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Jonathan Tropper has built his career around characters who walk the thin line between flawed humanity and outright chaos, whether in the pulpy B-movie action thrills of "Banshee," the martial arts drama "Warrior," or the family dysfunction of "This Is Where I Leave You." Now, with his latest Apple TV+ series, "Your Friends & Neighbors," Tropper heads to wealthy suburbia, exploring scandal, betrayal, and the hidden dangers lurking behind the facade of a seemingly perfect community. On the Bingeworthy podcast, Tropper joined host Mike DeAngelo to discuss his darkly comedic drama, collaborating with Jon Hamm, the show's thematic ties to classic suburban films, and even his upcoming "Star Wars" project with director Shawn Levy."Your Friends & Neighbors" follows Andrew "Coop" Cooper (Jon Hamm), a hedge fund manager recently disgraced and fired, whose life unravels further after his divorce. Desperate to maintain his lifestyle, Coop turns to robbing the homes of his wealthy neighbors in the affluent Westmont Village—only to discover that the secrets hidden behind these upscale doors may be far more dangerous than he anticipated. The ensemble cast also includes Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, and more.
Bei ihr hat man das Gefühl, es gibt sie 3x! Anna Tropper ist eine junge, freischaffende Künstlerin und ihr Hunger nach allem, was man als Musikerin ausprobieren kann, scheint unstillbar. Ihr Herzensprojekt hat sie aber jetzt in der Volksmusik gefunden. Mit zwei Kollegen hat sie die Gruppe “Gschreams” gegründet. Das Besondere, neben vielen eigenkomponierten Stücken gibt es auch Kabarett in ihrem Programm. Oder “Schabernack” wie es Anna nennt. Ein sehr fröhlicher und energiegeladener Podcast. Jetzt in Servus Musilosn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Krigen i Ukraine har nu varet i tre år, og i den forbindelse har Altingets chefredaktør, Jakob Nielsen, talt med den daværende ukrainske forsvarsminister Ukraine, Oleksii Reznikov, til en debat på Københavns Universitet om krigens fremtid. I dagens udgave af Altinget Ajour bringer vi et sammenklip af samtalen med Oleksii Reznikov, der blandt andet fortæller om de dramatiske timer, da russiske tropper krydsede grænsen til Ukraine, giver en status på krigen lige nu og deler sine tanker om, hvad fremtiden kan bringe. Samtalen foregår på engelsk.Vært: Jakob Nielsen, chefredaktør på AltingetGæst: Oleksii Reznikov, tidligere forsvarsminister i Ukraine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hvis Putin og Trump forhandler en fredsaftale på plads, der indebærer, at der skal indsættes måske op mod 100.000 europæiske fredsbevarende styrker i Ukraine, skal Danmark så tilbyde at være med? Sverige og Storbritannien har sagt, at de er villige til at gøre det. Hvordan skal Mette Fredriksen i det hele taget placere Danmark i den helt nye sikkerhedspolitiske situation, der hersker nu, efter at USA har gjort det meget tydeligt, at Europa ikke længere kan regne amerikanerne som trofast allieret? I nat skal vi høre din mening, om hvad hvordan vores lille land skal gebærde sig i den nye verden. Lyt med!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of "Building Digital Products," host Khrystyna Klimash interviews Elisha Tropper, a business strategist and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. As Principal and CEO of JAG Capital Holdings and Cambridge Security Seals, Elisha shares valuable insights on creating competitive digital strategies, balancing long-term vision with market agility, and validating digital product ideas before full-scale development. Elisha Tropper - / etropper JAG Capital Holdings - / jag-capital-holdings 00:17 Introduction 01:00 Essential Components of Digital Strategies 01:45 Balancing Long-term Vision with Agility 03:13 Validating Product Ideas 04:55 Optimal Pricing Strategies 06:22 Scaling During Growth 08:22 Global Product Expansion 10:05 Building High-Performing Teams 11:58 Mergers and Acquisitions 14:00 Flash Questions Join us for practical insights that can elevate your digital products and business strategies. Don't forget to like and subscribe for more expert advice! Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: / linkupst Twitter: / linkupst LinkedIn: / mycompany Instagram: / linkupst Visit Us! https://linkupst.com/ Contact Us: info@linkupst.com
On this episode of Talking Away The Taboo, Aliza Tropper, LMHC, joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about... -the emotions that come up during the quest to build a family -the guilt, shame, sadness, anxiety, inadequacy, etc., and how they manifest -suggestions on how to make these deep feelings more manageable, like self-soothing, mini-breaks, reaching out for support and even medication if things become too overwhelming This line really stuck with me- “if you don't grieve, you spend the rest of your life grieving.” We all need to take the time and space to feel all the feelings, but make sure you are taking care of yourself in the process too! More about Aliza: Aliza Tropper, LMHC, is a Licensed Psychotherapist with over 12 years of experience. Based in Cedarhurst, NY, her practice specializes in helping adolescents and adults navigate anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and trauma. Aliza takes a holistic approach, incorporating techniques like EMDR, Sensorimotor (somatic) psychotherapy, CBT, and DBT to facilitate long-lasting transformation in alignment with personal values. Aliza's practice also runs DBT groups for both adolescents and adults and offers online therapy in NY, NJ and Florida. Connect with Aliza: -Take a look at her website -Check out her women's DBT groups -Follow her on Instagram Connect with us: -Check out our Website -Follow us on Instagram and send us a message -Watch our TikToks -Follow us on Facebook -Watch us on YouTube -Connect with us on LinkedIn
Joe and Mike welcome Adam Tropper, Co-Host of Motorsports Today Podcast and current graduate student at Columbia to talk about his NASCAR media journey. Adam talks about how he got involved in doing a NASCAR Show, his co-hosts idea to create a show and his fandom of NASCAR. He also talks about the things he learned from getting media access, and creating his own media style. Adam talks about the process for getting media credentials and those who helped him along the way. He also speaks to the business of NASCAR and what makes it so special. Adam also speaks about the growth of the show and getting more recognition. Lastly, Adam embarks advice for establishing a media voice and creating your own brand. The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports and Instagram @cu_sps_sportsmanagement. The CUSP Show is hosted by Joe Favorito (@Joefav) and Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR). The show is produced by Mike Schretter'25 (@mikeschrett1), LJ Holmgren (@LJ_Holmgren), and Danny Hagenlocher (@DhColumbiaSPS), with Mike Schretter'25 and Lissa Ruiz managing social media efforts. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-tropper-bba990204/ https://open.spotify.com/show/41bEUT1G90vIU4b1WrV8qU Sports Management Conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-columbia-university-sports-management-conference-registration-942111369467?discount=EBStudent24
Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes Last week, just two weeks ahead of the studio's return to San Diego Comic Con and the release of their sole theatrical outing for the year, Marvel surprised fans by releasing the teaser trailer for Captain America: Brave New World. Clocking in at just under two minutes, this first look is chock full of characters, set pieces and action, with a tense political atmosphere on display that certainly harkens back to 2014's much beloved The Winter Soldier. Marvel Animation has clearly found a voice they have a lot of confidence in, as What If…? series writer Matthew Chauncey has been hired to write the third season of X-Men '97. He replaces Beau DeMayo who wrote the incredibly well received first season of the animated revival as well as the yet to air second season, before being infamously fired by Disney ahead of the show's premiere. Chauncey previously stepped up into a leadership position when he replaced What If…?'s A.C. Bradley as the head writer for season 3. Beau DeMayo received a lot of retroactive praise for not shying away from social issues and commentary with his first season of X-Men '97. Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy's career seems to continue to be on the upswing, as his Star Wars film locked down a writer, Levy's frequent collaborator, Jonathan Tropper. Tropper wrote 2022's The Adam Project and is well established in the TV world, having created both Warrior and Banshee, as well as working as the showrunner for Apple TV's See. There are a lot of Star Wars films in the works these days, many of which were announced prior to Levy's and have yet to receive such significant updates. Despicable Me 4 held the top spot at the box office last weekend, becoming the first animated franchise to cross the $5 billion threshold. Newcomer Longlegs took second place with an impressive $22.6 million debut, setting a record for indie distributor Neon. Warner Brothers and Paramount have unveiled the first trailer for Watchmen Chapter 1, the first of two upcoming animated films set to release digitally on August 13th. The voice cast features Matthew Rhys as Nite Owl, Katee Sackhoff as the second Silk Spectre, Titus Welliver as Rorshach, and Michael Cerveris as Doctor Manhattan, among other notable actors. Michael Bay is in talks to direct Barbaric, a fantasy series for Netflix based on the Vault Comics title. It will star Sam Claflin and Patrick Stewart with X-Men First Class screenwriter Sheldon Turner writing and executive producing the series. Prime Video has ordered The Greatest, a limited series about Muhammad Ali from executive producers Michael B. Jordan and Ben Watkins with Jaalen Best starring as Ali. It is the first authorized scripted series with access to Ali's estate. Apple TV+ released a teaser for Severance Season 2, which premieres on January 17 and will include 10 episodes that release on Fridays weekly. A prequel series to Martin, the show that ran on Fox from 1992 to 1997 and starred Martin Lawrence is in development and will be titled Young Martin. Lawrence's production company RunTelDat will produce. Filming on Euphoria's third season is slated to begin in January 2025 — just about three years after the premiere of season two. HBO says all of the principal cast is set to return, including Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, and Hunter Schafer. Shelley Duvall who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman and is best known for her role in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, died last Thursday. She was 75. Shannen Doherty, who starred on Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 53. On Monday, Netflix released a behind the scenes video of production of the final season of Stranger Things featuring looks at the set, returning cast, and new characters. The series is currently expected to debut sometime in 2025.
