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On this week's Toppings the World Cup is happening in Boston! It's been super fun! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Five Wheels Pick Our Lunch Challenge and things got weird fast! Beard Laws, Avery, and Isla raid the fridge and let five random wheels decide every ingredient of their lunch—from the bread to the toppings to the condiments and even a Wheel of Chaos that changes everything. This week's Stay Outta My Fridge episode might feature some of the strangest sandwiches we've ever created. What happens when peanut butter lands on a bagel? What if olives somehow work on a sandwich? And could a random spin accidentally create the perfect lunch? What's In The Fridge This Week: • Random sandwich challenge and family food challenge chaos • Weird ingredient combinations and hilarious reactions • Taste test 2026 featuring sandwiches we never would have made ourselves • Snack review style ratings and surprise winners • Family food vlog moments and kid-friendly lunch ideas Stay Outta My Fridge is the show where the kids take over the kitchen. Join Beard Laws and Isla for some of the most chaotic food reviews and family challenges on the internet. Every episode is a new adventure as we raid the fridge, try new foods, and see who can survive the latest challenge. Will Beard Laws regret his sandwich? Will Isla get lucky with the wheel? Which random creation actually tastes the best? There's only one way to find out. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction to the chaotic lunch challenge 00:30 - Meet the contestants and overview of the rules 01:00 - Building the foundation: choosing bread and base ingredients 02:24 - Selecting proteins and the shock of peanut butter and chicken 03:21 - Creative toppings and imagining strange flavor combos 04:49 - The danger zone: condiments and their wild combinations 06:15 - The chaos wheel: adding surprises, swaps, and mystery ingredients 07:37 - Deciding order and starting the spinning frenzy 09:04 - First spins and ingredient reveals: bread choices and double foundation 10:04 - Second round: proteins and anticipation of weird pairings 11:46 - Toppings and unexpected flavor clashes 13:52 - The condiment chaos: hot sauce, mustard, and risky combos 15:32 - The wheel of chaos: swapping, stealing, and adding ingredients 16:29 - Spin lands: hot sauce, mustard, or no condiment? 17:45 - Final rounds and decision to keep or reroll 19:01 - The final ingredient swaps and assembling the masterpieces 20:23 - The crazy sandwiches are finally assembled 35:07 - The tasting begins: first bites of the hot dog peanut butter creation 36:19 - Rating the chaos sandwich and imagining elevating it 40:08 - The second chaotic sandwich with olives and egg 41:41 - Final scores and reactions to the bizarre creations 42:24 - Reflections on the fun, chaos, and viewer comments A proud production of the Beard Laws Network. New Stay Outta My Fridge episodes every Thursday — subscribe and join the family! #StayOuttaMyFridge #BeardLawsNetwork #FoodReview #FamilyVlog #FoodChallenge If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast app! It's the best way to help our family show reach more people.This has been The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast, your source for family comedy, snack reviews, and '90s nostalgia.Find us on social media The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast is a part of the Bleav Network. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Was ist Tantra wirklich? Was bedeutet das wahre Selbst? Und wer sind wir, wenn wir für einen Moment alles ablegen, was wir über uns gelernt, geglaubt und übernommen haben? In dieser besonderen Folge von „Weil du Liebe bist“ nehme ich dich mit in eine aufgezeichnete Gruppen Mentoring Einheit aus meiner aktuellen Tantra Hatha Yoga Ausbildung. Wir tauchen gemeinsam in eine der tiefsten Fragen des Tantra ein: Wer bin ich wirklich? Diese Folge öffnet einen Raum für Tantra als spirituellen Weg, als lebendige Philosophie und als direkte Erfahrung von Bewusstsein, Körper, Wahrheit und innerer Freiheit. Es geht um das höchste Selbst, um unser wahres Wesen und darum, was Tantra uns über Angst, Scham, Erstarrung, Lebendigkeit und innere Transformation lehren kann. Du erfährst, wonach Tantra wirklich fragt, was das Ziel von Tantra ist und warum die Frage „Wer bin ich?“ eine der magischsten und transformierendsten Fragen auf dem spirituellen Weg sein kann. Wir sprechen über den rechten und linken Pfad des Tantra, über den weißen und schwarzen Weg und darüber, wie unterschiedlich sich diese Wege im Leben zeigen können. Es geht um Bewusstheit, radikale Erfahrung, Hingabe, Beobachtung, Mut und die innere Bereitschaft, dem Leben wirklich zu begegnen. Ein weiterer Teil dieser Folge widmet sich dem Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra, einem der kraftvollsten Mantras aus der yogischen Tradition. Dieses Mantra erinnert uns an Heilung, Bewusstsein, Vergänglichkeit und an das Unsterbliche in uns. Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra Om tryambakam yajāmahe Sugandhim pusti vardhanam Urvā rukamiva bandhanān Mrityor muksīya māmrītāt Übersetzung ins Deutsche: Om tryambakam yajāmahe Om, ich rufe das Auge des Erwachens in mir, das über alle Täuschung hinausblickt. Sugandhim pusti vardhanam Möge aus diesem Blick der reine Duft meiner Seele aufsteigen, das Mitgefühl, das allem Leben innewohnt. Urvā rukamiva bandhanān Wie eine Frucht sich sanft von ihrem Stiel löst, so möge mich dieses Bewusstsein von den Fesseln meiner Begrenzung befreien. Mrityor muksīya māmrītāt Und möge ich, frei von aller Angst, das Unsterbliche in mir leben, atmen und lieben, in Erinnerung an das, was ich wirklich bin. Diese Folge ist für dich, wenn du dich für Tantra, Tantra Yoga, Yoga Philosophie, spirituelle Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, wahres Selbst, höchstes Selbst, Bewusstsein, Nervensystem, Scham, Angst, Heilung, Mantra und innere Freiheit interessierst. Sie ist auch für dich, wenn du spürst, dass du nicht mehr nur funktionieren möchtest. Wenn in dir die Sehnsucht lebt, dich tiefer zu erkennen, mutiger zu leben und dich an dein inneres Licht zu erinnern. Tantra fragt nicht nach Perfektion. Tantra fragt nach Wahrheit. Und genau dort beginnt der Weg zurück zu dir. Mehr zu meinen Retreats, Ausbildungen und Angeboten findest du hier: www.lara-schaeffer.com Wenn du dich für meine Tantra Hatha Yoga Ausbildung interessierst und spürst, dass dieser Weg dich ruft, kannst du hier ein Kennenlerngespräch buchen: LINK Hier findest du meinen LUMO Onlineshop mit ayurvedischen Knusper Gewürzen, Toppings und besonderen Genussprodukten: www.lumo-love.com Verbinde dich gern mit mir auf Instagram: @laraschaeffer.yoga Bei Fragen oder für eine Zusammenarbeit schreibe mir gern an: love@lara-schaeffer.com … weil du Liebe bist. deine Lara

