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On today's show, we're continuing the Farm Friday series with the AL West. Seattle Mariners OF Julio Rodriguez wasn't even picked in our Rookie of the Year draft - is he the most underrated prospect in baseball? With the Texas Rangers losing star prospect Josh Jung to a shoulder injury, how quickly can they expect contributions from the minor leagues for their $500M infield? We discuss why the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics have bad farm systems, and those are VASTLY different reasons, and we ask if there's any hope whatsoever for the Los Angeles Angels. Follow the show on Twitter @LockedOnFarm, follow Lindsay on Twitter @CrosbyBaseball, and send your questions/concerns/comments to LockedOnMLBProspects@gmail.com. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Many fighters struggle to adapt their training program to suit their personal weekly schedule... A schedule that's VASTLY different to a full time fighter out in Thailand. In this short podcast, I explain more by way of a worked example from Jamie. Podcast episode show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2022/01/20/for-fighters-is-one-run-enough/

WELCOME TO 2022 AND A NEW SEASON OF Q&R!!! This week we review the highly anticipated new season of Euphoria (SPOILER ALERT,) and we discuss our own high school experiences, which were VASTLY different from that of Euphoria Land. Follow us on Instagram: @queerandrelevant @marcellamarmusic @iamrondmc Follow us on Twitter: @queerrelevant --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/queer--relevant/support

Danny Parkins and Matt Spiegel argued about whether it was a smart decision by the Bears to hire Hall of Fame executive Bill Polian as a consultant in their search for a new head coach and general manager. Polian is here to save the Bears by finding their next top football leaders, but Spiegs wishes he'd stick around a little longer.

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Today, we're taking things a little bit in a different direction. The idea for this podcast came from our girl Katie Graham and we thought it was FUNNY. We're about to bring to the table multiple areas of our friendship where we have VASTLY different opinions and discuss live on the show. We are very similar but then very very very different in certain aspects, so today we're going to fight about it. More of a lighthearted, girl chat/friend episode. NOW LET'S DEBATE!!!   Show notes: https://theheartuniversity.com/201-friend-fight-30-minutes-of-us-disagreeing   The Heart Conference: www.theheartuniversity.com/conference   Lightroom Editing Challange: www.theheartuniversity.com/challenge   If you want to connect with us and other listeners in the Heart and Hustle community join our Facebook group here.   Follow along: www.instagram.com/mrslindseyroman www.instagram.com/evierupp www.instagram.com/theheartuniversity  

Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Shortcut - Get started at shortcut.com/pythonbytes Special guest: Chris Patti Brian #1: Using cog to update --help in a Markdown README file Simon Willison I've wanted to have a use case for Ned Batchelder's cog Cog is a utility that looks for specially blocks [[[cog some code ]]] and [[[end]]] These block can be in comments, [HTML_REMOVED] for markdown. When you run cog on a file, it runs the “some code” and puts the output after the middle ]]] and before the [[[end]]]. Simon has come up with an excellent use, running --help and capturing the output for a README.md file for a CLI project. He even wrote a test, pytest of course, to check if the README.md needs updated. Michael #2: An oral history of Bank Python Bank Python implementations are effectively proprietary forks of the entire Python ecosystem which are in use at many (but not all) of the biggest investment banks. The first thing to know about Minerva is that it is built on a global database of Python objects. Barbara is a simple key value store with a hierarchical key space. It's brutally simple: made just from pickle and zip. Applications also commonly store their internal state in Barbara - writing dataclasses straight in and out with only very simple locking and transactions (if any). There is no filesystem available to Minerva scripts and the little bits of data that scripts pick up has to be put into Barbara. Barbara also has some "overlay" features: # connect to multiple rings: keys are 'overlaid' in order of # the provided ring names db = barbara.open("middleoffice;ficc;default") # get /Etc/Something from the 'middleoffice' ring if it exists there, # otherwise try 'ficc' and finally the default ring some_obj = db["/Etc/Something"] Lots of info about modeling with classes (instruments, books, etc) If you understand excel you will be starting to recognize similarities. In Excel, spreadsheets cells are also updated based on their dependencies, also as a directed acyclic graph. Dagger allows people to put their Excel-style modelling calculations into Python, write tests for them, control their versioning without having to mess around with files like CDS-OF-CDS EURO DESK 20180103 Final (final) (2).xlsx. Dagger is a key technology to get financial models out of Excel, into a programming language and under tests and version control. Time to drop a bit of a bombshell: the source code is in Barbara too, not on disk. Remain composed. It's kept in a special Barbara ring called sourcecode. Interesting table structures, like Pandas, but closer to a DB (MnTable) Over time the divergence between Bank Python and Open Source Python grows. Technology churns on both sides, much faster outside than in of course, but they do not get closer. Minerva has its own IDE - no other IDEs work if you keep your source files in a giant global database. What I can't understand is why it contains its own web framework. Investment banks have a one-way approach to open source software: (some of) it can come in, but none of it can go out BTW, I “read” this with naturalreaders app Chris #3: Pyxel Pyxel is a ‘retro gaming console' written in Python! This might seem old and un-shiny, but the restrictions imposed by the environment gift simplicity Vastly decreased learning time and effort compared to something like Unity or even Pygame Straight forward simple commands, just like it was for micro-computers in the 80s cls(), line(), rect(), circ() etc. Pyxel is somewhat more Python and less console than others like PICO-8 or TIC-80 but this is a feature! Use your regular development environment to build. Brian #4: How to Ditch Codecov for Python Projects Hynek Schlawack Codecov is a third party service that checks your coverage output and fails a build if coverage dropped. It's not without issues. Hynek is using coverage.py --fail-under flag in place of this in GitHub actions. It's not as simple as just adding a flag if you are using --parallel to combine coverage for multiple test runs into one report. Hynek is utilizing the coverage output as an artifact for each test, then pulling them all together in a coverage stage combine and check coverage. He provides the snippet of GH Action, and even links to a working workflow file using this process. Nice! Michael #5: tiptop (like glances) via Zach Villers tiptop is a command-line system monitoring tool in the spirit of top. It displays various interesting system stats, graphs it, and works on all operating systems. Really nice visualization for your servers Good candidate for pipx install tiptop Chris #6: pyc64 A Commodore 64 emulator written in pure Python! Not 100% complete - screen drawing is PETSCII character mode only This still allows for a lot of interesting apps & exploration Actual machine emulation using py65 - a pure Python 6502 chip emulator! You can pop to a Python REPL from inside the emulator and examine data structures like memory, registers, etc! An incredible example of what Python is capable of 0.6 Mhz with CPython and over 2Mhz with pypy! Extras Michael: Michael's FlaskCon 2021 HTMX Talk Chris: Amazon OpsTech IT is hiring! (If deemed appropriate :) Joke: I hate how the screens get bright so early this time of year

Today on the Zeoli Show, Rich discussed the supply chain issues that continue to dominate the holiday season and the media warning consumers they need to purchase their items now. Yet, President Biden has assurances from executives at Wal-Mart and Target they'll be well stocked and be supplied this holiday season. So are the supply chain issues really as big an issue as they are portrayed. Also, President Biden is not helping the already tense relationship with China.  ​​6:00-NEWS 6:05-The shortage on supplies seems to be greatly exaggerated   6:20-FBI created a "threat tag" on alleged harassment of educators  6:35-Preparing for Thanksgiving 6:40-Shock your body every once in a while  7:00-NEWS 7:05-FBI whistleblower reveals they put a "threat tag" on parents at school board meetings across the nation  7:30-Lessons of gender fluidity and transgenderism are in classes as young as Kindergarten  What's on the Cut Sheet 7:45-Bill Maher goes on the Lesser Cuomo on the ridiculousness of woke culture 7:50-Maher compares media reaction to Hunter Biden laptop story to if Donald Trump Jr. had a similar story.  7:55-Gloria Alred accuses Alec Baldwin of playing Russian roulette on the movie set of "rust" in the killing of Halyna Hutchins.  8:00-"The most "woke" episode in television history  8:10-All bets are on "Ghostbusters: After Life" to save movie theaters 8:20-Vice President Kamala Harris lacks approval everywhere  8;25-NEWS 8:35-Nothing in the new Pennsylvania conceal carry bill changes how to acquire a gun.  9:00-NEWS 9:05-President Biden's Taiwan gaffs continue to have real world consequences.  9:15-White House will keep mask mandate despite the Mayor of DC lifting the mandate in the city  and countries are locking down the unvaccinated.  9:25-Confusion on who needs to get the COVID booster vaccine  9:35-Tennessee Representative compares Lets Go Brandon chants to burning the American flag 9:40-CBS News report on the tensions between China and the United States 9:45-Kyle Rittenhouse Judge slams the media for their "frightening" coverage of the trial  9:50-President Biden has assurances from Wal-Mart and Target on their inventories  9:55-Final Thoughts Photo by: Nic Antaya / Stringer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this podcast, Ali talks about his experience in building his syndicate and how the rise of syndicates has impacted the seed capital landscape and much more!