I dagens sommerspesial tar vi for oss siste nytt fra og om Ukraina. Episoden er spilt inn via Twitter/X, så lydkvaliteten er det så som så med. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Del 31 de octubre al 2 de noviembre se celebrará la 19ª edición del Funtastic Drácula Carnival, una de las juergas de punk, garaje y rock’n’roll más divertidas y alocadas del planeta. Volverá a suceder en Benidorm, en la mítica discoteca Penélope, y las entradas salen a la venta el 27 de junio con previsión de que duren apenas unos minutos. Un año más volvemos a sumergirnos en su cartel guiados por los organizadores del festival, Paloma Borbone y Sr Varo, para escuchar y descubrir todo lo que no te deberías perder en la próxima edición del Funtastic.Playlist;THE ANOMALYS “Tropper”GYASI “All messed up”THE MARKED MEN “Ditch”THE COURETTES “Want you like a cigarette”USELESS EATERS “Dungeon”BILLY TIBBALS “Onwards”MAN OR ASTROMAN? “Antimatter man”SEGGS TAPE “Sad summer”THE UNKNOWNS “Shot down”LOS MALINCHES “Hechicera”BILLIAN “Jenny destroys records”ALVILDA “Cinema”FLASH “Incontrolable”REDD KROSS “Switchblade sister”COSMIC PSYCHOS “Lost cause”Escuchar audio
Dagens erhvervsoverblik: Kakaopriserne går amok og gør din chokolade dyrere. Hård konkurrence på markedet for fedmemedicin i Kina truer Novo Nordisks store sats i markedet. Israels premierminister, Benjamin Netanyahu, melder om nært forestående sejr i Gaza og trækker et antal tropper ud af landet. Dagens vært: Frederik Vincent (frvi@borsen.dk)
En ny aftale mellem USA og Danmark giver mulighed for, at amerikanske soldater kan udstationeres i Danmark. De amerikanske soldater vil ikke være underlagt dansk lovgivning. Og det huer ikke Enhedslisten, der er bekymret for danskernes retssikkerhed. Vi tager debatten sidst i dagens program. Vi vender også, om det er rimeligt, at folketingspolitikere kan sygemelde sig på ubestemt tid med en simpel lægeerklæring, og hvem der har ansvar for at influencer, Elvira Pitzner, kommer hjem fra Dubai, hvor hun er tilbageholdt og anklaget for utroskab. Medvirkende: Nikoline Erbs Hillers-Bendtsen, retsordfører for Alternativet. Bent Greve, professor og arbejdsmarkedsforsker ved Roskilde Universitet. Pernille Vermund, formand for Nye Borgerlige. Sascha Faxe, medlem af Folketinget for Alternativet. Per Clausen, rådmand for Enhedslisten i Aalborg Kommune.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fra skyttegravene rejser den ene russiske soldat efter den anden sig og stormer frem. DRs korrespondent Matilde Kimer har besøgt industribyen Avdijivka, som Ukrainerne kæmper stædigt for at bevare kontrollen over. Mellem murbrokker, skyttegrave og trælinjer pulserer krigens ødelæggelser ind over den lille provinsflække, der engang var fuld af liv. Byen bliver kaldt det nye Bakhmut og har også fået det brutale tilnavn "kødhakkeren". Genstart handler dag om Ukraines greb om området, der bliver slidt trættere dag for dag. Vært: Thomas Tjaerandsen. Program publiceret i DR Lyd d. 5/12.
We dive into a world of Marvel-inspired gems with Pace Tropper from East Continental Gems (ECG). Pace unveils the story behind ECG's collab with Marvel to create an Infinity Stone Collection, Thanos Gauntlets and Dr. Strange's Eye of Agamotto in this exclusive chat. The jewelry is available in their limited-time New York showroom—a must-see for fans and collectors.From a jaw-dropping one-of-one $25 million Marvel Infinity Gauntlet to the Jarvis Series and upcoming memorabilia like the Loki-inspired scepter, Pace shares the most mesmerizing facets of ECG's collection. This an experience tailored in Marvel lore.Follow Dope Interviews on X: https://www.twitter.com/dope_interviewsFollow Warren Shaw on X: https://www.twitter.com/shawsportsnbaFollow Warren on IG: https://www.instagram.com/shawsportsFollow ECG: https://www.instagram.com/eastcontinentalgemsRock "Dope Interviews" gear: https://19-media-group.myspreadshop.comSubscribe to 19 Media Group: https://bit.ly/3KcZtGe Check Out Our Website: https://19mediagroup.comFollow Us On X: https://www.twitter.com/19mgroupFollow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/19mediagroupThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5006633/advertisement
Det er vanskelig å forestille seg sjokket når to uniformerte politifolk og to uniformerte helsearbeidere tropper opp hjemme hos deg. I kveldens Doc-TV får du se hittil upubliserte opptak fra den svært intimiderende situasjonen. I ni dager var Trond Harald Håland fratatt sin frihet på falskt grunnlag. Vedtaket om tvangsinnleggelse ble kjent ugyldig og opphevet at Kontrollkommisjonen for psykisk helsevern. Doc-TV har intervjuet Hålands advokat Barbro Paulsen om saken, og hvilke konsekvenser den kan få. Du får også høre om den siste utviklingen i saken: Overlegen som var ansvarlig for tvangsinnleggelsen prøver seg nå på et nytt overgrep mot Trond Harald Håland. Abonner på vår nye YouTube-kanal, vi ønsker å tilby et alternativ skulle Rumble svikte. Abonner på vår Doc-TV News kanal – det er helt gratis og det hjelper oss å stige i algoritmene og nå et større internasjonalt publikum! Hvis du setter pris på sendingene: Vipps oss på 638941. Alle bidrag hjelper. Hva med å møte likesinnede ved å bli med i et av våre lokallag? Lag en konto på Odysee her! – Odysee vil da gi oss poeng som hjelper oss å klatre i algoritmene! Følg oss på Rumble. Følg oss også på PodBean, iTunes og alle steder der podcasts finnes. Husk å rate oss med 5 stjerner, så flere likesinnede sannhetssøkere finner oss der! Document Forlag utgir Mattias Desmet. Kjøp boken her!
The 13th episode in the Conversations series is now up! This interview is speaking about Chapter 7 with Aliza Tropper, no prior knowledge of the book is required.
The 13th episode in the Conversations series is now up! This interview is speaking about Chapter 7 with Aliza Tropper, no prior knowledge of the book is required.
