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Permanent stress at work, the family demands time and you take care of yourself the least of all – that's how it is: The normal madness of everyday life. Not only since Corona many of us feel overwhelmed by all the demands that life places on us. Physical and mental sufferings such as back pain, obesity or depression are often the consequences of the constant pressure. But in order to stay productive at work and in private life, you have to feel good completely. At METRO, a large-scale initiative is now helping employees to stay physically and mentally healthy. What "Well-being" provides for the people at METRO and what immeasurable value it has for our company, that's what I talk about in this episode with Payal Nambiar, Head of Corporate HR at METRO India and co-responsible for the "Well-being" programme.

This week’s welcome to Night Vale has an interesting little thought experiment. Say that you could ask – and have answered – any question you want. Anything at all, the sky’s the limit. What would you ask? What? Well jeez, not that, obviously, the heck’s the matter with you? Listen in as the twins break... The post Binary System Podcast #231: Welcome to Night Vale #172 "Return of the Obelisk" first appeared on Pixelated Geek.

This week’s welcome to Night Vale has an interesting little thought experiment. Say that you could ask – and have answered – any question you want. Anything at all, the sky’s the limit. What would you ask? What? Well jeez, not that, obviously, the heck’s the matter with you? Listen in as the twins break [...]

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For the Next 193 Project, we’ve got a smart satire about dumb people. The whole cast is awfully good (okay, Bev takes issue with one person’s performance), but this was Nicole Kidman’s breakout after playing second fiddle for most of the first decade of her illustrious career. The deliciously diabolical dummy she plays here is one of the most unsung performances of the ’90s. We hashed out how Gus Van Sant’s flick addresses celebrity worship, tabloid news and television production. We even spent a bunch of time talking about real-life TV journalists who might not be as smart as you think they are and how they get too much credit (and also blame) for the news they present. So avoid all the nonstop COVID talk by spending a little over 40 minutes with us jawing about one of Nicole Kidman’s best works. If you don’t choose to do that, careful because she may have you killed by a couple of impressionable lunkheads. Well, Actually: The Joaquin Phoenix / Casey Affleck joint we sloughed off is called I’m Still Here. You might not be willing to die for caffeine, but you should at least be happy to suffer some minor injuries to score some Sparkplug Coffee. Use our promo code (“top100project”) when you’re ready to sidle to the checkout and you’ll get a 20% discount. Tweet-a-doodle-doo? What? Well, we’re @moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis on Twitter Our website is top100project.com Next week, we'll chew the fat about Spaceballs

The end of 2019 has arrived. Let's recap Path of Exile through 2019 and end with a bang! Giveaway information:Twitter Tweet to RetweetReddit Post for Episode 6Join the party! Check out our website for more episodes and be sure to follow us on Twitter.www.foreverexiled.comTwitter @ForeverExiled82Path of Exile WebsiteWrecker of Days Builds ListFull Transcript of Episode:Justin: Welcome to forever Exiled. The Path of Exile podcast. This is technically Episode six, but it's going to be our bonus. New Year's Eve and Day episode. I am one of your host, Justin a k a. TagzTyler: and I'm Tyler Wrecker of Days.Justin: Make sure you check out the rest of this episode right up until the end because we may have a sexy giveaway coming up anyway. Ty, how are you doing? Well, how are you? Good. So this is gonna be our our extra bonus for fun. Super awesome. Episode six I agree. So, uh, path of exile G just released today their best of 2019 video, which was awesome. If you haven't checked it out, make sure you watch it. Maybe we'll put a link in the show notes just so you can find it. I think they're coming up with some more information on there. Accomplishments and bragging tomorrow, which is New Year's Eve will be tomorrow. So hopefully will be out there and live with everybody at the same time. So, yeah, let's let's ah, let's jump into it. So we figured it'd be kind of fun to look back a year at what grinding gear games development plan for 2019 was and assuming like we will continue this for the next 15 or 16 years, we'll be able to do this. We'll be able to do this at the end of each year and kind of see what was announced the previous year and sort of where things went from there. So we've got the development plan for 2019 from grinding gear games last year. 2019. Here's what they say. 2019 will see the release of four significant Path of Exile updates in the form of 3.6 and March 3.7 in June, 3.8 in September and 3.9 in December. These releases will follow the formula we have been using over the last few years, introducing a challenge league, various expansion features, new character, skill, archetypes to play, and masses of other fixes and quality of life improvementsTyler: while working on the 2019 updates. We also hope to make significant progress on the four point Omega expansion, which we now know as path of exile, too likely coming sometime in 2020. For those unfamiliar with our version numbering system, Once we've released Update 3.9, we are forced to number the next 14 point. Oh, for example, the version after 3.9 and March is 3.10 as we do not expect to release 4.0 in the first part of next year. Development of 4.0 is a massive task that is absolutely affected by our desire to continue to release sizable leagues at our usual pace. So we're taking our time and making sure it's ready before we decide on a release date. 20Justin: nine. Teen culminates in the Exile Con Fan convention in November, where we can announce and demonstrate December's 3.9 expansion, as well as a small preview of 4.0, this convention takes place approximately 2 to 3 weeks before the 3.9 release, so you should be able to play a near final build at the show. We expect to put Tickets are for sale in the next couple of weeks.Tyler: We're also putting the finishing touches on the PlayStation four version of Path of Exelon should be able to announce a release date in the near future. It's going to be a busy year.Justin: So that was the development plan for 2019 Fergie and I will say I think they hit all of them. They nailed it. Yeah, I think they did. And they were very good at their ah, super chilled idea of what four point I was going to be in comparison to what we found out November. So we're going to get to that part sort of Indian. Let's let's break down the league's because we've had now a year we've had were in the fourth league for this this year. So it's obviously three have been completed. Ones very, very new. So let's let's jump through each of them. So we'll go 3.63 point six was the synthesis leak.Tyler: Mmm. Do you rember what you bladeJustin: synthesis for me Now? I I don't entirely know. I do remember playing arc totems. Ah, for quite a bit of it, just because so synthesis was a huge cast early there were that was the league of ah, huge changes to spells and just casting in general, mainly kind of got kicked a little bit and just was left alone. But casting was a big one So for me, my main one was, uh, was arc totems and it actually carried me. I think I played it quite a bit. Brill League. And I think that one took me to 97 or so. I think ITyler: lied Well, and I laughed and I laughed. That was the one league where you are. Totems was just storing everything. You could have done it with your eyes closed. You're having a great time. And you bailed on it to make something else because you felt like it was too slow. And you're flying. I mean, it was like a split second. I couldn't even hit like the start stop button fast enough to to say how fast you were laying your total's. But it was too slow for you. And so you respect?Justin: Yeah, I don't remember. I don't remember too much what I did after that. Only because that that was a big league for me. Just in currency. I had the I can't remember the name of it, but the Mir dhe shield that I ended up selling for I remember selling all of my ark totem gear for I don't know, 60 or 70 exults and just playing around and going crazy and then not carrying after that point. What did you play them? You remember?Tyler: Uh, I don't remember playing it, but I had it written down. It was how I do my lists of characters. My 3.6 build was an R f character. Okay, remember playing it, but I'm sure it did. Great.Justin: Nice. So, synthesis. It was not a great release. So it wasn't. Ah, it wasn't my favorite. While we can talk about favorite ones later. But the system wasTyler: confusing. Yeah, and they're confusing.Justin: And there's not a whole lot of it left in theTyler: game. No, no, it definitely went by the wayside in terms of how it could fit into the current court game. Um, you barely ever see. It really only exists for as I've seen it. Um, it only exists in Zana maps. When you see her in a map, you could have a synthesis map as one of your options. And that's really the only way that I've come across it. Naturally. I don't remember any other way that they've tried to infuse it, but that's that's it. I remember. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. I was just gonna say I remember it being a league. That was as as much effort as they put into it. I remember it being a leak, that I was completely happy to just skip the content, just go right past whoever was that was doing all the since this stuff and I just play the map and do the atlas. Normally,Justin: the idea behind it when it was first announced seemed really cool to me. The way it actually played out, I found overwhelmingly confusing. It was really difficult to plan out the I don't even know what you would call it. The map type thing that they had. I didn't find it. There were so many issues where ah ah, block the memory segments. Yeah, an area would, like, clear out for some reason, Or you couldn't. I just didn't like how that function work. There was way too much extra added to the game. And can you even go there? Can you see? What was it called? The nexus, I think. Yeah. I think that's what it was called. Can you still together? IsTyler: every Texas not that I know of? No, I don't think you can get the pieces of memory anymore, but you can still get synthesized items. That cannon all within a synthesized map.Justin: Yeah, it was It was It was a I don't know what the word is that it was ah, valiant attempt to try and make something new to the game. But to me, it was way, way, way, way too much. It was like, what was the one in the previous year with the the boards and all the lines and everything that would, uh, go between all of the bosses? It was the one with the change of the craft.Tyler: Um oh, syndicate. No, no, it's not called syndicate. I was calling in to getJustin: the mail. It was to me, it was like that. It was adding way too much of the game, and I just wanted to kill stuff, but so that actually kind of leads into legion. So that was synthesis. It was a fun league, but I did not touch the league mechanics almost atTyler: all. It's It's one of its unique, I think since I've started playing, which was in the early two's, um, it was unique in the sense that there's a lot of the times where they have to make a lot of changes. Right? Remember with synthesis, they had that blue stuff that would be coming in, and it would really start to cave in on us what it was speed game, right? So they had to modify it a lot. And even though this was now 2018 but you mentioned betrayal, they modified betrayal a lot to try and balance it for people that were leveling cleared two people that like Game and so that happens in a lot of leagues, and that's just how it goes. But it was one of those leagues where this bite all the changes that they made to try and balance it properly so that it could be playable. It was the mechanic itself that held a lot of people. That, and just matching the memory fragments, being able to store the fragments, figuring out how they work to the best ability was from what I found from what I read. From what I remember, that was the hardest part about the league.Justin: I had a blast in the league, but I did not enjoy the league mechanic. I loved the castor changes. I love the you know the skill reworks. I really, really liked a lot of the changes that they made for game play, but I did not like the guy just didn't enjoy the synthesis side of of the league. But are we good with 3.6? Yeah, let's move on. So 3.6 goes through, 3.7 comes out in. That's legion. And now legion. I think one of my favorite things about legion the Legion, was it was dummy proof. It was relatively simple. It was very much breach ish. Not obviously the same exactly is breach. But the idea that you would just come across them while you play it. You could do them while you were in a map or in his own, and it didn't require you to really have to do much else. You got to fight additional mobs, and there was obviously other stuff that could happen within that you know how the league was set up. But the overall way that it worked was super simple. Super simple.Tyler: Yeah, You see it in the map, you hit the button, you just kill as much as you can. Yeah. Maybe they'll kill you if you unlock too much there. Too tough. Or maybe you killed them all. And then you move on, you pick up your loot, you keep going. And I loved it. Absolutely loved it.Justin: Yeah. And then so with that league, they also came up with a huge Malay rework, which wasTyler: awesome, especially because the amount of crying melee fans did in 3.6 for the castor league. It was really nice toe. Have those wines dissipate in 3.7? Yeah, andJustin: and while it was a really, really cool mainly rework, which has really a lot of that stuff even now it's still very useful to Malay builds. A lot of the changes that they made are still super appreciated. It also became literally the cyclone leak. It did. It did. And because of the way that legion worked, I loved the legion part where you would just you'd find it in a map, click it, you'd break a bunch of stuff. You kill a bunch of guys and you keep moving on. I wasn't a huge fan of the endgame side of it where you would go to that that I can't remember what it was called the other area. And you could, you know, based on how many you wanted to do, was the domain of the timeless conflict. Look at you. Ah, that part to me was not my favorite. Only because I had seen what people could do in there with insane gear. And it just made you feel like, very weak. Didn't like. Yeah, yeah. What did you play? Do you remember what you played in that in that leak?Tyler: Yeah, that was my blocking build my trigger Happy build that I do. And ah, it was perfect for it. Um, I was using Cyclone with it. Now I've recently changed it. The last leaguer to To what's it called Laid Storm. But I did Cyclone for that league with Max block build. And it would have worked really well except trigger skills had almost 100% reproduction crash associate ID for the first month. So I really tried to play, but because I had all three trigger skills on my on my build, I didn't know and they didn't really know they did. It wasn't fixed for about the first month, so Unfortunately, I didn't get a lot of playing time andJustin: didn't actually last that long. Was it aTyler: month? It was a month before the trigger skills Scott fixed. It takes time to figure out like that for long was the longest time because it was a cyclone build. They were really focused on trying to fix the mechanics and cycle behind the scenes because they thought cycling is causing a lot of crashes. It ended up causing very few, but it was a focus and it's just how it works, so not as a criticism. It's just what was impacting my specific build took quite a while to fix. And so by then, two people that I play with were kind of Douglas Aly.Justin: Maybe. I definitely don't think it was specific to the type of build you play, though, because that was the league where Cyclone became channeling and that made a huge difference to what you could do with it. And so you saw so many of the on effect skills now in used with cyclone, which was cool. Now I played flicker strike on Lee becauseTyler: I don't know why I actually don't remember what made me think A flicker strike. You're trying to make me throw up.Justin: Maybe. Maybe it was my goal. Just 100%. Be sure I wouldn't play with you. I'm not sure, but, uh, I will say it was the first league in I have played since was April 2012 in the in the beta. This was my very first headhunter drop where it actually draw, right? And so that was in one of the Legion things that was actually glacier farming, which was a big thing for me in that league. And I remember it dropped as a unique leather belt. And I was laughing because Ethan, who was who was in my office at the time, and I, you know, kind of just said to him, Of course, it's a tease. I'm not gonna pick it up. What a waste. I know it's gonna be garbage worms, Moulter. Whatever it is, um and so I most over top of it in both of us, just like crap their pants. Because it was it was actually centered, so that that was probably my favorite part of it.Tyler: That's if you were to have a highlight reel. That's that'd be rightJustin: at the top. Yeah, it was cool to have. I've had ahead 100 before, but they've always been through currency, so this is kind of cool to actually have one draw.Tyler: That's awesome.Justin: Yeah. And then So this was also the change. This latte league changed to the five sockets, which obviously allowed you forgetting to That owe me and you were talking aboutTyler: Oh, you mean the map device was able to have five sockets? Yeah, you could find that. I was pretty cool, right? Still in the game, they say still in the game. Is it if this didn't remove it, but I I haven't come across it, YouJustin: know, myself, either. Yeah, it and then timeless jewels were and they were in that the guy didn't play much with, um, they confused the hell out of me. I don't want to see a jewel with just a bunch of numbers, and you have to just put it in to find out what it was just just wasn't for me, But it was fun, Lee. I liked I liked legion. So, Jenny, we're good with legion.Tyler: I believe so.Justin: Legion then leads into blight, So blight comes out. I found it, actually, at little shocking that it was tower defense. It made me laugh when they announced it. And this was the league of monster minion buffs, which I knew you were in love with, obviously, since I readTyler: it. I am a minion. Pet lover, depending. What game you come from. I am hollow vote minions. My league. It was fantastic.Justin: So what did you play that league?Tyler: Zombies. What? Well, I did. They made a lot of I wasn't originally gonna plays office. I was. There's 11 or two of my guides. I've only played on Collins. Wanna have a plate on PC? And so I really wanted to play one of the other ones. But there were so many changes to minions and not just minions like the core gem like zombies was modified substantially from 3.73 point eight. But then they added an insane amount of very different but also powerful. Um, support gems like feeding, frenzy and meat shield and death Mark. And then they changed the values of the corresponding like minion damage and minion speed to accommodate those new additions and how minions leveled and then the whole necromancer ascendancy. It was so different that I had to play it just to see what it was like for the sake of replying to guide responses. But it was really good. ObviouslyJustin: it was the first league for me since again. I want to say it was backing closed Beta. Uh, when I was playing, I think one of my very first builds I ever played was minions. And I remember one of the very first things I ever message the developers to say was there needs to be a counter like the idea that I can't see how many zombies I have out is really difficult to play, how a minion build. And so this was, I think, my first time touching minions. Besides, I played with us rs a little bit, but I don't think I touch onions for years, years and years. Of course, with this league, you really there wasn't I mean, I could have played other stuff, but it just said it made so much sense to play around with with millions, and it was fun. It was the easiest league start I've ever had ever in the history of path of exile. I remember going, but this is something's wrong. This is.Tyler: Well, you didn't zombies for your league start, right? You didn't do any different. Yeah,Justin: No, I went zombies and it was just It was better. It was so smooth. And I remember laughing to you. Maybe a month in just jokingly saying that. Oh, boy, you're zombies are going to take a hit. I think it was actually right after celestial zombies came out. I was like, All you're screwed. That's it. That's the curse. Once you could stay with celestial. You're done. Yeah, So that that actually, for me, blight didn't last a super long time. But I do remember ending it with celestial everything. Of course, I got every single celestial, empty X had a bunch of the minions in the celestial on. Did you? Did you like the blighted leak? Did you like the towerTyler: defense again? I really liked it. I'm I was apathetic to the tower defense part, but I am a huge fan. My favorite leagues are the ones that just let me kill stuff right away. And so I love things like blight. You know, I love it when I have an insane amount of rogue exiles on the map. I just love it. What is it? Reach where they come out of the ground. Just love it. So this one was similar to that? I didn't have to go anywhere else to find my to do the lead content. And they were just comes rushing at you, which is great. Um, I I was apathetic to the tower stuff, so I basically just looked for the closest checkpoint. Her choke point or two made them slow and then let my minions deal with the rest. And Natalie, because zombies were so overpowered, that strategy did work. It was their intense to make towers almost required, unless you had an insanely over powerful built. So, um, I did like it. I love that the minions just came rushing at you, or I guess not passing pod, whatever that was called, but yeah, no, I really liked it. If if it worked, if it worked.Justin: Sure. I think my favorite part about Blight was sister Cassius. Oh, here singing and was listening in. And she just didn't give a damn about you either. Was almost irritated that you were there.Tyler: Yeah, Yeah, she needed you. And that pissed her off. Yeah, it was pretty funny. I do the one thing about blight. It would have been It was very difficult. I primarily play console and it people had to really, really do specific builds that weren't busy for a Minion League. Blight was too busy, right? I mean, everybody's has a lot of minions out, and then there's an insane amount of monsters out with a lot of hit points. And there was It was just a slide show on normal consoles, not just the original P s foreign Xbox one, but the the second version of thumb. Even some people with the Higher and PS four and Xbox one X they they'd run into some pretty big slide. So slideshow stuff, too, depending on it. So for ah, Minion League blight kind of counteracted itself with with what would be overpowered and successful. So a lot of the streams that you would see we're primarily PC, especially as you got later into the league, because only a higher NPC could actually handle a full blight map. The full board of minions. But I really liked it. I just wish it I just wishJustin: it worked, right? I do remember hearing people struggling with the blighted maps in later in game, just with the amount of stuff that would happen on your own screen. And then you multiply that by a 1,000,000,000 with the amount of mobs that were coming outTyler: and they didn't even implement it into console immediately. It was so challenging because of the frame rate issues and such on PC. They implemented it into 3.9 right away. But they didn't don't console and they're fixed on console was to just make less paths less minions. And it's just so easy. Mmm, It's so easy. It's Ah, I mean, I'm glad it's in it. I'm glad it's in it, butJustin: I've actually done them more while I run into them. Yeah, me, too. It's kind of nice It I guess it's nice because they're not so often. I never I never had a problem with the the Tower defense, but I also never cared to do much else Besides the reason ones. I would hit the ice ones and then just sit back in the middle and let my let the minions just do their thing in the middle. Yeah, I rememberTyler: doing. I like I like it. I don't mind. Some people have an issue when they have to stay in a spot and fight enemies. I don't care as long as there's enemies and I really like blight and breach. What's the abyss for those types of ones? I really like them. Overall, I thought it was a great legal.Justin: And then we went into the current league, which there's not a whole lot to talk about, just cause it's so new.Tyler: Well, they nerved one minion from 3.8. Do you know which one mother, actually, too. That's true. It was, in vectors, passions on these songs andJustin: then the support James. Now that being said, we've talked about this in the in the patch notes, ones necessary changes, maybe a little heavy handed. Hopefully, it's adjusted a little bit, but, uh,Tyler: yeah, because I think it was fair. I was pretty broken hearted, and I wasn't overly kind with, uh, my opinion of it, But I do think it wasJustin: after the human stuff. Yeah, it was kind of necessary. Now they did a huge Bo Ri work with 3.9Tyler: 3.9. That was the bowl leak or is the bulletJustin: is in the bowl league? So what now? It's funny that we say it's the bowl EQ. What are you playing?Tyler: Playing about build and I'm playing a build every every boat skill got buffed or modified to be relevant is this league. But there were two to Bo won support and one primary scale active skill that got Ah, I guess nerved would be appropriate. I played elemental hit. I lost a lot of damage compared to 3.8, and I'm playing with its link to the ballistic totem support, which is brand new. Um, they changed that from the attack, told him support which originally you could only lay one at a time unless you invested further in the tree with items. Now it can lay three so and blisters are brand new to the league. This league, too. It's a new type of attack totem that you have to lay within Malay Range as opposed to being able to swell. So But yeah, uh, my my specific build got hit hard, but this is a bow league, and people are going both crazy and they're lovingJustin: it. I skipped Bo's entirely for this league so far. I decided to go a spectral throw. I'm having a really good time, actually. Meta morph. I have struggled a little bit with some stuff. First time with S S f for quite a long time. But it's I like it. The Metamor stuff again. I have found this league more challenging, I think, for in a positive way, Not just like Okay, dump chaos, damage on me, like in syndicate or right, uh, make a stupid area that closes on me within, like, three seconds. As soon as I move like synthesis. This is This is legit. Like, if it's difficult, it's my fault. I made it harder. I love that. I absolutely love that.Tyler: Yeah, me too. I love that you can take You could make it. I mean, it's still gonna be a boss fight if you took all white items. But you can take the easiest body parts and make the easiest boss you can. And if you have a really weak build, you'll you'll do. Okay, right. But if you have ah, pretty good. Not the best billed as you're leveling and you do all the hardest ones, it's gonna be a hard fight, and it's I thought it was really well balanced right off the bat. A lot of the changes they've made weren't to these new bosses. That was really cool. One thing that I love that meta morph added just into the core game was completely was much harder enemies, they added. Armor and elemental increase. Resistance is in chaos. Resistance is they increased the life off bosses and enemies and rare Sze everywhere. And they just made the game. They didn't increase their damage, but they increased their survivability, and it has made the game itself a lot harder. Meta morph is a great league and the changes they made to the core game that they introduced with meta morph and perfect timing. Of course, because you're making a boss league and then you're adding all these extra boss survivability things into the game as well. I was perfect cohesion, and I think they did a really good job. They haven't changed any of it. It's awesome.Justin: Yeah, I don't even remember. Are the changes for that tied to the metamorphosis? Igor, This conquers of the atlas. It's kind of hard to tell which was for what.Tyler: It's well, it's all the same, right? I mean, it's tied two unique enemies. It's tied to this of the very specific map. Bosses were individually tweaked. Yeah, I mean, some of them boss fights were completely rebound anyway. But for those existing ones there, they were specifically tweet so that they were an appropriate level. It wasn't just flat, you know, This this tear all got the same percentage of health increase. From what I remember them saying anyway, so it's all intertwined.Justin: So then tied in with 3.9 and metamorphoses this the big end game change to the atlas of Now we're into the conquers of the atlas. We've got new new endgame. Bosses knew endgame story, and I mean, we're both relatively new into it. I think you're a bit further than I am, but again, I've had a blast. It's made. It's made mapping much more challenging at a lower tier, and that's fun. I like that.Tyler: Yeah, definitely. I'm I think it's it's done a very good job. So far, I've heard that higher up that there's some some issues with people that were David Cook to complete certain quests or boss fights, or that certain items weren't falling within a proper area. But for the most part, this has been this league tied with the new endgame that they've created. To me, it's it path of excels always tried to be a very difficult game. And trying to incorporate what people want in the game and what they want in the game is obviously a very tricky thing. I well, I would assume for them say so in their interviews. And it's, I think this has done just a fantastic job of making the game difficult while keeping the game powerful.Justin: Yep, Yeah, I agree. And it's again. It's a little hard to judge because we're three weeks, two weeks into it, into the league, so it's still got a bit of legs behind it before we see how it all plays out. But so far it's been a positive experience.Tyler: Yeah, the one thing I really like about this new endgame for Metamor are not for many more, but the conquers of the atlas is that you are going to see the same bosses that you're gonna fight it. The end throughout the atlas. Not just that. Yeah, and I think that is so good. G has tried to make this game more accessible to new people over and over without making the game easier. And the huge problem that a lot of new people, if they made it to t fifteens and sixteen's, which they would be able to clear a T 15. No problem. They'd crush the Boston problem than they'd meet a guardian and they get crushed. And this new method that they have of fighting the same boss but then in multiple tears as you get further and further into the atlas. It's nice because you're now familiar with the boss as it's getting harder, and I think it's a lot more accessible to new people. And I think they did a really good job considering that, too.Justin: I think it'll be curious to see how that plays out as we get further into the Alice, because for me, I it's hard for me to say I definitely agree with you. It's cool that you're already hitting endgame bosses in like tear fours and fives, and that's just gonna you know, you're gonna only able to expand on that as you get further along. But I haven't gotten there yet, so it's hard to say, Yeah, I'm loving it It just as much when I'm into your 15th and 16th yet So that's cool. Yeah, it has been good so far. All right, so here's a question for you. We'll start. We'll start with the negative side first just because I know you're a positive positive guy. So, yeah, what was your least favorite league? And why of those four? And it's kind of hard because I know madam, or so new, but I highly doubt it. It will be the one. But which of those we've got 3.6 a synthesis. 3.7. His legion 3.8 is blight. And then the current 3.9 metamorphose, which was your least favorite league. And whyTyler: synthesis was easy to ignore if you didn't like it. Legion. I really liked the mechanics, but my specific build didn't get fixed for a month. I think my least favourite was blight. Now I really liked blight, but there's the common sense of making your meta being capable of doing your mechanic, and they didn't coincide at all and because I'm a console player and G knows about their console games, and they need to be able to make their game for the least efficient platform that they release it on. I think blight was my least favorite because I couldn't play it on my favorite platform.Justin: Yeah, okay, so for me, my least favorite would be It's probably synthesis. But it's kind of unfortunate for me to say that because I played synthesis much, much longer than blamed much longer, I would say almost twice as long as Blake. I played synthesis, and that was because I loved the changes to spells. It made the milk fund to play. But I absolutely hated the league mechanic. I just could not. I didn't like it. It wasn't fun at all. Where is Blight it? Ah, it almost seemed a little bit too easy. And I didn't have any interest in the the the Blight mechanic. So and that literally was the endgame. Yeah. You know, as you leveled, there wasn't anything new that you were introducing towards the end game. And so I found a burnt out real fast, but synthesis for me. If I'm looking at it, from a league perspective, I hated. Synthesis is engaged. I did not like any of the the nexus stuff. I felt completely lost all the time on that one, like figuring it out. So for me, that that was me I loved, absolutely loved the actual plane of that league and the skills and the reworks and stuff. One of my favorites. But the actual lead mechanic to me was the blight wasn't poorly done. It wasn't that the league mechanic was poorly done. It just I didn't interest me, was great. But the synthesis league mechanic, to me was a little bit shortsighted and definitely wasn't one of my least favorite ones. But now let'sTyler: move away from the brightest guys so I could see how synthesis confuses you.Justin: I know I like simple, simple. So let's move awayTyler: from you go. You go first on this one, you go first.Justin: Okay, So this is gonna be our favorite, which was our favorite league. And why you go legion for sure. I'm really liking meta morph. I can't say for sure until the end of this league where they'll line up Legion introduced so many Malay where he works that I've been working for. Well, we're looking forward to forever. And so I tend to lean more towards the mainly type skills. It's just more fun for me, and I loved a lot of the changes that they did and Legion League Mechanic was was dummy proof. It was It was so simple to play. I wasn't a really big fan of that hole. Put the five things and I did it, you know, I played it. I did beat the one with all five, and but I felt like it was so forced to go that the cyclone route, if you really want, especially once the headhunter had dropped it. It made it really easy to go, and I just have a couple swords and put on the belt in the hallway. But the the lead mechanic to me, was a lot of fun. It was within the map. Side is what I'm referring to like. It made it very, very easy to just play the atlas to just play my build. Maley was strong, and so for me, as a Finnish league, it's the only one I can compare it to, because anymore so far has actually been a lot of fun, but we're like 23 weeks in, so I can't really give it the top for me. So what about you?Tyler: Catch for me was it's meta morph. Really, I know we're only that into it, but it's ah, it's harder right now. I know. Adding all the resists in defense for enemies is isn't necessarily for the league itself, right? That's just core. Game change is kind of like the endgame. But coupling that with adding bosses that you can choose how difficult they are you could specifically choose rewards like I want more rare items are away. Should I do, ah, unique item or should I do more currency drops and you're actually guaranteed at least something of what you've chosen. Now you don't know what the body parts are gonna offer you money from all of your options. You you're picking your rewards, which is so great in a game like this, you're picking the difficulty based on the reward, which is so great you can pick the location in the map where you're gonna fight. Um, it's just it's awesome. And I love one thing that, like I mentioned before about G one in this game. Hard, but people wanting to clear it in the blink of an eye. This slows the game down, right? Like we've we've talked who will get to excel con in a bit. But one thing that they really wanted to do with Pee wee, too, was really slow. The game down. And this is a huge step in that direction, even a year before Pee Wee to comes out is you're slowing down these enemies air rough. You need a really good build to destroy the really hard metamorphose and a moderately leveled build. Or one that's still trying to find its gear, still trying to find that right to weapon full of mods that they would boost their DPS quite a lot. It's gonna be a challenge, and you're and you're making tough choices. I love Metamor for that, and it's and it's metamorphose itself is stable, rock solid, stable, right? A lot of the issues that have come out with 3.9 have actually been with a new endgame, not with metamorphosis thing. It's been bug free, but I just think it's been the most stable. It's been the most exciting. It's the most. I'm spending time looking at my screen, choosing what I want to do. It's not just blind. I love it. I absolutely love it.Justin: Who are the 3.9 for you? That's nice. Yeah, alright, it's a legion. I do like metamorphic. We'll see how it plays out. Okay, so you actually brought it up. But let's one of the final things that they talked about in their development plan for 2019 was Excel Con. So x o Khan was obviously a huge deal for people who like Path of Excel. Ah, whether you went or not, just the idea that they were doing it was awesome. The fact that this indie development game was going to be, you know, has grown to the size of holding its own conference or a game. And then not only are they doing it, but they're gonna hold it in literally the for this place, every other country on Earth, that that's awesome. The fact thatTyler: a good turnout they had to increase what they had to upgrade their venue.Justin: I think I heard when we were so we I got to go, which was awesome. I went with my son, who's Ethan and and we I mean, we had a blast. He definitely had a huge, really, really good time when he was there. And I know me and you had talked about possibly going and it just didn't work out. But, ah, the I can't remember the number I want to say It was around 1313 100 people, is what we were told out was there, which is insane, especially given a huge percentage of those were not local. And when I was looking it up just out of curiosity, the closest besides Australia, the closest place that you could fly from was 12 hours away, which is just It just made me laugh because it's yeah, it literally is the furthest place away from everywhere else on Earth. Besides, you know, the people in Australia. But when we were in a cool when we were down there, I'll just quickly throw this in there when we were down there, actually made a reddit post because I was floored at the way that the people that were there were acting towards each other and the community sort of just in general. It really took me back to beta days of P o E. It just was Everybody was friendly. Everybody was hanging out, you know, like they're just was It was a really cool vibe there. And that's coming from, Uh, no, I'm not old, but an older guy. I mean, I think probably the average age I would have guessed was probably 27 28 there. But it was just cool. Like people were Tibor Super friendly. I mean, Ethan, he's 18. He had a blast, so it was a really cool experience. And then, uh, well, I mean, we should get to really the 22 major announcements, I guess maybe three. So we had 3.9, which was obviously this expansion in the whole change to the conquerors of the atlas. A cool, cool announcement that came out mobile announcement. Saving the big one for the mobile announcement was hilarious, because I remember sitting in the theater and watching people figure, you know, are they out of their minds, like, is this is this really is Are they lying? Everybody kind of thought, you know, until you saw how much you know they had the fall guy, which was hilarious. in their video and ah, and then Christmas, becauseTyler: that's his job to raid.Justin: Oh, it was so well done, though. It was so well done. I hope it was his idea, because I think that that it was one of the funniest titles for anybody in theTyler: whole in anyJustin: of the videos. TheTyler: mobile fall guy, Global fallJustin: guy. But it was a good view. And then Chris kind of talking afterwards about how it was hard to announce this last year made me crack up.Tyler: Oh, that he was so nervous. What? Cono Not sure what they were going to do.Justin: Yeah. And then, of course, the huge p o e. To which was, you know, the pre announced four point. Oh, but is actually gonna be path of exile, too. So I'm curious. What? What did you think? I mean, the ex con was so big, we can't cover obviously all of it. But now what? What was sort of yourTyler: overall? So for those listening, Justin, Nathan got to go. I, of course, did not get to, but we were messaging quite a lot throughout the entire conference, and it was really cool to get their perspective of to what was happening when what I could see. And so I was watching on Twitch and YouTube, and I got to see a lot of the interviews that Justin you think you can get to see while they were there because you could just can't see everything live. But they only had one channel that was streaming some of the interviews. And so I think obviously my favorite part of ex Sal Khan was the path of exile to announcement. But the best part of that was when I think it was Chris that came out after when Chris he was almost crying and he was having such a hard time controlling his emotions and his love for his game, his passion for the community that plays. He was so overwhelmed with people's excitement over what they were doing and their excitement to play even more and get more. I just can't imagine what it would be like. They were saying that they, for the longest time there was like four people. Only the people that were allowed in his office without knocking knew that 4.0 was actually gonna be p o. B two and it was only hey was saying that it was just nobody knew and for that to just get off their chests for them to be able to talk about everything. It was one of my other favorite moments along with Chris. Almost crying in a good way was when Jonathan maybe maybe this quick maybe was both. But I think it was Jonathan. He sat down for one of his, um, interviews, twitch interviews, and he was so calm. He was just so exciting, was so relaxed and he just said, Ask me anything. There's no more secrets And he was just so happy to just talk about anything. And I thought that was really cool because there's so much that's still going to come. And I mean, when you compare this to the Deauville for announcement, it just blows it out of the water. And the things that these are even comparable G was thinking about for even longer, It seems. It's just It was It was so exciting. I can't wait for another 19 ascendancy classes while we're on the subject.Justin: Yeah, it's gonna be cool. So I haven't I mean, you know this story and there's There's obviously a few of our friends that we know locally and that our family, friends and stuff no, this story and very few people outside of that would obviously know about this. Besides, there was a picture, but one of my one of my favorite sort of experiences when we were there because there were a lot, I mean, just that being in New Zealand on its own was amazing. That that country is beautiful. Yeah, but we were the day before the exile con event we had run into about, I don't know, we had met just because Ethan wanted to go out and do all of the meet ups and stuff, and I was following along with him. We met quite a few people on Dhe, some really, really cool people while we were out there that we hung around with and, you know, would go for lunch and go exploring with. And so we were. We were walking with three other guys to other guys. I don't remember. There were I think there were four or five of us, but we were walking down one of the main streets right by where X Sal Khan was gonna be taken taking place. And as we're walking down the street, this guy's walking towards us and he's wearing a path of exile shirt and right off the battles I cooled. My God, that's Chris And he's just by himself. He's just walking up. But the funniest part is he kind of looks at our group and he sees that. I think four of the people in our group are wearing path of XL shirts and at this, or jackets or something. And at this point path of exile like or a story? The ex con event hasn't started yet. There's not likeTyler: the next day or something. It'sJustin: gonna be the next day. There's not a ton of people down, like in that area yet that are, you know, path of exile people. And so he looks over at us and he smiles and he's like, Hey, guys! And so you know, will you stop? We're like, Oh, hey, how's it going? And he he pulls his phone out. He's like, Do you guys mind if I take a picture with you and in my head I'm thinking, What the hell? And it didn't seem like everybody else was grasping that it was him. And the thing is, he had shaved like he was freshly shaved, which is not his normal look at all. And so we're kind of like, Yeah, sure for sure. And so he takes his phone, puts it into the selfie and holds it up high and takes a picture of himself with, like the 45 of us standing behind him, smiling and he turns around. He laughs, and he's like he mentioned the fact that, you know, a bunch of us were wearing path of exile stuff and he hit. The comment was, I need to take a picture so I can show people that people give a shit about my stuff. And of course it made his life. And so then he kind of looks at us for a second awkwardly is like, Do you guys want a picture? And in my and I'm like I grabbed Ethan. I pushed him. I'm like, Yeah, of course we want a picture like get in there. And so we take this picture of the four of them standing with Chris Wilson just in the middle of the street, and he's like, Thanks, guys, have a great you know, conference and was so great seeing you. He takes off and even kind of looks a measly and he's familiar. LikeTyler: what? Who is that like, Oh, my God, that's Chris Wilson.Justin: And he freaks out. Like what? It was a lot of fun, and he was So he was so nice. He actually recognized us when he was when Ethan was in line to go and get his signature, he wouldn't. God is like map signed by a bunch of the developers and stuff. And so he took pictures with him again. But, yeah, it was It was fun. It was It was a lot of fun. It was really cool to watch. You know, stuff happened through him as well. So yeah, it was cool. But so your favorite announcement would have been purely toTyler: announcement there was. I mean, there was so much interesting stuff that we've talked about in other episodes and that we have lined up for the future episodes. But my favorite announcement was most definitely peewee to her entire. Do that.Justin: Yeah, it was very cool. It was a fun to sort of hear the reaction, which I'm sure people experienced it anywhere they were if they were listening and cared about path of excel, just the idea that they were coming up with two and that it was gonna coincide with one andTyler: yeah. Oh, just so I have three very specific things that excite me. Ah, lot of appeal. We too. But what is it that you are looking? I mean, we have I know we have, Ah, an episode coming up about this. But what is short, Quickly. What are a couple of things that really excite you about beauty too? Well,Justin: I feel like a lot of it'll safer. Probably a future episode. But I would say right off the top of my head, I just love the idea of a new story line. Okay, you know, just that whole new I've been playing path of exile for a long time. So and as of you and it's it's kind of cool to think that there's gonna be an entirely new storyline to follow. There is way too much for me to say what like my actual favorite stuff is, and we'll talk about that obviously coming up, But yeah, I think just the idea that there's a whole new storyline that's gonna be coming along isn't is very cool. What about you?Tyler: Slower paced game play? New gym system. 19 newest sentences. The fact that they're going to have what was a 38? It was 19. That's currently 19 right yet 631 Yet Okay, so 38 sentences that are going to be different and all have the ability to have multiple place 1000 builds within each. That's mind going.Justin: It'll be cool to see if there's 38 different ones. That's aTyler: lot. Oh my goodness, I e My brain's exploding thinking of voting.Justin: So yeah, so I mean, overall, though with the information that they gave on exile con and and sort of, their announcements back in 20 the beginning of 2019 for it, I would say it was a hit. Think they kind of nailed it? It really seemed to go Well, they seem to be really happy with how it went. And everyone that I ran into and spoke to their just loved it like every single person had a blast. Sweet. Oh, yeah. It was really good.Tyler: What about mobile? You gonna play?Justin: I have played it. You played it while I was there is true. It was It's cool. You know what? They've done a really good job with it. It's It's It's very simple to play very simple to just, you know, play with you with your thumbs. I'm not a mobile game person. I don't tend to play very many games on the mobile. If I was made me, I can't think of maybe flying. I tend to do work that when I'm flying. So I don't know, Maybe if I was maybe if I was just looking for something to do, it's simple enough to pick up and it will be free. So I'm sure I will install it. Uh, hopefully, hopefully by the time that they come out with it, it doesn't try to set your phone on fire because it runs very, very hot. They gave phones that you could test with, so I don't know what what models of these phones they were, but your hands were like, Yeah, it's like you took something out of the oven by the time you had played it for about 2025 minutes. Yeah. Would you playTyler: it mobile I'll download it if my phone can handle it. Um, but I'm I'm just it really impressed. Yeah, I'm excited for it. I'll give it a shot. I'll try and make time for you, But I'm I'm not gonna go out of my way because I play on call. It's a land PC as well, but I'm excited to try it. I hope my phone complaint, and if it does, I'll definitely forced myself. Thio, give us some time and I'm sure it'll be great. One of my favorite lines from Path of exile to, though, was when I think it was, Chris said. We don't care if it's successful, but if it's not, we don't care. If we make money like they don't even have micro transactions lined up for it, they might not. Even I don't think we're going to. It's just a game. It's just free and it's We wanted to be a really good mobile game if it makes money, fine. But they don't even see how it's going to make money. And if it doesn't okay like it's a mobile game for mobile people, that's all it is and I thought that was really cool because it solidifies. I remember the rage when Xbox came out with as the first console, the first non PC platform for Pee Wee, too, and a lot of PC land exploded in rage. And so PlayStation had a much friendlier release, of course. And so it's it's nice for PC players or just console only players to know that that they're not going to be overlooked because of a new focus of income. So if the false really cool,Justin: especially because there could have been that's right now like there is a there's a lot of money that can be made a mobile. So the fact that they're not putting the focus on it is really nice. Well, so yeah, I would say, I would say with their development notes from 2019 I'm really excited to see what the 2020 ones will come out with it in the next few days because they stayed true to damn near everythingTyler: they were spot on. Yeah, I think the only thing that it will be a little bit off and by no criticism at all is just their timeline for Pee Wee, too. I think it's 21. You were reading it. It was like some time in 2020. Maybe early. Maybe not Now they're thinking, but absolute earliest is the very end of 2020 Likely 2021. But peewee to always any time of year. I'm just too excited.Justin: Yeah, I feel like I heard it going all the way up to 3.12. So I'm you know, that gives at least three more leagues. Nine more months. Eso maybe the very, veryTyler: end. Well, we'll see. I don't really care. I'll release it over Christmas Tree. Oh, man,Justin: I hope they do so bad. That's the December release. Oh, merry Christmas. Be a means fixing only p o e one will continue to work on. That would be the best Christmas gift. Oh, we could talk about so much. Yeah, All right. So let's let's end this one off. I think this was this was cool that it was fun to look back. It's sort of what they did in 2019 and and now, and sort of give us an idea of what to look forward to for 2020. So we wanted to do a giveaway. I think it's gonna be fun. We're gonna make it super simple. There's gonna be two ways to enter in a post a reddit post on the show notes. All you got to do is post on that. Tell us what league was your favorite and why we don't care. Which was the your least favorite. Let's keep positive, that's what Red it's four positivity. 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It's either the bass Lisk core supporter Pack, the grand Sanctum Supporter Pack or the Eternal Damnation supporter pack. If it turns out you, for some odd reason, have all three or don't like them, then we'll just get you the equivalent value in points. Ah, to your account. So yeah, that's it. So we've got Red a Twitter win some goodies, and we're going to announce the winner Jury in Episode eight. So we have Episode seven still coming out at its regular time. This was sort of our bonus, one coming out for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. So happy, Happy New Year's and, ah, we're gonna have Episode seven coming out of its regular scheduled thing on Sunday night. And with regards to supporter packs, if we can make it work, we'll make it work for whatever account you have. So if you're ah, you're an Xbox player, a PC player, a PlayStation player, we can work with support with G to make sure that those supporter packs are sent to you on your whatever platform you're using. That's right. So that's where it is. Read it. Tweet us sick. What you wanna win will announce the jury in Episode eight, which is two more episodes ofTyler: waste. I'm gonna win. It's permanent. Win.Justin: Yeah, you're kicked out anyway, guys, Thanks so much for listening to Episode six of Forever Exiled A Path of Exile podcast. This has been a really good time. And I hope you guys all have a super safe New Year's Eve and a good New Year's Day following. After that, I am one of your host, Justin a K Tagz.Tyler: I'm Tyler. Wrecker of Days. Oh, was I supposed to finish? Okay, well, it added at something in, um, hang on. Okay, then. I'm Tyler. Wrecker of days. Be safe this holiday week. No, no, no.Justin: What are you talking? You know what, everyone.Tyler: No, no, no. What? I was going to say somethingJustin: about your name again. I'm just gonna cut it anyway. But give me No, don't say that part again. Just give me half a second before you start speaking, but don't make it so.Tyler: No, no, no, no. This isJustin: actually now gonna be our troll. That'd beTyler: awesome. No, I wanted people to be safe on New Year's Eve. Get stupid. And for some reason, people seemed Forget that at New Year's Eve. But anyway, trying to anyone better would you, um, we appreciate all the listen. Some thanks for your time. Have a happy New Year's. Eve was safely safe. You want todo sure record and I know I'm going to say it, but you have all these notes that are distracting me about my filters. All I want to talk aboutJustin: is what is what happens when I throw on our troll on you that you have to doTyler: what you have just playing as I'm still talking about how I'm gonna do a note. True. What? What way would you say?Justin: Listen, I think the intro every damn time you have do you do do it? Yeah, because otherwise, but this is what our ingenuityTyler: I'll do the next time I'll do Episode sevenJustin: you can't recognize or six in You started with five because the intro change in Episode five you started with Rokko, remember? Thanks.Tyler: No, I don't. Yes, it's the widow. I don't remember. Thanks. Yeah, thanks. Uh, well, um, all right, Well, what can I say? Thank you very much for the listens, everybody. We greatly appreciate it. And again, if you have any encouragement or criticisms for us, please let us know on Twitter or on Reddit after one of our posts and we'll see you on episode seven.Justin: Make sure to check out the show notes below. If you've got any questions or concerns, nobody has concerned. I don't care if they have concerns. Heather clarified. Give make sure to check outTyler: Larkin and put this all owed on the same day that you were ready. I was ready. You weren't ready.Justin: I'm not gonna cut any of this is gonna be the longest. Whatever. You just you build like a needy and I'm previously on yourself. I forgot I was loved. Make sure to check out the show notes. For more information about today's episode, you confined us online at www dot forever exiled dot com as well as on Twitter at forever exiled 82Don't forget to find us at www.foreverexiled.com and @ForeverExiled82 on Twitter

