hold on until you can't take it anymore. Make her wear you down." She said breathily. She kissed my neck playfully, "Then take her hard and until you're empty.""This is a really big thing to spring on me during my second only visit to your family's house." I said."I know," She said leaning forward, "But I hoped you'd play along anyway. For me?" She said with a pouty face."You want me to get seduced by your sister;  for you." I asked skeptically.She nodded."Alright," I said in resignation. "But you'll pay for this."She pecked me on the lips. From down stairs we heard their mother call, "Movie's starting!""Come on." She said excitedly getting up."I'll meet you down stairs in a minute." I said."What's the hold up?" She asked, I looked down. She giggled turning red. "No one will notice, let's go.""Well, I'm going to change into PJs anyway." I said."Ok, I'll save you a seat." She said twirling to leave. Outside she talked to someone I couldn't hear as I began changing. I had just sat down to pull my pants off my legs when Maggie, Liv's younger sister suddenly walked in.The nineteen-year-old blonde was shorter than her sister, with the same slender build. Her hips were wider than Liv's and unlike Liv  who was perennially pale, Maggie sported a healthy tan. For someone as petite as she was, her breasts seem to hang off her. They were too big for her chest and shoulders. She was barefoot, wearing just a spaghetti strap top and very tight, very short denim shorts."Hey Maggie," I said uncomfortably, standing in my boxers and polo shirt."Hey," she said back, "Nice underwear." I gave her a look. "I can't get my zipper down;  can you help me?""Your zipper?" I asked quizzically.She got very close to me, looking down, "Yeah, I squeezed my ass into these shorts and now the zipper is stuck." She lifted the hem of her top revealing her flat, bare stomach to show me the shorts."You can't be serious." I said flatly. "Get Liv or your mom to help.""They aren't strong enough to get this, plus my mom would just laugh at me. She hates these shorts. Come on!" She begged."I guess." I said reaching toward her. But she moved, turning around and leaning toward me."Awesome!" She said, "You got this." Her back was to me, and her ass was pressed up against my lap and she held her hands out for me to work. I grabbed the button and forcibly pried it open. It was snuggly secured and took some leverage. I got the button opened and started on the zipper. I had to feel through the tight fabric on her lap to find the tab, sliding my fingers along the seam several times to find a way into the crease.Her ass pushed into me firmly as I found the tab for the zipper. While I was feeling for it I thought I heard her gasp. I grabbed the tab in my fingers and started to pull. I tried moving away from her but she kept herself against me. I was fighting an erection as I struggled with the zipper. Her ass was firm and moving against me and I could see down her shirt and her big soft breasts pushing on her shirt.I groaned internally, feeling myself rock hard against her. I had backed myself to the wall to stabilize myself and pushed as hard as I could with just my fingers. Finally, the zipper slid down the whole inch and a half of it. I pulled my hands away and sighed with relief. "There you go." I said."Thank you so much." She said, a little breath to her voice. I waited for her to move but she didn't, her ass still pushed into me. "Can I help you with anything?" She asked looking back at me with a smile, moving her hips."N no, I'm all set here." I said.She raised an eyebrow. "Well, maybe I can return the favor later." She smiled and left. I stood in the room startled and confused until my erection went away then put on pants and went down stairs.I found Liv on the couch under a blanket that was thrown across her knees and shoulders. She smiled big when she saw me and pulled the blanket back to let me in. I climbed in and got close as she gave me a soft kiss.We had kissed for only a few seconds when we were interrupted by Maggie, wearing tank top that was at least a size too small and soffe shorts almost as short as the ones I had just helped her out of."Are we doing PDA?" Maggie asked, "Is this seat taken?" and dropped into my lap."Whoa, Maggie." I said startled. She wasn't heavy, but it was surprising."Ignore her," Liv said pulling me back into the kiss. Her eyes closed kissing me gently. Maggie began to move in my lap subtly. Kissing Liv can excite me on its own, but having Maggie's ass wiggling in my lap made it worse. I was rock hard again in seconds, and Maggie made sure I was aware that she noticed.I tried to pull out of the kiss to ask Maggie to move, but Liv put a hand on my cheek, kissing me more firmly. I was so hard I could feel my boxers dabbing drops of fluid as Maggie squirmed quietly in my lap. There were footsteps at the stair case, and Maggie practically rolled to the other side of the couch.Liv broke the kiss and touched her nose to mine, "I love you." She whispered."I love you too." I said back, still feeling lost."Maybe when Maggie grows up she can be in love too." Liv shot across the couch.Their mother Diane came in, "Liv be nice to Maggie." Liv rolled her eyes. "Ready to start?""What are we watching?" I asked."Ugh," Maggie groaned, "Ever since mom and dad split its probably some lame rom-com.""Maggie!" Liv scolded."No, she's right." Diane said. "It is a rom com." Diane moved the big chair outward to face the tv and sat down fiddling with the remote while Maggie got up and turned off the lights. The movie started, and we sat and watched.Under the blanket, Liv threw her legs over my lap and laid on my shoulder. Under the blanket I felt the underside of her leg with my fingertips sliding up the back of her thigh. She gave me a sharp look. I ran the hand farther up under her dress and her eyes got wide and she looked at her mom and then back at me.I teased her thigh with my fingers moving them up and down her lean thigh, watching her face. My hand slid between her legs and felt her panties, which were soaking wet. I ran my finger through her folds, soaking my finger in the wet fabric. She pushed her face into my shoulder and cried quietly.I teased her, toying with her clit, rubbing and playing. Her eyes were heavy, and she was struggling to control her breathing. I moved the panties and ran my finger across her bare cunt. She covered her face with the blanket and gasped into her hand.I slid my finger into her cunt and pulled it in and out. She grabbed my neck, pulling me closer as she tried to hide and stifle her moans. Her face was tented by her red hair as she panted against me. I fingered her faster, watching her delicate body respond and her sweet face struggle for control. I rubbed above her clit with my thumb as I fingered her and she started to shake, her cunt squeezing my finger.She buried her face in the blanket, then my shoulder and quaked against me as orgasm rushed through her. When she came down, she looked at me with a submissive face before giving me an eager kiss. Her hands reached under her legs and felt my cock, which was achingly hard.I shook my head at her. She nodded, untying the draw string on my pajamas under the blanket. "It's too messy." I whispered in her ear. She smiled back, pulling the waist down and grabbing my exposed shaft. I was slick from how erect I had been for so long and she pumped my cock aggressively, now her watching my face.I shook my head insistently, my face already showing desperation as she stroked me. She smiled excitedly back, feeling my shaft pulse in her hand. Her other hand moved under the blanket. I didn't have to tell her, she knew how fast I'd be.I took a hard breath and she leaned in close putting her face to mine as my cock seized shooting cum against the hand she had above it in a long series of bursts. She milked me through the orgasm, cum leaking down my shaft after eruption. She pulled the messy hand out of the blanket and licked cum off it with a smile, then used the hem of her dress to wipe off my shaft."I'll be right back," She said, "I have to use the restroom. She got up and walked out of the room. I studied Maggie and Diane, neither seemed to know or have noticed a thing. Liv came back and snuggled with me again until the movie was over.They chatted about it for a few minutes, then I announced my attention to shower, and Liv that she was going to turn in and we all broke for the evening. When we got to the room Liv and I laughed about our rotten behavior during the movie.She leaned against me, leaning against the wall and gave me a long kiss. I held her sides as we kissed. She pulled away and said, "Pull the string, so I can get this dress off." She turned around showing me the string in the back. I pulled, and it came free the dress slacking across her lean frame. She wiggled slightly giving the garment a tug and it slowly slid from her shoulders and hips to the floor.Once her delicate frame was exposed to just her bra and panties she leaned back moving her ass against me playfully. Maggie had done the same thing and I wondered if it was them or me. "Play with me." She said in a childish voice."I intend to," I said feeling her flat stomach, "but can I shower first?" I asked.She shook her head throwing long red hair across her shoulders, "No, fuck me dirty." She reached down and pulled her panties off, sliding them over her ass and letting them fall. I thumbed at her bra hook and undid it watching the straps fall forward. She had reached back to pull my pajama pants down, struggling to get them around my erection.Sisterly TraditionsI reached around her slipping my fingers between her legs and feeling her cunt. She was soaking wet and cried quietly, flinching as my fingers slid across her. Her ass moved against me and I leaned into her ear while my finger teased her. She had let the bra fall off and squirmed helplessly. "I know you made me leave Maggie in my lap." I said softly.She didn't respond, gasping quietly. I ran a hand up her side and felt her breast, feeling it fit snuggly in my hand. She panted loudly, her cunt was dripping down my knuckle. "You did, didn't you?" I persisted.She nodded hesitantly, "I peeked during the kiss and saw her moving." She said breathlessly. "I wanted to watch." She said before leaning back and kissing me, moaning in her throat as I slid a finger into her cunt. I fingered her slowly through the kiss and she had to break away to moan out loud. She moved away from me and pulled my hand leading me to the bed.She climbed onto the bed and I rolled her onto her back, pulling her to the end. I got on my knees and opened her long legs wide. I kissed down her thigh slowly and she squirmed with soft breaths. My mouth made it to her pink, leaking cunt and tickled her folds with the tip of my tongue.She cried quietly, covering her mouth as her whole body squirmed on the sheets. I held her moving hips running my tongue against her ceaselessly. My tongue played in the excessive wetness that ran from her cunt, licking it from her ass and folds.She started to jerk, and her moans lost voice as orgasm started to race across her body. With no warning to me, her stomach clenched, and her legs curled up and she moaned loudly into her hand seizing for several seconds as she came.She caught her breath and I watched as she recovered running a hand over her stomach and chest. She raked thick red hair from her face and sat up on her elbows. "Holy crap; " She panted. She sat all the way up and kissed me. Her soft toes felt my shaft while we kissed and she tugged wanting me on the bed."Take your shirt off," she breathed. I did tugging it over my head. As soon as it was in my hand she grabbed my neck and pulled on me."Fuck me;  fuck me, please; " She panted. I didn't need to be asked twice, I adjusted her on the bed, her legs up and around my torso, holding me with her knees, and her hands clasped behind my neck. I pushed my cock against her hip, she was so wet and slick I didn't have to adjust much to press into her cunt and start to slide in. She moaned desperately trying to keep her voice down.I slid my cock in and out of her gripping cunt, watching her sweet face twist with intense pleasure, her petite breasts shaking with each thrust. I ran a hand up her stomach and grabbed a breast, being sure to squeeze her pink nipple firmly. She moaned into her hand before taking my wrist and pulling my hand to her neck.I leaned slowly on her thr

