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Op 2 mei verschijnt ‘In mijn ogen draag ik wolken', de nieuwe roman van de Afghaans-Nederlandse psychiater en schrijver Forugh Karimi. Aan de hand van Widá, een gevluchte vrouw uit Afghanistan, verweeft Karimi persoonlijke herinnering met recente geschiedenis en onderzoekt ze thema's als schuld, verlies en veerkracht. Eerder schreef ze de boeken ‘Nargis' en ‘De Moeders van Mahipar'.  Presentatie: Eric Corton

W pierwszej części - co siejemy, co pikujemy i sadzimy w kwietniu. W naszym terminarzu pierwsze skrzypce zaczynają grać kwiaty jednoroczne, zarówno te chłodnolubne, jak i nie znoszące przymrozków.W drugiej części - odpowiadamy na Wasze pytania zadawane podczas live w każdy poniedziałek o godzinie 19:00 na naszym profilu na Facebooku. Zapraszamy do słuchania.Rozmawiają Katarzyna Bellingham i Jacek Naliwajek Polecamy książki:Książka "Plan na warzywnik" Jacek Naliwajek: https://bit.ly/4imTaQHE-book "Plan na warzywnik": https://bit.ly/3EwJSDiKsiążki Katarzyny Bellingham z autografem: https://sklep.naturalnieoogrodach.pl/Indywidualne warsztaty planowania warzywnika: https://bit.ly/43jK17mPolecane ze sklepu (reklama):Widły no dig do napowietrzania: https://bit.ly/4fE10nnWióry rogowe: https://bit.ly/4jXC0uyAgrowłóknina wiosenna: https://bit.ly/444V3eRSadzeniaki ziemniaka: https://bit.ly/4igXcdRDonica do uprawy ziemniaków: https://bit.ly/41CYpoJWorek do uprawy ziemniaków: https://bit.ly/4hjYweISklep Kasi: https://KasiaBellinghamSklep.pl/Newsletter: https://naturalnieoogrodach.pl/Strona internetowa: https://naturalnieoogrodach.pl/Kontakt: naturalnieoogrodach@gmail.comPodcastu możesz też słuchać na aplikacjach mobilnych:�� Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IT0uXP�� Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2VN51RHZajrzyj do nas: FB: https://www.facebook.com/Naturalnie-o-ogrodach-803749476630224/IN: https://instagram.com/naturalnie.o.ogrodach/Co to za kanał „Naturalnie o ogrodach”?Opowiadamy o ogrodach naturalnych, ekologicznych, pożytecznych, wiejskich, miejskich i angielskich. Propagujemy i zachęcamy do uprawiania ogrodów ekologicznie, w zgodzie z naturą, bez chemii.#naturalnieoogrodach

We welcome back Proper Dom for a special vinyl mix of some of his favourite hard trance/hard house choons!   Tracklist: 1. Masif DJs - No Good For Me (Original Mix) 2. ⁠JFK - Good God! (Original Mix) 3. ⁠Lee Haslam - Free 4. ⁠Rob Tissera, Vinylgroover & The Red Hed - Stay (Lee Haslam Remix) 5. ⁠Wid & Ben - Absolution 6. ⁠Neon Lights - Let Me Be Your Fantasy (NR2 Mix) 7. ⁠Mario Piu pres. DJ Arabesque - The Vision (BK & Nick Sentience Remix) 8. ⁠Neon Lights - Need To Feel Loved (Steve Hill vs Technical Mix) 9. ⁠Masif DJs - Skydive (Steve Hill vs Technical Mix) 10. ⁠Masif DJs - Silence (K-Series vs Shark Boy Remix)

