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Assim como todo grupo da YG, nós sempre temos nossas ressalvas com os lançamentos do Bobby e do iKON, mas acontece que o trabalho solo mais recente do Bobby que é o álbum Lucky Man e o single Why Why Why do iKON simplesmente salvaram nossas vidas. Gostamos muito de pagar a língua, e agora estamos aqui olhando para o teclado sem saber o que dizer, só sentir e… Tem muitos sentimentos, viu. [why why why bass boosted tocando ao fundo] Compre na Mooncrafts Store e ajude a manter o KPT podcast! https://shopee.com.br/mooncraftsstore NENHUMA QUEBRA DE DIREITOS É INTENCIONAL FICHA TÉCNICA Gravado no Discord Edição: By Revisão: Cambs Capa: Bobby Abertura: Why Why Why - iKON Encerramento: U MAD - Bobby LINKS https://kpoptoppodcast.whosthanny.com/ https://twitter.com/kpoptop_wt https://www.instagram.com/kpoptop.wt/ https://www.getrevue.co/profile/kpoptop_wt Cambs - https://twitter.com/Gabi_Cambi By - https://twitter.com/greenmead0w Sam - https://twitter.com/akaoperaghost --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kpop-top/message

Get ready? Podcast! Welcome to KONY's Podcast. Hosted by Paw (Twitter: @ikonpicfics) and Dane (Twitter: @ikonfastfiction). SHOW NOTES | Episode 22 - Of KONbacks and RevelaKONs In which: - The universe answers another one of our wish: iKON group comeback; - We share our reaction about iKON's lightstick-waving worthy first Kingdom: Legendary War stage (in February); - Why Why Why every iKONIC shouldn't miss this comeback; - We notice parallelisms between iKON and SHINee (no, we're not just saying this because we're both Shawols and iKONICs); - Dane makes a hard swerve to a different lane; - Paw makes a juicy MVP revelation; - Leader-nim drops a 131 surprise! Episode Edited by: PD-nim (who must not be named... Twitter: @faNUTic) KONY's Logo Artwork: Dane

This week the Queens Kick Back with WayV. Listen as Emily and Charity breakdown their latest comeback including the single, music video, EP, styling choices, bias chat and Wayvision. Plus iKON's new single, BTS's Road to the Grammys, Hyunjin's hiatus, Spotify/Kakao updates, poll results, k-pop news, a fun quiz and more! Quiz: https://www.buzzfeed.com/marutopia/plan-your-ideal-day-and-well-tell-you-which-wayv-2cv1frh70tPlaylist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dvEzGmyyc7TlUvcXVdGbc?si=6a4f47d3df254045

This week we Get Away with Verivery, ask Why Why Why with iKON and ponder Why Don't We with Rain feat. Chungha. For news we discuss the hype monster that is Brave Girls Rollin and work our way through some big moves made by big players in the world of Kpop. Lastly, in State of the Nation the Crew has an ideal world cup to determine the best Twice title track! Links ◆Email - sojutalkpodcast@gmail.com ◆Discord - discord.gg/3rb74x4 ◆Patreon - patreon.com/sojutalk

모닝베댓 ▶코로나19 속 초등학교 등교수업 시작 코로나19 확산 2년 차로 접어든 가운데, 올해는 지난해와 달리 개학 연기 없이 정상적으로 새 학기가 시작됐다. 코로나19가 종식되지는 않았지만, 비대면 방식과 방역 수칙에 적응해가며 학교도 예전의 일상을 천천히 되찾아가고 있는 상황! 다만, 초등학교 1~2학년은 매일 학교에 나가지만 나머지 학년의 경우 등교수업과 원격수업을 병행해야 한다. 설렘 속에서 시작된 새 학기. 하지만 우려의 목소리도 여전하기만 한데. 그렇다면 학교는 코로나19 방역 대책을 어떻게 세우고 있을까? 코로나19로부터 학생들을 보호하기 위해 학생들과 교직원들은 등교 전에 어플을 통해 등교 가능 여부를 확인해야 하며, 밀집도를 낮추기 위해 학년별 식사 시간을 달리하는 방법 등 방역에 철저하게 신경 쓰고 있다. 코로나19 속 시작된 초등학교의 등교수업 현장을 에서 찾아가 본다. ▶요양병원 재단 가족 백신 새치기 지난 2월 26일부터 코로나19 백신 접종이 시작된 가운데 경기도 동두천의 한 요양병원에서 백신 새치기 사건이 발생 했다. 요양병원의 경우, 코로나19 예방접종 대상자는 입원 환자와 종사자. 그런데 이와 관련 없는 해당 요양병원 재단 운영진 가족이 접종했다는 의혹이 제기된 것이다. 방역 당국에서는 해당 요양병원의 백신 위탁계약 해지부터 형사고발까지 강력한 제재수단을 검토 중인 상황. 백신 접종 대상자가 아닌 사람이 어떻게 백신을 맞을 수 있었던 것인지, 현 백신접종 진행 과정에 문제는 없는지 에서 취재해봤다. 대한민국 긴급상황 ▶폭설에 고립차량 구출한 사륜 오토바이 지난 1일, 강원도 지역에 내린 때아닌 폭설에 승용차 열 대가 그대로 갇히고 말았다. 제설차도, 견인차도 들어올 수 없는 도로 위, 물도 먹을 것도 없이 8시간이 넘게 갇혀있던 사람들에게 슈퍼맨이 등장했다! 사륜 오토바이를 타고 등장한 이들은 눈에 갇혀 있던 차량에 능숙하게 줄을 연결하더니 차량들을 구출하기 시작했는데. 눈 속에 갇혀 있던 승용차 열 대를 모두 꺼내는데 성공! 이후, 홀연히 사라졌다. 슈퍼맨처럼 등장한 이들의 정체를 알아본다. ▶회식하다 화재 진압한 이들의 정체는? 인천의 한 열쇠가게 앞을 지나던 남성. 검은 연기가 피어오르는 것을 보더니, 옆 건물 소화전에서 호스를 꺼내와 가게의 화재를 진압하기 시작한다. 이어서 등장한 다섯 명의 사람들까지 가게 앞을 지키며 함께 불을 끄는 데에 동참하기 시작하는데. 그러나 쉽사리 잡히지 않는 불길. 옆 건물에까지 옮겨 붙기 시작한다. 커지는 불길에도 도망치기는커녕, 옆 건물 4층으로 올라가 창문을 깨고 호스로 물을 뿌리기 시작하는 이들! 신고를 받고 출동한 소방관이 온 이후에도 손에서 호스를 놓지 않으며 화재 진압을 돕는데. 방호복도 없이 화재 현장에 뛰어든 이들의 정체는 누구일까? 급박했던 당시 현장을 확인해본다. 코로나19 세계는 ▶그린 패스 도입하며 백신 속도전, 이스라엘 인구 930만 명의 이스라엘은 벌써 인구의 절반 이상이 코로나19 백신을 한 번 이상 접종을 받아 전 세계 접종률 1위를 기록하고 있다. 인구의 3분의 1 이상은 두 차례의 백신 접종을 모두 마쳤고, 이들은 ‘그린 패스'를 발급받아 체육관, 수영장, 호텔 등을 자유롭게 이용할 수 있다는데. 이스라엘은 오는 4월 완전한 봉쇄해제를 목표로 백신 접종 진행에 더욱 박차를 가하는 한편, 미사용 모더나 백신으로 ‘백신 외교'에도 나섰다. 그러나 아직 일일 평균 3,600명 대의 신규 확진자를 기록하는 등 코로나19 재확산 조짐을 보이고 있어서 안심할 수는 없는 상황. (3월 2일 기준 일일 확진자 5,260명) 게다가 작년 코로나19 1차 확산세의 계기가 되었던 부림절을 다시 맞아 방역 당국은 더욱 긴장하고 있다고. 이스라엘은 백신으로 코로나19를 완전히 극복할 수 있을까? 두 차례의 백신 접종을 모두 마친 예루살렘의 교민을 통해 이스라엘의 현지 상황을 알아본다. ▶백신 외교전 펼치는 중국, 접종 상황은? 춘절 전까지 5천만 명에게 코로나19 백신을 접종할 것이라 장담했던 중국, 그러나 실제 결과는 3,100만 명, 목표치를 달성하기엔 접종 속도가 다소 느린 상황이다. 백신 부작용에 대한 우려 때문인지 의료진의 42%만 접종 의향을 밝히는 등 백신을 맞겠다는 사람들이 예상보다 적은 것이다. 지난 달 봉쇄조치로 확산세를 차단한 중국은 다시 본토 확진자 0명을 기록하며 일상을 되찾았다는데. 그래서인지 백신 상태를 지켜보며, 접종을 서두르지 않고 있는 사람들도 많은 상황이라고. 이에 중국의 핵심 방역 책임자인 중난산 공정원 원사는 총 4종의 자국 백신을 기반으로 6월까지 전체 인구 40%에 대해 백신 접종을 마치겠다는 새로운 계획을 밝혔다. 백신과 봉쇄 조치로 코로나19와 싸우며 1년 후 베이징 동계 올림픽 준비에 박차를 가하고 있는 중국. 교민을 통해 현재 상황을 알아본다. ▶독일, 아스트라제네카 백신 두고 시끌 코로나19 확진자 급증으로 강력한 봉쇄령을 내렸던 독일은 “3차 대유행이 왔다”며 긴장감을 늦추지 않는 모양새다. 코로나19 셀프진단 검사를 허가하며 확진자 파악에도 박차를 가하고 있지만, 신규 확진자 중 변이 바이러스 감염률이 50%에 달해 봉쇄 조치를 3월 말까지 연장했다. 오랫동안 지속된 코로나19 위기를 해결할 희망은 백신이지만, 백신 접종률은 4.6%로 아직 현저히 낮기만 하다. 아스트라제네카 백신 효과에 대한 의구심이 높고, 메르켈 총리마저도 나이를 이유로 들며 접종하지 않겠다고 한 상황. 때문에 아스트라제네카 백신은 16.5%만 접종이 이뤄지고 나머지는 방치되고 있다고. 독일의 한 면역학 전문가는 65세 이상 고령층에게도 아스트라제네카 백신을 허용해야 한다며 접종을 촉구하고 나섰고, 우선 접종 순위를 완화해 모든 희망자에게 백신 접종을 서두르라는 목소리도 높아지고 있다. 과연 독일은 원활히 백신 접종을 이어갈 수 있을지. 교민을 통해 백신을 둘러싼 현지 분위기를 알아본다. 납세의 권리 ▶집 사려고 돈 빌렸더니 세금 폭탄? 부동산 시장을 안정시키겠다는 정부의 지속적인 부동산 정책 발표 후, 오히려 집값 상승 폭이 사상 최대를 기록했다. 아파트값은 끊임없이 고공행진하고, 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 전세난까지 겹치자 집값이 더 오르기 전 집을 사려는 2030들이 늘어났다. 일명 영끌(영혼까지 끌어모음), 빚투(빚내서 투자)라는 신조어까지 만들어내며 집을 사는 이들이 늘어난 바로 지금 이 시기! 함께 떠오르는 세금 문제가 뜨거운 화두로 떠오르고 있다. 취직과 함께 서울로 상경한 한 남성은 부모님에게 2억 원을 빌려 전세보증금을 해결했다. 나중에 계약 만료 시기에 2억 원을 다시 그대로 돌려주기로 약속까지 했는데. 갑자기 날아온 세금 폭탄! 부모와 자식 간 돈을 빌릴 때, 그것이 ‘차용'인지 ‘증여'인지 입증하지 못하면 꼼짝없이 증여세를 내야 한다는 것이다. 부동산은 천정부지로 오르고 대출이나 차용 없이는 집을 매매하거나 전세를 구할 수도 없는 지금 이 시기. 세금 폭탄을 피하고 적법하게 대응할 수 있는 방법은 무엇이 있을지, 에서 알아본다. 연예뉴스 ▶배우 지수 학폭 의혹 논란 배우 지수가 학폭 의혹에 휩싸였다. 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 지수가 학창시절 일진 무리에 포함돼 악행을 저질렀다는 주장이 제기됐다. 폭력, 폭언은 기본이었고 물건까지 수시로 빼앗았다고 주장해 충격을 줬다. 이후 해당 글에는 자신도 똑같은 일을 겪었다는 댓글이 계속해서 이어져 논란이 확산되고 있다. 논란이 커지자 소속사 측은 사실확인을 위해 최선을 다하겠다면서 제보를 받고 왜곡 없이 사실 그대로 취합하겠다는 입장을 밝혔다. 현재 지수가 출연 중인 드라마 게시판에는 그의 하차를 요구하는 게시물이 잇따라 올라오고 있다. ▶가요계 男風 분다, 비&아이콘 컴백 가수 비와 아이콘이 컴백했다. 먼저 깡 열풍을 일으킨 비는 미니앨범 ‘PIECES by RAIN'를 발매했다. 타이틀곡 ‘WHY DON'T WE'은 청하와의 컬래버로 시너지를 폭발시켰다. 대한민국 대표 춤꾼이라고 할 수 있는 두 사람이 만나 파워 넘치는 완벽한 퍼포먼스를 선보였다. 또한 국민송이라 불린 '사랑을 했다'를 부른 아이돌그룹 아이콘도 1년 만에 새 앨범으로 컴백했다. 타이틀곡 ‘왜왜왜 (Why Why Why)'는 아이콘의 섬세한 보컬과 한층 깊어진 감정 표현이 돋보이는 사랑 노래로, 또 한번의 국민송을 탄생시킬 수 있을지 관심이 모아진다. 닥터스 시크릿 ▶예고 없이 찾아오는 혈관 질환 평소 등산을 좋아하며, 자전거를 즐기는 김준섭(40) 씨. 작년 9월, 갑작스럽게 가슴을 바늘로 찌르는 듯한 통증이 느껴져 병원을 찾았다고 한다. 검사 결과는 협심증과 고지혈증! 혈관 건강에 적신호가 켜진 것이다. 심해질 경우 심근경색으로 사망에 이를 수도 있는 위험한 상황. 준섭 씨의 혈관 건강을 위한 닥터의 시크릿을 공개한다. 한편, 10년 전 협심증 진단을 받았던 심소연(55) 씨. 갑자기 가슴 통증과 현기증을 느끼며 그대로 쓰러지고 말았는데! 곧이어 손이 차가워지며 마비까지 왔다고 한다. 검사 결과, 협심증으로 혈관이 거의 막힌 상태. 진단 이후, 소연 씨는 생활습관을 바꿔가며 혈관 건강에 힘쓰기 시작했다. 그 결과, 1년 반 만에 약을 끊을 정도로 다시 건강을 되찾았다는데. 혈관 건강을 되찾은 비법이 무엇인지 알아본다.