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How he became the luckiest dude on campus. (Prequel to MCG series) (erotic coupling)By DragonLairReads. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.(4pm, February 14, 2018; at Texas A&M)(Or two years before My Crazy Girlfriend Series starts)My name is Liv, and this is the story about how the worst day of my life changed everything for me. It all started when I got a series of very bad scores back. See, I'm a Chemical Engineering major and to stay in that program you have to keep a really high GPA, and well, Thermo 1 and Fluid Mechanics had both kicked me back low exam scores just the day before.That wasn't even the worst thing though. Well, it probably was, but it didn't feel like it. I'd spent a significant amount of money getting ready for a major party. A major party taking place on Valentine's Day. I had bought this precious slinky green dress. It hugged my figure perfectly and had a plunging neckline. I had made an appointment to get my hair done in loose curls and everything. For a girl so skinny you can see her ribs, I was going to be pretty hot, at least for one night.And it shouldn't have mattered anyway because I was going to the party with my high school boyfriend. We had come to college together and been dating for three and a half years. But come that afternoon when we were supposed to go to dinner together, he shows up at my dorm room in his coat and pants, tie undone, and his shirt not even completely buttoned.“Why aren't you ready yet?” I asked, “Come in and finish its almost time to go.” He didn't move, scratching the back of his head and looking at the ground.“Listen, Liv. I really hate to do this now, but, I think we need to stop seeing each other.”“What are you talking about?” I asked, not processing what he had said. “Get in here and get ready; everyone's going to be waiting.”“I'm sorry Liv; when we came to college together, I thought it would be fun but honestly the relationship has just felt like work. I don't know how to have fun with you anymore.”“What the hell are you talking about?” I almost screamed, “Don't know how to have fun with me? I've been nothing but available to you since we got here! All you do is drink and hangout with your stupid fucking frat buddies!” Now I was screaming. I poked him in the chest. “My grades dropped because of it.”“It's not working for me anymore, Liv.” He said sheepishly“Yeah, dicks usually don't when you're that fucking drunk.” I snapped, tears falling freely off my face.“I'm sorry.” He said again.“Get fucked!” I screamed and slammed the door on him. I couldn't see what happened, but I like to think it almost hit him.I spent the next two hours sobbing until my eyes were puffy and I had blown my nose red. The dress I had gone to all that trouble to get on was practically ruined by tears and snot, at least for the night. The party wasn't happening, the hair appointment wasn't either. I never changed out of the dress, I just waited to stop crying and walked in an expensive cocktail dress and Chucks to the liquor store just off campus. I picked up a bottle of Jack Daniels and walked back to the sorority house, sitting out on the curb (yes in my new dress), taking swigs straight from the bottle.It was pushing seven in the evening by then. People were ignoring me walking from place to place. Girls and guys together for dates, dances, or parties. I hated all of them. The whiskey was dampening my heartache and it wasn't as difficult to keep from sobbing in public. I was almost ready to go up to my room and dispose of all of his crap, probably by setting it on fire, when I heard someone talking.“Damn, are you as bad off as you look?”I looked up. It was a boy. Well ok, a young man. He was about my age, and maybe it was the whiskey, but I thought he was kind of cute. The fact that he was cute did not help. “Fuck you dude, I look like a million bucks.”He was holding a pizza box which he raised in agreement. “No contest on that one. The green dress really sets off your hair. But I meant the fact that you're clearly in some kind of emotional crisis.” He smirked at me and pointed, “It's the bloodshot eyes and whiskey bottle that gives it away.”I glared at him and took a big swig. Too big, I coughed uncontrollably for several seconds. “Look here, either hand over a slice or keep moving. I'm trying to wallow.”“How dedicated are you to wallowing on the curb?”“What's that mean?”“It means I'll split it with you if you fill in for my roommate. We were supposed to have retro game night and he bailed to get laid… or he seems to think he is anyway. My mom just sent up Goldeneye and everything.”I stared at him for several long moments doing mental calculus through the fog of liquor. The curb hurt my butt, and the pizza actually smelled amazing. On top of that, he was cute, and being alone in a dorm seemed perfect for me to rope him into a rebound. You know if he sucked at Goldeneye.“No Oddjob?” I asked.“Who asks for that when they first meet?” He asked with a quizzical look.“What?” I said confused, “What are you talking about?”“You said no blow jobs. But who would even ask for that when they met someone?”I rolled my eyes and stood up at great effort dusting off my britches. “I said NO ODDJOB.” I put emphasis on the syllables, “He's shorter than other characters which is unfair in versus mode.” I handed him my whiskey bottle and he took it. I snatched the pizza box from him and opened it.“What's your name?” He asked.“I'm Liv.” I answered, “Lead the way.”He looked me over nervously and gestured toward the dorms and started walking. “I'm in Dunn.”“We'll see how I feel about the blowjob after Goldeneye.” I pulled a stringing slice out of the box and took an unceremonious bite out of it. He stared at me as I started walking and I smiled at him with a mouth full.His dorm was like any other college boy's dorm. A nightmare. Nothing had been cleaned. Old food sat on a shelf, upon which sat a toaster oven and microwave, neither bed had been made, or washed, in ages, there was trash strung across desks and piled up in the trash can and two piles of clothes. One at the foot of the bed, and one on the ground next to it.I traded him back for my bottle hoping to drink the mess away. But ultimately none of it mattered to me anyway. The large TV had two chairs in front of it. One was a folding chair from a lawn furniture set, the other clearly a family hand-me-down deep cushioned swiveling chair. Graciously I was offered the swivel chair.This kid got spanked. We polished off the pizza and by the end he was stealing sips from my whiskey too. I had grown up on Goldeneye, even though it was pretty old by the time I was old enough.I tossed my controller into his lap and laughed at him. “Suck it, eight out of ten wins man, you're done.”“I don't get it!” He yelled, “I used to kill at this game.”“Ha-ha!” I laughed, pointing at him.He crossed his arms and sulked, “Man, you're really good at this. I've never blown at a game this badly.”“Oh, good idea.” I said pulling my thick red hair from my face before leaning over and kissing him, my hands on his cheeks.He was surprised and it took him a few seconds to kiss me back but when he did it was very fun. His tongue played with mine excitedly and I started to breathe heavily. Without realizing it I reached down and felt his jeans. He was rock hard and the heat from it was radiating into my hand. He seemed nervous as I rubbed him.I pulled out of the kiss, “Is this ok?”“It feels great, I just don't usually do it when I first meet someone.” He said, sounding even more nervous than he seemed.“I don't either, it's just nice to feel a guy this hard for me.”He gave me a puzzled look, “You're a fit redhead who wouldn't be this hard for you?”I rolled my eyes and let my fingers try and grab his shaft through the tight fabric. “Ask me another time, I'm having fun.” I leaned in and kissed him again. He kissed me back enthusiastically. His hand slid down my exposed shoulder and his thumb played at my collarbone. I knew what he wanted to do but he was trying to be a nice guy. What a sweetheart. What a chicken.I smiled into our kiss and put my hand over his pulling it inward across my chest. His hand came to rest over my breast, which wasn't as pronounced as I'd like, but it fit snugly in his palm. “It's ok, I love having them played with.” I whispered before kissing him again.His hand closed around it and he gave it several gentle squeezes moving his palm across and letting his thumb find my nipple. The feeling of being groped set my body on fire. I was starting to ache between my legs and could feel myself getting wet. Each pass of his thumb sent edges across my body and I felt my breath catch. I whimpered into the kiss and dragged my nails across his stubble.“How about that blowjob?” I asked leaning out of the kiss and smirking.“We just met, are you sure?” He asked, his voice unsteady.I nodded, “I've never been more sure.” I slid my hand off his jeans and pulled my hair back smiling at him. “I wore my sluttiest underwear today because I was planning on giving it to someone else and um- those plans fell through.”“So you're going to give me, a guy you just met, one.”“You're not just some guy I just met. You're the guy who made me laugh on one of the worst days I can remember.” I stood up and patted the cushioned chair I'd been sitting in. “Come on.”