Five Wheels Pick Our Lunch Challenge and things got weird fast! Beard Laws, Avery, and Isla raid the fridge and let five random wheels decide every ingredient of their lunch—from the bread to the toppings to the condiments and even a Wheel of Chaos that changes everything. This week's Stay Outta My Fridge episode might feature some of the strangest sandwiches we've ever created. What happens when peanut butter lands on a bagel? What if olives somehow work on a sandwich? And could a random spin accidentally create the perfect lunch? What's In The Fridge This Week: • Random sandwich challenge and family food challenge chaos • Weird ingredient combinations and hilarious reactions • Taste test 2026 featuring sandwiches we never would have made ourselves • Snack review style ratings and surprise winners • Family food vlog moments and kid-friendly lunch ideas Stay Outta My Fridge is the show where the kids take over the kitchen. Join Beard Laws and Isla for some of the most chaotic food reviews and family challenges on the internet. Every episode is a new adventure as we raid the fridge, try new foods, and see who can survive the latest challenge. Will Beard Laws regret his sandwich? Will Isla get lucky with the wheel? Which random creation actually tastes the best? There's only one way to find out. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction to the chaotic lunch challenge 00:30 - Meet the contestants and overview of the rules 01:00 - Building the foundation: choosing bread and base ingredients 02:24 - Selecting proteins and the shock of peanut butter and chicken 03:21 - Creative toppings and imagining strange flavor combos 04:49 - The danger zone: condiments and their wild combinations 06:15 - The chaos wheel: adding surprises, swaps, and mystery ingredients 07:37 - Deciding order and starting the spinning frenzy 09:04 - First spins and ingredient reveals: bread choices and double foundation 10:04 - Second round: proteins and anticipation of weird pairings 11:46 - Toppings and unexpected flavor clashes 13:52 - The condiment chaos: hot sauce, mustard, and risky combos 15:32 - The wheel of chaos: swapping, stealing, and adding ingredients 16:29 - Spin lands: hot sauce, mustard, or no condiment? 17:45 - Final rounds and decision to keep or reroll 19:01 - The final ingredient swaps and assembling the masterpieces 20:23 - The crazy sandwiches are finally assembled 35:07 - The tasting begins: first bites of the hot dog peanut butter creation 36:19 - Rating the chaos sandwich and imagining elevating it 40:08 - The second chaotic sandwich with olives and egg 41:41 - Final scores and reactions to the bizarre creations 42:24 - Reflections on the fun, chaos, and viewer comments A proud production of the Beard Laws Network. New Stay Outta My Fridge episodes every Thursday — subscribe and join the family! #StayOuttaMyFridge #BeardLawsNetwork #FoodReview #FamilyVlog #FoodChallenge If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast app! It's the best way to help our family show reach more people.This has been The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast, your source for family comedy, snack reviews, and '90s nostalgia.Find us on social media The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast is a part of the Bleav Network. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Pizza! Movie! Root Beer! Oh my!Today we got some Detroit-style pizza, half a gallon of A&W Root Beer on tap, and watched the best Spielberg-directed film that was actually directed by JJ Abrams. The boys are rowdy, the girl is cute, and the Giacchino swells! What's not to love?!Intro and Outro music by Stockmusic331 on Pond5Send us Fan Mail

A massive morning of celebrations! Our very own C-Bass (Caitlin Bassett) officially announced she is 22 weeks pregnant! We also dive into the HBF Run for a Reason highlights, Nat’s chaotic Cat Haven Quiz Night where people tried to squeeze entire tables into individual seats, and Mary J. Blige’s "lazy" Vegas performance that has the internet talking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This episode's Toppings is not one to miss. We travelled and went to a very eventful Jane Austen tea. Plus, Alessandra has a big announcement! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What separates a truly great bagel from mediocre bread in a ring shape? We break down the five essential elements - from hydration levels to the indispensable boiling step - plus reveal which toppings actually belong on an everything bagel.Visit https://bagelfresh.com/ BagelFresh Deli and Grill City: North Brunswick Township Address: 2222 US-130 Website: https://bagelfresh.com/

This week we went to a Japan festival and Emily's power went out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tune in for a walk down memory lane and recap the last ten weeks of podcasts with a ranking!•Patreon:patreon.com/pryorcreatesInstagram:instagram.com/icecreampodICM Google Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128RofRclIp-jHduQe-yBPRX3iQ-PBN9AKGSGgAJLTeE/edit?usp=sharing•Our theme song was sourced and licensed through Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we take the breakfast of champions (strawberries in your corn flakes) and make one minor change... Milk? Out. Ice Cream? In!•Patreon:patreon.com/pryorcreatesInstagram:instagram.com/icecreampodICM Google Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128RofRclIp-jHduQe-yBPRX3iQ-PBN9AKGSGgAJLTeE/edit?usp=sharing•Our theme song was sourced and licensed through Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kank's out today so Mysti and Producer Adam chat about interesting, out of the box, toppings people put on their popcorn. Also, a cool way America is going deeper into the Bible this week.

HOUR 2- Ally's Doctor's Visit, Klein's Yogurt Toppings and MORE full 1858 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:41:00 +0000 PUCbrlY8kGh9FmdhyIqNEOE0to1TPGxH society & culture Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast society & culture HOUR 2- Ally's Doctor's Visit, Klein's Yogurt Toppings and MORE Klein.Ally.Show on KROQ is more than just a "dynamic, irreverent morning radio show that mixes humor, pop culture, and unpredictable conversation with a heavy dose of realness." (but thanks for that quote anyway). Hosted by Klein, Ally, and a cast of weirdos (both on the team and from their audience), the show is known for its raw, offbeat style, offering a mix of sarcastic banter, candid interviews, and an unfiltered take on everything from culture to the chaos of everyday life. With a loyal, engaged fanbase and an addiction for pushing boundaries, the show delivers the perfect blend of humor and insight, all while keeping things fun, fresh, and sometimes a little bit illegal. 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Society & Culture False https://player.amperwavepodca

As spring continues to sprung, we have many plans to discuss on this week's Toppings! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I am sure you will not be surprised to learn that the couple with the ice cream podcast likes sweet things. But what if the entire flavor of ice cream was just two different types of sugar? Do Caramel Sauce and Marshmallows add enough to vanilla ice cream to make a great flavor? There's only one way to find out...•Patreon:patreon.com/pryorcreatesInstagram:instagram.com/icecreampodICM Google Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128RofRclIp-jHduQe-yBPRX3iQ-PBN9AKGSGgAJLTeE/edit?usp=sharing•Our theme song was sourced and licensed through Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In hour two, Crowder is on an adventure trying to fix his mic. The Heat are favorites to land Kawhi in the latest odds. Plus, Marlins radio voice Jack McMullen delivers some hot food takes and an update on the Marlins.