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Introducing Womens Careers Expert Bettina Arnafjall Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is a huge delight for me, as once again she was a listener of the show who was inspired to take action. So inspired was she that we worked together through the Join Up Dots business programme,  to find the business that she wanted to bring forward to the world. Bettina Arnafjall is the founder of the womenscareerlift, where she helps ladies (and a few men) to really give themselves a huge lift in their career. You see it's not just a catchy name, but says exactly what she does through women's career coaching,  Resume review and writing, Cover letter review and writing, job interview preparation and  salary negotiation preparation As she says "I don't have a typical career path. I studied translation science for French, Italian and English but never actually worked as a translator. After only two years of work experience as a team assistant and customer support agent, I was promoted to be a team manager. I managed several teams of three to as many as thirty employees with vastly different cultural and educational backgrounds. Now the time has come for me to share my many years of experience and help you with your applications. But I noticed there are a lot of women around me who feel like that they are not being given the same opportunities as men because they are women. Whether this is the reality or just their perception, I couldn't say. In any case, I have noticed things that women could do to improve their chances and I want to share my experience to help women with the next step of their careers. I did have several eye opening experiences however with regards to differences in salary expectations and negotiations between men and women. During my many interviews I observed that men usually ask for a much higher salary than women. I actually almost made this mistake myself at some point in my career. Luckily I asked some men for advice and then went into the negotiations with a higher sum than I would have asked for. Guess what: it worked! So now with this amazing insight to what works in the recruitment process, she had the skills to make things happen but how did she do it? And where has been the biggest obstacle to overcome as she brought her dream to the world? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Bettina Arnafjall Show Highlights During the show we discussed such deep weighty subjects with Bettina Arnafjall such as: We share the steps that Bettina first took to get her business off the ground by understanding what she really had to offer the world. Why it's so important to potentially talk to your current employees when you first start your own business to check they are ok with you doing it. Bettina reveals why for her business, referrals are so important for continued growth. Dont forget about word of mouth. and lastly...... Why Google Classroom is such a brilliant resource to get an online course up and running for free. How To Connect With Bettina Arnafjall Website Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Return To The Top Of Bettina Arnafjall If you enjoyed this episode with Bettina, why not check out other inspirational chat with Clayton Morris, Dorie Clark, and the amazing Niall Doherty You can also check our extensive podcast archive by clicking here – enjoy Interview Transcription Of Bettina Arnafjall Interview David Ralph 0:01 Once upon a time there was a guy with a dream a dream. He's Jobs for himself online and have a kick ass life working when he wanted him where he wanted across the world. Little did he know that dream would lead him into a world of struggle, burnout and debt. Until he found the magic ingredient and knows drunk was became a thing of the past, of course, was bad person. And now My dream is to make things happen. for you. Welcome to Join Up Dots. Intro 0:31 When we're young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join Up Dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams. This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host live from the back of his garden in the UK. David Ralph. David Ralph 0:56 Yes, hello there. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Good morning. Hello and welcome to Join Up Dots. Thank you so much for being here. I am all excited today because but me, this is a special show. This is one of those shows where well you'll find out as we proceed through somebody Listen, somebody took action, and he's now rocking and rolling across the world now, our guest joining us on the podcast is, as I say a huge delight for me as she was a listener of the show, who was inspired to take action. So I'm inspired was she that we work together through the Join Up Dots business programme, to find the business that she wanted to bring forward to the world. She's the founder of the women's career Lyft where she helps ladies and a few men she says she's not a man hater, but I'm not sure do really give themselves a huge lift in their career. You say it's not just a catchy name, but says exactly what she does through women's career coaching resume resume early in the morning, resume review and writing cover letter review and writing, job interview preparation And salary negotiation preparation. And she says I don't have a typical career path. I studied translation science for French, Italian and English, but never actually worked as a translator after only two years of work experience. As a team assistant and customer support agent. I was promoted to be a team manager and I manage several teams of three to as many as 30 employees with vastly different cultural and educational backgrounds. Now, the time has come for me to share my many years of experience and help you yes with your job applications. But she noticed that there were a lot of women out there who felt like they weren't being given the same opportunities as men, because they're women. Now, whether this is reality or just the perception she couldn't say, and in any case, she's noticed things that women could do to improve their chances, and she now wants to share the experience to help women with the next step of their careers. She says, I did have several eye opening experiences However, with regards to different is in salary expectations and negotiations between men and women. During my many interviews, I observed that men usually ask for a much higher salary than women. I actually almost made this mistake myself at some point in my career. Luckily, I asked some men for advice and then went into the negotiations with a higher some, but I would have asked for and guess what it worked. So now with this amazing insight to what works in the recruitment process, she's got the skills to make things happen, because how did she do it? How did she build her business? And where has been the biggest obstacles to overcome as she brings her dream to the world? Well, that's why now as we bring on to the show, to stop Join Up Dots with the one and only Bettina. Morning Bettina, how are you? Womens Careers Expert 3:49 I'm good. Good morning, David. That was good with it. You managed David Ralph 3:57 it that is that is honestly Is that 99%? Right? 100% right 200% right because your surname looks nothing like I've got you my thing. I've been going ostrich feathers yet, Is that good? Womens Careers Expert 4:15 I would say 99%. My surname is from the Faroe Islands. My husband is from the Faroe Islands and you actually put a little bit more of air on the pronunciation since David Ralph 4:28 I can't do that. I can't do that. I'm just gonna call you Bettina for the rest of it. It's a delight to have you on the show because yes, we work together through the process and I want to go back right to the very early stages because Miss I have to say to the listeners, this is a moment I never thought would happen because when Bettina first connected with me, she was so secret squirrel, she was so Oh, my boss is gonna find out all the HR teams gonna find out. You were at totally different person, you would never have come onto a podcast and really put yourself out there, would you? Womens Careers Expert 5:05 Yeah, well, it's because we have a company policy. And I mean, I'm still in a full time job. And the company policy says that you need to get approval for any side business. So I needed to figure out what I wanted to do and then get the approval. And once I had the approval, I could go full, full steam. David Ralph 5:24 Now, of course, you going full steam, which is great, but for the listeners out there, is this something that they've got to be aware of up because I would have just gone? I'll just do it, do it and don't tell anyone. It's fine. You know, they don't care about you outside the office. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe more companies nowadays do care about what you're doing outside the office? Womens Careers Expert 5:45 Well, I guess it depends. I mean, in our company, it just is written in the word contract that you actually have to tell them if you want to do a side business and then they give you a little letter, it says you're allowed to do that. And then you're fine. David Ralph 5:58 Yeah, but who reads contract No one reads it. So how are you gonna know I say, anything that comes in front of me, because you don't want them to go up to the HR people and bingo, you know, oh, I'm starting this new business and red flags and warning signs flush out when they could have just done it because they weren't aware how how's the way that they can tiptoe around this? Womens Careers Expert 6:21 I guess most companies won't really care. I know that in in my company, it is like that, because people who work that could do something that is competing with the actual business, and then it would be an issue. So I mean, just if there's nothing in the contract, and nobody ever talks about things like that, I mean, just go and do it. In my case, I had read my contract contract, so I need to make sure that everything was in order before I got started. And I mean, if you really want to promote your business and promote it on like LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram and all over the place, there are chances that people will find out So be open and honest from the start, right? David Ralph 7:03 I think so be open and honest. It's not the way I operate. But I think he's good advice. I remember when I started Join Up Dots, right, the very beginning, I was so embarrassed by it. It was literally and I've said this in a few podcast, but it would have been easier for me to say that I was a pornography addict, you know that that would that would have been understandable. But it opened up so many questions up, you know, why are you doing that? What was wrong with the last bit earlier and I just saw that secretly tiptoed around, even though I had this voice I was putting out into the world. It's strange, isn't it? Because online business is so powerful. And even now I talked to guys and ladies who have created big businesses, but they're not visible in it at all. They're absolutely hidden because they don't feel comfortable enough to put themselves in there. Womens Careers Expert 7:56 Yeah, I guess this a big step to take in. I mean, knows it took me a little bit to get there but it took you a long while David Ralph 8:03 just by Unknown Speaker 8:08 year David Ralph 8:09 365 days of tiptoeing around you know how many episodes i'd released by that time before you finally did it. So so let's get into that moment though. Because what was what's wrong with your job? Why do so many people now want to start side hustlers but don't do anything about it? You know what, what's the difference between you, myself and so many people but they actually do because I speak to so many people that go Yeah, I really love this. This is really what I want and I don't do the first thing about it. What was different about you? Womens Careers Expert 8:46 I guess it's not really that is something you know, wrong with my job and I don't like my job because my job is cool, and I like it. But I just felt this need to do more and I felt this need to help Women in some way and I figured out that in my job, I cannot really do it to the extent that I want to do it. So, I started thinking about what I can do I also move from my team manager role then into more like project manager role because it could have been a conflict of interest, you know, me being a team manager and then coaching people with job applications and so on. so on. So, yeah, when I had done that, I started focusing on you know, what can I do for other ladies, I discussed it with friends. I helped them a little bit was there Java applications turned out that it really worked well. And then I did a little test run and yeah, figured out that can also work with strangers. So then I thought, now we can get started. David Ralph 9:50 with that. I love the fact that you tested you pre test DG before you even got websites and profiles and URLs. You already stepped into helping other people to confirm your talent, your skill your superpower. Did it surprise you how rubbish people actually are at the things that you can do naturally? Well? Womens Careers Expert 10:16 Oh, it always surprises me. I mean, I have I don't want to sound arrogant, but I have many things that I'm good at. So when I look around, and this is both now, you know, with the job applications, but also sometimes I'm in the day job. I'm surprised how hard some people find it to do certain things when they come really easily to me. I guess it's just because I figured out what my strengths are. And now I'm focusing on my strengths and building on them and not really, you know, trying to push through walls where, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. David Ralph 10:51 I remember back in the day, I was very good at helping people do their resumes in SC bees, and they would come to me and say, how baby could you go through it? I'll go Yeah. And I changed things. And I've moved this bit here and move up it and increase certain things. Yeah, not lying, not lying, but just kind of, you know, emphasising certain points, and they would go off and get these amazing jobs. And when it was me, I couldn't do it myself. I couldn't do that sort of beat myself up CV writing even though I could do it for other people. And it's a kind of it's a mindset that I think most people have a have a problem in of actually boosting their own career prospects don't like Womens Careers Expert 11:35 Yeah, because we don't like talking about ourselves. Then we feel like we're, I know you do. David Ralph 11:41 Yeah, I do. I love it. I love the business out of it, you know? Womens Careers Expert 11:47 Yeah, but most people don't. So you know, they they feel kind of embarrassed to talk about their achievements and their strengths and what they do well, so then they will stick to very formal resume and cover letter and formal way of presenting themselves where they hide between and behind a lot of jargon and phrases and will not really put their personality and their skills out there. David Ralph 12:14 And so with that, because obviously we're going to talk about, you know, how you actually started the business and stuff like this is interesting to me. So, can you bring humour into a CV and resume? Can you make it sparkle? Because Yeah, most of them I actually worked in recruitment for about six weeks, I worked for a recruitment company in London. I won't say their name, but they're still there. I hated it. I hated it with a passion because people would come in looking for work, and these guys would go, yeah, I tell you what, I don't want to just get you any job. Give it to me three weeks and we will get you the right job and literally take this CBS and then put them in the bin. As I walked out, it was a real commodities based business, and I just naturally want to help people. So is this something But you know, they can help themselves by sprinkling human personality and putting pictures on it, or does it have to be formal? Womens Careers Expert 13:09 Well, I guess I mean, humour is probably a bit difficult, but especially in the cover letter, you can put a lot of your personality and I noticed this, particularly when I was managing a very international team, and I was getting applications from people from all over the world. And I noticed that German applicants used to write like, very formal, boring, standardised job application. I haven't sorry, but that's just how it is. And then I noticed that, you know, like, other nationalities, but particularly like English speaking ones, they were all over, you know, I am good at this. And I love doing that. And this is my passion. And I was like, Hey, you know, this reads much better. From a manager perspective, I will much rather invite somebody tells me about what they really like and what they enjoy, rather than somebody who's just saying, I have this experience. And I have done this before. And basically, it's just a repetition of what is already on your resume. David Ralph 14:13 When I used to interview people, and I was very, very good at interviewing people, because I never went really with their skills. It was more about how they made me feel. And one of the first questions I used to ask people, it was always one that I didn't expect, because I'd come in, ready for the professional. And I remember saying to this girl as the first one, what makes you laugh? And she said, when people hurt themselves, and I thought, brilliant, that's for me, that's for me, because I laugh at the same thing. And she was like a Terminator, but work she was absolutely brilliant. And so is this something you know, before we spin it around again, into your career path? Is this something that companies should focus in on more about the personality and how they make them feel because they're going to teach the person how to work in their office isn't it is not that they're just gonna put them on a desk and away they go they're gonna have some kind of training and development period is about all the feelings. Womens Careers Expert 15:10 Yeah, it's a lot about you know, getting to know the person really Who are you and, you know, how do you pick? Because it's I mean experience is one thing experience you can have or you can gain I mean you can learn so much I learned a lot that I had not studied for just on the job, but the important thing is really to find the person with the right mindset. So what I learned and that really made a change in my hiring as well is to ask behavioural based interview questions because there you can really see how people reacted based on a concrete example and you can get real feeling of what kind of person they are and how they will pay for One day on the job. David Ralph 16:02 Now, let's take you back in time then because you was a listener of Join Up Dots and then we connected and you signed up for my, in those days. It was a four week course we went twice a week for four weeks. Now we do it over eight weeks to get people breathing space in between. How did you find that process? Was it something bad actually, because certain people say to me, I overload on certain things. Other people say, you know, it was just right. Did you find it a pressurised or weeks? Womens Careers Expert 16:35 No, not at all. And the only issue was that I was actually sick with the flu for about a week so I could not think straight, but luckily I could rewatch the video so all good. David Ralph 16:45 So with the process that we went through, it was basically an hour half hour, so an hour and a half to two hours of me twice a week, and then videos to submit that information. Now I remember when you first came to me one day Things that I always say to people is, let's try to get traffic from every source. Let's try to flood your business with traffic and you came up with women's career Lyft. And I said, I hate it. I hate it because no one is going to type in women's career Lyft let's find a name. And you went against me. And you said, No, this is it. It's what I want is my branding. Now I look at it, and I like it, because I can understand it. But why were you so passionate to say, David, I don't agree with what you're saying. And I'm going to do my own thing. Womens Careers Expert 17:35 Well, a I had been thinking about a name for the business because as you already saw my name, my own name is a bit hard to pronounce and to remember so I wanted to something that easy, David Ralph 17:49 easy to say. Easy. Womens Careers Expert 17:57 I wanted something that people can remember you know, and also So that they can understand both in English and in German, and gives them an idea of where the business is going. And also, I had already purchased the URL when we did the course. So I didn't really want to switch. David Ralph 18:15 You didn't want to waste 10 pounds or whatever it is to take my advice and move it forward. But what you've done, which is very clever, is it's it's a branding, you know, it's a branding, but when you look at it, it makes sense. Now, a lot of people come to me and I had these really esoteric sort of names, I suppose Join Up Dots is one of those ones. Now I look at it and in many ways, it makes perfect sense for so many avenues of my business, but for Wow, it was just the Steve Jobs speech. And if you hadn't listened to that, it didn't make any sense. Now, with that, having those three words women's career live, does that make it been easier to bring your content and your branding and your your profile. does everything for lot from that easy. Is that something that people need to think about? How do those three words cascade down through everything that I'm doing? Womens Careers Expert 19:15 Yeah, I mean, I think it makes it clear, you know, who is the big target group, let's say so I don't get too many people coming to my website and then figuring out only after reading through see three or four pages that it's not they are not really right for me or I'm not really right for them. David Ralph 19:38 What Well, I'm amazed with you as well. And I'm amazed every as I'm doing that little IoT business with my fingers. Every phone that I speak to, is how brilliant you are at English. And I it just blows my mind. You know, I'm possibly English. I've been studying it for many, many years. But every other language no I can say hello, goodbye. And that's about it. Now, when you decided you decided quite strongly that you wanted to focus in on German speaking women. Was that a market that was prudent to go into now you're in but have you found it difficult to crack that code? Womens Careers Expert 20:22 Well, actually, because we did the course together in English, I started my website and all my online presence in English and I still have not launched a German website. So all my German speaking clients have just come through recommendations. David Ralph 20:40 Now this this is brilliant, man. Okay, so let's talk about this. So you because so many people think I got to grow a huge audience, I've got to grow a tonne of traffic, but I'm really fascinated. In joining up the dots. You see what I did there, finding the very small pockets of traffic, but actually kept K through, I would much rather have one customer a month that pays me thousands of dollars more than 100,000 customers that don't really pay me anything and take so much time to manage now with yourself, those referrals, bear in mind that you were and you still are full time employed. Was that something that was an open gift? Did you look at? Obviously brilliant, this is fantastic, or did you think to yourself, hang on, hang on? I'm not quite there yet. I haven't quite got the website done. I haven't quite got the the Twitter feed going and all the other stuff that we think we have to have. Did you embrace it easily? Womens Careers Expert 21:39 Oh, I was ready to go. I mean, I was really really happy and I still am really, really happy every time somebody refer someone to me. I also noticed that you know, when people come in via referral, they will never discuss with you about price or whatever, because they know already what they will get. Whereas you know, I found a couple of customers A via Facebook or online and they will always try to negotiate, which makes sense because they don't know me yet. And they don't know if they can trust me and if I really can provide the value that they are looking for. David Ralph 22:13 So So do you think that you actually don't need any online presence? Can somebody get a business up and running just by doing stuff for somebody and saying, Tell your mates about me. Womens Careers Expert 22:27 I think you need, at least in my case, an online presence because even though my friends talk about my services, they don't know somebody or they don't meet somebody everyday who wants to change their jobs. So I mean, the target group is not so big in amongst my friends and family. So, of course, I need an online presence, but I also now do some local networking and meeting people and just getting the word out there about what I'm doing. I think this is a Also very important, because only online is not enough, I think, especially here in Austria, and also in Germany, I would say, there's still a lot of mistrust about everything to do with online and this new technologies and so on. And people trust their neighbours and their friends and whoever they know. And, yeah, their word of mouth is really, really important. David Ralph 23:26 I'm going to play some words pain, and then we're going to delve back into what Bettina is saying, his Oprah, Oprah Winfrey 23:32 the way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, what is the next right move? not think about, Oh, I got all of this. What is the next right move? And then from that space, make the next right move, and the next right move and not to be overwhelmed by it because, you know, your life is bigger than that one moment. You know, you're not defined by what somebody says is a failure for you. Because failure is just there to point you in a different direction. David Ralph 24:03 Now let's get back into the Ripper or because something that is is really prevalent in my life at the moment, is how powerful local search is. It operates in such a high level in Google, Google now will know where you're based. You can do Google My Business, you can start getting traffic, even without a website. Google will give you a free website. You just have to post on it and and connect your cell phone, your mobile phone and all those kind of bits of details. I find Oprah Tina, what you're saying makes total sense because you're networking. You're getting out there in your local community. So you become the expert in that local community. You find the people that are there's a lady just down the road who does bad. Why don't you speak to her people trust locally, but I speak to once again so many people that think that they've got to get a client in new York before they can get their next door neighbour to sign up, it's a mistake, isn't it? Womens Careers Expert 25:06 I mean, if you find the client in New York more easily than your next door neighbour, why not? But I guess you know locally because people know you it's easier to find the first clients and from Derek pendants snowball. David Ralph 25:22 snowball in Austria is quite easy to get right imagine. Womens Careers Expert 25:26 But right now it is. Yeah, it started snowing about two weeks ago. So now in the mountains, there's already a lot of snow. David Ralph 25:34 Now what point do the Austrians and the Germans been mistrust online work? I don't understand that. And it's the first time any guest has mentioned anything like that nowadays. I I push people to say online and offline aren't separate. They're the same thing. You've just got to, you know, find your traffic in both sources. Why do you think the Austrians and Germans are new Point of View mistrust it Womens Careers Expert 26:03 it's all about privacy. It's they're all afraid that their data will be leaked to I don't know which company who will do I don't know what with it and you know, they are very private people. And this was also one of the challenges I had to overcome was really to put my real name out there and because there is nobody else in the world with this name, so it's just me and also to put my real address because in Austria and Germany, you have to actually put your real address on your webpage otherwise you get a problem. So that was that was really one of the main challenges because I know the fan you know of, yeah, having all this information out there and and maybe just people showing up at my doorstep or something like that. You never know what can happen. David Ralph 26:52 It's not gonna happen, though. Is it me? It's not Womens Careers Expert 26:54 gonna happen. I know. But these are the things you think about, right? David Ralph 26:58 Yeah, I can. I'm just it because I did a similar thing when I started off at Join Up Dots, I gave a fake address. And because I thought to myself, you know, what happens is somebody comes along, and Nick's my microphone and you know, it's stupid really thinking about it because I just buy another microphone. You know, it's not a game changer, but they were the kind of fears in my head. And most of the fears with business is about what's in your head, isn't it? It's very much you when the inner game to win the outer game. Have you struggled with that? Have you struggled with the who's gonna trust me? Who's gonna hire me? Who's going to base who's gonna be back? Womens Careers Expert 27:38 Well, a bit.