“You're really, totally, completely sure?” He insisted.I laughed at him, “Will you get over here! Yes.” He stood up and sat in the chair I'd been sitting in. I pulled his knees apart and knelt between them shaking my head to be sure all of my messy, unkempt, unbrushed hair fell behind my shoulders before pushing on his stomach so he was reclined and running my whole hand over his shaft.I unbuckled his belt and unbuttoned the jeans sliding the zipper down. I tugged on the pants but got nowhere. He lifted his hips and I tugged the pants down to his ankles where he kicked them off. He had started to pull down his boxers but I wagged a finger. “I want to do the unwrapping.” I said playfully, sticking my fingers into the elastic and pulling it back.His cock slapped him as I pulled the elastic back and he lifted up so I could pull the shorts down the rest of the way. It reached up his torso and I took it in my hand feeling how firm and hot it was, stroking slowly. I watched his face as I leaned over and dragged my tongue along the underside feeling it flex against me.I wrapped my lips around it, lowering my mouth so that the soft tip grazed the roof and started to suck, using my mouth to tug up and down while my tongue stroked the soft underside. I bobbed steadily, pleasuring his cock and listening to him make noises of enjoyment.He put his hand on my head, his fingers in my hair as I worked his shaft and tip, loving how it felt it my mouth. The pulsing cock against my tongue was making me ache and I could feel my underwear saturating.I pulled my mouth off and dragged my tongue across him again before stroking with my hand. “Mm, giving head always makes me so wet.”“You're really good.” He said in a foggy voice.I kissed under his tip for several seconds before licking across the top. A faint, salty flavor spread across my tongue and I smiled, putting him back in my mouth and sucking again until I tasted it again, pulling my mouth away and letting fluid string off. I ran my finger over the tip and played in the precum before tasting it.“You're something else.”“Head just gets me all excited.” I said dutifully lapping at his shaft. “You could cum in my mouth… if you want, or on my face…” I said in a panting voice, “Or…” I hesitated, “You could lie down in whichever pile of clothes in clean and I could ride the rest out of you.”He blushed and looked at me, “I want to be a gentleman and wait but…”I let a strap of my dress fall off my shoulder and bit my lip. “I don't want you to be a gentleman, I want you to fuck me in this gritty, wasted dress.”He sat up, “I'm not going to argue with that. But I kind of want to see these.” He said pulling on the other strap.I giggled and stood up pulling one strap over my arm and then the other and tugging the dress down so the top hung below my breasts. Underneath was my lace bra that pushed up my b cups. I always try and it never helps. I went to unhook the bra and looked at him.“I'm going to take this off but you can't laugh.” I said firmly. He gave me a puzzled look.“I may do a lot of things, but laughing won't be one of them.” I said seriously.I watched him with a side eye as I unhooked the bra and slowly pulled it off. I stared at him for several minutes before finally removing it and setting it on the floor. He stared at them for several seconds and got up.He came over to me and crouched down putting his lip around one of my nipples and gently playing with it, sucking, and licking. I couldn't keep from moaning, my mouth hung open and each pass of his tongue caused hot pulsing between my legs. I struggled to stay standing holding his shoulders.I patted his head and he stood up straight. I panted for breath and lifted my dress to pull my panties off. He put his finger under my chin before I could, looking at me.“You have awesome tits. These,” He said pointing, “Are the most fun I've had on campus yet.”It was my turn to blush. “Lay down, Romeo.” I said through a weak laugh.“Why not on the bed though?” He asked hooking his thumb.“Because I want to fuck on something clean.” I said flatly.“Oh,” He said awkwardly. “That's fair.” He kicked the pile of clothes along side the bed and sat down on the flat spread until he was laid on his back. I lifted my dress and hooked my fingers into the thong and slid it down letting it fall to my ankles and stepping out. A clear string of fluid snapped off the inside and stuck to my leg. I'd hoped he hadn't seen but he did.“Are you really that wet?” He asked sitting up.“Yeah, I get wet like I've sprung a leak. I can wipe it up.” I said not making eye contact.“No way, show me what it feels like!” He insisted.I felt my ears get hot. “Well, if you insist.” I climbed over him, and knelt down straddling his hips. My lips touched his warm shaft, and I made a small noise. The noises quickly became difficult to control as I slid back and forth stroking his cock with my messy pussy lips. “Fuck…” I whimpered. The feeling of his shaft grazing my clit made my insides feel tight, the aching in my pussy was unbearable. His shaft coated with me quickly as my pussy continued to drain thick, hot, fluid and I couldn't wait anymore.I lifted up and flared my hips, reaching back to put his tip at my opening and rocked onto it. I felt him sink into me, my pussy being pushed open as he slid in. I lowered as slowly as I could stand, feeling him protrude into me filling me with cock. I was crying and moaning at the sensation and as soon as my ass hit his legs I started to fuck.I stroked his cock, bucking my hips back and forth, moaning loudly. My eyes were closed and I held his shoulders as my slick clit brushed his pelvis and the thick meat inside me slid against my walls.“Oh fuck…” I moaned. My hair was tenting around my face and I could feel my whole body tensing. His face was red with focus like he was lost in the feeling of my body and trying to hold onto the sight of me. I felt his hand pull the hem of my dress up so he could feel my bare ass. I gritted my teeth through groans and gasps as he gripped it.“Fuck that's so good.” He said frantically.“Fuck… your cock is so hard…” I was losing control, gripping his shirt in my fists as I fucked him wildly. “Fuck I'm so close already.” I panted through gritted teeth. I was starting to sweat and the burning tension sent jolts of pleasure across my torso.“Oh fuck I'm cumming!” I screamed into his face. My stomach seized and my hips shook as my whole body shuddered with the violent climax that burst across it. I moaned loudly pulling on his shirt until it started to fade.The neck of his shirt was stretched, and I could feel how much slicker he was under me now. I leaned over and kissed him eagerly. He held my face behind the ears and kissed me back. I whimpered and moaned; his cock still buried in me.“You came pretty hard,” He said.“I did, thank you.” I said kissing his neck and rocking my hips again. “You can cum in me if you want. I like it, and I'm risk free.” I panted into his ear, working my hips to stroke his cock. I hoped the clenching and throbbing of my pussy would help him along. I could have fucked him all day but what he had just put me through I wanted him to have as much fun as possible.“Are, are you-” He started to ask. I put a finger to his mouth and giggled.“I'm not sure, I'm begging for it. It's ok, let me empty you into me.” I stroked him rhythmically, moaning from how sensitive I still was. I rode him, watching his lost face slowly twist into desperation, feeling his cock start to swell in me and his grip on my ass tighten.“I'm really close,” He gasped one hand on my hip, “If you want me to pull out do it… please.”I shook my head, “No way, I want it too bad. Fill me…” I panted.He grabbed my neck suddenly and his nails dug into my ass. He groaned loudly and started to buck and squirm under me. I felt his cock burst and a hot sensation filled my abdomen into my pussy. I continued stroking his cock waiting for it to soften and the heat to fade but it pulsed for several more seconds and I felt cum start to leak out of me.I started to laugh weakly as I sat up letting his spent cock fall out. My pussy drained cum onto his pelvis, legs, stomach, and clothes in a thick, white, stream that slowed to a dribble. I laughed again at the sight and feeling, running my fingers through it.“Wow, you really came in me.” I said, relishing the heat that I felt from it all.He sat quickly, “Was I not supposed to!” He asked in a panic.I laughed at him again, “Oh no, you definitely were. Um there's so much.”“Please tell me this is fine.” He asked again.I pushed him back down and laid on top of him, the fabric of the dress feeling wet as it dropped into one of the streams of cum that was falling out of me. “Would you shut up? Yes, it's fine, Mr. Post-nut clarity. Now stop ruining the afterglow.”I laid on him for several minutes and worried he'd fallen asleep. His chest was warm against my cheek. Suddenly we both jumped as the dorm door opened and a guy stepped in. He stared at us, blinked twice, and then left.“My roommate.”“I figured.”“This was fun.” I said tapping his chest, “We should do it again.”“There's nothing I'd like to do more.” He said happily.“How about, more Goldeneye, then you fuck me this time.” I asked looking up at him.“Deal, but if I win, I get to nut on your face.” He said touching my nose.“You're on!” I paused, “what was your name again?”By DragonLairReads for Literotica