Are you feeling sad? A little... blue, perhaps? Look no further than this nutty podcast to brighten your day as we top our ice cream with Chopped Peanuts and Blueberry Sauce!•Patreon:patreon.com/pryorcreatesInstagram:instagram.com/icecreampodICM Google Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128RofRclIp-jHduQe-yBPRX3iQ-PBN9AKGSGgAJLTeE/edit?usp=sharing•Our theme song was sourced and licensed through Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spring is coming! We discuss gardens, birds and expensive stuffed animals on this week's Toppings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're going BANANAS for this flavor! You sure won't find any CHIPS on our shoulder! Listen in to see what this wild pairing can do!•Patreon:patreon.com/pryorcreatesInstagram:instagram.com/icecreampodICM Google Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128RofRclIp-jHduQe-yBPRX3iQ-PBN9AKGSGgAJLTeE/edit?usp=sharing•Our theme song was sourced and licensed through Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the source of your best writing isn't something you control — but something you learn to collaborate with? How can ancient ideas about the muse, the daimon, and creative genius transform the way you approach your work? And what might happen if you stopped fighting the silence and let it become your greatest creative ally? With Matt Cardin, author of Writing at the Wellspring. In the intro, thoughts on bookstores and Toppings; 20 ways authors can signal humanity and build reader trust [Wish I'd Known Then]; Learning from Silence – Pico Iyer; ProWritingAid spring sale; Bones of the Deep – J.F. Penn. Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital, self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Just go to www.draft2digital.com to get started. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Matt Cardin is the multi-award-nominated author of eight books at the convergence of horror, religion, and creativity. His latest book is Writing at the Wellspring: Tapping the Source of Your Inner Genius, which is fantastic. I actually blurbed it as follows: “A guide for writers who welcome the dark and hunger for meaning. . . . If the page is a threshold, this book will show you how to cross.” You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes How Matt balances a full-time academic career with his creative writing life The ancient concept of the genius, the muse, and the daimon, and why creativity is about collaboration with something beyond yourself Why the silences that come into our creative lives, including writer's block and inertia, might actually be gifts rather than obstacles The stages of the creative process Living into the dark, and embracing uncertainty How Substack and blogging can organically grow into books You can find Matt at MattCardin.com or www.livingdark.net. Transcript of the interview with Matt Cardin Joanna: Matt Cardin is the multi-award-nominated author of eight books at the convergence of horror, religion, and creativity. His latest book is Writing at the Wellspring: Tapping the Source of Your Inner Genius, which is fantastic. I actually blurbed it as follows: “A guide for writers who welcome the dark and hunger for meaning. . . . If the page is a threshold, this book will show you how to cross.” It is a great book. So welcome to the show, Matt. Matt: Well, thank you, Jo. It's really a pleasure to be here, especially since, as you and I were briefly acknowledging before we started recording, we have overlapping interests to a great degree. So it's really great to make official contact with you. Joanna: Indeed. So, first up, before we get into the book itself— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing. Matt: Well, I'm one of those people whose story is probably typical in some ways, in that I really wanted to do it from the time I was a child. My father was a great writer, although he was an attorney. He wasn't a professional writer. Something about books and reading when I was a child really seriously enchanted me. I was very frustrated when I was so young—and I vividly remember this—that I couldn't read, because I loved the books that were read to me. I craved being able to read them for myself. So as soon as I gained that ability in school, it was off to the races, so to speak, and for some reason, a desire to tell stories myself came along with that. Being a “writer” was one of the earliest life desires, job or career desires, that I expressed. I was one of those young people really into fantasy, horror, and science fiction. So I was reading a lot of it and trying to emulate it and write a lot of it. There was a cinematic component—I was a movie fanatic as well. I won a local Authors' Guild short story writing contest when I was a senior in high school and began trying to write stories seriously in college. Then my interest in horror and religion became dominant over time, and that's what I ended up writing about. Joanna: Has your interest turned into paid work? That's the other thing, because there's an interest and then there's making writing more of your income and your business. Matt: Right. Well, actually, although I have made and do make money from my writing, it has always, always, always remained on the side. My main career, as far as my moneymaking life, first started off in video and media production, which is formally what I got my undergraduate college degree in. Then I switched into education. I taught high school for some years, and then now for the past, good Lord, 18 years, I have been in higher education. First as English faculty who also taught some religion courses, and then now for the past several years in the administration. I'm Vice President of Academic Affairs at a college. My writing has been something that I pursued as an avocation. As far as earning money from it, that didn't happen even with my first publication, which happened on the internet in 1998, I believe, with a horror story titled “Teeth.” It was just free—I didn't get paid. That led to paid publication of that story three or four years later, when it appeared as my very first print publication in a Lovecraftian horror anthology from Del Rey titled The Children of Cthulhu. It appeared as the final story, and that was the first time I had received a paycheck. It was a professional per-word rate. Since then I've had several books published and more stories and essays and that kind of thing. I've had income sometimes from writing and sometimes I haven't. My first book came out of that story. I attended the World Horror Convention in 2001, actually before that Lovecraftian anthology was published, but it had been placed. At the World Horror Convention, which was in Seattle that year, I met one of the two editors of that book, and that led to me having my first short story collection, Divinations of the Deep, which was not for much money, but it attracted a lot of good attention and some good reviews. So it's been like that all along. I mean, I've made a couple of runs at saying I would love to just be an author, as it were, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards for me. And honestly, I'm glad it's not. I have made the most money from some academic editing projects that I've done. I created and edited a two-volume encyclopedia of the history of horror literature, for instance, for a big academic publisher. Those are work-for-hire projects that I get paid for. Making money on my own creative vision and my own creative work has been intermittent. It really has proven over time that not having my primary creative, spiritual, and philosophical drive hooked to what I earn my bread by has been a blessing. I don't want to take this thing I love and make it be how I have to grind to earn my money. I want to keep it in a protected space. That has been spontaneously what's happened with my writing career. Joanna: Yes. I think as you say, there are a lot of benefits of that, especially where you are writing at this convergence of horror, religion, and creativity. Your writing is very deep. I would say it's on the edge of academic. I don't want to say it's completely academic, because a lot of people will find that difficult. But I think Writing at the Wellspring goes very deep while still being open to non-academic readers. As you say, I think if you had wanted to make a living with your books, you would've had to have gone in at a lighter level, perhaps. Do you think that makes sense? Matt: Yes, I know what you mean. I want to specify, I know that neither you nor I are saying anything about this as any kind of criticism or condescension to anyone who does make their living as a writer. I mean, I believe you do. Joanna: Yes, exactly. Matt: And that's fine. There really are people who have had significant commercial success from books or other things they've written that don't appear to be making huge concessions to being commercial. You can make a living as a writer, I think, and really follow your muse and not feel like you have to pander or cater or cheapen it. Then there are people who have perfectly happily decided to commercialise their work and tune it in whatever way is currently popular. That's fine. Every writer, every creative person should do what is right for him or her, in my opinion. In my particular case, I think what you said is right. I do think that I might have needed to change some things, to back off, to word them differently. Whenever I've tried to exert deliberate control like that, it just turns out that it's not something that my creative spirit wants to do. I don't really feel like I'm in contact with the work anymore. I'm fine with that. I don't think I'm doing a sweet lemons type thing. It really is the way it just needs to be. If it ever proves that me doing it strictly the way I want to do it, going however deep I want regardless of trying to appeal to a paying readership—if it turns out that at some point aligns with boatloads of money coming in, that's fine. That's perfectly fine. I'd be open to that. Joanna: Yes. Matt: I would be open to that. Joanna: You mentioned