Hey ya’ll it’s Rubina Cohen. Okay, so I’m seeing this so much, that I am dedicating a significant portion of my time and my business to help people stop this….Stop over-thinking and over-complicating your marketing.  I basically created this show because….well, I myself started having this problem! It’s just a killer. I’ll tell you why. I thought about doing a podcast literally almost 4 years ago. Seriously. 4 years. I think I spent the first 2 years just thinking about it. What a waste. Then, I decided it was time I actually do something. I signed up for one of the popular podcasting courses out there. Yup, I finally took swift action..I very quickly gave someone my email address and credit card information and downloaded the course. Then, the course materials started rolling in every week. I had absolutely no time to work through the course material.  I procrastinated on that for another 6 months, then one weekend I bit the bullet and binged the course materials. Guys, you would be so impressed, I took copious notes, I even researched equipment online! Nothing. Another year goes by...no podcast. In January, I told my mastermind, its happening, it’s totally happening...I am doing this. 2019 is the year! I got my podcast art created, I had my VA who happened to be my wonderful sister, create about 20 episodes worth of descriptions, topics and even show notes. The 1st quarter ended, the next quarter began...it wasn’t until my coach and team members said to me, “Rubina, you are over-thinking this...you need to simplify...and BAM...I knew she hit the nail on the head.”  You see, I am a creative a designer and to some degree a perfectionist...my work sometimes requires this of me...it can be crippling when it comes to growing a business and creating momentum.  So, here we are. This show is all about inspiring you the creatives, the makers, the designers, the artists  to take action and create huge leaps with your marketing and in your business. On my podcast, We’ll discuss how you’ll do all of this while staying true to who you are. Nothing salesy guys, this is about  authenticity. We’ll be discussing how to tap into and stay connected to your genius and how to let your brilliance unleash so you can take your business and earnings to elevated levels.  All of this through simplification...let's simplify things my friends, getting people to resonate with you is a lot easier than you think.   Who is Rubina Cohen? -  My experience and background Started in the nonprofit world - mission and vision based  Impact and value first Making money not (top priority) what I noticed is that nonprofits always struggled. I left the nonprofit world to work for a renowned PR/ Marketing firm, then the recession hit in 2008 and I was out of a job. I was resourceful...called a few people and I was in business and I haven’t looked back! I’ve grown my business significantly over the past 11 years. I’ll share all of my stories here with you.  What We'll discuss: You don’t need to understand formulas and data,etc. To be a good marketer. Being a marketer is seen as a “dirty” word or task...what is Marketing really though? There are some really bad examples of marketing...meaning there are salesy, gross and downright creepy sales tactics that are being used out there.  How do people over-complicate things and stay stuck, waste money and lose out.  So, I’ hope you’ll join me every week as I unveil a new episode and once a month, I’ll be inviting a guest to talk about how they simplified things in their business and marketing to create greater results, bigger impact and grow their revenues.  Until Next time, stay tapped into your genius and unleash your brilliance and create the impact you want to have in the world.

On this week's episode of Pretty Good For A Girl, we discuss another trail blazing bad ass babe, Peggy Noe Stevens. Peggy is the world’s first female Master Bourbon Taster and the founder of the Bourbon Women Organization. She is also, if you haven't guessed by her name, a member of bourbon royalty. Kala created another super delicious cocktail for the discussion and Sailor falls down the rabbit hole of ice...ice...baby? Oh and Vodka is a lie. What? Well, you'll just have to listen. Tune in now! Peggy Noe Stevens:  https://peggynoestevens.com/about/meet-peggy/ (https://peggynoestevens.com/about/meet-peggy/) Bourbon Women:  https://bourbonwomen.org (https://bourbonwomen.org/)   Follow us on Instagram @prettygood_foragirl Join our Facebook Group "Spirit of Rock Network" Theme song "Bulletproof" from "F*ck You, Let’s Party" by Petty Morals https://pettymorals.bandcamp.com/ (https://pettymorals.bandcamp.com/) @pettymoralsboston

On this week's episode of Pretty Good For A Girl, we discuss another trail blazing bad ass babe, Peggy Noe Stevens. Peggy is the world’s first female Master Bourbon Taster and the founder of the Bourbon Women Organization. She is also, if you haven't guessed by her name, a member of bourbon royalty. Kala created another super delicious cocktail for the discussion and Sailor falls down the rabbit hole of ice...ice...baby?  Oh and Vodka is a lie. What? Well, you'll just have to listen. Tune in now!   Peggy Noe Stevens: https://peggynoestevens.com/about/meet-peggy/ Bourbon Women: https://bourbonwomen.org   Follow us on Instagram @prettygood_foragirl Theme song "Bulletproof" from "F*ck You, Let’s Party" by Petty Morals https://pettymorals.bandcamp.com/ (https://pettymorals.bandcamp.com/) @pettymoralsboston

How to Buy Houses for Immediate Wholesale (LA 929) Transcript: Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit:                            Good morning. Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit:                            And I am Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from sunny southern California. Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about how to buy houses for immediate wholesale. Jill DeWit:                            I realize I said morning when it's really actually afternoon. I'll wake up here. It's one of those days. Steven Butala:                   Why does it feel so early? Because it is. Jill DeWit:                            What? Well, it's not ... It's not that early. People would say, "What? What time? Are you guys think that's early?" When really they've been up at the office since five. We're kind of wimps. Steven Butala:                   What happened to you this weekend that was fantastic? Or really bad? Jill DeWit:                            This week? Steven Butala:                   This weekend. Jill DeWit:                            Oh, I went to Santa Barbara. Steven Butala:                   I was with you. Jill DeWit:                            Yeah, I know. Steven Butala:                   And it was fantastic. Jill DeWit:                            I thought you were gonna it say it was really bad, because we brought up ... You know what, it was really fantastic, because we got to go to Santa Barbara. It was really bad because we had to take a kid. Steven Butala:                   So good that our children don't listen to this show. Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. It's okay. Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. It's fine. Steven Butala:                   He's at that age. Jill DeWit:                            And we need to vent about it. Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Jill DeWit:                            Makes me feel better. Steven Butala:                   Publicly on the show. Jill DeWit:                            Oh, yeah, totally. Steven Butala:                   That's why we have the show. To vent about our children. Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. Steven Butala:                   Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit:                            Joe Chu asks, "I picked the counties I wanted to mail based on my personal for use preferences. I think to myself, it would be nice to spend the weekends there. So I mail there. Have you used the same logic?" I don't think that's crazy. Steven Butala:                   I have used this logic, which we don't talk ... This is why I included this question. I've used this logic on every mailer I've ever done, ever. I put myself and that's why I included it, so ... And I say all through 1.0 and 2.0, test for reasoning, test for logic, and just make sure it makes sense to you. It's almost like what you choose in the grocery store is ... Some of it's about price. Some of it's about, yeah, I really want to taste it. Some of it's about is it good for me? So you have to kind of feel your way through whether or not you want to send an area, send mailer in an area. But I will say this triggered something for me for some reason when I read it, because I'm never gonna mail an area just for financial reasons and that's it. Because Jill and I buy and sell real estate all the time and we do it based on, yeah, this is a good deal. Sometimes, if the deal's really right, I get this feeling like, you know, maybe we should keep this. Jill DeWit:                            Yeah. Steven Butala:                   This is such a good deal, financially, and it's such a cool property. We never do.