How he became the luckiest dude on campus. (Prequel to MCG series) (erotic coupling)By DragonLairReads. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.(4pm, February 14, 2018; at Texas A&M)(Or two years before My Crazy Girlfriend Series starts)My name is Liv, and this is the story about how the worst day of my life changed everything for me. It all started when I got a series of very bad scores back. See, I'm a Chemical Engineering major and to stay in that program you have to keep a really high GPA, and well, Thermo 1 and Fluid Mechanics had both kicked me back low exam scores just the day before.That wasn't even the worst thing though. Well, it probably was, but it didn't feel like it. I'd spent a significant amount of money getting ready for a major party. A major party taking place on Valentine's Day. I had bought this precious slinky green dress. It hugged my figure perfectly and had a plunging neckline. I had made an appointment to get my hair done in loose curls and everything. For a girl so skinny you can see her ribs, I was going to be pretty hot, at least for one night.And it shouldn't have mattered anyway because I was going to the party with my high school boyfriend. We had come to college together and been dating for three and a half years. But come that afternoon when we were supposed to go to dinner together, he shows up at my dorm room in his coat and pants, tie undone, and his shirt not even completely buttoned.“Why aren't you ready yet?” I asked, “Come in and finish its almost time to go.” He didn't move, scratching the back of his head and looking at the ground.“Listen, Liv. I really hate to do this now, but, I think we need to stop seeing each other.”“What are you talking about?” I asked, not processing what he had said. “Get in here and get ready; everyone's going to be waiting.”“I'm sorry Liv; when we came to college together, I thought it would be fun but honestly the relationship has just felt like work. I don't know how to have fun with you anymore.”“What the hell are you talking about?” I almost screamed, “Don't know how to have fun with me? I've been nothing but available to you since we got here! All you do is drink and hangout with your stupid fucking frat buddies!” Now I was screaming. I poked him in the chest. “My grades dropped because of it.”“It's not working for me anymore, Liv.” He said sheepishly“Yeah, dicks usually don't when you're that fucking drunk.” I snapped, tears falling freely off my face.“I'm sorry.” He said again.“Get fucked!” I screamed and slammed the door on him. I couldn't see what happened, but I like to think it almost hit him.I spent the next two hours sobbing until my eyes were puffy and I had blown my nose red. The dress I had gone to all that trouble to get on was practically ruined by tears and snot, at least for the night. The party wasn't happening, the hair appointment wasn't either. I never changed out of the dress, I just waited to stop crying and walked in an expensive cocktail dress and Chucks to the liquor store just off campus. I picked up a bottle of Jack Daniels and walked back to the sorority house, sitting out on the curb (yes in my new dress), taking swigs straight from the bottle.It was pushing seven in the evening by then. People were ignoring me walking from place to place. Girls and guys together for dates, dances, or parties. I hated all of them. The whiskey was dampening my heartache and it wasn't as difficult to keep from sobbing in public. I was almost ready to go up to my room and dispose of all of his crap, probably by setting it on fire, when I heard someone talking.“Damn, are you as bad off as you look?”I looked up. It was a boy. Well ok, a young man. He was about my age, and maybe it was the whiskey, but I thought he was kind of cute. The fact that he was cute did not help. “Fuck you dude, I look like a million bucks.”He was holding a pizza box which he raised in agreement. “No contest on that one. The green dress really sets off your hair. But I meant the fact that you're clearly in some kind of emotional crisis.” He smirked at me and pointed, “It's the bloodshot eyes and whiskey bottle that gives it away.”I glared at him and took a big swig. Too big, I coughed uncontrollably for several seconds. “Look here, either hand over a slice or keep moving. I'm trying to wallow.”“How dedicated are you to wallowing on the curb?”“What's that mean?”“It means I'll split it with you if you fill in for my roommate. We were supposed to have retro game night and he bailed to get laid… or he seems to think he is anyway. My mom just sent up Goldeneye and everything.”I stared at him for several long moments doing mental calculus through the fog of liquor. The curb hurt my butt, and the pizza actually smelled amazing. On top of that, he was cute, and being alone in a dorm seemed perfect for me to rope him into a rebound. You know if he sucked at Goldeneye.“No Oddjob?” I asked.“Who asks for that when they first meet?” He asked with a quizzical look.“What?” I said confused, “What are you talking about?”“You said no blow jobs. But who would even ask for that when they met someone?”I rolled my eyes and stood up at great effort dusting off my britches. “I said NO ODDJOB.” I put emphasis on the syllables, “He's shorter than other characters which is unfair in versus mode.” I handed him my whiskey bottle and he took it. I snatched the pizza box from him and opened it.“What's your name?” He asked.“I'm Liv.” I answered, “Lead the way.”He looked me over nervously and gestured toward the dorms and started walking. “I'm in Dunn.”“We'll see how I feel about the blowjob after Goldeneye.” I pulled a stringing slice out of the box and took an unceremonious bite out of it. He stared at me as I started walking and I smiled at him with a mouth full.His dorm was like any other college boy's dorm. A nightmare. Nothing had been cleaned. Old food sat on a shelf, upon which sat a toaster oven and microwave, neither bed had been made, or washed, in ages, there was trash strung across desks and piled up in the trash can and two piles of clothes. One at the foot of the bed, and one on the ground next to it.I traded him back for my bottle hoping to drink the mess away. But ultimately none of it mattered to me anyway. The large TV had two chairs in front of it. One was a folding chair from a lawn furniture set, the other clearly a family hand-me-down deep cushioned swiveling chair. Graciously I was offered the swivel chair.This kid got spanked. We polished off the pizza and by the end he was stealing sips from my whiskey too. I had grown up on Goldeneye, even though it was pretty old by the time I was old enough.I tossed my controller into his lap and laughed at him. “Suck it, eight out of ten wins man, you're done.”“I don't get it!” He yelled, “I used to kill at this game.”“Ha-ha!” I laughed, pointing at him.He crossed his arms and sulked, “Man, you're really good at this. I've never blown at a game this badly.”“Oh, good idea.” I said pulling my thick red hair from my face before leaning over and kissing him, my hands on his cheeks.He was surprised and it took him a few seconds to kiss me back but when he did it was very fun. His tongue played with mine excitedly and I started to breathe heavily. Without realizing it I reached down and felt his jeans. He was rock hard and the heat from it was radiating into my hand. He seemed nervous as I rubbed him.I pulled out of the kiss, “Is this ok?”“It feels great, I just don't usually do it when I first meet someone.” He said, sounding even more nervous than he seemed.“I don't either, it's just nice to feel a guy this hard for me.”He gave me a puzzled look, “You're a fit redhead who wouldn't be this hard for you?”I rolled my eyes and let my fingers try and grab his shaft through the tight fabric. “Ask me another time, I'm having fun.” I leaned in and kissed him again. He kissed me back enthusiastically. His hand slid down my exposed shoulder and his thumb played at my collarbone. I knew what he wanted to do but he was trying to be a nice guy. What a sweetheart. What a chicken.I smiled into our kiss and put my hand over his pulling it inward across my chest. His hand came to rest over my breast, which wasn't as pronounced as I'd like, but it fit snugly in his palm. “It's ok, I love having them played with.” I whispered before kissing him again.His hand closed around it and he gave it several gentle squeezes moving his palm across and letting his thumb find my nipple. The feeling of being groped set my body on fire. I was starting to ache between my legs and could feel myself getting wet. Each pass of his thumb sent edges across my body and I felt my breath catch. I whimpered into the kiss and dragged my nails across his stubble.“How about that blowjob?” I asked leaning out of the kiss and smirking.“We just met, are you sure?” He asked, his voice unsteady.I nodded, “I've never been more sure.” I slid my hand off his jeans and pulled my hair back smiling at him. “I wore my sluttiest underwear today because I was planning on giving it to someone else and um- those plans fell through.”“So you're going to give me, a guy you just met, one.”“You're not just some guy I just met. You're the guy who made me laugh on one of the worst days I can remember.” I stood up and patted the cushioned chair I'd been sitting in. “Come on.”“You're really, totally, completely sure?” He insisted.I laughed at him, “Will you get over here! Yes.” He stood up and sat in the chair I'd been sitting in. I pulled his knees apart and knelt between them shaking my head to be sure all of my messy, unkempt, unbrushed hair fell behind my shoulders before pushing on his stomach so he was reclined and running my whole hand over his shaft.I unbuckled his belt and unbuttoned the jeans sliding the zipper down. I tugged on the pants but got nowhere. He lifted his hips and I tugged the pants down to his ankles where he kicked them off. He had started to pull down his boxers but I wagged a finger. “I want to do the unwrapping.” I said playfully, sticking my fingers into the elastic and pulling it back.His cock slapped him as I pulled the elastic back and he lifted up so I could pull the shorts down the rest of the way. It reached up his torso and I took it in my hand feeling how firm and hot it was, stroking slowly. I watched his face as I leaned over and dragged my tongue along the underside feeling it flex against me.I wrapped my lips around it, lowering my mouth so that the soft tip grazed the roof and started to suck, using my mouth to tug up and down while my tongue stroked the soft underside. I bobbed steadily, pleasuring his cock and listening to him make noises of enjoyment.He put his hand on my head, his fingers in my hair as I worked his shaft and tip, loving how it felt it my mouth. The pulsing cock against my tongue was making me ache and I could feel my underwear saturating.I pulled my mouth off and dragged my tongue across him again before stroking with my hand. “Mm, giving head always makes me so wet.”“You're really good.” He said in a foggy voice.I kissed under his tip for several seconds before licking across the top. A faint, salty flavor spread across my tongue and I smiled, putting him back in my mouth and sucking again until I tasted it again, pulling my mouth away and letting fluid string off. I ran my finger over the tip and played in the precum before tasting it.“You're something else.”“Head just gets me all excited.” I said dutifully lapping at his shaft. “You could cum in my mouth… if you want, or on my face…” I said in a panting voice, “Or…” I hesitated, “You could lie down in whichever pile of clothes in clean and I could ride the rest out of you.”He blushed and looked at me, “I want to be a gentleman and wait but…”I let a strap of my dress fall off my shoulder and bit my lip. “I don't want you to be a gentleman, I want you to fuck me in this gritty, wasted dress.”He sat up, “I'm not going to argue with that. But I kind of want to see these.” He said pulling on the other strap.I giggled and stood up pulling one strap over my arm and then the other and tugging the dress down so the top hung below my breasts. Underneath was my lace bra that pushed up my b cups. I always try and it never helps. I went to unhook the bra and looked at him.“I'm going to take this off but you can't laugh.” I said firmly. He gave me a puzzled look.“I may do a lot of things, but laughing won't be one of them.” I said seriously.I watched him with a side eye as I unhooked the bra and slowly pulled it off. I stared at him for several minutes before finally removing it and setting it on the floor. He stared at them for several seconds and got up.He came over to me and crouched down putting his lip around one of my nipples and gently playing with it, sucking, and licking. I couldn't keep from moaning, my mouth hung open and each pass of his tongue caused hot pulsing between my legs. I struggled to stay standing holding his shoulders.I patted his head and he stood up straight. I panted for breath and lifted my dress to pull my panties off. He put his finger under my chin before I could, looking at me.“You have awesome tits. These,” He said pointing, “Are the most fun I've had on campus yet.”It was my turn to blush. “Lay down, Romeo.” I said through a weak laugh.“Why not on the bed though?” He asked hooking his thumb.“Because I want to fuck on something clean.” I said flatly.“Oh,” He said awkwardly. “That's fair.” He kicked the pile of clothes along side the bed and sat down on the flat spread until he was laid on his back. I lifted my dress and hooked my fingers into the thong and slid it down letting it fall to my ankles and stepping out. A clear string of fluid snapped off the inside and stuck to my leg. I'd hoped he hadn't seen but he did.“Are you really that wet?” He asked sitting up.“Yeah, I get wet like I've sprung a leak. I can wipe it up.” I said not making eye contact.“No way, show me what it feels like!” He insisted.I felt my ears get hot. “Well, if you insist.” I climbed over him, and knelt down straddling his hips. My lips touched his warm shaft, and I made a small noise. The noises quickly became difficult to control as I slid back and forth stroking his cock with my messy pussy lips. “Fuck…” I whimpered. The feeling of his shaft grazing my clit made my insides feel tight, the aching in my pussy was unbearable. His shaft coated with me quickly as my pussy continued to drain thick, hot, fluid and I couldn't wait anymore.I lifted up and flared my hips, reaching back to put his tip at my opening and rocked onto it. I felt him sink into me, my pussy being pushed open as he slid in. I lowered as slowly as I could stand, feeling him protrude into me filling me with cock. I was crying and moaning at the sensation and as soon as my ass hit his legs I started to fuck.I stroked his cock, bucking my hips back and forth, moaning loudly. My eyes were closed and I held his shoulders as my slick clit brushed his pelvis and the thick meat inside me slid against my walls.“Oh fuck…” I moaned. My hair was tenting around my face and I could feel my whole body tensing. His face was red with focus like he was lost in the feeling of my body and trying to hold onto the sight of me. I felt his hand pull the hem of my dress up so he could feel my bare ass. I gritted my teeth through groans and gasps as he gripped it.“Fuck that's so good.” He said frantically.“Fuck… your cock is so hard…” I was losing control, gripping his shirt in my fists as I fucked him wildly. “Fuck I'm so close already.” I panted through gritted teeth. I was starting to sweat and the burning tension sent jolts of pleasure across my torso.“Oh fuck I'm cumming!” I screamed into his face. My stomach seized and my hips shook as my whole body shuddered with the violent climax that burst across it. I moaned loudly pulling on his shirt until it started to fade.The neck of his shirt was stretched, and I could feel how much slicker he was under me now. I leaned over and kissed him eagerly. He held my face behind the ears and kissed me back. I whimpered and moaned; his cock still buried in me.“You came pretty hard,” He said.“I did, thank you.” I said kissing his neck and rocking my hips again. “You can cum in me if you want. I like it, and I'm risk free.” I panted into his ear, working my hips to stroke his cock. I hoped the clenching and throbbing of my pussy would help him along. I could have fucked him all day but what he had just put me through I wanted him to have as much fun as possible.“Are, are you-” He started to ask. I put a finger to his mouth and giggled.“I'm not sure, I'm begging for it. It's ok, let me empty you into me.” I stroked him rhythmically, moaning from how sensitive I still was. I rode him, watching his lost face slowly twist into desperation, feeling his cock start to swell in me and his grip on my ass tighten.“I'm really close,” He gasped one hand on my hip, “If you want me to pull out do it… please.”I shook my head, “No way, I want it too bad. Fill me…” I panted.He grabbed my neck suddenly and his nails dug into my ass. He groaned loudly and started to buck and squirm under me. I felt his cock burst and a hot sensation filled my abdomen into my pussy. I continued stroking his cock waiting for it to soften and the heat to fade but it pulsed for several more seconds and I felt cum start to leak out of me.I started to laugh weakly as I sat up letting his spent cock fall out. My pussy drained cum onto his pelvis, legs, stomach, and clothes in a thick, white, stream that slowed to a dribble. I laughed again at the sight and feeling, running my fingers through it.“Wow, you really came in me.” I said, relishing the heat that I felt from it all.He sat quickly, “Was I not supposed to!” He asked in a panic.I laughed at him again, “Oh no, you definitely were. Um there's so much.”“Please tell me this is fine.” He asked again.I pushed him back down and laid on top of him, the fabric of the dress feeling wet as it dropped into one of the streams of cum that was falling out of me. “Would you shut up? Yes, it's fine, Mr. Post-nut clarity. Now stop ruining the afterglow.”I laid on him for several minutes and worried he'd fallen asleep. His chest was warm against my cheek. Suddenly we both jumped as the dorm door opened and a guy stepped in. He stared at us, blinked twice, and then left.“My roommate.”“I figured.”“This was fun.” I said tapping his chest, “We should do it again.”“There's nothing I'd like to do more.” He said happily.“How about, more Goldeneye, then you fuck me this time.” I asked looking up at him.“Deal, but if I win, I get to nut on your face.” He said touching my nose.“You're on!” I paused, “what was your name again?”By DragonLairReads for Literotica