muse there, and with Writing at the Wellspring, the subtitle is “Tapping the Source of Your Inner Genius.” So I think this is a good place to talk about it. As you mentioned, you are leaning into your muse and your inner genius, and you use other terms—daemon or daimon. I think sometimes people find the word “genius” particularly very difficult because it has the connotation of brilliance in some form. So how can people think about this? How can we lean into this [genius] side of ourselves? Matt: Honestly, one thing that I would suggest people do is I would refer them to the TED Talk that Elizabeth Gilbert gave some years ago—was it 2009, 2010, 2011? It's one of the more popular TED Talks. Elizabeth Gilbert spoke about. I think it's sometimes given the title “Your Elusive Creative Genius” or something like that. Her whole talk is about the way in her own creative life, and as she recommends to others, it has been very important for her to seize on the older model that we're talking about. The most clear articulation of it is that it used to be the case—and we're talking about in ancient Western history, back to the Romans and even earlier to the Greeks—that genius was not something that you identified a person as being. It was something that a person had. And I would also say importantly, maybe had them too. In ancient Roman culture surrounding art and poetry and that kind of thing, the genius was the spirit that might, say, live in an artist's studio and would provide the same service to that artist as the Greek muses provided to someone who was writing epic poetry or history or something like that. That understanding of it has continued in various ways down through history. But there was a fateful transition as Western culture went through what we commonly call the Enlightenment and the Renaissance as well. This was where the term “genius,” while it didn't lose all those connotations of being an inspiring spirit—something that a person both has and maybe has hold of them—did become internalised to the point where we speak of people as being geniuses., which is exactly what you're talking about. I agree, some people listening to this probably have some reservations about this. They don't want to call themselves a genius because we tend to mean that's a super brilliant person, some kind of prodigy who is possessed of amazing artistic, creative, or intellectual skills. Again, that is the result of a cultural, philosophical, psychological, historical transition that occurred several centuries ago. And you still see the older meaning of it being attached sometimes. You think of people who we call geniuses being touched by something. Well, the older version—where you think of the genius, which in the way I use it in this book and also in my first book on creativity, A Course in Demonic Creativity—the genius is equivalent to the muse, which is equivalent to that other figure that you mentioned, the daemon or the daimon. It refers to a separate—what seems for all the world to be a separate—centre of intelligence or entity or influence. The thing that gives you both your creative drive and also your ideas, and serves as the source of what comes to you naturally to write. It's more than just ideas. When you talk about the ancient Greek daimon, there was a whole well-developed tradition of that in ancient Greek philosophy and religion. A daimon was, in one famous sense, a spirit that you were born with, that the gods had given you. It was like your double, your higher self. It was the thing that represented your character, your interests, the blueprint and the outline that your life was supposed to follow. There are great books written about that. There's a book by the psychologist James Hillman titled The Soul's Code. A lot of people have read it. It lays out the daimon theory and gives it application to modern instances. The idea is that everybody has a genius or has a muse or has a daimon. For writers, my recommendation is to say, whether you believe it or not, whether you take it as a metaphor—which is fine—or whether you want to get somewhat mystical and delve into the idea that maybe there's really a spirit or something, it doesn't matter. Productively, with practical, measurable results, you can learn to relate to your creative impulse as if you are collaborating internally with someone else. It's the centre of why you're interested in writing what you want to write, why you want to write the way you want to write, and even the types of things that unfold in the course of your career—both your creative career and the rest of your life, in the mould of the ancient daimon. I have found that to be a vein of great power and meaning in my own life. I do it exactly the way I'm describing. I don't actually believe it, but I don't disbelieve it. I find that in experience, it really doesn't matter. It works and it may as well be true. Joanna: I mean, obviously the book has a whole load of ways we can tap into that, but I did like that you talk about stillness and silence, because I feel like that is actually increasingly difficult as authors. Obviously it's noisy online and we're meant to be doing things like social media or interacting with people online. And then the world is just noisy. The news is noisy. There's lots of things. How can we use this idea of stillness and silence? Also, any other ways we can practically tap into this side? Matt: Sure. One thing that wanted to say itself in this book was some things I had been thinking and feeling about silence for a long time. As you say, it can be difficult these days to find what feels like the silence that we need to even get our work done. We're talking about the muse or the genius. How can we even hear it when it seems like the clamour of all the pulls that we have on our outward attention has become truly a cacophony? We have opted for this in many ways through our engagement with social media or other things, but in other ways seems like it's been thrust upon us. What I want to point out, that has been of extreme importance to me, is that many silences come into our lives as creatives that we resist. It's not just that we can't find the silence and the space that we feel like we need so as not to drown out our creativity. It's that we have unwanted silences come in, like writer's block. Or even if it doesn't feel like a block, just inertia. Just stasis. I don't know about you, but I have many, many times found myself grappling with what, for all the world, feels like a totally natural, organic sense of wanting to slip into complete inertia, just total stillness. And that feels like it has been in conflict with my creative drive. It's like I have this residual desire and also a sense of duty that I really should be writing. Maybe I have an idea in mind and I'm just not working on it. Or maybe I'm in the middle of a project and I feel like I'm abandoning it. Or maybe nothing's coming up, but I feel like it should be. I'm pushing myself, but there's a division in me where I also just want to leave it alone. Whether that means actually just sitting there silently at my writing table or in meditation, or maybe just going about regular daily life and forgetting about trying to fulfil this creative calling. I really think there's a vein of gold to be tapped in the silences that come to all of us. Because as I said, that can be in the middle of daily activity. We have this kind of franticness, some of us, about our creativity. We get wrapped up in it. We feel bound to it. The thing that so much of the time we want to think is a gift—we're proud of it, we cherish it, we like our writing—also becomes a burden. This fantasy of just chucking it all, of just saying, “I would love to be free of it. It's like something that's weighing me down. I'm sorry that I roped myself into it. I would love to just sink into complete silence.” This sort of meditative thing, or just muteness—hey, that is valid to hear. That's valid to heed when it comes up. I mean, sometimes we have gotten ourselves into situations where we have external responsibilities and deadlines, and it's important to try and honour those and not be a bad person on the level of just fulfilling practical obligations. It's also important to recognise you've got silence offering itself to you in all kinds of ways. The more important silence is paradoxically the one that we so often resist if we're creative people and feel like we have to be making. The more important silence is not whether or not your outward conditions seem like they're a clamour and they're chaotic and they're distracting and they're full of pressure. It's that inner silence. So I recommend paying attention to when it comes up. And for practical ways—they are endless. Take advantage of early mornings. A lot of people have found great value in getting up earlier than they are used to and making a practice of that, and either just meditating or free writing. Maybe using, for example, Julia Cameron's famous practice of morning pages, which has been valuable to me sometimes. Or doing things like—as I've said about the muse and the genius and the daimon—personify your unconscious mind and maybe write down a dialogue between yourself and your creative spirit, whether about your current project or just about your life and your creativity as a whole. There are various tricks to get in touch with this unconscious part of you, and I really am convinced out of practical personal experience that it's not necessary to have outer silence and outer spaciousness when you can find it within yourself. You can find it through some of these exercises for getting in alignment with what your creativity wants to do. You can get in touch with it if you're paying attention to what you might not recognise as a gift—offering it to yourself. If things go quiet and you think, “Oh no, I should be doing something”—why not let that be a place where things can germinate? Why not let that be the silence that you might not be able to find on the outside? Joanna: Yes, and I'm feeling guilty here because of course we are producing a podcast