Hey, hey. Welcome to the live stream. Okay, small problem. That's not the problem. This hair's definitely a problem. Its become a kind of terrible balayage situation. Don't worry. The amazing Hailey will fix it on Tuesday. I will look blonde and fabulous again. Hmm, here's my problem. It's what is commonly referred to as a cushion problem, meaning I have not enough cushions. One second. I definitely have enough lights. You should see the lighting situation here. I'm like the princess and the pea. Hi Liora, hi Melissa, hi Anna. Look at my situation. Hang on. Can you see all these cushions? There's like four of them there now. I must sit on mini cushions. Bop. No need to manifest the perverts in, Branden Marshall, Lily Lucia, hi. Hi, Susan, hey Anna Shelley. Who else is there? Hi, Debbie. Hi to all the queens who are here with me on the live stream. And, so far, one king that ... Okay, there's another one. Hey, Trent. Yeah, it's in the middle. I wanted it bottom right. Calling Bronwen Kelly, Bronwen Kelly to the live stream. Why is my banner in the middle? I don't know, I just like to mess with people, you know. Not even on purpose, it just seems to happen. It seems to be part of my nature. I nearly didn't go live, because apparently, according to my daughter, my eyes look scary. There they are. She said my eyeliner's terrible. I said, I'm channelling Kelly Renny, which is a compliment, by the way. The thing is, though, I'm having some bizarre allergic reaction right now, and my eyes are ... Okay, I'm going to give myself permission to pick bits of myself apart, and I might be making it up in my head, or maybe you're just agreeing with me, and you're like, look at those squinty little eyes. My eyes feel super squinty and little right now. Are they? Are they squinty and little right now? Can you tell me? Because, I don't know if I'm imagining it, or if they are. But, they feel tiny in my head. Like disgusting little pea eyes, and my face is puffy and a bit swollen and I'm having an allergic reaction to something and I'm shaky. I look hot. Well, that's because of all the lighting. There's an entire studio of lighting on me right now. Thank you for saying ... I carefully chose everything, you guys. I put my warning, I don't really care, T-shirt on, because I feel like that could be relevant to what we're going to talk about. I enhanced my breasts with my mind, which just means posture. Then we have pinkness here and ocean there. So, I thought about every part of it. But I still need a [inaudible 00:03:19] because I feel weird, I'm all shaky in my head, and I'm shaking in my hands. I've got that feeling of, it's a histamine reaction. You know that histamine feeling? I hate it. I'm trying to figure out why I've got it. What was I eating last night on the flight home? I just flew home last night with my children, to Australia. I've only spent 36 hours in Australia in the last three months. I'll be here now for like ... Thank you ... I'll be here now for, I think, 16 days, and then I go back to Bali, and then I'll come back for two weeks. Then, I'll be in America again for a month, from middle of June. We've got my inner circle retreat happening early July in ... Thank you, Trent ... Early July in Los Angeles. If you have been meaning to join me in a circle. Wow, it really is right in the middle of the screen. Okay, that's fine. Then, just message me about the inner circle. I think it was because I, do you think you can have a fucking allergic reaction from a single fig? I get a reaction to foods with histamine in them, so certain wines, but definitely dried fruits, right? I had a dried fig on the plane from my daughter's cheese platter. Surely, that can't be enough for me to have this, I can really feel it. Thank you for saying I look hot, I appreciate it. I receive it, but I feel weird as fuck. I definitely need to get sweaty again. I already worked out, I got to go sweat again. We are gonna do this topic, we're gonna do this conversation. Are you excited for this conversation? The more you be you, the more you get paid to be you. Ah-ha, send me love heart shower if you like it, if you think it's a good topic. Maybe it was cheap wine. Maybe Virgin is serving up the wine with more preservatives in it. Because, if I drink wine with more preservatives in it, I get this reaction for sure, I don't know. I don't know, but what I do know is, after I do this, I'm gonna go to the gym in my building and sweat it out again. Even though, I was just at the gym two hours ago. But, I'm gonna cleanse my system. Cleanse my system of the pea eyes and the puffy face. Whether or not yous guys can see it, I can fucking feel it. Also, I'm gonna eat all the green vegetables. All right, now you're all caught up to speed on what's happening with me. I'm not entirely sure why this banner is right in the middle of the screen, but it's attention getting anyway, so that's never a bad thing. I'm feeling super excited to be in my favourite pink chair. I must admit, I'm not in love with being on the Gold coast, which sounds terrible. I'm super happy to be back, and see some of my bestest friends in the world, like the amazing Kelly Renny, and Matt Miller, and my sister. I could have put her first, couldn't I. Well, she's priority number uno anyway, I'm gonna go see her tonight. My sister just moved her while I was away on the other side of the world, she just moved to where I live, from the other side of the country. I haven't visited her house yet or anything. So, we'll do that tonight. I've been having this conversation with, all right, I'm just side tracking all over the place. Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. Did you guys even give me love heart shower for the topic? Because, I feel like I didn't see it. But, that might be, because I was busy sharing shit over here. Send me more love hearts, because I enjoy to look at them. I did see some flying Katrina's. When is the inner circle meet up? It's gonna be July 11 and 12. I haven't decided the exact venue yet, we are in discussion. Yes, you could have red fern, John, probably preferable than a pink one, but I guess you could have pink if you really wanted to. I like the pink. It looks like a green screen behind me, doesn't it? That's the actual real ocean right there. Oh my God, I've got the funniest little clip on my phone from dinner a few weeks ago, Dallas, of Ryan Steuben explaining the difference between the ocean and the sea. It made no sense at all, but it made all the sense in the world. I definitely should share that later. That just reminded me of that. Hey, hey, Wendy. Somebody said to me yesterday, one of my friends said to me yesterday on an audio, that I blow his mind with some of the simplest stuff I've said, or I guess he asked me a question about when I switched into being ... I want to hear Patrick as Ryan Steuben explaining it, oh, well tag him in there, tag him in, and we can add to the live stream and explain it himself. I wonder if you can add people when you've done it on your Facebook create a page, as opposed to on your personal page. You'd have to tag him and tell him what you need and require though. Otherwise, I'm sure I can make that happen for you at some point in time. I definitely do have him doing an impression of Ryan, but that was in the live stream in the daily [inaudible 00:08:08]. All right. Always spot on to comments. Good, I try to be. What was I saying? Right, so my friend asked me, my friend Ryan, different Ryan. I actually have multiple Ryan friends. Two, just so you know, so no more Ryans can apply, that position is already filled, two is enough. One in Australia, whose basically like my oldest friend int he world, who I've known for nearly 20 years, and then the other one who everybody knows, Ryan Steuben. Many people in our own previous world though. Anyway, he messaged me and asked, when did I switch into being, or what was it that made me switch into being more aggressive Kat. He didn't say it with that emphasis, I just added that myself. It was, because I'd said something to him about, we were talking about can you swear, can you curse in the titles of books on Amazon, or in the books at all. I was like, well, I've definitely got it even in several of the titles of my Amazon books. But, I said, if you look through my earlier year ones it didn't have it all. But, that was because I wasn't really aggressive Kat then, I don't think I was really cursing in my messaging. I was the one who came up with the phrase aggressive Kat. My friends aren't just going around calling me aggressive Kat for the fun of it. Then, he said, a day or two later, must have thought about it, and he was like, "What was it that made you switch into being aggressive Kat?" My answer was really simple, I just looked at him and said ... Hello Terry, hello Tamara, hello Yara, hello everybody jumping on. Victory sign for you, not sure why, just came out that way, must be the fern. I said, I got fed up for not living for what's inside of me. I got fed up with not living for what's inside of me. That was my answer. I was just, you're walking along, you get a message on what's up, or whatever, and you just quickly answer it. But, I tuned in, and I gave, obviously, the real answer, and the correct answer. To me, that was a nothing answer. It was like, eh, I got fed up for not living for what's inside of me. Then, I think I wrote again and I said it was my, fuck this shit moment, right? I remember the fuck this shit moment. I've spoken about ti many times, many times. I think lots of people have a fuck this shit moment, and that was probably my biggest one. Where I was just fed up with myself. The aggression that started to then come out of me through my messaging is still part of my messaging to this day, and cursing a lot, and being like (roar). Well, that's obviously part of who I am, and (roar) and very, very aggressive, legitimately (roar). All right, I'll stop now. Wait, can't promise anything. Hey, Queen Rashida. All right the aggression that started to come through ... It is that kind of day, Molly, for sure ... That was, at first, I honestly think it was, because I was angry at myself. Have you ever felt ... Toby, what are the eyes for? Explain the mysterious eyes. Does that mean you can see all things, and you know all things? What do the eyes mean, we need to hear? Give a love heart shower you guys, or some flying creep Katrina's, which you use your stickers for, if you have ever felt so fed up with your own self not speaking your truth. I have a gentle soul. This is true, Gillian [inaudible 00:11:18], I am sending you all the love. Am I even saying your last name correctly? Do I even know how to say my own inner circle client's last name? Gillian put an amazing post up yesterday, about how she's building her million dollar business, and the energetic shifts that have happened since she began working with me in the inner circle, which was only about four or five weeks ago. I remember you messaged me, okay, don't worry, don't worry, well get back onto the point of the point. You make a creepy Katrina reaction ... This is about the weirdest question I've ever received. You make a creepy Katrina reaction by, you press the sticker thing that's just to the inside of the emoji list. Something like that, I don't know, somebody explain it. Figure it out amongst yourselves. Gillian messaged me, I was in the coffee line at the frigging Disney resort. My creative control manager, Bronwen Kelly, made me the creepy Katrina's. She's also the one who made me the Katrina Ruth Show banner. They're not supposed to be creepy. What are these? Oh, does it say press play? What's happening? Does it say 1%, can somebody screen shot this, my mind is expanding right now, you guys. These are all new. There's little pink 1% signs coming up. Keep them coming, just keep sending them. Be trigger happy on the button. I want all your fingers wearing out, just like push, push, push, just keep pressing play on that button. There's a flying Katrina, there's another one. I don't like that one with her back to me. I don't care for that. Branden, get on your phone right now. No playing with the emojis without prior supervision or permission. I'm so not, I'm high on life, I'm high on the throne, 1%, amazing. Amazing. All right, let's go back to Gillian, and then let's go back to the topic after that, because we're getting to the topic. I feel that I'm doing a fabulous live demonstration of how to be yourself anyway. We're getting somewhere with that. I'll sell you, you got to be ... Thank you, Lily, I try to be hilarious. Send some laughing emojis, because they're my favourites, they really are. I like to be in my entertainer mode. You know we're [inaudible 00:13:26] starting this week. I've got to start now, before I go all shenanigans, and it's my six week one-on-one. Message me please, if you've been thinking about working with me one-on-one. I would love to give you all the detail, and the uber view, everything, understanding, and talk with you about whether it's for you. Gillian started, so just message me on my personal page, preferably please. Oh my God, the 1% sign, it's the best thing I've ever seen. Best. Actually, one of the best things that I've ever seen is, my Instagram finally lets me use different font on the stories now, believer, first thing's first, gonna say what I want duh-duh, gonna say all the words inside my head. Shall we sing it for a little bit. I think so, Bronwen Kelly, was being informed that the banner is the middle of the screen. The middle, the middle, you understand? I think we're gonna have a small breakout for song, then I'm gonna go back to the Gillian's [inaudible 00:14:23] story, and working with me, and the energetic upgrades and shifts, and haven't your best, biggest month ever without even doing any fucking thing, and vibrational shifts, and making money for being you, and message me about [inaudible 00:14:33], and I will also discuss the conversation that we said we're gonna discus. I'm not quite sure what it was now. Making money being you, we're coming back to that. We're coming back. Everybody breathe, it's under control. We need to listen to this though, just for a moment. Because, I want to do a new about page on my website, and I'm gonna do ... I'm not supposed to tell you guys this, because I think it's the funniest, most hilarious idea that ever existed in the history of time, and I'm giggling, giggling, giggling to myself about doing it. But, now I'm telling you, but only some people will know. But, it's gonna be a mashup of all these different songs. We'll start with this, with the words from this, ready? Facebook, just what's happening, is it not working. No, no, go away YouTube, we don't want you. What is happening? Why? Reload, fuck your reload. This must not be meant to be. Okay, YouTube Believer, Imagine Dragons. You've got to listen to just the start of this song, because actually it's so on point for the topic of conversation. You had a feeling was gonna do something weirdo, but I love the 1% stickers, and I don't mind it being in the middle, because I feel like its attention getting. But, maybe we can see if we can move it down. The whole conversation is about, the more you be you, the more money you make. Is that what we called it, guys? What did we call it, what was the team decision on what this live stream was called? Let's check it out. Then, I'm gonna ... The more you be you, the more you get to be paid to be you. Well, that was obvious, who would need to do a fucking live stream about it? Nobody needs to talk about that, that's just obvious. We established that, we'll just talk about whatever comes up. Gillian messaged me when I was in the coffee line at Disney. I feel like I don't need to tell you that whole story right now anymore. She knew it was time to go all in, in deeper way with what she was doing. She felt that I was the mentor to support her to do that. She joined the inner circle tout suite with very minimal conversation. That's how we do it. Then, do you know it continues to delight me, and to humble me, and awe me, that my clients just shift. It sounds egotistical, I feel a little self conscience to say it, but we've only had two phone calls, I think, in that time, in that four or five weeks. But, we've spoken on messages quite a bit, three reactions. This stupid audio doesn't want to play for me. It's clearly being a little bitch. We've connected back and forth on messages, and audios, and that sort of thing. She's just going up, up, up, up in her energy, and wrote an amazing post about it yesterday. What? It's just freaking stepping into fully being you, and backing yourself, and owning everything that's inside of you. I feel like I would have way more emphasis around that story if I had told it five minutes ago when it was coming through. But, it wasn't coming through then. Don't worry, we're gonna get to this song in a minute. It's only taking me that fucking long in order to get this stupid thing to load. Okay, ready. This is the way, that's gonna be the start of my new about page. It's so good, just wait. (music) First thing's first, gonna say all the words inside my head ... And tired of the way that things have been. Okay, now don't know all the words. Second thing's second, gonna eh-eh. Okay, I'm losing it. Okay, I felt like I could have kept up with the words, and it would have been amazing, and I didn't quite manage to do it. But, he says, first thing's first, I'm gonna tell you ... What did, okay, let me try one more time. First thing's first, I'm gonna say all the words inside my head. I'm fired up, and tiered of the way that things have been. Uh, ooh. I can't do the ooh bit. Second thing's second, don't you tell me what to think, uh-duh-duh-duh, I'm the master of my sea. If that's not the wording to start your about page with, then what is? Let's look up the lyrics, so that we're all clear. Believer, Imagine Dragons lyrics. You know what would be smart of me, if I would have played the version that shows the lyrics on the screen, and you guys would have been like, wow, she's so on it. First thing's first, I'm a say all the words inside my head. I'm fired up, and tired of the way that things have been. I've got to pee now. It's so good, so good, so good. If you don't listen to Imagine Dragons, I don't even know what you think you're doing with your life, frankly. But, I suppose you're fine. But, you've got to listen to the words of that song, and you've got to listen to Do What it Takes. It's gold, it's gold. If you have a hustle friend in your life, who's an adrenaline lover, who's a badass that just goes all in, and does the damn thing, you should send them this song. They are gonna love you for it. Then, you can send me a gift, P.O. Box 861 Surfers Paradise Queensland, 4217. Then, definitely Warrior. Let's hear a little bit of Warrior. Warrior, Imagine Dragons. Are you guys cool with this? Can we just do a little campfire session? Are you guys all right with it? I don't know why I keep getting away with putting songs on my live streams anymore, touch wood. Here's some, okay. I think it's, because Mark Zuckerberg loves me. It's only normal. But, it adds value, why would you not be allowed to do it? I really like what I've heard from Imagine Dragons. You've got to dig deep into Imagine Dragons. You've got to dig all the way. No, go away with the ad, we don't care with the ad. I love this Warrior song, but probably Do What it Takes is the best one you've got to go listen to that. I love this, because they, it talks about how we always knew that we'd be the ones who (music) ... Sweet child you will play and wash the fire away. You always knew you could be the one to work while they all play. Hmm, hmm-hmm. Of all the things that you would change, but it was just a dream. All right, we've got to stop. We better stop, we're gonna get in trouble. Somebody's gonna tag Marky-Mark in. Tag Marky-Mark in, that'd be awesome. Okay, here's the deal, right, my friend said to me, how simple some of the stuff that I say to him is, or how simple the most powerful stuff, I guess, that I say to him is, and how it just blows his mind. Because, it's like, I guess, and then we got into a conversation about it yesterday, and we were both going back and forth, and just discussing the awesomeness of what we both put into the world, obviously, just in a normal fashion. But, talking about how, well, we both have a fitness background, we used to work in the gym together for years. He and his wife are still that's their business, helping moms to get into amazing shape, and doing the inner transformational work around that as well. We were talking about how, people just tend to think and assume that, whether it's in business, whether it's with money making, whether it's with fitness, whether it's with love and relationships. It's the other area that I keep talking about all the time at the moment. People tend to think and assume that it's the really complex stuff that's gonna get the results, right? So, I ... Did somebody just, was there somebody there for a second. Ah Mummy I think I'm imagining things. I think I imagined a small beast. A little curly headed beasty. We're just getting into the freaking sermon. Okay, I'm gonna carry on, because I want to do this, and I'm not gonna be distracted, I will not be. Yes, you're hilarious, now everybody's more interested in you than me. Go, go play, I'm gonna do my sermon. Go. No. All right, people think, and this is what we were talking about. People think that the experts, or the gurus are holding, right. Reserving, and holding a secret from them. It's like, that we've got the real answer, and that if you join the right programme, or if you pay enough money, then you get the secrets, and then you get the answer. Hello. But, to get the amazing results ... I'm laser focused, you guys, laser focused. Hello. To get the amazing results. Hello. Hello. Hello, go, go sing a song in the library. No. Awe, oh, thank you Gillian. Hello, hi-o, hi-o. Yes, if you buy ... Well, people who buy from you, actually this is a good little exercise while I am a little distracted. If you buy from me, and you've bought from me, straight up, tell me what is the reason that you've bought from me? Maybe, sometimes you didn't want to know the content of that particular course, but what's the first answer that comes to mind- Mommy? ... As to why you've bought from me. Hey you, hey you. Hello. Whether it's in an online programme, or as a high level client, in rich on empire, or even in the inner circle with any of my other inner circle bad asses are here. I know Gillian just signed off, and gave a cool little shout out there saying, definitely join. Yeah, so I'd love to know, and it something to think about for you as well. Wendy says the energy. It's a good thing to think about, why do people buy from you. Energy, cool, all right. But, yeah, people tend to, I think we all tend to still assume that there's some sort of magical missing link that we don't know. But, really, in all areas, it's the simple stuff that gets the results, right? My friend had asked me, why did I switch to being more aggressive Kat, and I was like, because I got so sick of not living for what's inside of me. Then, I started to do that, right? Which, was my F this shit moment, basically. Because, I started to do that- Hello. And to fully live for what's inside of me. Things started to blow up. Oh my God, you're literally spurting on me. I see that you're trying to get attention, and you're doing a really good job of it, but mommy's in her A game zone, all right? Connection, energy to level up, wanting to be more badass says Kat, Lilly says wanting to be like me. Which, by the way, also just means, being what's inside of you, right? If anyone resonates with the idea of wanting to be like me in some way, then that's because you see it inside of you. Nothing's happening here at all. There's nothing to laugh about or look at. What was Branden's comment, I want to go back to it? Where is it? I bought, because I want next level energetic shit, and most personal custom tailored help. Yes, trust you says Grace, Aligned discipleship. Christine says energy completely resonated. Whoa, and I wanted to do one of your previous courses [crosstalk ] Go put a movie on. I wasn't lined up to that. Get Alissa to put a movie on for you, and watch out for those cords, honey. Once I do do that, I can't read the rest of that, I'll read it later. Alyssa's whispering to you over there, go put a movie on. Hey, gorgeous, says Mandy. That wasn't a questions, but thank you. Hello, hello. How to get in touch with your inner truth and speak that shit to the world. Resonation, okay, I'm gonna read all these comments later, so thank you so much. Keep putting them in. Then, ask your audience to send feed, by the way. It's definitely a cool thing to ask. Then, you can screen shot it, and put it on your sales page if you wanted to. Bossiest, bossiest boss. Bye, Mommy. I hate you. Oh, lovely. I love you anyway. I hate you. I don't believe you, little monkey. All right, go watch your movie. Well, whose gonna help me? Alyssa Rose Loterzo, that's who. Me. There she is, there's more of them, they're everywhere. But, it's fabulous. He's now upside down on a chair, and now she picking him up, upside down, which seems like a very smart idea for an eight-year-old to pick up a four-year-old by the legs, and then carry him upside down. A certain type of sexy, savage, badass femininity. Man, I want to change that on my profile. Currently it says, Katrina Ruth is a state of mind at the Katrina Ruth Show on my personal profile. Just put it on for him. I'm gonna change it to a certain type of sexy, savage, badass femininity. That's amazing. But, I like the state of mind thing as well. Okay, you broke my sparkly cushion you little monsters. Don't turn my lights off, everyone will see the real me. Because, it's time to press play, and go all in, says Tracy. Lights on? All of them, please, turn them back on. Thank you, on. No, no, no, you can break that, be careful, honey. He turns the lights off, and then just leaves, just leaves. Who raised these children? All right, I've got to turn that light on, you guys, it's gonna mess with my savage, sexy, femininity badassery. Not really, but I still want it on. Awe, now it's dead. It's dying a slow death. He knocked it down. Oh, shit, all right. Okay, here we are. We got through it as a team. Well done, you guys. Sometimes I just let them takeover. Not today, my friends. I've already spent all morning doing shenanigans with them. This is my shenanigan time. My children will not disrupt it. Well, they can disrupt, and I will just carry on as I please. So, when I made that switch to acting and living for what was inside of me, and if you've jumped on late, you missed the singing around the campfire section. You missed, I don't know, whatever else you missed, but mainly, the singing was my favourite piece, to be perfectly honest with you. You should watch the replay, but there was definitely some other gold in there. When I make that switch, and I really was just like, warning, I don't really care anymore. People say I don't give a fuck all the time, which is roughly what this T-shirt says. It says, warning, I don't really care. It doesn't say I don't care anymore. But, at the time, I could have said, warning, I don't really care anymore, and do you know I did not even put this T-shirt on with that wording in mind for this live stream? Mind blown, expanded, expanded, right? When I made that switch to, I don't give a fuck, I'm gonna say what's inside of my head ... First thing's first, I'm a say all the words inside my head. I'm tired up and duh-duh. Yeah, what we did before, that exact song. Oh my God, how on point was this whole live stream you guys? It's all just flowed together. That's when I started making millions of fucking dollars online doing what I love, and having only sold my clients having all the money, even though I didn't even ask them to, and they just come out of nowhere, like Gillian, and they're just like, I'm gonna pay you whatever it is that I have, let me in, let me in, let me in. Then, they expand their results, and have their best month ever, and then they just post about it, and tag you on freaking Facebook, and then tell people about it. You're just like, I was just having a massage and being myself. Seriously, that is exactly how it's done. Can we clip that piece out and caption it? It would have to be fast captions. But, honestly, I'm just like, it just gets better, and better, and easier, and easier, only with my soulmate clients, who just level up like bad asses. I'm gonna say it, from being in my energy space, from being in the vibration of this whole shindig, and the way that I shop, and the way that I put the work in, and the way that I press play, and the way that I kick their ass into alignment, and massive fucking action, and/or whatever it is I need, and I reach into their souls, and I grab them by it, and shake it up, put some cinnamon on top. It's very good for insulin mitigation. Makes it taste good. I'm talking a little louder, because I feel that my children might be trying to kill each other in the other room. Then, I remind them of who they fucking are, and largely the reminder ... Nevermind, they're in the other room ... Largely the reminder for them of who they are is, me being who I am, right? Me steady in my power like a lighthouse. Like a pink queenly lighthouse. I don't have to do anything, the lighthouse is not out therein the freaking ocean trying to pick up sinking sailors. The lighthouse is standing strong on the shore, being a goddamn lighthouse, right? I'm a talking empress, says Wendy. We're gonna assume she means fucking, but we'll go with talking, because it sounds better. At least it's not ducking. We're all so done with ducking face. We're done with it. We're done with it, nobody in the history of time every tried to say, I really ducking want. Maybe they did, no need to prove me wrong, right? If you're a lighthouse whose out there swimming with bedraggled hair, and weird lighthousey arms, and trying to pick up sinking sailors from in the ocean, well, you're acting like a tugboat. Exactly, John, write a children's book about a cute little tugboat, and then make some fucking money on Amazon, don't be a tugboat. If that's what you're doing, okay, Wendy's getting it. She's getting it gradually. I'm laughing, because it's so me. Then, you misunderstood what it means to be a lighthouse, flashlight, work of flesh, revolutionary fucking leader, 1%, within the 1% badass mother fucker, whom people pay just to be in the energy of. So, I think you should think about that, a lot. Then, ask yourself how you're showing up. If we go back, back, back, back, back, back, back in time to that moment when I was just like, I am done with this shit. I'm done with not living for myself. I think, do you think that maybe me being in my own throne has given me some sort of high vibes, because something it coming out of me that I didn't even know was quite in there? Maybe it's the histamines from the dried fruit. Maybe it's I twist my brain, maybe it's do it to my brain a little bit. We go back to that moment. I was just fed up. I was just freaking fed up with myself. I was bored to boredy boredom with my own self. I could not even stand to look at my own self in the mirror. Well, that was more of a self worth issue anyway. But, I was just like, meh. I didn't feel fulfilled, I didn't feel proud of myself, is the word that I'm looking for. I was making money, and I was getting results for my clients, and I was known to a degree. Not to the level I am now, but I had a bit of a following, and a name, I guess. I'd been marketing online, but in the fitness industry for years, and then shifted over. I was doing all right, for sure, but I was annoying myself. Exactly, Andrew, I couldn't even stand the whole internal and external sight of myself. Actually, it did literally play over to other areas, because who knows, amens if you know, that when you're not in alignment with your own self ... Wouldn't it be cool if there was a mirror behind me, like when I do a live stream at the SOS hotel, and you sit at the desk, and they have a mirrored wall behind you. Then, when I do my hand gestures, which just randomly happen, you see all the mirror hands going behind me, and it looks lik octopus arms. By the way, this throne is supremely comfortable. If you ever come and stay with me, you may sit on my throne. We might sit here together, and live stream together. I couldn't stand the sight of myself inside or out. Because, I wasn't in alignment, it was travelling over into other areas. I was probably binge eating, and emotional eating. I was, of course, I was. What kind of probably? No probably about it, I was a freaking mess. Not really. I was still incredibly fucking successful, but I was not in flow. I was annoyed with myself. I couldn't stand the whole inside outside appearance of myself. I just was like, this is just bullshit, the whole thing was bullshit. I knew that I wasn't living for what I believe in. Hi, Lakisha. That I wasn't ... Lakisha sent me a singing birthday message on my birthday last year. Personalised to me, not like a uniform one that she sends to everybody. It was the very first interaction, I believe, we'd ever had, by the way, on the messenger. It was incredible, she's an amazing singer, among some things. Anyway, back to the story. Yes, everything was a mess. It was chaotic as fuck. Chaotic success says, John, exactly that. It's a weird place. I'm happy about all of it. I don't regret any of it. I celebrate every aspect of my journey, because it got me to where I am. But, gosh. I'm so fucking grateful to be where I am now. Yes, the makeup, thank you. Because, my daughter told me that my eyeliner looks terrible today. She was like, "That's not good." I'm so grateful to be where I am, and now I have clients who come on, some who are more stressed out than others when they start with me. But, often times, my clients are like me, three, four, five years ago. Kind of like, befrazzled and bedraggled, and bestressed. Bestressed, why not? I just like living reactively, and their successful, like they might already be making, 10, 20, 30K a month, or even more when they come to see me. But, why they go to at 100K a month, 200K, and beyond, or if they're starting earlier, they're getting that first 10K, 20K, or whatever, I have clients that start at all levels. From complete startup to even already doing over a million dollars. So, we try to impress for everyone, by the way, message me, message me, message me, we're gonna start this week. Six weeks one-on-one, you and me, build your low through to high end empire, so that you too can more than seven figures and beyond doing what you love. We will do all the how, and the strategy, and how to implement it, and bring end game on point, obviously. Message me on Katrina Ruth, not this one, the personal one, right? Why they get those fast results, why my clients get ships. Sometimes, by the way, a word of warning of truth. Sometimes before the shift into fabulousness, flow, and ease, you may indeed go through what is commonly known as being Bali fucked, except it will be Katrinaery fucked, and not in a ... Well, of course, it's in a good way. Nothing sexual about it, just to be perfectly clear. It shouldn't need to be said, but just in case, before the jokes come in. It means energetically, we're gonna put you in the blender, then we're gonna put the blender in the dish washing machine. Then, we're gonna put the dish washing machine in the [inaudible 00:38:15] washing machine, and put it on spin cycle. Then, when you come out, you're gonna go through your rounds, boom-boom-boom. Then, you're gonna get up, and you're gonna be like, oh my fucking God, I let go of all my shit. It was cleansed from me. But, while you're in that initial period, it might feel kind of fucked up, and you'll love it, by the way. But, it could be scary, but you'll love it. But, it might be extremely confronting, and you might lose your shit at me, and at the world, and you'll love it. I'm just letting you know that sometimes is a detox process emotionally, and internally, and spiritually, and hygienically, apparently with all that washing, before the flow occurs. Much like, if you'd been eating fucking shit for 40 years, and then you go on a cleanse, there's gonna be some shit come out, right? We all understand that. This is true in business as well. Don't imagine that it's all thrones, and unicorns, and la te da. Unicorns have pointy heads. You can get the pointy head of the end of the unicorn. You can't see how I'm sitting now, but it just made my posture look amazing. This is my new sitting position. I'm getting a fantastic groyne stretch, it's a great hip opener, and it's made me sit up really straight all of a sudden. I keep saying I'm manifesting bigger breasts, well this is part of it, posture. Plus it's also T minus 31 today. So the, whoops, hang on. Wait, hold up. Thank you, Lily. Sacrad medicine, I'm gonna add that to the other comment. I'm really gonna use that, it's very good. And Lily, you've known me for years, you know me well. Okay, okay, okay, the flow and ease thing. You've got to go through whatever freaking release you've got to go through to get to the flow and ease thing. I think that's obvious. We don't need to talk about several rounds in the ring, spin cycle, washing machine, hair dryer blown at you the whole time. I will give you fabulous wine though, if I happen to meet up with you in the middle of that process. And, I will listen to all your stories of how you got hashtag Katrinaery fucked. Probably shouldn't use that as a hashtag, but it's really the best description. Can somebody give me another description? Because, I use the term Bali fucked all the time. Everybody who knows about Bali, knows about Bali fucked. But, the other day I was on the phone, and he said, Bali fucked, and how good it is or something. I was like, no, no, no. Bali fucked means like, kind of getting fucked over. Like everything that could go wrong, feels like it is going wrong, and you can't even move, and then you're naked on the decking of your pool villa for an entire day in the foetal position. It's happened to me several times. You can't even move. He was like, "Oh, I feel like when you say Bali fucked, you meant like amazing." I'm like, well, that comes after the Bali fucked. But it means fucked up, that's what I mean by Katrinaery fucked. It's a great selling point for working with me. Wouldn't you just love to release all your shit though, and then you get to just mosey around on a throne all day talking about whatever the fuck you want. Then, people seem to want work with you. Isn't it a good example of being more you? I was so boring, I was so professional, and in a terrible way, because I didn't know how to be professional anyway. Because, I never actually was professional, or a professional. It was not interesting, and not professional, but I was trying to be professional, and roughly, my entire system for being a serious and professional business coach, was that I wore a very tight pencil pinstriped skirt, with a very fitted red blouse, and I looked amazing. I looked like a sexy Barbie doll model, who was gonna have sex with you in the office. I really did. But, instead I was a nervous wreck, and a mess on the inside, and having a meltdown, and the sweats basically, and an allergic reaction to my whole life. Not just to a freaking dried fig that I ate on a plane yesterday. It was hard, so hard, allergic to professional, exactly. It would help if knew how to do it, but I don't know. Nobody's professional, that is a true fact of life. Professional lunatic perhaps. Maybe that's what I am. Let me see where I'm gonna pick this story up. What do you feel is important right now? Tell me something. Say something. Because, I've lost several tangents, and I may not ever pick them up again. Okay, I've got something for you. The reason that it works so well, and you've got to think about this. The reason that I've built my business into multi millions is something that is not helpful, but I'll take it anyway. The reason that I've built my business into multi millions, and all the badass people, case in point, theses ones right here, shout out to you, and you, all of you. Especially, the ones who are pressing the 1% button, thank you for that. The reason is, because I truly decided, I don't really care. Okay, that hurt a little bit, a little too much. I didn't give a fuck at all, which means that I give so much of a fuck about my message, and my truth, however, I decided that I would go all in for what was inside of me, even if it never made me another cent. Ah-ha, who's done that, and meant it too? I fucking meant it. I did not try and make money from it. I was just like, fuck all of you all. I'm gonna say whatever I want, and you can all get fucked. That's when I started being super aggressive. Because, I think I was annoyed at myself so much, that I was being aggressive and ranting, sweary, but it was more at me, and even still if I'm particularly shouty, and I can be a little shouty. I think it happened once last year, for example. Then, it's maybe directed at me, mainly, not maybe, mainly, right? Because, I was just done, I was fed up with my own disgustingness. This disgustingness of not living in my truth. It was vial to see, and observe, and behold. Nobody liked it at all. Well, some people pretended to, but they were not the right people anyway. Because, if you were there as a soulmate badass person, you would have been like, look at this, and energetically picking me up. You would have been like, this is disgusting. Well, probably not, because some of you were there then as well. So, thank you, and I love you. I did, I was like you can all get ... I was honestly, I was so, I had to get into a state of aggression to speak my truth. All right, remind me to not throw my arm in the air with an open bottle of water when my laptop is sitting just there. Not a smart idea, perhaps. I had to, I had to, I had to, and I had to make a decision that I really and truly did not care if I never made another cent from it again. And, I meant it, I wasn't just saying it. Don't just say shit on the internet, make shit up on the internet and throw it at the world all you like. But, don't fucking say shit that you don't mean, and a counterpoint to that is, the flip side of it, the other side of the money making coin is, do say the fucking shit that you mean. Don't withhold your message, not in business, not in life, not in love, not with anything. Just say what you're feeling. Yes, it's freaking scary and vulnerable. I think I'm gonna send somebody a message, where I show them a few pages of journaling I did about them. That's gonna be vulnerable. I'm still a little scared. I've been thinking about it for a full day now. Absolutely outrageous, given what I did say in my own code of conduct that I published this morning on Facebook, where I said that I always, always do the action that I'm guided to do straight away. Well, I was partly empowering myself. The truth is sometimes I hesitate, and I don't want to. It's scary, and feel scared. I'm vulnerable. You know I'm gonna do it anyway. Might happen in a day. I don't know why, but why would you wait? Why would I wait? I should do it right now, but I can't. It's on the phone. I already took, I'm obviously committed, because I already took photos on my phone of the journaling pages. But, this is the phone I used, so I have a legitimate excuse to not be able to do it right now. Because, I'm living streaming on the phone, ha ha. Why would I wait two days to, why would you wait two days, or two months, or a fucking lifetime to get your message out into the world? I feel fully entitled to speak and preach about this relevant to business. It's exactly about him [inaudible 00:46:53] word for word. Release from, no it's not a release. It's a statement of facts. It's several pages of facts about my feelings, just in an informative, and helpful, and scary manner. Manifestation, is it manifestation? No, I feel that it's a statement of facts, as they stand about my own feelings. Well, you know that I will, especially now that I've fucking said it here. But, it, but I feel that I'm gonna remain in resistance around it, until tomorrow. I feel like I've already decided that. I feel that you should probably throw something at me, if you were here, but you can't, so ha ha. But, why would I do that, because every time I hesitate ... I can, I'm gonna kick my own ass, and I'm gonna do it hard, right? Now, I need to go in the fucking spin cycle. Because, every time you hesitate, you just like, meh, here's the abundant switch, here's he receiving switch, here's the freaking expansion switch, I'm gonna dial that sucker down. I'm just gonna turn it down. Then, you just like, down on the floor, where nobody can see you, and nobody cares, and you're sort of limp, and boring, and like a faded fake flower. Then, you wonder why the fuck nobody's commenting and liking on your shit, and buying from you on Facebook. How are they gonna see you when you're down there all faded on the floor. I'm just saying, right? Right. Here's what else, you can't screw it up being you. It is not possible, on the floor with one arm up, like hello Facebook, I'm still here, buy something from me. I'm interesting, I promise. If you come down here, I will probably do not much at all, except flounder around on the floor like a fish on the sand. Just kind of like floundering. Looking very unattractive, but I feel like I'm getting more attractive by the moment, because I'm having the best time ever. How are people getting cool cat emojis? Because, they're on their phones pressing the sticker. You press the little sticker on your phone, it's just to the inside of the other emojis. From now on, I want you to only use cat emojis, on the other people's live streams also, please. I'm not sure how to do that, figure it out amongst yourselves. What was I saying? Okay, it's not supposed to be about me. Nevermind me, you don't need to know about what I do or don't do in that particular situation. However, I did say in my journaling in my code this morning, in my code of professional conduct, professional, that I always take the action my soul tells me to take straight away. I don't know why I did that, it just came through. In fact, in fact, indeed, that is true. It is exhausting and disgusting to have one arm in the air. Well, I suppose it'd be more disgusting if you had a really hairy armpit, and you hadn't washed it properly. But, either way, it's disgusting, we all agree. So, you know the whole thing about, for real though. For real, let's just sidestep from my little area of resistance. Let's just step away, let's just pretend that didn't happen. Say whatever you want to say about it, I don't care, kick my ass. Bring it on, just hit me with it. Hit me with some 1% emojis to remind me who I fucking am, and to not live in fear, and you know that I won't, but it might still take me another day. Right, but why? Why would it take me another day? How many more days, weeks, months, lifetimes is it gonna take you to speak your truth? As I was saying, I'm very entitled and credible to speak on the topic of speaking your truth in business, and in money making, and in life, and in the love and romance area I'm getting there, I'm getting there like a freaking mother fucker. I'm speeding up every single day. You know it, I know it, we all know it, so let's all just deal with the fact that soon enough I'll be running a course on that too. In fact, I did already run love and acceptance last year. That was about self love and acceptance. Very powerful, thank you very much, for reminding me about my own course the other day, by the way, when I needed it. Hello. There's no Lego Ninjago. Hmm, then just watch another Lego movie. [inaudible 00:51:02]. Watch Scooby-Doo then. Scooby-Doo, it was not on. I don't know then. Figure it out, man. What are you gonna say? Here. Yeah, I know, you broke my little cushion, it's all right, I'll live with it. So, I did say in my code this morning, and it's true, but I'm still practising my code. I had to write the truth of what I'm stepping into, which I would say I practise pretty freaking on point, and like 100% of the time in my business, and I'm getting there, getting there, I am getting there. I'll laugh at myself, and I'll kick my own ass, or you can kick my ass too. But, you know I'm gonna do it. Kiss, kiss, mommy. He blurted right into my mouth, like right up in there. You know I'm gonna do it, and you know that most people would never do even 1% of speaking or living their truth, right? This is why they don't get paid. Kiss. Don't blurt on me. Plain kisses. Okay, go, and then go watch your movie. That's disgusting, man. [inaudible 00:52:09]. If you already know you're sending [crosstalk]. No, try sending it to ... One more. Are we done? Yes. Good, be on your way, thank you, I appreciate the love. Don't worry, I'm not just constantly sending my children off to watch movies. We did other things already, and we'll do more things later, won't we? We'll go play at Auntie Jessie's house. Are you done? Carry along, pass on by, go back to where you come from. Not this area. I just spit in your ear. Don't spit in my ear. Well, this is exactly my point, right? Oh my goodness, careful. If I come back to the business story, you're right, I will. You know what I'll do, I'll get off the live stream, and then I'll be like, er, fuck off, I hate all of you, I love all of you. Then I'll be like, eh, and I'll go through 25,000 things inside my head, and then I'll do what I always do, and I do, which is press freaking play anyway, and do the damn thing. My rule is very simple in business, and in lie. I've done this many times already. Many times in my personal life. Hi. When I feel called to say something that's scary, or confronting, or vulnerable, or revealing, that I kind of, I type it, I write it out anyway, which I've already done. Then, I sit down, I'm like no, no, no, no, no, no, and I put it into message, and then I do this little thing where I just press send, and I just go send, too late. Then, I quickly [crosstalk 00:53:49] leave the area. Because [crosstalk 00:53:53] if you need the computer after you send a message, then the [crosstalk 00:53:57] see you. My rule is that, if you I can't see them, they can't see me. If I shut the computer, they can't see me, and maybe it didn't happen. [crosstalk 00:54:08] this is exactly, okay, I cannot even handle a random question in the middle of all this. [crosstalk 00:54:16]. This is exactly how I did it with business, exactly. Where I just started to say what I really thought, and what I knew that people needed to hear, and then I would press, well, not send ... Well, if it was an email send, but press publish on the post on Facebook, and I would literally feel sick to my stomach, you guys. Just like, I'm going to die of exposure of the soul. Have you ever felt like you were gonna die of exposure of the soul? Can you go and get me a surprise? Can you go and find me a treat? Can you go find mommy a treat? Got it, can you go find me a treat? Can you go get something fabulous for me? Mommy, that's your party hat. Oh, cool, good. That's actually my megaphone. Shout! Watch the cords, be careful of the cords when you're moving around the area. I [crosstalk]. I would say things that were so confronting, and so scary, and I would write them in my blog. Then I would be like, I can't say that, and I still feel that way, by the way. Not as often as I used to, because I've gotten used to it. I'm used to speaking my truth, and living my truth, and getting the frigging results that I do accordingly. But, at first it was like what I'm demonstrating here. Where I'm like, oh, maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow, but then I would always do it. I really freaking did it right, and I do still do it in all these things. I'm squirming, and everything, and I'm like maybe tomorrow, because I'm like fear is still guiding me or ruling me, and I'm conscious of that, and so I'll do the damn thing. Then, I'll laugh at myself, like why did you need to take an extra day or two. But, I'm talking like two freaking days, right? How many people here are still not speaking their truth, when you heard me talk about this shit a year ago, two years ago, five years ago, whatever? When your soul has been telling you the whole time, get faster, and faster at speaking and living your truth, and the heavens will be opened onto you. Hopefully not in a Queensland tropical thunderstorm manner, because that shit is scary, right, but the money heaven. The people, to people, to people, your soulmate people will come. Okay, I was just trying to distract you. What is this disgusting, who brought this into my home. It wasn't me, gross. Nutri-Grain bar, it sounds vial. It's Nutri-Grains. Who bought that? Daddy. Right, yeah. When daddy come and stays here when I'm overseas, and he comes and looks after the kids. [crosstalk] Can you get me- I got you another water. Can you go upstairs and get me my favourite book from my bedroom. Which one, what colour is it? Pink. Pink. You're such a good boy, honey. All right. You're such a good boy, Mommy. Thanks honey. All right. Mommy's not a boy. I'm so smart. Just published and ran away, and hid for a day, says Tracy. It is effective. I've done that many times. Many times that I've published the most vulnerable, revealing stuff, I do just press post, and them I'm like, oh shit, I gotta hide from Facebook now for two days. Which, is exactly how I feel when I send a vulnerable message. I'm like, that's it, I'm out, I'm leaving the internet. I am done. I am switching this shit off. Turn the whole internet off, shut the laptop, because then they can's see you, that's only just safe. It's just like freaking safety first people, safety first. Then, eventually you're like, oh, I suppose I should go and look what happened over that. It's only going to serve you. It is only going to serve you to speak your truth. The truth will set you free, and we know this. We know it. However, maybe you speak your truth, and somebody's like, that's too much for me. I can't handle that, they leave out of your life. Maybe you speak your truth, and people on the internet are like, you're a bad person, or you're a bad entrepreneur, or I don't like you, or mean things, that are meaner than that, and you're willing to face up to that basically. Like, are you willing to accept that somebody might not like you, that you might get rejected, you might get "hurt." But, how will you hurt when you're owning your truth, and did you really freaking think you were gonna build a business, or a life, or a relationship that's not based on speaking your truth? Because, how the heck is that shit gonna work out, right? What kind of situation are you imagining you're gonna be living in? It sounds horrible, horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Here's a version that I prepared earlier, horrible. Ooh, a Nutri-Grain bar. Horrible. You're supposed to do it live. Not that. Say horrible into the camera. Horrible. Exactly, you can leave. Thank you for your assistance. Thank you. If you can't accept that, you can't have the success. Correct. But, it's also not true success, is it John, and everybody else? No. No, exactly. It's not success- Listen to me, mine- Give me, it's my sceptre, give it to me, give it. Get your own props, this is mine. My sceptre. Yes, have that riding whip. I don't even know why, fantastic. I don't, and keep the pot out of it, by the way. Pass over the Chanel hip flask, which nobody's ever seen, which my sister is even weirder than me, if you can imagine such a thing [crosstalk 00:59:30]. A funnel? That's red, see if you can find a pink one, honey. I can't. Okay, I love the red one then. Thank you, I'll take it. This is a funnel. Look at this Chanel hip flask that my weird ass sister, Jessa Lewis, made for me. [inaudible 00:59:47]. I don't want that yucky treat. Get me a different treat. I don't like that. [crosstalk 00:59:51] My sister is the business manager in my business. Mommy, I don't know which treat you want. Berries, bring me some berries little boy. That's not a treat. I like to sit on a chair and have berries delivered to me by a miniature man. Yes she does. Mommy, there's no berries. They're in the fridge, go check it out. See if there's anything you want in there. Check it out, duh, duh, duh. Jessica, Jessa Lewis, is the business manager in my business, and she supervises all the ninjas. It's a very- I'm a ninja. ... Enduring task- I'm a ninja. ... That somebody has to do. She decides, she sends me a bunch of props. There some pretty inappropriate stuff on this table right here in front on me. Just random. There's this thing. She said she made me, herself, no you cannot buy Chanel hip flasks, but she made me one. She's committed to her job. You only want soulmate team members in your company/organization, who are committed to the point where they will indeed procure for you, and if need be, create for you, of their own two hands, a Chanel hip flask. I never even, what can we put in here? I never even drink the spirits anyhow? Can you put wine in a hip flask. But why do you have a funnel. So, that you can build an effing funnel. Is this a funnel? I have no idea what that's for. Does it attach to something else, is it for this? It's attached to my head. All right, I don't know. Who doesn't want a Chanel hip flask? What am I gonna put in it? Somebody's in the shower, [crosstalk 01:01:16] somebody's cutting pumpkin. Oh, all those mosquito bites up close, nobody needs to see that. They look beautiful though honey, you look beautiful. No they don't. They're just like Bali battle scars. Can you put that book over there. These things, these things? Sure, let's have some berries. Well, how about we not, thank you. I put two. You could have put them in a small crystal bowl, I suppose. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What can I put in the flask? What do you think I should put in it? It's dead. What's happening here, taste one of these berries. No. Taste this. No. Taste taster. Eat this. Taste one of these berries. Eat this. [inaudible 01:01:54]. Alyssa, try one of these berries. I'm eating them, I'm not dying. I taste tested them for you first, but taste test it, and tell me what you think. A key. Good. You like it, I thought it tasted musty, and pusty, and dusty. The one that I ate was sour, and it was good. I love the sour. There's nothing more disgusting than a sweet berry, you guys. I ate sour. It's just vial. It should be illegal. Mommy, your undies on the balcony and about to fall. They're not my undies. That's a random child's underwear that I think, that sounds bad. No, no, no. It's a swimsuit that's obviously flow down from another balcony. What? Well, they're not ours. Bring them in, let's have a look at them. [crosstalk 01:02:40] But, let's check it out. Alyssa, can you help me? In conclusion, I need to go to the gym. We all ready did that, but we'll go again. Should we go to the gym? Should we go to the gym want to go to the gym again. I got them. Oh, get rid of them. Don't touch them, they look gross and disgusting. They're actual real underwear. What? Shut the door, no don't touch somebody else's underwear. Throw them off the balcony. Do not throw them off the balcony. Somebody will see the live stream, we'll get in trouble. They've got some kind of magic system in [crosstalk 01:03:20] this building. I don't want to [inaudible 01:03:22] balcony. Can you shut that door. They've got some kind of [crosstalk 01:03:25] system in this building, where a few ... Are you all right? Go wash your hands. She's probably [crosstalk 01:03:32]. I don't want those on my, on your balcony. I'll get them later. Shut the door for now. Go [crosstalk 01:03:38]. No don't, please don't throw them off, because they always know when you throw something off. I don't know how they know what exact floor and apartment it is, and I'm not talking like 24 hours later when they've reviewed the camera footage. I'm talking like three minutes later there'll be a knock on the door. We're not throwing some toys, lightweight things, nothing dangerous, off the balcony a couple of times. Can you shut the door? Why? Because, I'm getting cold. Okay. What about the raspberries. You don't want your raspberries to be sour though. Take this away, take them small person. I kind of need somebody [crosstalk 01:04:13]. Can you shut the door please, Alyssa? Let's try these. Mommy, I just want to go again. This is fabulous. Mommy, I just want to [inaudible 01:04:22]. No, you can't go out on the balcony without me, it's not proper. Okay, I feel like we're going down a weird ... Are you seriously spitting into the berries, or are you eating straight out of it? These are really good. Okay, I've made many points that are relevant, or not relevant to my main point. But, what if you just let it be freaking easy all the time? I think that was really my whole point. Here's how to let it be easy, and this is where people will just come to you, and they will just pay you. You're like I don't know what they're supposed to pay me. But, you do know. You freaking own it, right? I touched the undies again. Do not touch somebody else's gross undies. I'll have to put you on the spin cycle three times to cleanse you. There's a worm in here. Really? No. Pretty, extra credit. No I'm not. [inaudible 01:05:10]. Don't touch undies. Can I have some vegetables now? Get me the vegetables. Bring me some cucumber. No, no, pick them up, or they'll get dirty. However, I do things for them as well. I don't just order them around. Tell me. Get down from there right now. He wasn't up on the balcony, he was up on the chair. No getting up on chairs on balconies at all, even if it's back from the balcony. All right, okay. I've nothing else to add. I'm done, I'm just done. I've cleansed myself of my entire message. I'm gonna go sweat. I'm gonna go sweat and then, and I need some vegetables. Bring me some carrot sticks girl. Okay. No, carrots disgusting, cucumber, fennel. Okay, can you bring me some carrots, and cucumber, and fennel? Cucumber, fennel, celery, and what was the other one? Snow peas, bring them to me please, forthwith. But, I'm the queen. I already chopped some for you before, now I'm just asking you to bring them back to me. You put raspberries all your face. You look like you've been in a crime. [crosstalk 01:06:21] Thank you, honey. Lovely. I'm the singer. You're the singer, okay, cool. I'm [inaudible 01:06:27]. Is there anything we need to add? Can you bring me the vegetables, I've asked 14 times? I'm serious. I need some vegetables in my body. I need to cleanse that dried ... Throw that in the bin, that looks disgusting. Who would want to eat that? Me. That stuffs gonna shrivel your insides straight away. Who puts cereal into a [inaudible 01:06:47] bar, gross. You're gonna eat it, it looks vial. Show it to the people so they can see the disgustingness of the Nutri-Grain bar. Nobody should be buying this stuff. See, that's like some empty watermelon pieces. That's not what I asked for. But, there's some [crosstalk 01:07:04] isn't it? I want cucumber. No. Can I have some cucumber? No. Hey, guys. Stop that. All right, we're gonna go. Okay, we've got it. We've got it. The message is, be yourself, but be all [crosstalk 01:07:17] of yourself, but be yourself all the time, not just restrictively, or based on when it feels convenient or easy, but that you actually let ... Stop wiping raspberries all over your face ... That you actually let the whole message out, and he's snorting like a piglet now. And, really just go with the flow [crosstalk 01:07:39] It's Saturday afternoon you guys, if you were around at my house right now, this is exactly what would be going on. This is a normal Saturday afternoon behaviour, isn't it? I'm pretty sure it's normal. [crosstalk 01:07:52] You just show that to the world. And, life is now a press dirty. Go wash your little raspberry face. Oh, don't throw the sceptre. If you came and hung around now, we'd probably have some wine as well. [crosstalk 01:08:09] Ew, put that in the bin, I don't want it [crosstalk 01:08:12] Be careful with it, because it's messy. Eat this. No, that feels yucky in my tummy. I don't want t eat that yucky, yucky. It's poopie. Then, if you came around another time, I'm gonna make an important [crosstalk 01:08:24] serious point now. If you came around another time when the kids weren't here. Then, it might not be quite as random, but it