Are we nearly there yet…?! 5 games played, 5 to go, everything can change! Check out our thoughts on your players in Thermo-meter! Plus we check in on manager of the month competition, sponsored by our good friends at Signed Football Shirts! All the usual, unfiltered JUiCE fun, to quench your FPL thirst!   SiGNED FOOTBALL SHiRTS

The gameweek isn't yet over but it's been a spectacular one already! Captain hauls, missed penalties, bench jam, bench frustration and lots more! We'll be talking it all through with Dan aka BlackWolf coming to us LiVE from Stateside! Room 101, Thermo-meter, Guess the Player! All this plus the usual banter and chat that doesn't get recognised by the FCA's

Ultimate Spider-Cast Ep #256: Marvel Team-Up #108 & #109 Welcome back to Ultimate Spider-Cast! In this episode, Phil and Lilith continue “Dazzler December” with a review of Marvel Team-Up #108 & #109 (August & September 1981) featuring Spider-Man, Dazzler and Paladin against the new menace of Thermo, the Thermatronic Man. PLUS: discussion of NEW issues Superior Spider-Man #1, Spine-Tingling Spider-Man #2, and Red Goblin #10 and live watch/reaction for the new Madame Web trailer.   Tune in today and don't forget to review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else you can!     Ultimate Spider-Cast's Links  → Twitter https://www.twitter.com/UltSpidercast → Instagram https://www.instagram.com/capeslunatics/ → Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UltimateSpiderCast → YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/CapesandLunatics   ==================  

Another mental Gameweek! Contentious decisions, injuries, benchings, captain fails and even a Kai Havertz goal?! We'll be talking it all through with Joe from Fantasy Football Scout and deciding where to go from here! We'll also be joined by the Semi Casual himself, Rupert! Room 101, Thermo-meter, Guess the Player and a fun quiz!

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Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/520  Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors        Hey there, fellow anglers! We had the pleasure of chatting with Kevin Sloan, the mastermind behind Skwala Fishing, and we can't wait to tell you all about it. In this episode, we delved into the technology and materials used in their amazing products, from their toasty thermo hoody to their cozy puff jackets and durable waders. Kevin had so much insight to share about his company and we know you'll love hearing all about it. So sit back, relax, and get ready to learn about the amazing world of Skwala Fishing! Episode Chapters with Kevin Sloan on Skwala Fishing 1:41 - Kevin shares the story of how he got into fly fishing. His interest in the sport started when he was very young. Then his dad took him to a Trout Unlimited Barbecue when he was just 10 years old where a guy doing a casting demonstration spent an hour with him to teach him. 4:01 - Most of their customers in Skwala Fishing are advanced fly fishers. 4:30 - He takes us back to how he got into the industry. He started guiding when he was 19 then at 25, he worked at Orvis in product development. That's where he got his start and foundation in the fly fishing space. Then he got involved in Sitka and led that business from day one to nearly a decade. 7:49 - We dig into their product design and development process at Skwala. He mentions their Carbon Jacket that is fully waterproof and has a four-way stretch shell that will keep you dry but still allow you to comfortably with it. 11:38 - We talk about their waders. The major factors that they considered while developing their waders were mobility and breathability. 12:42 - He explains what a fourchette is. 14:30 - He gives valuable tips on how to take good care of your waders to make them last for years. 19:45 - He tells us about merino wool which is one of the materials used for designing their Thermo 150 Hoody. Merino wool gives a warm fuzzy feeling even when it's wet. 24:50 - He gives recommendations on what products to choose from their line if you're going fishing during cold months. If you're going steelhead fishing in December, he highly recommends their RS collection. 27:54 - We talk about the features of one of their favorite pieces, the Fusion 3/2 Puffy which is water-resistant and breathable. 31:26 - They have a collection that has just been released this year. 33:10 - For waders to be durable, they have to be puncture-resistant and tear-resistant. He tells more on how to test your waders at home to see if there are tears on them. 36:12 - He talks about their guarantee and warranty. 37:50 - We dig into Gore-Tex and similar materials that they use in their products for waterproofing and breathability. 39:53 - He loves all kinds of fishing, especially swinging for steelheads. 40:40 - For saltwater fishing, he recommends their Sol collection. 41:37 - I ask about bamboo fabrics. 42:53 - Looking ahead, they also plan to release their line of boots. 45:14 - He takes us back to that time when he started building Skwala Fishing and shares how he came up with the name and branding. 48:34 - We do a rapid-fire round. He likes listening to both music and podcasts when on the road, particularly Dave Matthews Band Radio and The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway. 49:50 - His go-to setup for trout is a 691 Sage X, 9' 6wt with a fighting butt on it. 50:20 - He tells us the trips on his bucket list. Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/520  