This week alone there was the roll out of Kit Kat thins, Butterfinger peanut butter and now Pink Candy Flavored Kraft Mac and Cheese. Why? Why Why Why? Remember when Coke tried "New" Coke? Why keep experimenting? Because it creates a buzz and generates new $$$$$. Period.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's dinner time at Nasty Nick's house and there's a politely sneezing architect at the main table... We know you'll find that hard to believe. "A lowly architect eating his dinner at the MAIN TABLE, WHY WHY WHY?!" We're just as repulsed and sickened as you are. Tune in this week to find out who's the biggest powder monkey and what's so special about this awful architect. ///tolstoy@wapin7.com - Email us or send us something!wapin7.com/rate

Prof. Khashu is a clinical leader reimagining healthcare, based out of UK and active in the silicon valley investor and startup circle. In part-1 of the podcast he focused on 3Ps (Product-People-Process) and Why-Why-Why approach to product development and also the importance of customer-centric innovation in healthcare. In the current segment, Prof. Khashu explores the future of digital health, provides guidelines on meaningful data sharing, the importance of doctor-patient bonding and eliminating middlemen in the digital transformation of healthcare workflows and a lot more exciting frontiers in healthcare. He hints at data as the next frontier in healthcare innovation and also talks about acceleration of tele-health during COVID19 scenario. Prof. Minesh Khashu focuses on system-wide transformation, and continuous Quality Improvement and Patient-Centred Care. He has experience of clinical management and leadership at hospital, regional and national level including strategic change, system redesign, large scale quality improvement and development of national guidance and multi stakeholder collaboration, and has been a strong voice for improving the conditions healthcare frontline worker addressing the COVID19 pandemic needs. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minesh-kh... Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkrettiwt

BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep269: COVID-19 Edition 46! Twice A Week Meeks and Twice A Week Doe are back to wash your election & COVID sorrows away, Vangardians. Heaps of new joints in our Ep269 mix this week as everyone is emptying their respective clips before the year is out. Our interview session this week is brought to you by ZILLA ROCCA & CHONG WIZARD, who have a killer project out now called MIDNIGHT SONS. We world premiered a few joints last week in Ep269, we’ve got a few more here in Ep269 and you can hear all about the album and more on our Thursday interview session. Our good friend D.R.U.G.S. BEATS also sent thru a brand new batch of beats, so you get some WORLD EXCLUSIVE goodness there during the talk breaks - rappers get your little monies ready if you want to cop a few, ‘cause they ain’t free! So, good people - don’t fret, don’t stress, don’t struggle, and certainly don’t worry your pretty little head now, just press play and enjoy what is always that #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on #applepodcasts #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud #youtube // #hiphop #rap #undergroundhiphop #boombap #DJ #mixshow #interview #podcast #ATL #WORLDWIDE #RIPCOMBATJACK Recorded live November 1, 2020 @ Dirty Blanket Studios, Marietta, GA southernvangard.com @southernvangard on #applepodcasts #soundcloud #youtube #spotifypodcast #googlepodcasts #stitcherradio #mixcloud #SmithsonianGrade #TwiceAWeek #WeAreTheGard twitter/IG: @southernvangard @jondoeatl @cappuccinomeeks Talk Break Inst - "Untitled" - D.R.U.G.S. Beats ** WORLD EXCLUSIVE **"Killadelphia" - Zilla Rocca & Chong Wizard ft. Malik B "Marc Spector's Theme" - Zilla Rocca & Chong Wizard "Look The Other Way" - Zilla Rocca & Chong Wizard "EYEZ" - Raw Wattage ft. Ras Kass (prod. Large Professor) "Chrissy Snow" - Ill Bill ft. Kool G Rap (prod. Stu Bangas) "True Indeed" - Busta Rhymes (prod. DJ Premier) "Why Why Why" - Terror Van Poo ft. Queen Herawin & DJ Jon Doe (prod. Vinny Idol) Talk Break Inst - "Untitled" - D.R.U.G.S. Beats ** WORLD EXCLUSIVE **"Remove 45" - De La Soul feat. Styles P, Talib Kweli, Pharoah Monch, Mysonne, Chuck D (prod. Supa Dave West) "Say Peace" - Common ft. Black Thought (prod. Karriem Riggins) "Thai Food" - Dynas ft. DJ Jazzy Jeff "Dinner Served" - Dug Boogie ft. Dynas "Just Wanna Live II" - Rashid Hadee ft. Skyzoo (prod. Nottz) "This is My Calling" - Dumi Right ft. Nathaniel Star (prod. Seoul City) "Water On The Brain - Junclassic "700" - Lo.Ceasar (YL & Starker) (prod. Jack) Talk Break Inst - "Untitled" - D.R.U.G.S. Beats ** WORLD EXCLUSIVE ** "Brigante & Delgado - Flee Lord & Eto "Don Pedro / Coca Blessings" - UFO Fev & Big Ghost Ltd "The Enforcer" - Sullynomad ft. Born Unique (prod. Vago) "Gun Man" - Jamal Gasol & Nes ft. $auce Heist "No Hook" - Spoda (prod. Martello) "OG NYC" - Rim, Eddie Kaine & iamT2 ft. Bub Rock "Streets Made Me An Offer" - Ty Farris & Bozack Morris "Follow The Drip" - Ray West & A.G. Talk Break Inst - "Untitled" - D.R.U.G.S. Beats ** WORLD EXCLUSIVE **Interview Snippets - Zilla Rocca & Chong Wizard ** FULL INTERVIEW DROPS THURS 11/5 **

Prof. MINESH KHASHU is a clinical leader reimagining healthcare based out of the UK, but also trained in India, Canada and US and is active in the silicon valley investor and startup circle. In this podcast he focuses on 3Ps (Product-People-Process) and Why-Why-Why approach to product development and also the importance of customer-centric innovation in healthcare. He hints at data as the next frontier in healthcare innovation and also talk about acceleration of tele-health during COVID19 scenario. He focuses on system-wide transformation, and Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient-Centred Care.He has a great blog series on reimagining healthcare system in UK- rethinking NHS, check out his blog on rethinking NHS here: https://mineshkhashu.wordpress.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minesh-kh...Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkrettiwtPodcast links:SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/vidyaangi/prof-minesh-khashu-neonatologist-clinical-leader-reimagining-healthcare-during-covd-19-beyondYoutube: https://youtu.be/IcpfN5vVcj0iTunes: coming up..

Bachelor Bob Guiney and High School Musical's "COACH" Bart Johnson join Brooks for WOMEN JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND Bob, Bart, and Brooks break it down to answer EVERYTHING you asked...and we mean EVERYTHING about men. WHY WHY WHY do they do THAT? Find out right here right now. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Last night's all new Whose Line was the bomb! Why Why Why...do you ask? Simply because Chip and Ryan had good bits on Scenes from a Hat, Colin dominated on Hoedown, and Wayne gave birth to what might be one of the best running gags to be featured this season (if not on the show all together). Join me on this week's Whose Line podcast as I highlight these unexpectedly funny moments and so much more, plus keep listening for your thoughts and comments on the show!Remember to catch up on last week's new Whose Line if you missed it:https://www.spreaker.com/user/10204202/whose-line-is-it-anyway-season-16-episod_16Download my Whose Line podcasts on:Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/whose-line-highlightsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57BHyLXbcv309VtN3AwgdAAnd remember to follow me on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/PostmasterRadioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/postmaster_radio/

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The one thing that will always have humans freaking out like level 10 is anything that affects their health.So why WHY WHY WHY do we take it for granted all the time?Oh, I know...We hate ourself.Well they do.I don’t hate myself, but I used to so I know how it looks.And that’s what I see when I look at people from the inside out.Which is what I do.I just can’t help myself.And what I usually see is the layers and the lines that they don’t see, and I see all the low frequencies imprinted in their cells.And I see how that affects their hormones and that affects their organs and their blood flow. And I see how that affects their thoughts and the way they feel and how they show up in the world.And I just feel for them ya know, because I can also see who they really are, when they don’t have those low frequencies in their cells. ...it’s like they are a very different version of themself.Just like I’m a different version of me now. And I’m not saying I’m who I want to be fully and completely, but I’m better than I used to be. But that’s because I've been doing the work to raise my frequency and that’s the only reason I’m alive...Here or in the afterlife, that I'm still unsure of, but that's what the investigation is all about. But I feel like I’m somewhere in heaven that's for sure. And now I know the power my thoughts and feelings and the affect I have on the world. And how powerful I am at creating my own reality. And how powerful I am at creating my own reality. And how powerful I am at creating my own reality. I’m not saying what I did was easy...Not everyone makes it out alive.And you can call it what you like...And you can call it what you likeWe can call it a pandemic.We can call it the war of art.We can call it the dark night of the soul.We can call it breaking the habit of being yourself.We can call it turning pro.Regardless of the label you put on it, it’s really hard to stay grounded. It’s hard to believe it’s for your highest and best.It’s hard to believe that falling apart has value. And it’s hard letting go of what you know. But I know how hard things can get if you don’t...do the work.If you know you're stuck and you ignore the facts. If you keep doing the same things you’ve always done.You'll fall through the cracks. So on that note.I just wanna send out some divine light and love and I want you to know that whatever you’re going through, you’re not alone. You have a huge angel pose that is always there to help you out. And you have your Higher Self, who always knows everything is always working out.Listen to that voice and you’ll be amazed at how glorious life can be in spite of what the news wants you to believe.You just have to be open to receive.Ya, dig?*** Get all the Art Stories at http://www.ArtistSarahLong.com*** Buy her alcohol ink art paintings, at http://www.ArtistSarahLongStore.com.****@ArtistSarahLong on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube

In this episode, Ashton and Jordan discuss one of the most powerful motivators in our lives... OUR WHY. WHY do you do things? WHY do you want things? WHY do you wake up every morning. WHY WHY WHY! They talk about how to leverage your WHY to get the results you want to achieve and also help others reach another level!Message from Jordan:Your “why” should outweigh every excuse you have to NOT live your best life. This concept sounds simple, but it really takes some intentionality of why you want to achieve your goals. Embedded in most people’s minds are years of doubts, fears, and many times, negative thinking. You have to make up in your mind that you are ready to change your way of thinking and will work hard to live the best life you can live. Jordan's Linkswww.jordanmanning.comIG: @jmanninggFB: Train With JayLinks (MMH & Ashton):Website: https://www.themindmusclehustle.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindmusclehustle/Ashtons IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashtonbaalaer/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindmusclehustle/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcCU-5I6BQZg3STbzqUiqjw?view_as=subscriber 

Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We talked about the dangers of SMS texts as well as some new scary technology from China that will change how we fight wars. Keep an eye out for my Facebook Lives - free information for you and your families. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Privacy, Security, and SMS The Road To Machine Learning Wars Nation-State Cybercriminals and Economic Disruption --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, Man. I don't know if you got snow where you live. We ended up with snow here in the northeast, and my kids took a yardstick out and stuck it in the snow. Now, the way you usually measure snow is they melt the snow and see how many inches of water is present. If it had been raining, how much would it be? Well, a local guy here has a weather station, and it came out to 1.7 inches of rainwater or precipitation. And typically, what happens is you take it, and you say one inch of melted precipitation equals one foot of snow. So if they say, Hey, we're going to get, or we had a foot of snow, it doesn't really mean that you had a foot in your yard. You know, it means that well, heck, it could be six inches. It depends on how fluffy that snow is. So we took a yardstick out, and I remember 1.7 inches of rain is what they said here, the guy who lives about two blocks away from me. And what we measured was drumroll, please. We got about 22 inches of snow. Now you can undoubtedly have a band that would account for more snow, you know, we might have had more water, but it's pretty close because that'd be 1.7 feet of snow according to his measurements. So we got a lot of snow out there that wasn't windy or anything, so we didn't get a lot of drafts or blowing snow. But it just came down. It snowed here for about two days. It was so pretty, and it's kind of pretty out there right now is no fun cleaning at all. But thank goodness that kids are still at home, some of them anyway. And they cleaned it up for me. Anyways, this morning. I was on with Ken and Matt, and we had two topics that I think are extremely important. I'm glad they picked these. They have to do with some of the killer technology that China's selling to Iran in case you're not aware of what's happening in Iran right now. You might want to look it up. They are killing protesters in Iran. I mean, like snipers from rooftops and governments shooting them. It's incredible. And SMS man, that's a technology that needs to go so here we go. tech guru Ken Altschuler Our Tech Guru, Craig Peterson, is on right now on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Matt Gagnon Back again at 738 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt Craig Peterson. Our tech guru joins us at this time every week this week is no exception. Craig, welcome back to the program. Craig Peterson Hey, good morning, gentlemen, and everybody else out there. I hope you're having a great day enjoying this snow. Ken Altschuler Well, I saw this story on your website about SMS. No SMS and why you shouldn't use it anymore. Do I? Do I use SMS things? Matt Gagnon Yes, you do. Ken Altschuler Hey, why should I not use texting, right? I mean, just basic text is SMS, right? Craig Peterson Yeah, exactly what it's been around for a long time. Ken Altschuler Why should I use it? Craig Peterson It was quite a stretch for a Segway I'm afraid. Well, here's what's going on. SMS is something that we've been using for a very long time. Now not all the time when you're quote texting, unquote. Are you using SMS, but it started way back when we first had cellular phones, and the phones themselves had to have a little data channel so they could communicate with the towers. And then they realized, you know, there's more bandwidth here than we need. And so they came up with this simple messaging service. So that's what you were sending texts on with that little, what did they use to call that Matt, you might remember, but then you had your phone, all it had on it was a keypad. You'd push you to know the button to three times or to get a C, and then you go to the next one, to get the following letter that there was a standard was called t something or that can't remember what it is now. Anyways, we send about 6 billion SMS messages. That's a lot of messages. They were never the system was never really designed. Keep any of that safe or so. Because of that, we have gotten us, shooters, very cheap. Nowadays. SMS is are free and 6 billion that day tells you a lot of people are using that's us alone, by the way, 180 billion each month and you know, almost 3 trillion a year more than that when you get worldwide. So here's the problem with SMS, which is the short message surface and MMS, which is a multimedia messaging service that is both sent absolutely in the clear. And as we found from Lisa Page and Peter Strock, those messages can be recalled, stored, and easily monitored. There are some new standards out there. And the best measure to use just generally speaking is called OTP, which stands for over the top. Now, if you have an iPhone and oh you do, can you use messages I assume on your iPad. Ken Altschuler Um, no, I don't do the I do texting. But I don't do messaging. I didn't excuse me yesterday. I do texting but not messenger. Matt Gagnon You don't? Excuse me. You texted me yesterday. Ken Altschuler But not on messenger. Craig Peterson So do you use messages? The Apple Messages app on your phone or your Mac? Ken Altschuler Yes, I did. Yes. Craig Peterson And have you noticed there are two different colors, particularly if you send a message to someone? Ken Altschuler Okay, let me check. Here are the messages. Okay. Yeah. One is green, and one's blue? Craig Peterson Exactly. So, for instance, when you text Matt, it's going to be green. Did you notice that? Because you know, he uses a Samsung device. You have to be careful. Ken Altschuler Yes. Why? Why? Why is it green when I text them? Craig Peterson Now, if you were to text me, it would be blue. Here's what's going on. It's warning you in green is the standard for SMS, and that's why Apple uses green. But, if you have sent a message to somebody and it's green and means it's not safe, it's the opposite. It isn't normal. It means that Matt, you and Matt just had shared a standard SMS message. It is not encrypted. The carrier saves it. It is not a safe message. If you're using messages and you send a message to me, for instance, on my iPhone or someone else on their iPhone is going to be blue, which means it was encrypted end to end, it is a relatively safe message. And if you're using iCloud storage and you tell it to use it for your messages, then it is stored by Apple, but it's still encrypted. So that's called Ott over the top. Now, there are others out there that you could use to communicate with Matt, there's WhatsApp Facebook Messenger, which I don't use. We chat. There's a few others out there signal is probably one of the best ones you could use. And with those apps, it doesn't matter if you're on Android or Apple. It is end to end encrypted. And it is considered to be generally safe in Facebook Messenger I'd be a little more concerned about, but it is using these highly encrypted protocols. There's more that is coming our way. But here is a big deal. That's happening again. And it started back in the Clinton administration. We had the "clipper chip." The FBI now is out annually, for the last, what, 30 years, 20 something years. They come out, and they say, Hey, listen, we don't like this encryption. We want back doors. As of yet, pretty much nobody has complied with us in recent years. So we're relatively safe for monitoring. We know if the FBI wants to get in that and they can't, that that means the bad guys probably can't get in either. And that's a good thing, keeping the bad guys out. But there's hope the answers your question about snow there. Can don't Use SMS if you can avoid it use one of these apps, which I just mentioned as I message on your Apple equipment Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, we chat and particularly signal si G and Al. Very, very good, very secure. And most of these also let you do video chats as well, which texting does not allow you do but if Ken Altschuler, it's blue, so it's okay to send it. Craig Peterson Yes, if it's blue, you're safe because that means the other person has Imessage, and it is encrypted. If you want to send an encrypted message to Matt, you could use something called Signal. It is an app that works for both Apple and Android. Ken Altschuler But, don't you both have to have the app on your phone? Craig Peterson Yes, they would, And the same thing is true with WhatsApp, and we chat and messenger Facebook Messenger. You have to both have that application. On your device, and obviously, you have to set it and be logged in. I tend to use I message because most people I work with are using that they've got Apple gear. But if I'm not using iMessage, I use Signal. Again, it's one of these over the top (OTP) messaging services, if you will, and, and most of these are free-ish. There is the problem when it comes to Facebook, that you're their product, right? Remember that. So, that's why I don't trust Facebook Messenger that much, but at least it is encrypted. Matt Gagnon Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig, my question to you revolves around killer robots once you tell us a little bit more about what China is doing to kill us all. Craig Peterson Oh my gosh, this is something I'd hoped you guys talk about this. Well, you hope right, my friend because I saw killer robots and I couldn't resist. Yeah. It is a scary thing, frankly. Here's what's happening. Did you see the latest movie with Gerald Butler? Where he's protecting the president? Edward Butler? Matt Gagnon Yeah. Was that was the, you know, like Olympus Has Fallen kind of movie. Craig Peterson Yeah, exactly. And you saw what happened in there, and there was a swarm of drones that came and attacked. And it was really, really bad because like their drones could explode. And of course, if you have thousands of these silly things, they're going to be hard to defend against these. We saw an attempt a coup attempt, apparently but least attempt on the life of a president South America here within the last 12 months as well. Well, what China is selling is something that several countries have said they would never, ever do. The United States is not one of those, unfortunately, but that is to have a ton of self-autonomous robots that can kill through the use of explosives or maybe guns. They have the fully autonomous ability to be able to make decisions as to who to kill, or what to bomb. China has started selling drones outfitted with, with machine guns here, small machine guns, small arms. They are selling these drones to these Middle Eastern countries. And they are fully autonomous. And this is their most advanced military, aerial drone technology. And what it means mad is kind of what you were saying, You release these onto a battlefield. And let's say that you've trained the artificial intelligence in the drone to recognize the uniform of your opponent, and he just left these silly things loose, they could be killing hundreds, thousands of people on the battlefield. Look at what's happening there. Wrong right now, where they have snipers' shooting demonstrators dead in the street. Iran could send in one of these programmed drones in to kill anyone in these blocks downtown. Anyone that's not in a police uniform let's say and let them loose and off they go. Now China has this technology is we know we're selling it right. And they're not using it in Hong Kong right now. But Iran, China, some of these countries are barbaric. We do not have any fully autonomous equipment or drones on the battlefield. So I guess that's good news. The United States has said although it's not an official policy near as I can tell, it has said we would not allow the use of lethal force unless a person authorizes a specific into them. So I guess that's good, but as far as the Middle East goes and China. And by the way, the Middle East here means Iran, who is killing their citizens who are demonstrating right now. It is a very, very scary technology man. Ken Altschuler Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk Guru joins us every Wednesday at 738. Craig, thank you. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next Wednesday. Craig Peterson Gentlemen, take care. Bye. Matt Gagnon Alright, thanks a lot, Craig. So we're going to take a quick break. All right, Craig Peterson Everybody, if you would take a minute to read up more on this. And I know there's a couple of online petitions. I think it changed.org, but visit me online, Craig peterson.com. There is lots of great information right there. And we have some changes coming to the website come January. Hopefully, you also have been watching some of my Facebook Lives, and sharing them with your friends. I have been delving in more deeply into a few of these topics. Then you can get that by just going right now. To Craig Peterson, dot com slash Facebook and make sure you follow me like my page. I'd appreciate it and have a look at some of those Facebook Lives. We've been doing some awesome pieces of training over there. Take care, everybody, and we'll be back on Saturday. Bye-bye Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

What better way to wake from your food coma than with an all-new episode of Who's There tackling big issues like: the bigges Whos at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, appendicitis-induced fame, trickle-down name-onomics, Anna Paquin's big moment in The Irishman, and the supreme question of our time: is Baby Yoda a Who or a Them? As always, call 619.WHO.THEM to leave a question, comment, or concern and we might address it on a future episode! Why? Why? Why called Joe, haven't you?

Join us as we discuss the #MidSeasonFinale for #TheWalkingDead! Steve and Dianna take a long look at #TheWorldBefore, and they’ve got THOUGHTS - Rosita is a confirmed badass, HOLY CRAP Father Gabriel, Why does Michonnes have to go alone and WHY WHY WHY did they all just run into that cave? Download and listen in this week and then let us know what you thought! Thanks so much for all the old school subscribers and all the new peeps - thank you so much for listening to us!  We hope you all have a great Holiday season!  We’re going to take a little time off, but we’ll be BACK in January with some new content for your ears!  If you’ve got a comment, suggestion or theory you want to discuss, you can reach out to us via the following:   Email us at aimfortheheadpodcast@gmail.com Our Twitter is @AFTHPodcast  Send us Pics and Videos on Instagram at aimfortheheadpodcast Like us on facebook! www.facebook.com/AimForTheHeadPodcast And don’t forget to Aim For The Head – Because Body Shots Just Don’t Work.  They really don’t!