More than ever, people are doing Flex and Rigid Flex for the very first time as industries drive for smaller, more user-friendly devices. Join Altium's Judy Warner and OmniPCB CEO, Tara Dunn for a conversation on industry trends and cost drivers.   Show Highlights: What is driving growth in the market? Space, weight, packaging. Flex is everywhere especially handhelds and medical devices, uptick in flex and rigid flex PCB across every industry. Three main cost drivers for Flex and Rigid Flex: Materials selection, Panel utilization and Technology. And a fourth consideration - understanding your fabricator capabilities and making sure you’re matching your design to their capabilities. Most common materials: copper and polymide.   Links and Resources: OmniPCB Company website Tara Dunn’s AltiumLive presentation Geekapalooza PCB Advisor site Flex Talk FlexFactor by NextFlex Jabil’s Blue Sky facility in San Jose Hi everyone, this is Judy Warner with Altium's OnTrack podcast. Welcome back, if this is your first time we're glad to have you. Before we get going today I've got a great guest for you, but before we get going I wanted to remind you to please subscribe to this podcast, and you can follow us on iTunes, on your favorite RSS feed, or wherever, whatever app you like to use for your podcasts.   Today I have with me Tara, oh before I get going on Tara I wanted to also say, please follow me on LinkedIn and also on Twitter, I'm at Altium Judy, and Altium you can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Okay, Tara, hi my friend, so good to see you, welcome to La Jolla, California.   Thank you. So, Tara was a recent, is a dear, dear friend of mine in the industry. There's not many of us women that have actually been in the printed circuit board business and understand how circuit boards are made, but we do indeed know how that's done, and Tara owns OmniPCB. She's based in the Minneapolis area, and she is a real flex expert, and we've been friends for, how long has it been now? I don't know, what six or seven, eight years? Probably something like that. Anyways, Tara and I met at a trade show and instantly started introducing each other to our friends and colleagues and next thing you know, we just created this energy, and we both have written columns for iConnect 007. Tara has an event in Minnesota called Geekapalooza. Which Judy helped bring out to California. California, so I brought it out here to Irvine, and then we brought it together to Boston, so we've had lots of professional adventures together, so it's my joy to have you and for us to learn more about your expertise in flex. So, how are you liking La Jolla? I know you're here for a few weeks, I bet you're glad to get out of the snow. Oh yeah, it's no hardship to leave Minnesota winter this time of year. I'm loving the sun and the beach, so like- What was the temperature when you left? Minus five, something like that, and slippery roads and cars were going into ditches, we're driving to the airport I'm like "just please make it there so I don't miss my flight"- Oh my gosh. -and I landed here, it was sunny and beautiful. Right? I know. I know, that's why we like it here. It's expensive to live here, but we love it. So, welcome to the La Jolla office, anyways. So we want to talk today about your deep knowledge on flex circuits, which are becoming more and more commonplace, right? You and I started out in our careers really focusing on Rigid FR-4, very standard boards, but it's really evolved now. Oh yeah, flex is a significantly growing portion of the market. And what do you think's driving that? Space, weight, packaging. You know, it's small it can be smaller, lighter, folded, it's really perfect for all of those electronics, the handheld electronics, medical devices. Right. So what would you say, give us an overview, you just said medical devices, what other things are you seeing an uptick in the flex market? You know, really across the board. Across all industries. Really? Absolutely. You know, we've got companies that have been working with flex that are developing maybe more complex flex or rigid flex and, you know, easily once a week somebody's contacting me brand new, just trying to figure out how to work with flex and how to design flex and what's different, what do I need to know. So a lot of new applications cropping up are people that are just trying it for the first time. Well, that's why we invited Tara to be our flex expert at this year's Altium Live, and we'll share the link below but there's a really great presentation that Tara gave at Altium Live, and we have the video and her slide deck, so we'll share that at the bottom here so you can check into that later. So, let's talk a little bit about that presentation. That was speaking a lot about cost drivers. So, for the designers and engineers listening, what are some of the just overview, basic overview, of what cost drivers are for flex and rigid flex? Okay, so we often talk about three primary cost drivers, materials selection, panel utilization, and technology. I kind of like to throw, a little bit tongue-in-cheek but not really, a fourth one in there, which is understanding your fabricators capabilities and making sure that you're matching their capabilities with your design. Yeah. That's not just true in flex, by the way. True, it's across the industry. It's across the board. Yes. [laughter] So, start with materials. How does that affect cost? Okay, so there are just so many materials you can choose from with flex, so, but just for this quick discussion let's focus on the most common which is copper and polyamide. So, even focusing just on that segment, your fabricators are going to purchase laminates. They come in generally three different types which would be, two of them are adhesive-based, one with a standard acrylic adhesive, one with a flame retardant version of that adhesive, and then adhesive-less materials. So, all of those types come in a range. Typically your copper thickness is going to be a quarter, or a half ounce to two ounces. It doesn't mean you can't get a flex circuit greater than two ounces, it just means that your fabricator has to create the material themselves. Right. And polyamide thicknesses are generally between half mil and six mil. When you said your fabricator has to create that, does that mean they actually take the material and plate it up in their tanks, or you're buying a specialized material from the materials supplier? Right, you would buy the polyamide, the adhesive and the copper and the thicknesses that you need. So, like I said, huge range of options that you have when selecting materials for flex. So cost drivers, keeping that in mind, you know, why would you choose one over another or how does that progression go? Typically, the adhesive-based options are going to be a little bit less expensive. Okay. Okay, and they are typically used in single- sided, double- sided, maybe three or four layer flex is where you'll see those applications. As you go into higher layer count, or rigid flex, the adhesive-less material becomes necessary. Highly recommended for rigid flex. There's a z-axis mismatch between the FR-4 material and that acrylic adhesive, so you don't want to introduce the acrylic adhesive into the FR-4 stack-up. So that's why, you know, your fabricators are always going to recommend adhesive-less materials. All right, that makes sense. Mhmm. So, it's kind of like cost versus function- Right. -at certain point- Right. -that you need to keep in mind. Right. So, other than materials, I know, what are other things that help drive the cost? I mean I think that's what people are afraid of, right? They think "oh flex is too expensive, I can't go that way" but they really need to go that way, route, for functionality, and I think really what you taught us at AltiumLive was it's not that cut-and-dry, right? If you evaluate all these different things then it may not be as expensive as you think. Exactly, and as you decide to move to flex, you know, working with your fabricator on the materials side specifically can really help drive out cost. Is it looking at just the raw material? You know, you're generally going to be FR, flame-retardant, material, LF adhesive, and adhesive-less, but if your fabricator is building a lot of rigid flex they're gonna stock more adhesive-less materials, and your adhesive-less material is gonna be probably less expensive- Because they're buying more of it, they have it in stock you don't have to worry about minimum. Make that match, and so finding someone that does a lot of flex and rigid flex is going to help you right off the bat. Exactly, and understanding the material sets that they're using, and you know a great way to do that is to ask their field applications engineering group to help you with a stack-up. 'Cause if you're not directing them in a certain direction they will default to the material that they're using most commonly. So it's a really good way to make sure you're fitting that gap. Right. So what are some of the other cost drivers? You know, we look at different types of coverlay. Coverlay kind of follows a progression. So like, explain what coverlay is. So, with flexible circuits there's two types of coverlay. There's a flexible solder mask, which is very similar to our board type solder mask other than formulated to be flexible but applied the same way. It's a good option for circuits that might be single sided, double sided or less than two ounces of copper. Okay. Tends to be a little bit less expensive. I see. It does have a limitation in flexibility. It is flexible, but if you're having a highly dynamically flexing application it's probably not your best choice. Right. But another advantage is it does allow you to form those nice 90-degree angles on your surface mount pads. Of course. But when you need to, when you're concerned about reliability for flex life, the polyamide cover length, so it would be the polyamide that's the same as your base material and a layer of adhesive. That would be the next option that you would want to go to. The limitations on that tend to be, you know, because you're drilling or routing that coverlay, you're gonna have a round or an oval opening. Oh, okay. So as your circuits get more and more dense, it gets more and more difficult. We jokingly call it the Swiss cheese effect- Right, you drill it and you take off the back route entry and there's not enough material there to even hold it together. You know, it looks great on the screen when it's this big but when the part's little. So your fabricator will watch out for that if you're doing a design. We all do try to minimize that impact. The circuit board designer may be asked to gang open or, you know, make a larger opening over several pads to kind of alleviate that problem. And then continuing on that cost spectrum if you need the polyimide coverlay and you need that individual pad coverage, laser-cut coverlay would be the next option. Okay. So that allows you to get the nice 90 degree angles for the surface mount pad, much tighter registration. I would think from a cost standpoint too, in this case like laser cut, again a fabricator that doesn't do a lot of production of these kind of circuits may not have that equipment, may have to send it out, which drives the price up. Exactly, exactly. So, you know, I could see, that would be another benefit to making sure you're finding a fabricator that's really good at this technology. Exactly. Okay. Are there other areas or did we did exhaust that one? I think on the materials, yeah I think that those are the two primary things to look at, is the base material and the coverlay. Okay. So, it's always easy to kind of relate to that if we can hear a case study or an example that you've had, you know in your career, is there a couple stories you could tell us? Sure, sure. So, there is a medical application, for example, and trying to reduce the material cost it was designed as a three layer rigid flex and flex being on the outer layer in that case. Oh on the outer layer, okay. Because of the three layers, okay? So, but then in this case that required the flex to be button plated to maintain the flexibility and it required the circuit to have to be sent out to laser-cut for the coverlay to maintain the surface mount pads. So those two together required it to be done on a smaller manufacturing panel for the tighter registration. So, very expensive circuit and very difficult to manufacture. After a review with a fabricator, they decided to go to a four layer rigid flex, more standard construction. So the material costs are higher but it eliminated the need for the laser cut of the coverlay, it eliminated the need for the button plating and it was processed more standard. So although the material costs were higher the overall cost of that flex circuit dropped dramatically. So it's not always about look at the material cost and run, right, it really is about collaboration, which you and I both over the course of our careers have sang that song, you know, in a variety of circuits right? It's not, but I can see how in the case of flex and rigid flex it's even more important, right, because there's all these variables. Exactly, and that tends, flex and rigid flex tends to be a product that people are a little less sure of themselves when they're designing, have a lot more questions, so my advice is always to identify a few fabricators that you think will be good partners and then involve your fabricators early in the design. You know, because they're doing flex and rigid flex all day. Right. They've learned a lot of lessons so we all might as well take advantage of those lessons. Yes, absolutely, and that reminds me, another plug for Miss Tara is that she writes a column for the PCB 007 magazine monthly? Yes. Monthly, specifically about flex- Yep, it's called Flex Talk. Flex Talk, there you go. So there's another resource that, and she usually covers a lot of these in that magazine and I always, I always look forward to reading your columns. So another case study? Okay. A second case study I can think of is a military application. The product was, I would say having probably 90% failure in the field after assembly. So, very very expensive after a fully populated board and what happened was it's a rigid flex and it was being bent and it was cracking. So back to the drawing board, what can we learn from that? Turns out, simply re-did the stack up and went from adhesive based materials to adhesive-less materials. Oh wow. So it eliminated only three mils thickness in the overall stack up but it was a thickness, and the bend radius was causing that cracking. So by making that one simple change in that stack up, you know they've had 300 assemblies completed now with no cracking at all. And there's the expertise, right? Like who would know that three mils could fix that problem. I would have never guessed that in- Yeah, it seems insignificant, especially when we're used to looking at thick rigid boards 3 doesn't seem like anything at all. It doesn't seem like anything at all. That's so cool. Well, thank you. Those are great stories. You know, since you and I started in this industry, there were, I'm kind of shifting subjects now, a little bit and I wanted to talk to you a little bit about women in our industry. So, there are far more women in this industry now than there used to be. There still isn't that many of us who actually are on the front lines of sales and marketing that kind of thing. How did, I know I didn't end up in this industry on purpose. I love it and I love the industry, so how did you find your way, and I don't think I've ever asked you this? I'm here completely by accident. See? We didn't do this on purpose. No, my first job out of college was in the accounting department of a flexible circuit manufacturer. Okay, what was your major? Economics and industrial relations. Well, there you go. I didn't know what a flex circuit was when I started there. Right. Because of that, they required me to work out on their manufacturing floor and learn how to build a circuit, so I was out on that manufacturing floor for a few months. No way, I did the same thing but- Really? Yes, yes I- I'm so sorry to interrupt you, but the first circuit boards shop I worked at, and they had this whole language, these terms and things I'd never heard, you know what is SMOBC and I'm like, I don't know, solder mask over bare copper, and so I asked a production manager I'm going to come in on Saturdays and he's like, I'll put you in every department. That was like the best education ever, wouldn't you agree? I agree and I totally didn't appreciate it at the time. Yeah. But looking back I would have never learned the process as well, because I was running equipment and, I'm really terrible at registering coverlay. I've learned this. It's not something I should do. I don't have that hand-eye coordination, but it was it was a good thing to learn. Yeah, absolutely. That's so funny, I never knew that about you. So, what do you think we can do to sort of encourage, I mean we're doing a lot to encourage women in STEM and encourage them to become exposed to these types of careers. What do you think would be a good way, or how are some ways that you've seen, oh I know one thing you're going to tell me about right! Okay the Flex Factor program, Flex Factor, put on by NextFlex, so centered around flexible hybrid electronics, they have a program that reaches out to high school kids and it's an entrepreneurship program that ties in advanced manufacturing. So they go to Jabil, they get to see all the cool things, it's a month-long program. And this is in the middle of Silicon Valley? Yes. So fun. And I believe it's expanding beyond that. Wow. I was lucky enough to be on the judging panel at the end of one of their last ones. So much fun, but what it does is -  it takes students who may or may not be interested in a technical field, they might be interested in marketing or entrepreneurship, and it is a month program. First week they kind of get the charter and you have to develop, it's about product development, what kind of need do you see around Health and Human Services and what how could you solve it using a product that's using advanced manufacturing? Uh-huh. And then they get to go into the fancy Jabil building and see all the really cool things that they do there. They tie that into the next step, is entrepreneurship at a community college, and the students are actually given credit, college credit for this program, and then the fourth and final week they need to pitch kind of shark tank style to a panel and go through the whole product development process, profit and loss, and I mean it's just it's an amazing program, and it's so fun to watch kids you know who, I talked to one girl Jordan and she had really no interest in manufacturing or advanced manufacturing until, she wasn't exposed to it until this program, and now she's got a lot of ideas. Which is so great! I don't know how kids otherwise would get exposed to manufacturing, and when you go into a facility like Jabil or TTM or some of these big facilities, you know I think kids think manufacturing is like a dark, dank building with, you know, I don't know, something awful and you go in and there's robotics and chip shooters and all this amazing high-tech equipment and these clean rooms and you have to wear the whole bunny suit and the glasses and you go in and you're like wow this was not what I was expecting and that's so great. I forgot that you told me about that program and the whole shark tank, which makes it so- oh it was so much fun. -so what did the students pitch? Or like what are a couple things that the students pitched? You know there was all kinds of different things. They tended to kind of centre around babies or athletes. What? Well, different injuries that you might have as a student-athlete and how to rehab those injuries. Oh, okay. Or baby monitoring devices. Oh that kind of, okay. Yeah. So, what was the winner? Was there, is there a clear winner, do you remember? I don't remember who won for the panel I was on because they didn't announce it the day that I was there. All right. And so you're continuing now, right? To be involved with this initiative, and is this gonna be each year, or how often do they offer it? They do it throughout, throughout the year. I think they just had another round that went through so, and I might mix up the numbers slightly, but I think that the first program that they did which would have been the fall of 2016. I think they had eight students participate and its teams of four. So now they are up to thousands of students participating in this program. It's just growing and growing so fast. We're going to make sure that we put that website, so you have to make sure and share that, the URL, so people that are listening can look into that. Such an exciting program and I, you know, here at Altium we're doing so much with the universities and stuff and I love to see it happening, and it's so fun when you see the light bulbs go on and, you know, we love our industry and we want to keep it vitalized. Yes, yes. I think this is a great tool for generating some excitement. I know, I love it. I want a program for people our age to go back and do that. Right? Wouldn't that be fun? Yeah. What would we call it? I don't know, we'll have to think about that later. So okay, here's a really wonky question I think I already know the answer but I'm asking anyway. Are you a nerd or a geek? Geek. I asked the woman who runs Geekapalooza, that was a really easy answer. I know, okay but why do you think a geek? Why is it not Nerdapalooza? Like, why do you think you're a geek and not a nerd? That is an excellent question. Other than geek sounds better than nerd. See, I know, well- It's the general excitement over something that other people- Right, like geeking out over something right? Geek Squad. It's become cooler. I think geeks are cooler than nerds still, like just generally. I think that's the consensus. And my other wonky question is, on a scale from one to ten how weird are you? Well, pretty high up there, yeah. So like, what are some wonky things that make you weird? You know, I - Well first of all you're in this industry. First of all it's the industry right? I laugh because I'll go out to have lunch, a work lunch, and sometimes I think if anybody is listening to our conversations, we're talking about impedance control and stack-ups and EMI and I'm like, what are they talking about over lunch? I know I posted a video of me talking about fusion bonding on my personal Facebook page, and it blew up and people are like who are you? What are those words? They had no idea that I spoke this whole other tech language. And if you're out of the industry, you know, most of my friends, you know, my parents, my family, they don't know what I really do. I know, I know. We're gonna put your podcast, this podcast. We're gonna put this podcast on your- Can you cut that part out? No we'll put it on this and see what they think of you on a podcast talking about coverlay. They'll be like what? And my final question would be, well, one thing I know about Tara Dunn is that you love the beach even though you live in the snowiest place in the country. I live in a landlocked state. Yeah, there's that. But I noticed that a lot of technical people have really interesting hobbies, so what kind of things you like to do with your family or places you like to vacation or things you like to do in you're very few off hours that you have Tara because you don't have a lot of off hours. I don't, but with the job that I have it allows me to travel quite a bit because I can work pretty much remotely from anywhere and make that easy. So, yeah we love to travel. Specifically the beach. It's one of my favorites or in the winter anywhere warm. Desert area, everything's great, and I don't know what happened this year but suddenly I've become a music buff. Oh. I haven't been to a live concert in a few years and all of a sudden I think I have six or seven things booked so.. That's so funny. I don't know why. It's because your son went to college and you have a little more free time. That could be it. I don't know, I'm picking up new things now that my kids are out to college so that's probably the reason why. Well Tara, thanks. It's always a blast to hang out with you, and it's so fun to have you in California. Thanks for having me here. Usually we're on the phone on conference calls and we actually get to see each other in person, it's fun. So again we'll share lots of informative links for, that Tara has shared on this podcast and some that she didn't have time to talk about, we'll share them below so you can tap into all the interesting resources that Tara has, and I want to thank you again for what, for listening and or watching the OnTrack podcasts today. Please remember to subscribe at your favorite podcast app. Until then, always remember to stay on track.   