High temperatures and extreme weather events can have numerous impacts on wine grapes and ultimately wine quality. Dr. Andreea Botezatu, Associate Professor and Extension Enology Specialist at Texas A&M University, Texas AgriLife Service finds that changes in ripening patterns are the most common. In high heat, sugars accumulate faster, acids degrade, ripening happens earlier and the result is higher alcohol wines. The challenge is that ripening is not linear. Tannins and maturation of the seeds do not progress at the same pace. Plus, high pH causes color and flavor instability. Andreea is experimenting with verjus, the juice of green grapes. In North America, grapes from crop thinning are traditionally considered waste. However, in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, green grape juice is used in many culinary practices. Verjus has little sugar, high acidity, and low pH making it a perfect addition to unbalanced wines. Learn about her current experiment testing both red and white grape verjus against three other acidification methods. Plus, Andreea gives listeners tips on how to prevent that green pepper flavor caused by ladybug taint. Resources: 145: New Class of Compounds Linked to Smoke Taint in Wines (Podcast) 143: Can Barrier Sprays Protect Against Smoke Taint in Wine? (Podcast) Dr. Andreea Botezatu's LinkedIn page Dr. Andreea Botezatu ResearchGate Dr. Andreea Botezatu Google Scholar Malo-Lactic Fermentation in a New Climate Sustainable Wine Practices Texas A&M Facebook page Texas A&M Foundation Texas AgriLife Extension Enology YouTube Vineyard Team Programs: Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship - Donate SIP Certified – Show your care for the people and planet   Sustainable Ag Expo – The premiere winegrowing event of the year - $50 OFF with code PODCAST23 Sustainable Winegrowing On-Demand (Western SARE) – Learn at your own pace Vineyard Team – Become a Member Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript Craig Macmillan  0:00  And my guest today is Andreea Botezatu She is Associate Professor and extension enology specialist at Texas A&M University, the Texas AgriLife Service. Thanks for being our guest today.   Andreea Botezatu  0:11  Thank you for having me.   Craig Macmillan  0:12  We're very interested in some of the work you've been doing recently around effects of warming climates on vines and on wines. You're in enologist. In particular, you've been doing work on wine quality. That Correct? And you've been doing work in Texas, obviously.   Andreea Botezatu  0:26  Yes, for the past seven years or something. Yeah.   Craig Macmillan  0:30  And would you say that temperatures during the growing season in Texas overall have been increasing?   Andreea Botezatu  0:35  I would Yes, the temperatures historically have been increasing. And furthermore, we see a lot more extreme weather events. So temperature records being broken, as well as like I said, extreme weather storms, winds hail, a lot of hail we, we've been having quite a bit of hail in Texas. So these can affect the process of grape growing.   Craig Macmillan  0:58  Absolutely. So definitely, there's been some changes, how has this been affecting one quality, what particular parameters are being most affected?   Andreea Botezatu  1:04  Right. So this is not straightforward answer for this question. Because because several things can happen when you have extreme weather events and temperatures rising. The biggest one that we see here is a changing ripening patterns. So sugar accumulation and acid degradation, they kind of change sugar tends to accumulate much faster, because of the earlier heat we tend to see earlier ripening. So earlier, harvesting sugar accumulates faster acids degrade quite a bit, the ripening is not linear anymore. So we see ripening in terms of sugar, but we don't see that in terms of tannins or aroma compounds or maturation of the seeds. So there's a bit of disconnect there. That's one thing because of the higher sugar accumulation, we tend to see higher levels of alcohols in wine, which is not necessarily a good thing. There's only so much so much alcohol that you want to have in wine that becomes overbearing and unpleasant and the wines will be unbalanced. Most importantly for us in Texas, and I'm sure for any other grape growing region that deals with high temperatures is an increase in pH because of acid degradation. We see grapes coming in with very low titratable acidity, we're talking three four grams per liter, and then pH is of four and above.   Craig Macmillan  2:31  Wow.   Andreea Botezatu  2:32  Yeah, yes, wow, indeed, very, very high pH is that we have to deal with as winemakers as I'm sure your audience knows high pH can cause a host of problems and wine quality problems from microbiological instabilities, compromising one quality that way to color, instability, aroma, and flavor, balance all of that. So that's a big thing that's happening.   Craig Macmillan  2:56  And those high sugars are also problematic just for getting your fermentations done.   Andreea Botezatu  3:00  Absolutely. You can have problems starting your fermentation, you can have problems finishing your fermentation,   Craig Macmillan  3:05  What kinds of things are winemakers doing to try to manage these factors, but and what kinds of things are you looking at to try to manage these factors?   Andreea Botezatu  3:13  Right, so my researcher at A&M, is focused on acidity and acidity management, again with a focus on pH more so than titratable acidity. So over the past six years, we've been looking at two alternative acidification methods. One is enzymatic, it employs the use of glucose oxidase that is a is an enzyme that helps transform glucose into Gluconic acid, thereby increasing the acidity of the wine and increasing the pH. So we've done some research on both reds and whites. And that research has been published in peer reviewed journal. So those are links that I can share with you and now we are working with verjus and that falls within the sustainability category as well because a little bit of background on what verjus is and how it can help. Verjus is the juice of green grapes. It is produced from unripe grapes that are pressed and the juice obtained is called verjus which comes from French, the French language jus vert, green juice. So basically it means green juice. And because it's made from unripe grapes, you can imagine there's little sugar in it, the acidity is quite quite high and the pH is quite low. Traditionally, grape growers can practice this crop thinning practice to manage their crop and crop quality. What they do is they drop some of the grapes on the vine before they ripen in order for all the resources of the vine to be directed to the grapes that are leftover. So the grapes that are getting dropped are traditionally especially in North America considered waste nothing is done with them. They are left on the vineyard floor. I have a European background right and I I grew up with these grapes being turned into virjus, we have a different name for it in Romanian, but same idea. And this juice was used quite heavily for various culinary practices in Eastern Europe and throughout the Middle East. So remembering that I thought, Well, why not try to take these grapes and make verjus out of them and you start to acidify? It is a natural product that comes from the vineyard and it gives added value to the grapes, right?   Craig Macmillan  5:29  And these grapes, are we talking just past verasion, are we talking still in the in the berry green hard pea stage?   Andreea Botezatu  5:36  So verjus traditionally is made pre veraison. There's not a set date for grape thinning or verjus production. It can vary anywhere from 30 days post bloom to 45 days post bloom and the beginning of verasion there.   Craig Macmillan  5:53  So tell me more about this. We make some verjus we collect some berries that haven't been through verasion yet, and then they're crushed, repressed or something. I'm also curious, is this done? Can this be done with both red and white varieties?   Andreea Botezatu  6:03  Again, a very good question. So last year, we had our first experiment with verjus and we made it with white from white grapes on Muscat Canelli. This year, we are making it from both white and red, we're using different varieties. And we're looking a little bit differently at it. So still, we want to see how it affects one quality and wine sensory profile. But what we're doing extra this year, so we're doing red and white. And on top of that we are comparing this method with three different acidification methods, three other acidification methods, both from a chemical and sensory perspective. So we're looking at, you know, the traditional tartaric acid addition that most wineries do, we're looking at verjus addition, we're looking at the GLX glucose oxidase that I mentioned earlier. And we're looking at ion exchange, which is becoming quite popular for pH reduction.   Craig Macmillan  6:57  Tell me more about that.   Andreea Botezatu  6:58  So ion exchange resins are widely used in water treatments, soft water, hard water, depending on what you're trying to achieve. Basically, there, there's resins that have been charged, and they can release either cations or anions. In our case, the resin that we use releases protons or hydrogen ions, and then the potassium in the wine gets reduced. And by releasing protons, increases the number of protons in solution, thereby decreasing the pH. And you basically pump your wines through this ion exchange column that holds the resin and it comes up on the other end.   Craig Macmillan  7:35  If I understand correctly, that's also removing the potassium, which is the buffer that's keeping it high. All right.   Andreea Botezatu  7:40  Some of that, yes, not all of it. Yes.   Craig Macmillan  7:43  Are you doing this at the juice stage, we're doing this just after fermentation. During aging?   Andreea Botezatu  7:48  We are doing this at the juice stage, from everything that I've heard in the industry, it is better to have it done at the juice stage, it has less impact on the final wine quality, but it's gentler, so yes, at all the treatments that we're doing, we're doing them at the juice stage and then fermentation follows sterilization and everything else.   Craig Macmillan  8:08  What kind of quantity or ratio of verjus might we need is in liquid or by weight to get these kinds of impacts that we're after?   Andreea Botezatu  8:19  Right? So it depends on what we're trying to achieve. We asked that question with our study last year. So we had two treatments last year one to see how much verjus we needed to add to drop the pH by one point. So let's say you start at 3.6, we're gonna bring it down to 3.5. How much verjus do I need to add to achieve that and the other one, the other treatment was to target pH. So again, you start at 3.6, but you want to drop it to 3.3. We did both. And it turned out in our experiment that we needed to add 2% by volume verjus to drop the pH by one pH point. And then for the target pH we needed, we added about 10 to 11% verjus to get to the target we wanted. So you know it depends on what you're starting with the pH you're starting with a depends on the pH of your verjus. And that makes a big difference. We're working with lower pH verjus this year compared to last year. So that might change things a little but this is what we got so far between two and 10%. With a pH is that we worked with.   Craig Macmillan  9:24  If I remember correctly during that latter phase before verasion when we get past like lag phase or so what's happening with the reduction in acidity is that the malic acid is getting metabolized basically as an energy source tartaric may come down a little bit during that period, if I remember right, so if I am picking things early, like pre raisin, I'm assuming there's going to be a quite a bit of malic acid in that juice.   Andreea Botezatu  9:50  That's right. Yes.   Craig Macmillan  9:52  And is that going to affect what I do from winemaking perspective?   Andreea Botezatu  9:55  Well, for whites, very little for reds. I think it's absolutely a positive thing because most winemakers will want to put their reds through malolactic fermentation. And that's problematic. Now here with a high pH is because if you have a malolactic fermentation with a high pH wine, you can run into a million different problems and have really serious quality issues. So by adding this natural malic acid from the grapes, you allow then your winemakers to run their malolactic fermentations at a safe pH and get that effect of roundness and softness and all the sensory properties that come with it.   Craig Macmillan  10:34  Are there things that growers can do in the field, we're talking about the bears up, so the things that other things that we can do in the vineyard to help ameliorate some of these are things that people experimenting with, or winemakers are interested in having vineyard folks experiment with.   Andreea Botezatu  10:48  I mean, in the vineyard, there's only so much you can do once your vineyard has been planted. Water management is very important. And it helps a lot makes a big difference. Water stress can can have quite the impact on grape quality and Vine health as well. So water management is a big thing. And then canopy management is another one, you want to make sure that your grapes are a little bit shaded, they're not completely exposed to the sun, so you avoid sunburn and heat and light exposure. These are things that some grape growers can do. Some grape growers in Europe, as far as I know, plant grass coverings to reduce the evapotranspiration, the soil level to maintain water in the soil as well some modify their canopy structure, raise the trunk. So there are a few options. But I would say water management and canopy management are the most important ones. However, there is something that can be done and is actually being done actively in various parts of the world. As temperatures change. grape growers are changing the varieties that they're planting to adapt to these higher temperatures and different weather patterns. So they're looking at varieties that are a lot more heat tolerant. And that's a big change, that's a big change. And that's going to have a big impact.   Craig Macmillan  12:07  Just to go back for a second, when we talk about irrigation management, what you're talking about is not stressing the vines overly you want them to be happy,   Andreea Botezatu  12:14  You know, vines, like a little bit of stress. So but not as much as we see with these types of temperatures here. So yes. Keep them somewhat happy.   Craig Macmillan  12:25  So there's some things that we need, we need to stay on our game, basically in the vineyard - monitor, monitor your your evapotranspiration, and also the plants status and all that kind of thing. Because I have seen vines and heat, you know, basically collapse. Yes. And, you know, it's all the chemistry in the grape just goes nuts. They're like at the last minute, you know, and you're like, Oh, we're doing great and everything goes to heck. what Oh, what about shade cloth? Are people using shade cloth?   Andreea Botezatu  12:51  Yes. So the answer is yes, you can use that. And another thing that they are using this has nothing to do with temperature but rather hail they use hail netting to protect their vines from from hail.   Craig Macmillan  13:03  Oh, interesting. Interesting. I've heard about that in Europe, and I've never seen it in the United States.   Andreea Botezatu  13:07  Yeah, well come to Texas.   Craig Macmillan  13:08  I'm gonna I do I need to come to Texas. I got a friend there who's a bit of culture tonight. He keeps saying you gotta come check it out. You gotta come check it out.   