We continue our coverage of Warrior's season 3 premiere with episode 3. Ah Sahm and Young Jun's fracture grows and fire ravages the vineyard - Tropper holds nothing back in this season of Warrior.
33 year old Indiana State Police Trooper Aaron Smith died last night trying to stop a stolen vehicle from fleeing police in Plainfield.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I Ukraine stiger frygten for en belarussisk indblanding. Tusinder af russiske soldater træner nemlig lige nu i Belarus. Mark, der er belarussisk soldat i Ukraine, er klar til at kæmpe, hvis soldater fra Belarus og Rusland sammen går ind over grænsen mod Kyiv.Medvirkende:"Mark", leder af Volot-bataljonen i det belarussiske Kalinovsky-regiment. Jonathan Schacht Halling Nielsen, jurist og russiskuddannet ved Belarus Statsuniversitet.Vært: David Trads.
Let's talk about anxiety. Everyone seems to have some level of it nowadays, especially post-pandemic with all the uncertainties in the world. In this episode, I sit down with Aliza Tropper, a licensed psychotherapist with over 10 years of experience.
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Hvad er der sket i krigen i Ukraine hen over sommeren? I juni nåede Putin et af sine mål, da russerne fik kontrol over hele Luhansk-regionen. Men siden er russerne gået i stå, mens Ukraine er gået til angreb. Hvad sker der, når efteråret og vinteren kommer? Og hvad kan blive Putins og Zelenskyjs næste træk? I dette afsnit giver Politikens forsvarsredaktør Jacob Svendsen svar på de spørgsmål.
Manchmal kommt es anders, als man plant: Die ÖBB cancelten meinen Zug, ich verpasste das 18-Uhr-Interview und Nina Scheucher half mir, sofort einen neuen Interview-Gast zu finden: Benjamin Tropper - Informatik-Student, zweifacher Ö-Meister und ihr Trainingskollege. Der 24-Jährige sprach übers Thaiboxen, Penis-Tattoos und dem Monatsthema "verbale Fetzereien".
Aliza Tropper, LMHC is a Licensed Psychotherapist for over 10 years. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst NY. She works mainly with adolescents and adults who are struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and trauma. She also runs DBT groups, for both adolescents and adults. Her website is alizatropperlmhc.com and you can also find her on Instagram @alizatropper.Support the show
Medlemmer kan lytte til udsendelsen uden reklamer i vores app - download via duah.dk/app Dine værter er Asger Juhl & Oliver Breum Tidskoder: [00:10:00] Gorm Greisen, overlæge på Rigshospitalet på Afdeling for Intensiv behandling af nyfødte og mindre børn og tidl. fmd. for Etisk Råd // Om det skal være lovligt at betale en kvinde for at bære sit barn [00:22:00] Susanne Dyre-Greensite, formand for Folkebevægelsen Mod EU // Har Udenrigsministeriet delt falske oplysninger om fordelene ved at fjerne Danmarks Forsvarsforbehold? [00:36:00] Maja Torp, Ligestillingsordfører Venstre // Om man skal kunne tjene penge som rugemor i Danmark [00:54:00] Christian Holst Vigilius, Formand, Konservative Ungdom // Om SU'en skal afskaffes på de danske kandidatuddannelser [01:12:00] Miki Mistrati, dokumentarist og journalist // Skal de danske supermarkeder boykotte chokolade? [01:31:00] Frank Høgholm, adjunkt i person-, familie- og arveret og forsker i surrogati // Skal man kunne tjene penge som rugemor i Danmark? [01:43:00] Søren Baarsgaard Hansen, ph.d, Lektor, Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Nuklearmedicin // Om hvad der reelt ville ske med os, hvis Danmark bliver ramt af et radioaktivt udslip eller en nuklear ulykke [01:50:00] Erik Høgh, tidl. hovedbestyrelsesmedlem i DF // Om DF's kultur af dårlig stemning, grupperinger, lukkede døre og bagtalelse.
Dagens erhvervsoverblik: Putin beordrer tropper ind i det østlige Ukraine. Olieprisen tager nyt hop. Borgerlige partier imod kvindekvoter. Anders Dam advarer om ret til erhvervskonto. Boligrenterne stiger fortsat og 3 pct.-lån fortsætter. Vært: Lasse Ladefoged (lala@borsen.dk)
Er det ok, man bliver fyret fordi man ikke vil skifte fagforening? Skal amerikanske tropper til Danmark? Svigter børnenes minister, Mette Frederiksen, de grønlandske børn? Din vært er Camilla Boraghi Tidskoder: 02:00-07:00 : Adam Geil, journalist Berlingske // Om sagen om den forsvundne Mia Skadhauge Stevn. 07:00-17:00 : Niels Flemming, forsvarsordfører (K) // Om amerikanske tropper skal udstationeres i Danmark. 17:00-25:00 : Tore Stramer, cheføkonom i Dansk Erhverv // Om den stigende inflation kommer til at have konsekvenser for samfundsøkonomien. 25:00-32:00 : Peter Hjelmgaard, VVS mand, der blev fyret fordi han ikke ville skifte fagforening // Om det er ok, at blive fyret fordi man ikke vil skifte fagforening. 33:00-40:00 : Peter Pedersen, politibetjent igennem 42 år, har været udstationeret i Grønland a 5 omgange i mindre samfund i det nordlige Grønland // Om forældre og myndigheder svigter de grønlandske børn i sager om seksuelle overgreb pga. deres egen konfliktskyhed. 44:00-50:00 : Peter Viggo Jakobsen, lektor, FAK // Om amerikanske tropper skal til Danmark. 50:00-01:00:00 : Jan Hoby, Fagforeningsleder LFS // Om det er okay at fyre folk, fordi de ikke er medlem af den ‘rigtige' fagforening. 01:00:00-01:10:00 : Andreas Graae, adjunkt ved Institut for Militær Teknologi ved Forsvarsakademiet // Om hvem der har våbnet, der er skyld i Havanna-syndromet. 01:10:00-01:20:00 : Julie Lynge, Sekretariatsleder ved Grønlandske Børn i Nuuk // Om børnenes minister, Mette Frederiksen, svigter de grønlandske børn. 01:22:00-01:30:00 : Charlotta Pissinger, professor i tobaksforebyggelse, Københavns Universitet // Om vi ser en positiv udvikling i bekæmpelsen af rygning blandt unge. 01:30:00-01:40:00 : Henrik og Helle Stub, Cand.Scient'er i astronomi, fysik og matematik // Om vi risikerer at Elon Musks satellitter bimler ned i hovedet på os. 01:40:00-01:45:00 : Eik Dahl Bidstrup, Formand i Krifa // Om den ansatte altid ved bedst, hvilken fagforening der passer bedst til arbejdspladsen. 01:45:00-01:50:00 : Henrik Day Poulsen, Speciallæge i psykiatri // Om hvem der er i stand til at partere lig. 01:52:00-02:00:00 : Søren Bang Korsholm, seniorforsker på DTU fysik // Om fusionsenergi kommer til at blive fremtidens energikilde.