In this week's In the Dirt, Randall and Craig take a look at gravel handlebar trends, new bags from Post Carry Co, Craig's new strength training with EverAthlete, a new Bay Area bikepacking route and tease an ongoing discussion of social media and cycling in The Ridership. Bay Area Triple Bypass Route Post Carry Bags Whisky Spano Bar Support the Podcast Join The Ridership   Automated transcription, please excuse the typos and errors: Untitled [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: Hello and welcome to the gravel ride podcast. I'm your host Craig Dalton. I'll be joined shortly by my co-host randall jacobs for another episode of in the dirt . [00:00:12] This episode is brought to you by our friends at thesis bike. Yes. That indeed is Randall's company thesis. Randall donates his time to the gravel ride podcast in the dirt series, out of an abundance of passion for the sport. But he also runs a company called thesis, as you know, is the maker of the OB one bicycle. [00:00:33] That is actually the bicycle that I ride. If you follow me on social media, you may see my custom painted pink. Thesis, OB one. I affectionately refer to as Mr. Pinky. Anyway, I wanted to give you an update. Thesis has some bikes back in stock.  [00:00:50] As I mentioned a few weeks ago, they've got some of those SRAM rival access grupos in stock. So they've got bikes ready to go, but more importantly, they've just, re-introduced their bring a friend referral program. That'll get you $500 off an OB one. When you purchase a bike with a friend. Or if you have a friend that has a thesis.  [00:01:13] You can hit them up for a $500 discount. So coordinate with the team over a thesis. If you have any questions, you can email them@helloatthesis.bike.  [00:01:23] Or check them out online@thesis.bike, they offer free one-on-one consultations, which is a great way to see if a thesis. It will be. One is the right bike for you.  [00:01:33] With that said, let me grab Randall and let's jump into in the dirt.  [00:01:37] Craig: Hey Randall, how you doing today? [00:01:39] Randall: I'm doing well, Craig, how are you? My friend.  [00:01:42] Craig: I'm good. I literally just got done recording the pre-roll.  [00:01:47] Talking about. [00:01:47] thesis, your company's new refer a friend program, which I thought was cool.  [00:01:52] Let I let the listeners know about that, and I appreciate your efforts as a cohost of in the dirt, but separately, when you wear your thesis bike company, hat. I do appreciate the time to time financial support you provide the podcast. Because it really is the type of thing that keeps the balls rolling around here. [00:02:10] Randall: For sure. Yeah. In our bring your friend program is actually something we did before and had to pull when supply chains went sideways. And now that we have bikes in stock, we'd much rather reward the community rather than. You know, paying Bookface or some ad network to, to reach people. So it's nice to be able to reward those who help spread the word. And then obviously, you know, with what you do, it's been very aligned from the beginning. So thanks for the opportunity to work with you.  [00:02:35] Craig: Yeah. [00:02:35] absolutely appreciate it. Yeah. It's so ridiculous that there was like 15 months or more in there where bike companies just didn't bother advertising or promoting themselves because it was so ridiculously hard product into consumer's hands.  [00:02:50] Randall: Yeah, there's really no point in trying to sell something you don't have. And don't don't know when you'll have it again. That seems to be. That seems to be a phenomenon that's going to continue well into the future for awhile. From what  [00:03:03] Craig: Yeah. I mean, not to bring sort of macroeconomic trends in here, but I was just, just listening to someone talk about how in Apple's earnings call. There is some suggestion that. Supply chains are improving. They have not improved entirely, but that they are. Improving and that in the grand scheme of things, this will be a temporary blip, but temporary could mean two years.  [00:03:26] Randall: Yeah. Yeah. In their case, they're dealing with chips too, which I'm getting a new chip Foundry online is a multi-year $10 billion project. So fortunately we don't have that in the bike industry. We're pretty, pretty low on the technology front, even with our. Wireless shifting, which, how did that take so long to come come about?  [00:03:46] Craig: How are you doing otherwise? Is the weather starting to change on the east coast for you? [00:03:49] Randall: We've had some beautiful days past several days. We had a nor'easter coming through. So I did steal away for a trail run between, between rains in the should have some good weather on the weekend and otherwise loving being with family here in Boston, it's a very different lifestyle than the one I was living in the bay area.  [00:04:06] And it's a very much aligned with where I'm at. Yeah.  [00:04:09] Craig: We get, we got absolutely hammered out here by that rainstorm in Moran. I think we had the highest rain count in Anywhere in California. [00:04:17] that weekend. I think we got on Tam and there's 12 inches of rain. So it was, it was literally coming out of every pore of The mountain. There were new streams and waterfalls being, being created.  [00:04:29] I mean, God knows we needed the water. [00:04:31] and is so nice. I wrote up the mountain for Dawn patrol on a Wednesday and Just to see a little water. [00:04:36] in places where it has been devoid. Void because of the drought was, was nice.  [00:04:42] Randall: When I did see your, your conversation or the conversation you chimed in on in, on, on the ridership about you know, opening up a new you know, gullies and things like this in the trails. So hopefully they're relatively intact. [00:04:55] Craig: Yeah, that was fun. I mean, that's one of those things that you and I have always like thought and hoped would happen in the ridership. Just this idea that a writer could pop a message into the forum and say, Hey, we just got this huge rainstorm. How, how are the trails looking? Is it rideable or is it too.  [00:05:11] As it a sloppy mess. [00:05:13] Randall: Yeah, it's pretty neat.  [00:05:14] Craig: The  [00:05:14] Randall: been training quite a bit lately, right?  [00:05:16] Craig: Yeah. [00:05:16] You know, I was going to say The other good.  [00:05:17] thing about the rain and not being, Wanting to ride my bike outside. [00:05:22] lately, as I have. [00:05:23] committed to a strength training program. [00:05:25] It's one of those things as I've nagged about my back on the podcast. Many months ago.  [00:05:31] That I've actually implemented a little bit of a plan And I've been. [00:05:35] working via a company called ever athlete. And I became aware of them.  [00:05:41] As one of the founder is Kate Courtney's strength and conditioning coach, Kate Courtney being a former world champion mountain Biker. [00:05:49] who comes from This area. [00:05:51] And what, what appealed to me most about. The ever athlete program was that they have a run specific program, a cycling specific program, and then basic conditioning.  [00:06:03] after chatting with them, [00:06:04] a little bit online. And I had a phone call with them just as a general consumer. You know, it was advised that I start with beginner strength training.  [00:06:12] And Totally. [00:06:14] spot on if I started anything beyond beginner. I would have been absolutely destroyed. And frankly, like some of the exercises. Do you have me sore in places that are not used to being sore?  [00:06:26] Randall: So if somebody were to ask you, do you even lift bro? The answer would be not quite yet. I'm doing the beginner stuff first.  [00:06:34] Craig: Yeah.  [00:06:35] Exactly. Like I don't have tank tops yet and a special weightlifting gear and gloves that I'm using, But I have. [00:06:42] I'm on weak. I'm proud of myself. [00:06:43] I just completed week four of an eight week, week block.  [00:06:47] Just getting my body's too. Basic strength training. I'm using a TRX, some elastic bands.  [00:06:54] And just a few basic weights. That's not a exorbitant setup, I'm just doing it. And, you know, eight by eight area of My garage. [00:07:02] every other day.  [00:07:04] Randall: That's great. Yeah, I've. I've gotten on a reasonably regular routine with a pair of 50 pound power blocks, adjustable dumbbells, which I'm a big fan of I've tried a few different types of adjustable dumbbells and these are the best have had. And just like doing a basic routine with not a crazy amount of weight and then adding some chin ups and AB work and so on squats and stuff like that, with that together with running and stretching, and I'll probably be adding yoga.  [00:07:30] As the winter progresses and I can't get outside so much.  [00:07:33] Craig: Yeah, you'll have to put a note in the show notes for me on that one. I'd be interested. Cause I know in ever athletes list of things that I may need. That type of wait setup is, will come into play at some point.  [00:07:45] Randall: Got it. Yeah. They don't, they don't pay us, but I can definitely endorse the power block sport. And it's totally sufficient for me, even at 50 pounds, because anything that I do with more than 50 pounds, I probably shouldn't be doing anyways. I don't need it.  [00:07:57] Craig: Yeah, I mean, good God Right now. [00:07:58] Randall, I'm basically doing almost exclusively body weight exercises.  [00:08:03] 50 pounds seems a long way away from where my current strength training is at.  [00:08:08] Randall: Oh, you can get a whole lot of resistance with just body weight too. So there's no need to buy too much expensive gear, but yeah, these are a good one. [00:08:15] Craig: Yeah. [00:08:16] totally. I mean, I think I'll walk away from this, knowing that just even, even strictly a body weight program would be hugely beneficial.  [00:08:23] Randall: Yeah, I think so. I'm curious to hear how your back is feeling in a couple of months.  [00:08:28] Craig: Yeah, for sure. [00:08:28] So I've got an a, as I said, I've got another month on basic, and then I think I'll just carry over into their cycling, their first cycling Specific program. [00:08:36] And I've been chatting with them. [00:08:37] and I think I'll have them on the pod so we can get just a deeper dive into.  [00:08:42] Not just Their program. [00:08:43] but just strength training specifically, and the, and the value for cyclists to take a break and do something different.  [00:08:51] Randall: I remember hearing a quote somewhere that the biggest problem with cyclists in their training program is that they only ride their bikes.  [00:08:59] Craig: A hundred percent. [00:09:00] It's funny. You mentioned that because another guest I've got coming up is a pretty world renowned. Bike fitter, but he from the UK, but he wrote a book called the midlife cyclist.  [00:09:10] And I'm going to dig into it with him, but yeah, one of the key takeaways is as an average, enthusiastic and passionate, enthusiastic cyclist.  [00:09:19] we're probably riding more and closer to our, not more by volume, but closer to our threshold than professional cyclists do because We go out there. [00:09:28] and we hammer, you know, we're just feeling like we're out there for a good time.  [00:09:31] And the best thing you could do is probably. Lose a workout or two on the bike and change it into some strength training or something. That's you know, testing different parts of your body.  [00:09:41] Randall: Yeah, I look forward to that episode. That'll be a good one.  [00:09:44] Craig: Yeah. [00:09:45] I'm super excited about it. I mean, I've just been thinking about it. In light of my own winter and what I want to achieve and how I want to set myself up for success next year. And success for me just means into being healthy and strong enough to tackle. You know, a big event or two here or there and not have it totally destroyed me.  [00:10:03] Randall: Yeah. And I think that for some of us do I, I ended up talking to a lot of athletes who are. You know, or later in years, and just being able to know that you can, you have some control over your ability to ride well into old age and maintained flexibility and bone density and injury prevention and all these other things is you know, it's, it's it's a good resource for folks to have to, to know how to, how to approach that. [00:10:28] Craig: Yeah, totally. I've. [00:10:28] got another great episode that I'm recording actually immediately after this with Brian McCulloch. Ah,  [00:10:33] Former pro road racer, former BWR winner, and most recently just won. I think it was The masters category. [00:10:40] of mountain bike nationals.  [00:10:41] So Awesome guys. [00:10:42] super enthusiastic. And one of the things he was telling me in his coaching practice. [00:10:47] was that, you know, he coaches plenty of athletes whose goal is I want to complete the event and then be totally Pepe for the beer garden afterwards. [00:10:57] And he's  [00:10:57] I'm Totally down with it. No one wants to just barely crawl across the finish line And then have to go to their car. [00:11:04] to take a nap, especially in these gravel events. We want to finish, we want to commune with our fellow participants and, you know, I think that's a. Admirable goal for anyone to not only cross the finish line, but be able to. Party Hardy as the kids say.  [00:11:20] Randall: Yeah. It's you know, you have the combination of having endured something with, with other people and then getting to connect like the, the vehicle for connection elements shines out of that, that statement there, which is certainly why I ride.  [00:11:33] Craig: Yeah, totally. And speaking of events I know I did a recap episode of Water, but I thought we chat about that a little bit since it's something you've participated in, in years past. [00:11:42] Randall: number of times. Yeah, this is actually the first year, the first time in years that I didn't go. It, I just reading the reporting. It seems like the. You know, the new stuff was relatively sparse. There's a couple of things that you and I want to, to jump into in future episodes with the new BMC.  [00:11:58] Headshot, they're not calling it a headshot, but it's, it looks like a head shock and surrounds new flight, attendants, suspension, and so on. So that'll be fun to dive into, but I'm curious, what else did you see that was compelling?  [00:12:09] Craig: Yeah. You know, I mean, it's first off for those of you who don't know, it's quite the festival. I mean, you've got everything from downhill and Duro, gravel cross-country road racing.  [00:12:20] While I find it. [00:12:21] a bit overwhelming, the sheer number of cyclists and people that are there. At Laguna Seca. It is fun to see someone in spandex and a pro road kit. Riding through the pits next to you, a downhill kid with his full face helmet, shoved back on his head with a neck brace. [00:12:39] Randall: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.  [00:12:41] Craig: You know, from a, from a product perspective and manufacturer perspective. The number of booths was down. I mean, it still was quite a Hardy show, but I would say. You know, with the absence of the international.  [00:12:54] Manufacturers. [00:12:55] coming is probably like 40%, less sheer booths. So it made it more manageable. Whereas now the last time they held it in person.  [00:13:03] I felt like covering it in one day was just too much. Like I really needed about a day and a half or a day and three quarters to get around. [00:13:12] and make sure I poked my head in every booth That was out there. [00:13:15] this year was a little bit more manageable. I think in three quarters of a day, I had cruised around and seen everything I wanted to see.  [00:13:22] Randall: Cool. Cool. And you only spent the one day. Yeah.  [00:13:25] Craig: Yeah. [00:13:25] I just did a day trip which I think. Made me like it a little bit more. I mean, I think the last time we were down there, It was just such a cluster AF to, you know, get in and out of there with your car and you were parked so far away. So I found that this fit where I was at this this year. [00:13:42] Randall: Yeah we had a booth last time too. So we had all of that setting up and tearing down and so on. But yeah, hopefully by next year, it's it would make sense for me to get out there again, cause I've always enjoyed that. It's actually the only, the only time I've ever lined up at a race with like international.  [00:14:00] Racers.  [00:14:01] You know, just cause they you know, even if you were a low, a low level, regional domestic pro, you could line up in the, the UCI cross-country race. So you're not necessarily racing the same race, but burry stander was there and Christoph saucer was there and it was just like my moment of oh wow.  [00:14:16] You know, getting to. Line up. 15 rows behind them.  [00:14:20] Craig: You're like, I'm going to stay on their wheel and 50 meters. And you're like, I'm not going to stay on their wheel. [00:14:24] Randall: Oh, they, they started 20 seconds before I did. By the time everyone's actually rolling. So there's, there's no staying on any wheels regardless.  [00:14:32] Craig: That's all. It's the funniest thing. When I'm at these big events, when they, they shoot off the starting gun and you're far enough back that nothing happens. There's no movement.  [00:14:41] Randall: Yeah, the slinky effect.  [00:14:43] Craig: Yeah. [00:14:44] But there have been, you know, there's been some cool stuff dropping lately that I think we should talk about. You  [00:14:49] know, I think. We should jump in a little bit into the handlebars that have been coming out because I know. In talking to you. You had a particular design in mind that you.  [00:15:01] thought was what you would design. If you.  [00:15:04] were going to design a Handlebar. [00:15:05] from the ground up, and then lo and behold, someone came out with one that was pretty darn close to what you described.  [00:15:11] Randall: Yeah. So I've called out this Aero Jaya. I think it's called my three T a number of times. And this was the closest thing to what I would design that I had seen. But whiskey just came out with a bar called the Spano. Or Spanno however they want to accentuate that a and pretty much everything about this is the way that I would design a bar.  [00:15:30] There's a few things I would do subtly differently and I can definitely share that. But You know, it's 12 degrees at the hoods and 20 degrees to the drops and it's a compound flare. And so you don't have to have the same flare. At the hoods and in the drops, because a lot of the leavers these days have some flare built in anyways. I would probably go with a little bit less flare with the hoods to give it a little more roadie position, maybe eight degrees, but still.  [00:15:53] For, you know, this is well done. It's a flat top design there. It looks like they've had some engineered flex. Built into, you know, what I would call like the wings of the bar so that you get some vertical flex. From the bar, which could help to, you know, negate the need for something as substantial as like a suspension stem.  [00:16:12] I think that these compliance structures are our real opportunity to add. Compliance to the bike without necessarily having to add mechanical linkages and things like this.  [00:16:22] Craig: Yeah. Yeah. I think that that, that compliance is something that people would really benefit from. And if, if, if the manufacturers can do it in subtle ways, I think it all adds up.  [00:16:33] Randall: Challenges that different riders are going to have different needs in terms of let's just say you want to deliver the same experience to everybody. Then, you know, with a given handlebar under a bigger rider, you are going to need it to be stiffer in order for them to have the same experiences as a lighter weight rider. Who's just not exerting the same force.  [00:16:50] So that would be one thing where, you know, that's hard to do without having two versions of the bar or some sort of tuneable flex mechanism, which is something I've played around with, but adds complexity.  [00:16:59] I do like how the, the drop is really shallow. It's a hundred mil. The reaches is pretty short, 68. I would have the drop scale with the size of the bar would be one minor thing, because presumably on average, the, you know, the width of the bar is scaling with the size of the rider. But even that there's a huge amount of variation on that bell curve.  [00:17:19] Overall, like. It's this, this is from what I've seen and what you can do with the leavers that are on the market. Because there's only two companies that make them and they control Libra design. This, this is the most interesting one to me. Hopefully we can get our hands on one at some point and provide a proper review, but it looks really, really compelling. I'm glad to see this direction towards compound flares.  [00:17:41] Craig: Yeah. Yeah. [00:17:41] I thought that I was going to key in, on that. Those words you used compound flares, because I do think that's interesting because you know, one of the things that. The F the former roadie in me, I do not like when the, when the shifter lovers are angled into too far. And it doesn't feel, it doesn't feel great. And it seems if there's a.  [00:18:00] If there's a design way too. Still get the flare you need at the bottoms while not overly adjusting where the hoods are, you know, that's a win.  [00:18:11] Randall: Yeah. And, and, you know, in our bars, we went with a. Non-compounded 10 degree flare because it is, you know, the best, the most glared you can get without it. Really effecting the ergonomics at the hoods, especially with say ceramides mechanical road leavers that have a kind of a square edge. So if you rotate them too far out, you get a kind of a pressure point in the middle of the hand. [00:18:31] But yeah, it's a pretty neat handlebar. So [00:18:35] Craig: Yeah. And with everything. You know, I think you've gotta be tooling costs are obviously like the big concern and changing it. Dramatically. Size wise each time. And so you, haven't got to think about. How many sets of tools are you willing to buy to bring this product to market? Handlebar replacement. I don't know what kind of volume any of these companies do with their handlebars, but it's, it's a little bit of a balance there. I would think from a manufacturing perspective.  [00:19:03] Randall: Yeah to, to dive a little bit into this without going too deep nerd. So if you're a big manufacturer, like a specialized or a track or something, you can amortize those tooling costs over a large number of bicycles that are specking that this handlebar at the OEM level, if you're doing an aftermarket bar,  [00:19:19] It's a lot harder. And the tooling cost is quite material on an item like this, where it's low volume and you have so many different sizes. Usually it would be three tools. You'd have. You know, or at least the three component tool. So you have. You know, the two drops and then you have the center section and maybe the center section is a single mold.  [00:19:38] With different inserts or even like you make one long one and then you chop it to the width that you want. And then you essentially bond on the drops. Which is where some extra weight comes in. So if you see bars like 250 grams or so if you want to drop 50 grams without compromising the structural integrity, that has to be a one-piece bar, which means.  [00:19:57] An independent, large mold. That's that's moderately complex for every single size. And if you're only doing a few hundred units a year, which is a good volume for an aftermarket handlebar, that's hard to justify economically.  [00:20:10] Craig: Yeah. [00:20:10] that makes a ton of sense. I'm actually curious, and maybe listeners can either hit us up on social media or in the ridership, ideally about how often.  [00:20:18] People replace their bars. And is it the type of thing that When you're building. [00:20:22] the bike, you get that bar and you never think about it otherwise. Which I suspect, I know I've certainly been there in my bike ownership life. But I do think there's a decent amount of innovation in gravel bars for people to consider and just keep an eye out there for what are the performance benefits? How do these different bars feel?  [00:20:43] When you put them on your existing bike.  [00:20:45] Randall: I do think that one of the major constraints here is simply cost and that actually has less to do with the unit cost and more to do with having to amortize the tooling costs over. So few units. But I, you know, handlebars like a carbon bar on the one hand, it's somewhat disposable. If you design it, if you don't design it right. Where if you crash, like you really want to replace it. But on the other hand, the, the opportunities for compound shapes and for compliance being built in.  [00:21:12] Negates may negate the need for more expensive and complicated solutions elsewhere on the bike to achieve the same goals. You know, I'd like to see if I could do a handlebar at scale, You know, the, the actual cost on something like this is for a tiny fraction of the actual sale price of, you know, 250 to 400 bucks on some of these bars. [00:21:31] Craig: Yeah. [00:21:31] That's the thing. I mean, once you've got, once you've got your bike frame. And you're not going to replace that. You really need to look at your attachment points as the, you know, how are you going to tune the bike? [00:21:41] Randall: Yeah, the touch points. Exactly.  [00:21:44] Craig: On the other end of the spectrum. [00:21:46] curve had a bar called the Walmart. Out for a while. And curve is probably best known for their massively wide bars. I mean like 50 plus centimeter bars.  [00:21:58] Very different riding style. They've actually gone the other way and introduced a narrower version of that. And I just think it's interesting to see them coming in. I mean, I can imagine that she super, super wide bar is a big part of the markets. I suppose it's not surprising. To see them go narrower.  [00:22:15] Randall: They're also going with aluminum. You know, your tooling cost is. It's basically a jig. So it's not, you can do smaller volume and, and carve out that little niche for oneself, but yeah, they went with a 40 and a 43 with, it looks like here, but the. My concern would be the flare is so great at the hoods.  [00:22:34] That you'd really want to be mindful of the shape of the hoods that you're using to make sure that it's not going to put a pressure point in your hand.  [00:22:42] Craig: Yeah. Yeah. [00:22:42] I think it's a bar for a very specific customer. Follow up question for you on a aluminum versus carbon in the handlebar from a field perspective, what are the what's. How should people think about the difference in feel between those two materials?  [00:22:57] Randall: It really depends on how it's engineered. It really depends heavily on how it's engineered. And I was. You know, the particulars of the material, how it's shaped, how it's drawn is it, is it. You know, buddied and so on, which is an actual budding process. And with carbon kind of same thing, like.  [00:23:13] What is, what is the shape? What type of carbon is being used? What is the layup? You can make a structure that is incredibly stiff or very compliant you could add. I think loaf their bar, they're using some You know, some fancily branded. Fiberglass material in order to create you know, some, some even, even greater, even greater flex in the part of the handlebar, just beyond the clamp with the stem.  [00:23:38] GT did this with their original grade and may still to this day on the seat stays, they actually have a fiberglass wrapped in carbon fiber. So fiberglass is what's used in like a fishing pole. So think about the extremes of flex that you can get with that before it breaks. [00:23:52] So there's it really just, it just depends, but in terms of the opportunities to tune flex and so on. Vastly greater with carbon, for sure, for sure. But this trade-offs with that.  [00:24:03] Craig: Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. Hey, the other thing I wanted to mention in terms of new product drops recently was our friend mark at post Kericho. I dropped a couple of new bags.  [00:24:14] Randall: Yeah, let's take a look at these. So he's got a new handlebar bag. Which these, these things are hard to. Talk too much about with action without actually experiencing one, but  [00:24:27] Craig: Yeah. [00:24:28] I think the interest, the interesting thing about all Mark's stuff is he's a very thoughtful designer and one of my pet peeves around the handlebar bags, and it's got nothing to do with. Like general use of the bag. Is that with the zipper being up top?  [00:24:43] With my bike, computer Mount, and oftentimes a light it's really hard to get at them because it's being pushed down and Mark's designed the zipper to be in the middle of the front of this bag.  [00:24:57] I saw some comments about Alex, stuff's going to drop out. But I think at the end of the day, you're going to know that it's there and that's where it's located. So I think from a practical perspective, it's still going to work, but it would solve my personal problem with trying to get in there without unstrapping the bag from the handlebar.  [00:25:14] Randall: Yeah. And this bag is also quite compact, this new bag in the mini handlebar bag that he came out with. And so I could imagine. Strapping it to the bar and the little strap on the back around the stem, as opposed to, you know, having to strap it in a way that may push cables or the bag itself into the head tube, which is a very common problem with these handlebar bags.  [00:25:35] And you know, leads me to actually on my bike packing bag to have add straps in order to have it connect both to the bar and then to like right behind the hoods. So you don't get that rotational flop and it [00:25:49] keeps it off the head tube. But that's a [00:25:51] Craig: And are they get minimum? At minimum for anyone writing. Riding. You know, a lot, lots of types of bags, just consider putting some protective film over your frame in case there's rubbing. [00:26:00] Randall: For sure. For sure. Yeah, we, yeah. Good recommendation.  [00:26:05] Craig: The other interesting one he came up with was this bomber top tube bag, which is a very long and, and Kind of not, not a big stack height bag that can go along the top tube or underneath the top tube. It's the, maybe three quarters of the length of the top two, but it looks like.  [00:26:21] We're just, it's interesting. I don't think for me, it's like a daily rider type thing, but I do love the multiple different positions of it. And I could see for a bigger trip or a bigger day out this being like one of those bags that I just add on for specific purposes. [00:26:36] Randall: Yeah, And presumably it's a bit lighter than his existing frame bag, which I own, I'm not sure if you own as well. I'm a huge fan of that bag for, for bigger days on the bike where I need to bring stuff.  [00:26:47] Craig: Yeah. [00:26:47] no. I imagine like running that quarter frame bag and then adding this one on top, you know, if you were doing some epic back country ride and wanted to maybe bring a full pump or what have you I think this is a neat option to add on and augment that kind of storage.  [00:27:02] Randall: One comment I did see in one of the articles was this idea of, you know, maybe it would be a mountable on the bottom of the down tube. Which I actually think is a a space where, you know, a design, a bag that was designed specifically for that space could both lower center of mass. And Potentially provide some protection for that part of the bike from rocks kicking up and so on, which is a significant concern, especially when you get into more Tundra terrain on one of these gravel bikes.  [00:27:31] Craig: Yeah. I think some more of the hardcore bike packing pack bag manufacturers have solutions for that area, whether they're building off the bottle cage, that's often down there and a lot of these gravel bikes. We're otherwise attaching agree. It's a, it's an interesting place. There's so many different nooks and crannies.  [00:27:50] To jam stuff on these bikes with all these new modern bags. It's a, you're not, there's no dearth of options for you, depending on how you want to set up your rig.  [00:27:58] Randall: Yeah. And the last thing we'll call out here is the the seat bag, which is a pretty standard, but really elegantly designed seat bag. And I just got to, you know, give a shout out for him on just the aesthetics of these bags. Then also the cost structure, like the seat bags, 30 bucks. You know, the, the bomber bag.  [00:28:13] I'm seeing 35 bucks. So really getting like this high quality construction and design at a very accessible price point. So Bravo mark, keep up the good work. Good to see you. Continuing to put product out.  [00:28:25] Craig: Yeah, kudos. Speaking of other things that people, we know, people from the ridership we're putting out there in the world. Some cool stuff on bike, packing.com.  [00:28:34] Randall: Yeah. So our friends Emily Chung and Seth Hur from over at bike index. So you've worked with, did he do the full triple crossover?  [00:28:44] Craig: He did.  [00:28:44] Randall: Yeah. So the bay area, triple crossover, which was published on bike, packing.com over the past week or so, 161 miles, three to four days 65% unpaved and a really, a lot of great photography and so on. And it covers essentially from Marin. North of San Francisco all the way around the bay, back to south bay.  [00:29:06] Maybe in the other direction, maybe that's how they finished up, but it's a, and there's actually a way. Yeah. And there's a way to, and we discussed this in the forum to connect to the bay area Ridge trail through the Santa Cruz mountains. If someone wanted to do an entire loop here, which  [00:29:21] She, she very well may do at some point in posts, but a really cool to see members of the community going out and having good adventures and sharing the routes with others so that others can follow in the footsteps or pedal strokes. As we may say.  [00:29:34] Craig: Yeah. [00:29:34] for sure. It's so valuable to have this sort of bait out there. And I love all the imagery. I. People should go to the bike, packing.com. Link and you can find it either in the ridership or we'll put it in the show notes for this episode, stunning pictures. And it's so cool. I think there's one picture I'm looking at right now.  [00:29:52] Of the four of them riding across the golden gate bridge. In part of their journey looks like they're heading towards Marin and this pitcher just starting off. I just love it. I'm in such, such sort of iconic. Imagery around the bay area. And for those of you not in this area,  [00:30:07] The idea. [00:30:08] that you could fly into SFO. Take a Bart train into the city with your bags or even write up and then start on this journey. From a major metropolitan area is just awesome. And even from some of the imagery, you would think you're nowhere near any sort of major city. [00:30:26] Randall: Oh, yeah, that was one of the things I loved about living in San Francisco was if I needed to be out in the middle of nowhere, I could be so with no one around in 45 minutes over in the headphones.  [00:30:36] Craig: Yeah. Yeah.  [00:30:37] exactly. [00:30:37] So kudos to MLA for all the great photography and her partners on that trip. Super cool and amazing that they put it out there. [00:30:44] Randall: Yeah. And another thing just to mention with this too, is a. They're in the forum. And so if this is something you want to do embark on one of the motivations, there was to be able to go to a new region and just reach out to folks and say, Hey, what's the beta. Hey, does anyone want to join me for a segment?  [00:31:00] You know, one of the group rides going on and we've been seeing those dynamics, which is really cool.  [00:31:04] Craig: Yeah, exactly. [00:31:05] I mean, it's so it's, so it's so great that there are so many sites out there that are publishing adventures and things like that. But being able to talk to people, locals about current conditions or.  [00:31:17] You know, even advice for that. Ad-on you described down into the Santa Cruz mountains, like That kind of stuff. [00:31:22] is awesome. And invaluable. If You're going to spend. [00:31:25] a week of Your hard earned time and vacation and money in a particular area. [00:31:30] I don't know about you, but I, I just want to get the most out of it as, as possible.  [00:31:34] Randall: Yeah, and this is something that you know, a conversation that sprung up organically in the forum and that we're going to be looking to facilitate a lot more conversation around, which is. You know, the role of, you know, what might be called social media, just online tools for connecting with others generally in the cycling experience. And so what is, what is a healthy role? What are unhealthy roles and how do we create something that.  [00:31:58] Facilitates things that, that help people live live better in gets out of the realm of say what certain large players have been accused of credibly in terms of That's the same behavior that is not, is more in the interest of profit and shareholders. Then the the people that they've disk.  [00:32:14] Describe as users.  [00:32:16] Craig: Yeah. [00:32:17] that, that thread in the ridership's really interesting and some very thoughtful commentary. It's fascinating how different people view different platforms. You know, obviously you've got mainstream social media and then more cycling specific sites that kind of serve similar purposes. So it's something, you know, I know you think a lot about, I've thought a lot about.  [00:32:38] In the context of the ridership and and generally interesting how other people are expressing their sell themselves. And. What types of things they use and don't want to use. [00:32:49] Randall: Yeah. So this is something that you know, we're also considering how to evolve the, the forum as well. We built it in slack because that was the best. Tool available. But we're exploring other tools and add ons and things like this. And if this is a conversation that interests you we'd really love your, your feedback and it's, you know, that conversation is happening in the ridership. So come join us there and let us know how we can make it better.  [00:33:12] Craig: Yeah. [00:33:12] As always. [00:33:13] I mean, we are very open to your input about these episodes and any other episode of the gravel ride podcast.  [00:33:20] The ridership forum is something that, you know, we started from Our hearts but it's really a community run initiative. [00:33:26] and we want to evolve as the community wants us to and, and directionally where they want us to go.  [00:33:33] Randall: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. [00:33:35] Craig: Yeah.  [00:33:36] Cool. [00:33:36] I think that's about it for this week's edition of in the dirt Randall. I appreciate your time as always.  [00:33:42] Randall: As always as well. Craig [00:33:43] Craig: And to all the listeners until next time here's to finding some dirt under your wheels. 