episode for people to listen to. I find personally that one of the places I can find silence is when I walk. It's not obviously silent outside, but I am definitely guilty of always listening to podcasts, often at very fast speed as well. Sometimes when I go for a walk, I just deliberately do not listen to anything—don't listen to an audiobook, don't listen to a podcast—and a lot comes up there. I have my phone with me, and when I get back from those walks and jot down things that come up in my mind, I will have so many notes of things that have come up in my brain during the walk. It's really difficult, isn't it? Because I know you also love input. You do a lot of research. As I said, your books have a lot of research in them, and so we both like doing the research. But also I definitely find that has to be balanced with the time for letting it come out again in some form, with that mental silence. You also talk about being uncomfortable, and I feel like sometimes that silence can be uncomfortable as well. Matt: Yes, it can be. There's no telling what might come up when you are faced with silence. Again, it's one of those things—even the outer kind that we think we crave. Sometimes it's a bit frightening when it comes up, which is why we try to fill it with things, like this podcast episode for example. There's a threshold that you can notice you cross sometimes, where what was a natural desire to connect with something that you heard about and found interesting becomes a bit frantic. Where now, really, what might be good is if you shut off—didn't go for the next podcast episode or didn't go for the next click to the website—if you just shut the browser and just sat there and did something else. You're kind of, with a little desperateness, trying to fill the void. What you described about needing to get quiet and let things happen—yes. I love reading and research, but the classic stages of the creative process—first codified, I think, by Graham Wallas, if I remember correctly—they still work. It's really good sometimes to have a model and understand how it works. You have what's sometimes called the preparation stage. All the input, all the research, all the brainstorming, all that kind of thing. Then the incubation stage can be vastly important. That can get frightening, both because the silence seems somehow threatening, like something about you is going to be exposed. Or maybe that you're going to lose the thread of whatever it was and it's never going to come out. But really, if you just stop and let your muse, let your genius do its thing, let your unconscious do its thing, it will suggest itself again. It will come up on its own. Ideas will come back. You'll realise, “Oh, I didn't know what I was going to do with that character. I didn't know how these ideas were going to come together. I didn't even know what this idea for a story, a book, or an essay was going to be.” It comes back up, and with you working with it, it shows what it wanted to be all along. This whole thing about doing the preparation and then allowing it to incubate and germinate and then sprout when it wants to, that still works. Part of the reason that we're scared of the silence, I'm convinced, is because each of us operates in our psychological selves as a closed system. It's like we each comprise our own cosmos, so to speak. I know you know that I have worked in horror literature, the literature of cosmic fear. In cosmic horror, as laid out by the likes of Lovecraft and others, the basic effect has been analysed as constituting a disturbance of the universe. That's the horror of cosmic horror—the world is transformed into this nightmarish thing in a cosmic horror story, where there's a haunting, threatening presence that's out of the ordinary and it's somehow bound up with the narrator's interior world. Life reveals itself as supernaturally or ontologically something nightmarish—there are awful forces that are about to erupt all the time. And whether anybody's into cosmic horror or not, I think it's pretty accurate to say that we each constitute our own world, our own cosmos. A lot of the noise that we make—the mental noise and the complications we introduce into our own lives—is, usually unconsciously, trying to stave off confrontation with the otherness that is outside the barrier of our personal sense of self. The weird thing is that that otherness is actually in us, and in fact, we can approach it in the figure of the daemon or the daimon or the muse. So creativity is fraught. You're dealing with something that you might want to think, “Oh, this is great, it's going to be the source of my ideas, it's going to fulfil my creativity.” Well, yes, but it is frightening to think about the fact of something about yourself being beyond yourself and perhaps being out of your conscious control and somehow guiding your destiny. A lot of people have trouble getting along with their own unconscious, which is another way to put it. There's a horror, a fear, a dread effect that comes when we feel like we are out of control. We all face that ultimately—when it comes to our death, for example. There are some spiritual traditions that talk about dying before you die, that being basically the way to enlightenment in those traditions. Recognising and coming to terms with the fact that this thing that is you, that you call yourself, is transitory. It is only there by being enclosed within and swamped from without by this thing that is not you, which is a sort of void to which you'll return. In the book, I deal with some of that, and I talk about it from a non-dual spiritual viewpoint, because ultimately for me, these creative questions have become inseparable from spiritual questions. Joanna: Yes. And obviously people know about my book Writing the Shadow, which is how we really connected around this Jungian idea of the shadow and the darkness. I agree with you—there's some really interesting things at the juxtaposition of all of these topics, which we could talk about for a long time. I do want to ask you around your idea of “living into the dark.” Because I feel like you do take things beyond just the writing into this idea of living into it. So maybe talk a bit about that. And obviously synchronicity, which is a Jungian psychology concept. Matt: Living into the dark is the thing that forms the overarching ethos or perspective for me of all this. I got the term from “writing into the dark,” which actually comes from the American science fiction and fantasy author Dean Wesley Smith. He wrote a book titled Writing Into the Dark, subtitled “Writing Without an Outline.” It's a great book. I recommend it to anyone. It is about forsaking and foregoing the felt need to outline writing in advance and trusting your creative mind to be able to make up a story in real time. That draws on the deep nature of storytelling to come out right. Therefore you write into the dark, as if you're walking down a road where you have a lantern and you can only see one step ahead. You haven't mapped out the territory. It was a great metaphor. I had already been thinking in that direction about life and about creativity for some time when I first came across that book. I devoured it and recognised it described how I had already been writing anyway, which is one reason it was so powerful for me. Then it edged out into a broader understanding for me that I had also been coming up with, that I just ended up calling “living into the dark.” None of us knows where anything is going, that much is obvious. But living into the dark goes farther than that, to embrace this understanding. I think of this in connection with what so many people, either personally or because of jobs they have where they're required to think like this. I think of this in terms of the famous five-year plan that so many of us want to draw up. There's nothing wrong with a five-year plan or a ten-year plan or a one-year plan. You can come up with that for practical purposes and try and chart where you're going, but we too often forget that that's just a fantasy exercise. We are not actually thinking into the future, nor are we ever actually thinking into the past. Remembering the past, predicting or projecting the future—both are events that are happening right now, in this moment, which is always now. It's no less now than it was when you and I first started this conversation. Past and future are projections—mental projections right now. And everything is unfolding in the present in real time, which effectively means what's going to come next is coming out of—well, we don't know where it's coming out of. Darkness. Living into the dark is living with full-on contact with, and awareness of, and embrace of this fact that we don't know what's coming up. That encompasses all of life and all of creativity. That same darkness, if it's helpful for you to take on this emotional tenor—which it is for me—can relate to the darkness in cosmic horror fiction, or to some of the rich traditions of darkness, like in Daoism with the yin contrasted with yang. Yin is the dark, moon, feminine aspect of things—the receptive source of the universe. This idea of living into the dark, of just accepting that we're all on this journey on a path where we can only see one step ahead, even if that far, has been meaningful to me. It's been meaningful to my creativity, and I recommend it to anybody to whom it appeals. It takes a lot of pressure off. I think that's a guiding meta-theme for me—trying to take the pressure off us from trying to control things that can't be controlled, and more stepping into that flow of understanding: what's going to come to me is going to come to me, and my posture toward it, whether I align with it or not, is what's going to determine my experience of it. You mentioned synchronicity. It's interesting. It's verifiable. I know a lot of people have verified it for themselves. Maybe some people listening to this have too. It's verifiable that when you really get in tune with this present-moment thing and get in tune with your creativity—and you can tell when you're