Rather than a new TechFan this week, Tim puts together a “best of” but not a best of TechFan. What? Well, Tim hosted the MyMac Podcast for many years, so he put together a Best Of that included some fun interviews with The MacCast’s Adam Christianson, tech writer Chris Breen, and a fun interview with Kelly Keagy of the 80’s power rock bank Night Ranger. But we kick off this show from the press room at Macworld expo 2007 discussing the newly announced iPhone! Sponsored by MacSales.com

Rather than a new TechFan this week, Tim puts together a “best of” but not a best of TechFan. What? Well, Tim hosted the MyMac Podcast for many years, so he put together a Best Of that included some fun interviews with The MacCast’s Adam Christianson, tech writer Chris Breen, and a fun interview with Kelly Keagy of the 80’s power rock bank Night Ranger. But we kick off this show from the press room at Macworld expo 2007 discussing the newly announced iPhone! Sponsored by MacSales.com

Rather than a new TechFan this week, Tim puts together a “best of” but not a best of TechFan. What? Well, Tim hosted the MyMac Podcast for many years, so he put together a Best Of that included some fun interviews with The MacCast’s Adam Christianson, tech writer Chris Breen, and a fun interview with Kelly Keagy of the 80’s power rock bank Night Ranger. But we kick off this show from the press room at Macworld expo 2007 discussing the newly announced iPhone! Sponsored by MacSales.com