There's a dirty, not-so-little secret about what the Chinese Communist Party is up to. How's it paying for things like: an illegal biological warfare program that brought us Covid-19; economic warfare that's made us dependent on Beijing's supply  chains; a global, colonial Belt and Road Initiative; and a massive military build-up? The answer is: the CCP is using our money. Notably, we've lately had confirmed that Dr. Anthony Fauci has treasonously given China your taxpayer dollars to pay for enhancements to diseases intended to kill us – including one that has taken over 750,000 American lives already. Vastly more money, however – probably including some of yours – has been invested in the CCP by globalist Wall Street firms like Larry Fink's BlackRock. A new public interest campaign highlights the danger of such companies enabling our mortal enemy. Learn more at BlackRockLovesChina.com. This is Frank Gaffney.

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Download Numbers 22-24 We are in the World Stream reading from the Lexham English Bible. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | Donate Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis Lord, thank you for these reminders today of what we don't want to end up like in our pilgrimage. It's odd and it's sobering but that is why there are so many unpleasant stories of hearts gone wrong in the Bible. It reminds us of what to pray for protection against. Therefore, deliver us from evil. Amen. This is a strange story told with Balak, the King of Moab, as the core motivating figure today. Balak's motivation is that he is in utter terror surmising that his land and people will be completely lost to the Israelites whose army of fighting age men stands at around 600,000. Vastly outnumbered and with no hope of staving off the Israelites, he resorts to hiring a professional cursor to put a bad curse on the Israelites. In Balak's mind, this will throw the Israelites into duress and confusion. So Balak hires Balaam to do this dubious deed and offers to pay him a camel's-load full of money to do so.  Balaam, enroute to meet with Balak encounters an angel who warns him, [barring the path] to not go and engage in such an endeavor.  Strangely enough, Balaam's donkey sees the angel but Balaam didn't - for awhile! The talking donkey had you feel like you were back in Narnia there didn't it?!  Something we want to be clear on is that Balaam is not an Israelite.  He is from the region where Abraham had come from 700 years or so prior.  That area was known for its diviners, astrologers, magicians; people well-versed in the dark arts. You can see why God needed Abraham OUT of there if God was going to work with him and start a nation that was going to be a "Star"; a Light to the Gentiles. That area today is still a source of religion gone amok, save for the Kurds among whom many are Christian.  Those who care to search our Balaam's origins, his family, his father, his home region - the hunt takes one rather quickly right into a world that the Bible urges us not to venture into; witchcraft.  Thus, this is Balaam, whom Balak wanted on the job to cast a bad spell and see Israel cursed so that misfortune would come over them. The scene is certainly a peculiar development with multiple offerings and oracles and intended curses from Balak turning into inevitable blessings being foretold over Israel. And Balaam does not stray from what God ordered him to declare!  So Balak tries again and Balaam intends to remain principled and keeps prophesying for God when perhaps he should have just departed the venue. Be that as it was Balaam/Balak tarried and offered more sacrifices and responded again to Balak's apparent desire to see Israel cursed. And yet again, only blessings are declared for Israel. How could it be any different?  Israel is finally coming to the Promised Land after centuries of longing and waiting and only an ignoramus would think that God is going to change his agenda now based on the misaligned and dark desires of a pagan king who comes from a line of descendants that trace back to disgrace (Gen. 19:30ff

"I am not able to introduce properly our guest Elizabeth Anderson without first being candid about my love for a certain kind of philosophizing and I don't mean "popular" philosophy" but the rather unpopular work that is ensconced in the academy. Indeed had I not gone into music and artistic practice more generally I most would surely have loved or ended up with some kind of career in an academic discipline like philosophy save for one reservation I had: what I perceived as the stifling politics and necessary socialization of such an environment. Such was my interest in the field that I read an obscure Ph D thesis by our current guest before she became as well known as she is today: Value In Ethics And Economics, way back in 1993. I don't think there were many pianists/composers who read that book back then but then again I have always had the most eclectic of tastes, as well as ranges of interests, something that I have found to be most helpful in our podcast. A few decades since, Elizabeth Anderson has not been content to be a scholar but has become a prominent public intellectual, and in my view, one of the very best. She writes on issues that affect so many of us in society, from integration to the ethics and conditions of our workplaces. Much like our episode with George Ketab , I really enjoy episodes like these where I can put all of my reading and education to some use and go into the weeds a little bit which for me is a way of relaxing in fact. Anderson studied with one of the greatest thinkers in the twentieth century, John Rawls, and some of his influence of course is present. Yet Anderson is a unique and independent thinker, appearing to follow wherever the evidence leads. Given my love of the quotidian of course I am partial to her pragmatic attention to daily life and what it feels like as well as her considerable vision for a better future, that she thinks completely with in the realm of human possibility. My wish is that the listener gets as much enjoyment from our discussion as we did engaging in it." Professor Anderon's Bio Professor Elizabeth Anderson specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences. She is particularly interested in exploring the interactions of social science with moral and political theory, how we learn to improve our value judgments, the epistemic functions of emotions and democratic deliberation, and issues of race, gender, and equality. For a more extensive, in depth look at her full bio, works and episode notes, visit us here:https://www.facebook.com/journeyofanaesthetepodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/support

CW: This episode contains discussions of statistics on suicide, self-harm and addiction. In this episode, Cate and Erik (attempt to) talk about their personal relationships with reading and ADHD from their VASTLY differing perspectives. We discuss the statistics and studies surrounding the high percentages of co-morbidities of ADHD and learning disorders, and then we devolve into just the weirdest conversation about school supplies that you've ever heard. Also trapper keepers. Find us on TikTok and Instagram at: @catieosaurus @heygude We also stream daily on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/catie0saurus https://ww.twitch.tv/heygude Media/Business Email: infinitequestpodcast@gmail.com Find all of our links and cool stuff at: www.infinitequestpodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/infinitequest/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/infinitequest/support

If a total stranger came up to you and asked you to write the word “pickle” in a library book so they could prank their friend (and not have their handwriting recognized), would you do it? Sounds strange, but think about this for a moment... Research (performed by today's guest) overwhelmingly shows that we say yes more often than we say no to requests like this (despite the request requiring us to engage in socially undesirable behavior). Why? We all have more influence than we think but because we aren't aware of how we come across or are too nervous to ask for what we actually want/need, we often struggle to see the direct link between our behavior and people's changing perceptions, actions and opinions. Dr. Vanessa Bohns is an experimental social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University, and holds a PhD in psychology from Columbia University and an AB from Brown University. She is the author of You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion and Why it Matters (OUT SEPTEMBER 7th, 2021). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Harvard Business Review, and her research has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and NPR's Hidden Brain. We discuss: Why informal influence (gestures, facial expressions, tone) can trump formal influence The best (and worst) mediums to use when influencing others Why you should always just MAKE THE ASK if you want or need something Consent & why we say yes even when we don't want to The 3 things we can do to assess the influence we have and better utilize it Connect with Dr. Bohns: *PSA* Pick up her book TOMORROW: September 7th, anywhere you can get the book.  Via Twitter: @profbohns Via her book: You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion and Why it Matters Via her website: https://www.vanessabohns.com/   You heard from Dr. Bohns herself that experience and knowledge are two VASTLY different things. What if we could see ourselves influencing others in real time, understand what tactics we have at our disposal and how to make sure we come across as we'd like. That's what the Apprenticeship (our live two day workshop) is all about: role playing, video analysis, a research backed evaluation, and lots of practice. But we're officially down to our last few Apprenticeships of 2021!  Join us before the end of the year:  Boston: September 11-12th  SOLD OUT Nashville: September 25-26th  Cardiff (Wales): October 9-10th Asheville: November 13-14th Finally, a resource that can help with self-awareness: Take our FREE and SHORT quiz to learn what really “drives” you and underlies your behavior. Better yet, have your whole staff or team take the quiz. Unlike other personality assessments (of which this is not), we measure your behavior in different contexts because we all show up differently depending on time, place and people. So take it once when you're in a great mood, once in a poor mood, once when you're hangry, once when you're feeling fresh. You get the point. artofcoaching.com/whatdrivesyou