Seven questions to remarkable people who have each trudged their own unique road toward self discovery and mastery. Today we have Aliza Tropper, LMHC a Licensed Psychotherapist for over 10 years. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst NY. She works with children, adolescents and adults who are struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and trauma. She also runs DBT groups, for both adolescents and adults. Her website is alizatropperlmhc.com and you can also find her on Instagram @alizatropper.Look out for Menachem's books Consciously and Stepping out of the Abyss available on line and in Jewish bookstores.Mosaica's Websitehttps://mosaicapress.com/product/consciously/Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/Consciously-Steps-Living-Vibrantly-Creator/dp/1952370094/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2YEA1PWGEJMKL&dchild=1&keywords=menachem+poznanski&qid=1604345602&sprefix=Menachem+poz%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-2Consciously The Podcast is a project of The Light Revealed. The Light Revealed is an organization and media publishing platform which focuses on building community for Jewish people seeking spiritual growth.We welcome your feedback and questions and hope to utilize those questions for future episodes.EmailConsciouslythepodcast@gmail.comFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/thelightrevealed/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thelightrevealed/The Conscious(ly) teamHost: Menachem PoznanskiAssistant Producer: Mordy SchwartzCo-producer emeritus: Chaim KohnAssistant to the Regional Co-Host: Shmaya HonickmanArtwork: Tani PoznanskiSocial Media: Tehila Nissanian & Zoe PoznanskiMusic: Music by Eitan Katz F/t Zusha
Psychologists Aliza Tropper and Menachem Poznanski reveal the best ways to help yourself and others!Podcast Info:→ Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3iy0Kee→ Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/3zdMqOz→ Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/3eVtSee→ Buzzsprout - https://mislaibeled.buzzsprout.comSocialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/mislaibeled/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MislaibeledTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mislaibeled
Du kan prøve Zetland af i to måneder for en 50'er her: https://www.zetland.dk/ffiEr det Tourettes syndrom? Eller bare internettet? I Danmark har mindst 27 piger og en enkelt dreng udviklet det, der bliver kaldt TikTok-tics. Men er det sygdommen Tourettes syndrom, eller er der noget mere mystisk på spil?Frederik forklarer internettet er produceret og udgivet af Zetland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We chat about the season 2 premiere of See, Apple TV's futuristic show starring Jason Momoa, now being helmed by none other than Jonathan Tropper. With a seriously deep tapestry of world-building, but some missing plot direction, we were excited to see where Tropper would be guiding the show. Thankfully we are excited to see that our faith appears to be rewarded in spades! It may be bloodier than we expected, but the direction is clearer, the world is being fleshed out and we're gaining some of our Warrior favorites.
Aliza Tropper and Menachem Poznaski explain the mental health crisis!Podcast Info:→ Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3iy0Kee→ Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/3zdMqOz→ Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/3eVtSee→ Buzzsprout - https://mislaibeled.buzzsprout.comSocialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/mislaibeled/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MislaibeledTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mislaibeled
In this episode, your host speaks with Cambridge Security Seals' Elisha Tropper about security seal solutions, automating seal manufacturing, encouraging innovation, trusting data, spotting a market and fulfilling a need, and more. Check out Cambridge Security Seals at https://cambridgeseals.com/
"I dette Øjeblik meddeles det, at Montgomery har oplyst, at de tyske Tropper i Holland, Nordvesttyskland og i Danmark har overgivet sig." Sådan lød det da Johannes G. Sørensen oplæste befrielsesbudskabet d. 4. maj 1945. 76 år senere sætter danskerne stadigvæk lys i vinduerne på årsdagen for befrielsen. Nogle af os i hvert fald. Men hvorfor? Og hvad betyder det for os? Det er nogle af de spørgsmål, Torben Steno stiller lytterne denne regnvåde nat på Radio4, hvor vi mindes befrielsen og de fem forbandede år, der gik forud.
// Theater & Innovation #2 - DIGITALITÄT // Nach „Diversität“ widmen wir uns in der 2. Innovationsfolge nun dem Begriff und der Bedeutung von „Digitalität“ im Theater. Dafür berichtet Elisabeth Tropper, Dramaturgin am Schauspielhaus Graz, über die virtuelle Vorstellung mittels VR-Brille „Krasnojarsk: Eine Endzeitreise in 360°“ und Roman Senkl, Dramaturg & Regisseur, sowie Leiter des Labors für Digitale Künste der Berliner Festspiele & Mitinitiator der Digitalen Dramaturgie über neue Digitale Tools und Projekte wie das „Live Action Roadmovie“ Theater. Außerdem fragen wir uns, ob es „rein“ analoges oder offline Theater überhaupt noch gibt, wie viel Know_How & Equipment notwendig ist, wieso die Frage der Partizipation im Theater so oft an digitalen Formaten festgemacht wird und wann-oh-wann wir diese hybriden Fragen durchgearbeitet haben um uns wieder gesellschaftlichen Fragen zu widmen. Ahoi. // dramaturgische Beratung: Florian Stohr / Musik & Technik: Tobias Voigt // https://schauspielhaus-graz.buehnen-graz.com/play-detail/krasnojarsk/ https://www.vr-firstrow.com https://dramaturgie.digital https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/theatertreffen/programm/2021/stages-unboxed/termine.html https://theaternetzwerk.digital https://theater.digital
We speak with Nick Tropper, coach with the Ontario Hockey Academy. Nick discusses various aspects of his career with topics including his tenure with ISS, interning with the London Knights, CHL vs USHL, and more!
Episode 46 We speak with Nick Tropper, coach with the Ontario Hockey Academy. Nick discusses various aspects of his career with topics including his tenure with ISS, interning with the London Knights, CHL vs USHL, and more! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/hockey-minds-podcast/5a6c3b60-27e0-43ab-80f8-ae51e6bf9e84
Manfred Troppers Mantro GmbH gründet Start-ups für große Konzerne. Die profitieren von hoher Geschwindigkeit und neuen, digitalen Ideen – und lagern gleichzeitig einen Teil des Risikos aus. Denn die Mantro GmbH ist an allen Unternehmen auch selbst beteiligt. [00:00] Werbung [01:13] Begrüßung [01:54] Interview mit Manfred Tropper [28:34] VerabschiedungDer Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wirtschaft/brand-eins-podcast-manfred-tropper
Manfred Troppers Mantro GmbH gründet Start-ups für große Konzerne. Die profitieren von hoher Geschwindigkeit und neuen, digitalen Ideen – und lagern gleichzeitig einen Teil des Risikos aus. Denn die Mantro GmbH ist an allen Unternehmen auch selbst beteiligt. [00:00] Werbung [01:13] Begrüßung [01:54] Interview mit Manfred Tropper [28:34] VerabschiedungDer Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wirtschaft/brand-eins-podcast-manfred-tropper
Manfred Troppers Mantro GmbH gründet Start-ups für große Konzerne. Die profitieren von hoher Geschwindigkeit und neuen, digitalen Ideen – und lagern gleichzeitig einen Teil des Risikos aus. Denn die Mantro GmbH ist an allen Unternehmen auch selbst beteiligt. [00:00] Werbung [01:13] Begrüßung [01:54] Interview mit Manfred Tropper [28:34] VerabschiedungDer Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wirtschaft/brand-eins-podcast-manfred-tropper
Manfred Tropper hat mit 16 Jahren zum ersten Mal gegründet. Heute leitet er die Startup-Schmiede Mantro, wo er und seine Partner langfristige, branchenübergreifende Joint Ventures für digitale Innovation entwickeln. Andrea Peters spricht mit Tropper über Vertrauen. Klingt oldschool? Überhaupt nicht! »Business ist kein Quickie!«, sagt er. Erst recht nicht in der sich ständig verändernden VUCA-Welt. Die Basis für Innovation ist gute Zusammenarbeit und Vertrauen in die Partner. Warum das in vielen auf Win-Win gepolten Unternehmen einen Kulturschock auslöst und wie großartig es ist, mal kein »Arschloch« sein zu müssen, um erfolgreich zu sein, hörst Du hier im Podcast. Und Lektorin Stefanie Walter singt uns noch das Lied vom Mantrosen.
Die Idee ist schnell mal gekommen, umgesetzt dagegen umso schwerer: Unternehmensgründungen sind auch im digitalen Zeitalter eine komplexe Geschichte. Manfred Tropper und Mantro“unterstützen Gründer - allerdings auf eine ungewöhnliche und eher konservative Weise. Mantro hat ist ein komplett unabhängiger Company Builder, der mit etablierten Unternehmen kooperiert, um gemeinsam neue Geschäftsmodelle zu erschaffen. Diese basieren auf Business Modellen, welche die Veränderungen durch Digitalisierung in den Partnerindustrien targetieren. Viele Wertschöpfungsketten wandeln sich in diesen Tagen signifikant. mantro arbeitet aktiv mit diesen Veränderungen, um neue Player in existierenden Industrien zu etablieren und dabei deren bestehende Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten zu bewahren und zu nutzen. Das Ziel ist es dabei, langfristige strategische Partnerschaften zu entwickeln, die den Partnern helfen, ihre Bemühungen um digitale Transformation erfolgreich zu bewältigen. Mantro wurde 2005 von Dr. Markus Ortmann, Manfred Tropper und Benjamin Schüdzig gegründet.