The Streak Is Alive: We keep the streak alive with some celebratory messages post 600! Sarah’s Hubby: We check back in on the life of Sarah’s Hubby as he gives us a tour of his new shotgun house. Sad Or No?: Is Sarah’s Hubby a sad story or a story of perseverance and triumph! SLAVERY!, YOU’RE WELCOME!, MR. SHOW!, DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A GANGSTER!, GETO BOYS!, SPEAKING IN TONGUES!, YAHWEH!, ABORTIONS!, JEHOVAH JIREH!, PUSSY POPPING JIM!, PUSSY THAT POP!, SUCK THAT BABY’S DICK!, CELEBRATION MESSAGES!, JO!, JAY!, OUIJA BOARD!, BAJA BLAST!, COMMUNITY!, FOLLOWING!, SARAH’S HUBBY!, REAL DOLL!, ILLINOIS!, YOUTUBE!, NEW HOME!, DOLL REPAIR!, SQUALOR!, 8 TRACK!, DIRTY!, EVICTED!, JASON’S HOUSE!, HELL HOLE!, EXPENSIVE AUTO LOAN!, PAYMENT!, UBER!, SQUATTER’S RIGHTS!, TRUMANN ARKANSAS!, BOUGHT PROPERTIES!, FIX UP!, SHOTGUN HOUSE!, HANDY MAN!, CONTRACT!, SCAMMED!, STROKE!, JUNK!, CABLES!, LADDER!, DEAD BODY!, TOILET!, TUB!, SCREAMING GHOST!, DEAD TIME!, BUGS!, CRICKETS!, HEARTBEAT!, NEVER RENTING AGAIN!, BOYFRIEND MATERIAL!, PORCH DECK!, HOLE!, FOUNDATION!, CONCRETE BLOCKS!, WHY WHY WHY!, NO!, OUTHOUSES!, BANNED!, JUNK!, TRASH!, DO IT BY YOURSELF!, PROGRESS!, AUTISM SPECTRUM!, ASPIES!, H3!, EMOTIONS!, COST OF A DOLL!, FLESHLIGHT!, CUTEST LITTLE THING!, HILA KLEIN!, TRUST ISSUES!, SEXUAL HARASSMENT!, THAT PLACE SUCKED! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD JIM AND THEM #605 Part 2 RIGHT HERE!

Don't let the title scare you! And don't let your fears get in the way of Finding Loving Homes for Your Art. In this week's episode, we are going to face those little nagging doubts and even some of the big scary fears that get in the way of you believing in yourself. In many ways, this is what several of the other episodes have nibbled at around the edges. The nibbling is over. I am taking a big bite out of these omnipresent sales-dampening fears and giving you an attitude adjustment. Stick around to the end where there is a special bit of counseling. It's a virtual hug that centers around the word "important" and puts it into a whole new category of importance. Enjoy... and let me know you "got this". This one is a little extra personal for me.   Link mentions: First podcast ever: Lessons from a Seven-Year-Old Artist Episode #17: Why Why Why...Do You Create? Episode #22 (again): 33 Ways to Ask for the Sale  If you're not on my email list, you will miss some great opportunities and special offers!

Rudi Dornemann interviews author Ng Yi-Sheng about his short story collection Lion City, editor Jason Erik Lundberg about why Epigram Books published it, and reader Varun about why he decided to read the collection.   Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com.

Rudi Dornemann interviews author Anoud about her short story "Kahramana" in the anthology Iraq + 100, editor Ra Page about why Comma Press commissioned and published the anthology, and reader (and futurist) Anna Simpson about why she picked up the book and what interested her in it.  Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com.  The episode was edited and mastered by the Portland Pod, Maine's first commercial podcasting studio. Find them at PortlandPod.com.

Rudi Dornemann interviews author Daniel Braum about his short story collection The Night Marchers, editor Norman Prentiss about why Cemetery Dance Publications published it, and reader Michelle Souliere about why she decided to read the collection back to front rather than just sampling a few stories.   Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com. 

Why? Why? WHY??

Why am I taking off until March? Why was I in the hospital? Why? Why? Why?

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Linda Mannheim interviews author Leone Ross about her short story collection Come Let Us Sing Anyway, editor Jeremy Poynting about why Peepal Tree Press published Come Let Us Sing Anyway, and reader Joseph Bloncourt about why he decided to read the collection during his commute from the Bronx to Brooklyn.   Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com.   

Linda Mannheim interviews author Joanna Walsh about her digital novella Seed, Visual Editions directors Britt Iverson and Anna Gerber  about why they chose seed for the digital publishing collaboration Editions at Play, and reader Emma Miles about why she decided to access Seed on her phone. Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com.   

Our debut episode of Why, Why, Why! features stories on the theme of “Crossing the Red Sea” told by Abe Silver, Jodi Davidovitch, Yaser Abu Areesha, Nancy Cahners, and Guy Sharett. About “Why, Why, Why!” An evening (and a podcast) of people sharing a true story for an audience while sipping a beer and pondering life in the holy land. Why “Why, Why, Why!”? There is a great gulf between the way people discuss Israel, and the way we live our lives here. Lots of talk about Israel happens in high dudgeon and low spirits: with anger, resentment, disappointment, frustration, irritation, grievance and worry. For all that, life here is different and brighter. The rhythms of the sidewalks and supermarkets are weird. People are curious. Hebrew carves up the world in surprising ways. Boundaries turn out to be permeable. And everyone is always talking, advising, counselling, dissenting and suggesting. What can bridge the gulf between the severe way Israel appears in the papers and the loopy way we experience it on the street are stories: true stories of our lives the way we lead them, with their moments of weird abasements, moments of grace and moments of transcendence. Why Why Why! aims to capture some of these stories and share them live and on the podcast.

Linda Mannheim interviews author Irenosen Okojie about her short story collection Speak Gigantular, editor Valerie Brandes talks about why Jacaranda Books decided to publish the collection, and reader  Yovanka Paquete Perdigao explains why she picked up Speak Gigantular and read it even though it is unlike the books she usually reads. Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com. 

Linda Mannheim interviews author Preti Taneja about her novel We That Are Young, editor Sam Jordison talks about why Galley Beggar Press decided to publish the book, and reader Jackie Law explains why she loved the book and wants to persuade other people to read it. Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com. 

Linda Mannheim interviews author Paul Scraton about his book Ghosts on the Shore, editor Gary Budden about why Influx Press decided to publish the book, and reader Matt Lancashire about why he picked up a copy of the book and read it. Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com. 

Linda Mannheim interviews author Rowena Macdonald about why she wrote her first novel The Threat Level Remains Severe, editor Jane Aitken about why Aardvark Bureau decided to publish the book, and reader John Foyle about why he picked up a copy of the book in his library and read it. Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com.   