In this bonus episode, I share my thoughts on transparency in marketing and business (and how it serves you and your audience vs. how it doesn't). The transparency pendulum often swings VASTLY from… You owe it to your audience to share it ALL no matter what… to… Make it all look good and NEVER share the struggles. And I think both can keep us all really stuck. So, let's talk about what it REALLY means to have a lit up life and business and how to approach transparency online in a way that supports you, your business, AND your results. Gain access to more livestreams like this https://www.facebook.com/groups/litupandloadedentrepreneur/  Learn more about Lacey alituplife.com Learn more about the show alituplife.com/podcast

Two days after the last American troops left Afghanistan, Taliban rulers are struggling to keep the country functioning. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department is trying to secure the remaining Americans and Afghan allies' exit. As the world waits to see how the Taliban governs, Amna Nawaz speaks to Shaharzad Akbar, chairperson of the country's independent human rights commission, about the matter. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Two days after the last American troops left Afghanistan, Taliban rulers are struggling to keep the country functioning. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department is trying to secure the remaining Americans and Afghan allies' exit. As the world waits to see how the Taliban governs, Amna Nawaz speaks to Shaharzad Akbar, chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, about the issue. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Parenting children who are different than you were as a kid can be challenging. Guiding these beauties toward being a great version of who they were destined to be is the ideal. Here are some items to think about while navigating your preconceived notions about your children's unique qualities as they mature. #parenting #mykidsaredifferent #momlife #lovemykids #raisingweirdos

The first time Rob Rueff and his son went for a run, he didn't know exactly how it would go. A handful of years and hundreds of miles together later, safe to say it's brought them closer than ever. Check out the full show notes for today's episode at http://DizRuns.com/966. Are you struggling in a certain area of your training and would like to pick my brain to try and find a way to get back on track? Schedule a consultation call and I'll help you work through whatever is getting you down at the moment. http://DizRuns.com/consultation Love the show? Check out the support page for ways you can help keep the Diz Runs Radio going strong! http://dizruns.com/support Become a Patron of the Show! Visit http://Patreon.com/DizRuns to find out how. Get Your Diz Runs Radio Swag! http://dizruns.com/magnet Subscribe to the Diz Runs Radio Find Me on an Apple Device http://dizruns.com/itunes Find Me on an Android http://dizruns.com/stitcher Find Me on SoundCloud http://dizruns.com/soundcloud Please Take the Diz Runs Radio Listener Survey http://dizruns.com/survey Win a Free 16-Week Training Plan Enter at http://dizruns.com/giveaway Join The Tribe If you'd like to stay up to date with everything going on in the Diz Runs world, become a member of the tribe! The tribe gets a weekly email where I share running tips and stories about running and/or things going on in my life. To get the emails, just sign up at http://dizruns.com/join-the-tribe The tribe also has an open group on Facebook, where tribe members can join each other to talk about running, life, and anything in between. Check out the group and join the tribe at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedizrunstribe/

Do you know that saying that people often under estimate what they eat and over estimate how much they exercise? Well...let's add that people vastly over estimate how healthy they are in general. One example is that being young does not mean that you are healthy..

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! .fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;} PMI Talent Triangle: Leadership .fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}Hey there, IMPACT Driver! In this episode, we'll explore why most PMOs are not designed to maximize IMPACT and how that affects the organizations they support. We'll look at the most important change you can make to vastly improve your portfolio's performance. My dear friend, Mike Hannan, joins me to discuss how today's multi-tasking culture is playing a role in slowing down our portfolio throughput, how to use lessons learned from some of the worst traffic situations in the world to boost portfolio performance, and what you can do to experience the dramatic improvements available to you with some simple tweaks. Michael is conducting a fabulous workshop at this year's PMO IMPACT Summit. Be sure to register now before our seats for his workshop are sold out! All proceeds for the PMO IMPACT Summit live workshops will be donated to Project Management for Change, a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the project management discipline to nonprofits to accelerate the realization of positive social outcomes.   Resource Forecasting. Capacity Planning.  Purpose Built.    “ProSymmetry provides a resource management solution accessible to the masses.” -Gartner, “Cool Vendors in Project Portfolio Management”   Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I'd love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     .fusion-button.button-1 {border-radius:2px;}GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES  .fusion-button.button-2 {border-radius:2px;}TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN  .fusion-button.button-3 {border-radius:2px;}PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS       .fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !

This is #2 of 6 parts of an interview with James Douma, recorded on June 22, 2021. Andrej Karpathy CVPR presentation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrc . James Douma on Twitter, https://twitter.com/jamesdouma James Douma on AI playlist, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfibpgBinf9R7KIedEU3y-YjrA63LSKHX Social

This is #2 of 6 parts of an interview with James Douma, recorded on June 22, 2021. Andrej Karpathy CVPR presentation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrc . James Douma on Twitter, https://twitter.com/jamesdouma James Douma on AI playlist, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfibpgBinf9R7KIedEU3y-YjrA63LSKHX Social

Governor Gavin Newsom has long touted year-round wildfire prevention efforts in the state since he took office. But an investigation by CapRadio and NPR's California Newsroom has found that the governor overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in forestry projects aimed at protecting the state's most vulnerable communities. Guest: Scott Rodd, CapRadio While state lawmakers are wrangling with whether to extend a statewide eviction moratorium that was put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the board of superviors in both Los Angeles County and San Francisco have extended their local orders. The statewide moratorium expires on June 30. For years, the Justice Department has defended the Trump administration's decision to end humanitarian protections for an estimated 55,000 immigrants living in California. But now, under the Biden administration, there could be major changes when it comes to Temporary Protected Status for immigrants ln this country.  Reporter: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED 