Die Idee ist schnell mal gekommen, umgesetzt dagegen umso schwerer: Unternehmensgründungen sind auch im digitalen Zeitalter eine komplexe Geschichte. Manfred Tropper und Mantro“unterstützen Gründer - allerdings auf eine ungewöhnliche und eher konservative Weise. Mantro hat ist ein komplett unabhängiger Company Builder, der mit etablierten Unternehmen kooperiert, um gemeinsam neue Geschäftsmodelle zu erschaffen. Diese basieren auf Business Modellen, welche die Veränderungen durch Digitalisierung in den Partnerindustrien targetieren. Viele Wertschöpfungsketten wandeln sich in diesen Tagen signifikant. mantro arbeitet aktiv mit diesen Veränderungen, um neue Player in existierenden Industrien zu etablieren und dabei deren bestehende Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten zu bewahren und zu nutzen. Das Ziel ist es dabei, langfristige strategische Partnerschaften zu entwickeln, die den Partnern helfen, ihre Bemühungen um digitale Transformation erfolgreich zu bewältigen. Mantro wurde 2005 von Dr. Markus Ortmann, Manfred Tropper und Benjamin Schüdzig gegründet.
Kjære dagbok, vi mener jammen forskjellig om skoleferie... Hvordan kan vi være venner? Mener du han som er jente? Et strandmøte med tenåringers syn på hen. Kikki skal lage sexfilm. Jaha,ja. Vi snakker skeive dager! Og sjekker sannheten i redde folks uttalelser. Klirr og skål for de modige homser og lesper som banet vei til noe alle kan møter i oss selv og andre. Stolthet og fordom er over og ut. Inn kommer stolthet og mangfold! Vi snakker om kjærlighet også. Glad sommer og happy Pride, for alle som vil det.
Hast du dich schon mal gefragt, wie gut deine Tiefenmuskulatur trainiert ist? Falls du schon mal Probleme mit deinem Rücken hattest, oder nach langem Sitzen oder Stehen Schmerzen im oberen Becken aufgetreten sind, dann solltest du unbedingt an deiner Tiefenmuskulatur arbeiten. Denn jede Bewegung entspringt aus deinem Becken und jede Stabilisation des Körpers hat im Becken ihren Ursprung. Mein Interviewgast in dieser Episode ist Claudia Novak-Tropper. Sie ist Sportwissenschafterin und Expertin für Core-Training, das heißt Kräftigung, Dehnung und Mobilisierung von Becken, Bauch und Wirbelsäule. Sie verrät, wie Menschen jeden Alters mit wenig Aufwand gesund und schmerzfrei bleiben können.
This week on Nikki Z Live we have the legendary sound killer Ricky Trooper. Find out what he has in store for Reggae Sumfest this year and which selector he tried to put the fists on last year. All this and your favorite hits on your #1 Syndicated Caribbean Radio show.... LISTEN SHARE SUBSCRIBE Follow @NikkizOfficial
Sponsoreret af Arbejdernes Landsbank. Transfervinduet i Danmark er over os og det er noget, der optager Brøndby-fans rigtig meget. Hvem skal ind og hvem skal ud? Hvor er det mest nødvendigt, at vi forstærker os? Vi har taget et tidligt kig på vinduet i BrøndbyLyd og taler blandt andet om de navne, der har været oppe at vende på rygtebasis og gennemgår Brøndby-truppen for salgsemner. Ja, og meget mere! I panelet er redaktionschef på bold.dk Mikkel Nøhr, samt Nicholas Albek og Mikkel Løfgren Rud. Nanna Møller Karlsen er vært.
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Jonathan Tropper started writing books, but after several of his novels were optioned for films, he got into screenwriting. In this interview, Tropper discusses ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ and the Showtime series, ‘Banshee.’ He dives in to the differences between prose and film, writing for actors portrayals versus your own character descriptions, and why he loves ‘The Count of Monte Cristo.’
Actor and comedian, Toby Tropper stops by the podcast to talk about Seincast, The Early Edition Podcast, human Shazam, losing his parents' health insurance coverage, The Real World: Melodrama, Dungeons & Dragons, memorizing lines and the Ceremonial Flush, being the Real Tim Brady, The Great American Melodrama, having the most popular Harry Potter dub on YouTube, doing stand up comedy, being compared to Mr. Bean, the best episode of The Simpsons, only being Jewish for comedic purposes, his Anglophilia, breaking character, writing comedy, how to survive a car crash, being a Tropper, habitual punctuality, being a Toby, growing a beard, his great uncle Murray, "break a leg" texts from his mom, being awkward around celebrities, drawing a Cranston-a-day, his mom's version of The Lord's Prayer, relapsing on McDonald's, sonder, and the satisfaction of dissatisfaction. Find him online at: http://tobytropper.com Or find The Great American Melodrama: http://www.americanmelodrama.com/
Welcome to Mind Your Mind! My name is Joseph Tropper and it is so nice to meet you! This podcast was designed with you in mind. It’s meant to tackle the hottest topics of self-care and help you take the best care of yourself. I want to help you get motivated, deal with stress, and enhance your relationships.QualificationsTo begin I would like to introduce myself and explain why I am qualified to help you take the next step. I have 15 years of experience as a life coach, hypnotherapist and licensed mental health professional. I hold a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and have been in full time private practice as lead therapist and director for the past 4 years. I’m a proud husband and father and these two roles shape so much of my life perspective. I have specialized training in couples counseling, trauma (EMDR therapy) and anxiety and want to help you move forward in life.Why This Podcast?Clients often ask if they can record my sessions. I am concerned for their confidentiality as well as quality assurance. This podcast gives me the opportunity to think over my thoughts, edit them and make sure they are expressed in a clear and helpful manner. Additionally, my aim is to impact and help as many people as possible. While I find private practice extremely rewarding, it takes much concentrated effort to impact the 30 to 50 clients that I can work with at a time. This podcast can be listened to by many people who can benefit from its practical advice. You can listen in while you are going about your daily activities. I especially encourage you to come here when you take your daily 30 minutes jog or walk!Love To Hear From YouI want your insights and questions. Please visit our site to submit your questions and I will try my best to answer them on the show. Visit mindyourmindonline.com and click on Ask Joseph to type or record your questions.Name ExplainedMind Your Mind is called after the mind for two main reasons. Firstly, it emphasizes the importance of putting yourself first and advocating for your own needs. Secondly, it references the concept of mindfulness which is very helpful in centering and caring for self.Show FormatThe show is divided into 7 main parts outlined here:1-Opening - intro to the topic2- Facts - cold facts about the topics3- Quote - My favorite quote4-Opinions - my own take and ideas, the main crux of the material5- Practical Solutions - how do I make my life better6- Questions - submitted by listeners, first about podcast topic, then about any topic7- ClosingRecap - summary and call to actionQuick DisclaimersThe material contained in the podcast recordings, summaries and articles are for self-help purposes only. No legal, medical or specific mental health advice is offered. Listeners and readers are encouraged to collaborate with people whom they trust as well as qualified professionals for the application of anything discussed here.Human Strength and VulnerabilityI want to share with you a poem that is very dear to me. I wrote it as a summary about the work that I do with myself and with my clients. It expresses my view on life and mental health. I took the background picture myself while on vacation with my wife and family in Hawaii.Let the Journey BeginIt’s great to have you here and I hope to hear from you to learn more about the topics you love and wish to hear more about. Wishing you only the greatest success as you learn toMind Your Mind!Resources Mentioned:Mind Your Mind– The podcast title and website●Human Strength and Vulnerability – Poem written by Joseph Tropper
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
The award-winning screenwriter and author of the debut novel All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai, dropped by the show this week to talk about his fiction debut, the science of time travel, and finding inspiration in dark places. The writer and producer has written movies for both indie and Hollywood studios, including scripts for Fox, Sony, Warner Brothers, and Paramount. His most recent film – What If, a comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, and Mackenzie Davis – premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. Elan won the Canadian Academy Award and the Writers Guild of Canada Award for his script, and the movie played in over 30 countries. His new novel – All Our Wrong Todays – is a sci-fi tinged, time-travel romance and much buzzed about debut that is rumored to have landed the writer a seven-figure book deal worth north of a million dollars. The book has been described as “Dark Matter meets Back to the Future,” and even prior to the book’s publication, the film rights were sold to Paramount Pictures. Andy Weir, bestselling author of The Martian, called it, “A thrilling tale of time travel and alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity’s future.” If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In Part One of this file Elan Mastai and I discuss: His grandfather’s vintage sci-fi collection and how it inspired him How he launched his screenwriting career by translating Pulp Fiction into a kid’s movie Why writers need to know their weaknesses How the busy screenwriter and producer found time to write a novel The hard science of time travel and storytelling Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes If you’re ready to see for yourself why over 194,000 website owners trust StudioPress — the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins — just go to Rainmaker.FM/StudioPress How Screenwriter and ‘All Our Wrong Todays’ Author Elan Mastai Writes: Part Two All Our Wrong Todays – Elan Mastai ElanMastai.com How Andy Weir (Bestselling Author of ‘The Martian’) Writes: Part One Elan Mastai on IMDb Elan Mastai on Goodreads Elan Mastai on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Screenwriter and All Our Wrong Todays Author Elan Mastai Writes: Part One Voiceover: Rainmaker FM. Kelton Reid: Welcome back to The Writer Files. I’m your host, Kelton Reid, here to take you on another tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of renowned writers. The award-winning screenwriter and author of the debut novel, All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai, dropped by the show this week to talk about his fiction debut, the science of time travel, and finding inspiration in dark places. The writer and producer has written movies for both indie and Hollywood studios including scripts for Fox, Sony, Warner Bros., and Paramount. His most recent film, What If, a comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, and Mackenzie Davis, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. Elan won the Canadian Academy Award and a Writers Guild of Canada Award for his script, and the movie played in over 30 countries. His new novel, All Our Wrong Todays, is a sci-fi tinged time travel romance and much buzzed about debut. It is rumored to have landed the writer a seven-figure book deal worth north of a million dollars. The book has been described as Dark Matter meets Back to the Future, and even prior to the book’s publication, the film rights were sold to Paramount Pictures. Andy Weir, best selling author of The Martian, called it, “A thrilling tale of time travel and alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity’s future.” In part one of this file, Elan and I discuss his grandfather’s vintage sci-fi collection and how it inspired him, how he launched his screenwriting career by translating Pulp Fiction into a kid s movie, why writers need to know their weaknesses, how the busy screenwriter and producer found time to write a novel, and the hard science of time travel and storytelling. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews as soon as they’re published. Just a quick reminder that The Writer Files is brought to you by StudioPress, the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins. Built on the Genesis Framework, StudioPress delivers state of the art SEO tools, beautiful and fully responsive designs, airtight security, instant updates, and much more. If you’re ready to take your WordPress site to the next level, see for yourself why over 194,000 website owners trust StudioPress. Go to Rainmaker.FM/StudioPress now. That’s Rainmaker.FM/StudioPress. We are rolling on The Writer Files today with Elan Mastai, I hope I’m pronouncing that correctly, author extraordinaire, screenwriter, and author of this fantastic new book that we’re going to talk about here shortly. Thanks for joining us. Elan Mastai: Thanks for having me. Kelton Reid: Yeah, so All Our Wrong Todays is this amazing book. I don’t really know how to describe it, so I might let you do that one, but you are an award-winning screenwriter who has a debut novel coming out. It’s getting a ton, a ton of press, a ton of buzz. It’s really exciting to see, because the book itself is kind of jaw-dropping, but yeah, do you want to give us the … Elan Mastai: Sure, yeah. By its very nature, it’s a book … there’s a lot of things going on in the book, and I wanted to write something where the place you and the character are when it starts and where it ends is unexpected, you wouldn’t be believe where we go with it. So that is what I was going for when I was writing it, as a very unexpected, twisted journey. But of course, it does make summing it up a little challenging. But basically, the book opens in the present day in 2016. But it’s the 2016 that people in the 1950s and 60s thought we were going to have, this sort of techno-utopian future of flying cars and robot maids and teleportation, where all of humanity’s problems have basically been solved by technology. Doesn’t mean that everything’s perfect, people still have their own individual problems, romantic problems, family challenges, personal obstacles. But the big picture has been solved. And there’s all this incredible technology, which of course I get into, and my protagonist, Tom, ends up working for his father, who is developing, basically, time travel vacations. And of course, whenever you introduce time travel into the mix, things get complicated. Through basically a time travel accident, Tom finds himself stranded in what appears to him to be a terrible, dystopian alternate reality, but which we recognize immediately as just the real world, our version of 2016, which to him seems like everything has gone horrible awry. And so here … He’s not from the future, he’s from the present, but it’s a very, very different present where the last 50 years of history went off on a totally different trajectory and then trying to find his way back to the world we’re supposed to have, or at least what he always thought we were supposed to have. But of course, as he finds himself increasingly enmeshed in our messy version of 2016, it starts to get complicated, and he starts to question exactly what kind of future he really wants to have. Kelton Reid: Yeah, I mean, it makes one’s head spin a little bit, but once you start reading it, it just sucks you right in, so kudos on the- Elan Mastai: Thank you. Kelton Reid: The buzz … At the time of publishing this, it will be coming out very shortly. Man, if you like … Well, I guess it’s been described as reminiscent of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy. I don’t think that really pays it justice, but it’s also been kind of described as a … Well, you described it as a cross between Vonnegut and Tropper, who I understand is a friend of yours. Elan Mastai: Yeah, actually my agent described it as that. As a first time novelist, I’m a little reluctant to compare myself to Kurt Vonnegut, let alone Jon Tropper. But somebody else described it as … I know you had Blake Crouch on your show- Kelton Reid: Yeah. Elan Mastai: And so we described it as Dark Matter meets Back to the Future, and I thought that was a pretty good description. His Grandfather s Vintage Sci-Fi Collection and How it Inspired Him Kelton Reid: Yes. Oh, that’s perfect. I love it. Okay, cool. So, listeners, writers, readers can find it out there for pre-order. Oh man, it is a lot of fun, it’s just wild. Let’s go back a little bit in time ourselves. Talk a bit about your origins as a writer. I know that you have done screenwriting, and you’ve produced movies yourself, a pretty impressive slate there. Let’s go back a little bit and talk about your origins as a writer. How did you get here? Elan Mastai: Well, I stole a time machine. No. My origins as a writer … I grew up in a house surrounded by books. The very earliest sort of foundation of this book itself … My grandfather, who was a chemist, he had this extensive collection of old science fiction, from the 50s and 60s, and I loved these old books. When I was a kid in the 80s, they were already brittle and the covers were starting to fall apart, so I had to be very careful with them. But I loved staring at these garishly painted covers of these sort of impossible futures, and imagined futures and robot maids and flying cars and adventurers and bosomy space aliens and … But even in the 80s, I knew there was a disconnect, that the future that these writers and artists in the 40s and 50s and 60s had imagined, it didn’t actually come true. I did not get a jetpack for my 12th birthday, and it seemed a terrible injustice. I just found myself really interested in that disconnect. What happened to the future we were supposed to have? It was something that I had thinking about well before I ever decided to turn those questions into a novel. My mom, when I was young, was an actress in the theatre, and so we were around people who were making narrative art, playwrights and directors and actors. I didn’t really know anybody in the movie business, per se, but the theatre community was something that was around me. So that idea that, Oh, the art, entertainment that I enjoy, like, somebody’s making that. That’s like a job you can have. And I just was really compelled by that. But even so, to be honest, when I was growing up, and even when I went away to college, the idea of being a writer, that being your profession, like you could actually make a living doing it, It seemed very far off. It seemed kind of impossible. How do you actually do that? Who’s going to take a chance on you when there’s so many terrific writers out there? Who’s going to give you a shot? How He Launched His Screenwriting Career by Translating Pulp Fiction Into a Kid s Movie Elan Mastai: So I kind of stumbled my way into my first writing job. I was still a student and this woman that I had gone to school with, she had gotten a job as an assistant to a producer. We ran into each other. She knew I was interested in writing and I had made some short films in college, and she had liked them. So she offered to get me an interview with her boss. They had made a kid s movie that had done well, and they were looking to do a sequel really quickly. And she said, “You’re not going to get hired. There’s no way you’re going to get hired. But I can get you a meeting. He’s meeting other writers.” And I was like, “Meeting?” A meeting was so far beyond my actual plans. I didn’t even know how you get a meeting with a producer. So I was like, “Great, I’ll go to the meeting.” When I look back on it, I don’t think she