Andreea Botezatu  13:14  Well, I feel sometimes that like we are the main lab for grape growing in the world, because we've we've already done all this work because it's hot here anyways. So we started this 20, 30 years ago. Like we can teach the world a thing or two about grape growing in hot climates, really.   Craig Macmillan  13:34  And that's a really good point is that there's resources in other parts of the United States or the parts of the world that that may apply to your world. If you're in a different region as your region changes, then I've definitely learned that over time, I will look out for other sources outside of California. I'm in California, I'm on the Central Coast, California, which has traditionally been a very cool area. And we're gonna see if that continues, which then leads back to your point. So changing varietals, or varieties, I should say changing varieties, what direction are people going in? What's the what are people thinking?   Andreea Botezatu  14:09  Right, So people are looking at heat tolerant varieties. And these two, again, both come from hotter regions, southern regions, so we're looking at Spain, southern Spain, Southern Italy, Greece, some of the Georgian varieties as well. Some seem to be doing quite well. I can give you some examples of varieties that we have in Texas,   Craig Macmillan  14:30  Please.   Andreea Botezatu  14:31  We've planted a lot of Tempranillo, Mouvedre, Vermentino, Aglianico, Montepulciano, Sagrantino does fantastic here Tannat. does very well here as well. Albarino on the wine, white side, I said Vermentino we have some Russanne and Marsanneare doing okay, but southern Italian Spanish Portuguese varieties are quite the stars.   Craig Macmillan  15:00  That's interesting, and how are how are winemakers feeling about this? I mean, are they excited? Are they? Are they having a great time? I mean, Tannat was a very exciting variety about 10 years ago and have made some really nice wines in California, are people getting into it? Are they excited about it?   Andreea Botezatu  15:15  So winemakers are very excited about all of that the problem is not the winemakers, it's the consumers who are not not familiar with these varietals, they don't have name recognition, so convincing the consumers to try them and buy them and come back for them that that is the main problem that we are having now. But I think we're making a lot of progress. And actually, some of my research is focused on that as well. So name recognition and pronunciation and comfort in purchasing or choosing a wine that's hard to pronounce and submitted an article for publication, or looking at that just today.   Craig Macmillan  15:49  Just today, timely as today's headlines. Well, I'll be looking for that I'll be looking forward to that yet to people, you know, people will have to be kind of familiar with it, you know, they have to kind of recognize it over time, I think that can can definitely happen. I mean, I was thinking about SSangiovese  in the United States, I'm thinking about Syrah, even in the United States, that was one that wasn't that labeled that much 30 years ago. And now we've got a whole fan base nationwide for that variety. And so maybe that same kind of thing will happen. And I hope so finding the plant for the place is huge, you know, and so if things are changing, we may want to think about finding different plants for that place.   Andreea Botezatu  16:25  I mean, look at Bordeaux, right? They Bordeaux, in France, they were approved to use six new varieties, which is extraordinary considering how long they only stuck with a traditional Bordeaux varieties. So now they are allowed to grow six new varieties, four reds and two white. So that's that's quite something. And that's not the only place where that is happening.   Craig Macmillan  16:47  Yeah, that's, that's very interesting. It will also be interesting to see if we have breeding plant breeding programs along these lines as well. That's an even harder road to hoe, because there's no history with it with a plant like that. But it's an interesting idea. I need to find a grower I need to find a plant breeder to talk to. So changing gears a little bit. There's something else that you've been working on that I'm really fascinated by. And that is Ladybug taint. And we are talking about the ladybug, we're talking about high sparrow.   Andreea Botezatu  17:14  Yeah, we're actually talking about ladybugs and this has been the subject of my PhD research and my postdoc work. So I've spent six, seven years looking at ladybugs and how they can affect wine quality. So for a little bit of background I have to start and be with some science. There is a group of compounds called methoxypyrazines that are naturally occurring in the world naturally occurring in plants. Many vegetables contain them bell peppers, for example, will have high levels of methoxypyrazines Peanuts, peas, green beans, some fruits contain them as well and grapes within a category of fruits, some grape varieties will naturally produce methoxypyrazines. These compounds smell like bell pepper in green beans like the vegetables that couldn't contain them. So at low quantities, low concentrations in grapes. These compounds methoxypyrazines can contribute to the paucity of the wine to complexity of the aroma profile and flavor profile of the wines. If however, these quantities increase, the concentrations increased, they can become overpowering and dominate the profile of the wine and you don't want your wine to smell like bell peppers and nothing else. Really, that's no fun. Another source of methoxypyrazines in the world is insects, in particular, lady beetles, ladybugs, and within the ladybugs category there are some species that are more apt at producing them but also infesting Vineyards, one of these species is called Harmonia axyridis, or the multicolored Asian lady beetle also known as MALB. Now this is a species that has been introduced into North America from Asia as a method of bio control against aphids in the 1960s mistaken and in time, it has established populations here and it has begun to spread so as the bio control method is very successful, it does what it's supposed to do but once the aphids are gone and the soybeans are picked harvested, then it looks for other sources of food and it can migrate into vineyards so these are the beetles will fly into vineyards they don't damage the grapes they don't bite into they don't want the grapes but they do feed on grapes that happen already open or cut for the sugar is you know is exposed in any way the flesh is exposed in anyways. And what happens is that if you pick the grapes with these lady beetles in them and you bring them into the winery with lady beetles in the menu, process them with lady beetles in these way they will also secrete something that's called hemolymph. It's basically their blood and this hemolymph will contain again Methoxypyrazines at quite high concentrations, these Methoxypyrazines get into wine, they tend to wine. So the wine will smell like bell pepper and green beans and potatoes and peanuts. And what's also interesting is that the ratio of these Methoxypyrazines is different in the hemolymph of lady beetles, as opposed to the ones naturally occurring in grapes. So there's one particular Methoxypyrazines , that's dominant in grapes, that's isobutyl Methoxypyrazines  IBMP, whereas in ladybugs, it's the isopropyl Methoxypyrazines , and that's dominating. And that can be also a method of diagnostic, you know, if you're looking at a wine that smells like that, and you're not sure, where did they come from, if IBMP is the dominant one, most likely there was a lady beetle infestation there, if IPMP is the highest one, and it's just the grape and weather conditions or whatnot.   Craig Macmillan  20:51  Arectheir control measures, cultural things are their chemical things in the vineyard. And then the subsequent then moving to the next step is what what can wineries do when the grapes come in? Can they inspect the fruit?   Andreea Botezatu  21:05  Absolutely. So in the vineyard, there are some sprays that can be applied to get rid of the lady beetles. However, you have to be careful as a grape grower with pre harvest interval there. SO2 has been tested as a spray in the vineyard against a lady beetles as well and used to be very effective, which you know, it's very helpful because it's SO2 we sprayed and it was already added anyway. So that helps to have some natural products natural essential oils that have been tested, they were shown to be quite effective at repelling lady beetles. And then there's the same yo chemical, the push pull traps. So you want to have compounds that repel the lady beetles in the middle of your vineyard, and then compounds that attract the lady beetles outside of your vineyard. So it's a push pull system. That's what can be done in the vineyard. And then once grapes are harvested on the winery side, we need to make sure if we are aware that there was a lady beetle presence in the vineyard, we want to make sure we sort our grapes, very, very careful. I mean, it doesn't take much to taint the wine one lady beetle per kilogram of grapes is more than enough. So you got to be very careful when sorting to make sure we get rid of all lady beetles. And also what's important to remember is that even dead lady beetles can taint the wine. So even if you spray them kill them, if they're still coming in, they still have the potential to taint the wine. And that's one thing that's the first step that you can do as a winemaker, if still after that you have an issue with Ladybug tainting your wine, there are some things you can do. They're not extremely effective. So juice clarification has been shown to help a lot. Thermo vinification has been shown to help actually one very good method at reducing pyrazine levels in wine is Flash détente. That is very, very successful. And we have that here in Texas. And we have some wineries that use Flash détente are not necessarily for methoxy partisans for other purposes as well. But very successful at doing that. Some refinding treatments more or less successful. In my research, I looked at my plastic polymers and silicone and they worked, but you need to find a form of application to apply them industrial, you know, commercially. So right now we're not there yet.   Craig Macmillan  23:20  And these techniques were wondering would apply to both red and white wines.   Andreea Botezatu  23:24  Well, fining is more difficult with reds because of the loss of color. So it's easier with whites, but Flash détente on the other hand is better with reds than with whites. So thermo identification Flash détente would be better suited for it.   Craig Macmillan  23:38  In your experience. Do you think you're seeing an increase in Ladybug infestation? And is that possibly tied to the changes in climate?   Andreea Botezatu  23:46  Well, yes, we see a change in patterns. I don't know if necessarily an increase they seem to be moving from certain places and arriving in other places. So places that didn't used to have ladybugs have them now and then they move out certain areas. So yeah, there's a shift so people need to know about them. grape growers need to be aware of this problem and monitor their vineyards for ladybugs, you know, you don't think about it. They're cute little things and people seem to like them, oh, they're just ladybugs, but they can be quite quite detrimental, especially in particular species, which is quite easy to identify it has that M on the pronoun. So very easy to spot and to be aware of. So yes, grape growers need to keep an eye out for lady beetles in places where maybe they never used to have them before. Just something to be aware of.   Craig Macmillan  24:39  If we're talking about one particular species, is this an issue with other species in the order of Coleoptera?   Andreea Botezatu  24:47  To a much lesser extent, this one is worst one Coccinella septempunctata the seven beetle can summon spot beetle can also taint wines but we just don't see them in vineyards as much they're not as much of an issue as Harmonia.   Craig Macmillan  25:01  Interesting, we're getting close to our time here on both topics. Let's start with climate winemaking. And then let's talk about lady beetle. What is one thing that you would tell growers or winemakers regarding that topic and let's start with, with the warm wine.   Andreea Botezatu  25:17  Growers, I would advise them to choose their varieties carefully. When they initiate a vineyard when they start on the plan of vineyard and be very careful about their water treatment. To winemakers, I would say focus on pH rather than sugars focus on acidity. And also for those winemakers who look at malolactic fermentation in red as a given, I would urge them to reconsider. I personally don't see a reason why malolactic fermentation has to happen, especially if you have issues with acidity, it doesn't always benefit the wines. So and there are there are options out there to inhibit malolactic fermentation if you choose to do so there are several compounds that can help with that and help stabilize the wines from from that perspective. So I really, really encourage winemakers so at least think about that, start considering that as an option. Maybe start experimenting, you know, small amounts not necessarily go full on on not running malolactics, but start slow and see how it goes and see how that affects or changes the wine quality and wine stability.   Craig Macmillan  26:23  What about the lady beetle? What's the one thing you would tell both growers and winemakers about the lady bettle.   Andreea Botezatu  26:28  Do your best that so that it doesn't get into winery it's much easier to prevent than to fix the wines. So be very, very careful in the vineyard. Watch out for ladybugs and take them seriously if you see them.   Craig Macmillan  26:43  Action, early, early action, I think it was under chilled shift the closer to the crusher and the farther from the bottle you can fix a problem the more success you'll be. Well it looks like no farther from the crusher ahead of time. And closer to the crusher, after the crusher might be the solution. Where can people find out more about you?   Andreea Botezatu  27:04  Oh, I can share links to my Texas A&M page, my YouTube page. I have a YouTube channel where I post I have several different playlists where I post different videos related to enology wine quality, I can share with you the links to my peer reviewed papers on ladybug taint and pH management so they can find them on your website.   Craig Macmillan  27:27  That would be great. Yeah, but at least things will be on the show page. As always. Folks, I want to thank you for being on on the podcast. Our guest today was Andrea Botezatu. She's Associate Professor and extension technology specialist with Texas a&m University, Texas AgriLife service. This has been very enlightening. I think a lot of us are thinking about this, especially places that have been growing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay for a long time. A lot of people are thinking about this.   Andreea Botezatu  27:52  Well, you're welcome. And it was a pleasure being here. I just want to finish if I may with an observation that I had winemakers and grape growers from California contacting me about verjus research so they're very excited about that. I'm glad that we are getting to talk about this and maybe more people will hear about this and start thinking about about these options.   Craig Macmillan  28:15  Absolutely. Absolutely.   Transcribed by https://otter.ai Nearly Perfect Transcription by https://otter.ai