On this weeks episode, we will be covering the Arctic Hare. The Arctic Hare is the largest Hare found in North America. We have Inuit folktales about the Arctic Hare, as well as a poem about the arctic hare. Our plant of the week is Oats, and the word of the week is Blow! We will then conclude with the news. This episode is close to an hour, so we have a long episode this week, but I will not have an episode next week. I have some projects to work on the homestead, and it takes about 8 hours to put together an episode with research, recording, and editing. If you like to be first, and who does not like to be first, we have a few chances for you to be first. You could be the first person to rate and review the show on whatever platform you are listening, such as Itunes. You could also be the first to support the podcast through Patreon/Hare of the Rabbit. I would like to thank those that purchased from Amazon through the link at the HareoftheRabbit.com. It looks like there was several purchases this month.         Arctic Hare The Arctic Hare is the largest hare found in North America. The Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus), or polar rabbit, is a species of hare which is highly adapted to living in the Arctic tundra, and other icy biomes. The Arctic hare survives with shortened ears and limbs, a small nose, fat that makes up 20% of its body, and a thick coat of fur. It usually digs holes in the ground or under snow to keep warm and sleep. Arctic hares look like rabbits but have shorter ears, are taller when standing, and, unlike rabbits, can thrive in extreme cold. They can travel together with many other hares, sometimes huddling with dozens or more, but are usually found alone, taking, in some cases, more than one partner. The Arctic hare can run up to 60 kilometres per hour (40 mph). The Arctic hare can achieve very fast speeds when the Arctic hare feels threatened. If the Arctic hare senses danger, the Arctic hare will stand on its hind legs and survey the area. If the Arctic hare feels threatened, the Arctic hare is capable of taking off at very fast speeds as the Arctic hare moves by hopping off its back legs in a similar way to a kangaroo. The Arctic hare runs erratically and leaps while running away from a predator to try and escape. Predators The Arctic hare is a vital component in the Arctic circle food chain, being one of the few smaller mammals able to thrive in such a harsh environment. The Arctic hare is therefore common prey for bigger animals of the Arctic tundra, such as Arctic wolves, foxes and polar bears. Known predators of the Arctic hare are the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), gray wolf (Canis lupus), Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), ermine (Mustela erminea), snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), grey falcon (Falco rusticolus), rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus), and humans (Homo sapiens). The Arctic wolf is probably the most successful predator of the Arctic hare, and even young wolves in their first autumn can catch adult hares. Arctic foxes and ermines, which are smaller, typically prey on young hares. Grey falcon carry hares to their nests, cutting them in half first; grey falcons use hare bones and feet in the structure of their nests on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) also prey on Arctic hares in the southern end of the hares' range. The Snowy owls mainly targets young hare; the French common name of the species derives from Anglo-Saxon harfang ("hare-catcher"). Four groups of parasites have been known to use Arctic hares as a host: protozoans (Eimeria exigua, E. magna, E. perforans, and E. sculpta); nematodes (including Filaria and Oxyuris ambigua); lice (including Haemodipsus lyriocephalus and H. setoni) and fleas (including Hoplopsyllus glacialis, Euhoplopsyllus glacialis, and Megabothris groenlandicus. Fleas are more common than parasitic worms. Range and habitat The Arctic hare is predominantly found on the hillsides and rocky areas of Arctic tundra, where there is no tree cover. This species lives mostly on the ground, but will occasionally create dens or use natural shelters during times of cold weather. During winter, the Arctic hare has been known to move into forested habitats. The Arctic hare is distributed over the northernmost regions of Greenland, the Canadian Arctic islands and Northern Canada, including Ellesmere Island, and further south in Labrador and Newfoundland. The Arctic hare is well-adapted to the conditions found in the tundras, plateaus and treeless coasts of this region, including cold weather and frozen precipitation. The Arctic hare may be found at elevations between 0 (sea level) and 900 m. In Newfoundland and southern Labrador, the Arctic hare changes its coat color, molting and growing new fur, from brown or grey in the summer to white in the winter, like some other Arctic animals including ermine and ptarmigan, enabling it to remain camouflaged as their environments change. However, the Arctic hares in the far north of Canada, where summer is very short, remain white all year round. Characteristics Hares are a bit larger than rabbits, and they typically have taller hind legs and longer ears. Like other hares and rabbits, arctic hares are fast and can bound at speeds of up to 40 miles an hour. In winter, they sport a brilliant white coat that provides excellent camouflage in the land of ice and snow. In spring, the hare's colors change to blue-gray in approximation of local rocks and vegetation. The Arctic hare is one of the largest living lagomorphs. On average, this species measures from 43 to 70 cm (17 to 28 in) long, not counting a tail length of 4.5–10 cm (1.8–3.9 in). The body mass of this species is typically between 2.5–5.5 kg (6–12 lb), though large individuals can weigh up to 7 kg (15 lb). One of the world’s largest hares, the Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) has a distinctive, uniformly white summer coat, aside from the tips of each ear, which are black. The thick white fur provides both warmth and camouflage against the Arctic hare’s snowy surroundings. After the spring molt, the fur of southern populations is replaced with a shorter grey-brown fur. More northerly populations also molt into shorter fur, but retain the white coloration year-round. The time of shedding fur and the molting patterns vary with latitude. Not much is known about the molting pattern but it has been assumed that the annual molt starts in June. During his research at Sverdrup Pass on Ellesmere Island (now in Nunavut), biologist Dr. David Gray saw hares begin losing their winter coats in April, when temperatures still hover around -30°C (-22°F). Nursing females seem to molt later than other Arctic hares. The molt into winter or summer pelage is dependent on the number of daylight hours. When the Arctic hare detects a change in the number of daylight hours, hormones are released which trigger the molt. In mid-summer, when their camouflage is not as effective, Arctic hares are wary and difficult to approach. In the High Arctic, where summers are short (six to eight weeks), a sandy brown or grey wash appears on the nose, forehead and ears, and occasionally on the back. The predominant color, however, remains the snowy white of winter, which makes High-Arctic Arctic hares starkly visible against a snow-free background and therefore more vulnerable to predators. In the more southern reaches of their range (including Baffin Island, Nunavut), where the summer is somewhat longer, the white coat changes to brown with blue-grey tones, while the tail and parts of the ears and legs remain white. Arctic hares can be active all winter because of the insulating quality of their fur coat. A short, thick and warm under-fur is protected by the longer, silky top fur. A hare with fat for 20% of its body weight could live for 15 days at -24°C (11°F) on that stored fat alone because of this excellent insulation. The female Arctic hare is larger than the male, and also begins to molt earlier in spring. Otherwise, males and females look so similar that they are difficult to tell apart at a distance. During the breeding season and the nursing period, males and females can be more easily identified by their behavior. The arctic hare lives in the harsh environment of the North American tundra. These hares do not hibernate, but survive the dangerous cold with a number of behavioral and physiological adaptations. They sport thick fur and enjoy a low surface area to volume ratio that conserves body heat, most evident in their shortened ears. The Arctic hare is mostly solitary. However, during winter months, this species may demonstrate ‘flocking’ behavior, sometimes gathering in large groups of up to 3,000 individuals. This unique behavior may offer the Arctic hare protection from predators such as the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) making it harder for predators to catch an individual without being seen. The ‘flock’ are synchronized with each other and are able to move, run and change direction at the same time. The Arctic hare is always white in the far north where there is snow all year round. In parts of the Arctic circle that have seasons, the Arctic hare will go from white to a blue-grey color in the summer but is known to keep its white tail all year. The Arctic hare has long claws which helps the Arctic hare when digging through icy and snowy conditions when the Arctic hare is searching for food or if the Arctic hare is digging a den. The paws are heavily padded with thick, coarse fur which helps the Arctic hare to walk on the surface of snow without sinking. The well adapted claws and incisors enable the Arctic hare to dig through snow and feed on the plants beneath. Distress calls are made by hare and rabbit species when they are caught by predators, but all other communication is thought to be done by scent marking. The glands which secrete the scent are found underneath the chin and in the groin area. Diet Food can be scarce in the Arctic, but the hares survive by eating woody plants, mosses, and lichens which they may dig through the snow to find in winter. In other seasons they eat buds, berries, leaves, roots, and bark. An omnivorous species, the Arctic hare’s diet is mostly composed of woody plants such as Arctic willow (Salix arctica), as well as grasses, herbs, berries, buds, shrubs and lichens. An opportunistic feeder, the Arctic hare may also eat small animals and carrion. This species has an acute sense of smell, which enables it to locate and dig for food in the snow. Arctic hares feed primarily on woody plants, and willow constitutes 95 percent of their diet year-round. Arctic hares predominantly consume such as saxifrage, crowberry, and dwarf willow, but can also eat a variety of other foods, including lichens and mosses, blooms, other species' leaves, twigs and roots, mountain sorrel and macroalgae (seaweed). Arctic hare diets are more diverse in summer, but still primarily consists of willow, dryas and grasses. Arctic hare have been reported to occasionally eat meat, including fish and the stomach contents of eviscerated caribou. They eat snow to get water. Breeding Arctic hares are sometimes loners but they can also be found in groups of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of individuals. Unlike many mammals, arctic hare groups disperse rather than form during mating season. Animals pair off and define mating territories, though a male may take more than one female partner. The breeding season of the Arctic hare begins in April or May, with the male pursuing the female and biting her neck, which often draws blood. The gestation period is around 53 days, with females usually giving birth to a litter of between 2 and 8 young hares, or ‘leverets’, in June or July. The female Arctic hare gives birth in a depression in the ground, which is lined with grass, moss and fur or sheltered under rocks. Arctic hare leverets are born at an advanced stage of development, with fur and open eyes. The female returns to feed the leverets every 18 hours with highly nutritious milk, eventually leaving them to fend for themselves when they are fully weaned after 8 or 9 weeks. Two to eight young hares grow quickly and by September resemble their parents. They will be ready to breed the following year. The leverets stay within the mother's home range until they are old enough to survive on their own. There is little information on the lifespan of Arctic hare. Some anecdotal evidence suggests they live three to five years in the wild. Arctic hare do not survive well in captivity, living only a year and a half at most. Traditionally, the arctic hare has been important to Native Americans. These fairly plentiful animals are hunted as a food resource and for their fur, which is used to make clothing. Arctic hare threats The Arctic hare is threatened by habitat loss in the southern part of its range, as well as by unrestricted hunting in certain areas. It may also come under threat in the future due to climate changes (whether those changes are man made, solar min/max changes or changes in the earths axis). However, the Arctic hare is not currently believed to be at high risk of extinction due to any of these factors. Conservation Some parts of the Arctic hare’s range have seasonal limits on the harvest levels of this species. There are not known to be any other specific conservation measures currently in place for the Arctic hare. Subspecies There are nine recognized subspecies of the Arctic hare: ⦁ Lepus arcticus andersoni, ⦁ Lepus arcticus arcticus, ⦁ Lepus arcticus bangsii, ⦁ Lepus arcticus banksicola, ⦁ Lepus arcticus groenlandicus, ⦁ Lepus arcticus hubbardi, Lepus arcticus labradorius, ⦁ Lepus arcticus monstrabilis, and ⦁ Lepus arcticus porsildi. The subspecies vary in range, molting behavior and appearance, with northern populations remaining white year-round. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/a/arctic-hare/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_hare https://a-z-animals.com/animals/arctic-hare/ http://www.arkive.org/arctic-hare/lepus-arcticus/ http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/edu/ViewLoitLo.do;jsessionid=9111F3DC840DAB947DC1538CECB74E3A?method=preview&lang=EN&id=13762 http://interesting-animal-facts.com/Arctic-Animal-Facts/Arctic-Hare-Facts.html Hares in Newfoundland https://retrieverman.net/tag/arctic-hare/ One of the most interesting biological stories takes place on the island of Newfoundland. Before settlement, only Arctic hares could be found on Newfoundland. Its predators included the now extinct Newfoundland wolves and a very small population of Canada lynx. Its population was small, mainly because Arctic hares use open habitats and they are always somewhat vulnerable to predation. The small population of lynx that lived in Newfoundland were always at a bit of disadvantage. They are mostly adapted to eating snowshoe hares, which are creatures of the dense forest. However, before the 1860’s, there were no snowshoe hares on Newfoundland. The Canada lynx that lived on the island had to live like bobcats– eating what prey species availed themselves. Bobcats and Eurasian lynx are better at hunting deer species than the Canada lynx, but the Canada lynx on Newfoundland occasionally hunted caribou, especially the young of the year. But because there were no easily captured snowshoe hares for the Canada lynx to eat, their numbers remained quite small. The Canada lynx doesn’t do well as a bobcat. In the 1860’s, the government of Newfoundland discovered it had a problem. Lots of people were going hungry. The forests and sea were not producing enough to feed them. To rectify this problem, the Newfoundland government introduced the snowshoe hare, which is staple in the diet of many rural residents of the mainland. The hares fed the people, and they adapted well to Newfoundland’s environment. And they spread. In the early 1900’s, there were tons of them on the island. They soon reached what ecologists call the “carrying capacity” and then many of them starved. Then something else happened. Arctic hares began to disappear, and the caribou numbers began to drop. What caused the numbers of those species to drop? Well, it has something to do with the Canada lynx. What? Well, as I said before, the Canada lynx is a snowshoe hare specialist. On the mainland, its population is directly linked to snowshoe hare populations. It lives almost exclusively on them, and it is very well adapted to hunting them. When the population of snowshoe hares began to take off in Newfoundland, the native Canada lynx population could stop living like bobcats. They could return to their ancestral habits of hunting the snowshoes, the species they evolved to eat. Things were fine until the snowshoe hares reached their carrying capacity and their population dropped off. Then, the larger population of Canada lynx that had developed from eating those large number of snowshoe hares had to find something else to eat. They slaughtered the Arctic hares, even though Arctic hares are much harder for the Canada lynx to hunt. With so many Canada lynx in Newfoundland looking for food, the poor Arctic hares had no respite from the predation. The predation was so intense that Arctic hares can be found only in remote areas the northern part of the island, where one cannot find Canada lynx or snowshoe hares. On the mainland, Canada lynx, snowshoe hares, and Arctic hares are not found in the same spots. Arctic hares are always found to the north of prime Canada lynx and snowshoe hare habitat. It is likely that Canada lynx are the main reason why Arctic hares have a rather clearly demarcated southern limit to their range. They simply cannot live where Canada lynx and snowshoe hares do, because the Canada lynx will eat the Arctic hares when the snowshoe hares have their population crash. Yes, snowshoe hares have a ten year cycle in which the population hits its carry capacity within ten years and then has a massive die off. Then it rebuilds after that die off until it hits its carry capacity ten years later. The Canada lynx is at the mercy of these ten year cycles. And so, it seems, is the Arctic hare. The introduction of the snowshoe hare in Newfoundland had been a major disaster for the Arctic hare, even though the two species do not necessarily conflict with each other. They don’t even live in the same habitats, with Arctic hares preferring the open tundra and snowshoes preferring the forest. It is the rather strong predator-prey relationship that exists between the snowshoe hares and the Canada lynx that ultimately affected the Arctic hare. Now, that is only part of the story. Why did the caribou drop off? Well, it is a very similar story. When the Canada lynx population exploded with the introduced snowshoe hares, they generally left the moose and caribou alone. Canada lynx will eat snowshoe hares before they’ll touch any species of deer. When the snowshoe hare population collapsed, the caribou and moose population began to suffer almost as badly as the Arctic hares. The caribou population collapsed through the 1950s until there were just a few hundred caribou on the island. It turned out that many of these caribou were dying as calves from a bacterial infection. Large numbers of calves were found dead. They had strange puss-filled marks on their throats, which were cultured and found to have the Pasturella multocida bacteria in those puss-filled marks. It was this bacteria that was killing them. The caribou of Newfoundland prefer to calve in low-lying swampy areas on the island. They try to keep their calves out of the elements so they do not succumb to illnesses or the elements. So why were they getting this bacterial infection? And what about the strange marks on the caribou calves’ throats? Well, remember the earlier story about the Canada lynx and the snowshoe hares in Newfoundland? It turns out that the Canada lynx were not only preying on Arctic hares when the snowshoe population crashed. They were also preying caribou calves. However, as I said before, Canada lynx are pikers when it comes to hunting any species of deer. They often made a mess of it. As you are aware, cats often kill by a bite to the throat. Canada lynx kill biting the throats of their prey. However, when they tried to kill caribou calves, they really didn’t do too well. They really don’t have the teeth of a big cat to really suffocate a large prey species like a young caribou. When they would have a young caribou on the ground biting its throat, the mother caribou would have time to run back and drive the lynx off its calf. With that many lynx making failed attempts to kill young caribou, it didn’t take that long for lots of calves to get infected with nasty bacteria. And thus, they died. Now, the discovery that Canada lynx were causing Arctic hare and caribou populations to drop was a major revelation in population ecology. The biologist who made this discovery was A.T. Bergerud. Bergerud’s discoveries were a major afront to the accepted theory in wildlife management at the time. Before Bergerud, the accepted theory was that of Paul Errington. Errington’s theory is the classical predator-prey relationship. Prey species produce many offspring, usually far more than the habitat can handle, but these prey species are kept in check because they are eaten by the predators. The ones the predators catch are called the “doomed surplus.” Predators play a vital role keeping these prey species at healthy numbers. Because natural predators take the animals that are part of this doomed surplus, natural predators do not make prey species go extinct or make their populations drop precipitously. Bergerud’s theory is quite different from that. It suggest that there are conditions in which predators actually can make a population drop really quickly. I don’t think that it entirely negates the classical wildlife management theory on predator-prey relationships. However, there are exceptions to every rule, and the Canada lynx and snowshoe hare are pretty exceptional species. Not very many predators are so closely linked with a single prey species. It is also rather unusual to find a prey species with such clearly defined cycle to its population dynamics as the snowshoe hare. And Newfoundland is a pretty strange place. It is an island that never had snowshoe hares on it. When prey species are introduced to an environment where they don’t have many predators, they will reproduce at an astounding rate. The doomed surplus doesn’t become doomed, and the population explodes until the ecosystem can handle no more. The small population of Canada lynx had been eking out an existence as a generalist predator until the snowshoe hares appeared like manna from heaven. Yes, it is an unusual situation, but it proves that exceptions exist to every rule. And that’s why predators sometimes need to be managed to protect the prey species. FolkTale: Arctic Hare stories from Voices of the Inuit from the Canadian Museum of Nature Inuit—Stories of Long Ago Oral Tradition: Between the Physical and the Spiritual Worlds https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/stories/020020-3100-e.html According to Inuit tradition, human beings could travel between the physical and spiritual worlds. Humans could also transform into animals and animals could transform into human beings. As well, there were invisible spirits that were capable of changing into any form. Inuit saw the world as having infinite possibilities. The titles of the stories varied from region to region. Even the names of main characters in stories sometimes varied according to different regions of the Arctic. Many legends were for entertainment and amusement, there were also stories that taught lessons to the listeners. According to Inuit tradition, there was nothing but water when the world began. Suddenly, stones and rocks came down from the sky. Land was created! There was only darkness, and humans and animals lived together as one species. The animals and human beings took on each other's forms and shapes. Words were created and, because these words had never been used before, they contained very powerful magic. Whenever anyone used words, strange things would happen. For example, when Tiriganiaq, the fox, met Ukaliq, an Arctic hare, the fox said, "Taaq, taaq, taaq! 'Darkness, darkness, darkness!'" said the fox. It liked the dark when it was going out to steal from the caches of the humans. "Ulluq, ulluq, ulluq! 'Day, day, day!'" said the hare. It wanted the light of day so that it could find a place to feed. And suddenly it became as the hare wished it to be; its words were the most powerful. Day came and replaced night, and when night had gone day came again. And light and dark took turns with each other. -Rasmussen 1931 Many other things, such as the concepts of good and bad, were created by the magical powers of words. http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/edu/ViewLoitLo.do;jsessionid=49726EB7BBC409F8674F9AE248C20BBF?method=preview&lang=EN&id=14008 Inuit Oral Tradition The stories told here about the Arctic hare originate in the oral tradition of Inuit culture. They were written down -- probably for the first time -- in the 20th century. The Story of 'The Marriage of the Fox and the Hare' "The tale of 'the fox and the hare' tells how a hare married a female fox, promising to provide her with all the prey she needed to eat. Sadly, however, he was unable to live up to his job and, full of shame, told her that they should separate since he was unable to look after her. Full of tears, she left him, mourning the loss of her hare husband". -Randa 1994 The 'Two Rabbits Outsmart an Owl' Story "An Owl saw two Rabbits playing close together, and seized them, one in each foot; but they were too strong for him and ran away. The Owl's wife shouted to him, 'let one of them go, and kill the other!' but he replied, 'The Moon will soon appear, and then we shall be hungry. We need both of them.' The Rabbits ran on; and when they came to a boulder, one ran to the right side, while the other ran to the left side, of it. The Owl was not able to let go quick enough, and was torn in two". -Boas 1901 The Story of 'The Fox and The Rabbit' "Once upon a time a Fox met a Rabbit, and asked him if he had recently caught any seal. The Rabbit became angry on account of this question, and said to the Fox, "Yes, if you just follow my tracks backward, you will find one I have just killed." The Fox went along the Rabbit's tracks, but, instead of finding a seal, he only found the place where the Rabbit had spent the time sleeping in the sun by the side of some rocks. He ran away and whenever he met an animal, he would tell him that the Rabbit was a great liar". -Boas 1901 The Arctic Hare Poem https://www.abctales.com/story/well-wisher/arctic-hare By well-wisher Now where is the hare? Is it here or there? With its coat so white, it keeps out of sight. And if not for that magic coat, it’d be prey to fox or stoat, the Arctic wolf or snowy owl or polar bears out on the prowl. Yet the hare can see what’s unseen; smell willows underground with twitching nose and, with its keen ears, hear the slightest sound. You glimpse a black tipped ear; its eyes, jewels in the snow but then it disappears. Now where did that hare go? News: Vitakraft Sun Seed recalls rabbit and macaw foods The products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/vitakraft-sun-seed-recalls-rabbit-and-macaw-foods-062617.html Vitakraft Sun Seed of Weston, Ohio, is recalling certain Sunseed Parrot Fruit & Vegetable diet and Sunseed SunSations Rabbit Food. The products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. There have been no report of any illnesses to date. The following products, sold in Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, are being recalled: ITEM DESCRIPTION LOT Best buy date 87535100597 SS PARROT FRT/VEG. 25# 104082 5/22/2019 87535360564 SS Sunsations Rabbit Food 3.5lb 6/C 104246 6/5/2019 70882077713 MJR PARROT FOOD 4LB 6/CA 103980 5/17/2019 70882077713 MJR PARROT FOOD 4LB 6/CA 103981 5/18/2019 73725732119 ALT Small Animal Apple Slices 1oz 24/CA 103435 4/28/2019 73725732119 ALT Small Animal Apple Slices 1oz 24/CA 103118 4/13/2019 73725749989 NG GUINEA PIG ENTRÉE 4lb 6/C 103440 5/1/2019 73725749989 NG GUINEA PIG ENTRÉE 4lb 6/C 104434 6/8/2019 73725749989 NG GUINEA PIG ENTRÉE 4lb 6/C 103439 5/1/2019 73725750019 NG RABBIT ENTRÉE 4lb 6/C 104436 6/8/2019 73725750019 NG RABBIT ENTRÉE 4lb 6/C 103442 4/27/2019 73725750019 NG RABBIT ENTRÉE 4lb 6/C 103444 4/27/2019 73725750019 NG RABBIT ENTRÉE 4lb 6/C 103443 4/27/2019 82514158955 DFS Premium Blend Macaw 5lb 5/C 104094 3/16/2020 82514158955 DFS Premium Blend Macaw 5lb 5/C 103741 2/19/2020 82514158955 DFS Premium Blend Macaw 5lb 5/C 103876 2/24/2020 What to do Customers who purchased the recalled products may return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact customer service at 1-800-221-6175, Monday through Friday between 8:30am and 5:00pm (EST). Rabbits are hopping all over https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/06/28/forget-jackrabbit-bunnytown/cWn12dnTUCjdDUGS76xqXI/story.html Lately, it seems, the city of Boston has been overrun by a collection of entitled youngsters, occupying the trendiest neighborhoods, adhering to strict vegetarian diets, and fornicating at a rate that would make Hugh Hefner blush. Yes, exactly: rabbits. No matter where you look these days, you’re bound to spot these cotton-tailed city dwellers making themselves comfortable in the city’s backyards, pathways, and streets. In recent weeks alone, they’ve been spied hopping near grassy lots in Southie, hiding under cars in Somerville, and strutting past red-brick townhomes in the Back Bay. They can regularly be found canoodling in Cambridge. “It seems like there’s always a bunny around,” says Michelle Kweder, a Harvard Law School employee and Somerville resident who insists she is no longer surprised when she stumbles upon one. Whether there’s been an actual surge in the number of rabbits is difficult to determine; due in part to their short lifespans, keeping tabs on the number of wild rabbits in any region can be nearly impossible. Anecdotally, though, there seems to be a rash of rabbit-human run-ins around town, and one theory is that it’s simply that time of year. The mating season for cottontails stretches from March to September, says Marion Larson, information and education chief for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, and each spring — as residents and homeowners inevitably spend more time outdoors — they’re bound to run into what she calls the “very prolific rabbit.” “It’s a seasonal phenomenon,” says Larson. Still, the rabbit has found itself in the news from time to time. In 2015, for instance, the federal government removed the New England cottontail rabbit from the list of endangered species. And some locals insist that the rabbits occupying their yards are more than temporary guests. “These aren’t just random wanderers,” says John Byrne of Medford, who counted at least five or six rabbits during a recent bus commute to Somerville. “I can’t fairly call them tenants, because they don’t pay rent. But as far as they’re concerned, they’re home.” They’ve become such a fixture during twice-daily walks with his dog, says Al Weisz, a Somerville-based architect and engineer, that he now notices when he doesn’t spot one. “It’s the exception rather than the rule when I don’t see a rabbit,” he says. But while the rabbits’ presence within city limits — and in the various surrounding suburbs — might seem curious, it’s not all that surprising. For one thing, they don’t require much territory, according to Marj Rines, a naturalist with the Massachusetts Audubon Society. The two local rabbit species — New England cottontail and Eastern cottontail — can exist in a habitat as small as a half acre, she says, meaning that a single block of Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay would likely provide all the space and vegetation the small creatures would need. For another thing, rabbits have developed something of a reputation for their rate of reproduction. As Larson puts it: “When they say ‘breed like rabbits,’ it’s true.” While some might worry about the bunnies’ penchant for mischief, others insist that concerns about the creatures have been overblown. “In terms of the wildlife that we deal with, they’re relatively benign,” says Amanda Kennedy, director of animal care and control for the city of Boston. “And even the amount of damage they can do in your garden is typically less than what you’ll see for a skunk or squirrel.” Which isn’t to say that they’re completely harmless. “I was startled by one last weekend,” says Byrne. “I was doing some work in the yard, and there was a rabbit just sort of sitting on a dirt patch, kind of just blended right into the ground. I didn’t know it was there, and [then] he moved, and I just kind of recoiled a bit.” Indeed, like squirrels before them, rabbits seem to be growing quite comfortable in the city’s streets. “What’s surprising is how close me and my dog can get to it,” says Kweder. “This morning, the rabbit looked a little bit nervous, but also totally held her ground.” For the most part, though, it has been a fairly peaceful cohabitation. And despite their less-than-stellar reputations with gardens, the rabbits hordes have been kind enough to leave the city’s most prominent one unscathed. “They’ve been all over Twitter, I’ve seen people posting pictures — but not us, unfortunately” says Susan Abell, director of communications and outreach for the Friends of the Public Garden. “Or maybe,” she added, “fortunately.” The urban rabbit is the unofficial mascot of Chicago https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/urban-rabbits-bunnies/BestOf?oid=27092070 Three years ago my wife and I rented an old bungalow in Avondale, and when we moved in, we discovered the street was lousy with rabbits—the eastern cottontail, to be exact, one of the most common species in the U.S. On one side of our house lay a weedy area that the rabbits used for cover, and on the other side stood a grassy open plot that they treated as their personal country club. When I came home at night, there would always be one in our front yard, giving me the hard stare, twitching its nose if I spoke, and hopping away if I made a move askance. I remember some epic stare downs with those guys, and they always won. After a while we came to think of the rabbits as our friends and neighbors, and we looked forward to seeing them when they came out to forage at dusk. Periodically we'd sit down for ceremonial viewings of the misbegotten 1972 horror movie Night of the Lepus, set in an Arizona town that's been overrun by rabbits after the townspeople have gotten rid of its coyote population. Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh are scientists who inject rabbits with a hormonal formula to stunt their breeding, and after one of the rabbits gets loose, authorities begin to find mutilated bodies of livestock and people. Eventually the scientists discover that their serum has created a mutant species of marauding bunnies the size of bears. Cheapo special-effects shots show live rabbits loping around miniature sets, though an actor in a rabbit suit fills in for the attack scenes. Chicago rabbits may not be quite as big, but their numbers have risen dramatically since the 1990s, when Mayor Daley's various greening projects began to invite more woodland creatures into an urban environment. Drawn by the elevated heat level of the city, rabbits began spreading from parks into grassy areas like expressway ramps, and even made their way into the Loop. They eat any kind of vegetation, laying waste to people's gardens. When there's no greenery available, they'll chew the bark off a tree trunk. Similar greening projects have brought population explosions in other cities. As a graduate student at University of Frankfurt and a doctoral candidate at Goethe University, ecologist Madlen Ziege has made comparative studies of rural and urban rabbits and finds that city rabbits are a lot like us. Out in the country, rabbits live communally in large, sprawling burrows, with multiple exits that offer escape from predators; as they move into the city, where predators are less common, their burrows become smaller, simpler, more private, and more uniformly spaced. Ziege has also discovered that urban rabbits establish communal latrines that they use to demarcate their territory from that of rival bunny gangs. During the winter I'd come home after dark, find rabbits sitting in our snowy front yard, and marvel at what tough bastards they were. But according to Mason Fidino of the Urban Wildlife Institute at Lincoln Park Zoo, 70 percent of Chicago's rabbits die every winter. The population keeps growing only because they breed like crazy: with a gestation period of four weeks, females typically deliver 16 to 20 offspring a year. Apparently rabbits do nothing but eat, mate, defend their turf, cause property damage, and die. So, you know— typical Chicagoans. Skype, Facetime, or Rabbit?: What’s The Best Way To Remotely Binge with Your Pals? http://decider.com/2017/06/28/skype-facetime-rabbit-the-best-way-to-remotely-binge/ Rabbit: The Perfect Place to Co-Watch YouTube Videos There is actually a company that has realized people want to watch content together from across the web, and they’ve kind of figured it out. Rabbit is essentially a free screen sharing site. Each user has a chat room, which is where you can watch anything from Hulu to YouTube by logging onto your account through a webpage on the site. From there, you can invite up to 25 of your friends to your chat room. I tested rabbit with my best friend and her husband, and the two biggest issues I found with the service had to do with quality and privacy. The video quality of Rabbit is not good by any stretch of the imagination. It’s a choppier version of whatever video you’ve already found (I later found out that Rabbit has a high definition option that I was not using). Also, the way it interacts with paid services that already have your credit card information, like Netflix and Hulu, gives me pause. Since you have to re-enter your paid account information into Rabbit’s site, it’s unclear if the service has any additional privacy measures in place to protect that info. Even reading through Rabbit’s privacy policy didn’t remedy my concerns, and I’m not the only one who has been suspicious of the site. However, if the site’s privacy policy doesn’t concern you, Rabbit only requires one user to have an account. All of the other options on this list are contingent on both users having a Netflix or Hulu account. That being said, Rabbit features text chat and audio chat while letting you successfully watch TV with 25 of your closest friends. No other option does that while perfectly syncing the video with all users. In my test trial, we found that the service works well for a branch of content that’s short, accessible to everyone, and is already all over the place quality-wise — YouTube videos. You’d be hard pressed to find a better service that lets you dive into the oddities of YouTube together. UPDATE: After speaking to a representative from Rabbit, it seems as though there is a way to switch the streaming quality of the service. For this article, I was unknowingly streaming YouTube videos in Rabbit’s lowest quality setting, but there is a high definition option available in the bottom toolbar. The same spokesperson also clarified Rabbit’s privacy policy. According to this representative, the site scrubs its service after users watch videos. Because of this, the site cannot see users’ private information. Basically, if you use Rabbit to log into Netflix, Rabbit will not be able to see the information you enter. Knowing this information, it now seems as though Rabbit is the ideal site for streaming with your friends. Clevedon hospital rabbit goes missing http://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/clevedon-hospital-rabbit-goes-missing-1-5081595 Bigwig lived in the garden outside The Little Teapot café at the North Somerset Community Hospital in Old Street. The rabbit, named after a character in Waterhship Down, is believed to have been taken from the hospital in early June. Matt Croughan, clinical lead at the minor injury unit, said: “This is a hare-raising story of a kidnap and we are hoping Bigwig will hop back to us soon. “But joking aside, we would really like whoever removed Bigwig to return him. “He was a great addition to our beautiful garden, which is tended by volunteers, and it seems a shame someone has chosen to deprive the hospital of our Bigwig.” The hospital’s inpatients unit is currently closed to undergo a refurbishment, and is expected to reopen in September. Vancouver City Council weighs limits on rabbits, hens, cats City may put cap on pets per household http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/jun/27/vancouver-city-council-weighs-limits-on-rabbits-hens-cats/ Residents of Vancouver may soon be limited in how many cats, hens or rabbits they can keep on their property. On Monday, Vancouver City Council voted to advance an ordinance that would prohibit residents from keeping more than five adult cats, five adult hens or five adults rabbits on their property. Residential properties larger than 10,000 square feet would be allowed an additional hen or rabbit for each 1,000 square feet, under the ordinance. According to a staff report, the city’s current code limits the number of adult dogs allowed on private residences to three and prohibits roosters and peacocks. The ordinance, which has been in the works since earlier this year and will be heard and voted on July 10, is intended to discourage hoarding while also addressing noise, odor and property destruction concerns. The council was provided with two different versions of the ordinance and opted for one that allows residents to have up to 10 adults cats if they are participating in a foster program run by a nonprofit. During the meeting, the council heard from Sherry Mowatt, a resident of the Hough neighborhood, who said that she has a flock of a dozen hens. She said she cares for them responsibly and expressed concern about the ordinance. Bryan Snodgrass, principal planner in the city’s Community and Economic Development Department, explained that people like Mowatt would effectively be grand- fathered in. But Councilor Alishia Topper expressed reservations about the ordinance, specifically how the number of animals the measure allows for was chosen “randomly,” and how it could adversely affect responsible animal owners. “It’s like we are penalizing the people who are being good because of the people who are behaving poorly,” she said. Topper suggested creating some sort of permit for people to own more animals. Councilor Ty Stober said that the ordinance was crafted partially in response to a resident who was raising in a “suspect fashion” rabbits and chickens on their property. “We are a city,” he said. “We are not unincorporated Clark County.” From donut sandwiches to rabbit sausage, these are the weirdest foods in Lawrence http://www.kansan.com/arts_and_culture/from-donut-sandwiches-to-rabbit-sausage-these-are-the-weirdest/article_a0627cc2-583b-11e7-9f00-9f2a7a6f7b78.html Lawrence is a place that lends itself to weird and unusual pieces of Midwestern culture. A massive part of that, undoubtedly, is the food throughout town. Foods from almost any place in the world, or from any culture, can find a niché in Lawrence. The Kansan found some of the most unique dishes in the Lawrence community and learned the stories behind them. Harold’s Chicken, Whiskey and Donuts, located at 918 Massachusetts Street, serves a Grilled Do-nut Burger and a Grilled Glazer Sandwich, both served on glazed donuts. Harold’s was created for lovers of chicken, whiskey, and donuts. So it’s no surprise that one of the restaurant's weirdest and most popular food items includes two other menu options. The Grilled Glazer Sandwich is made up of a piece of fried chicken, cheddar cheese, Harold’s secret sauce and, to top it off, it all goes in between two glazed donuts. Harold’s also has a Double Do-nut Burger which has two hamburger patties, cheddar cheese, Harold’s secret sauce and it’s placed between two glazed donuts. Katie Chamberlin, assistant manager at Harold’s, said that these two items are some of their top sellers. She said the taste of the burger patty and do-nut bun is a good combination of sweet and salty. “People are surprised,” Chamberlin said. “They would never ordinarily order something like that, but almost everyone loves it.” Customers also receive a side with their sandwich or burger, including fries, mac and cheese, or mashed potatoes and gravy. Luckily for customers, these menu items are around all year long. Hank's Rabbit Sausage and Toast Hank’s Charcuterie has been and Lawrence for three years. Its seasonal menu items might catch customers' eye of people dining in, especially an item on its current menu: rabbit sausage and bone marrow toast. Jamie Everett, chef de cuisine at Hank’s, said that the idea to place the item on the menu occurred after the restaurant served it at an event and the response from people was really good. Everett said that the dish includes bread from 1900 Barker Bakery, wooly rind cheese, spicy spring greens mustard vinaigrette, rabbit jus, and rabbit sausage. “We get in local rabbits, break it down, and grind it up with a little bit of pork fat, roasted garlic and herbs, slice it real thin and sear it off in a pan,” he said. Everett said that the rabbit sausage has a very mild flavor and that a lot of people say it tastes like chicken. As for the bone marrow, Everett said that they roast meat bones off and save the marrow and put it on top of the dish, which adds a savory flavor. “Everybody loves it,” Everett said. “We sell quite a few and there is nothing super game-y in it.” One of Wake the Dead's interesting cocktails. Contributed Photo/Wake The Dead Wake the Dead's Death Star Sandwich and bizarre cocktails Wake the Dead likes to follow the motto "coffee until cocktails." Dante Colombo, manager of Wake the Dead, said that they want people to have coffee until they are ready for something stronger. But Wake the Dead doesn’t just serve drinks, they also serve breakfast for dinner, including the Death Star Sandwich. The Death Star Sandwich is an egg sandwich with a twist. It includes egg, fontina cheese, a choice of ham or bacon, lettuce, tomato, and the chef’s special sauce. The whole thing is placed between a un-glazed do-nut. Deanna Vierling, an employee at Wake the Dead, said that the sandwich is really popular among customers. “I have had a few people tell me they get it every time they come in, but a lot of people are like oh I have to try it,” she said. As for unique drinks, Wake the Dead also has Cereal Killer Cocktails, with flavors including fruit loops, frosted flakes, and cinnamon toast crunch. Vierling said that the cinnamon toast crunch cocktail is the most popular and that it tastes a lot like the leftover milk from the cereal. “I have had people order them and they will drink one and say, ‘This is really good, it’s really sweet so I’m not going to stick with it but I’m really happy I tried it,’” she said. Colombo said a lot of their menu items are based off of the concept of doing something fun that Lawrence hasn’t seen before. “We are one of Lawrence’s only downtown do-nut shops, but we wanted to focus a large part of our food menu on donuts,” he said. Colombo said that it’s a fun place and fun idea. “We wanted something that was Instagram-able and kind of fun so we wanted to play off the bar vibe and keep the energy rolling,” he said. "Is The Order a Rabbit?" Hops Into Japanese Theaters in November Limited theatrical release was originally scheduled for Spring of 2017 http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/06/25/is-the-order-a-rabbit-hops-into-japanese-theaters-in-november The Rabbit House cafe is back in business, because the Is The Order a Rabbit? ~Dear My Sister~ special episode once again has an official theatrical release date for a limited run at 40 movie theaters in Japan beginning on November 11, 2017. The special was originally scheduled to debut in Spring of 2017, but the release was delayed due to unspecified "production circumstances". The main staff for the special episode includes: Director: Hiroyuki Hashimoto Original work, screenplay: Koi, Hiroyuki Hashimoto Character design: Yousuke Okuda Music: Ruka Kawada Animation production: production doA Additionally, it was also announced that the official theme song CD for Is The Order a Rabbit? ~Dear My Sister~ will be released on November 11, 2017, and that a new character song CD will be released in October of 2017. The original Is the Order a Rabbit? manga by Koi is serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max seinen manga magazine. The previous two seasons of Is the Order a Rabbit? are directed by Hiroyuki Hashimoto and feature animation by White Fox and Kinema Citrus. Crunchyroll describes the series as follows: Kokoa arrives in a new town in spring to start high school. She gets lost and pops into a coffee shop called "Rabbit House", which turns out to be where she will live. All the characters are so cute - tiny but cool Chino, soldierly Lize, gentle and Japanese Chiyo, sophisticated but down-to-earth Sharo. They are joined by Chino's class mates Maya and Megu, and a regular at the shop, Mr. Blue-Mountain Aoyama. Everything is so cute every day at Rabbit House! Warrior rabbit is a winner for Kieran http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/entertainment/warrior-rabbit-is-a-winner-for-kieran-315553.aspx A ONE-EARED rabbit has won Island author Kieran Larwood the Blue Peter Book Award. The book, Podkin One-Ear, has also been named Waterstones’ Book of the Month. The adventure tale, inspired by The Hobbit, is the legendary tale of Podkin, ‘a fearsome warrior rabbit whose reputation for cunning and triumph in battle has traveled the ages’. Kieran is an early years leader at Wroxall Primary School. He won The Times children’s fiction competition in 2011 with his debut novel, Freaks. The Blue Peter Book Award celebrates children’s books published in the past year in two categories — the best story and the best book with facts. Around 400 children were sent a copy of the short list, asked to read them and select their favourite. Kieran said: “It was quite special to win something judged by a young audience. It really was amazing — I was thrilled because I didn’t expect to win.” Podkin One-Ear is the first in a trilogy, with the second book due out in September. Kieran has been signing books at Waterstones across the country and will be signing an exclusive edition copy, with a special cover, tomorrow (Saturday) from 2pm to 4pm at Waterstones, Newport. Bunny Park revamp to enter next stage http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1547987/bunny-park-revamp-enter-next-stage/ The estimated cost of Phase 1 was R3.7 million. Phase 1 of the Bunny Park’s revamp will be concluded at the end of June, reports the Benoni City Times. According to Themba Gadebe, Ekurhuleni metro spokesperson, the second phase will commence on July 1 and last until the end of June next year. The facility will remain closed to the public until at least the end of Phase Two. “About R8 million has been set aside for the second phase of revamping of the park,” Gadebe said. “This will include the upgrading of the gazebos, installation of playground equipment, upgrade of the bunny shelters and installation of new park furniture. “Work in the park during the second phase will also include construction of mini-bridges, a new pump house, fencing around the animal shelters and the addition of gabions.” The estimated cost of Phase One was R3.7 million. It was focused on dredging two of the park’s three dams and connecting them through canals, to ensure the water doesn’t become stagnant. Gadebe said after the construction period, vegetation will be planted and allowed to grow before any animals are brought back to the park. The material dredged from the dams will be used as a natural fertilizer for the vegetation. The cows, sheep, goats, some birds and one pig were moved to temporary foster homes by mid-May, where they will remain for the duration of the revamp. Local breeder's rabbits win best in show thanks to tender, loving care http://www.swvatoday.com/news/article_f474e21b-50a6-593d-9429-f8745d72a175.html ABINGDON, Va. — Nina Cipriani has had hare-raising experiences ever since she was a child. Known in the community as the “rabbit lady,” the Abingdon woman learned a lot about rabbits when she was growing up in town. Her first pet rabbit was Butterscotch, a New Zealand Red. “I’ve always had at least one rabbit since then,” she said. Now, her Abingdon farm, Rattle Creek Rabbitry, is home to 45 of the cute and fluffy animals, most of which are Rhinelander and Jersey Wooly show rabbits. Each year, Cipriani is a judge of rabbits entered in the agricultural show at the Washington County Fair in Abingdon. She also speaks to students about raising rabbits at local 4-H meetings during the school year. Cipriani’s granddaughter, Hattie Galbreath, is carrying on the family tradition. The grandchild recently received Best in Show in the youth category at a competition where she showed a retired Jersey Wooly, a calm and good beginner rabbit for children. “Now, she has two rabbits of her own. It’s a good start for her,” said Cipriani. Throughout her life, Cipriani has gone different directions with rabbits. She raises them for their wool. Cipriani collects wool from her Angora rabbits by clipping or brushing them every three months. She has spun yarn from the rabbit wool and plans to make something from the yarn. She raises rabbits for their meat. “It’s one of the healthiest meats you can eat. The majority of my New Zealand white rabbits are sold to people to produce a healthy meat source for their families,” she said. But raising pet and show rabbits has got to be a favorite hobby for her. The couple spends at least an hour each day feeding and watering the rabbits, two hours each week grooming and one day every two weeks focusing on cleaning and maintenance. Cipriani and Charlie Sutherland, a friend in Blacksburg, Virginia, discussed how there were no rabbit shows in the area. Within six months, the friends developed the Southwest Virginia Rabbit Association (SWVARA), an incorporated chapter with the American Rabbit Breeders Association. Their first show was held a year ago in a small metal building in Christiansburg, but since then the shows have been moved to a spacious livestock arena at Virginia Tech. Cipriani said anyone interested in learning more about rabbits can visit the upcoming SWVARA show on Nov. 11 at the livestock arena in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Welcome to episode 327 of the Logical Weight Loss Podcast, I appreciate you stopping by. If you like what you hear/see do consider subscribing to the show. If you're new to subscribing to a podcast, see www.learntosubscribe.com  New Logical Losers Support Group People have been asking how they can support the group, and I've been wanting to create a facebook group, so I've put the two together. If you go to www.logicallosers.com this will be our new community to create a safe place to talk, support, and inspire each other. If you get at least $1 worth of value from the podcast, I urge you to sign up. Why is there a fee? Because we are talking health, fitness, etc, everybody and their brother have a product or service to tell. I believe we may be talking about services and such, but I don't want "Coach Steve" or  " Fitness Franny" coming in and spamming us. There are different rewards, and again, this is all optional. $1 a month Access to Facebook group Sneak Peak at Content Access to Patron Only Information $5 a month All of the above rewards plus: Private Patron polls Behind the scenes process Name listed on our support page $20 A Month All of the above rewards plus: A shout out on the show When I reach my goal of $500/month, I will give away a Fitbit blaze to a member in the Biggest Loser Tier once a quarter. For those outside the US, we will come up with a similar value prize.  Come join the community at www.logicallosers.com   Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It - Reviewed This is a book written by  Gary Taubes, and he takes on a very controversial subject and that is that Eating less and moving more is bad advice. WHAT? Well, he spends the better part of the first ten chapters going over why, and by chapter two I was like "OK, SERIOUSLY, MOVE ON." But I had to suffer through many chapters for him to get to what we are supposed to do. So I'm going to sum it up. Cut down carbohydrate, and cut down on Sugar. (more or less adopt a paleo diet). As he puts it, Cut back on Carbs. "On this diet, no sugars (simple carbohydrates) and no starches (complex carbohydrates) are eaten. The only carbohydrates encouraged are the nutritionally dense, fiber-rich vegetables listed. Sugars are simple carbohydrates. Avoid these kinds of foods: white sugar, brown sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses, corn syrup, beer (contains barley malt), milk (contains lactose), flavored yogurts, fruit juice, and fruit. Starches are complex carbohydrates. Avoid these kinds of foods: grains (even “whole” grains), rice, cereals, flour, cornstarch, breads, pastas, muffins, bagels, crackers, and “starchy” vegetables such as slow-cooked beans (pinto, lima, black beans), carrots, parsnips, corn, peas, potatoes, French fries, potato chips" Do Not Eat You should completely cut out sugar, bread, cereal, flour containing items, fruits, juices, honey, whole or skimmed milk, yogurt, canned soups, dairy substitutes, ketchup, sweet condiments and relishes. Avoid these common mistakes: Beware of “fat-free” or “lite” diet products, and foods containing “hidden” sugars and starches (such as coleslaw or sugarfree cookies and cakes). Check the labels of liquid medications, cough syrups, cough drops, and other over-the-counter medications that may contain sugar. Avoid products that are labeled “Great for Low-Carb Diets!” So Why Do I Get Fat? Gary Taubes wrote this book for doctors I believe, but in a nutshell, when we each these items our blood sugar goes up. This then makes our Insulin go up. The release of fatty acids from fat cells, "Requires only the negative stimulus of insulin deficiency" - Rosalyn Yalow, Solomon Merson, 1965  Her explains this in this video (which is more or less the book in 56 minutes) He Does Mention the GI The glycemic index is a measure of how quickly food raises our blood sugar. And the scale of the glycemic index goes from 0 all the way up to 100. Foods with a higher glycemic index are more readily absorbed in our body and raise our blood sugar more. A lower glycemic index doesn't affect our blood sugar as much. The glycemic index is an imperfect system because everyone's body responds a little bit different. It also doesn't consider how much food we eat. But it is overall a useful tool to help keep our blood sugar steady and eating more nutritious foods. Foods that have a low glycemic index typically have more fiber and less sugar, but it's important to know that low glycemic index food doesn't necessarily mean that it's healthy. After all, lard has a very low glycemic index. According to Web MD The smaller the number, the less impact the food has on your blood sugar. 55 or less = Low (good) 56- 69 = Medium 70 or higher = High (bad) Here is a list of resources that list foods and their GI Rated by FI from Harvard http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/whattoeat/a/glycemicindlist.htm http://www.livestrong.com/glycemic-index-food-list/ http://www.lifetimefatloss.com/glycemic-index-list-of-foods.html Red Rock Apps: Running For Weight Loss App What is it: A unique program of interval training especially for weight loss. A ready-made 2-month training plan with 3 workout days a week. Good: Easy to use, tracks weight, water (and prompts you to drink more), keeps your stats of your exercising, and ties in with Fitbit. Cons: EVERY TIME you touch this app you are prompted to update to their paid ($10/month) plan. So bring your patience. When the voice tells you that you are half way, when the announcement is over, the music does not return to its regular volume (in my case Spotify). Conclusion: I can handle press the X every five minutes. It's easy to use, and when I leave the gym I'm sweating. I'm keeping it for now and considering upgrading to their pro plan.   How Do I Cancel a Subscription on an Apple Device? I recently wanted to cancel a subscription for one app I was using, and once you know where to look it is not that hard. For me, I started looking at my account on iTunes, and that is the wrong place. Here is how you cancel an Apple subscription: Access Settings in the home of your device; Scroll down and tap iTunes Store and AppStore; Tap your e-mail and Apple ID, View Apple ID and enter your password; Now, tap Subscription - Manage and select PlayKids; Turn off the auto-renewal option and tap Done.