Al and Codey talk about Sugardew Island Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:53: What Have We Been Up To 00:08:25: Game News 00:13:01: New Games 00:22:02: Sugardew Island 01:09:09: Outro Links Song of the Prairie “1.2” Update Fields of Mistria “2nd Major” Update Outbound Roadmap Elusive People Bug & Seek Contact Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello, farmers, and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. (0:00:35) Al: My name is Al and we are here today to talk about cottagecore games. (0:00:36) Codey: - And my name is Cody. (0:00:42) Codey: Oh woo. (0:00:46) Codey: Oh yeah. (0:00:47) Codey: Ow, ow, ow. (0:00:48) Al: All right, this episode, we are going to talk about Sugardew Island because as mentioned (0:00:49) Codey: Gotta do it the right way. (0:00:56) Al: in the last episode, it is not out except if you’re a Kickstarter backer, in which case (0:01:02) Al: it is kind of out. So I was a Kickstarter backer for some reason, so I got my code and (0:01:02) Codey: Mm-hmm, okay (0:01:08) Al: I have been playing it for the past week. So we’re going to talk about that. I’ve got (0:01:13) Al: some thoughts and I’m sure Cody will have some questions. (0:01:18) Codey: Probs. (0:01:19) Al: And then we can never mention the game again. Sound good? (0:01:21) Codey: Wow. (0:01:22) Codey: Yep. (0:01:23) Codey: Sounds good to me. (0:01:24) Codey: I’m sure we’ll have to mention like updates and stuff for news purposes, but (0:01:24) Al: All right. (0:01:26) Al: No. No. No, I don’t think… I mean, we’ll get patches with bug fixes, but it’s not good. (0:01:29) Codey: nah, okay, cool. (0:01:36) Codey: and we’re never not even gonna mention it though. (0:01:37) Al: They’re not going to add in. Well, we don’t tend to mention updates unless they actually (0:01:42) Al: include new stuff. There’s going to be no update including new stuff, let’s be honest. (0:01:46) Codey: OK. (0:01:48) Codey: Sounds good. (0:01:49) Al: We’ll see. We also have a bunch of news to talk about, but first of all, Cody, (0:01:55) Al: what have you been up to? (0:01:56) Codey: I realized the other day that I, this, this is the year that everything has flipped on (0:02:06) Codey: its head because all of the other years, every time I looked at a mobile game for this podcast, (0:02:11) Al: Yeah, I was going to say, Cody, this is a list of four mobile games in your world we’ve (0:02:12) Codey: I was like, I can’t wait to get rid of this game. (0:02:15) Codey: And I now have four different mobile games. (0:02:21) Codey: All of which, all of which I can blame on this podcast. (0:02:21) Al: been up to. (0:02:26) Codey: Even though we didn’t cover Pokemon Pocket, y’all talking about it is why I ended up getting (0:02:34) Codey: it. (0:02:35) Codey: So been playing that every day, got to play at least, you know, like twice a day to get (0:02:38) Codey: my, my stuff. (0:02:41) Codey: Johnny convinced me to play pocket camp. (0:02:43) Codey: So I’m doing that. (0:02:44) Codey: I am now, I think level like 63, I think initially when I talked to him about it, it was 41. (0:02:51) Codey: So you don’t necessarily level up that easy. (0:02:54) Codey: So that’s a yikes for me. (0:02:57) Codey: I would say if people are interested, the like used to be pay paid currency, you get (0:03:03) Codey: it really easily. (0:03:04) Al: Hm. Nice. (0:03:05) Codey: So I currently have like 854 of them and you can use like five of them to like skip things. (0:03:14) Codey: So it’s, it’s easy, like it’s, it’s, it’s good. (0:03:20) Codey: And I opened that and that was a mistake. (0:03:22) Codey: And then honeygrove, I’m still playing that. (0:03:26) Codey: Half of my map unlocks and I’m just kind of still doing the daily quests. (0:03:31) Codey: And then in mini mini farm, I am in the third, the third area now in the third area is like (0:03:33) Al: Minimini. (0:03:37) Al: Oh, nice. (0:03:38) Codey: a desert. (0:03:39) Codey: And then there’s an underground part of the desert where there’s like mushrooms. (0:03:42) Al: Have you got any answers yet? (0:03:46) Codey: So not really, there’s still a lot of like questions about where did the people go? (0:03:51) Codey: And there’s like these weird alien looking machines everywhere. (0:03:55) Codey: kind of like more and more. (0:03:56) Codey: The more you go through the game. (0:03:59) Codey: And in this last one, there is a cactus who that’s moving. (0:04:04) Codey: And as you like, you kind of follow the cactus and then walk into it. (0:04:10) Codey: And it it’s, it’s a person that has been turned into a cactus and they (0:04:13) Al: Oh, oh. (0:04:15) Codey: keep forgetting the conversation. (0:04:17) Codey: And so the conversation has a loop, like where they’re halfway through. (0:04:22) Codey: They’re like, wait, who are you? (0:04:24) Codey: Wait, what’s going on? (0:04:25) Codey: And then it starts back over. (0:04:27) Codey: But yeah, I’m so I’m still very intrigued and I still am playing (0:04:33) Codey: it every day, um, and I have no complaints there. (0:04:37) Codey: So I, and I’ve been wanting to play another game that I will, that (0:04:42) Codey: we will talk about later. (0:04:43) Codey: I just have to, I say, I have to convince myself to buy it. (0:04:47) Codey: It’s more that I have to move the money that I need for it into, (0:04:51) Codey: out of my savings account because I want, I know I want it. (0:04:53) Al: fair enough uh yeah i’ve been buying pocket as well uh just kind of chugging along open (0:04:56) Codey: Yeah. (0:04:57) Codey: What about you? (0:04:58) Codey: Well, what about you? (0:05:05) Al: impacts planes and battles um I have also been continuing to play harvest me home sweet home (0:05:10) Al: I am very close to finishing the story in that game um i’m in chat no i’ve just been playing a (0:05:13) Codey: Oh wow, okay. Is it because the story is small? (0:05:17) Codey: Okay. (0:05:19) Al: a lot. So I’m in chapter nine of 10. (0:05:20) Codey: Good. (0:05:23) Al: So yeah, we’ll see how that goes. I think I’ve got one thing. I’m about to get married (0:05:30) Al: and I think that finishes chapter nine. And so I’ll see how I’ll see what chapter 10 is. (0:05:32) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:05:35) Codey: Very nice probably like babies I would have (0:05:36) Al: So I don’t think this game has babies. We’ll see. (0:05:48) Al: and also, obviously, Shuguju Island. (0:05:51) Al: » Yeah. (0:05:54) Al: Which I’ll talk about more later and I’m currently debating whether to play to go do my home decks for sword and shield, which is the one that I’ve not finished yet because they just released. (0:06:06) Al: The completion reward for that one, but I’m still debating like do I want to do that just now because I do want the shiny keldio and I’d like to get it quickly. (0:06:12) Codey: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Then it sounds like it’s a yes. (0:06:18) Al: But, but, but am I going to burn myself out on Pokemon? (0:06:23) Al: What’s the problem? (0:06:23) Codey: Mm. Have you ever burned yourself out on Pokemon? Oh, wow. Well, then, yeah, there you go. Maybe, (0:06:27) Al: Yes, regularly. (0:06:31) Codey: uh, I mean, I think is it like something that’s only available for a short amount of time? (0:06:36) Al: No. (0:06:36) Codey: No, then just don’t worry about it. (0:06:38) Al: Well, yeah, but what if? (0:06:39) Codey: what if what what if the what if (0:06:42) Codey: uh my country declares war on everyone and nuclear strikes everyone tomorrow like (0:06:48) Al: Well, yeah, but there’s nothing I can do about that, though, is there? (0:06:50) Al: But there is something I can do about this, which is do it. (0:06:53) Codey: okay I was gonna just make a comment of you never know what’s gonna happen so (0:06:58) Al: No, you don’t exactly. (0:06:59) Al: So you have to. (0:07:00) Al: But it’s about balancing which things you can do, (0:07:02) Al: something about it, which things you can’t. (0:07:03) Al: I can’t do anything about nuclear war. (0:07:04) Codey: Yeah, you, you, uh, have you heard the hostile government takeover song? (0:07:06) Al: Other than what I’ve already done, I can do something about this. (0:07:11) Al: Yes. (0:07:12) Codey: I love that song. (0:07:13) Codey: It’s now on Spotify. (0:07:14) Codey: If you, uh, if people want, it’s such a good song. (0:07:19) Codey: Uh, that’s fair. (0:07:21) Codey: I was trying to be devil’s advocate, but no, you’ve convinced me. (0:07:24) Codey: Yeah. (0:07:24) Codey: Why don’t you play it? (0:07:26) Al: Anyway, my point is, I need to do something because I’m not going to continue playing (0:07:26) Codey: Get your fill your home decks. (0:07:32) Al: Suga Jai Island after today. And well, maybe we’ll see. And I think I’m about to finish (0:07:38) Al: Harvest Moon Sweet Home. So I’ll need something else to play. And there’s lots of things to (0:07:45) Al: play. But you know, I do like to fall back into the same things I have played. And I (0:07:54) Codey: big mood as is tradition (0:07:54) Al: need to procrastinate from playing the next. (0:07:56) Al: game for the podcast I’m going to be playing as well. (0:07:58) Al: well. Yeah, this is true. (0:08:05) Codey: except for the like very rare once a year ones that we’ve been waiting for forever that (0:08:10) Al: Yeah, yeah. I definitely managed to do enough Sugardew Island, I didn’t (0:08:12) Codey: we play immediately so (0:08:16) Al: procrastinate with that too much, I managed to get what I needed done in the (0:08:19) Al: last week, so. Well, nor should you. So let’s talk about the news then. Up first (0:08:20) Codey: which is good because I did not play it. (0:08:23) Codey: So, uh, (0:08:29) Al: we have Song of the Prairie, they have released their 1.2 update which (0:08:35) Al: Which includes the story for year 3 in the game. (0:08:40) Al: A praying festival. (0:08:42) Codey: yeah which they said is like you send lanterns up into the sky (0:08:47) Codey: um to pray for people or love or something I don’t know it’s a thing people do but it (0:08:53) Codey: sounds like it’s gonna it looks really pretty because it’s just like a bunch of lanterns (0:08:58) Al: They’ve also added Oakcroft as their new crop, and they have announced that they (0:09:06) Al: are releasing a bottom-of-the-screen version of their game, Rusties-like, if (0:09:12) Al: you will, called Song of the Prairie Wonderland. Is it (0:09:13) Codey: a rusty like yup oh gosh that would who knows but because does it say on (0:09:20) Al: Song of the Prairie Wonderland on desktop? (0:09:29) Codey: desktop in capitals in this though they’re they’re English is definitely (0:09:30) Al: in this, it’s in the, yeah. (0:09:36) Codey: not their first language in the in the that show note not show notes why do I (0:09:43) Codey: go with what this is called release okay interesting that is a choice (0:09:44) Al: Oh, yeah, no, it’s yeah, it’s called Wonderland on Desktop. (0:09:49) Al: I just noticed they have a Steam page up for it. (0:09:53) Al: Interestingly, it doesn’t have Song of the Prairie in the name on Steam. (0:09:56) Codey: not not a not on laptop just desktop it’s probably on it (0:09:57) Al: It’s just called Wonderland on Desktop. (0:10:02) Al: I think it’s like your virtual desktop. (0:10:06) Al: Like the back, like that’s like the home screen. (0:10:10) Codey: Oh, okay, my brain is potato today I apologize that makes I mean (0:10:11) Al: It’s called the desktop, right? (0:10:15) Al: It says no missions, no target, no other requirements, (0:10:18) Al: just all kinds of crops, as it says, corpse. (0:10:22) Al: But I’m pretty sure that’s meant to be crops, (0:10:25) Al: because that’s a very different game, an undeveloped land. (0:10:26) Codey: all kinds of courses. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. I’m here for it, man. I am so excited that (0:10:31) Al: Hmm, interesting. (0:10:33) Al: Continuing that genre. (0:10:40) Codey: to continue the bottom of the screen. I’m not going to get this, but I love to see it. (0:10:44) Al: Yeah, very. Next, we have Fields of Mistria have announced that their second major update, (0:10:53) Al: which we talked about in a previous episode, is coming on the 10th of March. (0:10:58) Codey: Al, are you ready for that sweet, sweet automation? (0:11:01) Al: Always. This comes out three days after Sugardew Island, so you need to decide, are you playing (0:11:02) Codey: That sweet, sweet sprinkler and the auto-petter? (0:11:06) Codey: Heavy. (0:11:09) Al: Sugardew Island or the Fields of Mistria update? (0:11:12) Codey: That is a difficult decision. (0:11:15) Al: There is a correct answer here. (0:11:15) Codey: Sarcasm. (0:11:19) Codey: Yeah. (0:11:20) Codey: And just a reminder, this update includes so many different (0:11:23) Codey: things, including a new festival, new quests, monsters, (0:11:26) Codey: Pets. (0:11:28) Codey: Uh, that sprinkler that I mentioned, different cosmetic options for you and (0:11:31) Codey: your pets, um, lots of different things coming out. (0:11:33) Codey: And again, this is a game that people really love. (0:11:35) Codey: So, uh, if you have been loving it, uh, keep loving it with more things. (0:11:42) Al: And Outbound have released their roadmap for the game, so this is the Campervan game. They (0:11:54) Al: have said that they’re planning for their release in the first half of 2026, their alpha (0:12:01) Al: coming in April this year, and the beta coming in the second half of this year. That is their (0:12:06) Codey: Yeah, and they’re still aiming to have multiplayer out in the alpha, so that would be in mark h1 wait April in April (0:12:06) Al: current roadmap. (0:12:18) Codey: so that people can play test that but they really just are needing a lot of play testers and (0:12:25) Codey: They have they show a couple things they’ve been developing (0:12:29) Codey: That look kind of cool, but so if you’re interested in that check the show now (0:12:36) Al: Yeah, it’s good. They had originally said the alpha would come out in the first half of the (0:12:41) Al: year and so coming out in April is encouraging based on that, right? They’re not just sneaking (0:12:45) Codey: It’s also, it’s accurate too. (0:12:47) Al: in at the end of the first half. (0:12:50) Codey: Yeah, that is part of the first half of the year. (0:12:52) Codey: We love accuracy. (0:12:53) Codey: We stand accuracy here, (0:12:55) Codey: specifically scientific accuracy. (0:12:58) Codey: We believe in science. (0:13:00) Codey: I just hate my government so much. (0:13:03) Codey: We have a couple of new games. (0:13:04) Al: don’t we all. Yes, so the first one is technically not a new game but I’m going to treat it like (0:13:11) Al: a new game because when they first announced it they announced basically nothing about it. (0:13:16) Al: So this is what was announced three years ago. It’s a new, the upcoming Chibig game. (0:13:22) Al: It was announced in the Chibig Direct three years ago as Illusive People. It’s now just (0:13:27) Al: called Illusive and they’ve actually given us some information about it other than just, (0:13:34) Al: all we knew was like oh you’re tiny. That was it. That’s all they had. So they’ve got (0:13:39) Al: the Kickstarter coming soon and they’ve got a bunch of information on the Kickstarter. (0:13:44) Al: It is, they are describing it as an adventure and exploration game with Metroidvania elements. (0:13:55) Al: Which I mean just a quick thought about that. I’m a bit confused as to how you can have (0:14:01) Al: metroidvania elements because it is my own (0:14:04) Al: understanding that the point of a metroidvania is to have a large sprawling map which requires (0:14:09) Al: upgrades and backtracking to finish. And I’m not sure how you kind of have that like you either (0:14:13) Codey: Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah, I think it’s probably just a semantics thing because I agree like, (0:14:17) Al: are that or not. (0:14:23) Codey: like my brain thinking when you say Metroidvania antics, I think platforming and I think like (0:14:29) Codey: you’re saying like, there’s things that are locked at first, and then you have to go back once you (0:14:33) Codey: acquire a certain thing. And then once you have, I mean, I don’t see how a game could have that (0:14:38) Codey: type of mechanic and not have it be like a major part of the genre. (0:14:43) Codey: Or like the defining genre of the game and therefore just be called a Metroidvania. (0:14:49) Codey: But who knows? Maybe they’ll make it happen. Maybe we’ll be shocked. But yeah. (0:14:50) Al: the illusives are tiny creatures that live in our homes hiding from us and borrowing whatever (0:14:59) Al: they need. Is this the Borrowers? Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how much of that actually (0:15:03) Codey: It’s the borrowers people. (0:15:04) Codey: I am shocked that this hasn’t been a game yet, honestly. (0:15:07) Codey: Like. (0:15:12) Al: affects anything. I mean it clearly is like you are in a house rather than like a cave system, (0:15:16) Al: So I guess that is the bit that makes it. (0:15:20) Al: Just a tiny person, rather than you’re just a person. (0:15:24) Codey: My brain thought I’m trying to think of like ways that the house could be locked to you and I just imagined like, because they mentioned there’s a cat. (0:15:34) Codey: I just imagined that like there’s a cat and that part way through the game you learn how to like make the cat like you. So then you can get past the cat. I think that’d be really cute. (0:15:44) Codey: But who knows. I mean, we’re gonna play it. It’s a chibi game. Come on. (0:15:48) Al: Yeah, for sure. I’ve bookmarked the Kickstarter like I’m backing at day one. Let’s not pretend (0:15:56) Al: anything here. They’ll presumably have some information about it when they launch the (0:15:56) Codey: Yeah. No, no news on when that’s launching, but it’s just launching soon. Um, do we. (0:16:04) Al: Kickstarter because they have to give an estimated date. If I had to predict, I would say next year. (0:16:08) Codey: Well, yeah. I mean the, the Kickstarter though, (0:16:12) Codey: like we don’t know when that is launching. It just says soon to you. (0:16:13) Al: Oh, right. Okay. Okay. The Kickstarter. Yeah. Yeah. It’ll probably be in the next month or so. (0:16:19) Codey: I’m going to say that it will be fully backed within nine hours. (0:16:27) Codey: Like between eight to nine hours. That’s my guess. Three hours. Wow. You’re going for it. (0:16:28) Al: Yeah. Three errors. (0:16:35) Codey: You’re going to personally back it so that it gets done in three hours. (0:16:38) Al: Yeah, I’m gonna bankroll it. Imagine if I had that. Imagine having that kind of money, (0:16:42) Codey: I need, I need to. Right. (0:16:44) Al: that’d be amazing. Just go, “Yes, make your game.” (0:16:48) Al: » [LAUGH] (0:16:49) Codey: Uh, the other notable thing was on the, like, they have a picture of physical editions already. (0:16:57) Codey: Um, and they below that they have switch one and two steam PlayStation five and Xbox series X. (0:17:02) Al: Yeah, so yeah, so there’s two, obviously there’s the Nintendo Switch 2 thing, right? (0:17:13) Al: Fine, a little bit presumptuous, but I’m sure whatever, like if they release a Nintendo Switch (0:17:18) Al: version and it’s backwards compatible on the two, then technically they can say they’ve (0:17:21) Al: released on Switch 2. Fine, whatever, it doesn’t really matter. It’s interesting they don’t mention (0:17:27) Al: Xbox Series S, because it is my understanding that you’re not allowed to release a game just (0:17:32) Al: on the X. It has to release on the S as well, because that has been like a sticking point for (0:17:35) Codey: » Yeah, I don’t know. (0:17:39) Al: a few people I’m releasing on Xbox. They’re like, oh, it’s a bit underpowered. I can’t quite get my (0:17:43) Al: game to work on it. And they’re like, we’ll talk. (0:17:46) Codey: Yeah, I don’t know ‘cause they don’t, (0:17:48) Codey: they specifically leave it out. (0:17:51) Codey: So I don’t know if they struck a deal (0:17:53) Codey: or if they just, it was an oopsie daisy (0:17:56) Codey: and it will come out on that, but we’ll keep that updated. (0:17:59) Al: “Can I be a little bit pedantic and say it doesn’t say Nintendo Switch 1 and 2. It says Nintendo Switch 1-2.” (0:18:04) Al: » Thank you. (0:18:04) Codey: Oh my gosh, there’s an intermediate switch switch switch one version to switch 1.2. I don’t know. (0:18:15) Codey: Yep, you’re right. (0:18:18) Al: Anyway, yep, looking forward to that, we will keep you updated. (0:18:21) Codey: Oh, but yeah, but not a woo because there’s one more game. So this is a game that I don’t even I think it was just like on Instagram. Instagram knows my algorithm really well. (0:18:22) Al: And there’s another game that Cody found. (0:18:34) Codey: And it was like, you should play this game. And it’s called bug and seek. And so this is a game that’s already out. I just we just hadn’t talked about it. At least I didn’t find it in anything it’s 1499 on steam and it can be Mac or PC and on switch and the blurb is blurb catch 200 plus real life bugs in this chill eight bit cozy creature collector. (0:18:58) Codey: You’ve bought the local bug zoo abandoned after a mysterious robbery catch bugs. (0:19:04) Codey: So this is a game that I’m probably immediately after this going to go move money into my out of my savings account into my regular accounts like buy it because I need to play this game. (0:19:21) Al: - What? (0:19:21) Codey: It just looks really cute. Like you’re going around catching bugs the bug like pages look really cute because it has like the scientists. (0:19:34) Codey: It has a specific name and the common name and it’s got like a lot of really cool facts and the idea of having a bug zoo. I mean we have an insect zoo for the entomology department here at my university and I’m the person who takes care of the critters. (0:19:49) Codey: The idea of just like moving into a town and becoming the muse, the bug zoo person is just chef’s kiss like I love that idea and you get to like build it up however you want so you get to like buy a terrarium (0:20:04) Codey: and then put that wherever you want in the in the space and kind of make it your own instead of just filling an already curated museum. (0:20:14) Codey: So I think it’s super cute and on Steam it’s part of a bundle called the creature. Oh my gosh. I need to double check this because I had it up and then I got rid of it but it was like the creature or something. (0:20:31) Codey: Create celebrate bugs bundle. (0:20:35) Codey: The celebrate bugs bundle. (0:20:40) Codey: Yeah. Oh, and they have an isopods DLC and a weevils DLC. And yeah, what more could you need, but it’s in that bundle and that bundle includes bug and seek a pico and webbed, which is a super cute game where you’re a jumper jumping spider. (0:20:59) Codey: One of the peacock jumpers, I think, or maybe you run into a peacock jumper, but you basically swing (0:21:04) Codey: Spider-Man style throughout the world and just adventure. (0:21:08) Codey: And I remember seeing this up this game and freaking out. (0:21:11) Codey: It is regrettably not available on Mac. (0:21:15) Codey: And I already have Apeco, but if you do not have any of these games and you’ve been wanting any (0:21:19) Codey: of them, why not get all of them for $38 and 22 cents and save 15%. (0:21:26) Codey: Are you going to play bug and seek? (0:21:28) Al: probably not. But I’m excited. I’m excited for you. Apparently this came out in 2013. (0:21:29) Codey: Okay. Well, listeners tell us who should. (0:21:35) Codey: Be on the podcast episode with me about bug and seek. (0:21:40) Codey: What’s I have released it 2023. (0:21:41) Al: That’s what I said. Did I? I meant to say 2023. (0:21:45) Codey: You said 2013. (0:21:49) Codey: Yeah, 2023 wild. (0:21:51) Codey: I don’t know how this has not been on my radar until now. (0:21:55) Codey: No idea, but I’m excited. (0:21:57) Al: Well, now you know. (0:22:00) Al: All right, that is the news. (0:22:03) Al: So we are now going to talk about the game of the moment. (0:22:07) Al: Game of the Year, lol. (0:22:10) Codey: No, redacted. (0:22:11) Al: Sugardew Island, I’m sure it will be mentioned in the Game (0:22:16) Al: of the Year episode. (0:22:20) Al: Because I list all the games that come out in the air. (0:22:22) Al: And yeah. (0:22:24) Codey: Mm-hmm. You played it. I didn’t. (0:22:24) Al: So. Oh, boy, did I. (0:22:27) Al: Play this game. Right. (0:22:28) Al: So where do I start with this? (0:22:33) Al: Oh, OK. (0:22:34) Al: Cody’s just posted the blog post of the blurb. (0:22:37) Al: So apparently that’s where I’m starting in this code in this cozy farming game. (0:22:38) Codey: you don’t have to if you don’t. (0:22:41) Al: You have to run your own farm shop, take care of your animals and your farm. (0:22:45) Al: So your goods to the cute forest folk upgrade the island and fulfill small (0:22:50) Al: orders from the Harmony Tree to fill the island with life again. (0:22:54) Al: And let me tell you, that is all technically (0:22:57) Al: true. (0:22:58) Codey: Wow okay. Not the… there are no lies but not maybe the main part of the game. (0:23:00) Al: There are no lies there. (0:23:06) Al: No, no, no, it’s it’s this. (0:23:07) Codey: Okay. (0:23:09) Al: OK, right. Well, it’s I think it’s hard for me to give a good (0:23:10) Codey: Let’s dive into it. (0:23:14) Al: overview without just kind of going into the details. (0:23:16) Codey: Okay. (0:23:18) Al: But essentially, yeah, you have this island (0:23:21) Al: which it calls five, no, six different islands, but it’s not because they’re all (0:23:27) Al: island. They’re connected by land. (0:23:30) Al: There is there’s no bridges between them. (0:23:32) Al: There’s no water between. (0:23:33) Al: This is one island, right? (0:23:34) Al: I don’t know why it calls it multiple islands. (0:23:36) Al: Whatever doesn’t matter. (0:23:38) Al: You have Farm Island. (0:23:40) Al: I think that’s what they call the main one. (0:23:42) Al: And then you have let me get the exact (0:23:44) Al: names of these different islands for you because you need to hear them. (0:23:49) Al: We have so. (0:23:51) Al: Yeah, Farm Island. (0:23:53) Al: So technically this Seven Islands, because it’s Farm Island, (0:23:57) Al: forest island, bunny island, piggy island, deer island, ferret island and owl island. (0:24:04) Al: And it’s kind of shaped like an animal’s paw. (0:24:08) Codey: Oh, okay. (0:24:09) Al: On the map with like Farm Island at the bottom, that is, can you guess what’s there? (0:24:13) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:24:14) Codey: A farm. (0:24:15) Al: That’s your farm. (0:24:17) Al: And then in the middle is forest island. (0:24:19) Al: Can you guess what’s there? (0:24:19) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:24:21) Codey: Um, the desert, the forest. (0:24:24) Al: No. (0:24:25) Al: There’s actually not many trees there. (0:24:27) Al: But one big tree. (0:24:28) Codey: Oh, so it’s a, it’s a. (0:24:30) Al: There are more trees on my farm than there are in the forest. (0:24:33) Al: And then spreading out like the toes of the paw or the bunny island, (0:24:38) Al: piggy island, deer island, ferret island and owl island. (0:24:42) Al: And those all have animals on them. (0:24:45) Codey: Yeah. (0:24:48) Al: So you start off with, I think, one island having one animal on it. (0:24:53) Al: I think you have one bunny unlocked to start with. (0:24:55) Al: and then as you progress through the game. (0:24:57) Al: You unlock more animals on the islands up to, I think five on each. (0:25:02) Al: And these animals give you seeds that you can use to farm free seeds. (0:25:07) Al: You go up to one and it will go like, Oh, here, here you go. (0:25:09) Al: Here’s some carrot seeds, um, stuff like that. (0:25:14) Al: And, uh, when you unlock one of the animals, you also get like an upgrade to something. (0:25:20) Al: So, uh, examples of the upgrades would be you can now get pumpkin seeds or you can now (0:25:27) Al: upgrade your, your tools. (0:25:29) Al: You can now upgrade your shop stuff like that. (0:25:32) Al: So there’s, it’s a, it’s the pro that’s the kind of main progress through the game. (0:25:38) Al: And how do you unlock these things? (0:25:40) Al: You ask, well, you get a currency called Harmony. (0:25:44) Al: There’s only one way to get this currency and that is by selling things at the shop. (0:25:48) Al: So you cannot, you can get the other currency, which is called sugar dew, (0:25:53) Al: which is like the actual currency that you use to buy things. (0:25:56) Al: things. (0:25:57) Al: You can get that two other ways, you can sell to, like there’s one guy who sells you seeds, (0:26:02) Al: you can sell him stuff, but you don’t get the harmony that way. Or you can do, as it mentioned (0:26:07) Al: in the blurb, these small orders from the harmony tree. Those are the harvest sprites will ask for (0:26:18) Al: certain things and you can give them certain things and that will get you sugared you as well. Those (0:26:22) Al: tend to be like higher value things, so what would normally sell for? (0:26:25) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:26:27) Al: We’ll get to the shop later, because I have a lot to talk about about that, but let’s (0:26:44) Codey: Okay, I was gonna ask about this okay, okay (0:26:48) Al: get through this. (0:26:49) Al: So that’s the Island Unlocking, the main point of it is to get the unlocks so you can do (0:26:56) Al: other things. (0:26:57) Al: your tools and get different kinds of seeds and stuff like that. But it also unlocks more of these (0:27:02) Al: animals that you can go in and get seeds. And you seem to be able to get them basically infinitely. (0:27:07) Al: Right? Like if you walk between two islands, they’ll almost always have a seed for you. So you can (0:27:13) Al: like just constantly be getting free seeds, which I think is actually, yeah, which I think is really (0:27:13) Codey: Okay. Just go back and forth. (0:27:17) Al: good early on. It allows you to get a lot more seeds than you would otherwise be able to get. (0:27:24) Al: But I’ve hit the point where I’m like, this is just so much effort, I’m just. (0:27:27) Al: going to buy seeds, right? Because I’m now, you know, doing like 45 seeds a day. I’m not walking (0:27:33) Al: around the islands and interacting with the animals 45 times every single day, you know. (0:27:36) Codey: - Yeah. (0:27:40) Codey: Yeah. (0:27:41) Al: So there’s that. Farming wise, it’s pretty standard. But everything, it almost feels like (0:27:50) Al: it’s missed the last like 10 years of quality of life improvements in farming games. (0:27:56) Al: But it’s fine. (0:27:58) Al: What I will say is that your bag has two different buckets. (0:28:03) Al: I like having the tools in a different bucket because it doesn’t take up (0:28:06) Al: space to other things with it. (0:28:08) Al: So I will say that’s a good thing. (0:28:09) Al: I like that. (0:28:11) Al: That’s a thing. (0:28:14) Al: I don’t know what to say about the farming because it’s literally you (0:28:17) Al: till the land, you plant the seed, you water, it grows, you harvest it, right? (0:28:23) Al: It’s like standard farming. (0:28:24) Codey: That’s, that’s so innovative. (0:28:27) Codey: Uh, like how many types of seeds are there? (0:28:28) Al: So I have encountered maybe like 12. There’s a decent selection. It’s not humongous, but it’s a decent. I will say there don’t seem to be any seasons. (0:28:40) Al: So I’m on day 46 and I have not noticed any changes. It does have weather. I’ve noticed like three different weathers. So there’s rain, there’s sun, and then there’s wind. (0:28:54) Al: I don’t think wind does anything, it’s not like the storms and star- (0:28:57) Al: where sometimes you can’t go out the house, or it does something else, it’s just you see some wind. (0:29:02) Al: So I’m not really sure what that does, but yeah, the rain is good, it waters your plants standard. (0:29:10) Codey: love that. How is the, like, are the crops, like, well, not displayed, but like the visuals (0:29:19) Codey: of it really decent or are they pretty basic? (0:29:22) Al: I think if you like how the game looks you’ll like that. It is very much a choice how it (0:29:31) Al: looks. I’m not a huge fan, but yeah it’s not like you just see the crop up here on the (0:29:37) Al: ground or anything. They do have growth and they slowly grow and then you’ve got it on (0:29:42) Al: its plant and then you see the corn come off the plant, that sort of stuff. Interestingly (0:29:49) Al: I will say lots of the seeds look exactly (0:29:52) Al: the same. I’ve seen maybe three different kinds of seeds, so that can be a little bit (0:29:54) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:29:56) Al: weird. But the actual plants, they’re all unique and look so that’s fine, I guess. (0:30:00) Codey: Okay. (0:30:04) Codey: I suppose. (0:30:08) Al: Well, let me put it this way. Nothing excites me in this game. (0:30:13) Al: What else about the farming? You seem, I think, you upgrade like being able to (0:30:20) Al: So the seeds. (0:30:22) Al: So I’ve upgraded to the second watering can, which gives me a three by one instead of a one by one. (0:30:28) Codey: - Mm-hmm. (0:30:30) Al: And I can now sow seeds three by one as well. (0:30:34) Al: So I like that because some farming games forget that that that sewing seeds takes a long time. (0:30:34) Codey: Okay. (0:30:38) Al: And please give me an upgrade for that as well. (0:30:39) Codey: Yeah. (0:30:40) Al: So so that’s that’s good. (0:30:42) Al: I don’t think there’s anything really much to say about the farming. (0:30:46) Al: You get. Oh, yes, here’s one. You get three crops for every seed you plant. (0:30:50) Al: So if you plan, if you plant 10. (0:30:50) Codey: The benefit of the crops, is it just for selling or in your shop? (0:30:52) Al: And as far as I can see, you can only get it by buying it from the seed man. (0:31:00) Codey: Is there any cooking at all? (0:31:19) Al: I have not figured out a way to be able to. (0:31:22) Al: And I’ve not seen anything in the list of upgrades that would imply that you can unlock that later, which, if you can, feels weird that you can’t do it. (0:31:30) Al: Because I feel like I am maybe like halfway through the game, right? (0:31:34) Al: Like I’ve unlocked each of the islands to at least level three, and I’ve done two of them, one of them to level four, and I’m working on another one to level four, right? (0:31:43) Al: And that’s out of five. (0:31:44) Al: So I feel like I’m like I don’t think I could play this for another 10 hours and not have the. (0:31:52) Al: I’m all unlocked, so it would be weird if there was cooking and I just hadn’t unlocked it. (0:31:59) Codey: That is a choice, because I feel like people that farm are the ones that usually cook as well. (0:32:09) Codey: They’re more prone to cooking their own meals with their own food, but… (0:32:14) Codey: Mhmm. (0:32:14) Al: Well, and cooking is sometimes the only thing that gets you through the early stages of (0:32:18) Al: these farming games, right? (0:32:19) Al: Because you’re like, “I can’t do everything I want to do.” (0:32:20) Codey: Mhmm. (0:32:22) Al: And so you use some of your crops for energy instead. (0:32:24) Codey: Mhmm. (0:32:27) Al: Like that’s a pretty standard thing, and it does feel like a weird, especially with something (0:32:32) Al: at the shop, which I’ll get to in a minute. (0:32:34) Al: Let’s quickly talk about the animals. (0:32:34) Codey: Mhmm. Okay. Okay. Are these the animals on the islands or like farm animals on your (0:32:37) Al: The animals are fine. (0:32:40) Al: You buy an animal, you give it some food, it gives you some crops. (0:32:44) Al: Not crops, some produce. (0:32:48) Al: No, so these are farm animals, farm animals. (0:32:50) Codey: farm? Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. (0:32:52) Al: So I’ve got cows and chickens so far, and I believe you can get goats and ducks at least (0:32:57) Al: as well. (0:32:58) Al: I’ve seen them on the upgrade tree. (0:33:01) Al: I don’t know if there’s anything else. (0:33:04) Al: But yeah, they’re fine. (0:33:06) Al: One thing that is nice that some farming games do and some don’t is that as you upgrade the (0:33:11) Al: friendship to give you multiple produce in one day. (0:33:13) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:33:15) Al: So, and the produce is worth more than most of the crops, so you can invest a lot of money into (0:33:23) Al: the animals and get a lot of money that way, I think. Wheat, just wheat, which you can farm (0:33:28) Codey: What do the animals eat? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Is there quality to their products or is it just amount? (0:33:32) Al: yourself, so there is that. All right. No, no, it’s just, it’s just crops. (0:33:44) Al: There are two kinds of fertilizer. There is wet fertilizer and dry fertilizer. (0:33:49) Al: Yep, I don’t know why they chose the word wet. I do not enjoy that. (0:33:55) Al: Dry fertilizer speeds up the growing. Wet fertilizer keeps it watered. (0:34:00) Codey: That’s the choice. Are these things that you get from the animals? (0:34:04) Al: No, so you craft them from weeds. Oh yeah, let’s talk about, let’s talk about, so around your farm, (0:34:11) Al: obviously you have weeds and stones and trees and these things come back. (0:34:14) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:34:14) Al: They come back super quickly, like, oh, my word, rocks, rocks, I got rid of all the rocks from one, like, what is that like a 15 by 10 section I got rid of all the rocks from there, and then the next day I have nine rocks, nine rocks spawning in this small section in a day, it is so hard. (0:34:19) Codey: Hey, that’s that’s realistic, I mean maybe not like the rocks no (0:34:42) Codey: Nature is healing. (0:34:44) Al: To get rid of all this stuff and it’s like you have to like basically concrete over your farm if you don’t want these things to spawn. There’s so many of them. (0:34:52) Codey: I mean, it’s the rocks are plentiful in this spit a land, you know, they just love each other and (0:34:59) Codey: they’re making their rock babies. Yeah. What are you using like the rocks and the all that for? (0:35:02) Al: It’s just it’s not I feel like you could half it and it would still feel like a lot (0:35:11) Al: Very little there’s like some crafting things, but it’s like path like I’m I’m using the stone to create path (0:35:19) Al: to stop stone spawning (0:35:22) Al: In my in my crafting thing I can see like I can use the stone for some path (0:35:27) Al: I can use the WID for some path. I can use the WID… (0:35:32) Al: …for fences and that’s it. You do use the stone in the WID for house upgrades, but I do not care about it. Why would I care about house upgrades? (0:35:38) Codey: Mm hmm. Because you want a bigger house. (0:35:44) Al: Why? It doesn’t do anything. I never spend any time in my house. You can’t put anything there. (0:35:48) Codey: Doesn’t matter. When after a good hard day’s work, you want to come home to things. (0:35:56) Codey: Merica. Yeah, I don’t know. It sounds like this game is like half-baked. Okay. Okay. (0:35:59) Al: Yeah, so it’s bizarre. Oh, for sure, for sure. Speaking of half-baked, let’s talk about the shop. (0:36:07) Al: Oh, this is the worst part of the game. I just noticed I did the groan and I typed, (0:36:16) Al: that was apparently my top bullet point on this list. That was accidental. (0:36:18) Codey: What is the, how do you say that, the way that you typed it, ugh, okay. (0:36:26) Al: So, first of all, you have to… (0:36:29) Al: Use up stamina to sell things in the shop, which, considering you cannot replenish your (0:36:36) Al: stamina with your crops, you have to buy energy things. That is such a weird choice, especially (0:36:42) Al: as you don’t use up stamina to do anything to do with your animals. To milk your cows, (0:36:46) Codey: I will say my animals give me life every day, so that coming out net pause net. (0:36:48) Al: pet your cows, feed your cows, no stamina loss. Sewing seeds does not have stamina. (0:36:58) Codey: Okay, that’s a lie. (0:36:59) Al: But selling at the shop does? (0:37:00) Codey: Maybe, maybe they’re introverted. (0:37:04) Codey: Social interaction is hard. (0:37:07) Al: It’s not fun. Let me put it that way, right? (0:37:10) Codey: Social interaction is hard. (0:37:15) Al: I’m at the point in my farm where I have so many crops that I can only ever go to my shop (0:37:20) Al: on a rainy day. Because I run out of stamina by the end of my farming. (0:37:26) Codey: - Yeah, is there, wait, my brain is potato. (0:37:29) Codey: Can you upgrade your stamina? (0:37:30) Codey: Like increase your, the amount of? (0:37:31) Al: I don’t know, because there’s no number on it, there’s just a bar. And it does say that I’m (0:37:38) Al: upgrading my level, but I don’t know if that upgrades my stamina or not. Hard to know, (0:37:44) Al: because there’s no transparency there. Okay, so you go in and you say you have like four counters, (0:37:55) Al: you can put one stack of items on each counter. And then you go, right, I’m opening the shop now, (0:38:00) Al: You can do it once per day. (0:38:01) Al: You can spend as much time as you want doing things and then you go to your shop and you open the shop and when your shop closes, it’s night time. (0:38:16) Al: That is how this works, which I think is an interesting way of doing things. (0:38:20) Al: It has not been implemented particularly well here. It’s not particularly interesting in this game, but it is an interesting idea. (0:38:27) Al: That is what I will say. (0:38:28) Codey: OK, props for the idea, not for the execution. (0:38:29) Al: Sorry. (0:38:32) Al: Yes, so you open your shop and then these random village creatures who you never see at any other point in the game. (0:38:41) Codey: Yeah, I was gonna that was my next question. (0:38:42) Al: They come in. Where do they come from? I don’t know. Doesn’t matter. Don’t question it. (0:38:49) Al: So they pop into the shop and you can have like an infinite line of these creatures coming in as long as you still have stamina and you still have items on the counter. (0:39:01) Al: And they will go, they’ll wander around and they’ll pick something up, some number of one of your items and they will take it to you and they will either be like, “I want to buy this.” (0:39:10) Al: Or they’ll be like, “I maybe want to buy this.” If they want to buy it, you click the button, you sell it. Great. (0:39:17) Al: If they’re not sure, you get to convince them. And what you can do is you can either say, like, you can choose one of three things. You can either do like the middle one. (0:39:27) Al: one, and if it’s more likely. (0:39:31) Al: Or is the normal likelihood of them selling, and you get the normal amount of money? (0:39:36) Al: If you choose the higher one, there is less likelihood of them buying, (0:39:40) Al: but you get more money, and if you choose the lower one, you get less money, (0:39:44) Al: and there’s a higher chance of them getting it. (0:39:46) Codey: Does it sound like that’s how it works? (0:39:47) Al: Sounds like an interesting idea, right? (0:39:50) Al: Except… (0:39:53) Al: Just sell it the next day. (0:39:55) Al: Why would I ever choose anything other than the top one? (0:39:59) Al: Because I have a chance of getting more money. (0:40:01) Al: And if I don’t sell it, I will sell it the next day. (0:40:02) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:04) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:06) Al: There is no reason whatsoever to ever choose the lower one. (0:40:08) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:11) Al: I can just sell it the next day. (0:40:12) Codey: Yeah. (0:40:14) Al: This is not a problem. (0:40:16) Al: I don’t understand. (0:40:17) Al: This is the most half-baked idea for a shop I have ever, ever seen. (0:40:22) Al: I don’t, I don’t understand it. (0:40:22) Codey: Also, just imagining, just imagining like being in a shop (0:40:27) Codey: in the real and having someone look at the price tag and they (0:40:30) Codey: come up and they’re like, I don’t know. I don’t know if I (0:40:31) Al: So, well, the lower behind it is they say, “Oh, you’re right, here’s a tip.” (0:40:34) Codey: want this. How in the hell are you convincing them to spend (0:40:37) Codey: more money on it in the end? (0:40:45) Codey: Oh, (0:40:47) Al: That is the lower behind this. (0:40:48) Codey: Okay. Okay, and then. (0:40:50) Al: But also like all of the dialogue options are bad, right? (0:40:53) Al: Because what they’ll do is they’ll say like, “Oh, I have, I kid you not, this is the exact (0:40:57) Al: wording.” (0:40:58) Al: They’ll come up and they’ll say, “I thought I wanted…” (0:41:01) Al: It’s such, it’s just like, and I know that it’s probably just like, oh, they’re not native English speakers, but it’s just like, just remove the three times, right? (0:41:05) Codey: Well, yeah, the three times carrot at a home is like awful. (0:41:29) Al: and it would sound so much less bad. (0:41:31) Codey: Yeah (0:41:31) Al: It’s like, “Oh, you can never have too many carrots.” (0:41:33) Al: Rather than, “Oh, you can never have too many three-times-carrot.” (0:41:34) Codey: Yeah (0:41:37) Codey: I mean, but yeah that I mean even that like you can never have too many carrots like at a certain point (0:41:43) Al: I mean, it’s not true, but you know that there will be people saying that, right? (0:41:44) Codey: That’s you can (0:41:49) Al: Like, you can absolutely believe someone’s saying that in a shop. (0:41:52) Al: You can never have too many carrots. (0:41:52) Codey: I, I, I’m going to start saying that just to spite you. Okay, sausage. (0:41:54) Al: Nobody’s saying, “You can never have too many three-times-carrot.” (0:42:03) Al: Sausage roll thrice. (0:42:08) Codey: I want a quartet of sausage, please. (0:42:09) Al: Carrot thrice, please. (0:42:13) Codey: Thrice. Okay, the we’re gonna dial it back a little bit because a village creatures. (0:42:21) Al: I don’t know who they are! They’re humanoid, but like, short. They’re almost… (0:42:22) Codey: Are they’re human? (0:42:29) Codey: Okay, but short people are people too, Elle. (0:42:34) Al: I didn’t call them creatures, the game did. (0:42:36) Codey: Okay, okay, wait, what, what, what? (0:42:40) Al: I don’t know. It’s weird. Possibly, possibly. I think they’re meant to be like Harvest Sprites, (0:42:43) Codey: Is that maybe just a translation issue? (0:42:48) Al: Because, ironically, the game can… (0:42:51) Al: Characters in the game that are actually harvest sprites are like your size. (0:42:56) Al: And the characters that aren’t harvest sprites are harvest sprites size. (0:43:02) Codey: This is upside down world, opposite land. (0:43:05) Al: On so many levels, um, yeah. (0:43:08) Codey: Okay. (0:43:09) Codey: And are these the like, (0:43:12) Codey: okay, but you said you never see them elsewhere. (0:43:14) Codey: Like you don’t, there’s no village (0:43:16) Al: No (0:43:17) Codey: or they’re never wandering around Ferret Island. (0:43:19) Al: No, no, I have never seen them and I’ve played I’ve at least ten errors in it (0:43:26) Codey: Is the game, is there a mystery (0:43:29) Codey: as to why you don’t know where they are? (0:43:32) Al: It does not frame it like that, no. (0:43:33) Codey: Okay. (0:43:35) Codey: That was a choice. (0:43:37) Al: I don’t know where they’re coming from, nobody ever (0:43:39) Al: questions where they’re coming from, they just are. And there’s (0:43:43) Al: so many of them and you never see a single one until the minute (0:43:46) Al: you open the shop and there’s like a stream of them coming (0:43:49) Al: until you run out of stamina or items. (0:43:52) Codey: Mm-hmm. That does, that mechanic reminds me of garden paws because you did have a (0:43:58) Codey: shop in garden paws. There was no like haggling or whatever, but, um, in garden (0:44:04) Codey: paws, like it was just a line of thi-, of people that come until your shop closes. (0:44:08) Al: Yeah. It just keeps convincing me that I don’t think there is a good way to make a shop game. (0:44:15) Al: I just don’t think it’s possible. (0:44:17) Codey: That’s fair. (0:44:18) Codey: Oh, they also… (0:44:18) Al: Mineko got the closest and it only works because it’s like once a week and it’s super short and (0:44:23) Al: super quick. I don’t remember there being a shop where you’re selling stuff in that. (0:44:25) Codey: They also did spells and secrets (0:44:31) Codey: No, no, no, I’m just saying there I was looking to see what other games they’ve done and that is on their list (0:44:35) Al: Oh, okay. Yeah, so Roca play their their (0:44:38) Al: publisher. (0:44:39) Codey: Yeah, oh well why does (0:44:40) Al: They’re not developer. (0:44:40) Al: Oh, well, I think they have been a developer, but not for most games that you they’re linked (0:44:45) Al: to. (0:44:46) Codey: Okay (0:44:47) Al: They’re mostly a publisher. (0:44:48) Codey: They are the developer of this game though (0:44:49) Al: Oh, they are, are they? (0:44:52) Codey: Of this one specifically (0:44:53) Al: Okay. (0:44:54) Al: Right. (0:44:55) Al: So they are. (0:44:56) Codey: Okay (0:44:58) Al: They were there. (0:44:59) Al: They’re the second listed developer for spells and secrets. (0:45:02) Al: So probably not really. (0:45:04) Codey: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. (0:45:06) Al: They also published the new game. (0:45:08) Al: It’s called A Game About Digging A Hole, which seems to be getting a lot of traction, (0:45:12) Al: but they didn’t develop that either. (0:45:14) Codey: The game about digging a hole. (0:45:14) Al: It’s all over the internet just now. (0:45:20) Al: It’s just interesting how hit and miss they seem to be. (0:45:23) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:45:24) Al: They’re publishing Solarpunk as well, which looks really good. (0:45:27) Codey: The game about digging a hole. (0:45:28) Al: Have you not seen this yet? (0:45:30) Codey: Oh, it’s literally called a game about digging a hole. (0:45:33) Al: It’s called A Game About Digging A Hole. (0:45:34) Codey: Oh, okay, keep going. (0:45:36) Al: It’s got very positive reviews on Steam. (0:45:39) Al: Six days ago, and it has nearly 4,000 reviews on Steam. (0:45:43) Al: It’s like blowing up. (0:45:43) Codey: Oh my god, I see it. This is… I would do that. I want to play this. (0:45:50) Al: It looks really good and people seem to really like it. They don’t seem to have a bar quality (0:45:53) Codey: Yeah. They’re just the publisher though. (0:45:58) Al: for their publishing, like some of them are great and some of them are SugarGee Island. (0:46:04) Codey: Specifically. (0:46:05) Al: Sorry, this is sounding really harsh. It’s fine. It’s not a terrible game, but I do not know why (0:46:09) Codey: They’re not batting a thousand. (0:46:13) Al: I would play this ahead of any farming game ever. That’s the thing. Why would I play this instead of (0:46:19) Al: of stargy. (0:46:20) Al: I would not play this instead of Coral Island. (0:46:23) Al: Why would I play this instead of Fields of Mistria? (0:46:26) Al: I wouldn’t. (0:46:26) Codey: - Mm-hmm, that’s fair. (0:46:29) Al: When I backed this on Kickstarter, I literally backed it saying, “I guess I’m going to cover (0:46:33) Al: this on the podcast,” like I’m not hating my time playing it, but I’m not like I must (0:46:38) Codey: Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I was really. I was really shocked that you’re still playing that when (0:46:39) Al: be playing it, which weirdly I am doing with Harvest Moon Home Sweet Home. (0:46:45) Al: That’s what territory we’re in. (0:46:46) Al: I want to play Harvest Moon Home Sweet Home. (0:46:48) Al: I don’t want to play Shuku-jiu Island! (0:46:50) Al: I can’t stop, Cody! (0:46:55) Codey: I saw it on your thing. Well, you’re almost done. It’s okay. Okay, so these harvest sprites. (0:47:04) Codey: Never see them except for when they’re buying from you. (0:47:06) Al: No, so that’s the the harvest sprites are different. (0:47:10) Al: So these are the what do they call them? (0:47:12) Al: Forest folk are the ones that buy from your shop. (0:47:16) Al: The harvest sprites are the ones that you sell stuff to with the like random requests. (0:47:22) Codey: Okay. (0:47:23) Al: They’ll be like, oh, I want these things and you can sell it and get more money for (0:47:26) Al: them, but no harmony. (0:

Naturalnie nawożenie w ogrodzie ekologicznym - dlaczego?Słuchając podcastu dowiesz się w jaki sposób rośliny pobierają składniki pokarmowe. Jak można to wykorzystać w ogrodzie ekologicznym. Czym różnią się działania nawozów sztucznych oraz naturalnych, organicznych. Zapraszamy.Rozmawiają Katarzyna Bellingham i Jacek Naliwajek Polecamy książki:Książki Katarzyny Bellingham z dedykacją: https://allegro.pl/uzytkownik/kitty908Książka "Plan na warzywnik" Jacek Naliwajek: https://bit.ly/3zwoGv1 Polecane ze sklepu Kasi (reklama): Widły do napowietrzania gleby: https://bit.ly/4fE10nnNasiona warzyw: https://bit.ly/40A5ynbTaca do sadzenia: https://bit.ly/3KYYwCEMocne i trwałe multuplaty do rozsady: https://bit.ly/3NWzrdNMiniszklarenka do wysiewów: https://bit.ly/42D7m1cAkcesoria do wysiewu: https://bit.ly/42GXUMpSklep Kasi: https://KasiaBellinghamSklep.pl/ Sadzonki szczepionych warzyw: https://ogrodbellingham.redcart.pl/ Newsletter: https://naturalnieoogrodach.pl/Strona internetowa: https://naturalnieoogrodach.pl/Kontakt: naturalnieoogrodach@gmail.com---------------Podcastu możesz też słuchać na aplikacjach mobilnych: �� Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IT0uXP�� Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2VN51RH----------------Zajrzyj do nas: FB: https://www.facebook.com/Naturalnie-o-ogrodach-803749476630224/IN: https://instagram.com/naturalnie.o.ogrodach/-----------------Co to za kanał „Naturalnie o ogrodach”? Opowiadamy o ogrodach naturalnych, ekologicznych, pożytecznych, wiejskich, miejskich i angielskich. Propagujemy i zachęcamy do uprawiania ogrodów ekologicznie, w zgodzie z naturą, bez chemii. #naturalnieoogrodach

Joyce welcomes Marcie Roth, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the World Institute on Disability (WID). Each year December 3rd is recognized to promote an understanding of disability issues and to generate support for the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. WID helps assure that products and services are more accessible. It also promotes equity policies, provides consulting services, offers training and tools. WID also supports emergency, disaster, and climate efforts. Ms. Roth will be discussing their mission and International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD).