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Why? Why? Why?! This is a vexing question. As soon as you say “because…” you run the risk of blame-shifting and we’ve already spoken to the dangers of this. But in the absence of a “because…” it sounds like you should just be able to “Stop it!” and if that were the case you wouldn’t be reading these materials.Part of this confusion begins with how we commonly view people. It is popular to think of ourselves as basically good people who apart from outside interference would not do bad things; act selfishly, betray, sacrifice more important things for less important things, or otherwise be foolish. “The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier. No one sins out of a sense of duty (p. 334).” John Piper in Future GraceWe are born twisted, broken, and out of order. We are born with a bent towards self and we experience life self-centeredly (trapped within our bodies; literally only seeing the world through our own eyes and interpreting it through our own experiences and desires). This does not mean that we cannot love. It does mean we must be both commanded and enabled to love God and love others because of our sin-nature causes us to innately center on self.Some would take this to mean that personal history (i.e., experiences of abuse, rejection, failure, or neglect) is inconsequential to sexual sin. But this draws an unnecessary distinction between our sin nature and personal history. While we sin because we are sinners, our appetite for and bondage to particular sins have histories. Understanding these histories can enhance our ability to cooperate with or apply God’s power to change. There are two truths you must keep in balance as you work through this chapter or you will fall into shame/despair or blame-shifting. First, sin reveals our heart so we are responsible for our sin and change will require dying to self. Second, our heart has a history and God wants to do more than eliminate a sin; God wants to redeem your history by replacing lies with truth, despair with hope, and self with Him. This chapter is divided into three major sections: Learning the History of My SinIdentifying the Motive(s) of My SinCapturing the Present Struggle See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Click above to listen in iTunes... My 11 Point PDF Checklist + I'm Publicly Leaving Funnel Building :( DOWNLOAD THE FREE CHECKLIST AT SteveJLarsen.com What's going on, everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Sales Funnel Radio. Now, before I get into the episodes, or this episode, I just want you to see a little behind the scenes. Typically, what I do when I get these podcasts together, is I'll just write out a whole bunch of principles of things I know that you guys are struggling with, have questions about, or there's a challenge. I'll go directly address that so that I can just keep trying to provide value. Or, I'll go interview somebody and we'll go dive deep into their business. By the way, I've got about 20 more interviews lined up for you guys. It's going to be great... This podcast is actually a little bit different. This one actually took me about an hour and a half to two hours just to prep. There's a lot of cool things going in it, so I'm encouraging you right now before I start, get a pen and paper if you can. I think you're really going to enjoy this. Anyways, without further ado, let's jump into this. Again, welcome to Sales Funnel Radio. Welcome to Sales Funnel Radio, where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business using today's best internet sales funnels. Now, here's your host, Steve Larsen. All right, all right. Now, while I was getting this all together, I was remembering the way I got into this industry. I've shared a little bit of this, but there's a certain part of it that I've been realizing that I haven't really shared. It's so key to success, I mean right out the gate. I had a little podcast episode a little bit ago called 'How I Broke into the Industry.' I almost wish I hadn't put that out there, so that you guys could hear a little bit more of some of the things that really happened behind the scenes. I was in college, and I was going around ... What happened was, and I've told parts of this, pieces and parts. What happened was I got married, my wife and I, we went up to college. I really hadn't had that much college done before we got married. It was only a semester or two, so I had the full brunt left. She actually had already graduated, although we're the same age. It took me ... I went on a mission for my church. I was gone for two years. I took a year off to work and get some stuff done, and put together. Anyway, through various things, I actually waited on college for a little bit. I was doing a lot of construction jobs and just trying to get money together for it. I told this story of when I walked away, and I was like, "Yeah, no more construction jobs. I'm done with this." I started going and learning, and I was doing door-to-door sales. I was like, "I got to learn how to sell stuff," so I was doing door-to-door sales. When we got married, we had like no money. You want to provide, especially as the man. Like, "I want to be the man. I want to provide for my misses." That's how I was feeling. The problem is that I couldn't. I didn't know business. I didn't know how to sell. I didn't know what marketing was. I had no idea on any of that stuff. I went into what I thought was going to be a prestigious thing going into a business degree, and going into a marketing degree. I started listening to this podcast called ... Actually, I can't even remember it. I can't remember what the name of it was, but it was a guy named Sean Terry. He was teaching how you could flip houses for zero cash, and it was totally legit. It was awesome. It was actually really, really cool. I learned a lot from him. He got me going and out the gates. I'll fast forward a little bit. There was failure after failure, after failure, and as I started getting into this funnel game ... I've told you a bit of this story before, I went to door-to-door sales. I realized that you could actually attract people who want to buy your stuff, rather than go door-to-door and ask people to buy who are not planning on it. I went from door-to-door sales to writing eBooks, and made my first funnel; although I didn't realize that's what I was making. I was using WordPress and all these tools and systems, and then I learned how to drive traffic because no one was buying my eBook. Then, I got hired by Paul Mitchell and started working on building sites and sending traffic for celebrities, which was kind of cool. I was like, "Man, none of this traffic's converting." That led me into Russell Brunson, and I found how to convert and actually sell online. That's really where money started happening. That was four years. I didn't stop. I kept going, and going, and going. Four years! It was painful. It was very painful, because I refused to get a normal job. We were living on student loans, and I was like, "Crap. Like, this is my time to figure this out big and I've got to do it now." I did not sleep much. I did not do any really extra-curricular activities at all. I worked my butt off, and I know I did, and I'm really proud of that. Here's one of the major lessons I learned... As soon as I learned what funnels were and I started building my own funnels, we launched a company called Fixed Insurance. We were doing smart phone insurance. We had customers and there was money coming in. It was great. I was brand new. We kind of mismanaged it a little bit. It wasn't the business I wanted to be in, insurance business. I wanted to go be in ... I wanted to work with people directly, one-on-one, and make their business explode. I wanted to do essentially what Russell now calls the certification program; but that didn't exist then. I was going around and I was going from client to client. I pitched to the owners of Vivant. I went over and I was working with some of the top leaders in different MLMs, building their product, MLM funnels, selling lots of their product. I was going and it was super, super awesome. The big problem was, was that none of them were big payouts. In between each of those successes that I was having was a crap ton of failure. It wasn't until I started looking back, like two days ago, literally. I was looking back and I was thinking, 'Why did this work, and why did that not? Why? Why did some funnels explode a business, and other funnels I mean, did nothing?' Even in the same business, every once in a while, a funnel would go in and it would blow up, and then would do nothing again afterwards. Like, 'What's the difference? Why? Why? Why did some ... Why did some businesses just not take?' I was going back and forth, and I was looking around. I said, "Oh my gosh, I think that there are times when a business is ready for a funnel." All right, now that's not normal thinking, right? We usually think that a funnel is good for any business at any time, always, ever; and yes, that's true. I'm not saying that you should not build funnels if you don't have all these elements but I started looking at all the people I've built funnels for. I've built over 150 funnels in the last year alone. Actually, 11 months; in the last 11 months alone. A lot from my own clients, a lot for obviously for Russell's, a lot for click funnels internal, for click funnels external, for all the clients that he's got. All over the place, from supplement funnels to funnels for toilet paper, no joke. Funnels for lots of webinar funnels, lots of info products, retail; I mean across the whole gambit, MLM, local clients. All over the place. It's been a lot of fun and a hardcore education, learned way more than my entire marketing degree combined. It's been fantastic. I started looked back and I started seeing the patterns. I noticed that there's a specific moment when a business is ready to accept a funnel. All right, you got your pen and paper now; because I created it's 11 pieces in this checklist to help you and I know when a business is ready. What I'm going to do is I'm actually going to go open this thing up. You can hear me clicking around right now, but what I did though is I figured out that ... it's not always ... I got to be careful of what I'm going say here, because I don't want any one of you to jump out and suddenly say "Well, Stephen said it's not good to build a funnel yet." That's not at all what I'm saying. What I'm saying is there's a moment when a funnel explodes the business. If you don't have one at all, if you have no extra income jumping in on you, that sucks. Build a funnel... All right, get it out there, start testing it; but there's a moment when the funnel explodes the business. What I did is I build what's called ... I've been calling it, it's just the pre-funnel build checklist. It's kind of a dumb generic name, should have probably made the name something different. I said, "How I know if the business is ready for a funnel." This is a checklist you guys can all go download right now if you want at Steve J. Larsen, my full name is Stephen Joseph Larsen, so SteveJLarsen.com. I said, "No, I'm not saying you should not ... I'm not saying that you shouldn't build a funnel if you don't have these things. " This is simply a list of the things I use to gauge how much I think a funnel is going to expand a current business. I've gone through and I've built a whole bunch of funnels for lots of people and my own personal clients, this bit of a checklist I'm running through, it was all mentally in my head until I sat down two days ago and wrote it out. I was like, "Holy crap, this is totally what I do." I created and personally use this list to vet out potential clients and prep my own businesses for a funnel. The point is to remember that funnels are not business models, or the complete business. There's been many times I've built funnels for people before I understood this. I built them just an awesome funnel. I will say that's the one constant is I build really good funnels; like a natural ... Not a natural ability at all, I shouldn't say that. Crazy enough, the things that I used to build funnels, I'm very good with the Adobe Suite. I'm very good at layout and design, and that's all I did in high school. I wish I did sports, but I was the head editor of yearbook. I got three state awards in Colorado for my layout and design. I know that's where a lot of it comes from, and super grateful for that. I had no idea it would apply to what I'm doing now, but it does. Anyways, this checklist helps me see to which extent the entrepreneur or myself knows his own company. This is one of the biggest pieces on here. What I want to do is I want to go through these items with you guys real quick. It's 11 things that help you know ... What's kind of cool is let's say you're not hitting all 11 of these things. That's totally fine, use it as a gauge. Go in and start to figure this out, because here's what happened. When I was in college and I started going back, and kind of walking back; I went and I started trying to find a client that I could blow up. I had all these start-ups. I had all these people that wanted funnels. I had 15 businesses on a waiting list in the middle of college during my marketing classes. I walked up to the teacher and I said, "I don't want to be here anymore. This is dumb." He said, "Honestly, I can see you're doing cool stuff. Why don't you just give me a cool deliverable at the end of the semester, and I'll see you at the end." I walked away and never came back to class. For three hours a day, I held my own class just trying to make as much money online as possible. It was the coolest thing on the planet. I call myself the student of exceptions. The answer's always 'Yes,' until you can get a 'No.' Just go freaking do it. Stop waiting for permission. Stop asking for permission, just do stuff. That's kind of my mentality. It's like get out of my way, that's kind of what it is. Anyway, what happened, though, is I was looking around. I was like, "Okay, I need to prove the market that I know what I'm doing on a lot of these things." Nobody knows who I am. I remember doing my first periscope and I was like, "Man, no one knows who I am. No one's going to watch this." I think I had one person watch it. The next day, I had maybe two. The next day I had maybe three. That's literally how I built this. I was like, "I got to prove to the market that I can do this stuff, and that I've been doing it, and that I can ... " I've just never marketed myself out as a person that does this. What I started doing is I started looking around. I didn't realize it, but I was using this checklist inadvertently to vet out businesses. I went and I said, "Okay," and a lot of you guys have asked this question to me, which is actually what has started spawning this podcast episode. You said, "Hey, Stephen. I've got to know how to start. How do I get going? How do I prove myself?" They're like, "Well, there's this cool start-up that wants me to." I'm like, "You said the word 'start-up.' Okay, if you're trying to prove quickly to the market that you know what you're doing, do not build for a start-up." I've told a lot of you guys that. I said, "You need to go build for a business that is ready for a funnel, and will just explode it. All right? It makes you look like a champion... It makes your funnel look like a champion, and makes the business look like a champion, all right? Because you've made them a bunch of money in a short amount of time. Well, you need certain things in place in order to actually do that. Does that make sense?" I started looking around and I was calling buddies. I'm going back to the story. I made a huge list of businesses that I thought would be cool to go build funnels for. I was sitting there and I was like, "Okay. I could my own. I could build one for a company that's already established, where they could blow it up. I could go," and I made this big list. I started going piece by piece, and I started shotgun emailing tons and tons of businesses. It's actually funny, Justin and Tara Williams in the inner circle, Russell's inner circle, they're one of the people I reached out to. They were just too slow to get back to me, so that's one of the reasons I work for Russell now and not them, which is kind of funny. I went out and I started shotgun telling people, I was like, "I will build you a funnel. I know you don't know what it is. I will do it for free, and I will show you once it's making revenue, then let's talk about me getting paid; but first, let me prove myself." It was like "Whoa." These people were like, "Who is this kid?" Then I had them proving themself to me, because then they came back to me and they're like, "Well, I want you. I want you." I was like, "Well, I can only take one of you guys, so who's it going to be?" About that time, I met a company down in Florida. I will keep them nameless, Echo. I went and I was checking out their stuff. I was like, "I could totally build for these guys. These guys would be a good candidate." I met the owner, and he was like, "That sounds amazing. I have no idea what you're talking about. Sales funnel, what does that even mean, right? That's all techno-babble. No one really knows what that is unless you're in the industry." I was like, "Well, I know you don't know what it is. I'm going to build it, and then let's just do this. So these are the things I need from you." I was like, "X, Y, and Z." I said, "I've got to have one, two, and three from you; and this is what we can expect in the timeline. Let's go," and I went to work. I started putting the funnel together. First I ran an ask campaign and I ran out there, and I got tons, like 150 responses in a day. He already had a pretty big customer base. I said, "Oh my gosh." I started looking through the responses of the ask campaign and I was like, "Oh my gosh, did you guys know that they want X, Y, and Z?" They're like, "No." We went and we built a ... We, I. I built a trip bar funnel and I launched it out to these guys. We made them like 20 grand in two days. It brought in an additional 30 grand on top of that over the next week or two, all to his internal list from an ask campaign. I was like, "Cool! I got my story. Woo!" I looked back and I was like, "Why did that really work?" That's because of this checklist. I've danced around it, but let's jump into it here. This is a slightly longer podcast, but I hope you see the value in what I'm about to say here to you guys. If you can't find a business that matches these, I'm not saying you shouldn't go do it, but look harder. If you're really trying to prove yourself, or you're trying to break into the industry, or your own business; let's say you're not building for other people but for your own business. You're trying to make these things work. You're trying to make your funnel work for your business. It might be because your business is not hitting these criteria, so let's jump in. Number one, is their business ... I'm going to share this with the standpoint of, 'Hey, I'm looking for a client,' because I've built a lot of funnels for other people. All right, so number one, is their business already making sales? Whether offline or online, I don't care. They could seriously be going door-to-door. I don't care. Are they already selling the product they're wishing a funnel was for? Do they have repeat buyers? This is all part of number one. I wrote in here this question alone is a major barrier. If the answer is 'No,' I don't work them because they haven't built the business enough to support a full-fledged funnel. Full-fledged funnel. Is there already sales happening, or is this a start-up? If it's a start-up, I usually will always say 'No,' unless they're throwing just an inordinate amount of money at me; because they haven't build the funnel around it, or they haven't build a business. You'll see more what I'm talking about as I move into this. This is a whole aspect of this business that most people don't think about, or know about, or we even really talk about. I don't think we've really thought about it before. Anyway, number two, what assets do they have? Do they have an email list? Do they have social presence, phone numbers? Do they have a website at least? Are they at least online? Do they have things like logos, images, videos, copy, sales copy. Do they have those things? What I'm really trying to figure out here is if they have enough people and enough following for me to run a successful ask campaign. An ask campaign, if you don't know what that is, is where you go out and you say, "Hey, what's your number one challenge with X, Y, and Z?" You get back a whole bunch of responses from this open-ended question, and it will tell you what to sell them next. It's really helpful. Number three, can they name and do they know who their competition is? This blows me away. When people can't say who their competition is, it's almost like an automatic 'No.' What it means is they haven't actually gone through and they don't know their own place in their own industry, and their own spot in the ecosystem inside their own industry. I wrote 'This is huge. If they can't name their own competition, but are telling me their revenue is massive, I'm going to strongly question that.' What I'm really looking for here is someone to funnel hack. If there's no one to funnel hack and they don't know who I can funnel hack, I get skeptical on the future success of the funnel right off the bat. I got to be able to funnel hack people who are being successful. It's the other reason why I don't do start-ups, because if there's no one to compete with, it's ... You're a pioneer. You're not modeling anybody. You're doing something that no one has done or no one's been successful with. That means that you might be drifting into an area where you're selling products that are based on improvement, not products that are new opportunities. Improvement-based offers are terrible. New opportunities sell