aligned and not, when you feel blocked or when you feel resistance or not—when these things align on their own sometimes, strange coincidences do happen. Jung talked about synchronicity as an acausal connecting principle. That was probably due to the fact that the psyche is not separate from the fabric of the world that gives rise to it, so that we might have subjective things—impressions, fantasies, dreams—that we rather uncannily see mirrored in objective events. Like the famous thing that clarified and coalesced that for him: a psychotherapy session with a patient who was describing a dream she'd been having about a scarab beetle. Then he heard a tapping at the window of his office and he went there and opened it, and there was a European beetle—a kind of scarab beetle, much like the Egyptian scarab—that was there. He held it up and said to the woman, “Is this your beetle? Here is your beetle.” It just blew her mind. It opened new levels of the therapy that she was receiving. Those kinds of things happen. I've had them happen. Joanna: Me too. Matt: If you're a long-time writer or reader, you're familiar with the library genie—the library daemon, we sometimes refer to it as—the book that, just at the moment you think of it and realise, “Oh yes…” You're doing your study, and it doesn't have to be a library, it could be on the web or whatever. You finally realise what it is that you need, what you've been looking for, and in some cases it literally falls off the shelf onto someone's head. What do you make of those when they happen? At the very least, it rattles your cage. You might enter a state of suspended judgement about whether we really are living in a kind of magical cosmos full of real correspondences. It's a bit like the daimon or the muse: is it a metaphor? Is it just an interpretation, or is it something real? Probably the best place is one of profoundly, actively embraced agnosticism, and just take it for what it is. Joanna: Yes, and leaning more into your intuition. I think you definitely demonstrate that in the book as well, really exploring a lot of very interesting topics. Now, we are almost out of time, but you do have a Substack, The Living Dark, where you publish essays, and you've also got all kinds of really interesting books. I want people to go have a look at some of the other stuff you've written, especially if you enjoy horror and religion and all of that kind of thing. So just to ask, how do you decide when something is an essay on The Living Dark, and how do you decide when you are going to put it in a book or in some other way? I feel like a lot of authors are thinking about Substack but don't necessarily know what to put on it. I think I first connected with you on your Substack, where I was like, “Oh, this guy's writing interesting, weird stuff.” How do you use Substack as opposed to writing for your books? Matt: Sure. Let me answer by first talking about what happened previously with that first book on creativity that I mentioned, A Course in Demonic Creativity. I had all kinds of thoughts and ideas coming up, seeded over many years of practice and reading about the daimon and the daemon and the genius and the muse. In 2009 I founded a blog—it was just a WordPress blog—and I titled it Daemon Muse. I attended to it for two to three years. A lot of people ended up reading it. I really did not have any plans, not even any back-burner plans, of taking the material that I published in posts there about this way of creativity and making it a book. I did realise about a year and a half in that essentially I had a book I had already written in those posts. So it took some work, and I spent six months making it all into a coherent book. By the way, that book was only ever published as a PDF, which is still free on my website, MattCardin.com—although plans for the first-ever print edition of it are in motion right now. That was published in 2011. When I went to Substack and started my newsletter there in 2022—and by the way, it wasn't originally called The Living Dark; my first title was “Living Into the Dark,” and then I changed it about a year, year and a half in—I kind of am doing the same thing. It's been a while since I took anything and thought, “I'm writing a book with it.” I write what comes to me to write. You know how Substack Notes is Substack's own version of social media, kind of like Twitter used to be or like X kind of is now. It happens all the time that I write things that just stay in contact with people as a Substack Note—some short thing. And then I realise I wanted to say more about that. Or you have what happened just this morning. Three or four hours before you and I were talking, I started writing a Substack Note and it got so long I realised I had something that could be a post to The Living Dark. So I switched over and finished it that way. The book Writing at the Wellspring came together after I had written things for a couple of years at The Living Dark and realised that I could trace a path through about a third of the posts that I had ever published there, and had the makings of a book. So that, plus other material from earlier in my life—there are things from my private journals from years ago in Writing at the Wellspring—plus some new material, ended up turning into that book. So I'm not thinking about the difference, is what I'm saying. I find writing at my Living Dark newsletter to be a needful and enjoyable creative outlet, partly because I have some 3,800 readers now and it feels good to be in contact with them and to have that audience and to know that there's that eye on what I'm writing. That's partly because I just have the freedom to work it out to my satisfaction and publish it there. I'm already halfway forming another book that will be of a different focus, to come from things that I have published there. So for me, there's an organic relationship between Substack writing, or any kind of blogging, and the writing of books. If people haven't thought about that, they might want to consider it. If you have one already or if you're thinking of starting a blog on Substack or anywhere else, maybe you have things that can guide you to a book that already exists and you just haven't realised it. Joanna: So where can people find you and your books and everything you do online? Matt: Well, The Living Dark that we're talking about is at www.livingdark.net—and it does require the three Ws at the beginning to get there. Then my author website is MattCardin.com, and you can go to the books page there to get a link to all the books I've published and read about them. Joanna: Great. Well, thanks so much for your time, Matt. That was fantastic. Matt: Thank you, Jo. I really appreciate the invitation.The post Writing At The Wellspring: Tapping The Source Of Your Inner Genius With Matt Cardin first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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Today, I'm especially honored to welcome Ted Rich, Chief Growth Officer for Rich Products, a family-owned food company with annual sales of over $6B and a market-leader in a number of food categories, including cakes, icings, pizza, appetizers, and specialty toppings. In this position, Ted leads company­wide demand-creation strategies to accelerate growth and expansion in priority markets and segments across the globe. He is also a member of Rich's Executive Team and Board of Directors where he serves on the Finance and Audit Committee. In 2020, Ted established the Rich Family Council for the family-owned business where he serves as the council head. Since joining Rich's in 1995, Ted has held various associate and customer-facing roles, including Executive Vice President of Organizational Excellence, Senior Vice President of Customer Experience and Europe/Middle East region leader, Regional Sales Manager of Foodservice; Strategic Sourcing Leader of Procurement; and Vice President of Toppings and Icings in North America, to name just a few. Before joining Rich's, Ted worked for the Seattle Supersonics NBA team as a sales manager and also held positions with North West Parent Publishing in Seattle and Travers-Schutte & Company Advertising in Buffalo, NY. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Education Policy Committee on the Culinary Institute of America's Board of Directors and supports the Institute's mission to provide the world's best professional culinary education. Ted and his family are family office members of FOX, and we are thrilled to have them as valued members of our FOX community. We start with the amazing journey of the Rich family and the iconic company Ted's family has now owned and operated for 80 years. Ted shares the story and path of the family business and the broader family enterprise over the past 8 decades. Governance is an evergreen topic among family enterprises and family offices, and certainly a frequent topic for families and advisors within the FOX community. Ted talks about his family's governance evolution, highlighting when formal governance became a necessity and how the family went about establishing these structures, both for the business and for the broader family enterprise. One practical tool Ted recommends to fellow families and their multigenerational enterprises is planning forward. He describes the multi-year planning process and discipline his family has employed throughout their shared journey and outlines some of the specific steps, methods, and tools they have relied on to always have a long-term, forward-looking view of where the family enterprise is going. The Rich family leadership has embraced the principle of inclusivity. Ted talks about how they have operationalized this belief in inclusivity and describes the various processes and structures that have been instrumental to bringing more family members into the journey and ensuring strong engagement with the rising generations. Do not miss this exclusive and highly educational conversation with a distinguished family principal and leader of one of the most storied and successful family enterprises in America.