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Forbes, U.S. Presidential Appointee, World Institute on DisabilityThe is a LIVE Interview, I am at a National Seminar at an OUTSIDE Windy Booth & Marcie Roth is a a National Conference! We Celebrate the 34th Anniversary of the American's with Disability Act & some Memories & Lots of Info on WID!Recently named by Forbes Magazine to their inaugural Fifty Over 50 Impact List, and by Womens' eNews as one of  their 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Marcie has served in executive leadership roles for disability advocacy and public policy organizations since 1995, leading coalitions committed to operationalizing accessibility and inclusion as intersectional imperatives for equity, diversity and global social justice.In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Marcie turned her advocacy towards improving emergency preparedness and disaster outcomes for people with disabilities, building accessible disaster-resilient communities and disability inclusive climate justice initiatives.Experienced in establishing, supporting and leading coalitions committed to disability inclusion as an intersectional imperative for global social justiceAppointed by President Obama to the U.S Department of Homeland Security - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 2009 to 2017, she served as Senior Advisor to the FEMA Administrator, establishing and directing the Office of Disability Integration and Coordination. Marcie represented the U.S. government internationally as an expert on whole community inclusive global disaster risk reduction from 2012- 2017 and has served as a leader throughout the development and implementation of the United Nations Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.  Marcie provides expert consultation to governments, corporations, health systems, and the United Nations.  She launched the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration in 2020, bringing corporate and foundation funders together with local disability-led organizations to accelerate humanitarian relief directly to disaster-impacted communities where and when it's needed most. Under her leadership, GADRA is currently assisting Ukrainian disability-led organizations in an urgent effort to be sure Ukrainian children and adults with disabilities are not left behind.Recently appointed to the American Red Cross Diversity Advisory Council, the Board of Directors of InterAction, and as Chairperson of the  US Department of Health and Human Services National Advisory Committee on Disability and Disaster, Marcie is a Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive Fellow with a BS in Public Safety Administration from the University of Maryland Global Campus.© 2024 All Rights Reserved© 2024 Building Abundant Success!!Join Me on ~ iHeart Media @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

This week, the Mic's on Mikes take a back seat to Daniel and WID? Just kidding...it just didn't work out. The Mikes talk about all the craziness brewing in NXT, preview Clash at the Castle, and Daniel talks about Giant's not named Andre! facebook.com/drivebypod drsquatch.com/MIKEMARKUS PROMO CODE: MIKEMARKUS (10 Bucks off Orders of $20 or more) Archives: Danielgrothe.us --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drivebypod/message

Le Women in Digital Summit, premier sommet wallon des femmes dans la créativité numérique. Cet événement a pour objectif d'inspirer, de sensibiliser et de mieux outiller les femmes évoluant dans le monde de la tech et des industries culturelles et créatives. Delphine Jenart de l'asbl Kikk, Marine Haverland coordinatrice du WID summit et Aurélie Couvreur CEO/Directrice Générale du MIC. Merci pour votre écoute Tendances Première, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 10h à 11h30 sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Tendances Première sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/11090 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Comment jongler entre deux métiers et projets entrepreneuriaux différents ? C'est le challenge que beaucoup de freelances et entrepreneurs ont dans leurs vies, à différents niveaux, avec chacun et chacune une recette différente pour trouver l'équilibre.Dans ce moment extrait de l'épisode 10 du podcast, Yohan Quintar nous explique comment il s'organise entre son activité de designer et illustrateur, et ses aspirations de rappeur qui vient de sortir son premier EP. Comment il perçoit sa vision future de son organisation ? Comment il gère ses pulsions créatives ? Quelle évolution pour son positionnement ? Ce moment vous plongera dans les questionnements d'un solopreneur comme vous.Pour écouter l'épisode entier, cliquez ici : https://smartlink.ausha.co/young-wild-freelance-le-podcast-pour-ta-vie-d-independant/10-devenir-freelance-pour-se-consacrer-a-son-art---- Retrouvez toutes les semaines sur Young, Wid & Freelance du contenu pour votre aventure entrepreneuriale. Pour aller plus loin, abonnez vous à la newsletter : https://thomasburbidge.com/newsletterHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

This week, the Mikes on Mics talk about a violent Rock, Sasha being a bad friend, a super three way promo, and another type of three way! Also a VERY special message from Daniel Grothe of "WiD?"! facebook.com/drivebypod drsquatch.com/MIKEMARKUS PROMO CODE: MIKEMARKUS (10 Bucks off Orders of $20 or more) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drivebypod/message

Vinyl set from the great TidyTwo label. Banging! 1. Tomcat - I'm Still Free 2. Signum - Coming On Strong (SHOKK Remix) 3. DJ Spoke - Ignition (Nick Sentience Remix) 4. The Freak - The Melody, The Sound (Original Mix) 5. E-WOK - Supersound (Freak Remix) 6. Abel Ramos - One More (Original Mix) 7. Rob Tissera, Vinylgroover & The Redhed - Stay (Lee Haslam Remix) 8. Tony De Vit - Give Me A Reason (Guyver Remix) 9. Lee Haslam - Free 10. Lee Haslam - Music Is The Drug 11. Wid & Ben - Absolution 12. Miss Behaving - Such A Good Feelin (Lee Haslam & Guyver Remix) 13. The Freak - The Bells (Lee Pasch Remix) 14. Stimulator - Play (Original Mix) 15. Guyver - Differences 16. Guyver - Man On The Moon

To celebrate International Womens Day we are delighted to welcome Women in Data back to the show.  They provide a platform that allows professionals at all levels to share their knowledge and experience, while working alongside businesses to help them embrace and develop the enormous advantages generated by diversity.This week Dave and Sjoukje talk to Roisin McCarthy, Founder at Women in Data and Elisa Sai, VP Analytics & AI at Capgemini Invent about Women in Data's 'Twenty in Data & Tech' series, this weeks flagship event at Londons o2, get an exclusive announcement on next years 'Twenty in Data & Tech' series and a call to action!  We also talk to Elisa about what it is like to be involved in the movement.TLDR:00:56 Intros 02:17 Cloud conversation with Roisin McCarthy and Elisa Sai28:10 International Womens Day35:00 Rest of the year with WiD & a birthday! GuestRoisin McCarthy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roisinmccarthy/Elisa Sai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-sai-40907623/HostsDave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/ProductionMarcel Van Der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-van-der-burg-99a655/Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/SoundBen Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/

The countdown has begun, and we are buzzing with excitement!  In this thrilling episode, Karen is joined by Roisin McCarthy, the founder of Women in Data, and Chole Aboud, Partner Relations Executive for WiD, to provide you with an exclusive sneak peek into the flagship event happening on March 7, 2024. Tune in to discover details about the incredibly inspiring guest speakers, engaging workshops, hackathon, and partnerships for the day!  If you're attending, don't forget to come say hi! See you there! 

The holidays are a joyous time for many; yet for others, it can be challenging. For domestic violence survivors, it is often complicated and complex. Join us for an enlightening and inspiring conversation about DV and the holidays, and how WID helps to center healing and joy this time of year. Want to donate a toy to a family in need experiencing DV? Learn all about it:FlyerQuestions/Schedule a Drop-OffEPISODE INFO:Host: Emily Janas, Education & Prevention Manager at Women In DistressGuest: Maddison Clyne, Associate Director of Development, Events & Annual Fund at Women In DistressMusic by: Shane Ivers at https://www.silvermansound.com/You can also find us on social media:FacebookInstagram: @WomenInDistress & @TheRelationshipSpectrum:TikTok @TheRelationshipSpectrumABOUT THE PODCAST"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This show, brought to you by the Education & Prevention team at Women In Distress in Broward County, FL is building awareness to end domestic violence. Each episode, we'll be breaking down different aspects of the work – we'll talk to survivors, advocates, community members, and others to explore the things that are happening right now and the work that still needs to be done. ABOUT WOMEN IN DISTRESSWomen In Distress is the only state-certified, nationally accredited domestic violence center serving Broward County, Florida. Our mission is "To stop domestic abuse for everyone through intervention, education, and advocacy." https://www.womenindistress.org/GET HELP:If you are in immediate danger:Call 9-1-1Women In Distress (Broward County)24/7 Crisis Hotline: (954) 761-1133 | Florida Relay 711https://www.womenindistress.org/ FL Statewide DV Hotline: Call or Text: 1-800-500-1199  Florida Relay 711Find your local Florida DV center: https://www.myflfamilies.com/service-programs/domestic-violenceTraining & resources: https://www.fldvtraining.org/Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 to  connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselorhttps://www.crisistextline.org/National DV Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)Text "START" to 88788https://www.thehotline.org/SAMHSA Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988https://988lifeline.org/ Love Is Respect: 1-866-331-9474Text "LOVEIS" to 22522 https://www.loveisrespect.org/

What a Show we have! The Mike's on mics are joined by Daniel G from the infamous WiD? show! The guys talk for about 30 minutes on current pro wrestling and then spent the remainder of the show talking all things Spooktacular including Ghost, Bigfoot, Aliens, and conspiracy theories! facebook.com/drivebypod danielgrothe.us dr.squatch.com/mikemarkus PROMO Code MIKEMARKUS --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drivebypod/message

Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.EPISODE SUMMARYThis week Mark takes a different angle and interviews someone he met at the 2023 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement weekend. Brooke Maratta is the host of the Write It Down Podcast. Below is her about information (****Taken from the website*****).ABOUT BROOK MARATTAMy name is Brooke Maratta, and I love talking to anyone and everyone. After graduating college, I found myself in the familiar yet unprecedented unknown. No one really warns you about the space between post-grad life and actually starting a life. I applied for jobs in the TV industry and cried a lot. I felt like a failure. My resumé couldn't help me, my friends couldn't console me, and my prayers felt unheard. I knew I someday wanted to host a show interviewing guests, but I didn't know it would take shape in the form of a podcast in my hometown. You gotta start somewhere…I named my show Write it Down because my mentor always told me to write things down in order to remember what God has done in my life, to reflect on my past self, and to organize my thoughts. I was avidly journaling when I encountered the lowest point in my life. So, why not name my show based on the reality of my circumstance? There is, however, a double entendre. When you listen to WID, you will notice each guest gives the audience one point to write down and remember. (Check out our WID WALL)I hope when you listen to Write it Down you are challenged, inspired, and encouraged. It is often during the most difficult seasons in life where God reveals Himself, His plan, and His provision for you. This podcast is living proof that His silence does not mean He is absent. Sit back, relax, and get your pens ready…YESTERDAY'S SPORTS BACKGROUNDHost Mark Morthier grew up in New Jersey just across the river from New York City during the 1970s, a great time for sports in the area. He relives great moments from this time and beyond, focusing on football, baseball, basketball, and boxing. You may even see a little Olympic Weightlifting in the mix, as Mark competed for eight years. See Mark's book below.No Nonsense, Old School Weight Training: A Guide For People With Limited TimeRunning Wild: (Growing Up In The 1970s)

Purnima Dhar is Program Incharge of Women Helpline 181 in J&K and Director, Aman Satya Kachroo Trust (Aman Movement). Manisha Tiwary is a writer and Director, Aman Satya Kachroo Trust. Integrated Sakhi One Stop Center & 181 - Universal Women Helpline (Sakhi/181) is a scheme of the Union Government to restore Equality & Dignity of women in India. The idea is: By dialing a single 3 digit number, (181), from any where in India a women in distress (WID) can access nearest of 650 sakhi centers. A sakhi centre is a one stop crisis centre where staff will represent ( Not Refer) a WID in front of state service providers like police, legal services authorities, protection officers, counselors, Women's Commissions etc. To realise this vision Aman Movement has developed PRIYA JYOTI. It is state of the art management system & software for Sakhi/181. It is being implemented in several states in partnership with their respective governments. Read more on https://www.amanmovement.org/

Pastor Anthony Rick is the epitome of selflessness, joy, and kindness. He joins the Write it Down Podcast to share the "why" behind writing his new hit book "The Hand Book". When you think about the hand of God, what comes to mind? Anger? Justice? Frustration? Or is it Kindness? Love? Assurance? "The Hand Book" takes us on a beautiful journey describing God's hand and all of His wonderful attributes. Let's just say, I don't like reading, and I could not put down Anthony's wonderful book! I am honored Anthony Rick came on WIDPOD! This episode will knock your socks off with encouragement and joy. On top of that, Anthony's WID was challenging and thought provoking. You won't want to miss this episode! Sit back, relax, and get your pens ready!!

Kathy Martinez, WID's former Executive Director and the current Vice President of Global Disability Inclusion at Expedia, discusses global disability rights, justice and inclusion, her memories of Judy Heumann and WID's 40th anniversary. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wid-org/support

On this episode of ‘An Ounce of Prevention with Women In Distress', we are excited to be featuring the inaugural episode of a new podcast from the Mental Health Promotion Action Team at United Way of Broward County's Commission on Behavioral Health and Drug Prevention: ‘United for Mental Health & Wellness'. Each episode they publish will focus on a different topic within mental health, starting with this one on Mental Health 101. WID is excited to be involved in this project through production support, and we hope you'll continue to stay tuned to both ‘An Ounce of Prevention and ‘United for Mental Health & Wellness'. Subscribe to "United for Mental Health & Wellness" on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts.For more information on the United Way of Broward County's Commission on Behavioral Health & Drug Prevention: www.drugfreebroward.org Check us out on our social media:On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/WomenInDistress@WomenInDistress on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenindistress@WID_Teen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/WID_Teen@TheRelationshipSpectrum on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therelationshipspectrumABOUT OUR PODCAST"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This show, brought to you by the Education & Prevention team at Women In Distress in Broward County, FL is building awareness to end domestic violence. Each episode, we'll be breaking down different aspects of the work – we'll talk to survivors, advocates, community members, and others to explore the things that are happening right now and the work that still needs to be done. ABOUT WOMEN IN DISTRESSWomen In Distress is the only state-certified, nationally accredited domestic violence center serving Broward County, Florida. Our mission is "To stop domestic abuse for everyone through intervention, education, and advocacy." https://www.womenindistress.org/GET HELP:If you are in immediate danger:Call 9-1-1Women In Distress (Broward County)24/7 Crisis Hotline: (954) 761-1133 | Florida Relay 711https://www.womenindistress.org/ FL Statewide DV Hotline: 1-800-500-1199 Find your local Florida DV center: https://www.myflfamilies.com/service-programs/domestic-violenceNational DV Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)Text "START" to 88788https://www.thehotline.org/SAMHSA Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988https://988lifeline.org/ 

WID's Former Executive Director Deborah Kaplan and WID's current Senior Director of Operations and Deputy Director, Kat Zigmont discuss the past, present and future of accessibility in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wid-org/support

International disability rights activist and WID's former International Program Director, Bruce Curtis, reflects on his years in activism alongside Judy Heumann and Ed Roberts and the importance of disability rights activism today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wid-org/support

Judy Huemann     On the 46th anniversary of the Section 504 sit-ins in San Francisco, we take a look back at the longest occupation of a federal building in U.S. history, the role the late Judy Heumann played in it, and the subsequent disability rights movement.         Ed Roberts, Judy Huemann, Joan Leon at the beginning of WID     Producer and Host, Mark Romoser, is joined by Joan Leon, who has worked with the Berkeley Center for Independent Living (CIL) and its offshoot the World Institute on Disability.  Ms Leon continues to sit on the board of the Berkeley CIL, where Judy was once deputy director. The post Judy Heumann – Pushing Limits – April 7, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

This Women's History Month 2023, we hear from a survivor who shares her story and how she has regained her power and her voice. We also talk with a member of WID's Development Team about the way our organization finds ways for the community to support survivors. We also discuss more information about our #KissDomesticViolenceGoodbye initiative this month! More on our Instagram (@WomenInDistress) EPISODE INFORMATIONHost: Emily Janas, Education & Prevention Manager at Women In DistressGuests:Cher, a survivor of domestic abuseMaddison Clyne, Associate Director of Development, Events & Annual Fund at Women In DistressMusic by: Shane Ivers at https://www.silvermansound.com/Interested in learning more? Check out more about Women In Distress on our website : https://www.womenindistress.org/ You can also find us on social media:On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/WomenInDistress@WomenInDistress on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenindistress@WID_Teen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/WID_Teen@TheRelationshipSpectrum on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therelationshipspectrumABOUT THE PODCAST"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This show, brought to you by the Education & Prevention team at Women In Distress in Broward County, FL is building awareness to end domestic violence. Each episode, we'll be breaking down different aspects of the work – we'll talk to survivors, advocates, community members, and others to explore the things that are happening right now and the work that still needs to be done. ABOUT WOMEN IN DISTRESSWomen In Distress is the only state-certified, nationally accredited domestic violence center serving Broward County, Florida. Our mission is "To stop domestic abuse for everyone through intervention, education, and advocacy." https://www.womenindistress.org/GET HELP:If you are in immediate danger:Call 9-1-1Women In Distress (Broward County)24/7 Crisis Hotline: (954) 761-1133 | Florida Relay 711https://www.womenindistress.org/ FL Statewide DV Hotline: 1-800-500-1199 Find your local Florida DV center: https://www.myflfamilies.com/service-programs/domestic-violenceNational DV Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)Text "START" to 88788https://www.thehotline.org/SAMHSA Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988https://988lifeline.org/ 

This Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month 2023, we hear from a TDV survivor who shares her story and how she uses her experience to help others and prevent violence.EPISODE INFORMATIONHost: Emily Janas, Education & Prevention Manager at Women In DistressGuest: Aly Oppenheim (order her book "Ed: My Shadow, Not My Friend" here) Music by: Shane Ivers at https://www.silvermansound.com/CONTENT WARNING: The conversation in this episode contains mentions of topics that may be sensitive to some listeners, including eating disorders, self-harm, and suicide attempts. Interested in learning more? Check out other TDVAM events happening at WID this month: https://www.womenindistress.org/events/february-tdvam/ You can also find us on social media:On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/WomenInDistress@WomenInDistress on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenindistress@WID_Teen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/WID_Teen@TheRelationshipSpectrum on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therelationshipspectrumABOUT THE PODCAST"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This show, brought to you by the Education & Prevention team at Women In Distress in Broward County, FL is building awareness to end domestic violence. Each episode, we'll be breaking down different aspects of the work – we'll talk to survivors, advocates, community members, and others to explore the things that are happening right now and the work that still needs to be done. ABOUT WOMEN IN DISTRESSWomen In Distress is the only state-certified, nationally accredited domestic violence center serving Broward County, Florida. Our mission is "To stop domestic abuse for everyone through intervention, education, and advocacy." https://www.womenindistress.org/GET HELP:If you are in immediate danger:Call 9-1-1Women In Distress (Broward County)24/7 Crisis Hotline: (954) 761-1133 | Florida Relay 711https://www.womenindistress.org/ FL Statewide DV Hotline: 1-800-500-1199 Find your local Florida DV center: https://www.myflfamilies.com/service-programs/domestic-violenceNational DV Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)Text "START" to 88788https://www.thehotline.org/SAMHSA Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988https://988lifeline.org/ National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237Call: Monday-Thursday, 11 AM - 9 PM ET, Friday 11 AM - 5 PM ETText: Monday-Thursday, 3 PM - 6 PM ET, Friday 1 PM - 5 PM ETOnline Chat: Monday-Thursday, 3 PM - 6 PM ET, Friday 1 PM - 5 PM EThttps://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline

Episode Description On this episode of the ACB Advocacy Update, Clark is joined by Kat Zigmont, Deputy Director, World Institute on Disability, regarding her and WID's experience at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show. ACB and WID were invited to participate as part of the Consumer Technology Association Foundation's Accessibility Leaders cohort. They discuss the evolution of accessible technology and why it is important to have disability inclusion at major industry conventions, like CES. To learn more about the World Institute on Disability as they celebrate their 40th anniversary, please visit: www.wid.org. Find out more at https://acb-advocacy-update.pinecast.co

Napakowany w historie, histerie, dramaty oraz tragikomedie, rok 2022 dobiegł końca. Każdy czas rodzi swoich bohaterów, jak również zakały. W Bulwarze Podlaskim każdy dostał od nas tą samą kartę, bez znaczonych talii, ani bez zielonego pola na ruletce. Wybraliśmy to czego nie powinniśmy usłyszeć, historie które nie powinny się wydarzyć w XXI wieku, ale się wydarzyły i to najczęściej w najdziwniejszy możliwy sposób oraz z zaskakującymi bohaterami w rolach głównych. Nasze podsumowanie zawiera dzisiaj 3 potężne kategorie, wypełnione tuzami polskiej sceny kabaretowej: a) Stand-upper roku, b) Rozstanie roku, c) Przegrany roku. Ponadto dodaliśmy ankietę, gdzie sami możecie wybrać bohatera, który drogą pocztową otrzyma od nas nagrodę "Złote Widły 2022" za największą gwiazdę mijającego roku! Do usłyszenia, Bulwar Podlaski!

Overview Today's guest is Dipti Borkar, Vice President and General Manager, SaaS, Azure Databases at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dipti was the Founder and Creator of Ahana, a cloud managed service. Dipit has vast experience working in startups such as Counchbase, and Marklogic, and began her career working as a software engineer for IBM. In today's episode, Dipti shares how Databases have evolved over the past 15 years, her predictions for the future of technology and provides actionable advice for those looking to start a career in technology. About Dipti Borkar Dipti is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in cloud, open source and distributed data / database tech including relational, NoSQL, and federated systems. Dipti is the Vice President & General Manager at Azure Data, Microsoft where she leads product and engineering teams to make cloud databases simple and smart. She founded Ahana and created a cloud managed service for SQL on data lakes where she played many roles including Chief Product Officer and VP of Cloud / Open source engineering. Prior to Ahana, she held various different executive roles at Alluxio, Couchbase and IBM. At Couchbase she held several leadership positions over the years leading and building out the product, engineering and world-wide solutions engineering teams. At IBM, Dipti managed large world-wide dev teams for DB2 Distributed where she also started her career as a software engineer in the DB2 LUW kernel. She also served as Chairperson of the Linux Foundation / Presto Foundation community for many years. Dipti holds a MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego with a specialization in databases and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She is very passionate about empowering and mentoring women in tech and open source. Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

Overview In today's episode, Adita shares here journey transitioning from Government to Industry, the Operating Model for Internal CDO Role, the need for Data Literacy, and why Female Representation in Government is essential and how she is making a impact in this space. About Adita Karkera With more than 20 years' of industry experience, Karkera serves as the Chief Data Officer for Deloitte Consulting LLP's Government and Public Services where she leads the data strategy to foster value creation from the organizations' data while facilitating trust. Karkera also serves as a thought leader and Fellow in the Deloitte AI Institute for Government where she strategically advises government clients on maximizing business value in the areas of data management, strategy, advanced analytics, and AI. Prior to joining Deloitte, Karkera spent nearly 20 years with the State of Arkansas. She began her career as a database administrator and was appointed the Deputy Chief Data Officer (CDO) in 2017. In her role as Deputy CDO, she led the State through many data firsts. Her emphasis on fostering a data driven culture, advancing data sharing, and spearheading initiatives to improve the effectiveness of government programs and decision-making positioned her as a principal specialist and passionate leader in data management. She was instrumental in researching and implementing statewide data policies across a multitude of policy areas. She was also appointed to the governor's COVID-19 Technical Advisory Board to recommend technology solutions for combatting the pandemic in Arkansas. As an advisor and thought leader, Karkera is dedicated to improving public service. She has served on many industry boards and data management industry forums. She is a pioneer in articulating the importance of data literacy especially in accelerating advanced analytics and trustworthy AI adoption in government. Karkera also devotes herself to empowering women in data and AI through formal and informal mentorship programs. She has been nationally recognized by GovTech Awards, StateScoop 50 Awards, Women in IT Awards, and Women Leaders in Data & AI for her exemplary contributions to the industry. You can find her actively engaged with the CDO/data community as a speaker and on LinkedIn & Twitter. Social Handles LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditakarkera/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AKark_DataGirl Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

Overview In today's episode Kate shares her career journey, and talks about how Web3 will unlock value for consumers and brands and provides examples of this through her team's work at Pepsico. Kate has been a leader in digital innovation for many years. About Kate Brady Kate is a seasoned marketing veteran with over 20-years media and marketing experience, 12+ of those years within PepsiCo. Kate now leads Next Gen D2C Consumer Experience and Direct Digital Marketing Capabilities, a newly formed team within PepsiCo's global Strategy and Transformation organization driving growth for PepsiCo through the lens of consumer data and experiences. Kate's team is responsible for creating value and enabling consumer centricity through current and next generation platforms by delivering meaningful consumer experiences through direct consumer engagement and activation across a connected direct-to-consumer network. A key part of this work is driven through the establishment of PepsiCo's Web3 & Metaverse Center of Enablement, leading the coordination and global strategy development across all PepsiCo sectors. Prior to this role Kate has worked across PepsiCo's global portfolio of brands driving media strategy, investment, innovation and partnership development. Kate lives in Mahopac, NY with her husband Ryan and 2 daughters Ava (15) and Liv (13). Social Handles LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/katebrady1007 Twitter: @katebrady1007 Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

Overview Today we are chatting with Lauren Hinds. Lauren is the President of What.If.Why, a coaching and analytics company focused on tackling persistent problems. With over 15 years' experience leading teams and applying big data toward business operations, financial growth, and product development, she is an expert at inquiry, connecting dots, and seeing trends. Today we chat about common mistakes analysts make in the analysis and how to avoid them through understanding the nuts and bolts of how the business operates, building relationships and getting curious to ask the right questions. Lauren has an amazing ability to make complex problems simple and listening to the episode will help you take your analysis to the next level. About Lauren Hinds Lauren Hinds is the President of What.If.Why, a coaching and analytics company focused on tackling persistent problems. With over 15 years' experience leading teams and applying big data toward business operations, financial growth, and product development, she is an expert at inquiry, connecting dots, and seeing trends. Lauren has an MBA, is a certified coach (ACC) and inspires learning through the WEH Foundation. As a mother, wife, boss, employee, friend, business owner, and daughter, she knows that big and small goals alike can seem daunting but that they are always within reach – you may just have to get creative. Social Handles LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaurenhinds Website: http://www.whatifwhy.com/ Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

Welcome to another school year, and another season of #UndeterredByKen – a podcast about Arts, Politics, Community, and Culture. We are on week 4 of our NSTP Journal Series in Undeterred By Ken. Today we will learn about WID, WAD, and GAD. Ano 'yon?! How are we going to integrate these 3 to our NSTP! Babae, bakla, maton, may say ka, kaya listen na sa bagong episode ko! #ArtistaNgBayan #TheaterArts #NSTP #GenderDevelopement #UniversityofthePhilippines =============================== Stream my podcast on these platforms:

Overview Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Christelle Mombo Zigah, Responsibility AI Committee Member and Sr Global Customer Success Manager for Cisco. With 15 years, she worked in multiple industries and wore multiple hats before discovering her superpower in helping global technology companies in their growth, transformation, and innovation strategies. Christelle believes it is “an imperative to make AI accessible to everyone and to implement policies and regulations in the public and private spaces to prevent the effects of discriminating historical data and harmful algorithms at scale”. In today's episode Christelle shares her story of how she found her voice as an immigrant woman of color in the tech industry and how we all have a role to play in creating responsible AI. Christelle is a power house and is paving the way for more voices to be heard in AI and is truly an inspiration to all of us. About Christelle Mombo-Zigah Christelle Mombo-Zigah was born and raised in France, to Congolese parents. She currently lives in Silicon Valley. She is a wife and a mother of two intelligent, funny, and opinionated magical little black girls aged 5.5 and 3. She has a master's degree in International Economics from La Sorbonne University and recently graduated from Stanford GSB with an executive MBA, where she enjoyed the opportunity to grow her learnings and network with accomplished professionals from all over the world. Christelle Mombo-Zigah is a futurist, an ambidextrous leader, and a problem-solver, who believes in the power of technology to make the world a better place for everyone. As a professional for 15 years, she worked in multiple industries and wore multiple hats before discovering her superpower in helping global technology companies in their growth, transformation, and innovation strategies. Her people- first mindset, commitment to human-centered experiences, and sustainability redirected her focus toward responsible AI and women in technology advocacy. She believes it is “an imperative to make AI accessible to everyone and to implement policies and regulations in the public and private spaces to prevent the pernicious effects of discriminating historical data and harmful algorithms at scale”. Passionate about history and linguistics she speaks French, English, and Spanish fluently and is learning Portuguese. She sees languages as a unifier and a connector to the world. She also appreciates her Kongo heritage and history through its lineage in the Americas and the Caribbean. Christelle recently published her first children's book and is working on three more before tackling her memoir. She wants to build a legacy for her daughters and share her story to inspire the next generations of leaders and give a voice to the voiceless. Social Handles LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christellemombozigah/ Website: https://christellemmbo.wixsite.com/my-site Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

Overview We are joined by two guests. First, Nesli Bisgin Data scientist and researcher with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and MS in Mathematics. Nesli is also the instructor for Women in Data's Data Science Portfolio class. Our second guest is Taye Johnson. Taye is a technologist and educator who has worked in a variety of industries including nonprofit, start-ups and global enterprises In Addition, Taye is the instructor for Women in Data's Data Analytics Portfolio class. In this episode, we chat about the keys to a great portfolio, the importance of defining your business question and how to get inspiration from everyday life for your portfolio projects. About Taye Johnson Taye Johnson is a technologist with years of experience working within the global data industry. Throughout the years she has worked for startups, nonprofits, and global enterprises. She has worked in Data Governance and as an After-School Coding Instructor. Taye is also an advocate for diversifying tech and facilitates technical workshops outside of her professional role at emerging nonprofits. About Neslihan Bisgin Neslihan Bisgin is a Data scientist and researcher with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and MS in Mathematics. Strong knowledge in ML and NLP with applications ranging from Twitter data analysis to cancer detection and disease prediction. Proficient in Python and Matlab. Experienced Lecturer with a history of working in the higher education. Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