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Will Cady heads the Creative Strategy Team at Reddit, which he describes as a platform of more than 100,000 different, intent-driven, purpose-driven communities representing 100,000 distinct cultures . . . and an “incredible petri dish of niche subcultures that are emerging and influencing or becoming mainstream culture.” He says that “people go to Google to search for information . . . and to Reddit to search for what other people have found.”  Reddit's Creative Strategy team sits between these “very curious” subculture communities and the brands that want to find their place in these communities. Will says the Creative Strategy Team's mission of “turning curiosity into understanding” runs both ways . . . 1) brands need to understand the different cultures on a deeper level to know what is coming in the future and 2) Reddit need a deeper understanding of the brands and how they meet cultural needs of the different communities. He explains. “Brands are made up of humans” and, when these humans tell a story, they gain the ability to build powerful connections and customer trust. He says Reddit is a place where brands can be proud, vulnerable, ask forgiveness, explain changes in how they do business, find out what customers want . . . and to bring something to a community that was never before available. He says marketing today is not “going in the direction of building trust” . . . Building trust is already a critical component of today's marketing. Reddit is best known for the AMA, where people present their “positions” and invite people to “Ask Me Anything.” For brands, an ad looks like any Reddit post, but is delivered to an audience of people who go to pre-selected communities. This “promoted post” can host text, an image, a GIF, or a video.” The upvote and downvote mechanism is optional. Comments can be on or off. Will uses origami as a metaphor for this, where the promoted post is the piece of paper . . . which can be folded into any shape. A brand can engage Will's team to create promoted posts. However, the platform has been built to be incredibly rich in capabilities, but at the same time, simple, for those who want to go the “do-it-yourself” route.  The opportunity to use promoted posts to research market trends or test user perceptions is huge. Will provides this example: Chipotle had observed the variety of trending diets (paleo, keto), announced that it was developing “Lifestyle Bowls,” asked the groups following these diets what ingredients they wanted, and then launched the bowls, thanking those who had commented for helping to make the product “right” . . . with resounding success.  Will's personal history touches on music, mysticism, and marketing, all of which, he says, center on knowing, studying, and playing with what moves people. In addition to leading the Creative Strategy Team, he teaches meditation, reads tarot cards, and jams with musical groups . . . a bow to his 15-plus years as a professional musician. He used Reddit as his “secret weapon for learning” and a way to promote his music long before he took his first position with the company. He says the Reddit of the years from 2013 to 2016 “felt a little bit more like a Wikipedia or a Craigslist . . . (a) ubiquitous part of the internet, but it wasn't a business.” When he started working in sales at Reddit, the company did not have a viable ad product . . . the new and very small sales team had to build it.  Today, Will sees Reddit as a hybrid of tech and media, a bellwether of social trends, and a place for brands to build relationships with their customers. In order to move forward into the future, media, tech, marketing, and businesses in general will need good answers to three questions:  Why are we here?  What are we doing for humanity?  What are we doing for the world?” Interesting questions for all of us. Transcript Follows: ROB: Welcome to the Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Kischuk, and I am joined today by our guest, Will Cady. Will is the Head of Creative Strategy at Reddit, and Will's based in Los Angeles. Welcome to the podcast, Will. WILL: Thank you. Thank you for having me, Rob. ROB: I think everybody probably listening understands and knows Reddit on some level, so I think it would be interesting to understand your role within that Reddit world. WILL: The creative strategy team at Reddit, our mission is we turn curiosity into understanding. And Reddit, if nothing else, is full of curiosities. As a platform with over 100,000 different communities representing 100,000 distinct cultures, it's proven to be this incredible petri dish of niche subcultures that are emerging and influencing or becoming mainstream culture. What the creative strategy team does is we sit in between the community and the brands that want to activate and find belonging, find community on this platform, and we really provide understanding going both ways – understanding for those brands to look at all of these different cultures and understand them at a deeper level so that they can find their place, they can understand the future that's coming, and then also Reddit user behavior, they're very, very curious. They seek. They don't scroll. They're there for a reason. We want to pair that curiosity with a deeper understanding of the brands when they come in to talk about how their products, how their services are really meeting the needs of the cultures of the different communities that people are a part of. ROB: That's a fascinating place in the ecosystem. I love how you said that people seek. It really resonates with my own experience with Reddit. There's a lot of sites that you can go to and if you're not logged in, you don't feel like you're missing much. But if you're not logged in on Reddit, I feel like you're missing the world. It's not even like some sites where they feed content to you and you feel like you're being fed to an algorithm. It really is feeding curiosity. I think it would be interesting for us, Will, also to understand – I think you have a very interesting journey at Reddit yourself. Talk about how you came into this wild world of Reddit and what your own career path has been within the organization. WILL: It's a long and winding and strange journey. My career, by my expertise, I sit at this strange nexus point between music and mysticism and marketing. Today I'm leading the creative strategy team, also teaching meditation, doing strategy reports, doing tarot readings, all of the above, jam sessions and whatnot. For me, they all actually really come together in a very coherent way, which is not expected, but it's interesting. You look at music and marketing and mysticism. You look at all of these things, and really what they are at their center is knowing what moves people and studying what moves people and playing with what moves people. I spent about 15 to 20 years as a professional musician, building a meditation practice and all that, and when I moved from Boston to Los Angeles, I started to realize when I stepped into digital media at a music publisher magazine that there was a lot I had to learn about what resonates in culture. What actually catches and reverberates and becomes movements, becomes these really big mainstream cultural ideas. I got really, really fixated on that. I started to really longform my experiments with this. And I would always go to Reddit. Reddit was kind of my secret weapon for learning. It's how I discovered teachers like Alan Watts. It's how I promoted my music into different communities that utilized some of these audio lectures from Alan Watts. I saw my music videos go to the front page of Reddit All, all the time, and really drive hundreds of thousands of listens in a moment. As a marketer, I would always think, how can I understand what we're really trying to achieve here through the lens of the communities that this brand is trying to reach on Reddit? And then if I'm really lucky, how can I find a way to get this content that we're creating for this brand in front of the Reddit audience? At that time – this is about 2013 to 2016 – it's surprising how different media was, even really not that long ago. But looking narrowly at Reddit, Reddit felt a little bit more like a Wikipedia or a Craigslist. It was this ubiquitous part of the internet, but it wasn't a business. It wasn't something like a Facebook or a Twitter. I saw that Reddit was starting to hire some folks, and I knew. I knew that there was this incredible power on the front page of the internet that a lot of people around me in the media industry didn't really understand. So it was really a no-brainer for me to take that job, and it was an exploratory role. It was like, let's see what the Los Angeles market can be and do for Reddit. I started as a salesperson, and I was one of a very, very short list of people representing Reddit in a massive market. We basically said yes to every email and phone call that we got. We took all the meetings. We found that Reddit has a lot to offer everybody. If you want to do an AMA, you want to do some research in terms of market trends or user perceptions – all of these things that are around advertising, Reddit has value to add. We didn't have, really, a viable ad product in 2016. We had to build it. We've built a great platform now, but in that time in between, we really had to tell the story: “Listen, this is the most influential audience on the internet, and your brand's got to at least be listening to it, if not speaking to it. So let's keep talking. Let's figure out a way to build a partnership.” That became the basis of the playbook that is a massive part of the brand partnerships operation and is serviced by the creative strategy team. ROB: It's interesting; you started down this path. You mentioned the AMAs. When a marketer wants to think about the entry points to marketing on Reddit, obviously there are organic avenues – which you may enter at your own peril. When it comes to you, your team, what sort of entry points are possible on a self-service approach and what kind of entry points are a little bit more structured? WILL: The AMA is a really good metaphor for how to do Reddit in general because it's a conversation. It's a dialogue. You're coming to the platform, and when an AMA is happening, it's a live experience. It's an exchange between you and the community, and it's really based on this idea of being human. There's this thrill. It's so funny that it was so massive on Reddit so early because even though it's text-based, it's very fresh and relevant to some of the experiences we have right now where if it's a celebrity – John Boyega or Chris Pratt, Hosier, some of the AMAs I had the privilege to work on – the users in that thread were just so excited that they were on the same URL as somebody that they really admire and respect. You're working with that kind of excitement to create a moment of remarkable connection that feels really authentic, vulnerable, and human, and is not the kind of thing that you would typically see in a press junket. It was unexpected and it was different and it defied the way that things felt for fans before. Today, we do that with brands. The big truth here is that brands are made up of humans, and when the humans behind the brands show up and they tell a story, it's a moment to foster a very powerful connection that builds trust. Brands have a place where they can be proud, they can be vulnerable. We've had brands come to us and say, “We have a Super Bowl commercial. Let's talk about it.” That was the first time anybody on Reddit could say “I have a Super Bowl commercial.” That's a moment where brands are bringing something to the community that the community of people couldn't bring to themselves beforehand, and it created this excitement. We've had brands come to the community for mea culpa. “We're making a big transformation” or “We're trying to explain what has transpired over the last couple of months.” It's an opportunity to meet human to human, to recognize that there are human beings on other side of that keyboard and build trust from there. This is really where marketing is – not even headed, it's where it's at right now: thinking about building trust. The AMA has been around for a long time, and it's elegantly simple. Ask Me Anything. It represents the blueprint of everything that you can do with platforms like Reddit. ROB: And it's so helpful to have a coach like your team as someone's heading into that. So the AMA is one of those ad products that's available; what's the range of ad products that are available to a brand who's thinking about marketing on Reddit? WILL: This is interesting. Talking about the team, the creative strategy team is incredibly sophisticated at these things. They're so sophisticated that they make it easy. That's the important lesson that I've definitely learned on my path. Reddit has such a depth to it that there's so many exciting things you can do, but it's really remarkably easy, and you've got to start with what makes it easy. That's the focus of the creative strategy team. We can drive this thing at 150 miles per hour if you want, but let's start at 20. Crawl, walk, run. Let's do some interesting engagements here. From an ad standpoint, the atomic unit is called the promoted post. It looks like a Reddit post. It can host text, it can host an image, a GIF, a video. You can have comments off, you can have comments on. It's got the upvote mechanism, the downvote mechanism if you want to use that and get a great signal. And it looks and operates in the same exact way as any post on Reddit, the only difference being that through the targeting, you can control who does and does not see that media. The way that I look at things from the creative strategy team is through the metaphor of origami. [laughs] The promoted post is a piece of paper, and we make cranes, we make boats, we make all manner of different things out of that simple piece of paper. That's the AMA. That's the megathread, which is a vast, longform bit of text that explains all of the product details. Really great for our car buyers and our computer buyers and our tech audience. We do conversation posts where we do something like a writing prompt, where we co-create with our users. We put web comics in there. We put videos in there and GIFs and memes. But it's all one ad unit. So it's elegantly simple with the potential to be staggeringly sophisticated. ROB: When someone's thinking about getting into this atomic unit of a promoted post, is it something they can dabble in self-service? Do they need to engage with your team? There's certainly advantages for that sometimes, but can someone dip their toe in the water and fire up an ads account and a credit card? Or is it more complicated than that? WILL: They absolutely can. We have a self-serve platform, an ads manager. You can jump right into the promoted post and you can select your targeting. It has great parity with the kinds of ads managers you're going to see on other platforms. We've spent the last 3 to 4 years really investing in building that, and it's a great way in. ROB: It certainly sounds like it. When someone starts to think about how to do well on this, one thing I think we'll think about is targeting. How should we think about targeting? What's the menu of possibilities? Are you looking mostly at targeting people who follow a certain subreddit, people who have commented? What's a good targeting campaign look like? WILL: That's a great place to dive into now because the ads manager is going to look like what you experience elsewhere. You're going to be able to target based on interests, but what those interests are constructed by is slightly different than what you have elsewhere. It's not a social graph. It's not based off of people's identity, their information. It's based off of the communities that they go to. It's a community graph rather than a social graph. So if you have the interest category of auto enthusiasts, for example, that's going to serve your ad to people that are engaging with a constellation of subreddits like “What car should I buy?” or the Toyota subreddit or the WRX subreddit. Everything from the broad interest in cars to the make and the model. And Reddit has something that is also really remarkable here when it comes to this kind of targeting, and its intent. When you look at a community like “What car should I buy?”, when somebody's engaging in a community like that, they're not just interested in cars. They have the intent to buy a car. They are in the market. They are looking for that information. We have intent-driven, purpose-driven communities for everything imaginable – for vacuum cleaners and climate change and everything in between. ROB: I'm so glad you mentioned intent because that was certainly in the back of my mind. When you're talking about users following subreddits, it reminds me so much of the power that has made Google search so powerful for so long. It's always been that someone was intentional in what they were searching for, and you weren't just slicing demographics 10 different ways. It's really piquing my curiosity in a big way. I think something that leads us to that marketers should probably think about: what should marketers not do when they're entering into the world of marketing on Reddit? WILL: I love that you brought up the similarities with Google there. If Google is where you search for information, Reddit is where you search for what other people have already found. We've found that when it comes to the trust that people have in the information on products and news, Reddit was closer to Google than it was to the rest of social media in terms of scoring tremendously high on the trust that people put into that. Because it is a resource that people use for information. It's hard to find information that you can trust online right now. Reddit is a place that verifies through other people, like “Here's my actual experience.” So whatever that life moment that you go through – and I myself have gone through so many in the last couple years; I've gotten married, I've gotten a home, I've gotten a juice machine. [laughs] In each of those scenarios, I was using Reddit for my product journey to really figure out, what can I trust when it comes to learning how to go through this passage? For brands, I think they've got to really be cognizant of the role they should play in meeting people on that journey. There's value in simply being there, just knowing that Reddit is on the path to purchase and that there's an incredible amount of consideration that people are putting into that path when they're on Reddit. And just show up. Just show up and wave your hand and say, “Hey, happy to be here. This is our product, this is our info.” It's super simple. You can take your marketing that you're using in other channels and put it in the right place at the right time, knowing how important this platform and this audience is. And don't overthink that. Then beyond that, it's an opportunity to really engage. Once you've gotten some signal, place a few different bets, a few different targeting cohorts that you set up with your creative. See what's resonating. Maybe you might be surprised, actually, at who's engaging with your ads. Maybe it doesn't actually match your expectations. That might be a way to step into an intersectional audience that is really an opportunity that you hadn't considered. Begin to have a dialogue with them. Turn the comments on when you're ready (you can start with the comments off). Have a prompt and bring the humans behind your brand on board. Say, “This is our R&D team. We've noticed that you're changing the way we think about vacuum cleaners, the way we think about home gardening.” That's a huge space for transformation right now. Have a conversation. Show up authentically and really be there for them. To provide a story and a case study here, that's exactly what Chipotle did a couple of years ago. They released the Lifestyle Bowls, which were based off of the cultural observation that all of these diets were emerging, like the paleo diet, Whole30, keto, etc. We have communities for each of those, and they're robust and very, very active. So Chipotle with their ads, they turned the comments on and said, “We are making lunch items for your diet. What should we put in it?” They stayed in that conversation and they had a back-and-forth. When they came back around, they were able to say, “Lifestyle Bowls are out and you helped us know how to make them right. Here they are.” And the trust they earned was incredible. The call to action was very, very powerful because all of the Redditors who had participated in that said to their coworkers, their friends, their family, “We're going to lunch at Chipotle because I've got to try this bowl that I had a hand in creating.” It created a cultural moment in these niche subcultures that, as the tide rose on all of these different diets, Chipotle's Lifestyle Bowls rose with them. ROB: It's interesting that you mention that because Chipotle with those bowls – they actually come across as quite authentic all the way down to the store. I was at Chipotle a month ago and they had cauliflower rice, which I imagine is part of this, right? WILL: That's where that mission statement of the creative strategy team comes into play. We turn curiosity into understanding. At first it's like, cauliflower rice? That's a curiosity. It's strange. But then when you understand the reasons for that and where it comes from and how it fits into culture, it shows itself to be a tremendous opportunity. So what we want to do is highlight things like that early and often so that our partners have more time to develop their products and their marketing and be agile in the moment when things like that really come to bear. ROB: All the way down to the store, that entire initiative feels very authentic, very – not to say this inappropriately in a food context, but it feels organic. It just feels right. So it's awesome to see that stemming from the Reddit ecosystem. When you think about the different communities – obviously this has been a big year for Reddit news-wise. You may be tired of talking about it or you may not be, and it's not as much in the moment right now, but the entire Wall Street Bets, GameStop, crypto rotation – there's a few news cycles on that alone. What's interesting about that is it's not that that movement started this year; it's that that movement became visible this year. Are there some other communities that you think are maybe waiting for that moment? Are there types of conversation that you think might be driving a news cycle next month? WILL: I'm not tired of it. I'm grateful for it because it revealed a 10-year-old secret to everybody, which is that Reddit communities are staggeringly sophisticated and influential. I've been telling that story for a long time, and now I have a story that everybody recognizes and everybody has the full context on. Before, I was telling the story of McDonald's and Szechuan sauce and the Rick & Morty community, or the March for Science, or some of the fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders, or when Reddit flooded a hospital ward with pizzas for a young cancer patient. All of these really remarkable stories of Reddit doing exactly this for over 10 years, and now there's one that really has become the shorthand, where everybody saw and understands, I think in a very intuitive way, the power of Reddit. That's what GameStop and Wall Street Bets really represents. It's the power of Reddit on the world stage. And we know that it's going to happen again because this is Reddit doing what Reddit does. It's very well-spirited. It's the human spirit, and it's so important for the voice of communities to be able to influence culture in this way for the decades that are ahead of us. I think that there are quite a few communities right now that we can expect to see some similar kinds of moments from. It's rarified that you're going to have something that reaches the kind of stratospheric level of the GameStop moment because it was just this revelatory moment. But I think that what was learned by communities and the broader web and culture is that there are really powerful ways to vote with your dollars that we kind of understood as people beforehand, but now we have tools that we didn't have beforehand to really have a collective impact together. So I think we're going to see different versions of people voting with their dollars together in other sectors that are going to be really, really interesting. In a lot of what we saw with that, people were just throwing one dollar or five dollars into the pot or something like that, and there was this sense of collectivism and what we can do together. We're going to see that I think in a lot of other areas. I also think there are some more subtle shifts that are coming. I've been keeping an eye on the sustainability communities on Reddit for some time, and there's a whole underbelly of people that are raising their own chickens and making sourdough and growing vegetables in their backyard, and it's emerging into this – I always look for the language. I really like this community called Zero Waste. It represents an idea that I want to live a life that is not producing any waste. It's an aspirational lifestyle in a totally different direction than what we considered beforehand. This community was having a discussion earlier this week about whether or not brands belong in a community like this, and how they felt about seeing brands move towards product packaging and messaging that at its best is contributing to the cause and at its worst is what you would call greenwashing. There's an example of some soap company that had paper packaging for the soap, and when you peeled back the paper there was a plastic container on the inside. [laughs] The sentiment that came through in that community was that they really want brands to be a part of this. They're really, really encouraged to see that brands are stepping into changing the way they manufacture their products, that they're making pledges to support things like community gardens and all of the different circular systems that are going to save our planet and going to save all of us. They know that brands have influence. They know that brands have resources and power, and that can really shift things the way they like to see them. So I think we're going to see that influence not be one of those dramatic spike moments that Wall Street Bets was, but I think over the course of the next 10 years, it's going to be this protracted rising tide that is going to shift the way that we all think. I think that term, “zero waste,” is going to be very obvious to all of us in the future. But it's very clear to just a niche subculture on Reddit right now. ROB: It's going to be probably interesting. What strikes me about Wall Street Bets is you have this intersection of democratization. You have this democratized community on Reddit, but then you have the democratization of finance, and you have these apps where you can fire up an app and make an investment. At the intersection you're talking about with zero waste, there will be some communities who will – you'll probably be able to buy carbon credits and point them in places you can't think about right now. Some communities on Reddit will love that and use that, and some will hate it. You'll have all pieces of that out there. It seems like looking for areas where something tangible is being democratized is maybe a good place to keep an eye on Reddit.  WILL: Yeah. I don't know if we've got the time to really dive into the depth of this one here, but the very nature of the way we exchange value is changing. The digitization of currencies is supporting that, and there are currencies that belong to communities; there are currencies that belong to causes. All of that can facilitate a moment where the two things I described come together. You have a purpose – zero waste, sustainability – and you have the realization of the things that we can do when we vote with our dollars together. Those can come together and create real change in the world, and we're going to see that over and over and over again. ROB: And Reddit's been in the middle of that for longer than most with Reddit Gold and all that. It's interesting how long it's been hiding in plain sight on Reddit, is what I would say. WILL: Isn't it? It's crazy. [laughs] ROB: I think there's one other interesting thing to pull on. Reddit has this legacy of being – it just feels techy. It may have been unapproachable for some, but now so many digital natives – you've been at this forefront of – this is true in a couple of cases – Silicon Valley mindsets meeting the LA media landscape. That cultural alignment, what does that look like over time? How has it evolved in your time there? WILL: Wow. The LA/San Francisco connection is a really, really interesting one. There's a dynamic between tech and media. When I first started, it was like this denial that media could act like tech and that tech could act like media. Vastly, vastly different things. I would say both industries were kind of looking down their nose at each other. Over the following years, they've really seen a tremendous amount of interplay on the level of how the funding works and how the talent is hired and how the products are developed, and of course, the user bases. Is Netflix a media company or a tech company? It's really at a place right now where we're understanding that tech and media are very, very much a hybridized thing.  I think over the course of the next few years, that element that is very, very present in marketing around purpose and intent is going to come in. There are so many options when it comes to our media and there are some many options when it comes to our platforms that all of these businesses really need to think about their why and about the intent of their brand and the intent of their users, and build against that. I think there are other centers than San Francisco, New York, and LA that are really ahead when it comes to thinking about why. They're unexpected because they're different voices. The voices of sustainability, for example, are not coming from metropolitan cities. They're coming from places like Hawaii. They're coming from different mindsets altogether. That's I think a really, really exciting place as the soul goes back into business. Media and tech, for them to find their place in the future, and for marketing to find its place in the future, they have to have a good answer in terms of “Why are we here? What are we doing for humanity? What are we doing for the world?” ROB: Wow. It's such a great point to bring it down to. This has been a tremendous privilege. Thank you so much for this grand tour of how to think about Reddit for marketers, what the options are, and how to do so thoughtfully. I think the authenticity of the brand comes through in how you and your team are thinking about these things as well. WILL: Thank you. Thank you for giving me a platform for my voice. I appreciate the time.  ROB: Fantastic. Have a great one. WILL: You too. ROB: Bye. Thank you for listening. The Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast is presented by Converge. Converge helps digital marketing agencies and brands automate their reporting so they can be more profitable, accurate, and responsive. 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Battle continues against Chauncey Greeble and his cohorts. Vastly outnumbered and possibly outgunned, there are no cowards among these fine officers! Gob continues to evade the choking dust while Gnora employs some pungent, primal tactics.