Deathnote, the beloved Japanese anime series, has been given a Netflix adaptation. The trailer is out and it stars......not a lot of Asian folks. Not like they didn't try. According to actor/producer Masi Oka (Heroes) "our casting directors did an extensive search...[but] the actors we did go to didn't speak the perfect English." What??? Well, Zoe Kim, Jenapher Zheng, and Sylvia Ray were having none of these shenanigans. They put together a great video explaining why these statements are ridiculous, and they also feature several Asian American actors who DO speak perfect English.    Watch the video here: https://www.facebook.com/theLLAG/posts/10106496593770908 Edward Zo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdxz2htgPiQ @jenapherzheng @thezoekim @vkrtycreative

Whitney Hansen is a personal finance coach and entrepreneur who specializes in helping millennials eliminate debt in order to achieve financial independence. Whitney aims to give millennials the financial tools they need while still making it fun and silly. She has her Master's degree in business and her Bachelor's degree in accounting.Whitney speaks from experience because she once found herself in $30,000 worth of debt and managed to pay it off in just 10 months. In the interview we discuss how do you get a mortgage at 19? Whitney has a master’s degree and it totalled $472. What? We'll talk about that. She has many achievements under her belt at a very young age and no doubt now helping many others with their financial mistakes, getting them on the right track. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com. 

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Interview with Krazy George, possibly the first professional cheerleader who began appearing at Oakland Atheletic's games in the 1980s.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:[inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 2:you're listening to KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM, university of California and listener supported radio. And this is method to the madness coming at you from the Public Affairs Department here at Calex dedicated to celebrating the innovative spirit of the bay area. I'm your host, Allen Huizar. And today we are honored. Speaker 3:I have [00:00:30] crazy George with us. Hey, crazy. George was out. You said my name. I like that last stop. Let's talk. Let's talk. So we have crazy Georgians studio. Crazy. George is famous for a lot of things, but the number one thing I think you're famous for is being the world's first and longest tenured and only full time cheerleader is, I like your title. You gave it. It's perfect. Yes, right. Summed it up perfectly. I am the only person probably in the world that makes [00:01:00] his job, makes his living cheering for teams, getting people to cheer for the team. That's what I do. And they'd pay me enough to make living. Nice. So let's talk about how you get started as a professional cheerleader. You were a sent, you went to San Jose State, is that right? That's right. Mighty San Jose state test. So what, what started to draw you to cheering? Speaker 3:Like was it something that you had always done or was it in college? How did you get started now? I was pretty quiet person but my best friend don bogged and brought a drum and a bugle to a [00:01:30] football game and I couldn't play the bugle cause that takes talent. So I started playing the drum and started pounding on it and all the students at San Jose state started following me and him. And by the end of the football season, I was just sitting in the stands. Everybody was following me. So the cheerleaders asked me to go out. So I went out and they elected me cheerleader the next year and I was a pathetic cheerleader cause I couldn't remember the routines and the words at the same time, I was really bad. So I went off on my [00:02:00] own. I started doing my own little thing with my drum, not everybody following me. Speaker 3:And over the years I just started branching out to pro teams. They loved it. They started hiring me and in 1975 after teaching for four years, I quit teaching. I had to quit those four kids. I was warping their minds. Yeah, you'd probably, screaming on a field is a little bit more of a appropriate place for you and that's right. Well, I want to ask about a lot of things, but you said that the cheerleaders, you couldn't remember [00:02:30] their kind of traditional attorney, you're like a disruptor. You're not like a normal chiller. You call yourself a cheerleader, but you weren't doing the cheerleading routines. How did they take that when you went off on your own? Well, that was the good part. I'm, since I couldn't really fit in with a squad, it was better I worked by myself or off to the side where I could get all the students and the alumni involved in the game. Speaker 3:And so that's how he sort of honed my style. And then from then, then on I was invited to go do an Oakland seals game for [00:03:00] the NHL years ago and I did one game for, for the fun of it. I was invited by a hockey team, a baseball team, went up with them and I got the whole crowd screaming. Nobody knew me. And at the end of the game, um, everybody was, was talking about me. And the next day in the paper, it was a big article on me. Nice. And one of the players said, if he comes back, I'd give him a ticket. So I called him up, he gave me a ticket. I went to another game producer and I was a regular at the Oakland Seals, [00:03:30] hockey games, Oakland seals. Where did they play? They played there in the coliseum where the warriors play a, it was great. Speaker 3:So you, um, so you were at San Jose state where you kind of found this passion. It sounds like you went, you diverted for a teaching for a little while. What were you teaching? I dumb murdered. Where were you teaching? I was teaching very little. Those poor sleep problems. The subject matter I taught wood shop, metal shop and electronics. Oh, okay. I see what shops make sense. So, um, you, uh, [00:04:00] you came back at San Jose state, you did a little Oakland schools, but wasn't it like the big place you got discovered was that the earthquakes? Is that, yes, that was, that was the first pro team I ever worked for except the open seals, which weren't paying me. They weren't paying you. So you got, when you got to check out the earthquakes. Yes. I went in there and they actually called me up and they said, would you like to open up the season for us and be with us for some of the Games? Speaker 3:And I said, well, sure, I'd love it. And in essence he said, well, how much do you want to get paid? And I said, well, how about 35 bucks a game? [00:04:30] And yes, they gave me 35 bucks a negation asked for more. Well, I did. After about three days, I'm realizing maybe I should ask for more. This crowd reaction was the greatest crowd reaction you could ever see in your life. It just revolutionized soccer up until that point. That was nobody growing over 7,000 people. A game for professional soccer. That game first game 16,000 and they were mayhem there. The fans became fanatics and like [00:05:00] one, well it's not quarters in there, but before the first half everybody was going nuts and I was on full time with that team. Who was, what year was that? 1974 first year. The quakes that I started, I'm still with the earthquakes and I'm opening up their new stadium on the 22nd of March. Wow. Did you say 1974 74 that is for those guys to the math. That's 40 plus years I scares. Yes. Yeah. That's amazing. So your first professional gig of 35 bucks a game. [00:05:30] It was for the earthquakes and then I think I read somewhere that Lamar Hunt. Yeah. [inaudible] Speaker 3:Kansas City chiefs know this is the NFL. The big boys, big boys. He saw you whip this crowd into a frenzy. I see that he saw me doing this earthquake game. The first game. He couldn't believe the reaction that it was his league there. Earthquakes were part of his league. This was not the mls. This is an old league. Right. What the name of that [inaudible] I think what a memory guy. [00:06:00] Yeah, it's amazing. So he saw me there and somehow over the next year he said, I would really like to see George at a football game at Kansas City. And the manager were arranged it and I went in and this was a greatest. And now I'm actually with a really glamorous team. The Kansas City chiefs. Yeah, I'd go in unannounced. Unknown. Nobody knew me. Arrowhead was, it was arrow. It was, wow. It was 60,000 people, 60 70,000 people. Speaker 3:[00:06:30] I went in before the first quarter. I started working the crowd. By the first quarter I had shares going anywhere. By the first half I had back and forth. Kansas City. Oh No. Casey Gay. See back and forth across the stadium. They couldn't believe it. The whole game. They stayed off. Seven 60,000 people stayed and they lost 45 to nothing and wow. And they still stayed in Lamar? I couldn't believe it. He said, when we have a game like this, nobody's here [00:07:00] at the end of the game. And they stayed. I want you full time. Wow. So you got hired full time, full time for the whole season for them. Wow. So you had a $35 per game and in the soccer, what would you be? Well now it went up to 500 a day. Wow. That was good. And that's pretty sweet. Yes. So you're starting to see, you're like, wow, I can, is this the first time when you're like, I could do this for a living? Speaker 3:Well, it started off a little earlier than that. When the [inaudible], the St Louis Blues called me back in like 1972 [00:07:30] and offered me a full time contract. This guy was like a renaissance guy. He owned the blues. He saw me at the, at the Oakland Seals Games. He thought it was so great. He wanted to hire me, he wanted me to quit teaching, come there, and he was going to pay me 12,000 bucks to do the 40 home games. I was making 9,000 a year full time. [inaudible] Lau. I couldn't believe it. So he made the offer, but it had to be in, can it only would it go [00:08:00] out and the offer would be effective if the Oakland seals folded? They were folding my, they were kept there for two more years. And both years you made the offer? Third Year came around, I was ready to go. I was ready to quit teaching and he got ill. Speaker 3:And you stopped working with the, uh, St Louis Blues. So I lost out of that, but it gave me the idea that somebody might pay me that much. So how'd you get to the first kind of, did you ever get a gig where it was like a whole season? Like after the Kansas [00:08:30] City? That was, was that for the chiefs? Did you do the whole, and the Kansas Cassidy, she's already the same time. The Colorado Rockies ice hockey hired me. The BC lions, Canadian football hired me. And that was all in 1975 76. So I was making enough money. I could quit teaching. Nice. So we're talking to crazy George who is the world's only full time professional cheerleader here on [inaudible] at professional male model. I like to think of myself like that. I'm sorry, I forgot that part. Okay. This is a method to the medicine. Speaker 3:KLX Berkeley 90.7 [00:09:00] FM. I'm your host deleon Huizar and so George, you got this crazy idea that you could do this for a living. Now I have a question. First of all, you've talked a lot about different sports. Is there a different tactics that you use in different sports? Actually not really. I act like a fe and wants to react. That's why I'm successful when I go into a game. Well maybe it wasn't that 45 and nothing Kansas City chiefs game that I've did [00:09:30] first, but I do the as many fan cheers as the fans want and I react like a fan wants to. I just stand up. The secret is I stand up, I turn around, I look at the feds, they look down and say, Hey, must be our leader. Cause I'm looking at them and said in the field, well you also have a loud drum that helps. Speaker 3:Well, I don't want to admit it, but 90% of my success is my drum. Don't give away all the secrets right here is the secret. Actually, without the drum getting people's [00:10:00] attention, I would have never been affected. That's my, my secret. I hit that drum. Everybody looks down at me. I wait for the action to die down so I can make them do what I want to do. They understand what I want to do. I get totally attention. I wait for the moment when the cheer should be done. I do that. Your everybody reacts. How do you get, I get like 99% reaction from the fans. So, um, you, you say that the, it's really, it sounds like it's like, um, you're locked into kind of like a vibe with [00:10:30] the fans. It's like it doesn't matter what the sport is, you're kind of playing back for them. Speaker 3:What they want to do. Right. And every sport is pretty similar except for the basketball. It's a tough sport for me to work because the action never stops. It's just up and down up there and they score like every 20 seconds. So with every 20 seconds, if I had to do a cheer, I would die at the end of the game. So basketball's a little tough for me to work. But all the other sports, they are just great. There's a lot of stoppage of the action, [00:11:00] you know, the, in the huddles, whatever they're doing, baseball, they're warming up. It's just great. So I can get in the cheers I need to get in. So what about um, the cheers themselves or is it more, are you like a like, um, you know, a improvisational master of just coming to you or do you come and prepare? Speaker 3:Like you have some cheers you're going to do no matter what? No matter what, I never practice. I never think about it. That was great. From the time I started that first game at San Jose State [00:11:30] with my drum and that my partner handed me. It was just a natural sense, I think. I don't know why I had it. I'm a fan, I guess, of sports, but you know, I just knew when to cheer, when not to cheer, what type of chairs, and I just made 'em up, never think about him. I'm watching the game. I'm thinking about the game. I'm looking at the action. I go, what type of shirt do we need here? And it just comes to me. I do the, it's always the right chair. It's always appropriate, never off colored. I've never done it off cover cheering my life. And, and [00:12:00] another secret why I'm successful is most of these other people that have come along and that in the later years, they get to these outlandish outfits. Speaker 3:They look like they're from Mars sometimes. Well, people don't want to cheer from a guy from Mars. They want to cheer. For me, a human know who that guy, he looks human and not, well maybe not quite human, but close. So they go, oh Geez, George is one of us. And He, they see me sweating. They, they see I'm working harder than the players, man. I get comments from the [00:12:30] fans the third quarter they'll go, George, you're working harder than the players. You're sweating. I sweat so much during the game. So I do see like the Jean shorts seem to be the signature look for you. Is that, is that like a, it had a signature is my signature and I had my Levi shorts on for the last 50 years. I think cheering, always wear the same old raggedy cutoff shorts. Yup. Nice. Okay. Speaker 3:So, um, let's talk about, you know, this [00:13:00] show's about innovation and of course being the first full time mail filtering cheerleader in the world is innovation enough, but you also created maybe the signature crowd move. Now I know it's a linear contention. We don't have to go there, but I'm going to accredit it to you. You, yes, I have it accredited by s, what is it called? New York Times credited me when they credited the paper of record is accredited. Crazy George the way ESPN. ESPN. So the wave [00:13:30] you invented, the way that I invented, the way I gotta die, the way my boat I invented at the Oakland A's, New York Yankee playoff game, October 15th, 1981. When Billy Martin was the manager, I literally bought the building longer. So you were there as a playoff game. People were excited. A's Yankees. Now, how'd you, how'd you come up with this idea of coordinating these like 50,000 people in the stadium? Speaker 3:There was 47,000 fans [00:14:00] and unfortunately for the other places that I actually was doing a pre wave, I was doing waves at other places. Fine. Fortunately there were smaller practice with national TV. There wasn't a lot of witnesses, so I don't, I really could take credit even earlier than that. But the Oakland A's game, I have it on video three separate times. Billy Martin was here, but Joe Garagiola was the Nancy announcer who's famous announcer and he, uh, he had testifies that was the first and best [00:14:30] wave he's at, he's ever, ever saw. So that's why I say that's the day I invented. But it took a process of about four years starting with a three section shear of San Jose state. Okay. Each section of the student body would stand up and just sell San Jose state. And from that idea, as as the years went by as a professional cheerleader, I had a lot of opportunity to do these three section chairs at different places, changing the name. Speaker 3:And finally I got to the Colorado Rockies [00:15:00] and I had to go Rockies, go chair three sections and it was looking good and a section over there wanting to get involved a little. So I tried to do go Rockies, go Rockies four sections and the first section wanted to do it and it kept going a little bit. And from there I said, well it's too complicated going, go Rockies go. So I just say stand up and yell, go. Yeah. So back then I was thinking of it more like the goat share, but they just go, go in. And when I started that and went all the way around the [00:15:30] Colorado Rockies arena, and so that really was about as close as to a wavy she'd get. Unfortunately. And it was, they loved it. But the Colorado Rockies only drew about 5,000 people in a 15,000 seat arena. Speaker 3:So it was very few opportunities to do it in. It was never televised. I never had it on video. So that's the idea of where it started. But the color from there I came, I brought it back and started to Oakland. That's the day I invented. [00:16:00] So at the A's game, um, how hard was it to communicate to the fans? Cause you now everybody knows how to do away. That's right. How did, how did you like telepathically tell 47,000 people to stand up at the right times? A lot of coordination involved in a wave. Yes. See, I know the power of booing. Okay. So I went to three sections and got them organized and by then I'd already been doing the wave at high school rallies. What was continuous, they didn't have, they didn't have aisles, so I had to just [00:16:30] do it continuously. So I knew what I wanted. Speaker 3:So I went to these three second, I said, well you guys stand up. And as they, as it comes around the next day, I want you to stand up. Then I went to the next section. I was screaming and yelling and then I went back to them and said, they understand what you're going to do. You stand up. Then you guys stand up. Then you guys, while I'm yelling so loud at him and I'm preparing this and this all started like in the fourth inning, but I hadn't started yet, but I told him what I wanted, but then I said, when we start this people down there, [00:17:00] we'll not know what they're supposed to do or even see it coming so when it dies and it will die, boom. And so they are already, and I waited for a break of the action and you had to wait for a foul ball or something to give a couple of, you know, 30 40 seconds of break. Speaker 3:So it came and I don't know what the break of action was, but I got the three sessions going, I they started, it would've been since I was yelling so loud at these three to get them organized. I'd say the next four or five could hear me and they sort of got [00:17:30] the idea what they wanted to do. So I started, went about seven, eight sections and died right out. And I had my three or four sections blue and it was a great bu I started a second time. This time it went all the way around. I started way out in the left field and I started it. It came around and went all the way to behind home plate and died again. Now everybody booed and this was a great book. Now everybody in the state have figured out, [00:18:00] oh, we see what he wants. Speaker 3:Started the third time. And it just started rolling and all three decks did it. It was marvelous. They kept coming around with all the way to the outfield all the way back, gets back to upstanding. Everybody in the three sections stands up in unison and applauds. And I'm going, no, you don't get some times to this. It's supposed to gave going. So I started the fourth time, all three deck scape and when it came by, my section [00:18:30] was like a locomotive. I mean it just ripped on by kept long going, went around about seven, eight times. Cloud Whitten nuts. Joe Garagiola was up there and the booth going crazy. Get that on video, that thing. And they didn't know how to film with all the cameraman. The first couple of shots you see the wave all you see as a couple of people, the far right of the screen sort of sitting down. Speaker 3:Everybody else is just sitting cause they're behind it. But they finally got a good shot of it. Nice. [00:19:00] So we're the, we're talking to crazy George here on Kale expert cleans method to the madness. I'm murals telling Huizar and he's telling us about how he invented the wave as the first glorious appearance of the wave on this planet. And now it's pretty much all. Everybody does it everywhere. Oh, everywhere. Everything. Everywhere is the world and the world calls it the Mexican wave. What? Yes, the whole world. It's not the crazy wave. And I have a Seattle trying to claim it, but they did it two weeks. They don't. I finally have them shutting up most of the time, but it's hard to take on [00:19:30] the world. But it went down to the World Cup in an 86 a Mexico had it and they'd already seen the wave up here. Speaker 3:They took it down and they were doing it. All the venues in Mexico for the World Cup game, the whole world saw it. Now the whole world calls it the Mexican wave. So in the A's game, what did the players do as a playoff game? Was like a really high pressure game and all of a sudden the crowd goes nuts. Been for nothing on the field today. Did, was there any comments afterwards? Oh, I mean, the fans loved it. I mean, I, I think I've had 50,000 [00:20:00] fans come at me. Say they were there when it was only 47,000 week. Oh, I was there George. And we saw it. It was the greatest thing. Cool. Well, um, that's like your probably your signature cheer. Like [inaudible]. Everybody knows it, but it's not my signature cheer for when I know I've had the fans in my hand and I know I've succeeded. Speaker 3:That's my back and forth cheer across the stadium with I do KC if it's Kansas City and [00:20:30] I the first, the first Houston oil game I ever did, but Adams hired me because he saw how great I was in Kansas City and he said, George, he says, how long is it going to take you to get Houston Oilers back and forth the game? How many games? And I said, I'll do it the first game. No. And then he says, he says, well, I'm going to get a microphone for you so you can tell everybody. I said, I don't use a microphone. How's it asked you? Have you used a bullhorn or anything? No, not until the last couple of years. [00:21:00] I use a Mike some of the time up till like five years. I never used a microphone. Just your disappear, my voice. But then I says, he said, oh, the advertise you. Speaker 3:I want to advertise. Everybody knows you're here. And I said, no, I don't need advertising. I'll come in unknown. I don't want any microphone. Why? What, how? What do you think about it that way? What? Well, you don't want any help. What does it more way? No, it's, it's, maybe I'm a coward because I don't want the burden of everybody expecting something from me and [00:21:30] I just go in and they really, they don't know who I am. They're just sitting there and all at once, or is this crazy guy in this thing? There's a crazy psi in the next session and an hour later I've hit 40 sections and everybody's going, who is this guy? And they're not thinking about following me yet. Maybe for the first 2040 minutes I'm getting each little section cheering, but every, every section I do, I get a chair. The next section I get allowed to cheer. Speaker 3:Next session allowed a chair next to the point where I can now tie in four or five [00:22:00] sections to a really loud share for the third of the place. And I keep getting work in every section everywhere. So I'm up close and personal. I'm threatening their lives and then it gets to the point, I tell one side, I'm going to the other side and I'm going to yell, Kay, what do you think you're supposed to say? And I, and about 20 minutes later on the other side of the Sam setting up, we're yellingK , but of course not that many people on the c sides ready to go. But once I do, theK is [00:22:30] so loud and then like pointed the other side, I'm waiting, it doesn't come back very loud. The boom comes here and they all boom. When the next one I do k when I point to that, see it's twice as loud as the k and they go nuts over. Speaker 3:But once it starts, it just adds energy to each side. They want to outdo each other's competition in the stands and then I know the team is going to bring me back. All right. So that's, that's the victory you've got. Um, [00:23:00] the wave is the signature thing, but it's really the call and response when you feel like you really oh yeah. Once I rated that back and forth share across the state, they've never, nobody's ever, ever even saw something like that ever. I mean, and now they're seeing this huge, massive response from all the fans and the owner of the team usually comes up after the game says, Oh, want to hire you? Well, let me ask you about, that's like the height. What about like as a professional cheerleader, you've probably had some lows. Like what was, can you give us a story of [00:23:30] you tried something you thought it was like the greatest idea ever? Speaker 3:I know. Just like you couldn't get them to do it and nope. Nope. Never happened. Really. I, I've had one out of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of games I've done, uh, over a teams, well over a hundred teams, but some of the teams I've done 50, 60 times. So I don't know what that multiplies out to, but I have been lots of games. I just never added them up. But I did add up. I've appeared in front of 25 million [00:24:00] fans in front of them. Wow. Out on TV. So it's been a bit more TV. I mean, you've been to playoff games and lots of people have seen you. Right? Wait, I lost track. What was I answering? A quick question. Was I answering well, you said I stumped you. I asked you, have you ever flopped to say, oh well I did have one bad experience and w I still want to kill the group. Speaker 3:It was a, I don't know what the team was. It was a football team and they're bringing me in. I'm going in the same way. I always go in on announce unknown, no microphone. [00:24:30] And some PR guy comes up to me before the game says, you know what, we get George, we've got a big ad campaign going and we're gonna have 12 lookalikes like you carry in drums and then we're going to give them a ward. Who's the, who's the best crazy George. So they got 12 guys looking like me running around and nobody's ever, ever saw me work to start with. I've never been there and I could have killed this guy. Bad idea. It was a terrible idea. And I at the end of the game, [00:25:00] the only solace I have is a, say they awarded some guy, you know, the prize for being the best crazy George look like. Speaker 3:And I had like 10 people standing by me when they awarded. They said, Whoa, crazy George, you're better than them. Why didn't you, you should have got the award. They were pathetic. They were great and I wasn't great. That was so much distraction. That was me. A failure. You're, you know, you're an artist. You can't, they shouldn't be trying to mess with your process. But that was one game out of thousands I've done. Okay, well let me ask a [00:25:30] different question. What's the most dangerous cheer you done? I was looking at some videos of you like balancing and like have you, seems like you're pushing the envelope a little bit. Is there any anyone that's a dangerous thing that got dangerous was my entrances. I made a lot of entrances when I got with the San Jose earthquakes. Um, I started doing, uh, working with Dick Berg, the general manager. Speaker 3:He says, well, want you to bring the ball in the first game? Our opening game in 74 so he had me come, coming in, the ambulance hitting in the back and the whole, the whole crowd [00:26:00] went dead silent years. This ambulance coming in, pulls up in front of the player's bench. They think some player, it died. It's the first day and they didn't know what was going on. They pull a Gurney out, I'm under the blanket. I pull it off and they go nuts. And that's how the game started. Then I had to topic, yeah, every game on a helicopter. One day it's a copter was fun and I'd belt the buckle, but I'd stand on the outside rail. But it was like us standing out you that I came in and Ferrari's. I came in, I came in with a lie and now this is why it gets [00:26:30] absurd. Speaker 3:I came in with a full grown for 150 pound lion and the trainer we get to, we'd get the center field that trainer trips a lion attacks him. No, this, she has life long friends. There are earthquakes. No, no. This was in Dallas, that Dallas Tornado, and now underneath the line he is bleeding. He's getting mauled. I'm 10 feet from an old in my drum and I, when I was with the lion trainer, he told me, never, ever hit your drum around [00:27:00] the lion. I said, good advice. Well, now he's underneath me, underneath the lion and out from underneath that line, I hear the stupidest comment I ever heard. He yells, damn off me. He can't be talking to me. I thought, and I look around the only other guy on the field, and then he had the gall to say it again, get him off me. Speaker 3:Well, what could I do? I took my drum and I went and the lion stopped eating him to try to eat you. This spun right [00:27:30] around and looked at me. I did not like this, but I had to do psych. I don't know if I had to do it, but I hit it when it took like four or five seconds. And by the end the other lion trainer that was off the saw what was happening and by the time that all happened he had already come to the seat and grabbed the other line and helped the guy off and he had to go to the hospital cause he was bleeding well. So you're also, we'll add that to the resume line line trainer nine Tamer. I was a very good line train for four seconds. All right, so [00:28:00] we're talking to crazy George here on KLX Berkeley. Speaker 3:You've got a couple more minutes. So we talked about the earthquakes. So it's coming full circle. You're starting the New Year of Christening the new stadium, right? What's going on with a lot of things going? Yes. I'm Chris sitting in the new stadium on March 22nd that's their first game at home. We're going to christen that. I'm going to be the Grand Marshall of the Rose White and blue parade in San Jose with 35,000 people on the 4th of July. Nice. Yeah, they asked me to be the Grand Marshall. [00:28:30] I'm an, I'm practicing my queen wave and I've been doing corporate meetings. I've been, and my gut, my book, God, you got to talk about my book. So how did this book come about? Oh, my book, my book is called Crazy George. Still crazy after all these cheers and all the fans, just Kevin asking me to write it. And then I did have a controversy with the Seattle about the wave and I wanted to document that in the book. Speaker 3:So I documented that. And then also from writing the book, I found [00:29:00] out I was a huge factor in the 12th man factor for the Santos, for the NFL Seahawks ball for the Seahawks. So I had that strand. But yeah, I, I've loved the book. I took it. I, in fact, I don't know if I'm prejudice, but I think it's maybe the greatest sports book ever written. It could be. It's likely excellent cover. I have it in my hands here. And thankfully, you know, you've cheered for a lot of teens, but you kept it real with the A's or that's who you're representing on the cover. So thank you. [inaudible] [00:29:30] because I invented their wave there and a lot of the articles are about the wave where a lot of book is about the waivers. And so I thought that was very appropriate. I had the greatest time with the A's, the Haas family. Speaker 3:Kepi just treated me great. It was fabulous. So it's called crazy George, the inventor of the wave still crazy after all these cheers. Can you find it on Amazon or something like that? That's on Amazon and it's on a kindle and it's on my website. Crazy. george.com and if you don't look at my website, I'll slash your tires. Yeah. [00:30:00] So there you have a threat from one and only crazy George. It starts with a k. That's how you spell a z. Y. That's right. She's never been a teacher. Yeah. Well you're a shop teacher, so, right. So crazy. george.com yes, that's my website. And then it just like it in the book. I have a lot of pictures on it. Yeah. And lots of pictures. There's videos, there's some really great stuff up there. And so I really wanna thank you for coming in today. Speaker 3:Crazy. George was great to meet you and hear the stories about your 40 plus years of being [00:30:30] the world's only full time professional cheerleader. I like that they got myself professional male model and professional [inaudible] and nominee from people's sexiest man alive, self nominated. And um, that's all the time we have for today. Um, and it's going to be the 35th anniversary. Actually, just a mention of the wave being created this next summer. You can go to the ace and love to go to the ace 35th anniversary. So Mr. Wolf, if you're here, [00:31:00] if you're listening to this, let's get on that. Get Crazy George out to the Colosseum and you are listening to methods of madness on KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM. Thanks again for coming in and crazy Jordan. 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