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 Should Roz finally shave his beard? Would the entire Roz & Mocha “radio family” ever take a massive group vacation together? Listeners also dig into Mocha's childhood tricycle crash (and whether he kept the infamous wood he smashed into), debate the best waffle toppings, and face the impossible choice: fingers as long as legs, or legs as long as fingers? Plus—if a crime needed solving, who on the show would make the ultimate partner? And did Mocha's mom and Shem's mom ever actually meet? All that and more in another unhinged, hilarious episode you don't want to miss.

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Oreos very well may be the best ice cream topping to ever exist. Look no further than the fact than the concept of Cookies n' Cream! Dark Chocolate Orange slices however... that's a new one! Tune in to see if it works!•Patreon:patreon.com/pryorcreatesInstagram:instagram.com/icecreampodICM Google Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128RofRclIp-jHduQe-yBPRX3iQ-PBN9AKGSGgAJLTeE/edit?usp=sharing•Our theme song was sourced and licensed through Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're trying York Patties (our favorite candy), in combination with our favorite thing (ice cream). Throw in some Waffle Cone pieces and you've got yourself a really interesting flavor!•Patreon:patreon.com/pryorcreatesInstagram:instagram.com/icecreampodICM Google Sheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128RofRclIp-jHduQe-yBPRX3iQ-PBN9AKGSGgAJLTeE/edit?usp=sharing•Our theme song was sourced and licensed through Epidemic Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the past couple of generations, there's been a lot of talk about finding one's passion. Many people find themselves dissatisfied with their work because it doesn't feel passionate enough. This begs the question, should our choice of vocation be fueled by practicality, passion, or calling? What even is a calling? And do we all have one? In today's conversation, we'll endeavor to define the differences between what lights a person up and what provides a deeper service. We'll explore one's moral obligation, if any, to share the gifts they were divinely given. What were you uniquely designed to do?What am I reading?Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Haradahttps://bookshop.org/a/111301/9780369774026Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmerhttps://bookshop.org/a/111301/9781394235100https://bookshop.org/shop/witchywomanwalkingWhat's playing on repeat?Delete Ya by DjoWhat's for dinner? Spicy Canned Salmon Rice BowlIngredients:For the  Rice:1 cup uncooked Jasmine rice (or Basmati rice1 ½ cups waterPinch of saltFor the Spicy Salmon:2 cans high-quality canned salmon, drained 3 tablespoons Japanese mayonnaise (like Kewpie, or regular mayonnaise)1-2 tablespoons Sriracha 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 teaspoon rice vinegar1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil½ teaspoon grated fresh ginger1 clove garlic, mincedFor the Bowl Assembly & Toppings:1 small cucumber, thinly sliced or diced1 medium carrot, julienned or grated½ cup shelled edamame, cooked (frozen works great)2 scallions, thinly sliced1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds½ avocado, sliced Nori seaweed snacks, crumbledInstructions: Rinse the rice thoroughly. Cook according to instructions. While the rice is cooking, prepare the salmon. Open and thoroughly drain. Flake the drained salmon with a fork. Add the Japanese mayonnaise, Sriracha, soy sauce,  rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, grated ginger, and minced garlic.Gently mix all the ingredients together until the salmon is well-coated and everything is combined.Prep veggies for topping. Build your bowls. Enjoy! Vegan Strawberry Shortcake BitesIngredients:½ cup cashew butter⅓ cup maple syrup⅛ teaspoon salt1 ½ cups almond flour2 tablespoons coconut flour¼ cup crushed freeze dried strawberriesInstructionsIn a medium bowl combine the cashew butter, maple syrup, and salt. Stir well. Add in the almond flour and coconut flour and stir until dough is formed. Stir in the crushed strawberries until well combined. Scoop into 1 inch balls and roll between palms to make smooth. Place in a glass container. makes 16-18 balls. Support the show

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主播：Emma（中国）+ Selah（美国） 音乐：Fly最近，蜜雪冰城（Mixue）正式进军美国市场，而让它火上热搜的，竟然是在国内从未见过的新奇设置——最高可达200%的甜度选项。今天我们就来聊一聊饮品点单的英文秘籍。01. Sweetness 甜度蜜雪冰城（Mixue）在美国市场设置了200%的甜度（200% sweetness），这对于国内习惯常规甜度的消费者来说，听起来可能有些吃惊（sounds a bit shocking）。美国主播Selah也表示：“Two hundred percent sweetness sounds intense.” ·Intense：表示味道非常强烈、很有冲击感。从网友们分享来看，除了国内的低糖度之外，海外蜜雪冰城的甜度还设置了以下几档：（1）100% sweetness 全糖（2）150% sweetness 150%甜度（3）200% sweetness 200%甜度在国内点单，我们习惯说“全糖”、“七分糖”、“半糖”等等。但在国外，表达更偏向主观感受，而非精确数字。甜度点单地道表达（natural expressions）：① 200%甜度：200% sugar或extra, extra sweet (超级甜)That's basically the sweetest option (最甜的选项).② 150%甜度：extra sweet (较甜)③ 全糖（100%甜度）：regular sweet (正常甜度)④ 七分糖：less sweet (少甜)⑤ 少糖：a little sweet (一点点甜)02. Ice Levels 冰量除了甜度之外，奶茶里面还可以加冰，不同的冰量可以这样表示：（1）Extra ice：加冰（2）Less ice：少冰（3）No ice：不加冰（4）Room temperature：常温字面意思是“室内温度”，很形象的表达。（5）Hot：热的在国外点单时，店员通常会依次询问：What size would you like? Sweetness? Ice level?您要什么杯型？甜度？冰量？03. Size and Toppings 杯型与小料杯型上，国外同样分small cups（小杯）、medium cups（中杯）和large cups（大杯）。主播Emma之前看过一个特别好玩的短视频：客人要打包带走小杯，但是服务员说没有小杯，只有中杯、大杯和超大杯（extra large cups），国外在部分的门店也有同样的说法。而且，星巴克中的“超大杯”有特定的说法：Trenta。如果想打包带走，只需要说：“Can I have it to go (我能打包带走吗)?”奶茶里的小料统称为toppings，这个词在点披萨时也很常用。如果你想添加某种小料，可以对服务员说：“Can you add… to it (能加点……吗)?”04. Milk Tea & Coffee 奶茶&咖啡主播Selah最喜欢的是：Bubble Milk Tea（珍珠奶茶，也可以说Pearl Milk Tea）。主播Emma最喜欢的是果茶（fruit tea）。国外比较常见的奶茶种类还有：（1）Brown Sugar Boba Milk 黑糖珍珠奶茶（2）Matcha Milk Tea 抹茶奶茶在多数西方国家，咖啡仍然是更主流的饮品（most popular drink）。常见的有：（1）Americano 美式咖啡（2）Latte 拿铁（3）Cappuccino 卡布奇诺（4）Cold brew 冷萃咖啡Cold brew用冷水长时间浸泡萃取（brewed with cold water），口感更顺滑（smoother），苦味较轻（less bitter）。如果想调整口味，可以用到以下内容：（1）With sugar 加糖（2）With milk 加奶（3）With extra milk 多加奶（4）With sugar and milk 糖奶都要（5）No sugar, no milk 什么都不加��If you had the chance to try a bubble tea with 200% sweetness, would you do it?主播Emma：She will give it a try. But she will probably only try this once (只尝试一次). 主播Selah：She would go with a friend, and they could split it (平分). That way, if it's not that good, they don't have to drink very much.欢迎大家在评论区留言分享：If you had the chance to try a bubble tea with 200% sweetness, would you do it?如果有机会点200%甜度的珍珠奶茶，你会试试吗？