A small town in Alberta thinks solar panels give off radiation and won't allow an important fast charger be built. But a small Saskatchewan Co-op embraces electrifcation and kindness! Link to video version of the commercial we made for the Riverbend Co-op in Davidson, Saskatchewan to thank them for support electric vehicles. Small modular nuclear reactors will not solve climate change. Loblaws has deployed fully driverless trucks on city streets in Toronto. The upcoming Tesla Cybertruck will work as a boat for short periods of time. My first repair to my 10 year old Nissan LEAF The green community that survived Hurricane Ian and kept the lights on India's home-grown ten thousand dollar EV And in spite of supply chain constraints, EV sales are on track to where they need to by by their 2030 benchmark for global warming Brian and I welcome the long-awaited 3rd party charging to a much needed location where we live. And it has soft serve ice cream! Thanks for listening to our show! Consider rating The Clean Energy Show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to our show. Follow us on TikTok! Check out our YouTube Channel! Follow us on Twitter! Your hosts: James Whittingham https://twitter.com/jewhittingham Brian Stockton: https://twitter.com/brianstockton Email us at cleanenergyshow@gmail.com Leave us an online voicemail at http://speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshow Transcript Yesterday, the governor announced that all new cars purchased in New York State will be zero emission cars, which is what lawmakers in California mandated in our state last month. This will take effect starting in 2035, if we make it to 2035. And while it's never going to be the same when a cabbie's yelling you to go F yourself from a Nissan Leaf, it's definitely for the best. Hello, and welcome to episode 133 of the Clean Energy Show. I'm Brian Stockton. I'm James Woodtingham. This week, small modular nuclear reactors will not solve climate change. This in spite of the fact one powers Brian's $1700 expression machine. It was only 1400. Loblaws has deployed fully driverless trucks on city streets. In Toronto, there is still a human in the passenger seat. Just as a courtesy so other drivers have someone to give the finger to. We reveal the stupidest place in North America, and it's not wherever Donald Trump is. The upcoming Tesla Cyber truck will work as a boat for short periods of time. If it floats, maybe it can toss a lifeline to the Tesla stock price. Oh, all that admora this edition of the a Clean Energy Show. Brian, we also have this week my first repair. My knees are leaf. It's ten years old. And in spite of supply chain constraints, EV sales are back on track where they need to be by their 2030 benchmark for global warming targets. And Brian and I welcomed the long awaited third party charging to a much needed location where we live. And it has soft serve ice cream. Wow. I can give it the charging long charging sessions with lots of ice cream. All right, so update on my house. We spray foam the ceiling in our kitchen, and it was, like, super messy and dusty for about a week, but the drywallers have finished, so that's now all sealed up, well, drywallers. They have to keep coming back and back over and over again, don't they? Yeah. They don't have to spend a whole day. They come, they do some mudding, they have to let it dry, and they come back and sand do a bit more mudding. So the whole thing took about eight days, which wasn't too bad, but the kitchen was kind of closed off with sheets of plastic, and so we had kind of limited access to our kitchen, which was annoying, but that's now all done. And then next week, they're going to do the other half where the living room is, and so it continues. So we'll have a very wellinsulated ceiling, which is great. Did you eat out a lot? We did a lot of door dashing and that kind of thing. What's your favorite during that time period? Bar burrito. I'm a big fan of bar burrito. What kind of food is that? Mexican burritos and tacos. So what specifically did you eat? I need to know. Ground beef burrito. Ground beef burrito. Classic. Nothing too fancy. Nothing too unusual. But you're Taco Time fan, but you like that. Tell me about that. Yeah, I think, Barbara, it's a little bit more like real food, really. TacoTime is very fast foody kind of thing. But how much more expensive would you say it was? Not 20%. Maybe I should try it. They have multiple locations or just one? No, multiple locations. Let's do it. Barbaros well, we could use a sponsorship on the show, too. Please reach out. Barbarito. Oh, I have another one. Milu. Vietnamese place. It's been here a while, but I just discovered it. Fantastic. Vietnamese vermicelli, noodle bowls. Love it. Amazing. I guess we both got the Bivalent vaccine. Is that what's yeah, I had a lot of side effects. I might still be feeling that after a week. It was mainly one day, but I kind of felt good the second day. But then when I actually did something and then when I mean did something, I mean, go to the fridge or something, I didn't have a lot of stamina. Like, it wore down fairly quickly. It's a good thing I wasn't employed or something. Yeah. So yesterday we had wonderful news because we've talked about the two cities in the province where we live is Regina and Saskatoon. They're two and a half hours away. My son is up there now, coming back on Friday, and he's going to school there. We make lots of trips. You make lots of trips. You make more trips than most people do out there. And it's a great, stupidly great city. It's just I don't know if I've told this story before, but the ones I was doing a madly off in All Directions, a CBC radio comedy series, a one off where I was guesting on stage at the Broadway Theater in front of 500 people with my comedy partner. And we naively. We both grew up in Regina, the sister city kind of, to that city. And we said, we're from Regina, and the whole place booed us. Why? Why would they do that? I had no idea that they hated us just because we have the center of government here. I mean, they have everything else. And my assessment of the situation is the people in Saskatoon have a rivalry with Vagina, but the Regina people don't care. I've always considered them superior. Why would they care? Why would they not just pity us now? They're much bigger. When I was a kid, they were smaller than us. That's right. So the halfway point is a town called Davidson, Saskatchewan, and it got a Tesla V, three supercharger stalls a few years ago, right? Two or three years ago. Yeah, about three years ago, which changed life for Tesla's. People like you could easily go to Saskatoon and top up for the hell of it, or use it in very cold weather when your range is reduced and give you security. It was one of the reasons I bought my Tesla. Was it made that trip by there was no third party charger there for three years. And we've been begging everyone online. I've been Tweeting A and W who says there's these cluster of different businesses. There Tim Hortons, the Esso station, which is one thing at a Dairy Queen, and then there's a across the street there's an ANW, which I sometimes go to. You've gone to the and w, sure you've gone. You've probably done everything there. But up the road there's a Coop gas station, and that's where the supercharger is. That's kind of the Prairie Gas Station, one of the brands that also run grocery stores. So they have that. But they just announced yesterday that they're getting the flow charges, which are 100 kilowatt. Before, these gas stations had different branded chargers, which are 50 kilowatt. And they were always broken, like always. Yeah, the Coop branded ones, yeah. So apparently these flow chargers are, I'm told by the EV Association, a lot more rock solid because it's something we talk about on the show all the time, is the reliability of charging non Teslas like non Tesla charging networks are terrible. And I hear that all the time, especially in the States. It's no different. So I naively expressed regret online yesterday that I wished it was at the place where I go, which is the AEW, and I don't go to the Tim Hortons, but it seems like I might because I enjoy the Tim Hortons donut shop in return. And I found out that the EV people have been trying really hard for years behind the scenes to do something, and I'm not supposed to talk about what went on, but I'm very happy that the co op is in charge. Right, but I also made a joke online when I said that. Why isn't that this other place? They said, Are you disappointed? I said, I'm not disappointed. The Coop responded to me and said, Are you disappointed? I said, no, but I will be reviewing your pizza. Clearly they said they welcomed it. Then they offered to give me free pizza. But is it a review if they give you a free pizza? I mean, is it an honest review if you get something for free? I mean, as a clean energy food critic, I should be going in there in disguise or something. That's just the way it is. Yeah. Okay, well, this is great. I should add, too. So Tesla has finally made the CCS adapter available for tesla vehicles in north America. So 99% of the time, if you've got a Tesla, you're going to charge. It a Tesla station, and there's lots of them, but other cars use the CCS connector, and the adapter is finally available in North America. So if I were stuck some time and the Tesla supercharger wasn't working, I could get this adapter and charge at the flow or charge at the co op or whatever. Anyway, I went to order one online and it said, oh, sorry, your car can't use this yet. We're going to do a retrofit next year. So cars built before a certain date are missing something that the CCS adapter doesn't work. So my car was built just before that date. So sometime next year there'll be a retrofit available and then I'll be able to buy one. So they didn't sell it to me. They're probably trying to control the number of these that go out, and since they know that my car can't use it, they wouldn't sell it. How old is your model? Three? It's about two and a half years old. Two and a half years. Wow. Time flies. It's a quarter of a decade, Brian. Yeah, it really has. Yeah, I guess we had just started the podcast, I think. Oh, right, that's true. There was a couple of months into the pandemic and they did a touchless delivery to you. But I'm not done with the Riverband co op in Davidson because I asked them. I was in a discussion with my son who's going through there on Friday. As I said, if they have fresh donuts, because the co ops are known for great donuts at grocery stores, especially in small towns, they're somehow better in small towns like that. Yeah, for sure. My wife's not right is maybe the best owner sake one outside of the gourmet shop. So anyway, I asked them if they did and they said no. But for you, though, I can say we are discussing it. We are discussing it at the highest levels in the boardroom of the Davidson coop, whether to bring in fresh baking from the grocery store inside town. And I said, well, give us a heads up when you're passing through. At least we could do is get some donors to the grass bar for you. And everyone is just so happy that because without the co op, we would not have charging in Davidson, there was no other possibility to do it. No one willing to do it. So this is incredibly important to EV adoption for people who not only live near there, but live anywhere else, or you're traveling through the province in that direction. And so I'm incredibly grateful to them. And Matthew Pointer from the Sask EV association says this is arguably one of the most important charging locations in the province. So, Brian, what I did, I made them a commercial. Okay? I made the Riverband coop in Davidson a commercial because they deserve it. And here it is. Come to the Riverband Coop gas bar in beautiful Davidson, Saskatchewan, conveniently located on scenic highway eleven. Enjoy our pristine citrus, citrus washrooms as you stop to charge your Tesla, one of our lightning fast superchargers. And for our nontech industry friends, we are pleased to announce 100 kilowatt flow chargers coming in January. If you're still driving a gasguzzler, be assure that we here at coop sell only talk to your gasoline made to the highest Canadian standards. While you're here, satisfy your cravings with fresh cut veggies and sandwiches lovingly made at our grocery store just for you. Or twist it up with a smoothie by mixing a slushy soft drink of your choice with ice cream. Why pee anywhere else? The River Band. Coop in Davidson. More than a gas bar to heavenly oasis on a long road home. This commercials have improved by riverbank Coop flow charges 23 no responsible price screen trips on your floor of the seats. Very nice. So there you go. Free commercial for the Riverband Coop. Put that online, too, in video form. Thank you, Riverband Coop, for being good people. Yeah. And Davidson, Saskatchewan, they still have a newspaper as of a couple of years ago, and they were having a contest to give away the newspaper. I don't know if you remember that I considered, yeah, and you're supposed to write a letter and whoever writes the best letter would get the newspaper. I don't know what ever happened with that. Maybe somebody knows. We'll have to Google. We have a lot of local people listening. Okay, another personal news. The Leaf I had to take in to get fixed because I determined for a long time now, almost a year, that I had this tire noise. And I thought it was because my original tires were wearing out, they were becoming bald, and I thought, okay, no trad, they're becoming noisy, bought new tires, but they were cheap. They were half the price of the tires that you're supposed to buy. And so I thought, okay, well, it's a bit better, but it's still pretty noisy, and then I get noisier noiser. So I determined through online sleuthing that it's my bearings, my wheel bearings on my front left wheel, and because it gets noisier when you steer in one direction than the other. So I did that. But there's no place my Nissan dealership doesn't service EVs. And I looked up on how to do this repair, and you do have to kind of take one of the EV motor drive components out of the wheel hub, because it's a whole not just the actual little tiny bearing, but whole hub of bearings that has to be replaced, any specialized torque tools in order to do this. And I considered it, but then I thought, no. And anyway, I got the price from a place called okay Tire on Park Street in Regina. Because they are certified, they actually sent their people away to the United States to get training in servicing EVs and hybrids. Whereas the one Nissan dealership we have here and even several around us don't do they're not certified to do TVs. Even though Nissan sells the Leaf for well, minecar is ten years old, and twelve years ago they started selling them. So it was frustrating, but I took it there on the advice of others, and I wasn't happy with how it went because it's $1,400 for the front two hubs. And I thought it was just one hub, but they say, oh, no, the other one's going to be making noise as well. And also they charge you, like, $200 just to diagnose things. Okay. Right. It could be $200 to diagnose it. But then they diagnose everything on your car and get a big print out to make sure that everything else is okay. And they don't need to spend money fixing it out of your money. So that's complimentary. But the diagnose the problem is up to $200. So it's just BS. And I hate dealerships, and I can't afford it. So I'm in a pickle because my kid, my youngest, is going on a trip, a school trip to Quebec because we sent the first one. And as soon as we send the first one somewhere and my wife, by the way, wanted to set up the Uruguay was it Ecuador or Ecuador? To the ecological things out there. And I said, we do this. It's twice as much as you think it is because we have to send the other kid. There's no way of not sending the other kid. It doesn't work that way. So whatever you do for one, you do for the other. And so we're doing that for her now, and we have to get her to raise money. But they don't raise very much. And it's got to be a hard, economical year. Bad timing. That's too bad. And I'm giving away free commercials to cooperate anyhow that's that the car is supposed to be done. The beautiful thing is I've lost the EV joy because it's noisy. It's not giving me the luxury. And I can't wait. I can't wait, Brian, to get that back. But I also have to get more work done on the later. It's all related to tie rods and ball joints and stuff like that. And they send you a little video clips, part of their app to do that, to show you the wiggle. It's always great when you can spend money and really notice a difference. Like, that at least makes you feel better about it. Like our ceiling in the kitchen, it costs a fortune to do that. And all it does is look like it's supposed to. All it does is look like a ceiling. You don't get any satisfaction of it suddenly somehow being better. Right. It just doesn't lease. Now, this is hopefully something that I will just fall in love with again. But I started to fall out of love with car ownership because it's been a long time since I had to deal with car repairs because we've bought new cars. And the Leaf I've had for five years, and I haven't done anything to it. Like, it's just there's no oil to change. There's nothing to break down. I did buy the new tires a year ago, but other than that, I haven't done anything. How many kilometers on it? About 115 or something like that. It doesn't have fast charging. It was a rock bottom price. So it's only been a city car for anyone. But my family has been asking me, how long do I think it's going to go? And I don't see it not going indefinitely. Like I said, I don't have any reason to believe it won't go indefinitely. But if you don't do the tie rods or something, then maybe the tires are going to wear out. Well, the car could crash, things like that. One of the wheels could go. I've seen people do this on the roads. The wheel just goes all the way to one way and you get it towed. I won't be using it on the highway, let's put it that way. So, yeah, it's frustrating. And I can see the joy of maybe a subscription service to a robot taxi one day where you pay $20 a month and you never have to worry about car repairs because that is the biggest pain in the butt. That's why people buy newer cars. No, that's the future for sure. I mean, yeah, that's so much simpler. I've been talking about the pipeline plane that flies over my house. And then we got into it and I mentioned that there was a crash 13, 2013. And then there was one between our last two episodes of our podcast. Well, curiously, there's been no pipeline plane since that crash. So I got to feel weird about that because I feel like I have a connection with them because I'm in the mespeedo floating in the pool. God knows we've had some intimate contact. You've never seen me in my Speedo. These people have, and now they're gone. They're perished. So I just feel or maybe they've rounded pipeline planes or I don't know. But on the other hand, on the flip side, who's looking at my pipeline to see if it's not being inspected? Yeah. So that's kind of concerning for me as well. So here's a bit of trivia for you. In the year my Leaf was made, 2013, 130,000 EVs were sold globally that whole year. Brian yeah. Now more than that are being sold every week in the world. And that road, of course, is expanding rapidly. That's fantastic. That's great to hear. So my Leaf is like almost I've seen it referred to in videos on YouTube now by car reviewers as kind of like the Model T of EVs because it was the first mass produced it was produced even before Tesla's Model S. It was really the first mass produced EV in the world. So it's iconic, maybe worse, something someday. And I wanted to get to some updates to some stories that we've covered in the past. And we were talking about hurricanes in Florida and Will Walker in Florida. He was happily charging his allelectric Chevy bolt at a gas station charger while all the gas pumps were roped off, not because of electricity. The gas station was on a gas? Yes. And you can't just snap your fingers and get more gas in when there's a hurricane. So these places and we found this in the maritimes of Canada when Hurricane Fiona went through a couple of weeks ago. Gas stations are out of gas because everybody wants their generator running and everything. Right. Well, this is another reason gas stations don't operate with electricity during these situations, but they often don't operate when they do have electricity because they are out of gas. But he had electricity there and he was happily charging away. So he says, I can't count all the times that people ask me about what do you do when the power goes out? So it's just a joke to people who own TVs. Yeah. The New York Times, Florida, the post hurricane here, Jerry Jewelsk waited for about 6 hours to fill up for cans of gas. He was frustrated. Where is all the fuel? He asked. Every gas station or filling station was supposed to, under Florida law, have a generator prepared to go at all times. But that did not happen. Wow. In a news conference a couple of Saturdays ago, mr. DeSantis, or Satan, as I like to call him, said 1.6 million gallons of fuel had been removed pardon me? Had been moved to southwest Florida. But he acknowledged that some stations may not have had the electricity to operate their pumps. I'm laughing if you're in Florida, I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at the whole freaking idea and stupid things that happen. You need both. You need the fuel and you need the electricity. And on the electric car side, you just need the electricity. We've been talking about India a lot over the course of our podcast episodes, and we have concerns over the air quality and how great it would be for EVs to move in there. Well, Tata Motors, one of India's largest vehicle manufacturers, has announced a new Made in China pardon me, a new Made in India electric five door hatchback starting around $10,000 US. And it only has a 19.2 kilowatt hour battery with only 3.2 charging. That's kind of what my car is now. Started at 24. That's kind of your leaf range and charging speed. Look at this. It's supposed to have a range of 250 km. Yeah, well, I've made improvements since your car was made. Well, I'm thinking A is pretty darn light and it may not have an airbag and seatbelts or high tension steel or anything to protect the person. I don't know. I'm being kind of cynical about it. Yeah, but as we talked about, there's a lot of, like, two stroke engine vehicles in India. Small mopeds and motorcycles and stuff like that. And those things cause extra pollution. So if those kind of small vehicles, which is what this is going to sort of replace, can go electric, this will go a long way to improving the air quality in India. So for around 14, 500, US. Drivers can upgrade to a 24 kilowatt hour battery. That is what my car wasn't doing. But 315 range and 7.2 kilowatt charging, which is twice my car now. So that's I don't know, man. Maybe I should go to Indian, buy a car. Parts will be hard to get. Yeah. So driverless trucks in Toronto, we have reported on this before, but there's sort of more updates for it. So there are level four autonomous trucks, which began in August after the Ministry of Transportation approved them after a big audit. So this is Lablaws, the grocery chain from Canada, and they've got five routes going between Labs retail stores and a micro fulfillment center. So you can order your groceries online, go to this place, and pick them up. And this appears to be moving the groceries from the stores to this pickup center. So they've got five routes and five trucks. They are now driving fully autonomously. They do still have a human driver in the passenger seat. I'm not sure why he doesn't just sit in the driver's seat just in case they're showing off, but they say they have a safety record so far. This has been going on for quite a while now. And the person in the passenger seat is just there kind of as a courtesy. And also from feedback from the police department and the fire department, who said in case they need to pull the truck over, they wanted a human to interact with. And that does make sense. And of course, these are electric, and they can charge at sort of both ends of their trip, and that's what they do. And they're planning to expand this to something like 15 trucks in the near future. So, yeah, level four autonomous trucks. So this is Geofenced. They can only go on these specific routes. They couldn't just snap their fingers and expand this to other markets or other cities. They've carefully mapped out these routes. And the trucks take the same routes every day, but still quite remarkable that it is totally working. And they've driven tons of miles with these things, and 100% safe so far. Teller me surprised. I'm actually quite surprised by that, especially if you told me it was Los Angeles docks or something, I would believe you. But I'm surprised it's Toronto. Yes, Toronto streets can be kind of busy and crazy. That's an understatement. And some of the worst streets, worst traffic in North America. But you just start thinking about the math for this in terms of business. So not only are you saving on fuel because it's electric instead of gasoline or diesel, and then saving on the driver. And just imagine, as this slowly rolls out and expands, the amount of money that can be saved by so many businesses. Expect your grocery prices to go down, thanks to freedom of energy in the world like that. And I do use their service in our city. It's PC Express. How's that work? It works well. You order online, you pick up. We have had it delivered one time. All right. I have an update from the International Energy Agency and EVs are now at 13% of all new car sales globally this year. That's world market share. That's fantastic. I didn't know we were there yet. That is an inflection point, Mr. Stockton. We are toying with inflection rates here. It's doubled since last year, so that has not been happening. It's taken more than two years to double. A little bit more than two years. But now doubling in a year is not two years. So it's like 1718 months or something. Something weird like that. Like a year and a half. But now it's a year and we are on track. According to the IEA of reaching when they did the Paris Climate Accord, we need to do this, this and this to reach our climate targets. While the number of EVs on the road by 2030 was a checkpoint goal and they have saying that we are on track for it, in fact, we're better than on track. Areas not on track include improving the energy efficiency of building designs, developing clean and efficient district heating. That's when you hit like a heat. A neighborhood with one heating system phasing out coal powered generation. That's a little behind. Eliminating methane flaring, shifting aviation and shipping to cleaner fuels and making cement, chemical and steel production cleaner. That's from CNBC. Yes. So the transportation sector doing well. These other sectors, not so well. Yeah, but it's encouraging because we live in a place where there's so much cynicism about EVs that it's always good to see these stories. Yeah, that's great. All right, we have several Tesla stories this week. The first was, of course, they had AI day 2022, where they had a big presentation, basically a recruitment event. They're trying to convince people to come work for Tesla and work on their artificial intelligence stuff. They demonstrated the prototype of the Tesla bot. I didn't watch the whole thing because it was like three or 4 hours long. I watched a condensed 20 minutes version. So the robot doesn't do that much. So the stock market and casual observers were not for you. Was the robot more human than Elon Musk? Yes, it was okay. But I don't know if you had any thoughts about the Tesla bought. I do, and I did watch a lot of it. And I came away feeling pretty negative about Tesla and Musk and AI because there was nothing major announced. The robots didn't impress a lot of people because who's the company? I can't remember. The Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics. Who's been making those robots that flip and dance and they seem like years ahead. They're not humanoid, but do we need what is the need of having a humanoid robot rather than. Being creepy. I don't care what the thing looks like that does my dishes. It can look like a scorpion for all I care. Just do my dishes, you stupid robot, and answer my door and brush my teeth. Well, I think it's the same principle behind, like, what they're doing with selfdriving in the car. Like, the idea behind the Tesla selfdriving car is to replicate the humans. So humans drive with eyes in a brain. So Tesla's taking that approach with their car cameras and a computer eyes and a brain in the car. So my feeling would be that since the world is designed for humanoid form, that that's the most useful form for somebody who's going to do work. Well, are you going to test an FSD Beta Tesla robot in your home and hope it doesn't break your dishwasher handle? Sure, if they want to send me one, I'll take the interesting thing is they think that one day they'll sell them for $20,000. Seems low. I don't know. Does it? Brian, does the $35,000 model three seem low to you? That never happened. It was sold for, like, a couple of weeks, I think. Yeah, and very frustrating. Why announce these things? You have to have faith in their AI software for cars. We're not at that point yet. We're having a lot of faith because things are dragging on so slowly. It's just a super long process. So this stuff is potentially decades away. So what bothered me about the event was they invited all their Internet fanboys to it, so it became like a Tesla event. Oh, you're God, present your genitals. I wish to photograph them. This is stupid. I just hate that stuff. But the whole point of the event was to recruit because they want to bring on people to recruit. They need the best and AI people to develop this product. It's a recruiting day, so why invite all the fanboys? I guess you get some free advertising that way. But it just seemed I don't know, I'm pretty cynical about this, and I'm pretty cynical about Mr. Musk, who has decided, apparently, to buy Twitter. Yeah, it sounds like that's going through. Yeah, and I'm not happy about that. I'm not. I'm not happy at all. I mean, Twitter's not golden, but I need somewhere to go, Brian. I can't go on Facebook. It's not safe. It's killing the world. And now he's got to put what's his name back on there, the former POTUS. And why am I going to hurricane have killed him? Why is it killing his people? See him floating away on a piece of rock anyway? I don't understand. I'm worried. I'm worried about the world. And the world was quieter. It was quieter without him on it, and now he's going to be on it and all these horrible voices of conspiracy and BS. I don't know. I'm not happy with Musk. I mean, Musk is the guy I doubt for saving the world because he puts a cyber truck on stage, smashes the window, and suddenly Ford is releasing electric trucks a couple of years later. Right. I mean, they're in dealerships say they're at dealerships around our province, even a lot of them have moved here, I'm told. But kudos to Ford for actually making some vehicles because the Amaqui is like, I think, the number two selling electric vehicle in North America. No, there's actually some EVs in stock around us, and it's mostly like the Mustang and the F 150. So, yeah, the needle has moved. And I guess we're at 13%. We're at a near time where they say they have the stock and they don't actually have it. It's coming in. It's like it's coming into somebody who's ordered it. So unless somebody canceled their order and somebody did cancel their order for Chevy Bolt, but it was an older one and I didn't want to take it, people were pointing me towards that. But yeah, I'm told there's a year wait list, but I mean, even that's not bad for a truck. But I don't know. Megapack is arriving in Hawaii, and I just wanted to mention this, mostly because we had reported on the final shipment of coal going to Hawaii a few weeks ago. The last shipment of coal for their coal fired electricity plant, which they're going to close down. Well, it turns out at pretty much the same time, a whole whack of Tesla Megapack batteries were delivered to Hawaii. Hawaii's got an aggressive goal to get off fossil fuels. I think they've got some time. I think it was like 2045. They're going to be 100% green. I have a feeling they might be able to do it sooner than that. But they have tons of solar. Hawaii has the highest amount of solar deployed per capita, and they just need more batteries. And they are on their way to 100% clean energy, which is great. Yeah. You don't hear about non Tesla companies making power packs. I know they exist because they do exist. Yeah, they're putting some up around us. I don't know who's making them, though. We don't hear about who's making them. I don't know. I mean, the main battery makers are probably making them, like LG and what's the other one? Panasonic? Yeah. Or CATL. Yeah. I have heard other brands and their storage solutions, I just don't know off the top of my head. Well, that's something to look forward to. It's pretty cool that Hawaii can do that. And most people disregard batteries. I say this all the time. They poopoo them like you can't power. I know it seems far fetched because there's like thousands and tens of thousands and millions of little AA sized almost batteries, right? That power a grid. Come on. That's science fiction. But they are doing it and it works. And it meets the power fluctuations and saves them money. Instantly saves the money. If you're a casual observer, it probably seems absurd, but to the casual observer, I often hear hydrogen as the solution. But solar wind and batteries, as we often say, that's all you need. It is all you need. Not for maybe airliners and stuff like that, but for a lot of things. And the cybertruck musk has been talking about the cyber truck as well. Yeah, I guess, prompted by the recent hurricanes and flooding in Florida, that the cyber truck will travel temporarily as a boat for approximately 1100ft. Really? Yeah, it'll operate as a boat tweeted that's enough to get through a flooded underpass. Yeah. So we have seen this before, like with regular teslas and flooded underpasses that they can do fairly well getting through. We did a guy in the EV association who flooded his car in saskatoon and other claims, big fat insurance claim, battery gone, ruined his battery. So it's certainly and it's not an advertised feature, but this is now technically an advertised feature of the cyber truck that it can operate as a boat for a short period of time. So presumably they're just thinking about this more. I don't imagine they were thinking about it too much with the cars. But now that they know that the cars are fairly waterproof, they've, I guess, done a little bit of extra work and, you know, cyber truck will float for a while. Well, the rivian r 150 pickup truck, the all electric pickup truck from them, it was supposed to do a meter and a half of water, and they didn't say for how long, but they said anymore, and it floats. So they didn't want it to float floating back. Yeah, because then you lose control there. Yeah. Well, what do you do in the cyber truck? Do you take out a paddle? I mean, what do you do? I'm not sure, but they often show it with those big knobby tires. So it's possible the big knobby tires would give you a little bit of traction and steering. Give me the aqua tread when you're ordering tires, like summer all season and water. Well, there was that water aqua car. Somebody in town owns one from, like, in the 50s. Somebody made a car that works in the car? Yes. It's a convertible, right? Yeah, it's a convertible. Somebody in town owns one and every once in a while drives it in our local lake, which is saying a lot. You go down there, you're a dead person. Because it's nasty water. Yeah. So it has technically been done before. I don't know. Maybe they could add a little propeller on the back of that because that's what the aqua car has, like the one from the 50s. It has a little propeller at the back for one. Floating in the car. That would be an option, I suppose. Maybe you could outboard it to your trailer hitch or something and just sort of put a propeller on back there. Yeah, that would be great. Well, I wanted to talk about it over small nuclear reactors because CBC had an article on it and there's been well, there's always lots of stuff, and I'm always reading from people. I'm not against it. It's just not realistic. People love the new solutions. We'll solve climate change with this. This is great. I saw a video on it. I saw six videos on it. It's great. It's not great because they don't exist. You can't go to Walmart and buy one. You can go to Walmart and buy a solar panel. You can go to Walmart and buy a battery. You can go to Walmart and even buy a wind turbine in some stores. Come on. What we have is all we need. And I'm not saying other things aren't good, but if they cost ten times as much for one unit of electricity, and if you don't need them, then why are you wasting your time on it? Because our government, another government, and the Ontario government as well, are investing, and they're going to waste all our money in these damn things, putting money into it, and it's also just delaying climate action. Yeah. So here's something. This is Suzanne O'Donnell. She is an adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University also works with a coalition for responsible energy development. And she has been researching SMR specifically during the last two years. And she was asked, what do you think of Saskatchewan and your province looking at building a small modular nuclear reactor? She says there's a huge leap she says diplomatically, there's a huge leap between having a design for an SMR and then getting to the point of having an engineer design where you can actually apply for a license to build one. The most advanced design for an SMR in the US is called New Scale, and they've spent almost a billion dollars on the engineered design, and they just got a license to build it. It's another huge leap between building a prototype that might actually work in a laboratory to getting one that actually commercially works in the real world. Why then, she was asked, with four provinces be looking at them? And she says, I'd have to say that the decisions around SMRs, at the federal level and certainly at the provincial level, where they're all conservative provinces, are political decisions rather than based on science. From reading peerreviewed science in three different countries, canada, the US. And the UK. It really doesn't make any economic sense. However, what we have happening here is very, very powerful industry, the nuclear industry, that has a long history in Canada, and they have been lobbying like crazy to get these things off the ground, because unfortunately, nuclear power hasn't been very successful financially, especially lately. So in New Brunswick, the Point La Puerto reactor has been a financial disaster for the province, has put US $3.6 billion in debt. And that's what we have to look forward to in our province because of idiots. I don't want any more debt. I don't want to know we got enough debt. My God. But making stupid decisions because you want to put off the climate action and not make the woke left happy, then you gotta do what you gotta do and waste all taxpayers money and then you drive the provinces of the ground. So I'm mad about that. Mad, mad, mad. So it's just bad. I don't like it. Okay, so I've got a story here from CP 24, which is a news outlet in the Toronto area of Canada. I thought this, it reminded me of the Apple story that we mentioned a couple of days ago that Apple is working on software for their phones that will sort of calculate the cleanest time of the day to charge your phones. I don't know, there's just a lot of activity around smartening up the grid. And so what they're going to do in Ontario is pay some customers to run their air conditioning less as part of an investment in energy efficiency program. So they're going to have networked smart thermostats in people's homes that can literally be controlled remotely by the power utility. So when they have these days when the grid is strained and everybody's air conditioning is cranked up, if you've agreed to be part of this program, you have one of these smart meters, they're going to creep up the temperature in your house, take away some of your nice cooling airflow from your air conditioner. And if you've got enough homes in this program and enough people willing to do it, and they will pay you to do it, like there's an incentive to do it, they'll give you some money for this. They will just turn up your thermostat a couple of degrees and you'll use less electricity for your air conditioning. And the more of these kind of smart grid strategies we can come up with, the more we can weather these coming storms of power supply as we kind of transition over into all clean energy. Well, again, I'm surprised. I'm surprised that Ontario is doing that. And it's very interesting. It would be interesting to see how it goes, what they learned from that. It reminds me of the summer heat wave in California where they texted people or an emergency alert and they responded, and they responded in times when they turned down the power because they said, if you don't, then we're going to have a power outage. I would rather have some power and maybe a couple of degrees warmer in my house than no power at all. And that's another great tool to have. But just imagine if somebody at the California Power Commission just has a switch where they can just turn up everybody's air conditioning. Like just imagine how that would drop the power going to the grid, like instantly. I'm not sure what some people would like the government coming to their homes. But you get paid for it. But you get paid for it, so you're compensated for it, that's the thing. But this is kind of the future that when we talk about smart grids, we are also talking about homes where we can suck a little bit of juice out of your EV for ten minutes just to balance the grid. And you get paid for that more than what it costs you to put it in. So, yeah, there's all kinds of different things and if this is one of those methods, then cool. No, and there was some progress on that in the US. They introduced the Bidirectional Act, it was introduced in the US Senate to promote electric school buses feeding into the grid. So I don't think this is all kind of fully plat passed or anything, but as they expand to electric school busses, they're trying to work this into the infrastructure where all of these school buses can feed into the grid. So it's nice to have some actual legislation to support that. Coming up in the show is the lightning Round, where we speed through the week's headlines in fast format. Brian, I've got a surprise new segment for you this week. What it's called? The Tweet of the week. Oftentimes I see a great tweet that I'd like to highlight on the show. Yeah. This is until I leave Twitter next week, so it could be a very shortlived segment. Here it is. It says, you know, who isn't in denial about climate change? The entire insurance industry. There will be entirely uninsurable areas of the populous places near coast sooner than you think. This is from MMA, who works in the real estate industry and was reteeded by many of my climate follows on Twitter. It's something I think about a lot in Florida, of course, top of mind because of the recent hurricane, but Florida, so many low lying areas in Florida and you just got to wonder when the real estate prices are going to hit the wall and people are going to have to retreat it. That hasn't happened yet, as far as I know. But, yeah, certainly I think there is already some places that are uninsurable in flood prone areas and the insurance industry doesn't mess around. I know because my life insurance just went up last week, tripled for some reason, because they saw you eating a box of donuts and they're like, damn it, they heard me talking about Davidson Gas Station donuts and just bingo. So my other tweet that I was considering has something to do with a politician down there saying, well, we will rebuild. And the other person said, Why? Yeah, why would you rebuild a place that's destroyed by a hurricane? You think it's not going to happen again? I mean, these happening, they're happening more frequently and more importantly, more powerfully and slower moving and more damaging. The same hurricanes because of climate change. Brian, we got a whole host of feedback this week. Sometimes the mailbag empty, dust bunnies fall out, nothing there, you know? And then sometimes it just rains, rains feedback. So I wanted to dip into it. Here's an email, says, hey, guys, big fan of the show from Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA. Not all of us in mumf, Egypt, are as narrow minded as our former commander in Cheeto when it comes to the environment. I can't swear on the show. You see, if I swear on the show, I have to change it to explicit. That's a whole lot of paperwork. I can't do that. So I just got an email from my power company asking if I was interested in enrolling in a new program they are starting up, which seems to be a solar collective. Do you think these types of programs the page is very vague. Have a place in the future for those who can't afford or non solar friendly areas like us? Cheers to here in Mendez. Now, I looked at it and basically, if your household uses X amount of kilowatts per month, you pay extra to have solar, to have clean power. Now, this is something that we did here 1215 years ago in my old house. Yeah, I would pay for extra money for clean energy credits. And we had wind back then and only when basically still do for the most part, and a small amount of wind. And of course, they sold out. So they stopped the program. They couldn't do it anymore, or that was their excuse. But you could pay a little bit extra on your power bill every month and know that you were getting clean power. Right, but here's my point. Clean power is cheaper than regular power. Yeah, right. And they want to charge you. Shitloads, sir, I swore crap loads of money more. It's like $40 a month extra just to have clean power, which is cheaper to them than it is the coal power or whatever. Like in West Virginia, solar is going to be incredibly cheaper than coal. It's displaced coal as the cheapest form of electricity by far. So my question is, where will the solar facilities be located? So they plan to build, own and operate five solar facilities located within West Virginia on property owned by the power company or its affiliates. They include a 26 acre reclaimed ash disposal site, a 51 acre adjacent to the power substation, 27 acres of retired ash disposal site. This is all coal terminology that I'm not familiar with, even though we do have coal mines here. So, yeah, they're reclaiming all this land from coal and putting solar panels on it and then charging people extra. Do you have any thoughts on this? My thought is the typical. It says for little $2 a month, but nobody uses 50 month. And my garden shed used more than that. You're more likely to spend over $40 a month to have clean electricity for that money. I think there's places that will. Sometimes if they let you put solar on your roof, you can lease solar for your roof and for like the same price as electricity, you're not paying anything extra. And then eventually, I think you make extra money. Yeah, it's going to be different. In every province, state, every city, it's going to be different. I know around here there is one or two solar cooperatives, and that's mainly for people who live in apartment buildings. So you don't necessarily have access to a roof that you can put solar panels on. So a bunch of people can get together and spend like, $100,000 on a solar farm somewhere. And basically, you live in an apartment. You can buy a share in that, and just everybody owns a piece of the action, and it feeds into the grid, and you get your benefit from your share of the thing. Whether this particular one makes any sense, I don't know. But certainly people should look into this wherever they live. Well, shout out to Mornsburg, West Virginia. And Mr. Mendez. Thanks for writing us. We really appreciate it. So here's another one. Good evening, gentlemen. My name is Landon Yereski, and I discovered your show earlier this year as listening material while taking our newborn for walks to fall asleep, which is interesting, Brian, because I always wonder what people do when they listen to our shows. I remember my first podcast in the very early days of podcasting in the early 2000s. Somebody said that they listened to me on the subway in Australia, and it blew my mind. It's like, wow, there's somebody doing that to my little show. Like, wow. Yeah. Community and of course is a popular thing, but taking your newborn out for walks to fall asleep, hadn't thought of that one, you know? By the way, I listen to podcasts to fall asleep when I want to have a nap sometimes. Ours, it's not that they're boring. The more interesting they are, the more I can focus my mind on something and then drift off. Right. They can't be too boring. That works for me, too. Yeah, it's got to be something to focus my mind. So I have been listening weekly ever since. He says the content is fantastic. And given I also live in the same city you do, I find all the commentary very relatable. Now he says I'm a business owner, and that piqued my interest, Brian. So I Googled his name, and it came up with his LinkedIn page and found out that he owns my favorite pot shop, Wid w I ID it's actually on the other end of the city from me. They have a great online portal, okay. And they have a whole craft load of inventory of all kinds of different things. And you can order it and pick it up in your leaf you're cartastic. And little did I know that the pot shop that I've been supporting supports green energy. That's great. And we're always looking for sponsors. Remember, everyone got free beer. The first plug is free. Brian made a joke. Okay, so he's also a board member of the Saskatchewan Electric Vehicle Association, something I reference here a lot. And he says, I love to use the insight on your show to help align my business with sustainable goals and get insight for the association. A fellow board member recently sent me this article I thought would be a great discussion point on your show, and it is, from Airdry today. Now, Airdri is a little city north of Calgary, the big mega city of Calgary, Alberta. I wouldn't call it a mega city, but it's a big city. Millions of people, he says a Rocky Mountain. I think it's a great discussion that could be had regarding NIMBYism, which is I had to look that up. Not in my backyard ism and fudd. You want to explain what fudd is again? Fear, uncertainty and doubt. That is things that people put around misinformation and bad information about new technologies to discourage either investment or adoption. And especially in this changing world that people are uncomfortable with how fast things are changing. The fact that that municipality rejected tens of millions in investment and permanent jobs due to false information is astounding. Keep up the good work. Now, the story is about somebody who wanted to pull up a charging station, much like we were talking about, because it's between two major cities, calgary and Emmetton. Just like that corridor needs lots of charging with people going back and forth. Ours does between Regina and Saskatoon. And this town also ran into problems because they didn't want anything to do with the charging station. Now they claim the problem with the charging station. I'll read you an excerpt. Okay, this is from the story objections raised because they wanted to put a solar installation with it, which is a business decision for them, because you supply electricity for someone, you want the cheapest electricity wholesale, right? That is what it is. So you build a little solar farm for your charging station, for your highway supercharging station. But the objections raised were more to do with the solar than the EV chargers. Apparently. He says objections raised included potential noise concerns with the cooling plant associated with the proposed solar farm, which is absurd. A person's air conditioner in their home is less noisy than that, and it's certainly closer to people than that would be increased vehicular traffic on highway 72. The solar farm would have increased traffic. I guess people going to see the solar farm or people going to charge their EVs next one taking farmland out of production. This is something that is coming up a lot lately, which is of course, crap. If the farmer wants to take his damn farmland out of production, he can, or she can. But you could also do mixed use. Farmers don't use every square inch of their land. Sometimes they have little bits of land that they mold with garden tractors that they could put up a huge installation on. And some more speculative complaints about the potential radiation hazards of building such a facility in close proximity to people living in the area. Rocky View, County Alberta you are officially the stupidest place on earth. So is that like solar radiation? Like everyone's going to get a suntan? Is that what they're saying? If I knew, I'd be in pain. You think you've heard it all? You think you've heard all the stupidest things that were people get passed around on Facebook. It's just utter BS. And by the way, whenever there's somebody like this, whenever there's people like this, they're always racist. You know, if you're stupid in one way, you're probably a racist too. So screw you. Rocky View, County Alberta. Get off the planet. Go somewhere else. Elon's, got a place for you on Mars. Lots of radiation up there. And Brian, I hope you're sitting down because we've got a rare voicemail click from our speak pipe page. Can you believe it? What? I cannot believe it. I thought that we should stop doing the speak pipe because nobody was calling. Well, I crossed my mind too, but this is Sean in Ireland. Hi. It's Sean from Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. Just want to say we love the show, love listening to it every Wednesday when it comes out. There is two big announcements in Ireland in the last few weeks regarding solar. Is no planning permission needed. Now, if you have solar panels on your roof before, if you wanted solar panels on your roof, you have to get planning permission. And there's been houses where people put up solar panels didn't get planned permission. The government made them take them down. So now you don't need plan permission. And also they've announced that they are going to give schools free solar panels so school supplies, and if they're suitable, they will get the price of the solar panels covered 100% by the government. Thanks, that's fantastic. I mean, that's crazy, right? Why isn't everybody doing that? We often ask questions like that. Schools, perfect place for solar panels, but giving them to them and then what do they do with the savings? They can put more money to music programs and educating your damn children. Yeah. I will say the high school right next to me where I went to high school, they've actually had solar panels on their roof for about 20 years now. And it was because I think some students and maybe a teacher or two were interested in the technology and they realized it was a good learning experience. So it was about 20 years ago, so they would have been much lower powered solar panels. But still, they've been generating power over there for 20 years and educating kids, and they could probably. Look up the doohickies to see what the sun is doing and probably be aware that solar panels generate electricity and cloudy days, for example. Yeah. And so also, the other thing Sean brought up is we got to get rid of the red tape involved in installing solar clean energy of all kinds. This is a climate emergency. We got to move fast. We got to make all this stuff as easy as possible. Now, Sean, we're so thankful that we said that. We would wish you a happy birthday on your birthday. So let us know when your birthday is, and if not, happy birthday in advance. Thank you, Sean. Yeah. I appreciate it. It's lovely to hear your voice and we'd love to hear from you. Contact us at cleanenergy show@gmail.com or on Twitter. We're on TikTok for now. Clean energy pod. Is our handle there? Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel for special features. Leave us a voicemail like Sean did@speakpipe.com. Cleanenergyshow. It's time for the lightning round, Brian. We have to whizz through this one quickly and it's a fat one, so it's going to be a challenge to get through. This is a fast paced look at the week and clean energy news. California becomes the first state to commit to ending the sale of polluting heaters. All fossil fuel heaters are gone by 2030, not far from now. Right, that's fantastic. And California often sets the tone for the rest of the US on clean energy things, so hopefully other states follow suit. Clean Energy canada predicts 1840 people will be employed in the Canadian EV industry by 20, 30, 26 times what there was in 2020. And, you know, I think that number is more than the number of people in oil and gas. So that's just EVs. That's not clean energy in total. Yeah, that's just EVs. Time for a fast fact. According to the IEA, the International Energy Agency the International Energy Agency, only 50% of the worldwide market is now using Led bulbs. Outraged, are you? Wow. Yeah, I mean, I guess that makes sense. It does take a hell of a long time to change all the how many humans does it take to change all the light bulbs in the water? I could do them all. I'll start tonight. Come on, people. Unscrew those stupid incandescent bulbs and put in an Led from your local dollar store because they're cheap. And imagine how much energy will be saved once we do that. Well, you know, those old bulbs don't last very long, so it's not going to take that long. Would it last a year at best or something like that? It's not good. The Nordstream Pipeline, which is the one that they claimed was bombed or sabotaged, it stopped leaking, but not before emitting the equivalent of what UK cars consume in a year. And there are 1.8 million oil pipelines in the world, some of them apparently leak. Yeah. So this is the pipeline between Russia and Germany, which has been the site of much discussion and problems in the UK world. But, yeah, this is a leaking and even just in your home, right? Like if you have a gas cooktop that can leak and release pollutants and ruin the air quality in your house and contribute to all these problems. From Bloomberg. The United States utility scale solar is now about one third cheaper than gas fired power. Wow. Well, onshore wind is 44% less expensive than gas fired. This is onshore wind, which is notoriously more expensive than offshore wind. So solar and wind now present a deflationary opportunity for electric supply costs. Deflation something I like to hear. Let's hope the inflation rates come down. You know, I watched this video by an engineer, a wind engineer, talking about how big can wind turbines get offline? I love that topic. It's very in depth, but apparently there's a cost of the machine returns. But I might get to that in a bit. We'll see. Another fast fact in 2022 and 600 million people in Africa still don't have access to electricity. And I can go to the hardware store and buy a solar panel and power my camper and lights and stuff and phones. Much of those without power are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Research suggests that covering all of California's canals, which span roughly 4000 miles with solar panels could save up to 63 billion gallons of water. That's just putting them people say there's no place to put solar panels. You take up farmland, put them on the damn canals, safe water, billions of gallons of water. And I believe they have started at least one pilot project. So that's what it would look like if they did it all. That's amazing. Yes. And there's even some going on in Europe. And they said if you did that, you'd have like 13 nuclear reactors worth of peak output. So that's pretty cool. The two Chevy bulk variants set a quarterly sales record at 14, 700. GM says it will increase global production. This is interesting to me. So I'm following it to more than 70,000 units for the 2023 calendar year, which is almost double if it's 44,000 this year. So they're selling all the damn things and they've got to make more. Yeah, and presumably they've ramped up their battery supply, which is the other thing. So they presumably have enough batteries to do that, which is great. And for the regional leader, Post, our local newspaper, we have an oil ban. New York follows California in banning the sale of gas cars by 2035. That legislation is moving forward. So good to hear. World's largest wind solar hybrid complex. This is wind and solar in one piece of land is now 600. It goes online in India. It's the largest hybrid complex. Fairly big. Toyota president calls meeting California zero mission requirements difficult, even though in 2035, you can still have 20% of your new car sales from your company be long range PHEVs plug in hybrids. Yeah, well, it's not like Toyota is like a world leader in making cars or anything. No, I don't know how they could possibly do it. They don't want to. Tesla Giga, Nevada to receive recycled battery materials from Redwoods closed loop campus. That means, Brian, you could buy a Tesla and people say, oh, where did that battery come from? It was mine. While some of it might be recycled now already, and that's going to weigh go up in the future as more that's great. Yes, redwood is one of the big players in battery recycling started by one of the founders of Tesla. But, yeah, we were always worried about not having enough supply of batteries to recycle. But it's slow, but sure it'll come. It'll be a closed loop system one day. The Harris Ranch Tesla supercharger in California, that is the big one, the first one actually ever, and it's between San Francisco and Los Angeles, will have a 25 megawatt of solar installed. That is two, five times the solar farms they're putting in Saskatchewan. Okay, just for reference, at a very rural part of the I 500 stalls, that's 100 stalls, including some for towing. They're going to have some stalls. People are calling for that now that the trucks are out. So it's a halfway mark between La. And the Bay Area. So, yeah, cool. The EPA is doubling money for electric school buses, which you mentioned earlier due to overwhelming demand from all 50 states. Yeah, so the 50 states asked for money, and it was way more than they expected them to ask for. The state, the people, the school boards, the people, they want electric school buses, and they should because diesel bad for kids. Currently, only 1% of the country school buses are at electric. And you know what? I'm a little surprised that it's even 1% more than maybe I would have thought. And Brian, finally this week I'm going to end on good news from Asad Razuk, which I sometimes do, and good news on the climate fight that we could all use this week, ireland to put solar panels on every school. Okay, our caller already covered that. James, you didn't need to put that there, but we broke that news. India to go 50% renewables by 2030. Some more Indian news. We have listeners in India, so they're going to go 50% renewables. That's not bad for a country that said that maybe we can't because we want the middle class to expand and you guys have already had for 100 years, and we're a huge country, but, you know, things may be starting to move along there. That's great. That's our time for this week. Remember, clean energy show@gmail.com. We really appreciate you listening. Please subscribe to the show. So you get our shows every week. And we'll see you again next time. Next week. See you next week. Close Video.  