a lot, just right off the bat. Anyway, you might be selling into a red ocean. Or, the ocean is so blue that the market isn't ready for it. How many of you guys use all the features in Excel, or do you just use the basic plus/minus multiplication, division features? It's the most ... Anyway. Different story. Are they trying to be a market disrupter, or are they trying to make money? You know what I mean? That's what I'm trying to say. Number four, how many products are they selling or can they offer? If they're selling complimentary products to their customers, I would know how to structure the funnel almost immediately. If they're only selling one product, I know we're probably going to have to make some of their product not just a funnel. That's fine, I just charge more. That's what I wrote. Basically, are they selling more than one product? If they're selling more than one product, successfully, it's a really easy way to make the funnel. If they're only selling one thing, typically a funnel has at least two products, different variations at least, of the same product. If they don't have that and they want to make a ... That's the hard part when insurance companies come to me and is like, "You guys have a single product, and your only other product is more insurance." I'm like, "Ugh. Like, we got to create another product here." They're like, "Oh, okay." All right, number five, what is their current monthly revenue? Some people will quote their glory days revenue. Find out how much they're really making... If they're spending their last dime to build a funnel with you, feel sketchy about it. What money will they have to drive traffic with? Plus, they get too needy. It's like going to a five star restaurant after not eating for two days. You'll hardly taste it and no one will enjoy the five stardom. Don't sell broke people. I know that I build high level funnel, and I don't want to sell level two ... business a level ten funnel. That sounds harsh, but you're actually doing a disservice if you do that. Number six, do they already know what kind of funnel they want? This matters, because it's how I gauge their education level. If they know what kind of funnel they want already, I don't have to continually educate them on the vision of what I propose to build; and especially during the build. It's much easier. Again, not a deal breaker but I go from being a funnel builder to a funnel builder plus coach. I need to allocate my time accordingly. If someone doesn't even know what funnels are, it's kind of like ... It's fine if it's this way, but you're going to be educating them a lot further. One of the people I most recently built for, they pay the ten grand, they came in, they built ... Actually, I'm going to try and interview them here soon, so you guys can all see. It's really cool. It's a political campaign funnel for another country. I live in America, and it's for another country. He's actually about to get elected, and the funnel actually helped him take office. How freaking cool is that? Anyway, but they already knew what kind of funnel they wanted. It made it really easy, because I could just build. I didn't have to coach. It's fine if you have to coach, I just have to change some things. All right, number seven, do they know their numbers? Do they know how much it costs for them to acquire for somebody? CPA? Do they know what their average cart value is per customer? Do they know what their earnings per click are? Et cetera. If they already know the numbers, that helps a lot. Number eight, do they have current and consistent traffic? If not, what's the plan to get it? If they don't have any kind of traffic flow that I could just drop something into, that's going to be hard. It'd be like if I went to ... I live in Idaho now. I'm from Colorado. There's mountains and valleys all around us. There's rivers and dams where they put those hydroelectric generators in there to get electricity. It'd be like building a dam in the middle of a valley and then trying to find the water. That's what it's like when you're trying to build a funnel for somebody who does not already have traffic. It's very difficult. It's so much easier to go find somebody who's ... It's like the Nile, they already got tons of traffic. Just drop a whole bunch of dams in there, you're going to get electricity off of it. It's the exact same principle. It's hard to build for somebody who doesn't have traffic yet. It's fine, again, if they don't. You got to know what the plan is. Who's driving it? Do they think it's you? I've had people who thought I was going to drive it. I was like, "No." I'm like, "I'm not going to drive your traffic for you." Anyway, number nine, what software and systems do they already? This is so big. This is an element we don't really talk about a lot, but you're going to become an integrations master if you're trying to build for other people. Even if you're for your own funnel, you're going to have to be somewhat of an integrations master as well. Do they know they're going to require additional software and subscriptions to build their funnel? Here's a little story. I had some people who wanted me to build a funnel using Infusionsoft. I ran the other way. I said "No." Number ten, this is so big. Again, we don't really talk about this. Do they already have their own performing fulfillment? I wrote it all caps in here, selling and funnels is the sex of business. Fulfillment is the red headed stepchild with a mole on his forehead that no one wants to think about but will actually kill the business. I wrote a little story here. I said, "I once ... " Yeah, I was stupid once and built a funnel years ago for somebody who had no fulfillment. I was just excited to get the client. I made them some quick cash in a couple days. They frantically called me back and asked me to turn it off. They're like, "Turn it off! Turn it off!" I was like, "Why? You guys are making all these sales! Are you kidding me? I just like two X'ed your company." They're like, "I know, but we don't have ... We can't handle it." I ended up having to go build this whole inventory system in the back end. They got so gun shy from it making all these sales that they never turned it back on. I was like, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." They still wouldn't do it, though. Number 11, I said "Finally, have they ever been successful in anything at all, ever?" That sounds harsh, but ... Anyway, I wrote a little note on this one, too. I said, "This might seem like a joke, but someone who's never done anything, ever, in life, at all, but who has all the previously mentioned steps, has potential to be a massive basket case of emotions. Then, you'll turn into an icky life coach again." Unless they're really, really upping the price, I'd run the other way... You're not trying to keep people out, but what you need to understand is that there's been people ... There's a guy I was building a funnel with once. It was for ... He was selling a book that was, once people read it, they automatically wanted to buy product for some supplement thing. It was a long time ago. It was probably, that was about four years ago, probably. Three and a half, four years ago. I was building a funnel for him. This was before click funnels existed, but I was using things like Get Response, and WordPress, and things like that. I was building a funnel for him and literally every move I made, he was excited about but questioned like crazy. It was the most ... It was damming to my progress, just like a dam with water, but where it doesn't let the water through. I had to verify every single step the whole way, because he had never been successful in something before. He was having little successes here and there, but nothing where he could let go a little bit and say "Okay, you take the reins. I trust the expertise, and you should back off ... I'm going to back off a little bit and you just go build this thing." These are all some of the lessons I've learned. Again, this is kind of a long podcast but I wanted to show you guys some of that. Final note, and you can get this checklist and I'll show you out. I said, "Final note, this list sifts out a lot of people, and I realize that. But, that's why I made this checklist for my personal use. Your goal, and it's honestly what I've been using in my head all along, and I had no idea; but if they didn't meet these criteria, which was different than a lot of the criteria that I've seen out there for other people... But anyways, your goal is to match your funnel building skill level with the correct client for you. I waded through three plus years of bad, bad, bad clients to learn this. All right." Then, I put the actual website there. It's a little checklist, a little asset that I put together for you guys. I think you're going to really like it. There's some spelling errors and stuff like that, but anyway I think you'll understand the point of it. Guys, I wanted to ask you something. I've got actually a bit of announcement here, this is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, personally. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, but I'm actually leaving the public funnel building game. I'm pretty sad about it... Click Funnels is growing so fast. It's growing so incredibly fast. We're actually just trying to keep up. We've 3X'd, two years in a row. We're on track to do the same thing again this year. By the way, just so you know, that kind of thing doesn't really happen. We're extremely unique as a company, Click Funnels is. To commemorate this whole 'Hey, I'm no longer going to be doing this thing,' I wanted to just take on my last few clients. I'm excited. I want to be able to focus more. It's actually Russell has asked me. This is the reason I'm doing this is Russell's asked me to no longer really be doing anything more publicly, and to focus on helping him with Click Funnels. I completely understand what he's asking. I love Click Funnels, you guys, we are changing the world. It's so fun, but understand what I'm saying here. What I'm going to do is I'm totally going to make you a cool deal for the last few people who want me to build for them. I have until the end of March to make this happen. I only have space for three people because I put my heart and soul into these funnels. The thing I can promise and guarantee you, all my integrity, my very name, and maybe even my kids, is that I'll give you a sweet funnel. That that's something that that's what I do. It's all I do, every day, all day for ... It's been years, especially this last year with Russell. I've given some pretty big info on this podcast, you know what I mean? I just wanted to obviously this type of information I'm giving you is not ... It's not going to do anything for you if you don't actually go build one. The reason I'm doing this is like I said, I am publicly going to no longer be offering funnel building services. I've had to increase my coaching price. I first started hundred dollars an hour and I coached a lot of people and it was great; but I had no life. So I increased my price to take people even more serious, to $400 an hour; but it still, again, I had to stop. I bumped my price up again, just because I can't handle the volume. I'm being totally honest and vulnerable with you guys right now as I say this. I'm going to make this quick. I know I've been going for about 30 minutes here, and I apologize. Hopefully you guys hear what I'm telling you. You can get this checklist by going to SteveJLarsen.com. Also, there is a spot on there where you're going to see if you want to be one of my last three people, there's a spot for you to put down your name and a deposit. What will happen is I'll go through this checklist with you and I'll vet out your situation. If we're a fit, that deposit will go towards the price I charge for the funnel; which is ten grand. I thought about doubling my price, and that would be totally appropriate; but it's not even that. He wants me to stop building altogether; as far as external funnels. I'll still have my own projects that I'm building out, but I will no longer be doing it for other people. I legitimately am taking four people, but I already have one gone. I'm building for my dad right now. His is almost done and I'm going to share behind the scenes of that here soon, just so you guys can learn what we did. It's kind of cool. It's very clever. I don't think anyone really in the financial area is doing what we just pulled off. Then, I'm also building for a company called 'A Statue of Responsibility.' There's the State of Liberty on the East Coast, an equal sized statue called the Statue of Responsibility's going on the West Coast. They've asked me to build the funnel for them to make all the donations so that that statue can get built on the West Coast. They're just trying to figure out which city it's going to go in; so super cool stuff. That's basically it, so I mean technically that's five, but one of them's about done. I only have room for three more clients. This is real urgency and scarcity, you guys. I know that we teach you guys to do the real urgency and scarcity, like 'Oh, it's never going to happen again!' This probably literally will never happen again, because I'm going to sink my teeth even farther into Click Funnels. I know that there are, and ... I didn't just want to come out and say "Oh, you can't get any more funnels from me. I'm out and out of the count." Yeah, right. You can't. I'm tapping out. I literally had to ... I'm going to show you guys some of the things in here, but I literally had two choices. Russell and I have had some heart-to-hearts on it. Two choices. Russell said, "Okay, man. Like, I really need more help with what I'm doing. You can go build your own stuff and keep this going, or stay with Click Funnels. And I want to help you, um, help you there, as well." I was like, "Man, like this is just nice. My wife and I have been talking about it. She's like "This is a weird, nice problem to have. You know, which direction are you going to take?" That doesn't mean ... It will probably be like five years before I go and accept a funnel build for somebody else, you know what I mean? Unless again, it's like this inordinate amount of money. There's no way that I have time to do it anymore. This last little rah-rah. I just want to remind you guys that there's a lot of you guys I know that are thinking about hiring me. I've had 27 applications to build funnels just in the last little bit. 27! 90% of you guys I know sadly, you don't meet some of these criteria, or the ten grand is too much. That's okay, just keep pushing it, keep rushing it. I can't build for you, and that's okay; but there are a lot of you, though, who do have the ten grand, who are wanting me to build. I'm trying to give you this real urgency and scarcity and tell you that like, "Look, I cannot. I am not allowed. I can't. I can't move forward anymore building funnels after these three clients." Those are my two choices. Literally, your two choices are whether or not I'm going to go build for you because this is real urgency and scarcity. I have to move on. The landscape of my profession and my path is starting to change. For three years, I built for start-ups. For this past year, I've only built for professionals, people with at least ten grand. I have a buddy who sells $50,000 funnels. Anyway, ten grand for a funnel, the type that I build, I know it's actually dirt cheap... I just want to remind you guys that ... It's kind of funny. You think about the attractive character, this is the reluctant hero category. I'm trying to show you guys the magician's hands, kind of like what Russell calls it. I'm trying to show you what I'm doing here. I am closing this, and so I actually wanted to make you guys an offer. I'm going to make you guys an offer right now. I'm excited to do it. Not only are you guys gonna get a funnel that writes $10,000, I'll build you guys whatever kind of funnel you want. I'll do all the images. I'll help put the copy together. Videos will probably have to be done by you, so it's your face on them, but I'll help you put those together as well. I'll help you write the emails, the fulfillment emails, which there's a lot more to do on those than I've noticed you guys do. All right, help you write the soap opera series, helping you write sticky emails that will get people back in to buy, even several weeks after they've left your funny. All the different communication pieces, and that's $10,000. That's a value of ten grand. I remember the first time I charged ten grand. I was like, "This is crazy!" Then they went off and they did these amazing things. I was like, "Wow! Ten grand was nothing!" All right, I'm also going to give you guys every funnel I charge for. Every single one of them. That's about $1,000 value, almost; so I'm going to give you guys every single funnel. You'll get the $10,000, and then you'll get the about another $1,000 in funnels that I use for MLM; the funnel that I used to get 650 people to a live event, which was crazy. It was in the middle of college. That was so amazing. We raised seven grand for charity. It was awesome, but I built that funnel. I'll give you that one. You guys are going to get my insurance funnel. You'll get my podcasting funnel. You'll get my live coaching funnels, the funnel I use to get all my coaching stuff in. Which by the way, does quite a bit, monetarily. Anyway, you guys are going to get all those for free. I'm just going to share funnel them over to you. I'm going to build the funnel for you. Then, I'll give you every funnel that I charge, I'll give it to you for free. That's 11 grand in value. I'm also going to give you guys two coaching sessions post-build. This is huge. I charge $1,000 for an hour now. That's a $2,000 value. A lot of you guys, post-build, I've noticed will want to ... Obviously you're going to want another coaching session. It's like a check-up, it's like going back to the doctor after a surgery. 100% totally get it, so I'm going to give you guys two coaching sessions for free. I'll do it like two weeks after, and then one month after I'm done building. Usually my building period is two weeks, so within two weeks you'll have your funnel back; dependent on how quick you can get me the assets that I need. There's the built funnel for ten grand. Every funnel that I charge, for free, I'll give that to you for free. That's another $1,000. Two coaching sessions, that's $2,000. Then, I'm also going to give you ... Guys, I don't think a lot of you guys know, but I do a lot of stuff with the affiliate game. I've only got like 20 affiliates for Click Funnels, but it makes an extra grand a month; which is awesome. I don't do anything for that. I'm going to give you the email series I use to get people in the door. It's worth a $1,000 a month to me, right now. A real, real cost and I don't do anything. I should drive ads. I should drive traffic to it. I don't, and it still makes a $1,000 a month. I'm going to give you that specific email sequence, which is awesome. It's worth $1,000 a month. Again, get the funnel built. I'll give you ever funnel I've ever charged for, for free. Two coaching sessions, my affiliate email sequence. Then, the last thing I'm going to give you guys is I want to feature you guys on the podcast. I think it'd be cool for everybody if you guys, if we go and we peel back the funnel, maybe after the coaching sessions are done or whatever. We go through and we show the progression of the funnel, and we show how what we're doing. I thought it'd be really cool to feature you guys on the podcast so that everyone can see what we did and how we pulled it off. All together, that's like $15,000 in value. Obviously I charge ten grand for it. I'm going to give you guys $5,000 off, free for that. That's real urgency and scarcity. If you guys go to SteveJLarsen.com, you'll be able to download the checklist. Then, right after that on the next page, you can hold your spot. Again, it's $500 just as the deposit to hold your place. The reason I do that is because a lot of people want me to build their funnels, but the $500 helps me know that you're serious and in a position for me to build your funnel. If it doesn't work, I give you the $500 back. That's no risk to you at all. If we are building the funnel together, then it just goes towards the $10,000 price. That's only $9500 after that. That's it, guys. Go to SteveJLarsen.com. Again, my full name is Stephen Joseph Larsen but it's SteveJLarsen.com. You can download the checklist that I use to vet companies. You can use it to vet your own, and how much a funnel will blow up your business. Then you can also reserve one of my last three places for funnel building. Some real urgency and scarcity on this, okay? You guys have 'til the very last day in March to do this. The very last day in March. I have to do this now. You know what? Actually, what's the date? I only have two weeks, because I have to have the funnels almost done by the end of March. Anyway, the countdown clock for the real world time that I have to stop building funnels publicly, or I get in trouble, because I need to focus inwardly on Click Funnels. It will be done. Go to SteveJLarsen.com, get the checklist, and go to the next page. You'll be able to see what that all is. Guys, thanks so much. Again, you get the funnel built, ten grand. Get every funnel I've built and charged for free. I'll give you everything I have. Then, I'm going to give you guys two coaching sessions for free, for two grand; and then my email sequence for all my affiliates that gets loaded straight into your Actionetics. I can share link all my email sequence straight into your Actionetics account, which is awesome. Then, I'm going to feature you on the podcast. I think everyone will get a lot of value from that, actually. That's going to be really cool. That's real world value of over 15 grand. I'm going to give it to you for $10,000. Anyways, guys, again, SteveJLarsen.com. I will talk to you guys later. Bye.