Another Toppings recapping the holidays and our trip to Portland for Emily's birthday! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on Beating Cancer Daily, Saranne is joined by nutrition and wellness pro Jacqui Bryan for a lively (and often hilarious) chat about the real deal with chia seeds. After reminiscing about those classic 1970s Chia Pet commercials, they answer the burning question: are chia pets and chia seeds in your pudding the same thing, and can you actually eat them? (Short answer: don't eat your Chia Pet!) Jacqui breaks down why chia seeds have become so trendy, their ancient superfood roots, and how they can boost your health, especially if you're living with or recovering from cancer.Jacqui Bryan brings a wealth of knowledge as a certified nutrition specialist, health coach, RN, and functional medicine expert. Her passion is helping people feel their best using real, tasty foods and practical tips that actually fit real life. Jacqui's advice isn't just about nutrition science; she and Saranne always make it approachable and fun.“It has a lot of staying power because chia seeds have protein, fat and fiber in them, which helps with blood sugar balance.” ~Jacqui BryanToday on Beating Cancer Daily:·     Chia seeds should not be eaten from Chia Pets, as those seeds are chemically treated and not intended for consumption. ·     Chia seeds are rich in antioxidants like quercetin and chlorogenic acid, promoting heart and liver health. ·     Chia seeds contain anti-cancer properties that make them valuable in a cancer-fighting diet. ·     They are an excellent source of soluble fiber, aiding detoxification and supporting weight management. ·     Chia seeds are rich in plant-based omega-3 fatty acids, beneficial for gut health, and essential for the body. ·     These tiny seeds support blood sugar regulation and provide lasting energy due to their protein, fat, and fiber content. ·     Chia pudding is an easy, adaptable way to incorporate chia seeds into the diet; using the correct proportions and giving the mixture enough time to set overnight prevents clumping and unpleasant textures. ·     Toppings like berries, nuts, coconut flakes, and nut butters can enhance both the nutrition and enjoyment of chia pudding.Guest Contact Information: Website: https://jacquibryan.com  2025 People's Choice Podcast Awards Best Health Series FinalistRanked the Top 5 Best Cancer Podcasts by CancerCare News in 2024 & 2025,and #1 Rated Cancer Survivor Podcast by FeedSpot in 2024 to 2025. Beating Cancer Daily is listened to in 140 countries across 7 continents and features over 400 original daily episodes hosted by Stage IV survivor Saranne Rothberg. To learn more about Host Saranne Rothberg and The ComedyCures Foundation:https://www.comedycures.org/ To write to Saranne or a guest:https://www.comedycures.org/contact-8 To record a message to Saranne or a guest:https://www.speakpipe.com/BCD_Comments_Suggestions To sign up for the free Health Builder Series live on Zoom with Saranne and Jacqui, go to The ComedyCures Foundation's homepage:https://www.comedycures.org/ Please support the creation of more original episodes of Beating Cancer Daily and other free ComedyCures Foundation programs with a tax-deductible contribution:http://bit.ly/ComedyCuresDonate THANK YOU! Please tell a friend we may help and support us with a beautiful review. Have a blessed day! Saranne

On this week's toppings we are gearing up for Christmas while in several states. We discuss our Heated Rivalry torment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with cookbook author Adeena Sussman. In this conversation with the bestselling author of "Sababa" and "Shabbat," Sussman discusses the intersection of cooking, culture, and personal experiences as she continues melding her American Jewish background with her current Israeli life in her recipes. She reviews aspects of her latest cookbook, "Zariz," which emphasizes quick, easy recipes with shorter lists of ingredients, and how working on it during the war offered a therapeutic outlet during troubling times. Sussman talks about her various Hanukkah recipes, tips for frying potato pancakes and sufganiyot, and how to streamline the latke-making and doughnut frying processes, if one decides to make their own. Adeena Sussman's Sheet Pan Latke BoardFor the latkes: 1½ - 1¾ lbs skin-on Russet potatoes, scrubbed (depending on your sheet pan size)1 med-large onion, peeled2 eggs2 tsps kosher salt, plus more to taste½ tsp freshly cracked black pepper3-4 tablespoons potato starch, cornstarch or flour¼ - ⅓ cup olive oil Toppings ideas: Gravlax, sour cream, dill, lemon zest, capersSour cream + fish eggs + green onionAvocado + chili crispHorseradish sour cream + quail eggPear GorgonzolaPomme persimmonLabaneh + jamApple butter InstructionsArrange a rack in the center of the oven. Preheat to 450°F. Grate the potatoes and onions on the large holes of a box grater into a large bowl. Using both hands, squeeze out and discard as much of the liquid from the potatoes as possible; transfer them to a second bowl. Add the oil to a quarter-sheet pan (or 9 x 13 inch glass metal baking dish); place in the oven and heat until the oil is very hot but not smoking, 7 to 8 minutes. During the last two minutes of the oil heating, stir the eggs, salt, pepper, and potato starch into the potato-onion mixture. Carefully remove the sheet pan from the oven. Quickly pour and spread the latke batter across the pan; tip and spoon any excess oil over the top. Bake until deep golden brown and crisp, 23 to 25 minutes (or longer as needed). Cut into squares and top with the toppings of your choice. What Matters Now podcasts are available for download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. IMAGE: Cookbook author Adeena Sussman with her latest, 'Zariz,' in December 2025. (Courtesy)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We managed to pack a lot of fun things into our last two weeks! We had Thanksgiving, a winter market, and we went to see the Newport mansions! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk about an unexpected trip on this week's Toppings! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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