Overview We are talking to Shany Mahalu and Sam Borghese. We discuss how we can design projects that enable success on both the students and the industry standpoint. Finally, we wrap up the episode talking about the future of education, and how technology can enable change. About Shany Mahalu Shany Mahalu Atiya is a higher education professional with an extensive experience designing, implementing, and leading graduate strategic initiatives and educational programs. She serves as the Senior Director, Corporate Engagement and External Relations for the Master of Quantitative Economics (MQE) at UCLA Department of Economics. She is responsible for generating and cultivating a corporate employer pipeline and nurturing meaningful relationships with corporations and industry leaders that position MQE students for success in the job market. Shany began her professional career at the Israeli Defense Forces, where she served as a Non-Commissioned Educational Officer and later as Director of Security Operations for the Israeli Airlines, El Al. After graduating from Pepperdine with a Master of Science in Organization Development in 2008, she further developed her passion for people and leadership, and started her journey as a higher education professional. In her tenure at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, she led the admissions, recruitment, career development, alumni, and employer relations efforts for the part-time and executive MBA/Master programs. Her passion for diversity and inclusion led her to design and facilitate military-connected career readiness programs and initiatives in collaboration with the Service Academy Career Conference (SACC) and the Amazon Military Event team. About Sam Borghese Sam Borghese has designed and taught eight courses inside the Master of Quantitative Economics (MQE) at UCLA. This curriculum includes, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning in Finance and Blockchain. All course work is project-focussed to allow students to gain pragmatic experience in these fields. Another responsibility at UCLA that Sam has undertaken is advising applied projects. Companies that partner with the MQE layout a data-driven problem in which Sam assembles a team and walks students through potential solutions over an academic quarter. Prior to this, Sam was doing research with a former Economist at George Soros Fund creating models for forecasting asset prices. Both of them teamed up to create a Mock Fund that disseminates the signals for investment banks and other financial institutions to view. This project grew to be the UCLA Quant Lab, which Sam is the appointed Director of. Simultaneously Sam runs a Quant Hedge Fund that is up +30% net of fees in 2022. Social Handles Sam Borghese Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/samborghese Shany Mahalu Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shany-mahalu-atiya-msod-a47831a/ Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