Our northern European neighbours in Sweden have had a VASTLY different 18 months to us in the UK: No lockdown at all and a heavier focus on ‘herd immunity’ as the solution to the health crisis. But was it all a horrible mistake? What does the data say? And what’s the feeling on the ground? Julia catches up with Pär, who is based in Stockholm, and he shares his perspective.  If you liked the episode and you want to support Julia, check out her Patreon page where she uploads exclusive content such as interviews, updates and opinion pieces.  If you want to nab yourself a pair of her ‘VOTE’ earrings in collaboration with @DesignByWingers click HERE and remember to use the code JULIA10 at checkout to save 10%! Follow Julia on Instagram and Twitter @juliabelle_x to ask her questions for future episodes.

The director of Te Tātai Hauora o Hine, the Centre for Women's Health Research at Victoria University, wants a less invasive cervical screening test rolled out as soon as possible. The government has announced a $55 million funding boost to make the test available, but not until 2023. Currently there are 400,000 New Zealanders who are not getting regular smear tests.  Susie Ferguson spoke to Te Tātai Hauora o Hine founder Bev Lawton.  

Hello!  Yes, this is an episode of The Modern Moron… and like an aging Snow Leopard, increasingly rare to find.  Does that increase the value of a Modern Moron episode… I’m gonna say no, we’re not like a snow leopard or a bitcoin. In this rambling episode, the senator is not in a good place… the news has him down.  But when does the news, by and large, ever have you up?  It always leads with the latest tragedy and ends with something on the lighter side so you don’t jump out a window after the broadcast.  But I think generally what has the Senator down is hypocrisy.  It’s latest example is Grandpa Joe’s infrastructure plan of over 2 Trillion Dollars.   So the Senator thinks it’s all hypocrisy, and he’s right to a degree.  However, what’s infrastructure to the ding dong Dems may not be to the rude righteous Republicans.  For example, and this is for the Senator in particular because I just looked this up… a good portion of Trumps infrastructure package included the category of National Security, which for Trump is the great homage to his ego, the border wall of Mexico.  Also, power and energy independence to one party is VASTLY different to the other party.  Trump still wanted to mine coal.  Need I say more?  No I don’t. Also, I think it’s worth mentioning this… Spending government money on infrastructure, however you define it, doesn’t just by roads, bridges, public transportation, renewable energy and so on… this huge amount of money doesn’t just buy those things, it also buys votes.  It takes a lot of people to build infrastructure and every single one of those people have a vote in 2024… unless you live in Georgia then you may or may not get recognized to vote… or so I’m told. So a good portion of this episode addresses the Stimulus package, but some other politicians get honorable mention as well.  The Senator mentions Governor Mario Cuomo, sometimes referring to him as ‘Fredo from the Godfather.  Cuomo has been under investigation for sexual misconduct.  I wonder how much sexual misconduct investigations there would be if government was run by women?  Something else would HAVE to take its place.  I wonder what it would be?  I digress… There is also a trio of Republican idiots who desperately want to take up the Trump flag and are trying their best to show that bad, outrageous indignant behavior can win votes.  The three stooges I refer to are Florida Governor Ron Desantis, the idiot from Texas, Senator Ted Cruz and finally Florida Representative Matt Gaetz..   The Senator is bothered by this idiot Matt Gaetz in particular, and he should be, but thankfully… with the absence of our former idiot in Chief I have found it MUCH EASIER to ignore politics with the new idiot.  So I have to start from square one with this used car salesman-ey looking Gaetz.  He looks like he could be one of Trump’s sons.  Am I judging a book by it’s cover?  You bet… isn’t that what book covers are made for?  To make them look interesting.  Well this guy definitely looks interesting … for an episode of to catch a predator.  This guy is actually representing the state of Florida in Washington DC.  He should be sitting right next to that spear-nosed idiot Ted Cruz.  Both of  those guys should seriously have their own versions of The Jerry Springer Show… by the way Jerry Springer was the 56th Mayor of Cincinati, Ohio… so you see? Politics is the perfect training ground to host Tabloid lowest common denominator talk shows.  The senator is just down on all the politicians in the news now and I bring up Stacy Abrams who was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States.  She did not win, but I’m pretty sure we’ll be seeing more of Stacey Abrams in the next elections.  I really like Stacey Abrams right now and I make a sexist comment… shocking… regarding the electability of Stacey versus our current vice president because of looks.  I truly do hat e to say it but I think it’ s a factor.  For the record, I would take one Stacey Abrams over ten Kamala Harris’. We join the Senator who requested this recording session, and is not using the microphone I bought for him, nor is he using headphones… which are pretty essential for any podcast to have a decent sound.  What’s the name of this show again?... We’re Concerned Over Cuomo, Bummed Over Biden and Harangued about Hypocrisy on The Modern Moron.  Thanks for listening…  CLOSE - the only thing better than a couple of morons talking politics is two morons talking about a religion of which they know nothing.  Ganesh doesn't ride an elephant as the senator said.  Ganesh, is the elephant-headed Hindu god who rides a mouse, is one of the faith's most important deities and is one of the primary Hindu deities. He is the lord of success and the destroyer of evils and obstacles, worshiped as the god of education, wisdom, and wealth.  Isn’t that nice? I’d like to end on a lighter note, just like those depressing newscasts and this is right in our demographic: Who will be the next host of Jeopardy? This is turning into what I imagine is a great ratings grabber in and of itself.  The producers claim there will be a permanent host for Jeopardy next season, which starts taping at the end of July.  So far candidates have been auditioning for a couple of weeks at a time and the last host I saw was Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rogers.  He is all in on this and had prepared for it like he prepares for games by watching hours and hours of tape of Alex Trebek including watching episodes with the sound off and hosting in place of Trebek.  Other hosts so far have included Katie Couric, Doctor Oz, former Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.  Slated to host-slash-audition in the coming weeks are: Savannah Guthrie from NBC’s Today Show, Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory, 60 Minutes correspondents Bill Whitaker and Dr. Sanjay Gupta but not together… also, Anderson Cooper and even Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck, no thank you.  One tweet regarding Joe Buck as host summed it up best: “Can we not make Joe Buck the next permanent host of Jeopardy, he can barely make football interesting, let alone a gameshow.” There is even a grass roots petition being drummed up for Levar Burton.  I’d take Levar Burton over Joe Buck any day.   So there’s something trivial for you to occupy your mind for a half a minute, although if you’ve just listened to this podcast, you’ve probably reached your mindlessness quotient for the entire week.  Either way, have a great week, thank you for listening and we’ll see you next time… Ganesha, the Hindu God of Success   

Hey everyone!It’s Good Friday! Starting today, every Friday I want to do something DIFFERENT with this letter. Just something totally random, not a traditional letter, traditional is boring.I think “New Format Friday” will help people learn, and teach in a way that sticks with people.The idea I had for today is this….—> Here’s everything I know about business and making money, typed out “flow of consciousness” style.*for those wondering why you should care, my businesses have generated nearly $50,000,000 in revenue in the past 36 months*Most of your “daily grind” doesn’t matterYou can make one investment that will outperform your entire company if you research it hard enoughAutopilot is real, and attainable (paradoxically, through many 15 hour days)There’s a reason there are “venture capitalists” (starting a business is hard)Within the first 18 months of your business the company will either fail or outrun 99.99999% of your competition.A good product IS NOT everything. It helps.Advertising and SALES are the engine of your business. If it doesn’t seem like a business is advertising much, it’s because they are really good at it.A great salesman won’t even be labeled “salesman” (cough cough Elon Musk)Income is 100% NOT RELATED to time OR effort (after the first 18 months)One great hire can replace 40 average workersYou should never, ever, hire friends Getting a great business partner is a 1/1,000 chance. 99.9% of people should NOT get a business partner. 50% of a million dollar company is better than 100% of a thousand dollar company.Zero interest credit cards are the quickest way for most people to get “start-up capital”. (plus it motivates you to scale before the 12 months are up)“I have an idea” is literally worthless and if you say it to an entrepreneur they will instantly tune out.“I just want to pick your brain” is equally bad.No one has it all figured out. Billionaires are still just pretending to know what the heck is going on.The bigger your company, the more people are slacking off.“Show me the incentives, and I’ll show you the results”Keeping cash on your balance sheet is a liability not an asset. Everything is saturated. Everything has fierce competition.New, innovative ideas are more unique than unicorns. Most success is playing off an existing idea and executing better. Execution is all that matters. Talk is cheap.It doesn’t matter what kind of camera you have. Gear is a distraction.You’re better off playing to your strengths and finding a way to be profitable doing things that don’t make you hate your life (after the first 18 months, everything will suck during the first 18 months)Your friends probably give crappy advice.So do your parents. If you hang around with people who make less money than you too much, you won’t make as much money (this one sucks but it’s true)One conversation with the right person can literally be worth $1,000,000.Most conversations, 99.999% of them, are a waste of your time business wise.Stop doing group meetings. Just stop. Real intelligence is demonstrated by your ability to clearly articulate your thoughts through text. You should be able to hire and vet people solely through email. Hire fast and fire faster. Give people a one month trial, and then boot them if they don’t blow your mind.The first $1,000 is indeed the hardest. You can take billions of dollars off this planet and no one will even notice.Money is a mindset. “Opposite day” is a Seinfeld Episode, but probably how you should live your whole life. If you care what people think about you you should do everything in your power to expunge that feeling. It’s one of the costliest emotions and hurts your ability to generate wealth.Business is a marathon with no ending. Eventually every racer gets tired. If you just keep running you will win, period.Pick a race you can run for the long term.But that’s really hard, so better yet, just start running a race.If it doesn’t work out, you can change directions and start running another one.“Pivot” should be one of your favorite words.“Asymmetric” IS my favorite word. Asymmetric as in, DISPROPORTIONAL, not UNIFORM, not EQUAL.Your decisions are not PROPORTIONAL in WEIGHT or MEANING. Some are VASTLY more important than others.Your RESULTS are not the result of a proportional amount of effort. They are the result of an ASYMMETRIC FEW CONCENTRATED PIECES OF EFFORT.1% of EVERYTHING controls 99% of EVERYTHING ELSE.Once you truly understand this, your ability to generate wealth may become that of the “1%” which seems absolutely beautiful when you think about it.Hope you enjoyed this, subscribe so you don’t miss next week’s “New Format Friday”.Also going to be writing some incredible stuff on Monday and Tuesday of next week, so you won’t want to miss that.See you soon.Kale Get on the email list at thekaleletter.substack.com