actually explained to her boss that I had never written a movie before. I think he just thought, well, if I’m sitting there, I must know what I’m doing. And so, he basically sat there with his feet up on his desk and told me what he thought the sequel should be about, and because I was told in advance there was no way I was getting hired, I was like, “I don’t know about that idea. I don’t think that’s a good one. I think that there’s some interesting things there, but here’s what I think you should do for your sequel.” And so I basically just pitched him, off the top of my head, what I thought he should do with his sequel. Because I was like, “What do I have to lose?” Kelton Reid: Right. Elan Mastai: He’s inevitably … The best case scenario was he would steal my idea and hire a real writer. But he liked the idea and he thought about it and the next day they’d called me and said, “Would you take what you said in the meeting and write it down, and we’ll pay you to write an outline.” So I had to find out what an outline was. And they liked my outline, so they hired me to write the movie. And at every step of the way, I kept thinking I was going to get fired. At some point, someone’s going to realize I don’t know what I’m doing. I knew so little about screenwriting, I went out … One of my favorite movies of the time was Pulp Fiction. So I went out and bought the published screenplay. Nowadays you can get any screenplay online. But at the time it was actually hard to find a screenplay. But they had published Pulp Fiction. So I figured Tarantino does basically everything in that movie, anything you could do in a movie, he does in that movie. So I figured if I had to figure out what something looked like, I’d would just look it up in Pulp Fiction. So this is a kid s movie, but I followed Tarantino’s model to the point where … You know, Pulp Fiction is 134 pages, so I made my screenplay 134 pages, which, if you know anything about screenplays, is really, really long. Kelton Reid: It is. Elan Mastai: Yeah, a kid s movie should be about 80, 85 pages long. And the producer described it as “War and Peace, with chimps.” But, fortunately, he thought there’s enough of a movie in there that once we sort of cut about half of my ideas out of it, there was something to hone. And so it all happened very quickly. I wrote like three drafts of the script in five weeks, constantly assuming I was going to get fired. And then the movie got green-lit. And I found myself in this position of being on set … I only went to set like once or twi- …. I think I was on set maybe twice. It wasn’t a situation where I was on set doing re-writes. It was very much the classic, I wrote the script, they said, “Thank you very much,” and went off and made the movie. Kelton Reid: Right. Elan Mastai: I did come to set but I found myself in this weird position of … I’m on set. I had named all the characters after my friends, my roommates from college. I’d named locations, the shops after just people in my life. Because, I just assumed someone was going to rewrite all of this. But here I am, on set, with characters named after my friends, delivering dialogue that I wrote, in locations that I had imagined. It was like walking around inside your own dream. And even though writing kid s movies was not my ambition, that feeling of dozens and dozens of people scurrying around building this story that had only existed in my head, but in the real world, it was this magical moment. And I feel like my entire career as a screenwriter was to keep trying to recapture that dazzling feeling of wonder that I’d actually, while awake, walked into my own dream. Kelton Reid: Wow. Elan Mastai: And even though that movie, it’s a silly kid s movie, it did well enough that inspired some sequels. I didn’t write any of them, because writing kid … I mean, I really appreciated the opportunity, but once I’d been through the process, I’d realized writing kid s movies wasn’t my personal … It wasn’t really what I wanted to do. But I’d had a movie made, and Warner Bros. picked it up for international distribution, and that really kickstarted my screenwriting career. So I had this thing where I felt a bit like Chauncey Gardiner, from Being There, or Forrest Gump, except that was like I kind of stumbled into this career, and did this opportunity anyways, and then once I’d had the opportunity, which, I have to admit, looking back, I was still a college student. I didn’t take it that seriously at the time. And then suddenly I was like, “Oh. I could actually do this.” I had no idea how you could even start a writing career, but I somehow stumbled into it. Why Writers Need to Know Their Weaknesses Elan Mastai: Now I have to actually really start taking this seriously. It’s not just a lark. It’s not an exam that you tell everybody you only started studying for the night before to protect yourself if you do badly. Now I could actually do something. The door is open a crack. And the only way to get through it is to just get to be a much better writer. That’s the other thing about … There’s nothing like seeing actors on set and people spending all this money and delivering your dialogue to make you aware in the most cringe-worthy fashion, that your writing sounded a lot better in your head. Kelton Reid: Right. Elan Mastai: Because people are speaking it out loud. And so that experience, in addition to the sort of magical sense of being in this waking dream, it was also the sort of kick in the pants that, yeah, I need to work a lot harder and get to be a much better writer if I’m ever going to write the kinds of movies or the kinds of anything that could compare to the things that made me want to do it in the first place. So then I went through a very intensive period. I was lucky I had a great early opportunity. But I went through a real intensive period of just trying to get better as a writer, trying to close that gap between what I wanted it to feel like in my head and what was actually coming out on the page. I got a couple other movies made and I got better and I just worked really hard. It s just that thing The movie business, I mean really in anything, in the movie business, but in any kind of writing field, you have so little control over how your work is received. But what you can control is the actual writing itself. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Elan Mastai: Each word, one at a time. That’s what you can control, and that became my mantra. Just focus on the writing, figure out what your strengths are, figure out what your weaknesses are, try to make your strengths better, try to make your weaknesses stronger, and just keep plugging away, basically, and not even worry so much about how it’s going to be received, what the reviews are going be like. Just worry about every single day, doing the best writing you can. Kelton Reid: Yeah, wow. That’s a good takeaway. You’ve had so much success, it seems. You’ve written for Fox, Sony, Warner Bros., Paramount. And then you had a film premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, is that right? Elan Mastai: Yeah, that’s right. Kelton Reid: Called What If, Starring Daniel Radcliffe, of Harry Potter fame, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, who I love. Mackenzie Davis, also. Fantastic actor. So you wrote and produced this movie … Elan Mastai: Yeah. Kelton Reid: And got to tour around with it, and it was very well received. It’s a lot of fun, it would seem. So you were on the set for that movie. Elan Mastai: Yeah. What I learned through a couple movies … I had a few movies made early on in my career where I really just handed off the script. I didn’t have a lot to do with it. What I realized was that wasn’t fully satisfying to me. I started taking more and more of a role on my projects, and that turned into a producing role. I started being on set for the entire shoot, being involved from the very beginning in budgeting and casting and hiring crew, and on the other side of production in editing and even just the marketing and promotion. I made the decision to team up with people who were looking for a partner. Also, on What If, I was working with a director … I didn’t know Mike Dowse before we started working on it, but we became very close, and we became real creative partners. So I was able to be on set every day, and be at the monitors, and be an integral part of the production process, not just somebody who hands the script off. Producing a movie is not super fun. It makes you want to tear your hair out. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Elan Mastai: But if you can figure out the skill set to produce your own work, it’s the best way to protect your writing. In the case of What If, I didn’t need to protect my writing, insofar as I had a great director, I had an incredible cast who were already very protective of my script. But, making sure … If you’re going to have a place at the table, you actually have to make that decision well before the movie ever starts marching towards production. You have to make it at the earliest stage. You have to say, “I’m going to be a producer on this movie. I’m going to hope I find a terrific director, terrific actors, who really want to partner, who love the script. But, I don’t know that that’s going to happen. So I’m going to install myself as a producer at the earliest stage-” Kelton Reid: Yeah. Elan Mastai: So that I always have the opportunity to protect it, even if I don’t need to. You don’t get an alarm system installed in your house while the break-in is happening. Kelton Reid: Because that’s a great point. Elan Mastai: I’m going to call the police. “Someone is breaking into my house, I need you to send the police here, and if you could send a security, like an alarm installer, that would be terrific.” Kelton Reid: Well, you’ve clearly been influenced by some great romantic comedy directors and producers yourself, that being a romantic comedy, What If, that actually won a Canadian Academy Award. You won a Writer’s Guild Award as well. Elan Mastai: Yeah. How the Busy Screenwriter and Producer Found Time to Write a Novel Kelton Reid: So you found success there, but then how did you make the jump? Were you working on the novel that whole time, or did you decide to take a break to work on the novel? Elan Mastai: No, actually. I started the novel actually during the press tour for What If. I was on a press tour. I had never been on a press tour before. None of the movies I’d ever written had invited me along to be a part of this multi-city promotional process that happened when the movie comes out. But on What If, I was invited along. Being on a press tour is weird, especially if you’re not used to it. Someone like Daniel Radcliffe has been doing it since he was a kid, and he knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s got it all on lockdown. When you watch him handle interviews, it’s like you re watching a competitive swimmer. Kelton Reid: Right. Elan Mastai: But, I wasn’t like that. It was a weird process. I also found that I didn’t have any time to write. You’re scheduled in almost 15 or 30 minute blocks, someone’s always telling you where to go, who to talk to, where to sit. And I like to write every single day. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Elan Mastai: One might even say I need to write every single day, if one was perhaps a psychologist. So I found that I had very little time to write, but at the same time I also had intentionally not taken on any screenwriting projects, because I knew the promotion was going to take up a lot of time, and I didn’t want to get behind on deadlines, or have promised something to somebody that I couldn’t deliver, so I took a little break. I think it was just my mind … I was travelling a lot, I was in new cities, I was meeting all kinds of people. And I just started thinking about this story. And the more I started thinking about it, the more I got excited about it. But I also realized that there was a way I wanted to tell this story, and it wasn’t a movie. It could be a movie down the line, and I think it will be a great movie. I sold the rights for the movie to Paramount and I m working on that right now. But, I realized that I wanted to tell the story as a novel, particularly as a first person kind of faux-memoir that I wanted to not just be a story that I was telling, but a story that the protagonist was telling about this thing that happened to him. So while I was on the press tour, it was this sort of weird fugue state where it wasn’t like my real life. My real life does not involve dinners and screenings and interviews and staying in hotels. That’s not my regular life. This is the sort of alternate reality that I’d been thrust in. So whenever I’d have a little break, I started the process of thinking about … And started writing this novel, in little spurts. In fact, if you read the novel, the chapters are very short, and I really embraced that, those short chapters. But the actual original reason the chapters are so short is that I only usually had 15 or 20 minutes of time to write. So each chapter was just how much time I had to write that day. So I started just trying to do it every single day. If I could just take 15, 20 minutes, if I could just write 250 or 500 words a day, then I would feel that I got something done and that I was just challenging myself, pushing myself, trying something new, while I was in this weird state that was outside my regular daily writing routine. And I started to like the idea of the short chapters, aesthetically, I started to really enjoy it. And I started to like what I was writing. So the press tour ended and I didn’t want to stop. Like a lot of people, I had a day job. I’m like a lot of people; my day job is writing movies. I’m a working screenwriter. I have contracts, I have deadlines, I have things I have to deliver to people. So I just started writing the novel basically evenings and weekends. Every day I would carve out half an hour, 45 minutes. I set myself a word count of 250 to 500 words, not a lot, very small, manageable, but I did it every single day. So just on the side, I started writing this book. You do it every single day. After five months, you start to actually have … I had a rough draft of this novel. It needed a lot of work, it needed a lot of massaging and polishing. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Elan Mastai: I cut tons, I added new stuff, I moved stuff around. But, by doing it a tiny little bit every single day, while I was doing my day job, which is writing movies, I actually was able to complete a very rough but finished first draft. Kelton Reid: Wow, wow. Well, it’s an incredibly impressive debut. I love how people talk about the overnight success, and obviously you’ve been working in film and narrative storytelling itself for quite a while, so it wasn’t a surprise that you put together this fantastic story. Elan Mastai: That’s nice of you to say. I didn’t think that when I was starting it. I was like, “I’m a screenwriter, why am I spending all this time writing a novel.” I didn’t have a publishing deal, I didn’t have a literary agent. I didn’t know if anyone was going to want to publish it. So I appreciate you saying that. The finished book that people are saying such nice things about is the result, of course, of a lot of rewriting, of a lot of polishing, a lot of hard work to get it to the place where it was ready to be unleashed on the world. In the beginning, there was very much of like, “I don’t know why I’m doing this other than that I have a story to tell and I feel compelled to tell it.” The Hard Science of Time Travel and Storytelling Kelton Reid: Yeah, yeah. Well, it is really fun. I will point back to your website, I think, Elanmastai.com, where you can pre-order the book and/or order it if you’re listening to this after it’s been published on all these fantastic platforms. It seems like a lot of research went into some of these things. Now, I haven’t asked Andy Weir what he thinks about the science behind it, but I would be curious. But he did plug it. He loved it. He said it was a “thrilling tale of time travel, alternate timelines, with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity’s future.” He was also a guest on this show, which I will point to in the show notes for listeners also. But, tell me about the science. Were you just having lot of fun? It seems like you were just having so much fun writing this. But were you also consulting, like, Wikipedia from time to time on the time travel stuff? Elan Mastai: Not necessarily Wikipedia- Kelton Reid: Yeah. Elan Mastai: But, yeah. My grandfather, who was the one who really introduced me to science fiction when I was a kid was a chemist; he was a scientist by trade, and he loved science fiction. But he often would complain that these sci-fi books are terrific, but they get the science all wrong. They don’t even try. And in fact, the science is very interesting and if they would just … He was always going on about it. If they would just take a little bit of time to figure out the science, they would actually find their story would be more interesting. Because it would be grounded in reality. I guess that’s always been in the back of my mind. So when I started writing I would definitely just write where my imagination took me, and I would just run with it. But then I made the decision, I’m going to figure out how as much of this stuff as possible would actually work. So whether that’s what traffic patterns might be like in a world with flying cars, or how exactly radiation works. Most specifically, creating a model of time travel that takes into consideration that the planet moves. And not just that the earth is constantly moving, but that it’s moving very, very quickly. At its equator, the earth rotates on its axis at a 1000 miles an hour. Every second of the day, the earth is rotating around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour. So that’s very, very fast, and that’s not even taking into consideration how fast the sun is moving through the galaxy. I’d never really seen a time-tr- … I love time travel stories; I read lot of them. I had never personally found one that actually acknowledged that the earth is constantly moving. And if you’re going to throw somebody back in time, you’re actually also throwing them back in space, and not just a short distance; thousands, tens of thousands, millions, even billions of miles, literally, back in space to land very precisely on the spinning outer crust on our planet, and not embedded inside the planet, not so far high up in the atmosphere that you fall to your death, not in an ocean, not in an object, not out in the empty vacuum of space, but actually right on the planet in the exact spot. And I thought, “Well, this is very complicated. It involves math. I’m not a mathematician or a physicist, but if I’m going to ask my reader to read this, I’m going to figure it out. I want to see if I can come up with a model of time travel that actually takes into consideration orbital mechanics and astrodynamics.” And by doing that, I opened up all these other really cool areas of storytelling that I wouldn’t have actually found in the writing process had I not started that process of actually trying to work out the orbital mechanics. Kelton Reid: Thanks so much for joining me for this half of a tour through the writer’s process. If you enjoy The Writer Files podcast, please subscribe to the show and leave us a rating or a review on iTunes to help other writers find us. For more episodes or to just leave a comment or a question, you can drop by WriterFiles.FM and you can always chat with me on Twitter @KeltonReid. Cheers. Talk to you next week.
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