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The pre-season is now in full swing so we discuss how much we should be looking into these friendlies whilst also ranking some of the best performing players on the Thermo-meter!

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In this episode Tyler interviews Matt Cooper, a fellow Peater, Professional NBA trainer and much more. In the episode Tyler & Matt dig into the pitfalls of many of the fad diets in sport, the role of nutrition and metabolism in athleticism, and the root cause of the injury epidemic.

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In this episode of the Thermo Diet Podcast Tyler interviews UMZU product expert Matt Hayes about everything related to Nutrition, fat loss & the Thermo Diet.

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In this episode Tyler reviews fellow Peater, Kyle Mamounis. Kyle has a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from Rutgers and is currently performing biochemical research. Tyler asks Kyle: Why you don't want to be a fat burner The problems with modern research & interpretations The application of mice & animal research and much more!' Check Out Kyle's Work: ———————————— https://www.instagram.com/geniusbits/ https://www.youtube.com/@Nutricrinology Follow US On ———————————— INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thermodiet/?hl=en FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thermodiet TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@umzuhealth?lang=en ———————————— Subscribe To The Thermo Diet Podcast ———————————— Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-thermo-diet-podcast/id1483367466 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6rZgTRCKNr5SnawDPQ1WnD?si=k6vjONdrSZq817IfXiy14Q

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For the left, we have arrived at juris-thermo-geddon. If the Ruskies don't nuke us, then the Supreme Court is going to nuke the Constitution!  The Doomsday Clock at leftist institutions everywhere is striking midnight, yet somehow the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists “official” Doomsday Clock hasn’t budged, because apparently it is just a climate change clock […]

For the left, we have arrived at juris-thermo-geddon. If the Ruskies don't nuke us, then the Supreme Court is going to nuke the Constitution! The Doomsday Clock at leftist institutions everywhere is striking midnight, yet somehow the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists “official” Doomsday Clock hasn't budged, because apparently it is just a climate change clock now. Anyway, before taking up the legal... Source

For the left, we have arrived at juris-thermo-geddon. If the Ruskies don’t nuke us, then the Supreme Court is going to nuke the Constitution! The Doomsday Clock at leftist institutions everywhere is striking midnight, yet somehow the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists “official” Doomsday Clock hasn’t budged, because apparently it is just a climate change clock now. Anyway, before taking up the legal... Source