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Wesley: Hi, I’m Wesley.Robyne: and I’m Robyne.Wesley: and this is Obstructed View. Robyne: Today we’ll be discussing A Midsummer Night’s Dream presented by the Pearl Theatre Company and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Wesley: For those of you who don't know the play, we've added a link to the plot summary as well as a performance. This particular production by the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, used only five performers to tell the whole story. Those Performers are Mark Bedard, Sean McNall, Jason O'Connell, Joey Parson, and Nance Williamson. Robyne: We're gonna start off today discussing design. Our scenic designer was John McDermott, our costume designer was Jessica Wegener Shay, our lighting design was by Eric Southern, and sound design by Mikhail Fiksel. Wesley why don't you start us off?Wesley: The design work was very bare and sparse in terms of the scenic design. You got to see the back wall of the theater, and the stage was bare of any scenic element.Robyne: I found the scenic design to not quite be minimalist but barren.Wesley: The scenic design really tried to fight for the empty space sort of feel and the groundwork, the stage was covered with a bunch of pebbles-Robyne: or sand.Wesley: and there was neon tape, multicolored neon tape placed around the set. And hanging from the rafters in the upstage area, was a blue amorphous curtain like thing -Robyne: Yeah, it took me a while, but I really fell for the scenic design with the exception of that hanging back material, which I didn’t really see a purpose in, other than as a place for them to light. I really liked the bareness of the stage with the concept they were going for, at the same time I didn’t like the concept they went for.Wesley: Fair. I mean for me, the bareness of the stage made sense. I liked actually almost the entirety of the design on principal when I walked into the theater.Robyne: Yeah.Wesley: When I sat down I was excited for the performance we were about to see. I don’t think that the set elements necessarily meshed with the performers and the work they were doing on the same level. I think they were both well done but I didn’t see a unification of the two aesthetics.Robyne: Yeah, I really felt that there was no cohesion between the designs. I got the sense that the lighting, costume, and scenic, were all at least aiming for the same world, but not all in the same realm, if that makes sense, at least product wise. Design-wise, they may have all been on the same page. But the sound design, it was very barren, not in the same sense that the stage was, it was very lacking. There was not a lot of it. A lot of the sound was created by the performers. Which I get, but the choices that were made in the intermission, pre-music, and post show were all very non-cohesive.Wesley: And I do think a lot of that is based off of what I was reading the pearl theatre’s dramaturge about midsummer, which was that this is a dream world where times collide. It’s sort of like from The Frogs “The setting, Ancient Athens, the time, The Present Day.” That sort of dream sense you have when you walk into your house, and for some reason, you know it’s France. And I think they’re trying to get that sort of disjointed feel, however, I think that the design work really spoke for the directorial concept, but it didn’t really add much to the conversation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.Robyne: Yeah, I just didn’t feel that the Dream aesthetic meshed. I didn’t feel as if I was in a dream. Somewhere between the - I’m really sorry Jessica, I hated those costumes, the jumpsuits with the neon strips, seemed really out of place and only there to be utilized by the lighting designer’s use of the neon lights, the black lights, which were fine every once and again but that’s how they communicated that magic was being done and that felt really kitschy and unstylized, to me, it felt sophomoric really, in it’s “NOW we’re doing magic” feel to it.Wesley: So, I think that this production takes after the Peter Brook 1970’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream that came to New York City. If you don’t know the Peter Brook production, it was a legendary production in which he put all the actor’s inside of this white box set and using as minimal use of design techniques as possible, told the whole story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. And a lot of directors since then have taken on Peter Brook’s sort of minimalist aesthetic and deconstructed story telling to create this “Theatre is Magic” kind of feel. The problem is I don’t feel as though the aesthetic, especially in the neon, with the jumpsuits, with the costumes, were brought to the present day. They felt very 1980s, very 1970s, and sort of what post apocalyptic was suppose to feel like in 1983.5:00Robyne: It really felt to me like a hip-hop 80s artist experiment with neons and black lights. And I harp on that in the lighting design because there were moments in that lighting design that were absolutely gorgeous. For the most part, the lighting was fantastic, there were two or three really distinct moments, in the getting lost in the woods scene, -Wesley: Loved it, yeah.Robyne: - that were gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. And then it just felt like, I almost want to blame the director, Eric Tucker, for these moments of ‘and then I need this to happen,’ and so we had a flash of that neon magic, that was so unnecessary, and could have been conveyed in such a better manner.Wesley: The moments of lighting design that were really articulate about the world these characters are going through were incredible; especially this one scene, as you said, where they’re lost in the woods and everything goes dark, and we just get side lighting and every once in a while they pop up and you see their face then they disappear. It was beautiful. Once again, much like the scenic design, I thought the lighting design was, on it’s own merit, incredible. I enjoyed the neon, I enjoyed those moments of magic. I think a lot of power was given to those magically moments. Most people do Midsummer just for the mechanicals nowadays because they are hilarious and it’s really easy to get involved with them. It was nice of them to makes us care about the plight of Titania, the plight of Oberon, and to put that as sort of ethereal nature into their lighting design. However, there were a couple of choices that felt purely aesthetic for me and that didn’t articulate this world as well as others – the couple bars of neon on the back wall that didn’t transport me the way that when everything went dark as they’re lost in the woods, as you were talking about, that was a transportive moment.Robyne: Absolutely.Wesley: Even when Puck took the lights away, that was a moment of theater magic, for lack of a better term.Robyne: Absolutely, and then you had things like the natural sound of them running over that sandy pebble pit that really, in the darkness, gave you that sense of loss and confusion that was amazing.Wesley: There were just points that really felt as though they were painting, rather than producing a production of Midsummer.Robyne: There was a lot of concept put ONTO this production rather than concept drawn FROM this production.Wesley: The only point that never really meshed for me was the, and I’m once again sorry Jessica, but those costumes just baffled me as to how they fit in this world with these performers. Unless these costumes were suppose to be a commentary on 1980s underground theater troupes, which they kind of got to at the end with the mechanicals play and this sort of self-referential jab. But with how streamlined and how finished and how developed everything else was, to be Midsummer, those remained lagging in unfulfilled concept.Robyne: As we mentioned before, I loved all of the performers.Wesley: Yeah.Robyne: And it really felt like there were two different worlds. I said to Wesley as soon as we stepped out that this production definitely proves that you can do Midsummer with five people; I just don’t know why you would, if you can get a full cast. That being said, there were some phenomenal performances.Wesley: So using this cast of five, their breakdown was – Sean McNall playing Theseus, Peter Quince, and Demetrius, Jason O’Connell playing Puck, Bottom, and Aegeus, Nance Williamson playing Hippolyta, Helena, a fairy, Robin Starveling, and half of Snug the Joiner, Joey Parsons playing Hermia, Titania, and Tom Snout, and Mark Bedard playing Lysander, Oberon, Francis Flute, and Snug the Joiner.Robyne: My main issue with the performances I believe comes from the direction, that there was a lot of gross generalization and stereotypical, archetypal performance for minor characters to distinguish them in the on-stage transitions that happen that could have been much more easily conveyed through costumes. Wesley: Often what happens with double casting much less quadruple or even more casting is that you get broad generalizations in characterization. You don’t really get as much nuance and personality from each of these characters because they’re doing quick changes in front of you and that you need to be able to identify that these are new people every time. It’s fun story telling very often; there are a few times it doesn’t come fully to fruition. I would say everyone in the cast has at least one character they were able to knock out of the park.Robyne: Absolutely. Sean McNall’s Theseus was great.Wesley: Yeah. I really think that Jason O’Connell’s Bottom, especially during Bottom’s Dream was beautiful.10:00Robyne: That is one of the best, if not THE best, performances of Bottom’s Dream I have ever seen. Wesley: Yeah, it really grounded that character, which was needed by that point in time. Nance Williamson, she was a lot of fun in a lot of things. I’m trying to think of what I preferred her in, but I think just her variety really spoke for her. Going from Hippolyta to Helena to Robin Starveling, though I really like her emotional grounding of Helena, personally. Robyne: And the age difference really brought an interesting texture to that casting of the four lovers.Wesley: Yeah, so, the whole cast was of various ages, of various backgrounds, they don’t -Robyne: it was an interestingly diverse cast, in a way that I had not expected it to be. Upon the actors initial entrance I felt that it was a very white cast, but in just a very few moments, that disappeared for me. Their variety and diversity came from other aspects of their personages.Wesley: So also, you have Mark Bedard, who I really enjoyed as Oberon when he was playing with Puck, it really was a good counterbalance there. He was great as Francis Flute and Thisbe, with his little voice, I mean, that was a lot of fun for me. Robyne: I really liked him as Thisbe; I did not care for him as Francis Flute.Wesley: Joey Parsons playing Hermia, Titania, and Tom Snout – I can’t even point out which one was supposed to be the best because they were all so great.Robyne: This was Joey Parson’s show.Wesley: YeahRobyne: She stole it.Wesley: To be fair, she really meshed well with the mechanicals, she meshed well in the fairy world, not a scene stealer by any account; but her Titania was fantastic. It was so well formed.Robyne: Joey really brought out the best in her fellow cast, which is fantastic to see.Wesley: And it’s amazing that I was able to believe her as both the fan girl turned lover in Tom Snout, but at the same time this frightening and incredible magisterial Queen of the fairy world.Robyne: She gave Titania a real depth in not only conveying this thousands-year-old Queen of these immortal beings that have magic, but she at a moment broke when Bottom made a joke, and she giggled at him, and that is almost something you never see. You never see that real softness, it’s usually just a lust for Bottom, rather than the Love-in-Idleness that it’s suppose to be; and Joey really brought that out in this production. Wesley: I believed that she loved him. I believe that she fell for Bottom, not just in a sexual aspect but because she was enamored with him.Robyne: Yeah. That being said, the Puck-Bottom pairing was hard to swallow at times. Puck is a very high-energy character; if not played more mischievous. He kind of comes off as just an ass. Bottom can also be played as a very egotistical ass, which he was in this production as well. But when you have the same actor playing Puck and Bottom, it can really bring out the worst in both those characters. Finding those uniquenesses between the two can be very difficult.Wesley: Puck in particular, because while Bottom learns something and goes through Bottom’s Dream, and we get this moment of grounding with him that then transports us into the mechanicals play; sure there’s a couple of moments with Puck where he swallows his pride next to Oberon, but I wouldn’t say there’s any real point of learning with the character. He remained the mischievous fairy that he was in the beginning.Robyne: and while that can be fine in most productions, I didn’t get a real clear sense that Oberon was in charge of Puck, I didn’t see the fear in Puck of Oberon.Wesley: For me, it was just, they were asking for this particular performance to be too much when they put both Bottom and Puck on him. Those are very high energy, high comedy characters, especially seeing as Jason O’Connell was performing them much like the Genie in Aladdin. Very much the Robin Williams-y, going from impression to impression to impression, which isn’t wrong, it makes sense for Puck, it absolutely makes sense for Puck to be able to do these things. Robyne: Especially with this anachronistic concept to it.Wesley: And to have Bottom play Pyramus like The Godfather.Robyne: Yeah.Wesley: Those are fun things to add in. When those things get meshed together they really can overwhelm the humor and overwhelm the subtlety.One thing that I really did enjoy that sadly began to dissipate