It’s unbelievable to think that there’s a method to assess your genetic mutations and to support your aberrant mutations that are hypo-functioning and hyper-functioning to create a better metabolic life. That has to do with learning ‘what you are made of’, in terms of your genetic (genome) report, and seeing what areas of your genes contribute to everything from a sense of holding you back to contributing to various disorders and diseases.Last time, we spoke about depression, suicidal ideation, and some of the underlying causes that are easily treatable, which can change with subtle interventions like a change in diet and ketones. Today, we are picking up where we left off. We will be focusing on some genes associated with emotional disorders and mental disorders like psychosis, bipolar, schizophrenia, and severe depression.Genomic irregularitiesAnother layer that needs to get looked at is genomic irregularities.Common mutationsThe common mutations found in a population are called polymorphisms. There are few polymorphisms that we can have a hand in improving.MTHFRMTHFR is linked to conditions like depression, autism, psychosis, dyslexia, and ADHD.Various epileptic drugs can potentially cause psychiatric side-effects in patients with epilepsy. When looking at the epileptic population, many of them were found to have had a common MTHFR polymorphism causing the problem. Vitamin deficiencies are another common cause of psychiatric side-effects in people who have an MTHFR polymorphism and are taking certain epileptic drugs.Micronutrient analysisGetting a micronutrient analysis is vital for finding out whether people have any nutritional deficiencies.SNPsIf the SNPs (Singular Nuclear Polymorphisms) are off by just one, it causes a problem, and there is a variety of those.MethylationMethylation turns genes on and off. It is a detoxification pathway. In hyperactive kids or people with autism, the genes are all constantly turned on and cannot turn off.Turning the neurotransmitters on and off quicklyWe need to ensure that our methylation is so quick and adept that it can turn our neurotransmitters on and off instantaneously necessary.IntersectionThe intersection with the few mutations that people can have will slow down their ability to methylate anything. InterveningNow that we know enough about what to look for, we can intervene with nutritional applications like whole food diets and nutritional supplements. The most problematic polymorphismsIn the average person today, we can get a map of the top 85 most problematic polymorphisms.Irregular metabolic labsWith irregular metabolic labs, things like homocysteine, genetic profiling, nutrient deficiencies, hormones, and blood work need to be looked at, and some internal cleansing might also be necessary. Links:Join Our Facebook Group Keto NaturopathSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelDownload our Free Keto Foods ListVisit our partnersBuy Keto Friendly Dry Farm WinesGet your KetoMoJo Here and test your ketones.Articles:Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and psychiatric diseasesMTHFR: Another Piece of the ADHD-Genetics Puzzle

Welcome to Mysteries to Die For. Mysteries to Die For is brought to you by Down & Out Books. This episode’s featured release is State of Shock by M. Todd Henderson. When Jante Turner is murdered just days before she takes the mantle as new dean of Rockefeller University Law School in Chicago, Royce Johnson is approached to help solve the murder. Recently released from prison, the ex-FBI agent has his own problems. Still, he takes the job. Soon, Johnson finds himself at the intersection of higher education, Chicago politics, big money, and murder. Johnson traces a river of corruption running from deep-pocket donors of the University to North Side developers and a South Side alderman who is heir to the throne in City Hall. In his desperation, he turns to the one lawyer who can help him—the former Rockefeller student whom Johnson mistakenly framed for murder on his last case. State of Shock is available from Down & Out’s website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indieboound, or asked for it from your favorite book seller. Before the Story I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you at the heart of mystery, murder, and mayhem. Some episodes will be my own stories, others will be classics that helped shape the mystery genre we know today. These are arrangements, which means instead of word-for-word readings, you get a performance meant to be heard. Jack and I perform these live, front to back, no breaks, no fakes, no retakes (unless it's really bad)  This is Season 2. This season contains adaptations of stories published in the 1800s. These stories are some of the first considered to be mysteries. For that reason, this season is called The Originators. Today’s story is about the costs of greed, arrogance, and pride. This is T. Sawyer, Esquire, an abridged telling of Tom Sawyer, Detective.  Tina: This short story takes place shortly after Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn free their friend Jim from Tom’s Aunt & Uncle’s farm in Arkansas. Since that told me nothing about the setting for the story, went new school and googled “what was the setting for Huckleberry Finn”. The answer as far as date was “40-50 years ago”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884, making the setting 1830-1840s. Tom Sawyer, Detective was published in 1896.  Location was harder. Tom and Huck live in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, MO, which is said to be really Hannibal, Missouri where Twain lived. In Huck Finn, Huck and Jim sail down down the Mississippi from the St. Petersburg to Arkansas. Huck and Jim disembark near the Missouri-Tennessee-Arkansas boarder. Based on this, I picked Osceola, Arkansas as our pin on the map. Zip code 72370. Osceola was founded in 1837 and incorporated in 1853, growing with steamboat traffic.  Travel time from the Royal Observatory, home to the Prime Meridian, is about 15, flying from Heathrow to Memphis, and then driving the hour north to Osceola. Osceola is only a 90 min drive from Senatobia, Mississippi, our pin for the 2nd story in this season. Jack and I are up here in Northeast Indiana. When I hear Missouri, I think south, like southern. So it blew my geographically challenged mind that Hannibal is no father south that Indianapolis, I city I travel to frequently AND its hours north of Evansville, Indiana, which is an incredibly cool town on the Ohio River. Jack, we need a road trip so I can get my mapping straight. Personally, I was surprised at the rating on Goodreads. With over 2,000 ratings, the average is 3.56. Vastly underrating it IMO. 30% rated it a 4 and 35% a 3.  One 3-star reviewer wrote: I can see why this wasn't as successful as the first two books in the series. It took me a little while to get into it, I was a bit ho hum in the beginning. But I enjoyed it more as a went along. You have to stretch your mind a little to accept the plot.... Support this podcast

** THIS PODCAST CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE!! We can't believe it either. It's 2021, and a FOUR HOUR Zack Snyder's Justice League exists for our viewing pleasure. HOW IS THIS REAL. This video is very much a deep dive into the movies plot, the expanded character stories we get, and what the future of this universe may have had. It is very much filled with spoilers! We recommend watching the entire film first, grab a drink and come chill with us as we discuss: -Cyborg's VASTLY expanded backstory -Darkseid's role, do we get enough of him? -Wonder Woman somehow surviving all these different filmmakers and being badass in EVERY SINGLE ONE. -Batman is once again, Batman. -THE BLACK SUIT -Is the movie different enough from the theatrical cut? -SO MUCH MORE (and possibly more to come) You can follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Againpress Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pressplayagain/ Don't want to watch? We're also on podcast services! Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3bcOuNr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2YIEZik Breaker: https://bit.ly/2MnXPJ1 Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3oMUJLI If you enjoy this episode, we’re just getting started! Follow us on Twitter @AgainPress and make sure to subscribe and leave a comment! We’d love to chat with you about the episode below. Press Play Again is a group of friends who miss talking about movies and tv shows with each other after the crazy year we’ve had from Covid. We’re trying to turn our hobby into something, so come on this adventure with us! New Movie club discussions on Thursdays at 10 AM CST and Falcon and the Winter Soldier Reactions go up Tuesday mornings!

If you've ever felt baffled or enraged by communicating with a loved one, you're sure to appreciate this episode. Peer Recovery specialist Laurie MacDougall is joined by Imago Relationship therapist Kayla Solomon and Allies in Recovery's chief editor, Isabel Cooney, for an eye-opening dive into Reflective Listening. What is it? How does it work? What are the benefits for you, and the person you're reflectively listening to? And why does Kayla believe in it so much that she says she'd use it if someone were pointing a gun at her? Join our Member Site today to take full advantage of Allies in Recovery’s program, including 8 video modules, three blogs, and dialogue with experts in the fields of treatment and recovery. Learn more @ alliesinrecovery.net Membership is FREE during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This episode of the Album Consumers Podcast may only have five albums on tap, but that does not mean there is any less ground to try and cover. The group offers analysis of a batch of records that includes everything from rock to rap, and blues to...whatever. But passions run highest when Greg, Scott, and Chris define and defend some of their choices.  This week's Album Consumers album discussion lineup: Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap Brody Dalle - Diploid Love Muddy Waters - Hard Again Tune-Yards - Whokill Sampha - Process

If you’re holding off on expressing appreciation to a customer, colleague, or someone in your personal life…today’s PROJECT DISTINCT has news for YOU! In the midst of a bad day, Scott McKain received a short message from a loyal listener. It not only changed his day — it inspired him to discover the latest research on what expressed appreciation means to BOTH the recipient and the sender. Today’s podcast is an episode you should not miss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David has to fight. Absalom has amassed his army of 12,000 soldiers and is ready to take on David's army of only 2 - 4,000 men. Vastly outnumbered, David will surely lose this battle. Or will he? David is considered a military genius, and he has a plan. Plus, he has Yahweh on his side; could he ever lose? Listen on to find out what happens. To follow along, turn to 2 Samuel 17, 18, and 19.

Jonathan Karush is a lifelong, and accomplished, golfer who has taken hundreds of hours of lessons from all the leading golf instructors in the game. Vastly experienced and insightful he is uniquely qualified to comment on instruction and how to get the most out of your lessons, your work and your efforts. After figuring out the best way to consume golf information he has improved his handicap from 7 to 1 and he shares insights on: Shallowing the club, Rotation, Golf-swing Method, Turning Knowledge into Performance, Playing Golf vs Golf-swing, Club-head Speed vs Control, Finding the Right Teacher, What Constitutes a Great Lesson, and Data Recording.

Good News: The EEA releases a new report with fantastic good news about the improvements in European air quality over the past decade, Link HERE The Good Word: A great and inspiring quote from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Good To Know: Want to know something about Guinea Pig ownership in Switzerland? Of course you […]

Nature bathing, forest bathing, time in nature, and living in blue or green zones has been shown to improve health. In today’s podcast, Abel James from Fat Man Burning shares his thoughts on the health benefits of time in nature, social media diets, and connecting with real people. https://drruscio.com/nature-solitude-thought My book Healthy Gut, Healthy You is available at https://drruscio.com/getgutbook/ Looking for more? Check out https://drruscio.com/resources  

In 2018, the electric car maker, Tesla, was struggling to get the Model 3 electric vehicle off the production line. Its CEO, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, was working up to 22 hours a day on the factory floor, trying to solve a host of problems on the car he'd bet the company on. It was close to running out of money. Two years later, the company's doing better. It says it will grow 30-40% this year. No surprise then that Tesla's share price has gone up. But the amount may surprise you – up eight fold in the last year, to $400 a share. Making it the most valuable car company in the world. It's now worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen and Honda put together. But yet it still manufactures only a fraction of the cars they make. So are shares in Elon Musk's Tesla vastly overvalued? Sumant Bhatia finds out from our expert witnesses, who include a Tesla owner who's a shareholder and superfan, a fund manager who thinks the shares are in a bubble, an investor with millions of dollars in Tesla and an expert in electric vehicles.