Overview Allexx Bolander is a digital evangelist for P3 adaptive. She has a knack for automation, process improvement, and providing a human element to technical solutions. In addition to owning two small businesses, she recently made the transition from Power BI Developer / Business Analyst to a Digital Evangelist where she melds her love of data and creativity into one career path. In this episode, Allexx shares how her vast experience allow her to carve her own path and to become a digital evangelist, the importance of adding the human element into technology development and how women can break down the barriers they face in technology. About Allexx Bolander Allexx Bolander is a data enthusiast with a passion for data, wordsmithing and overall process improvement. In addition to owning two small businesses, she recently made the transition from Power BI Developer / Business Analyst to a Digital Evangelist where she melds her love of data and creativity into one career path. By leveraging her technical expertise in Power BI, knowledge in Business Analytics, and her passion for creativity she bridges the gap between sales, operations, and marketing to promote both the BI community and P3 Adaptive. Social Handles Website: https://p3adaptive.com/ Learn more about our mission and become a member here: https://www.womenindata.org/ All Data Bytes listeners get 20% off of WiD membership by using the code: DATABYTES20 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/women-in-data/support

TW: This week's episode discusses violent events. Listener caution/discretion is advised.In today's episode, I thought I would explore the history of Labor Day, given that the holiday in the USA is approaching. Little did I know, I would end up in yet another rabbit hole of events related to May Day (AKA International Worker's Day) and the USA's intentional suppression of worker organizing all through the end of the 19th century. In this episode, we explore beyond the boundaries of Appalachia and find even more interconnections between the fate of the poor and working class. All in all, we look at the Great Railroad Strikes, the Haymarket Riot, and the government's official recognition of Labor Day in the late 1890s.(Spoiler alert: LABOR DAY WAS ADOPTED AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY TO UNDERMINE TRULY REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZING EFFORTS !!!!!)Sources for today's episode:1) Reneau, K. (2016, September 5). The history of Labor Day: A holiday born from the working man. West Virginia News. https://www.wvnews.com/theet/news/free/the-history-of-labor-day-a-holiday-born-from-the-working-man/article_ed1bcc78-af07-5b7e-926b-305a51d1bf18.html2) Zraick, K. (2021, September 4). What Is Labor Day? A History of the Workers' Holiday. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-labor-day.html3) Films Media Group. (2013). Labor day: Video culture class - American holidays. Access Video On Demand. Retrieved August 25, 2022, from https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=242630&xtid=1110054) Weaver, A. (2011, June 11). Outline of US Labor History with a Focus on the Role of the Left. Libcom. Retrieved August 26, 2022, from https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adam-weaver-outline-of-us-labor-history-with-a-focus-on-the-role-of-the-left5) Collective, C. I. E.-W. (2017, May 1). The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance. CrimethInc. Retrieved August 26, 2022, from https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-the-may-days-stories-of-courage-and-resistance#toc16) Zinn, H. (2015). A people's history of the United States: 1492-present. HarperCollins. Accessed at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/howard-zinn-a-people-s-history-of-the-united-statesSupport and follow the pod:linktr.ee/rednecksrising

VETERAN LENDING COUNCIL – NATIONWIDE SPECIAL FORCES TEAM Veterans Lending Council representative and Army Veteran, Eric Ensley, busts some myths about the VA Home Loan Program. He responds to a Congressional inquiry and Military.com article about the process saying the hold-up is not on VA but on the lenders, realtors, and public that just do not understand the program. Army Veteran turned real estate agent/realtor, Andrew Cummings, jumps in and shares his experience helping veterans use this benefit. Both Eric and Andrew talk with host Jim Fausone about how this benefit saves veterans money.   WOMEN IN DEFENSE – THE ORGANIZATION Carrie Mead is the Immediate Past President of Women In Defense – Michigan Chapter. WID strengthens and influences the defense and national security industry by inspiring women, cultivating leadership, and growing professional relationships.  Today, Carrie is the Acting Chief of Staff at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, VA. She talks about her career path, civilian employment supporting the military, and opportunities for women. Carrie talks with host Jim Fausone about WID's programming and events.

Hint: it's way more than you think.In today's episode, we let ourselves spin off into the web of race & labor and bring together pieces of history a little bit more clearly — taking us on a journey from today all the way back to the Virginia Slave Codes and then we even manage to bounce back to Joe Manchin before we wrap things up. Just call me the Miss Frizzle of Appalachian History because we're time travelling in this one.Sources for today's episode:- Blizzard, W. C. (2010). When miners march. PM Press.- Flavelle, C., & Tate, J. (2022, March 27). How Joe Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions. The New York Times.- Films Media Group. (2016). The mine wars. Films On Demand. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=103805xtid=151152.Shoutout Tail Light Rebellion for upgrading our sound quality, check out their music here:https://open.spotify.com/artist/6uMlTTOG0kfTlbfII0d6GQ?si=KKmNJ7HlS_6EFLARcbQ1fgSupport and follow the pod:linktr.ee/rednecksrising

Carrie Mead is the Immediate Past President of Women In Defense - Michigan Chapter. WID strengthens and influences the defense and national security industry by inspiring women, cultivating leadership, and growing professional relationships. Today, Carrie is the Acting Chief of Staff at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, VA. She talks about her career path, civilian employment supporting the military, and opportunities for women. Carrie talks with host Jim Fausone about WID's programming and events.

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Torin is back on stage and feeling ALRIGHT. This week, Harvard Business Review lays out how to manage a polarized workforce and conquers the 3 myths about disagreements. Are we seeing the come back of the nap....at the office? Finally, Julie and Torin dive into how the World Institute on Disability, the Kingsman and friend of the pod, Tinamarie Duff, are rescuing Ukrainians with disabilities from war zones and we ask, why are people with disabilities always left behind? Donate to the Kingsman or WID to support Ukrainian PwD Evacuation Efforts; Visit the Kingsman and donate online: www.therealkingsman.org  Donate to World Institute on Disability (WID) Text WID to 20222 for a $10, or WORLD to 20222 for a $25 donation

Joyce is pleased to have as her guests, the 2021 Paul Hearne Emerging Leaders Award Winners, Elijah Armstrong and Noor Perez, on the show. These young disability rights leaders will each explain what it means to them to have received this prestigious award in 2021 from the American Association of People with Disabilities. They will also share the current projects they are working on since receiving the award. Joining Joyce and our 2021 Paul Hearne Award Winners, at the beginning of this show, are Marcie Roth, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the World Institute on Disability (WID), and Tinamarie Duff, Global Lead for Bristol Myers Squibb's Disability Advancement Workplace Network (DAWN) people and business resource group. Marcie and Tinamarie will be discussing joint efforts by the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration (GADRA), WID, the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, ONG Inclusiva, and Fight for Right to evacuate people with disabilities from Ukraine and what you can do to support these efforts.

Joyce is pleased to have as her guests, the 2021 Paul Hearne Emerging Leaders Award Winners, Elijah Armstrong and Noor Perez, on the show. These young disability rights leaders will each explain what it means to them to have received this prestigious award in 2021 from the American Association of People with Disabilities. They will also share the current projects they are working on since receiving the award. Joining Joyce and our 2021 Paul Hearne Award Winners, at the beginning of this show, are Marcie Roth, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the World Institute on Disability (WID), and Tinamarie Duff, Global Lead for Bristol Myers Squibb's Disability Advancement Workplace Network (DAWN) people and business resource group. Marcie and Tinamarie will be discussing joint efforts by the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration (GADRA), WID, the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, ONG Inclusiva, and Fight for Right to evacuate people with disabilities from Ukraine and what you can do to support these efforts.

On a cinematically impactful installment of Disinformed, Shane takes us through some of the peaks and valleys of the controversial topic of home video. From supreme court cases to pornography litigations, to early fan conventions and the founding of Blockbuster Video, this is a topic that will take you places... https://linktr.ee/disinformedpodcast Sources:“VHS Revolution.” Films On Demand, Films Media Group, 2016, digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=11854&xtid=160981. Accessed 27 Sept. 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHShttps://wjbq.com/what-it-looked-like-when-tv-stations-would-go-off-the-air-overnight-video/https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3089/vhs-vs-betamax-how-influential-was-the-pornography-industry-in-the-format-warhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LepreConhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_tradinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc. Outro:Semi-Funk by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4333-semi-funkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Accessible Housing Matters!   In today's episode, I welcome Nicholas Love   Nicholas Love is the Community Inclusion Director at the World Institute on Disability (WID). WID strives to eliminate the barriers to full inclusion of people with disabilities by addressing and influencing policies, systems, and tools. Nicholas' work at WID focuses on the identification, creation, and utilization of technology, training, technical assistance, and tools that drive and respond to US policies that direct systems change. One of Nicholas' main projects at WID is the management of Housing Benefits 101 (www.mn.hb.101.org) and Disability Benefits 101 (www.db101.org).   Nicholas's passion is education on diversity and equality. He has been speaking on and fighting for disability issues as a national speaker and advocate for diversity and social justice for over 25 years. He is a Certified Work Incentive Coordinator and a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner with a degree in Holistic Healthcare. Nicholas likes to combine knowledge and entertainment to change cultural perceptions. Listen to find out more about:   [00:01 - 01:45] Opening Segment I welcome Nicholas Love to the Show Bio Nicholas shares what he does at WID   [01:46 - 26:20] One-Stop Web Portal What is HB 101? Helping people with where they want to live and how they want to live Disability Benefits 101 (DB 101) How HB 101 deals with your housing needs Your one-stop web portal in accessible housing Is HB 101 replacing one-one-one personal conversations on housing needs? Minnesota's support and The Hub Just how many users are using HB 101? Early challenges and the relationship building Why Minnesota is exceptional  What is The Hub? Helping people understand they have a right to live the life they want The aging society's impact in accessible housing and HB 101 Influencing the country Nicholas talks about universal design in housing verus the medical model Where Nicholas' passion comes from “My disability is part of who I am.” What's next for HB 101 and for inclusive housing? Now is the time for people with disabilities to step forward, roll forward, move forward    [26:21 - 29:09] Closing Segment See links below to know more about Nicholas Love Final word Tweetable Quote/s:   “Housing isn't just about the four walls, it becomes the true community integration.” - Nicholas Love   “When we have people moving out of congregated settings into true community inclusion, we have such a better community. It's a full, whole community.” - Nicholas Love   “You can't have the perfect accessible house in the middle of a desert where you can't do anything but stay within those four walls.” - Nicholas Love   You can connect with Nicholas through nicholas@wid.org or LinkedIn.     Visit the following: The World Institute on Disability  Housing Benefits 101 (HB101) helps people in Minnesota who need affordable housing and supports to maintain that housing.  It helps them to understand the range of housing options and support services available. HB101 can help people make choices about where they want to live. It can also help people figure out a long-term housing plan that works for them, and the steps to move toward their housing goals. To learn more, share feedback, or share guest ideas, please visit our website, or contact us on Facebook and Twitter.    Like what you've heard?  Please review us! That helps let other people know about the podcast.   Accessible Housing Matters is dedicated to raising awareness about important issues around accessibility and housing, and getting conversations going. I'd love to learn more about what's on your mind, and get your feedback about the show. Contact me directly at stephen@accessiblehousingmatters.com to share your thoughts or arrange a call.