near the end of the production was that, when we first entered the fairy world, with Nance Williamson playing the fairy opposite Puck, I got a sense that these were creatures to be feared, and I rarely see that. Fairies are now very often just these pretty figures that go around the stage as an excuse for costumers to show off, and it was nice to see the fairies as something to be feared as part of this pagan world that the forest represents.15:00Robyne: The Fay are, from European tradition, these terrifying creatures that live in the woods and play tricks on people, and steal children to eat them, and have their way with humans in the forests. I kind of got the sense for that in the initial interactions between Oberon and Titania that got really lost towards the end of the production.Wesley: One thing I really want to give them here though is, this is the first production of Midsummer Night’s Dream that I have ever seen in which I cared about the outcome of the Indian child. Robyne: Yes.Wesley: I always forget about the Indian child by the end of the play.Robyne: Titania and Oberon have a very Martha-and-George relationship where new items tend to become weapons. But Joey Parson’s Titania really brought that emotional value of what that child meant to her and I loved that, that is something that gets completely forgotten about in most productions.Wesley: And also, Oberon’s apathy – “I’m bored, I want another member of my posse.” But this sort of surprise at the stakes Titania has regarding what this child means to her, it feels new for both of these characters.Robyne: Yeah.Wesley: And that was a fun entrance into the world of the fairy kingdom. And I think that that is added to by the fact that we get this disjointed staging where we go from all these different levels of worlds and stakes. That’s one thing that I think the director did very well, I think it was done very much in collaboration with this cast, but the disjointed set up, from going from the lovers to the royalty, to the fairy kingdom, to the mechanicals, you really got a sense of all the different layers in this world combining into one.Robyne: One of my issues with this production in particular was the first act felt as if it was a tribulation that was necessary to get to the fun of act two, which consisted of the lovers lost in the woods, the righting of Bottom and Titania, and the happy ending of the rude mechanicals and the nobles – which was the funniest I have ever seen that scene done. The gross juxtaposition of the actors judging their other characters performances was wonderful. That really made the show. Wesley: Well, also for Midsummer the first act has always been a necessary evil. If you read it, that first act, you like fly through it. There is no fat in that first act, it’s setting everything up to get you into the woods.Robyne: This just felt particularly trying.Wesley: Oh, no, it was very laborious and a lot of that had to do with the concept eeking its way into the actors’ position. The first part of the play I was thinking to myself, ‘what is this concept that I’m suppose to be grasping here?’Robyne: Yes.Wesley: Rather than really enjoying the play of the actors and what they were doing. Which, I think, that is what made the first part so laborious.Robyne: Well even that first scene was incredibly trying, where they started and stopped multiple times, with various actors portraying various characters in so many different referential styles. There was a 2001: A Spacy Odyssey entrance, in which they were all apes, and there was a southern accented entrance and we got that it was all referential, but it just set us on a very bad path for the rest of the productionWesley: Right and also for the fact that it was never brought up again really. There was a couple of points at intermission and at the end of the play, but there was never any other time in the meat of the piece where that kind of disjointed, cubist, multiple-referential framework was utilized. Now we got a lot of different forms, we got a lot of anachronisms, which are fine, but never on that level, so it really changed expectations for what was the reality of the piece we were going to see.Robyne: Right it started me off believing I was going to see a cocaine fueled, nightmarish, post-modern, Generation X, production and that’s not at all what we saw.Wesley: No. Now I do want to get back to the mechanicals and what you were saying about their scene. The mechanicals scene was hilarious, and a lot of that came from, and I do agree this is the best I’ve sen this dynamic used, between the nobles watching the work and the mechanicals performing the work. There were a lot of things that made the mechanicals a lot of fun, in particular their sort of self-referential, self-mocking sense of, “This is the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival coming to perform for the nobles. And it’s like change, change, change, each of them doing a real grotesque form of doing what they’d spent the whole playing doing, to tell this story. Throughout the whole play though, there was an added sort of sub-plot between Bottom and Joey Parson’s Tom Snout, who plays wall, where they slowly come to love each other or they become enraptured with each other.20:00Robyne: Where, where she becomes enraptured with him and he kind of just goes for it after he’s had the realization that he is lonely.Wesley: He is lonely but also she looks a lot like Titania.Robyne: Oh. Yeah.Wesley: So they added that in. And it’s difficult to add something like that in to a Shakespeare play and help it feel natural and make you feel excited about it. And I felt so excited for them when they started making out on the stage. And I was really enjoying that moment, a lot because I’d learned to love those two actors in those characters.Robyne: Right, my biggest issue, and maybe it’s there as a juxtaposition was the really ridiculous gay sex jokes that were out in with the whole Wall thing, talking and kissing through the wall, which was a guys crotch, it was so unnecessary.Wesley: And it didn’t match the levels that the rest of their staging met. Robyne: There were a number of times where we mixed high-brow with low-brow in this production and it made the low-brow sound so hollow because it wasn’t done well.Wesley: Yeah, there were a lot of gay jokes. There were a lot of poor interactions with the audience. There were a lot of anachronisms that -Robyne: There was that whole sex scene between Titania and Bottom that was not necessary.Wesley: It really felt desperate.Robyne: And Grotesque.Wesley: And it didn’t match what I think Titania felt for Bottom in what we saw in the scenes before.Robyne: yeah, and I’m all for a good Bacchanal but that, again, just rang hollow. Wesley: It seemed like performers trying to make people excited about Shakespeare by appealing to the lowest common denominator, which happens a lot in New York right now. It happens a lot in America right now.Robyne: I got the impression that we were suppose to excuse them for being rude mechanicals, but they didn’t earn that because of their treatment of the language and because of their level of skill was too high. They were not rude mechanicals in the least; they were some wonderful performers.Wesley: If this was suppose to have been possessing them to tell this story, as I think might have been the intention by that sort of epilogueRobyne: Right. There was a time warp epilogue at the end of the piece. After all the nobles retire to bed at midnight, the play rewinds for a second just to jump to the rude mechanicals rehearsing in the forest and Puck poseses them to deliver his final monologue, “if we be friends…” Wesley: “Robin will restore amends.” And then we all applaud and they look stunned at us as if they didn’t know they were performing for an audience this whole time. The difficulty with this is the difficulty with nearly any meta-performance which is, you start to then piece apart, “wait, if this was Puck the whole time, why was Puck using this poetic language? Why was Puck needing this performance to be told? How was this fun for Puck? What was Puck doing?” A lot of cracks came out of the plaster using this framework of the possessed performers.Robyne: And I felt that it was Eric Tucker just not being able to help himself with the direction. He just couldn’t leave well enough alone. He couldn’t trust that the production was doing what it was supposed to do.Wesley: If they would have ended with the mechanicals scene going then to Puck, I would have been happy for the whole cast then deliver Puck’s monologue. But if they would have ended with that sort of simplicity, it would have been a very different feeling leaving the play. But instead, I left a little baffled, and more irritated than curious. Robyne: Yeah, because I loved the ending up until that point and then they finished on that note and I left wondering why. Why? Why? Why did that have to happen?Wesley: And it didn’t excite me in the same way that the performes did.Robyne: And I can’t find a conceptual defense for it.Wesley: No, cause getting us in to intermission, they walked backwards off the set, and then getting us in to act two, they did the same exact thing, walking forward with some more wheel grinding and a lot of it was very impressive in terms of performance.Robyne: yeah, I’m sure that if you had recorded Bottom’s delivery and played it backwards it would be English.Wesley: It would be, probably, perfect verse, but-Robyne: It just didn’t need to exist.Wesley: The rest of it was so strong. The poetry was so strong. And Nance Williamson’s Helena – her delivery of sorrow, trying to chase after Demetrius was enough.Robyne: Yeah.Wesley: The performers put so much care into telling A Midsummer Night’s Dream that Eric Tucker’s concept became too much for it.Robyne: Which is not to say that his direction was terrible.Wesley: No.Robyne: There were moments where, while I did not at all care for what was happening on stage, I really appreciate how structured the, would you say post modern?Wesley: Oh yeah.Robyne: -movement styles were. The creation of Bottom and Bottom being completely lost while bound by his fellow actors – the actual, physical, human actors in this production not the actors in the production of Pyramus and Thisbe – was wonderful.25:00His sense of physicality as an ass, were wonderful. There were moments of the players leaving Athens in an elevator singing “Girl from Impanema,” that worked really well for me. And Just confused me as to why the other anachronistic pieces were not cut when they didn’t work and if they were recognized as not working.Wesley: This must have been very much devised. I can’t imagine that this was just a directing coming in going, “I know exactly how this is going to be staged, I know exactly what you all are going to be doing.” This clearly speaks well for collaborative theater. To have talented, very well seasoned actors playing and this director then parsing out what goes where and how best to tell the story. Those moments, they were cinematic moments with sharp cuts between places – with us being above people, and now below people, and now to the side of people – that were seamless and fun. The problem was when they got overshadowed by a looming concept.Robyne: And to me, directors are responsible for the end performances and it should have been up to him or a producer to have helped clean up those performances, to wipe away some of the stereotypical, archetypal mannerisms and vocal choices; unless that was the initial design, and then to work them further in. And there were things that just really irked me, like Demetrius’s Spanish. Not only his Spanish accent but his actual speaking of Spanish felt completely put on to this production. Egius’s homosexuality felt put on to this production. And I did not care for Snug the Joiner being this weird conjoined twin ‘Other’ thing.Wesley: So for me, Demetrius’s Spanish was enjoyable and made sense for the character, it didn’t seem so put upon. Egius’s homosexuality was just so broad, so unnecessary and didn’t really make sense for the character, I don’t really know howthey got to point B there. I loved Snug the Joiner. I laughed so hard. Just given how this is a world of such mania they’ve made, to have this sort of monster zombie come out, out of nowhere, it made no sense, and I thought it was hilarious. Especially given, always going back to her, Joey Parson’s reaction of “Oh God!” Every time, with terror. I mean, it just makes me laugh, every time. There was some diminishing returns there by the time we got to the final mechanicals’ scene. But we didn’t need that comedy adding in.Robyne: So Wesley, any other thoughts?Wesley: I think in general this is a, off/on production that stars some very incredible performances.Robyne: I completely agree. A Midsummer Night’s Dream runs at the Pearl Theater until October 31st. Wesley, my question is – Is the show worth the $65 ticket for non-members?Wesley: It is if you really enjoy seeing new versions of Shakespeare, but if your interests go anywhere beyond that I would say this is one to miss.Robyne: I would be very pleased if I saw this production at a $20 ticket.Wesley: Yeah, at La Mama. However, given that price, if you have the stakes to see deconstructed Shakespeare, or have made a hobby of seeing Midsummer or Shakespeare performances, this is one probably not to be missed.We hope you enjoy the podcast and that you will share your thoughts with us.Robyne: As always, you can find us and join the conversation on facebook at facebook.com/ObstructedViewPodcast, on twitter @Obstructed_View, on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/obstructedview, on tumblr obstructedviewpodcast.tumblr.com, or at Obstructed-view.comWesley: Special Thanks today goes out Ari Edelson, Alyssa Jenette, and Julian Fleisher for your love and support. This is Wesley.Robyne: And Robyne,Wesley: And remember,Robyne: Dream the Impossible Dream.

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